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  • Geographies of Perpetration

    Re-Signifying Cultural Narratives of Mass Violence

    Edited by Brigitte E. Jirku, Vicente Sánchez-Biosca ...
    Series Book 6 - Signaturen der Gewalt / Signatures of Violence
    This volume maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators’ perspective. It analyzes spaces where political crimes have been committed and how these places have undergone successive resemanticization in collective memories. The chapters comparatively examine scenes of Mass Violence carried out in very diverse regions of the globe, from the Third Reich to the Argentinian ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Ruins of Modernity

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Reassessing the Transnational Turn

    Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies

    Edited by Constance Bantman, Bert Altena ...
    This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of ... Read more

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  • The Marxism of Che Guevara

    Philosophy, Economics, Revolutionary Warfare

    by Michael Löwy ...
    "Excellent. . . .The book gives one a clear understanding of the relationship of Guevara's thought to traditional Russian and Marxist philosophy." — Choice ReviewsIn this seminal exploration of Che Guevara's contributions to Marxist thinking, Michael Löwy traces Che's ideas about Marxism both as they related to Latin America and to more general philosophical, political, and economic issues. Now ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Place

    Space and Embodiment in the City

    Edited by Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman ...
    An analysis of how city dwellers interact with their social and materials worlds in everyday life and how this affects their bodies.Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are ... Read more

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  • Underground Passages

    Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011

    by Jesse Cohn ...
    An exhaustive study of the richly textured "resistance culture" anarchists create to sustain their ideals and identities amid everyday lives defined by capital and the state, a culture prefiguring a post-revolutionary world and allowing an escape from domination even while enmeshed in it. Whether discussing famous artists like Kenneth Rexroth, John Cage, and Diane DiPrima, or relatively unknown ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crisis and Communitas

    Performative Concepts of Commonality in Arts and Politics

    Edited by Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera ...
    This book is a critical, transdisciplinary examination of a broad range of philosophical ideas, theoretical concepts, and artistic projects of community in the 20th and 21st century in the context of global/local social and political changes.This volume opens new vitas by focusing on carefully selected instances of multipronged crises in which existing concepts of commonality are questioned, ... Read more

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  • Topographies of Fascism

    Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by Nil Santianez ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Topographies of Fascism offers the first comprehensive exploration of how Spanish fascist writing – essays, speeches, articles, propaganda materials, poems, novels, and memoirs – represented and created space from the early 1920s until the late 1950s. Nil Santiáñez contends that fascism expressed its views on the state, the nation, and the society in spatial terms (for example, the state as a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Beyond Bolaño

    The Global Latin American Novel

    by Héctor Hoyos ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Memory and Postcolonial Studies

    Synergies and New Directions

    Edited by Dirk Göttsche ...
    Series Book 9 - Cultural Memories
    In the postcolonial reassessment of history, the themes of colonialism, decolonisation and individual and collective memory have always been intertwined, but it is only recently that the transcultural turn in memory studies has enabled proper dialogue between memory studies and postcolonial studies. This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and postcolonial studies ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Genocide as Social Practice

    Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas

    by Daniel Feierstein ...
    Translated by Douglas Andrew Town ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    Genocide not only annihilates people but also destroys and reorganizes social relations, using terror as a method. In Genocide as Social Practice, social scientist Daniel Feierstein looks at the policies of state-sponsored repression pursued by the Argentine military dictatorship against political opponents between 1976 and 1983 and those pursued by the Third Reich between 1933 and 1945. He finds ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Analysing Fascist Discourse

    European Fascism in Talk and Text

    Edited by Ruth Wodak, John E. Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
    This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of fascist and national-socialist regimes in the 20th century and to related colonial and imperialist expansionist politics. And yet we are again confronted with the emergence, rise and success of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD