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  • Labor on the Line

    Justice at Work on Assam Tea Plantations

    de Anna-Lena Wolf ...
    Labor on the Line provides insights into the world's largest tea-growing region of Assam. Anna-Lena Wolf examines everyday conceptualizations of justice: how they emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by differently positioned actors on Assam's tea plantations. Academics and activists have criticized the conditions on these plantations as a form of bondage, arguing that the ... Leer más

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  • Karma Of Brown Folk

    de Vijay Prashad ...
    **Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback!**“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians “How does it feel to be a solution?” In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    de Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Histories of Racial Capitalism

    Edición de Justin Leroy, Destin Jenkins ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
    The relationship between race and capitalism is one of the most enduring and controversial historical debates. The concept of racial capitalism offers a way out of this impasse. Racial capitalism is not simply a permutation, phase, or stage in the larger history of capitalism—since the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and the colonization of the Americas, capitalism, in both material and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Hydraulic City

    Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

    de Nikhil Anand ...
    In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

    The Making of Calcutta

    de Debjani Bhattacharyya ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • A Time for Tea

    Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

    de Piya Chatterjee ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields—came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Subaltern Movements in India

    Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

    de Manisha Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Dark Agoras

    Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place

    de J.T. Roane ...
    **WINNER, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, given by the African American Intellectual History SocietyA history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power**In this book, author J.T. Roane shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes of insurgent assembly—dark agoras—in twentieth century Philadelphia. He ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Contemporary Slavery

    The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns

    Edición de Annie Bunting, Joel Quirk ...
    This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Freedomville

    The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt

    de Laura T. Murphy ...
    A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it?Millions of people today are still enslaved; nearly eight million of them live in India, more than anywhere else. This book is the story of a small group of enslaved villagers in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who founded their own town of Azad Nagar—Freedomville—after staging a rebellion against ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Antiblackness

    Edición de Moon-Kie Jung, João H. Costa Vargas ...
    Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD