Seeking spatial justice

In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ...

Bad for democracy

how the presidency undermines the power of the people

Throughout our history, Americans have been simultaneously inspired and seduced by the American presidency and concerned about the misuse of presidential power - from the time of Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR to Nixon, Reagan, and George W. Bush - as a grave threat to the United States ...

The divided world

Human Rights and its violence

CONTENTS: Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The International Division of Humanity 1 Conscience Denied: Amnesty International and the Antirevolution of the 1960s 2 Who Claims Modernity? The International Frame of Sexual Recognition 3 A Duty to Intervene: On the Cinematic Constitution of Subjects for Empire in Hotel ...

Capital, interrupted

agrarian development and the politics of work in India

Small tech

the culture of digital tools

The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance new thinking about digital environments.

Engraving the savage

the New World and techniques of civilization

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: White Pebbles in the Dark Forest.- 1 Savage Marks: The Scriptive Techniques of Early Modern Ethnography.- 2 Making Sense of Smoke: Engraving and Ornament in de Bry's America.- 3 Flatness and Protuberance: Reforming the Image in Protestant Print Culture.- 4 ...

An analytic dictionary of english etymology

an introduction

This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman's comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to solve the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic ...

A call for heresy

why dissent is vital to Islam and America

In A Call for Heresy, Anouar Majid provocatively argues that the United States and contemporary Islam share far more than partisans on either side admit, and this "clash of civilizations" is in reality a clash of competing fundamentalisms. Illustrating this point, he draws surprising parallels ...

A world of Gangs

armed young men and gangsta culture

For the more than a billion people who now live in urban slums, gangs are ubiquitous features of daily life, and they are not going away. Though still most closely associated with American cities, gangs are an entrenched, worldwide phenomenon that play a significant role ...

Argentina

stories for a nation

The many meanings #Argentina# holds both within and beyond its borders. By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina#s complex identity#tango and chimichurri, Eva Perón and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the Falklands and the Dirty War, Jorge Luis Borges and ...