Duke University Press: 2463 books
Global Shadows
Africa in the Neoliberal World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
Both on the continent and off, “Africa” is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place in the world? And...
Clinical Labor
Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analysis...
Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity
Race and Philanthropy in Post–Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
“Diversity” has become a mantra in corporate boardrooms, higher education, and government hiring and contracting. In Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity, Jiannbin Lee Shiao explains the leading role that large philanthropies have played in establishing diversity as a goal throughout...
War on War
Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1989
The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for...
Black, Jewish, and Interracial
It’s Not the Color of Your Skin, but the Race of Your Kin, and Other Myths of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1997
How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s Black, Jewish, and Interracial. Motivated by her own experience as the child of a Jewish mother and Jamaican father,...
by William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E. Connolly has developed a powerful theory of pluralism as the basis of a territorial politics. In this concise volume, Connolly launches a new defense of pluralism, contending that it has a renewed relevance in light of pressing...
My Life with Things
The Consumer Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology. Chin centers the book on diary entries that focus on everyday items—kitchen cabinet knobs, shoes, a piano—and...
by Achille Mbembe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality...
Duress
Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues...
Counter-History of the Present
Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized and globalized era intimately connected by a single, overarching economic and technological network....
by Alexandre Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies...
From East Germans to Germans?
The New Postcommunist Elites
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In 1990 Germany launched an experiment to transplant democracy into a formerly communist country, effectively dismantling the system of the German Democratic Republic and rebuilding it in the likeness of the democratic Federal Republic of Germany. From East Germans to Germans? examines the role of...
Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany
The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
Winner of the Social Science History Association President’s Book Award
East Germany was the first domino to fall when the Soviet bloc began to collapse in 1989. Its topple was so swift and unusual that it caught many area specialists and social scientists off guard; they failed to recognize...
Foreign Front
Third World Politics in Sixties West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who arrived on West German...