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  • Camera Orientalis

    Reflections on Photography of the Middle East

    by Ali Behdad ...
    In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East. Introduced as a crucial tool for Egyptologists and Orientalists who needed to document their archaeological findings, the photograph was easier and faster to produce in intense Middle Eastern light—making the region one of the original sites for the practice of photography. A pioneering study of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Forgetful Nation

    On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States

    by Ali Behdad ...
    In A Forgetful Nation, the renowned postcolonialism scholar Ali Behdad turns his attention to the United States. Offering a timely critique of immigration and nationalism, Behdad takes on an idea central to American national mythology: that the United States is “a nation of immigrants,” welcoming and generous to foreigners. He argues that Americans’ treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Belated Travelers

    Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution

    by Ali Behdad, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A Companion to Comparative Literature

    Edited by Ali Behdad, Dominic Thomas ...
    Series Book 163 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributorsProvides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiryAddresses the history, ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

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    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

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  • Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia

    by Iftikhar Dadi ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments.Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Ethics of Immigration

    by Joseph Carens ...
    Series series Oxford Political Theory
    In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about citizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality. Carens begins by focusing ... Read more

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  • The Location of Culture

    by Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Assembly

    by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri ...
    Series series Heretical Thought
    In recent years "leaderless" social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Some of these movements have led to impressive gains: the toppling of authoritarian leaders, the furthering of progressive policy, and checks on repressive state forces. They have also been, at times, derided by journalists and political ... Read more

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  • Why Deliberative Democracy?

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson ...
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and ... Read more

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  • Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

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