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Necropolitics

by Achille Mbembe

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 Achille Mbembe theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary worldâ€"one plagued by inequality, militarization, enmity, and a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forcesâ€"and calls for a radical revision of humanism a the means to create a more just society.
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An Unformed Map - Geographies Of Belonging Between Africa And The Caribbean

by Philip Janzen

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 Traces the intellectual trajectories of Caribbean people who joined the British and French colonial administrations in Africa between 1890 and 1930. Drawing on sources beyond the archives of empire, from dictionaries and language exams to a suitcase full of poems, Janzen considers how Caribbean administrators reckoned with the profound effects of assimilation, racism, and dislocation.
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An Unformed Map - Geographies Of Belonging Between Africa And The Caribbean

by Philip Janzen

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 Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of Caribbean people who joined the British and French colonial administrations in Africa between 1890 and 1930.
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Secularism As Misdirection - Critical Thought From The Global South

by Nivedita Menon

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 Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.
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Psychiatric Contours - New African Histories Of Madness

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 Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa.
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Secularism As Misdirection - Critical Thought From The Global South

by Nivedita Menon

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 Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.
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Brutalism

by Achille Mbembe

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 Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is to develop a new planetary consciousness and a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.
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Archaism And Actuality - Japan And The Global Fascist Imaginary

by Harry Harootunian

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 Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism.
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Brutalism

by Achille Mbembe

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 Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale, arguing that the solution is to develop a new planetary consciousness and a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.
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Architecture Of Migration - The Dadaab Refugee Camps And Humanitarian Settlement

by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

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 Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking history or architecture. Focusing on the Dadaab refugee camps established in 1991 on the Kenya-Somalia border, this book shows how a refugee campâ€™s aesthetic and material landscapesâ€"even if born out of emergencyâ€"reveal histories, futures, politics, and rhetorics.
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A Vital Frontier - Water Insurgencies In Europe

by Andrea Muehlebach

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 Follows activists across Europe as they struggle to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Drawing on ethnographic research, Muehlebach presents water protests as a vital politics that comprises popular referenda, barricades in the streets, huge demonstrations, the burning of utility bills, and legal disputes over transparency and contracts.
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The Queer Art Of History - Queer Kinship After Fascism

by Jennifer V. Evans

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 Drawing on black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity, showing how an analytic of kinship more fully illuminates the work of solidarity and intersectional organizing across difference.
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Composing Violence - The Limits Of Exposure And The Making Of Minorities

by Moyukh Chatterjee

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 Examining the 2002 pogrom in which Hindu mobs attached Muslims in the west Indian state of Gujuarat, Moyukh Chatterjee examines how political violence against minorities catalyzes radical changes in law, public culture, and power.
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Briny South - Displacement And Sentiment In The Indian Ocean World

by Nienke Boer

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 Examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to show how colonial powersâ€™ mediation of sentiment and emotion was central to the racialization of these marginalized peoples. Boer frames the Indian Ocean as a site of subjectification with a long history of transnational connectionâ€"and exploitation.
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The Briny South - Displacement And Sentiment In The Indian Ocean World

by Nienke Boer

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 Examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to show how colonial powersâ€™ mediation of sentiment and emotion was central to the racialization of these marginalized peoples. Boer frames the Indian Ocean as a site of subjectification with a long history of transnational connectionâ€"and exploitation.
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Riotous Deathscapes

by Hugo Ka Canham

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 Presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that the author terms Mpondo theory. Canham examines the practices of amaMpondo people of South Africa to theorize their strategies of resilience and survival in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death.b
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Composing Violence - The Limits Of Exposure And The Making Of Minorities

by Moyukh Chatterjee

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 Examining the 2002 pogrom in which Hindu mobs attached Muslims in the west Indian state of Gujuarat, Moyukh Chatterjee examines how political violence against minorities catalyzes radical changes in law, public culture, and power.
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Wake Up, This Is Joburg

by Mark Lewis e Tanya Zack

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 Writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of its residents, showing how its urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, widescale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.
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Markets Of Civilization - Islam And Racial Capitalism In Algeria

by Muriam Haleh Davis

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 Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria.
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Wake Up, This Is Joburg

by Mark Lewis e Tanya Zack

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 Writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of its residents, showing how its urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, widescale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.
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The Pandemic Divide - How Covid Increased Inequality In America

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 The contributors to The Pandemic Divide analyze and explain the myriad racial disparities that came to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate its impact.
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Students Of The World - Global 1968 And Decolonization In The Congo

by Pedro Monaville

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 Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists whose work following the Congoâ€™s independence became central to national politics and broader decolonization movements during the global 1960s.
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In The Skin Of The City - Spatial Transformation In Luanda

by António Tomás

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 AntÃ³nio TomÃ¡s traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, by showing how it emerges out of the continual redefinition and negotiation of its physical and social boundaries.
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No Machos Or Pop Stars - When The Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk

by Gavin Butt

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 Gavin Butt tells the story of the post-punk scene in the northern English city of Leeds, showing how bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget drew on their university art school education to push the boundaries of pop music.
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