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  • The Visual Divide between Islam and the West

    Image Perception within Cross-Cultural Contexts

    by Hatem N. Akil ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book considers the ways in which Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed, by the West. The book underscores a certain “will-to-visibility” whereby Muslims/ Arabs wish just to be “seen” and to be marked as fellow human beings. The author relates the failure to achieve this visibility to a state of desperation that inextricably and symmetrically ties ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic

    A Cross-disciplinary Perspective

    Edited by Hatem Akil, Simone Maddanu ...
    Global Modernity from Coloniality to Pandemic explores issues related to the global crises of our time: reason, science, and the environment by revisiting the notions of modernity, modernism, and modernization, which can no longer be considered purely Western or strictly secular. The book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines – ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Power, Politics, and Culture

    Interviews with Edward W. Said

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture.“A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Edward Said

    A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

    Edited by Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom ...
    Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said’s life and work, spans his ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired the world’s racist populists in places as far apart as Hungary and Arizona, achieving a horrific consummation in the actions of mass murderer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ambiguities of Domination

    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

    Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

    by Tariq Ali, Zygmunt Bauman, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Roberto Esposito, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, Joseph Vogl ...
    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley ...
    Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Johan Galtung

    Pioneer of Peace Research

    by Johan Galtung, Dietrich Fischer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is the first ever anthology of key articles by Johan Galtung, widely regarded as the founder of the academic discipline of peace studies. It covers such concepts as direct, structural and cultural violence; theories of conflict, development, civilization and peace; peaceful conflict transformation; peace education; mediation; reconciliation; a life-sustaining economy; macro-history; deep ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • In the Wake of the Poetic

    Palestinian Artists After Darwish

    by Najat Rahman ...
    Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus