This reader on world history emphasizes the centrality of raced, sexed, and classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined and exercised, in order to examine the effects of global politics, capital and culture on everyday spaces and local cultural encounters
Argues for a fresh understanding of the relations between politics and aesthetics in a globalized and image-saturated world.
Offers an account of development in action. Focusing on experts' attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia,... Læs mere
The People's collection of cultural studies essays on wrestling.
A detailed history explaining how and why, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Africans from the British colony of Natal transformed their ethnic self-identification, constructing and claiming a new Zulu identity.
Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, this work reveals how the... Læs mere
Presents a study of globalization and consumerism through an ethnography of Bombay's leading advertising agency. This book traces the rise in India, during the 1980s of mass consumption, as a self-consciously sensuous challenge to the austerities of state-led developmentalism.
Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.