An indispensable guide for all ethnographers, Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that offer concrete suggestions for thinking about and doing ethnographic research and writing.
Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts, The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country—from its pre-contact Indigenous origins to the present—to provide an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics.
Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how colonialty has operated around the world in its myriad forms between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries while calling for a decolonial politics that would delink from all forms of Western knowledge.
This twentieth anniversary edition of Brian Massumi's pioneering and highly influential Parables for the Virtual includes a significant new preface that situates the book in relation to developments since its first publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts.
In Curating the Moving Image, influential curator and theorist Mark Nash draws on his work at Documenta11, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere to explore the possibilities of contemporary curation.
Reorients the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. The contributors examine how... Læs mere
Examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the new proliferation of industries, services,... Læs mere
Isabelle Stengers addresses the challenges of situating modern, scientific, and technical practices of thinking without falling into the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary.
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a... Læs mere
World-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays Yan Lianke describes his literary project, reflects on censorship in China, and his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history.
Through ethnographic vignettes written in story form, pearson offers an alternative history of the unruly and unexpected ways that people resist, get by, make money, find joy, and build radical social life in the small, unseen spaces beside large-scale confinement.
In this authoritative history of cannabis in Africa, Chris S. Duvall challenges what readers thought they knew about cannabis by correcting widespread myths, outlining its... Læs mere