Duke University Press: 2463 books
Red Tape
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural...
The Beautiful Generation
Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Since the 1990s, young Asian Americans including Doo-Ri Chung, Derek Lam, Thakoon Panichgul, Alexander Wang, and Jason Wu have emerged as leading fashion designers. They have won prestigious awards, been chosen to head major clothing labels, and had their designs featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar,...
Cosmologies of Credit
Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the...
Empire in Question
Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Featuring essays written by the influential historian Antoinette Burton since the mid-1990s, Empire in Question traces the development of a particular, contentious strand of modern British history, the “new imperial history,” through the eyes of a scholar who helped to shape the field. In her...
Indelible Inequalities in Latin America
Insights from History, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin...
Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and...
Black France / France Noire
The History and Politics of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists from France and the United States address the untenable paradox at the heart of French society. France's constitutional and legal discourses do not recognize race as a meaningful category. Yet the lived realities of race and racism...
If Truth Be Told
The Politics of Public Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the challenges,...
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith
New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration of the privatization of vital social services under market-driven governance. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, public agencies subcontracted disaster...
Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects...
An Archive of Feelings
Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing—and archiving—accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that...
Moral Spectatorship
Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral Spectatorship, Lisa Cartwright rethinks the politics of spectatorship in film studies. Returning to impasses...
AIDS TV
Identity, Community, and Alternative Video
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1995
Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression—an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon—why and how video has become the medium for...