Duke University Press: 2463 books
Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around...
Between Jesus and the Market
The Emotions that Matter in Right-Wing America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 1997
Between Jesus and the Market looks at the appeal of the Christian right-wing movement in contemporary American politics and culture. In her discussions of books and videotapes that are widely distributed by the Christian right but little known by mainstream Americans, Linda Kintz makes explicit the...
Troubling Freedom
Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In 1834 Antigua became the only British colony in the Caribbean to move directly from slavery to full emancipation. Immediate freedom, however, did not live up to its promise, as it did not guarantee any level of stability or autonomy, and the implementation of new forms of coercion and control made...
Hybrid Constitutions
Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals...
After Spanish Rule
Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and...
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or...
Fear of Small Numbers
An Essay on the Geography of Anger
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2006
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic...
Terrifying Muslims
Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and...
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh
Remembering 1971
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act...
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness
Writings, 2000–2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist,...
On Decoloniality
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with...
Neoliberalism from Below
Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other...
by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Suzana Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a...
How Nature Speaks
The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality—situated rather than...