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An ethnography of post-Soviet Cubas health-care sector which reveals Cuba to be a pragmatic and contradictory state.

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.

Looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbean migrants to Britain taken at a photographic studio in Birmingham between 1948 and 1960.

This is a study of the reciprocal relationship between Mexican muralism and the three major Mexican museums-the Palace of Fine Arts, the National History Museum, and the National Anthropology Museum.

A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India.

This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums.

Chandra explores how English became an Indian language during the colonial period of 1850-1930. Using archival and literary sources, she focuses on elite language education for girls and women.

West looks at the process from which coffee is grown, gathered, sorted, shipped, and served from the highlands of Papua New Guinea to coffee shops in far away places. She shows how coffee becomes a commodity, the different forms of labor involved, and the way that coffee shapes the lives and understandings of those who grow, process, export, sell and consume coffee.

West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto.

This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Ranciere.

Features the essays that examine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marx's ideas of production.

Examining debates in interdisciplinary identity studies, this title studies debates in Women's Studies, American Studies, Queer Theory and Whiteness studies, especially at points when the key terms changed, as happened when Women's Studies was superseded by Gender Studies.

At the time of her death in after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work.

Studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. This title shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.

Joan Wallach Scott, a historian who helped to shape the fields of gender and womens history, argues for the usefulness of psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy, for feminist historical analysis.

Sergio Ramirez, Vice President of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990, offers his memoir of the turbulent years that toppled the Samoza dictatorship in 1979 and the triumphs and shortcomings of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that was charged with national reconstruction and social transformation in a country besieged by internal conflicts and foreign aggression.

Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.

A comparative feminist work that starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. It examines the contemporary gendered spaces of citizenship, travel, and popular culture across the Caribbean.

The third volume of this sweeping series covers the period of the Islamic Revolution and its immediate aftermath. Naficy details the destruction of Irans movie theaters by Revolutionaries, the attempts of amateur and professional filmmakers to capture the action of the Revolution on film in real time, and the post-Revolutionary consolidation of the film industry.

Elizabeth Grosz addresses three related concepts-life, politics, and art-by exploring the implications of Charles Darwins account of the evolution of species.

Provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative and collective art practices

The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

A textual account of the hallyu (Korean wave) films popular internationally, especially in Asia, from the late 1990s until 200708.

This ethnography of a river restoration project in Kathmandu, Nepals capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, contributes to the nascent anthropology of urban environments.

Walter D. Mignolo analyzes the "colonial logic" that has driven five hundred years of Western imperialism, from colonialism through neoliberalism

A leading feminist theorist rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.

Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan.

Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners.

A groundbreaking ethnography on race, desire, and belonging among black Cubans in the early twenty-first-century

The first of 4 volumes in the definitive history of Iranian fil.