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  • Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa

    Shades of Empire

    by Lorena Rizzo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form.Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Women and Photography in Africa

    Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges

    Edited by Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo, Kylie Thomas ...
    This collection explores women’s multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa.The book offers new ways of thinking about the history of photography, exploring through case studies the complex and historically specific articulations of gender and photography on the continent, and attending to the challenge and potential of contemporary feminist and postcolonial ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

    by Paul Gilroy ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Crisis of the European Union

    A Response

    by Jürgen Habermas ...
    Translated by Ciaran Cronin.In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial crisis, especially by the German political class. This extended essay on the constitution for Europe represents Habermas’s ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Listening to Images

    by Tina M. Campt ...
    In Listening to Images Tina M. Campt explores a way of listening closely to photography, engaging with lost archives of historically dismissed photographs of black subjects taken throughout the black diaspora. Engaging with photographs through sound, Campt looks beyond what one usually sees and attunes her senses to the other affective frequencies through which these photographs register. She ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Archive Stories

    Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

    by Durba Ghosh, Jeff Sahadeo, Craig Robertson, Tony Ballantyne ...
    Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Risk: A Study Of Its Origins, History And Politics

    by Matthias Beck, Beth Kewell ...
    Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural and intellectual trends relating to the understanding and analysis of risks. Risk: A Study of its ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Disciplinary Frame

    Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

    by John Tagg ...
    Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • Gramsci's Common Sense

    Inequality and Its Narratives

    by Kate Crehan ...
    Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate Crehan offers new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take, including in regards to race, gender, sexual orientation, and ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Portraiture and Photography in Africa

    by Raoul Birnbaum, Jürg Schneider, Erin Haney, Erika Nimis, Z. S. Strother, Christraud M. Geary, Isolde Brielmaer, Liam Buckley, Jean Borgatti, Rowland O. Abiodun, Candace M. Keller, Till Förster ...
    Beautifully illustrated, Portrait Photography in Africa offers new interpretations of the cultural and historical roles of photography in Africa. Twelve leading scholars look at early photographs, important photographers' studios, the uses of portraiture in the 19th century, and the current passion for portraits in Africa. They review a variety of topics, including what defines a common culture of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Monrovia Modern

    Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia

    by Danny Hoffman ...
    In Monrovia Modern Danny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia, as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination. Hoffman shows how the E. J. Roye tower and the Hotel Africa luxury resort, as well as the unfinished Ministry of Defense and Liberia Broadcasting System buildings, transformed during the urban warfare ... Read more

    $27.39 USD