Search Results

ENGLISH

Decolonize Drag

by Kareem Khubchandani

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 The global popularity of TV reality competition RuPaul’s Drag Race, screening its 14th season in 2022, is an unprecedented global queer phenomenon. It has spawned official spinoffs in Thailand, the UK, Italy, Spain, Australia/New Zealand, Chile, the Philippines, and the Netherlands, as well as a host of other series such as Dragula, Camp Wannakiki, and Las Mas Dragas. As drag enters the mainstream through a particularly fabulous, feminine, commercial, and mediatized format, various forms of gender-based performance across the globe fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag. A range of performance practices that mimic, play with, and reinvent gender become obsolete as drag concretizes into archetypes offered by Drag Race and its counterparts. Decolonize Drag details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various forms of expression and performance, and tracks how contemporary drag, including that on Drag Race, replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on a variety of gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices.Decolonize Drag! is bookended by the voice of Khubchandani’s drag alter-ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. In her prologue, Aunty discusses her encounter with depoliticized versions of drag during her career that leave her disappointed and perplexed, charging Khubchandani to fill in the blanks and offer context. Khubchandani begins, in the first chapter "Hairy Situations," by describing his student’s encounter with LaWhore Vagistan. The student was told by an audience member not to clap for LaWhore’s performance, leading Khubchandani to ask what about LaWhore makes her "not a real drag queen": her ethnicity? her body hair? her amateur skills?This sets the charge for the book, investigating how drag, and gender more broadly, has been privatized and delimited such that only some people have access to it, and arguing for more abundance and access to fashioning gender. Khubchandani investigates who gets to define what drag is, where else we look for drag beyond mainstream venues, and how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies. Connecting history, politics, and aesthetics, the author shows that every decision made in drag—from song choice to contour lines—has the potential to recall histories and discourses of empire building.
ENGLISH

Decolonize Self-Care

by Alyson K. Spurgas e Zoe Meleo Erwin

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary "self-care" practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such as tantra and yoga, as well as gluten-free and low-carbohydrate diets. The authors argue that "self-care" has become an industry, and one that is often marketed to and by wealthy, cisgender, white women in the global north. Spurgas and Meleo-Erwin contend that the rhetoric of "feminism" is regularly co-opted in selling self-care, with wealthy white women being the primary consumer target and also those who profit from self-care entrepreneurship. Through careful research and sharp analysis, the authors offer a vision of more radical, communal, collective, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist forms of care for chronic pain, burnout, depression, anxiety, and other conditions which are often the result of gendered, sexualized, racialized, ableist, and colonialist traumas under late capitalism. Utilizing critical feminist disability studies, madness studies, Black feminist scholarship, decolonial theory, and other intersectional and Marxist feminist critique, the authors re-theorize care outside of and beyond what current self-care rhetorics generally allow. A smart and often laugh-out-loud read, Decolonize Self-Care speaks to academic and lay audiences alike.
ENGLISH

Decolonize Multiculturalism

by Anthony C. Alessandrini

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 For those interested in continuing the struggle for decolonization, the word "multiculturalism" is mostly a sad joke. After all, institutionalized multiculturalism today is a managerial muck of buzzwords, branding strategies, and virtue signaling that has nothing to do with real struggles against racism and colonialism. But Decolonize Multiculturalism unearths a buried history. Decolonize Multiculturalism focuses on the story of the student and youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by global movements for decolonization and anti-racism, who aimed to fundamentally transform their society, as well as the violent repression of these movements by the state, corporations, and university administrations. Part of the response has been sheer violence—campus policing, for example, only began in the 1970s, paving the way for the militarized campuses of today—with institutionalized multiculturalism acting like the velvet glove around the iron fist of state violence. But this means that today’s multiculturalism also contains residues of the original radical demands of the student and youth movements that it aims to repress: to open up the university, to wrench it from its settler colonial, white supremacist, and patriarchal capitalist origins, and to transform it into a place of radical democratic possibility.
ENGLISH

Decolonize Hipsters

by Gregory Pierrot

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes and ready-made meme.But frightening as it is to imagine, for more than a century hipsters have been lurking among us. Defined by their appearances and the cloud of meaning attached to them—the cool vanguard of gentrification, the personification of capitalism with a conscience—hipsters are all looks, and these looks are a visual timeline to America’s past and present.Underlining this timeline is the pattern of American popular culture’s love/hate/theft relationship with Black culture. Yet the pattern of recycling has reached a chilling point: the 21st century hipster made all possible past fads into new trends, including and especially the old uncool. In Decolonize Hipsters, Grégory Pierrot gives us a field guide to the phenomenon, a symptom and vanguard of the wave of aggressive white supremacist sentiment now oozing from around the globe.
ENGLISH

Decolonize Museums

by Shimrit Lee

13,24€ + 10% CARD

 Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely rarified public space of cool stone, providing an experience of leisure and education for the general public while carefully tending fragile artifacts from distant lands. As questions about representation and ethics have increasingly arisen, these institutions have proclaimed their interest in diversity and responsible conservation, asserting both their adaptability and their immovably essential role in a flourishing and culturally rich society.With Decolonize Museums, Shimrit Lee punctures this fantasy, tracing the essentially colonial origins of the concept of the museum. White Europeans’ atrocities were reimagined through narratives of benign curiosity and abundant respect for the occupied or annihilated culture, and these racist narratives, Lee argues, remain integral to the authority exercised by museums today. Citing pop culture references from Indiana Jones to Black Panther, and highlighting crucial activist campaigns and legal action to redress the harms perpetrated by museums and their proxies, Decolonize Museums argues that we must face a dismantling of these seemingly eternal edifices, and consider what, if anything, might take their place.
ENGLISH

Mad World - War, Movies, Sex

by Slavoj Žižek

~~17,56€~~ 15,80€ 10% OFF

free shipping
ENGLISH

Leonor - The Story Of A Lost Childhood

by Paula Delgado-Kling

~~24,32€~~ 21,89€ 10% OFF

free shipping
ENGLISH

Decolonize Drag

by Kareem Khubchandani

~~20,27€~~ 18,24€ 10% OFF

free shipping
ENGLISH

The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated - How Movements And Law Can Work Together To Win

24,32€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
Cold War, Hot War - How Russiagate Created Chaos From Washington To Ukraine

by Aaron Mate

~~20,27€~~ 18,24€ 10% OFF

free shipping
ENGLISH

Fishing And The Art Of Activism

by Stephen Duncombe

20,27€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Decolonize Multiculturalism

by Anthony C. Alessandrini

20,27€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Cars And Jails - Dreams Of Freedom, Realties Of Debt And Prison

by Andrew Ross e Julie Livingston

17,56€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Eleven Lives - Stories From Palestinian Exiles

22,97€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

The Business Secrets Of Drug Dealing - An Almost True Account

by Matt Taibbi e Reggie Harris

17,56€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Decolonize Self-Care

by Alyson K. Spurgas e Zoe C. Meleo-Erwin

20,27€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Decolonize Museums

by Shimrit Lee

20,27€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Decolonize Hipsters

by Gregory Pierrot

17,56€ + 10% CARD

free shipping
ENGLISH

Pool Of Blood

by Ronald Mueller

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

A New Chilean Revolution

by Ariel Dorfman

18,01€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Weaponising Anti-Semitism - How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn

by Asa Winstanley

24,32€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Unmasked - Covid As Class War

by Max Blumenthal

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
The Russiagate Racket - Elite Fantasies From The Steele Dossier To War In The Ukraine

by Aaron Mate

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
ENGLISH

Making Good Trouble On Staten Island - Chris Smallâ€™S Battle To Unionize Amazon

by Amir Khafagy

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE
Loading results...

View more results