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Shifting Sands
The Restoration of the Calumet Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
The location of one of the most diverse national parks in the United States, Northwest Indiana’s Calumet area is home to what was at one time widely known as the most polluted river in the entire country. Calumet's advantageous location at the southern tip of Lake Michigan encouraged broadscale...
by Colin Legum
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 1999
Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future. Covering 50 years of sweeping change, this provocative and insightful book examines Africa's struggle for democracy, mounting economic problems, and AIDS.
Bodies, Politics, and African Healing
The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practices of healers in Tanzania who confront the most intractable illnesses in the region, including AIDS and malaria. She reveals how healers generate new therapies...
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture
From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania – from customary law...
Normalizing Occupation
The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of...
The Arab Revolts
Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world, popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity. Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that the old ways of oppressing their subjects...
Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa
Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The state of Goa on India's southwest coast was once the capital of the Portuguese-Catholic empire in Asia. When Vasco Da Gama arrived in India in 1498, he mistook Hindus for Christians, but Jesuit missionaries soon declared war on the alleged idolatry of the Hindus. Today, Hindus and Catholics assert...
by Julie Peteet
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Professor Julie Peteet believes that the concept of mobility is key to understanding how place and space act as forms of power, identity, and meaning among Palestinians in Israel today. In Space and Mobility in Palestine, she investigates how Israeli policies of closure and separation influence Palestinian...
Volatile State
Iran in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In an age of nuclear experimentation, military conflicts, and ISIS, the Middle East is unstable, and the Iran nuclear deal is shrouded in controversy and mistrust. How will this agreement impact US relations and strengths, not only in the region, but around the world? Will the US be challenged for...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
On January 25, 2011, the world's eyes were on Egypt's Tahrir Square as millions of people poured into the city center to call for the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak. Since then, few scholars or journalists have been given the opportunity to reflect on the nationwide moment of transformation...
Modern Afghanistan
The Impact of 40 Years of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? Modern Afghanistan is a collection of the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the people in...
Muslim Families in Global Senegal
Money Takes Care of Shame
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Senegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in Global Senegal focuses on trade and the transmission of enduring social value though cloth, videos of life-cycle rituals, and religious offerings. Highlighting...
Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Exile, Dignity, Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously...
Gold Coast Diasporas
Identity, Culture, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved Africans to develop new group identities...