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  • Comparing Canada and the Americas

    From Roots to Transcultural Networks

    by Patrick Imbert ...
    Comparing Canada and the Americas: From Roots to Transcultural Networks covers the Americas in a comparative perspective spanning from the 19th century to the 21st century. It explores socio-cultural dynamics changing considerably in the Americas, which are progressively shedding their original fascination for Europe and slowly recognizing the importance of Indigenous, Afro-descendants, and ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • René Girard and Creative Mimesis

    by Wolfgang Palaver, Nancy Popp, Robert Doran, Richard McGuigan, Pablo Bandera, Andrew O'Shea, Francis Tobienne Jr., Petra Steinmair-Pösel, Christina Biava, Martha Reineke, Patrick Imbert, Joachim Duyndam, Robin Collins, André Lascaris, Thomas E. Reynolds ...
    For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive dimensions of mimetic phenomena without expanding on what they might be. Now, two decades later, this ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Bearing Witness

    Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities

    by Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert, Tiffany Johnstone ...
    Series series LIT004080
    As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once confronted with the profound horror and suffering of armed conflict and the increasing elusiveness of peace.The contributors to Bearing Witness do not presume to resolve these troubling questions, but ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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    Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory

    by Łukasz Stanek ...
    In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s oeuvre, especially his direct involvement in the fields of urban development, planning, and architecture.Countering the prevailing view, which reduces Lefebvre’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Édouard Glissant

    A Poetics of Resistance

    by Sam Coombes ...
    Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant's vision pushed beyond the boundaries of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Whose Spain?

    Negotiating "Spanish Music" in Paris, 1908-1929

    by Samuel Llano ...
    Series series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
    From the very beginning of the nineteenth century, many elements of Spanish culture carried an air of 'exoticism' for the French-and nothing played more important of a role in shaping the French idea of Spain than the country's musical tradition. However, as Samuel Llano argues in Whose Spain?, perceptions and representations of Spanish musical identities changed in the early twentieth century, ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Borderlands

    Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition

    by Michel Agier ...
    The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places these liminal zones between countries and continents that have become the focus of so much ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Translating Women

    Edited by Luise von Flotow ...
    Series series Perspectives on Translation
    Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware of the practices, purposes and possibilities of gender in translation. Translating Women revives ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Global Urban Politics

    Informalization of the State

    by Julie-Anne Boudreau ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the StateIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood

    Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures

    by Ayo A. Coly ...
    While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant ... Read more

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  • Bourdieu and Literature

    by John R.W. Speller ...
    Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works.One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard ... Read more

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  • The Powers of Law

    A Comparative Analysis of Sociopolitical Legal Studies

    by Mauricio García-Villegas ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Comparative studies can reveal much about how law is formed out of social reality and political power by exploring these interactions in different national contexts. In this work Mauricio García-Villegas compares ideas about law and society in France and the United States, demonstrating different approaches to sociopolitical legal studies. Using the interdisciplinary tools of the sociology of law, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD