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  • Writing Politics

    Studies in Compositional Method

    by Michael J Shapiro ...
    Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry.Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods and events, the book features a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically attuned historiography. Each investigation treats the way ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • A Crooked Line

    The Perils and Rewards of a Life in Freelance Journalism

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    “Here is a writer with a rare gift for appreciation and for reminding us of all we have to celebrate in our fractured world.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Half Known LifeBehind the scenes of a globe-spanning career in freelance journalismWith a Foreword by Tim CahillA Crooked Line celebrates an age when print journalism changed lives and made the world a better place.... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Thinking Outside the Canon

    Political Theory as Textual Odyssey

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop a more diverse model of doing theory. Theorizing textuality and historiography, Shapiro draws on a variety of disciplinary idioms and texts that span across genres and geographies, ranging from ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Sense of Place

    Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Historiography

    A Multi-Genre, Trans-Disciplinary Inquiry

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Responding to the question, "What can a multi-genre approach to historiography contribute to political inquiry?", the textual itineraries in the book's chapters juxtapose macropolitical narratives—official geopolitical, state-sponsored history—with the micropolitical expressions of those who have been subjected to a continuum running from neglect, through dispossession, to genocide. With a focus ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Bottom of the Ninth

    Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    This account of the expansion of the major leagues is "a fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).In Bottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when the sport was under siege in the late 1950s. He reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Punctuations

    How the Arts Think the Political

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    In Punctuations Michael J. Shapiro examines how punctuation—conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artists engage with intelligibility—opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics. Drawing on Theodor Adorno, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Roland Barthes, Shapiro demonstrates how punctuation's capacity to create unexpected rhythmic ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Aesthetics of Equality

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Presuming that the problem of political equality, as it bears on both persons and assemblages, is about being accorded access to the material and symbolic resources needed to manage an effective civic presence, Michael J. Shapiro's critical interventions engage the way aesthetic genres illustrate this problem. Addressing literary, cinematic, photographic, musical, art historical, and architectural ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Politics and Time

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different conceptions of time inform and challenge these key events and the narratives they create?In this book, Michael J. Shapiro provides an ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Cinematic Geopolitics

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Series series Global Horizons
    In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon.In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and contemporary film ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • War Crimes, Atrocity and Justice

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are understood?In this wide ranging text, Michael J. Shapiro contrasts the justice-related imagery of the war crimes trial (for example the solitary, headphone-wearing defendant at the Hague listening with intent to a catalogue of charges) with ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Methods and Nations

    Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Series series Global Horizons
    Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, unable to resist the "cognitive imperialism" of a state-centric social science, have allowed themselves ... Read more

    $68.99 USD