Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

Offers a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies from an Indigenous and postcolonial perspective.

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity, resulting in newer forms of truth-telling within the Sikh community.

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas’s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

Examines the filmic representation of Whiteness as Indigeneity and its role in mediating racial politics in Mexico.

Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.

Reconsiders key concepts in Marxist thought by examining the relationship between accumulation and subjectivity in Latin American narrative, film, and social and political theory.

Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

Employs a critical Afrocentric reading of Western constructions of knowledge so as to overcome the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.

Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.

Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity.

Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.

Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.

A postmodernist metacritical look at theories of African literature.

Explores the unique relationship between white women and racial Others in a wide variety of literary works.

Examines the political, social, and economic issues confronted by each of the newly independent republics in the Transcaucasus and Central Asian regions.

Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture.

Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.

This book shows that it is necessary to understand intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression in order to understand Native Americans today. It makes native American ways of conceptualizing the world available to readers.