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  • Kinship and Collective Action

    in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Gero Bauer, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, Katharina Luther ...
    Series Book 6 - Herausforderungen für die Geisteswissenschaften - Challenges for the Humanities
    "Make kin, not babies!", Donna Haraway demands in an attempt to offer new and creative ways of thinking what kinship might mean in an age of ecological devastation. At the same time, the emergence of a seemingly new culture of public protest and political opinion have provoked scholars such as Judith Butler to address the contexts and dynamics of public collective action. This volume explores the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Un-Mapping the Global South

    Edited by Gero Bauer, Nicole Hirschfelder, Fernando Resende ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Souths
    This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising concrete experiences and accounts of (post-)colonial dislocation and disidentification as both a starting point and linchpin for the subsequent ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction

    Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging

    by Dr. Gero Bauer ...
    Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging.Taking its cue from an understanding of hope as connoting an organizing temporality, one which is often presumed to be projecting into a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Nomadic Theory

    The Portable Rosi Braidotti

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an original and powerful alternative for scholars working in cultural and social criticism and has, over ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Nomadic Subjects

    Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Futures of Comparative Literature

    ACLA State of the Discipline Report

    Edited by Ursula Heise ...
    Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial World

    Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh, David D. Kim ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The End of the Cognitive Empire

    The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Migrant Image

    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

    $28.79 USD

  • Design in Crisis

    New Worlds, Philosophies and Practices

    Edited by Tony Fry, Adam Nocek ...
    This book is an essential contribution to the transdisciplinary field of critical design studies.The essays in this collection locate design at the center of a series of interrelated planetary crises, from climate change, nuclear war, and racial and geopolitical violence to education, computational culture, and the loss of the commons. In doing so, the essays propose a range of needed ... Read more

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  • Understand Postmodernism: Teach Yourself

    by Glenn Ward ...
    Understand Postmodernism is an indispensable guide to this sometimes challenging domain. Using contemporary examples to further your understanding, it takes a broad look at theorists in a range of disciplines. Whether you're encountering postmodernism for the first time, or you need a quick reference to support your studies, this guide offers a comprehensive introduction to the key ideas in this ... Read more

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