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Hope (Shortcuts to a Big Idea)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:43:24 +0000

David Chandler’s Hope offers a compelling exploration of the politics of hope against the backdrop of a broken world grappling with global crises, from political disillusionment to catastrophic climate change, where alternative futures seem difficult to imagine in positive terms.

Price: $233.99

Taiwan Studies Reconfigured (Islands of Inquiry)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:29:51 +0000

This book presents a critical intervention into the evolving field of Taiwan Studies. It offers a kaleidoscopic view of how Taiwan can be engaged across a variety of global research agendas.The book demonstrates how Taiwan's complexity speaks directly to global debates on democracy, ecological ..

Price: $233.99

Zeitgenössische Verschiebungen im literarischen Erinnerungsdiskurs (Holocaustgedächtnis - Migration - Identitätspolitiken) (German Edition)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:00:22 +0000

Vor dem Hintergrund einer aktuellen „Krise der Erinnerungskultur“ (Lenhard 2021) untersucht dieser Band die jüngsten Formen von Verschiebungen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur.

Seit Michael Rothbergs Vorschlag einer „Multidirectional Memory“ (2009) drängt sich die Frage auf, wie sich d..

Price: $54.99

The Accumulation of Waste (A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:04:15 +0000

Phenomenal waste has surfaced as the social form and substance of value. In capital’s totalizing process, which commodifies all that comes in its way, wasting classes consume the wasted classes. This book addresses the metamorphosis of value into waste and it focuses on wars as industries of perfe..

Price: $218.00

Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:02:36 +0000

The early Frankfurt School and feminism can and should inform each other. This volume presents an original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were expli..

Price: $224.00

Woman: History and Critique of a Polemical Concept

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:02:21 +0000

The book follows the movements of the concept of “woman” from the Early modern to the post-colonial age, through the words of women who challenged its patriarchal definition. The concept of “woman” is doubly polemical. It affirms sexual difference as political difference, while denying the univers..

Price: $155.00

Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory (Decolonizing the Captive Mind)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:59:51 +0000

Known for his most famous works, such as The Myth of the Lazy Native (1977) and The Problem of Corruption (1986), as well as his concept of the “captive mind,” Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007) has made significant contributions to decolonization theory, social theory, and other forms ..

Price: $217.00

Selected Writings of Shyamali Haldar Naskar (Dalit Literature from Bangla)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:14:45 +0000

Shyamali Haldar Naskar, a Dalit author renowned for portraying marginalized Sundarbans women, vividly captures the struggles, survival strategies, and harsh realities of life in the Sundarbans. Through her poignant narrative, this book brings to light the agonies and humiliations endured by the..

Price: $233.99

Liquid Objects (Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Material Ecologies of Water)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:04:33 +0000

Liquid Objects: Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Material Ecologies of Water offers a consistent reading of Gurnah’s work as oceanic constellations that stretch ourdualistic assumptions of human and nonhuman matter.

Price: $233.99

Governing the Borderlands (Democratic Politics, Law and Institutions in Northeast India)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:58:13 +0000

This book develops a conceptual framework to better understand governance issues, and theoretical tools to grasp the variety of empirical realities observed in practice in Northeast India. The volume will be of great interest to scholars of South Asian studies, especially northeast India, polit..

Price: $233.99