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  • Cairo Cosmopolitan

    Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East

    Edited by Diane Singerman, Paul Amar ...
    Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cairo Securitized

    Reconceiving Urban Justice and Social Resilience

    by Deen Sharp, Noura Wahby ...
    Series series Middle East Urban Studies
    "A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."—Contemporary SociologyA rich examination of the securitization of the everyday lives of the citizens of Cairo and how to build a more equitable urban orderUntil the year 2000, Cairo had been a model megacity, relatively crime ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Middle East and Brazil

    Perspectives on the New Global South

    Edited by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by the rise of Brazil as a champion of the global south, mass mobilizations in the Arab world and South America, and the cultural renaissance of Afro-descendant Muslims and Arab ethnic identities in the Americas. This groundbreaking collection traces the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rio as Method

    Collective Resistance for a New Generation

    Edited by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Dissident Acts
    Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position Global South scholars as research informants or objects, this Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center their Brazilian megacity as a globally relevant source for transformational world-making insights. ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Security Archipelago

    Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

    by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Social text books
    In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the rise of humanitarian security regimes in the Global South by examining the pivotal, trendsetting cases of Brazil and Egypt. Addressing gaps in the study of neoliberalism and biopolitics, Amar describes how coercive security operations and cultural ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Tropical Silk Road

    The Future of China in South America

    Edited by Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, Fernando Brancoli, Maria Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernandez ...
    This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Global South to the Rescue

    Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries

    Edited by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military mission in Haiti; Nigeria has deployed peacekeeping troops throughout West Africa; Indonesians have ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • New Racial Missions of Policing

    International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

    Edited by Paul Amar ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining racialization and ethnicization in locations where the topic is politically taboo, such as in China, India and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Dispatches from the Arab Spring

    Understanding the New Middle East

    Edited by Paul Amar, Vijay Prashad ...
    The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Mérida M. Rúa ...
    **WINNER, D. Scott Palmer Prize for Best Edited Collection, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies**Introduces new approaches, theoretical trends, and understudied topics in Latinx StudiesThis groundbreaking work offers a multidisciplinary, social-science oriented perspective on Latinx studies, including the social histories and contemporary lives of a diverse range of Latina ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • In the Wake of Neoliberalism

    Citizenship and Human Rights in Argentina

    by Karen Ann Faulk ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    Understanding the various meanings given to human and citizenship rights in Argentina is an important task, particularly so given the nation's prominence in global discussions. An "exporter" of tactics, ideas, and experts, Argentina has become a site of innovation in the field of human rights. This book investigates two prominent Buenos Aires protest organizations—Memoria Activa and the BAUEN ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone

    Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

    by Francesca Lessa, Vincent Druliolle ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD