Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Diaspora and Hybridity

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    ′Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies′ - Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of BristolWhat do we mean by ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Global South Asia on Screen

    by John Hutnyk ...
    With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology, and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on offer.The book presents Raj-era costume dramas as a commentary on contemporary anti-Muslim racism, a new political compact in film and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Pantomime Terror

    Music and Politics

    by John Hutnyk ...
    Pantomime is a theatrical form that has come to rule our everyday lives as terror. In the early years of the 21st century, a dissembling political demonology has sometimes placed otherwise merely lyrical musicians in a volatile predicament. The discussion here is of Fun-da-Mental's Aki Nawaz portrayed as a "suicide rapper", Asian Dub Foundation striking poses from the street in support of youth in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • South Asian Racialization and Belonging after 9/11

    Masks of Threat

    This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial, political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the collection examines South Asian American identities to understand culture, policy making, and the ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Racism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Ali Rattansi ...
    From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    by Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • What Is Global History?

    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

    $20.19 USD

  • Colonialism/Postcolonialism

    by Ania Loomba ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Politics of Self-Expression

    The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

    by Riley Quinn ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Censorium

    Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity

    In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because of what they understand, what they feel, or what they might imagine?At the intersection of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD