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  • Nashville Eats

    Hot Chicken, Buttermilk Biscuits, and 100 More Southern Recipes from Music City

    by Jennifer Justus, Andrea Behrends ...
    "Perfectly captures the spirit of Music City . . . An incredible collection of recipes that makes you want to spend as much time as possible in Nashville" (Sean Brock, chef and author of Heritage).If it seems like Nashville is everywhere these days—that's because it is. GQ recently declared it "Nowville," and it has become the music hotspot for both country and rock. But as hot as the music scene ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Studies Now

    Critical Approaches to Racialization and Identity Politics in Francophone Contexts

    Edited by Eric Essono Tsimi, Andrea Behrends, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni ...
    This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolving landscape of African studies in the new millennium. It details new trends, approaches, and theoretical frameworks that have the potential to shape the future of the discipline. Curated by the up-and-coming scholar Eric Tsimi in collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Andrea Behrends and field-leading decolonial ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Lifeworlds in Crisis

    Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands

    by Andrea Behrends ...
    The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighboring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict--sometimes referred to as the 'first genocide of the twenty-first century'--for those living ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Crude Domination

    An Anthropology of Oil

    Edited by Andrea Behrends, Stephen Reyna, Günther Schlee ...
    Series Book 9 - Dislocations
    Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude Domination does just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Why Yemen Matters

    A Society in Transition

    by Helen Lackner ...
    Series Book 10 - SOAS Middle East Issues
    In November 2011, an agreement brokered by the GCC brought an end to Yemen's tumultuous uprising. The National Dialogue Conference has opened a window of opportunity for change, bringing Yemen's main political forces together with groups that were politically marginalized. Yet, the risk of collapse is serious, and if Yemen is to remain a viable state, it must address numerous political, social and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Dark Night

    Essays on Decolonization

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Power of Creative Reasoning

    The Ideas and Vision of John Garang

    by Lual A. Deng ...
    Seventy-two percent of South Sudans population is under thirty years of age. It is this generation that must create a new South Sudanese identity that is inclusive of all its nationalities. In The Power of Creative Reasoning, author Lual A. Deng shows how the ideas and concepts touted by Dr. John Garang could facilitate the advancement of the ideals of freedom, liberty, and human dignity.The Power ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Transnational Middle East

    People, Places, Borders

    Edited by Leïla Vignal ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    The Middle East has been undergoing new crises since the powerful socio-political uprisings known as the Arab Spring took place in several countries in 2011. Some countries are experiencing a long-term collapse of their political and social structures out of internal conflicts and external interventions.The Transnational Middle East posits that, in the Middle East, the development of regional ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Capital Hates Everyone

    Fascism or Revolution

    by Maurizio Lazzarato ...
    Translated by Robert Hurley ...
    Series series Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
    Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism.We are living in apocalyptic times. In Capital Hates Everyone, famed sociologist Maurice Lazzarato points to a stark choice emerging from the magma of today's world events: fascism or revolution. Fascism now drives the course of democracies as they grow less and less liberal and increasingly subject to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Right Where We Belong

    How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education

    by Sarah Dryden-Peterson ...
    A leading expert shows how, by learning from refugee teachers and students, we can create for displaced children—and indeed all children—better schooling and brighter futures.Half of the world’s 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is disrupted, and their lives are too often dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about what the future holds. Even kids who have the opportunity ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The New Spirit of Capitalism

    by Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    New edition of this major work examining the development of neoliberalismIn this established classic, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello get to the heart of contemporary capitalism. Delving deep into the latest management texts informing the thinking of employers, the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism. They argue that beginning in the mid-1970s, capitalism ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A State Built on Sand

    How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

    by David Mansfield ...
    Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those ... Read more

    $22.99 USD