Publications
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The Culture of Japanese Fascism
(2009)
This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of political structures and events. Contributors from history, literature, ...
Food, Farms & Solidarity
(2013)
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than ...
In Search of the Amazon
(2013-01-01)
Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became ...
Governing Gaza
(2007-01-01)
Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers. Still not part of a sovereign state, it would seem too exceptional to be a revealing ...
Contemporary African Screen Worlds
(2025)
Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic ...
My Voice Is My Weapon
(2013-05-01)
David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from ...
Made in Asia/America
(2024)
The contributors to Made in Asia/America explore the historical entanglements of video games, Asia, and America, showing how examining games offer new ways of imagining empire, race, and coalition.
Unearthing Gender
(2012)
This book is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings. Smita Tewari Jassal uses these songs to ...
Decentralizing Knowledges
(2025)
Decentralizing Knowledges argues that epistemic decentralizing—the diverse infrastructures and nonhegemonic practices of knowledge production—should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices ...
Poverty and Wealth in East Africa
(2022)
Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.