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  • Signal and Noise

    Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

    by Brian Larkin ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Media Worlds

    Anthropology on New Terrain

    Edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin ...
    This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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    Edited by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Vinh Nguyen ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels, ... Read more

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  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Read more

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  • World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Nataša Durovicová, Kathleen E. Newman ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    SCMS Award Winner "Best Edited Collection"The standard analytical category of "national cinema" has increasingly been called into question by the category of the "transnational." This anthology examines the premises and consequences of the coexistence of these two categories and the parameters of historiographical approaches that cross the borders of nation-states. The three sections of World ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Cinema Studies

    Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi, Marguerite Waller ...
    This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial historiography, geography, subjectivity, and epistemology.Current circumstances of migration and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Dance That Makes You Vanish

    Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia

    by Rachmi Diyah Larasati ...
    Series series Difference Incorporated
    Indonesian court dance, a purportedly pure and untouched tradition, is famed throughout the world for its sublime calm and stillness. Yet this unyieldingly peaceful surface conceals a time of political repression and mass killing. Between 1965 and 1966, some one million Indonesians—including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, artists, and dancers—were killed, arrested, or disappeared ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Global/Local

    Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays ... Read more

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  • Queer Cinema in the World

    by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt ...
    Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt ... Read more

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  • Youthscapes

    The Popular, the National, the Global

    by George Lipsitz ...
    Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Keywords for Asian American Studies

    Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    Series Book 4 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American StudiesBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature

    Edited by Rajini Srikanth, Min Hyoung Song ...
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of Asian American writing that help readers to understand how authors have sought to make their experiences meaningful. Covering subjects from autobiography and Japanese American ... Read more

    $34.49 USD