Postcolonial Studies
The World of Agha Shahid Ali
Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Identities in Flux
Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds
The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.
Édouard Glissant, Philosopher
Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.
Cosmopolitan Civility
Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.
Postcolonial Lack
Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.
Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai
Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.
Reconstructing the Civic
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.
The Great Agrarian Conquest
Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.
Subjects That Matter
Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.
Forms of Disappointment
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.
Unsettling Colonialism
An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.
Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World
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.
Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki
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.
Beyond Bergson
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.
Speaking Face to Face
The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.
Boundary Lines
Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.
Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.
Found in Transition
Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.
Refugeehood and the Postconflict Subject
Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus
A Turbulent South Africa
Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
A State Is Born
Comprehensive historical study of policy planning and implementation during the crucial formative years of the Israeli government system.
The Trade in the Living
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.
Think Like an Archipelago
A career-spanning assessment of Glissant’s work as a philosophical project.
We Have Not Stopped Trembling Yet
A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.