Infrapolitics

Infrapolitics: A Handbook elaborates conditions of existence that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It offers a general critique of the political apparatus and seeks to establish an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. The book provides a genealo...

Inglorious empire

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India.

Intersectional knowledges

A delve into intersectionality in Europe, offering fresh insights into themes and methodologies from diverse academic perspectives.

Interspecies ethics

Interspecies Ethics explores animals’ vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species.

Iran in revolt

In his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how do we measure their failures? In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini, was killed in police custody for failing to observe the s...

Ireland, colonialism, and the unfinished revolution

A groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world.  Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. And as Robbie Mc...

Kill the indian, save the man

The devastating results of a 100-year program to eradicate Native North American culture

King leopold's ghostwriter

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victor...

Legacies of british rule

The relationship between colonial pluralism and nationalist civil war in former British coloniesWhy do some communities fight civil wars over national self-rule while others do not? In Legacies of British Rule, Matthew Lange offers insight into this question through a rigorous multimethod and com...

Legacy of empire

A highly readable, dispassionate account of Britain’s imperial legacy in the Middle East, and its role in shaping the modern history of Palestine and Israel. An essential primer on the historical roots of the conflict.

Liquid empire

A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of waterIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These sprawling empires encompassed not only rainforests, deserts, and savan...

Local histories/global designs

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequa...

Lordship and liberation in palestine-israel

This interdisciplinary book provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people.

Making abolitionist worlds

What does an abolitionist world look like? Insights from today’s international abolitionist movement reveal a world to win.

Marx's others

This book revives Marx in order to understand race and gender as part of the capitalist totality, and to strike more fundamentally at the heart of contemporary capitalism.

Middle east studies after september 11

A sweeping, essential analysis of how, following 9/11, Middle Eastern Studies was transformed in the service of Empire

New tunisian cinema

Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's presidency, from 1987 to 2011, the country became the most repressive state in the Maghreb. Against...

Next time they'll come to count the dead

In fast-paced and dramatic fashion, Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world.

Not like a native speaker

A riveting series of stories that portray the biopolitics of speaking and writing in a postcolonial world.

On edward said

An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries leading public intellectuals

On palestine

Chomsky and Pappé discuss the past and future of Palestine.

Party politics and populism in zambia

Analysis of the political history of Zambia through a study of Michael Sata. It shows the interaction between party politics and populism since the 1950s, the nature and competitiveness of electoral politics in single or dominant party regimes, and the importance of individual political leadershi...

Performing technocapitalism

Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev Coban argues that postcolonial technology entrepreneurship is neoliberal, and inherently political work.

Politics of the possible

This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture, and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible.'

Post-apartheid criticism

South Africa’s post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality—but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality, and democracy, he lays the foundation for post-apartheid criticism that differs from postcolonial criticism.

Post-imperial possibilities

A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederic...

Postcolonial bergson

At a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.

Postcolonial global justice

A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial agePoliticians and activists today turn to the language of decolonization to call attention to such issues as cultural and linguistic decline, exploitative foreign investment, and global institutions do...

Postcolonial theory

Leela Gandhi’s Postcolonial Theory is a landmark description of the field of postcolonial studies in theoretical terms and its intellectual context. The revised edition of this classic work reaffirms its status as a useful starting point for readers new to the field and a provocative account that...

Prophetic maharaja

Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost Khalsa Raj, in Punjab.

Queer terror

C. Heike Schotten offers a critique of U.S. settler-colonial empire that draws on political, queer, and critical indigenous theory to reframe the concept of terrorism. She provides an anatomy of the War on Terror's moralism, arguing for a new interpretation of biopolitics that is focused on sover...

Quest for freedom

Reading better states

Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms and climate catastrophe.

Reading race relationally

Lieber argues that Whitehead's first six novels portray the relation between late capitalist social structures and processes of racial classification.

Reading revolution

Shakespeare's work gives hope and inspiration to the political prisoners held on apartheid South Africa's infamous Robben Island.

Reconsidering reparations

A pathbreaking book about world history, global justice, and the climate crisis—featuring a new preface by the author. “Coursing with moral urgency and propelled by brilliant prose, this is more than argument. It's how we build the power needed to win.” —Naomi Klein A clear, new case for repara...

Red october

Using extensive field data from hundreds of interviews, Webber surveys the origins of Bolivia's revolutionary wave of 2000 to 2005.

Rehearsals for living

Articulating abolitionist and anti-colonial presents and futures, Rehearsals for Living asks what it means to get free.

Rival civilisations

How British intellectuals of the twentieth century reckoned with the emergence of an Asian powerMost historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Europe point to the persistence of racialised and hierarchical views of non-Europeans as “uncivilised.” Yet these accounts overlook the profound inte...

Sacred language, vernacular difference

How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and SenegalSacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic’s global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by...

Segregation, inequality, and urban development

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices a...

Settler, 2nd edition

Canada has never had an “Indian problem”— but it does have a Settler problem. What does it mean to be Settler, and why does it matter?

Settling for less

Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the twentieth century? At the same time, why did states...

Sexagon

Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa—as well as their French descendants—have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness re...