Duke University Press: 2463 books
Untimely Bollywood
Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In Untimely Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood...
by Helen Corbett, Susanne Swibold
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2002
The Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy is a comprehensive presentation of definitions, philosophies, policies, models, and analyses of global environmental and developmental issues. With a wealth of comparative, multidisciplinary, and geographically varied perspectives on environmental...
by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter...
Uncivil Youth
Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects. Focusing attention on the relations of power that inform the social and political practices of youth of color, Kwon examines how after-school and community-based programs are often...
Chineseness across Borders
Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
What happens when Chinese American youths travel to mainland China in search of their ancestral roots, only to realize that in many ways they still feel out of place, or when mainland Chinese realize that the lives of the Chinese abroad may not be as good as they had imagined? By considering programs...
Displacing Whiteness
Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1997
Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness,...
The Darker Side of Western Modernity
Global Futures, Decolonial Options
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality...
by Jose Joaquin Brunner, Fernando Calderón, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 1995
Postmodernism may seem a particularly inappropriate term when used in conjunction with a region that is usually thought of as having only recently, and then unevenly, acceded to modernity. Yet in the last several years the concept has risen to the top of the agenda of cultural and political debate...
The Anomie of the Earth
Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
The contributors to The Anomie of the Earth explore the convergences and resonances between Autonomist Marxism and decolonial thinking. In discussing and rejecting Carl Schmitt's formulation of the nomos—a conceptualization of world order based on the Western tenets of law and property—the authors...
by Eduardo Mendieta, Enrique Dussel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
First published in Spanish in 2006, Twenty Theses on Politics is a major statement on political philosophy from Enrique Dussel, one of Latin America’s—and the world’s—most important philosophers, and a founder of the philosophy of liberation. Synthesizing a half-century of his pioneering work...
by George Ciccariello-Maher
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism,...
Against War
Views from the Underside of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Nelson Maldonado-Torres argues that European modernity has become inextricable from the experience of the warrior and conqueror. In Against War, he develops a powerful critique of modernity, and he offers a critical response combining ethics, political theory, and ideas rooted in Christian and Jewish...
Color of Violence
The INCITE! Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the antiviolence movement by putting women of...
Democracy's Body
Judson Dance Theatre, 1962–1964
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1993
Democracy's Body offers a lively, detailed account of the beginnings of the Judson Dance Theater--a popular center of dance experimentation in New York's Greenwich Village--and its place in the larger history of the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s. JDT started when Robert Dunn, a student of John...