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  • Postcolonialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. C. Young ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Postcolonialism

    An Historical Introduction

    by Robert J. C. Young ...
    This seminal work—now available in a 15th anniversary edition with a new preface—is a thorough introduction to the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory.Provides a clearly written and wide-ranging account of postcolonialism, empire, imperialism, and colonialism, written by one of the leading scholars on the topicDetails the history of anti-colonial movements and their leaders ... Read more

    $44.00 USD

  • Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day.Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Empire, Colony, Postcolony

    by Robert J. C. Young ...
    Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms.The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • The Plays from Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Colonial Desire

    Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race

    by Robert J. C. Young ...
    The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical ways of viewing 'the other', both sexually and racially.Colonial Desire is a controversial and bracing ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • White Mythologies

    by Robert J.C. Young ...
    We must, many now argue, `get back' to history. but which one? History has always been a problematical concept in Western theory, particularly for Marxism. In the wake of postmodernism, its status has become ever less certain. Is it possible to write history that avoids the trap of Eurocentrism? Robert Young's investigation of 'the history of History', from Hegel and Marx to Althusser and Foucault ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Postcolonialism

    A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition

    by Robert J.C. Young ...
    Narrated by David Vickery ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world.Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Globalizations and Social Movements

    Culture, Power, and the Transnational Public Sphere

    Edited by John Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, Mayer Zald ...
    Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization not only spurs the creation of social movements, but affects the way many social movements are ... Read more

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