Nagarik

Set in Calcutta in the aftermath of Partition, Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik (released in 1977 after Ghatak’s death in 1976) chronicles the struggles of a refugee family from East Bengal as they desperately strive to survive in a metropolis that is unable to address the necessities of thousands of peop...

Gender and diversity studies

Against the backdrop of current European developments, from economic deregulation and a shrinking welfare state to the dissolution and reinforcement of borders, this book examines the development of gender and diversity studies in different European regions and beyond.

Actors and networks in the megacity

This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Pr...

Socio-economic surveys of three villages in tripura

The book is a report on the village economy of the state of Tripura in India, based on a survey of three villages in the state conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies in May–June 2016. A team from the Foundation for Agrarian Studies revisited the three villages in April 2017 to conduct c...

Dispatches from the threshold

Tenants narrate their struggles for housing justice as the catastrophes of COVID-19, precarity, and racist police violence converge.

What is sexual difference?

This book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.

The ferrante letters

In The Ferrante Letters, four critics create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Elena Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, they strike a tone that ...

False mirrors

Andrii Demartino investigates how social media can be used to advance an aggressive foreign policy, as exemplified by the Russian Federation’s operation to annex Crimea in 2014. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he traces the implementation of a series of Russian measures to create channels and...

Opposing desires

Dynamic and continuous alike: the framing strategies, networks, and hegemonic struggles of conservative Christians’ anti-LGBT activism in South Korea.

Arguing about tastes

Arguing About Tastes makes the case that economists should abandon the principle that preferences are fixed and instead incorporate into their work how context and experience shape individual tastes.

The star system

Looks at the development and changing organization of the star system in the American film industry.

Transgender sex work and society

This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the live...

Between dog and wolf

Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.” Sokolov’s second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex puns, rh...

Mapping black europe

Black communities have made major contributions to Europe for centuries, yet their achievements largely remain unrecognized. In this groundbreaking book, leading Black scholars and activists examine this issue. They discuss collective narratives, outline community action, and introduce people and...

Soil to foil

Soil to Foil tells the extraordinary story of aluminum. Saleem H. Ali reveals its pivotal role in the histories of scientific inquiry and technological innovation as well as its importance to sustainability.

Nomadic theory

Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an o...

Rape and representation

Rape does not have to happen. The fact that it does--and in the United States a rape is reported every six minutes--indicates that we live in a rape-prone culture where rape or the threat of rape functions as a tool for enforcing sexual difference and hierarchy.Rape and Representation explores ho...

The metamorphoses of fat

Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.

“there it is”

This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. It discusses a far greater number and variety of works than is typical of previous studies of Vietnam literature.

Joseph conrad and the voicing of textuality

Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality offers an original approach to Conrad's work rooted in linguistics and psychoanalytic theory. Claude Maisonnat provides fresh insight into the poetics of textuality by introducing the concept of textual voice, as opposed to the traditional conceptions o...

A private life

From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a you...

Colonialism and gender relations from mary wollstonecraft to jamaica kincaid

East asian societies

So very many teach introductions to East Asia under different disciplines, including the Humanities, Sociology, Economics, History, and Religious Studies, but what makes this work so promising is its transferability across these lines of demarcation for the student engaged in her first serious st...

Building states

Building States examines how the UN tried to manage the dissolution of European empires in the 1950s and 1960s—and helped transform the practice of international development and the meaning of state sovereignty in the process. Eva-Maria Muschik traces how UN personnel pioneered a new kind of stat...

Religions of india

This in-depth study explores the history and philosophy of India's major religions, explaining clearly the development of Buddhism, Yoga, and Hinduism over the centuries. A complete glossary of terms is included, as well as an index and suggestions for further reading.

Islamic law and civil code

Richard A. Debs analyzes the classical Islamic law of property based on the Shari'ah, traces its historic development in Egypt, and describes its integration as a source of law within the modern format of a civil code. He focuses specifically on Egypt, a country in the Islamic world that drew upo...

Another person’s poison

Another Person's Poison traces the trajectory of the debate over food allergies and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Matthew Smith illuminates society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation of medical knowle...

Economic normalization with cuba

Will the Obama administration's decision to normalize relations with Cuba usher in a new era of economic cooperation, trade, and investment between the two countries? This prescient book, published only eight months before President Obama's historic announcement at the end of 2014, provides answe...

Social policy, poverty, and inequality in central and eastern europe and the former soviet union

This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of postsocialist countries across central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Authors from different disciplines address key aspects of social protection including health care, poverty reduction measures, labor ma...

The spirit of monarchy

William Hazlitt's essay on the ludicrousness of monarchy shows him at his best.

The serpent's tale

The Serpent’s Tale traces the intricate global histories of Kuṇḍalinī, from its Sanskrit origins to its popularity in the West.

Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives

By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...

A queer theory of the state

In A Queer Theory of the State, Samuel Clowes Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.