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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Politics of Visibility and Belonging

    From Russia´s “Homosexual Propaganda” Laws to the Ukraine War

    by Emil Edenborg ...
    Series series Interventions
    In this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the ‘homosexual propaganda’ laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community.The book examines what it is that determines which subjects and narratives become visible and which are occluded ... Read more

    £42.29

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  • Trauma

    A Social Theory

    by Jeffrey C. Alexander ...
    In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe.Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He outlines a model of ... Read more

    £16.99

  • What Is Global History?

    by Sebastian Conrad ...
    The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global historyUntil very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history as emanating from the West. This book reveals why the discipline ... Read more

    £14.30

  • China and Orientalism

    Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

    by Daniel Vukovich ...
    Series series Postcolonial Politics
    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism is now closer to the cultural logic of capitalism, even as it shows the afterlives of colonial ... Read more

    £55.79

  • Ernest Gellner

    An Intellectual Biography

    by John A Hall ...
    Ernest Gellner was a multilingual polymath who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam for an entire generation of academics and students. This definitive biography follows his trajectory from his early years in Prague, Paris and England to international success as a philosopher and public intellectual. Known both for his highly integrated philosophy of modernity and ... Read more

    £6.47 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence Taking Place

    The Architecture of the Kosovo Conflict

    by Andrew Herscher ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    While the construction of architecture has a place in architectural discourse, its destruction, generally seen as incompatible with the very idea of "culture," has been neglected in theoretical and historical discussion. Responding to this neglect, Herscher examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and in particular, Kosovo, where targeting architecture has been a prominent dimension of political ... Read more

    £14.21

  • The Politics of Knowledge in Central Asia

    Science between Marx and the Market

    by Sarah Amsler ...
    Series series Central Asia Research Forum
    Through careful historical and ethnographic research and extensive use of local scholarly works, this book provides a persuasive and careful analysis of the production of knowledge in Central Asia. The author demonstrates that classical theories of science and society are inadequate for understanding the science project in Central Asia. Instead, a critical understanding of local science is more ... Read more

    £45.89

  • Race and Racism in Russia

    by N. Zakharov ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Race and Racism in Russia identifies the striking changes in racial ideas, practices, exclusions and violence in Russia since the 1990s, revealing how 'Russianness' has become a synonym for racial whiteness. This ground-breaking book provides new theories and substantive insights into race and ethnicity in a Russian context. ... Read more

    £57.05

  • The Idea of Communism 3

    The Seoul Conference

    by Alain Badiou, Wang Hui, Cécile Winter, Pun Ngai, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandra Russo, Yong Soon Seo, Ho Duk Hwang, Rosalind C. Morris ...
    In 2009 Slavoj Zizek brought together an acclaimed group of intellectuals to discuss the continued relevance of communism. Unexpectedly the conference attracted an audience of over 1,000 people.The discussion has continued across the world and this book gathers responses from the conference in Seoul. It includes the interventions of regular contributors Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, as well as ... Read more

    £6.47 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transnational Cinema and Ideology

    Representing Religion, Identity and Cultural Myths

    by Milja Radovic ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Film
    Increasingly, as the production, distribution and audience of films cross national boundaries, film scholars have begun to think in terms of ‘transnational’ rather than national cinema. This book is positioned within the emerging field of transnational cinema, and offers a groundbreaking study of the relationship between transnational cinema and ideology. The book focuses in particular on the ... Read more

    £49.49

  • Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

    China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century

    by Xudong Zhang, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong ... Read more

    £19.25

  • Aesthetics and Marxism

    Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries

    by Kang Liu, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics ... Read more

    £12.95