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    ¿Dónde Estoy?

    by Alfred C. Martino ...
    Narrated by Javier Padilla ...

    Unabridged

    13 min

    En este breve relato, un hombre de negocios que viaja se instala en otra habitación de motel. Esta es igual a todas las demás. Las mismas cortinas opacas. El mismo papel pintado descolorido. El mismo olor rancio. Mientras el mundo avanza a toda velocidad fuera de la puerta del motel, él evalúa su carrera y su vida y se pregunta: "¿Dónde estoy?" ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutionary Poetics

    Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation

    by Javier Padilla ...
    Series series SUNY series, Literature...in Theory
    Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about time to decolonial poetry and poetics.Revolutionary Poetics considers the role of politically engaged poetry during social revolutions and processes of decolonization. Javier Padilla argues that writers in Ireland, Central America, Africa, and the Caribbean sought to capture in their poetry the time of liberation—a moment conjoining the end of ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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    El Viaje De Un Vaquero

    by Alfred C. Martino ...
    Narrated by Javier Padilla ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    Ambientada en el mítico Salvaje Oeste Americano, un vaquero envejecido monta su caballo de confianza tratando de huir del paso del tiempo, mientras recuerda el singular momento que definió su vida con una mujer de su juventud. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Iran and Global Decolonisation

    Politics and Resistance After Empire

    by Robert Steele, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Arash Azizi, Thomas Bédrède, Mattin Biglari, Fernando Camacho Padilla, William Figueroa, Javier Gil Guerrero, Carson Kahoe0, Leonard Willy Michael1, Pardis Minuchehr2 ...
    Series series Gingko-St Andrews Series
    A presentation of scholarly work that investigates Iran's experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a variety of perspectives.How did Iran’s unique position in the world affect and define its treatment of decolonization? During the final decades of Pahlavi rule in the late 1970s, the country sought to establish close relationships with newly independent counterparts in the Global South. ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Cultural Hybridity

    by Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Arabia without Sultans

    by Fred Halliday ...
    Fred Halliday writes: 'The Arab Middle East is the one with the longest history of contact with the west; yet it is probably the one least understood. Part of the misunderstanding is due to the romantic mythology that has long appeared to shroud the deserts of the peninsula. Where old myths have broken down, new ones have absorbed them or taken their place. Now the Sheikh of Arabia has stepped ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sowing Crisis

    The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

    by Rashid Khalidi ...
    Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining the strategic interplay of cold war superpowers, Khalidi explains how the momentous events that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    by Walter D. D. Mignolo ...
    This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Decolonial Investigations

    by Walter D. Mignolo ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds

    Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in Rojava

    by Thomas Schmidinger, Andrej Grubacic ...
    Translated by Michael Schiffmann ...
    In early 2018, Turkey invaded the autonomous Kurdish region of Afrin in Syria and is currently threatening to ethnically cleanse the region. Between 2012 and 2018, the 'Mountain of the Kurds' (Kurd Dagh) had been one of the quietest regions in a country otherwise torn by civil war. After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the Syrian army withdrew from the region, enabling the Party of ... Read more

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  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD