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“mike mcgovern”

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  • Unmasking the State

    Making Guinea Modern

    by Mike McGovern ...
    When the Republic of Guinea gained independence in 1958, one of the first policies of the new state was a village-to-village eradication of masks and other ritual objects it deemed "fetishes." The Demystification Program, as it was called, was so urgent it even preceded the building of a national road system. In Unmasking the State, Mike McGovern attempts to understand why this program was so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Socialist Peace?

    Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

    by Mike McGovern ...
    For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all of the conditions that have led to civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war. Yet the country has narrowly avoided conflict again and again. In A Socialist Peace?, Mike McGovern asks how this is possible, how a nation could beat the odds and evade civil war ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    The leading philosopher of our time tracks the demise of liberalism through landmark events of the 21st century—from 9/11 to the farce of the financial meltdownBillions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis?In ... Read more

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  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Translated by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

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  • Duress

    Imperial Durabilities in Our Times

    by Ann Laura Stoler ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial ... Read more

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  • In My Father's House

    Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Fanon For Beginners

    by Dr. Deborah Baker Wyrick ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Philosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, propagandist, prophet...although difficult to categorize, Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and one of our most powerful writers on race and revolution.The book opens with a biography, following Fanon from his birthplace of Martinique through combat in World War II and education in France, to his heroic ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History

    Edited by John Parker, Richard Reid ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this past is ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Imperial Debris

    On Ruins and Ruination

    Edited by Ann Laura Stoler ...
    Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, as well as their ... Read more

    $22.29 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

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Edited by Oliver Lovesey ...
    Series series Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is one of the most important and celebrated authors of postindependence Africa as well as a groundbreaking postcolonial theorist. His work, written first in English, then in Gĩkũyũ, engages with the transformations of his native Kenya after what is often termed the Mau Mau rebellion. It also gives voice to the struggles of all Africans against economic injustice and political ... Read more

    $14.29 USD