{"title":"Series: Critical South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritical South\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of the region through diverse lenses, from history and politics to arts and culture. Readers will find insightful works that delve into pivotal moments, influential figures, and the evolving social landscape of the South, inviting a deeper understanding of its complexities and character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis series also extends into practical fields such as engineering and technology, reflecting the South's dynamic growth and innovation. Whether through thoughtful critique or technical expertise, \u003cem\u003eCritical South\u003c\/em\u003e enriches the reader's perspective on the region’s past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"colonial-trauma-by-karima-lazali-9781509541034","title":"Colonial Trauma","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eColonial Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e is a path-breaking account of the psychosocial effects of colonial domination. Following the work of Frantz Fanon, Lazali draws on historical materials as well as her own clinical experience as a psychoanalyst to shed new light on the ways in which the history of colonisation leaves its traces on contemporary postcolonial selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLazali found that many of her patients experienced difficulties that can only be explained as the effects of “colonial trauma” dating from the French colonisation of Algeria and the postcolonial period. Many French feel weighed down by a colonial history that they are aware of but which they have not experienced directly. Many Algerians are traumatised by the way that the French colonial state imposed new names on people and the land, thereby severing the links with community, history, and genealogy and contributing to feelings of loss, abandonment, and injustice. Only by reconstructing this history and uncovering its consequences can we understand the impact of colonisation and give individuals the tools to come to terms with their past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy demonstrating the power of psychoanalysis to illuminate the subjective dimension of colonial domination, this book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the long-term consequences of colonisation and its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854275858668,"sku":"9781509541034","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12432593482725.jpg?v=1759239567"},{"product_id":"doing-justice-by-pablo-oyarzun-9781509541980","title":"Doing Justice","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would interrupt social violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Oyarzun examines some of the key concepts in Benjamin’s work – including his concepts of translation, experience, history, and storytelling – and relates them to his own systematic reflection on the nature and implications of \u003cem\u003edoing justice\u003c\/em\u003e. What is meant by the words ‘justice was done’? The passive voice is important here. On the one hand, justice does nothing: it is not an agent, it can only prevail or fail, and if it fails, it does so without limit. On the other hand, the passive voice alludes to the agents of an action while covering them up; the allusion is the masking of the identity and traces of the person who accomplishes the action. And this cover-up can be dangerous: it can cover-up the executioners, who are subjects that everyone can confirm anonymously, without their being recognised and without their wanting to be recognised. Justice, argues Oyarzun, can only be done in the active effort to do justice – or, as Benjamin would say, in the striving to turn the world into the highest good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book by one of Chile’s most distinguished philosophers will be of value to anyone interested in Benjamin’s work and in the development of critical theory in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000596250860,"sku":"9781509541980","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12442053482725.jpg?v=1763288148"},{"product_id":"error-illusion-madness-by-bento-prado-jr-9781509537051","title":"Error, Illusion, Madness","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 2004, \u003cem\u003eError, Illusion, Madness\u003c\/em\u003e is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and role of the subject and its forms of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a context where the category of the subject was being at once dismissed by structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers and sidelined by the intersubjective turn of critical theory, Bento Prado Jr.’s book represented a unique intellectual intervention. He mobilised authors as diverse as Wittgenstein and Deleuze to formulate a notion of the subject as both a critique of identity and an affirmation of difference, a notion that dismantled the foundational character usually associated with this category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this way, Bento Prado Jr. opened up a new and distinctive kind of critical thinking that emphasised subjectivity while avoiding both foundationalism and relativism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis important book will be of great interest to those working in philosophy, critical theory, cultural theory, and Latin American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000608440556,"sku":"9781509537051","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12392763482725.jpg?v=1763288906"},{"product_id":"texturing-difference-by-maurits-van-bever-donker-9781509562305","title":"Texturing Difference","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonisation. It argues that the Black Consciousness Movement, in addition to its urgent political focus, should also be read as a philosophical intervention on the problem of Man that haunts the idea of race. As Steve Biko once famously said, apartheid will end; the real question is what comes after apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaurits van Bever Donker argues that the Black Consciousness Movement found intellectual and conceptual allies in the writings of Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, tracing the problem of race as foundational to what is called ‘the script of Man’ and, in the process, inventing the possibility of a new sense of Man, one with ‘a more human face’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the work of figures like Biko, Fanon and Césaire tends to be read as discrete political texts in a broader field of negritude and radical black thought, \u003ci\u003eTexturing Difference\u003c\/i\u003e explores what becomes possible when this network of texts is read from the perspective of South Africa. This intervention has significance, not only for how race is approached and understood in South Africa, but for the global workings of race in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000760582380,"sku":"9781509562305","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12645303482725.jpg?v=1763302639"},{"product_id":"the-caribbean-race-reader-9781509551200","title":"The Caribbean Race Reader","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry, and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning of European colonisation at the end of the fifteenth century to the period of decolonisation in the aftermath of World War II. This critical anthology stakes out the unique contribution made by the region to the global history of race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Caribbean Race Reader\u003c\/i\u003e provides students and scholars of the region with vital access to some of the most important contributions on race and Caribbean society, many of which are difficult to access, and assembles them together as part of a series of key debates. At a time when the searing realities of race and antiblack racism stand out as global, existential crises, this volume both documents the Caribbean's important contribution to global histories of race and provides an excellent overview of the quest by the region's radical intelligentsia to undo racism's contemporary legacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000770347244,"sku":"9781509551200","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12534253482725.jpg?v=1763303342"},{"product_id":"the-revolution-will-be-a-poetic-act-by-mario-pinto-de-andrade-9781509559350","title":"The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword by Lanie Millar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist, and political activist, and one of Africa’s most important 20th-century intellectuals. His writings explore the task of intellectual emancipation of colonised people, which he saw as predicated on the necessary project of political decolonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs anti-colonial movements got underway, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models. He argued that communities emerging from colonisation should focus on voices from within the designated communities, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonising peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndrade played a key role in theorising the international reach of the revolutionary 20th-century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation. In his ethical commitment to moving away from focusing solely on the relationship between the colonial occupier and the colonised, he instead promoted ideas and actions that would construct mutual understanding among decolonising communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndrade’s work offers models to rethink race and nation as analytic categories and is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonisation movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000814682348,"sku":"9781509559350","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12615753482725.jpg?v=1763306809"},{"product_id":"choruses-and-counter-choruses-by-flora-sussekind-9781509568192","title":"Choruses and Counter-Choruses","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, the leading Brazilian cultural theorist Flora Süssekind analyses the turbulent recent history of Brazil. She examines the protests which erupted in Brazil in 2013 and the ways that these were appropriated by the extreme right. Süssekind shows how these developments expressed a break from and threat to the democratic orientation and social pact represented by the 1988 constitution, a collective achievement after decades of dictatorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe also shows how these events contributed and pointed to the rise of a culture of intolerance, bringing this to bear upon literary and artistic production. Süssekind’s original concept of the chorus, understood not simply as a musical or theatrical category but as a structural force in culture, enables her to highlight the critical potential of cultural production and its power to redirect the course of events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe argues that it was during Brazil’s recent history that the choral inflection emerged as a structuring force in culture. By documenting the dramatic shift in literary and artistic production from 2013 to the present day, Süssekind presents a sophisticated cartography for understanding literary and artistic production within a culture of dissent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis innovative book will be of value to anyone interested in Latin American studies, literary and cultural studies, and the history and politics of Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031781458156,"sku":"9781509568192","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/153af915cbcba193ac5ec374edc56913.jpg?v=1764154445"},{"product_id":"from-ashes-to-text-by-diego-falconi-travez-9781509550166","title":"From Ashes to Text","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned more than the flesh; it also charred practices, ways of life, and textualities, leaving an emptiness and a trauma that would mark the future literatures of the Andean region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Ashes to Text\u003c\/i\u003e cannot repair those pre-sodomite texts and bodies. It seeks instead to reconsider the value of the ash, a metaphor that allows for a critical and contradictory reading of sexual dissidences in the Andean region in the twentieth century, beyond both multiculturalism and the wake of a globalized LGBTI movement. Through a comparative analysis, and drawing on theoretical perspectives such as anticoloniality, feminisms, and \u003ci\u003ecuir\u003c\/i\u003e (rather than queer) theories, the book aims to understand the value of a series of complex texts in which dissident subjectivities, practices, and desires help to broaden the understanding of the Andean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize, the book was praised by the jury for the paradoxical and provocative way that it struggles against the abyss of past destruction and reflects on the contribution of the Global South to the often uniformist thinking around the body and its intersections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383814406380,"sku":"9781509550166","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12523913482725.jpg?v=1773381922"},{"product_id":"seven-essays-on-populism-by-paula-biglieri-9781509542215","title":"Seven Essays on Populism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important intervention interrogates keystone features of the dominant European theoretical landscape in the field of populism studies, advancing existing debates and introducing new avenues of thought, in conjunction with insights from the contemporary Latin American political experience and perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn each essay – the title a nod to the influential socialist thinker José Carlos Mariátegui, from whom the authors draw inspiration – leading Argentine scholars Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia pair key dimensions of populism with diverse themes such as modern-day feminism, militancy, and neoliberalism, in order to stimulate discussion surrounding the constitutive nature, goals, and potential of populist social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBiglieri and Cadahia are unafraid to court provocation in their frank assessment of populism as a force which could bring about essential emancipatory social change to confront emerging right-wing trends in policy and leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, this fresh interpretation of a much-maligned political articulation is balanced by their denunciation of right-aligned populisms and their failure to bring to bear a sustainable alternative to contemporary neo-authoritarian forms of neoliberalism. In their place, they articulate a populism which offers a viable means of mobilizing a response to hegemonic forms of neoliberal discourse and government.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeven Essays on Populism\u003c\/em\u003e offers a stimulating examination of populism's potential role in crafting a new socio-political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383989944556,"sku":"9781509542215","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12444403482725.jpg?v=1773393250"},{"product_id":"ibn-khaldun-and-the-social-sciences-by-javad-tabatabai-9781509551361","title":"Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his \u003ci\u003eMuqaddimah\u003c\/i\u003e (‘Prolegomenon’), written in 1377, as the point at which the new social sciences emerged. They identify Ibn Khaldun’s ‘new science of culture’ as sociology or as an ‘Islamic’ alternative to sociology. In the other direction, the interpretation of Khaldunian discourse is confined to the Islamic–Aristotelian paradigm of its time. The epistemological novelty of the \u003ci\u003eMuqaddimah\u003c\/i\u003e is dismissed and the science of culture is perceived as a minor contribution to the Aristotelian curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharting a different path, Javad Tabatabai’s highly original book, \u003ci\u003eIbn Khaldun and the Social Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e, is an enquiry into the condition of the im-possibility of the social sciences in the Islamic–Aristotelian paradigm. It theorizes the condition of im-possibility of the ‘scientific revolution’ as the ‘epistemic obstacle’ to modernity in Islamic civilization. This theorization revisits Michel Foucault’s discussion of the condition of possibility of the human sciences in light of the history of Christian–Aristotelian thought and the broader French debates about epistemology from Bachelard to Althusser.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJavad Tabatabai offers a critical theory of tradition and modernity in the Middle East, elaborating on a historical situation where social and human sciences emerged by way of colonial and post-colonial translations of discourse from Europe, and in a historical and epistemological break with inherited traditions of knowledge. In this situation, Tabatabai highlights the significance of reactivating Ibn Khaldun’s critical reckoning with the limit of inherited traditions as the political-theological horizon of renewal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424338297068,"sku":"9781509551361","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551361.jpg?v=1774768654"},{"product_id":"memory-and-autobiography-by-leonor-arfuch-9781509542185","title":"Memory and Autobiography","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book by one of Latin America’s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she calls the 'biographical space' – can be seen as symptomatic of the impersonalising dynamics of contemporary times. Autobiographical genres, however, harbour an intersubjective dimension. The 'I' who speaks wants to be heard by another, and the other who listens discovers in autobiography possible points of identification. Autobiographical genres, including those that border on fiction, therefore become spaces in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity, in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpening up debate through juxtaposition and dialogue, Arfuch’s own poetic writing moves freely from the Holocaust to Argentina’s last dictatorship and its traumatic memories, and then to the troubled borderlands between Mexico and the United States to show how artists rescue shards of memory that would otherwise be relegated to the dustbin of history. In so doing, she makes us see not only how challenging it is to represent past traumas and violence but also how vitally necessary it is to do so as a political strategy for combating the tides of forgetting and for finding ways of being in common.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMemory and Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e offers a compelling exploration of these complex themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47425593082092,"sku":"9781509542185","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509542185.jpg?v=1774768144"},{"product_id":"the-scent-of-the-father-by-valentin-yves-mudimbe-9781509551392","title":"The Scent of the Father","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Scent of the Father\u003c\/i\u003e, Mudimbe set himself the task of shedding light on the complex links that bind Africa to the West and determine the exercise of thought and knowledge practices, particularly in relation to the social sciences. For Africa to escape the West, says Mudimbe, it must become aware of what remains Western in the very concepts and forms of thought that allow it to think against the West, and be alert to the possibility that the recourse against the West might be just another ruse that the West uses for its own ends. Africa must elucidate the modalities of the integration of Africans into the myths of the West, while at the same time aiming at the readaptation of the African psyche in the wake of the violence it has suffered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis seminal work by a leading African thinker will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the legacies of colonialism and the debates on decolonization and decoloniality in the social and human sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428315119852,"sku":"9781509551392","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551392.jpg?v=1774477650"},{"product_id":"plebeian-prose-by-nestor-perlongher-9781509534548","title":"Plebeian Prose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlebeian Prose\u003c\/em\u003e is a key work by the pioneering Argentine Brazilian anthropologist, sociologist, and poet Néstor Perlongher. Perlongher, whose work has been highly influential in the development of Latin American cultural theory and literature, represents an original critical ‘queer’ voice in Latin American thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is an exploration of the politics of desire, questions of identity, Latin American neo-baroque aesthetics, sexual dissidence, violence, and jouissance. Prompted by his reading of Gilles Deleuze, the link between politics and desire remains central to all Perlongher’s reflections and gives his writings a lasting topicality. A thinker of the streets with a keen interest in those on the margins of society, the ideas that are developed in this book offer a lucid critique of capitalism and institutional power. Perlongher’s approach also reflects a particular Latin American neo-baroque style, a mode of critique whose value endures today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding insight into Latin American culture and politics of the late twentieth century, \u003cem\u003ePlebeian Prose\u003c\/em\u003e will be of particular interest to anyone working on critical theory, literary theory, anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431977631980,"sku":"9781509534548","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509534548.jpg?v=1774557017"},{"product_id":"resolutely-black-by-aime-cesaire-9781509537150","title":"Resolutely Black","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAimé Césaire’s work is foundational for decolonial and postcolonial thought. His \u003ci\u003eDiscourse on Colonialism\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1955, influenced generations of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean and it remains a classic of anticolonial thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis unique volume takes the form of a series of interviews with Césaire that were conducted by Françoise Vergès in 2004, shortly before his death. Césaire’s responses to Vergès’ questions cover a wide range of topics, including the origins of his political activism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, the question of reparation for slavery and the problems of marrying literature to politics. The book includes a substantial postface by Vergès in which she situates Césaire’s work in its intellectual and political context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis timely book brings Césaire back into the present-day conversation on race, slavery and the legacy of colonialism. His penetrating insights on these matters should appeal to scholars and students throughout the humanities and social sciences as well as to the general public.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432185020652,"sku":"9781509537150","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509537150.jpg?v=1774555543"},{"product_id":"spheres-of-insurrection-by-suely-rolnik-9781509552863","title":"Spheres of Insurrection","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the globalised regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitalist system and makes it more perverse. This micropolitics involves the appropriation – what Suely Rolnik calls the “pimping” – of life, as it turns the life drive itself away from creation and cooperation and towards the deadening, destructive practice necessary for capital accumulation. This dynamic is the engine of what Rolnik calls the colonial-capitalistic unconscious regime. She also identifies the conditions necessary to fight against this regime – namely, a reappropriation of the life drive, the energetic basis at the heart of all life forms, human life included, and the principal source of extraction for capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on examples from across the Americas, including Brazil and the United States, Rolnik examines the circumstances that have given rise to regressive, reactionary governments throughout the world. These circumstances include, at the macro level, an alliance between neoliberalism and extreme conservatism and, at the micro level, a crisis of the hegemonic subject in the face of the emergent empowerment of marginalised communities that practice other modes of subjectivation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis crucial book by one of the most prominent intellectuals in Latin America today will be of great value to anyone interested in contemporary politics and social struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432624111852,"sku":"9781509552863","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509552863.jpg?v=1774555196"},{"product_id":"ancestral-future-by-ailton-krenak-9781509560738","title":"Ancestral Future","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex Brostoff\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of corporate capitalism and its destructive impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCapitalism encroaches on every corner of the planet and orients us toward a future of promised progress, achievement and growth, but this future doesn’t exist – we just imagine it. This orientation to the future also blinds us to what exists around us, to the plants and animals with which we share the Earth and to the rivers that flow through our lands. Rivers are not just resources to be exploited by us or channels to carry away our waste; they are beings that connect us with our past. If there is a future to imagine, it is ancestral, since it is already present in the here and now and in that which exists around us, in the rivers and mountains and trees that are our kin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a spoken language that has the mark of ancestral oral wisdom, Krenak offers a new perspective that challenges and disrupts some of the assumptions that underpin Western attitudes and mentalities. His work will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the climate crisis and the worsening plight of our planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460172103916,"sku":"9781509560738","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509560738-ancestral-future.jpg?v=1774945073"},{"product_id":"fugitive-where-are-you-running-by-denetem-touam-bona-9781509551859","title":"Fugitive, Where Are You Running?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHunting stories will usually glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. In this book, Dénètem Touam Bona takes up the perspective of the hunted, using the concept of marronage to highlight the lives and creativity of colonized and subjugated peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a format that blends travel diary, anthropological inquiry, and philosophical and literary reflection, he narrates the hidden history of fugues – those of the runaway slave, the deserting soldier, the clandestine migrant, and all those who challenged norms and forms of control. In the space of the fugue, in the folds and retreats of dense and muggy woods, runaway countercultures appeared and spread out, cultures whose organization and values were diametrically opposed to those of colonial societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFugitive, Where Are You Running?\u003c\/em\u003e examines marronage, the art of disappearance, which has never been a more timely topic: thwarting surveillance, profiling, and tracking by the police and by corporations; disappearing from databases; extending the forest’s shadow by the click of a key. In our cyberconnected world, where control of individuals in real time is increasingly becoming the norm, we need to reinvent marronage and recognize the maroon as a universal figure of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond its critical dimension, this book calls for a cosmo-poetics of refuge and aims at rehabilitating the power of dreams and poetry to ward off the confinement of minds and bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460842045676,"sku":"9781509551859","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551859-fugitive-where-are-you-running.jpg?v=1774954045"},{"product_id":"the-black-register-by-tendayi-sithole-9781509542079","title":"The Black Register","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanised? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates against the very existence of blacks?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the questions that guide Tendayi Sithole’s brilliant analyses of the work of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Steve Biko, Assata Shakur, George Jackson, Mabogo P. More, and a critique of Giorgio Agamben. Through his careful interrogation of their writings, Sithole shows how the black register represents a uniquely critical perspective from which to confront worlds that are systematically structured to dehumanise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Black Register\u003c\/em\u003e is the ways of thinking, knowing and doing that emerge from existential struggles against antiblackness and that dwell in the lived experience of being black in an antiblack world. The black register is the force of critique that comes from thinkers who are dehumanised, and who in turn question, define, and analyse the reality that they are in, in order to reframe it and unmask the forces that inform subjection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book redefines the arc of critical black thought over the last seventy-five years and it will be an indispensable text for anyone concerned with the deep and enduring ways in which race structures our world and our thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461470273772,"sku":"9781509542079","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509542079-the-black-register.jpg?v=1774969572"},{"product_id":"the-scent-of-the-father-by-valentin-yves-mudimbe-9781509551385","title":"The Scent of the Father","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential postcolonial thinkers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Scent of the Father\u003c\/i\u003e, Mudimbe set himself the task of shedding light on the complex links that bind Africa to the West and determine the exercise of thought and knowledge practices, particularly in relation to the social sciences. For Africa to escape the West, says Mudimbe, it must become aware of what remains Western in the very concepts and forms of thought that allow it to think against the West, and be alert to the possibility that the recourse against the West might be just another ruse that the West uses for its own ends. Africa must elucidate the modalities of the integration of Africans into the myths of the West, while at the same time aiming at the readaptation of the African psyche in the wake of the violence it has suffered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis seminal work by a leading African thinker will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the legacies of colonialism and the debates on decolonization and decoloniality in the social and human sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461632508140,"sku":"9781509551385","price":119.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551385-the-scent-of-the-father.jpg?v=1774973744"},{"product_id":"to-write-the-africa-world-9781509551064","title":"To Write the Africa World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa’s present realities and its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Write the Africa World\u003c\/em\u003e and its companion volume \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Time\u003c\/em\u003e will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461713215724,"sku":"9781509551064","price":143.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551064-to-write-the-africa-world.jpg?v=1774975665"},{"product_id":"black-is-the-journey-africana-the-name-by-maboula-soumahoro-9781509548330","title":"Black is the Journey, Africana the Name","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way of reading the Black body and the Black experience, and its own modes of visibility, invisibility, silence, and amplification of Black life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy weaving together her personal history with that of France and its abiding myth of colour-blindness, Maboula Soumahoro highlights the banality and persistence of structural racism in France today, and shows that freedom will be found in the journey and movement between the sites of the Atlantic triangle. \u003cem\u003eAfricana\u003c\/em\u003e is the name of that freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we build and reflect on a collective diasporic identity through a personal journey? What are the limits and possibilities of this endeavour, when the personal journey is that of oft-erased bodies and stories, de-humanised lives, and when Black populations in Africa, the Americas, and Europe identify and misidentify with each other, their sensibilities shaped by the particular locales in which their lives unfold?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack is the Journey, Africana the Name\u003c\/em\u003e makes an important intellectual contribution to contemporary public conversations and theoretical inquiry into race, racism, blackness, and identity today, as it probes and questions the academic methodologies that have functioned as structures of exclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462646120684,"sku":"9781509548330","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509548330-black-is-the-journey-africana-the-name.jpg?v=1775019783"},{"product_id":"not-one-less-by-maria-pia-lopez-9781509531929","title":"Not One Less","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn June 3, 2015, massive women’s street demonstrations took place in many cities across Argentina to protest against femicide. Under the slogan \u003cem\u003eNi una menos\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNot One (Woman) Less\u003c\/em\u003e, thousands of women took to the streets to express their outrage at systematic violence against women, giving a face and a voice to women who might otherwise have died in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Pia López, a founding member and active participant in the \u003cem\u003eNot One Less\u003c\/em\u003e protest, offers in this book a first-hand account of the distinctive aesthetics, characteristics and lineages of this popular feminist movement, while examining the broader issues of gender politics and violence, inequality and social justice, mourning, performance, and protest that are relevant to all contemporary societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA unique analysis of a social movement as well as a rich and original work of feminist theory and practice, this book will appeal to a wide readership concerned about gender-based violence in neoliberal contexts and what can be done to resist it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463942619372,"sku":"9781509531929","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509531929-not-one-less.jpg?v=1775037078"},{"product_id":"the-haitian-revolution-by-eduardo-gruner-9781509535484","title":"The Haitian Revolution","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is impossible to understand capitalism without analysing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labour led to a form of proto-globalisation in which violence was indispensable to the production of wealth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgainst the background of this expanding circulation of capital and slave labour, the first revolution in Latin America took place: the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791 and culminated with Haiti’s declaration of independence in 1804. Taking the Haitian Revolution as a paradigmatic case, Grüner shows that modernity is not a linear evolution from the centre to the periphery but, rather, a co-production developed in the context of highly unequal power relations, where extreme forms of conquest and exploitation were an indispensable part of capital accumulation. He also shows that the Haitian Revolution opened up a path to a different kind of modernity, or “counter-modernity,” a path along which Latin America and the Caribbean have travelled ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA key work of critical theory from a Latin American perspective, \u003cem\u003eThe Haitian Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical and cultural theory and of Latin America, as well as anyone concerned with the global impact of capitalism, colonialism, and race.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464339931372,"sku":"9781509535484","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509535484-the-haitian-revolution.jpg?v=1775047835"},{"product_id":"the-war-against-women-by-rita-segato-9781509562138","title":"The War Against Women","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is worldwide in its scope, concentrated in places where the state’s traditional, sovereign functions have broken down. Femicide is no longer just an intimate event: it has become anonymous and systematic, a crime of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn intensified form of capitalism, the product of a colonial modernity that is still with us, now fuels new wars on women, which destroy society while targeting women’s bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnderstanding this new, violent turn within patriarchy—which Rita Segato considers the primal form of human domination—means moving patriarchy from the margins to the centre of our social analysis. According to Segato, it is only by revitalising community and repoliticising domestic space that we can redirect history towards a different destiny. At stake is nothing less than the future of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe War Against Women\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to deeply engage with these pressing issues, urging an examination and transformation of the societal structures that perpetuate violence against women. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471849341164,"sku":"9781509562138","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509562138-the-war-against-women.jpg?v=1775259620"},{"product_id":"to-write-the-africa-world-9781509551071","title":"To Write the Africa World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonisation, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterise the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa’s present realities and its future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanisation of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo Write the Africa World\u003c\/em\u003e and its companion volume \u003cem\u003eThe Politics of Time\u003c\/em\u003e will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600884875500,"sku":"9781509551071","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509551071-to-write-the-africa-world.jpg?v=1777992907"},{"product_id":"decolonial-ecology-by-malcom-ferdinand-9781509546237","title":"Decolonial Ecology","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world is in the midst of a storm that has shaped the history of modernity along a double fracture: on the one hand, an environmental fracture driven by a technocratic and capitalist civilisation that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its human and non-human communities; and on the other, a colonial fracture instilled by Western colonisation and imperialism that resulted in racial slavery and the domination of indigenous peoples and women in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this important new book, Malcom Ferdinand challenges this double fracture, thinking from the Caribbean world. Here, the slave ship reveals the inequalities that continue during the storm: some are shackled inside the hold and even thrown overboard at the first gusts of wind. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in the Caribbean, Ferdinand conceptualises a decolonial ecology that holds protecting the environment together with the political struggles against (post)colonial domination, structural racism, and misogynistic practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFacing the storm, this book is an invitation to build a world-ship where humans and non-humans can live together on a bridge of justice and shape a common world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in environmental humanities and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as anyone interested in ecology, slavery, and (de)colonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602898829548,"sku":"9781509546237","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509546237-decolonial-ecology.jpg?v=1778049347"},{"product_id":"feminism-in-africa-by-fatou-sow-9781509567744","title":"Feminism in Africa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaising feminist concerns about the struggles of African women amid debates surrounding the socio-cultural, economic and political future of Africa remains an immense challenge. Fatou Sow, the renowned Senegalese feminist activist and academic, illustrates here her own journey through a continuously developing global discourse. Her fundamental aim is to demonstrate the emergence and development of women's and feminist studies in Africa, highlighting its achievements, failures and, most importantly, its complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe argues that it is crucial to examine the influence of the patriarchy in light of Africa's historical matriarchal systems, which form the basis of the continent's social structures. Feminist research must also evaluate how gender intersects with age, class, ethnicity, caste, race and religious disparities, among other inequalities prevalent on the continent. As an African feminist, rooted in her African context and cultures, Sow is compelled to analyze conflicting realities, transformations and contradictions, as well as the complex contributions that are specific to different times and places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfrican cultures are not just relics of struggles against a colonial West, a West defined by domination. These cultures are primarily memories and living spaces that are deconstructed and reinvented daily, at every moment, with each generation, marked by triumphs and defeats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminism in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e serves as an illuminating exploration into these diverse and dynamic narratives, offering a profound understanding of the evolving landscape of feminist thought in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650540978412,"sku":"9781509567744","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509567744-feminism-in-africa.jpg?v=1779326427"},{"product_id":"spectrology-of-authoritarian-neoliberalism-by-gisela-catanzaro-9781509569885","title":"Spectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the face of the global rise of authoritarian phenomena – from Trump in the United States to Macri and Milei in Argentina, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Modi in India, and Erdoðan in Turkey, and the increasing traction of Vox in Spain and the AfD in Germany – Gisela Catanzaro argues for the continued relevance of the concept of ideology for understanding contemporary social processes and political struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCatanzaro places particular emphasis on the transformations of neoliberalism and its authoritarian traits, from its origins in Latin America, where it was forced onto societies through bloody coups during the 1970s, through a second phase, linked to globalization, that spread to many parts of the world in the late 1990s, and a more recent phase that has gained prominence since 9\/11 and especially since the 2008 financial crisis. In this later phase, the authoritarian spirit of neoliberalism has again come to the forefront, but this time in the midst of formal democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing Argentina as a paradigmatic case but ranging more widely, Catanzaro shows that the authoritarian neoliberalism of the present is driven by, and at the same time exacerbates, an elitist, punitive, sacrificial, anti-egalitarian, and anti-intellectual ideology that has left its traces in subjectivity and social processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy providing a rigorous exploration of the logic of authoritarian neoliberalism, \u003cem\u003eSpectrology of Authoritarian Neoliberalism\u003c\/em\u003e makes a major contribution to understanding an ideology that is increasingly shaping our social and political world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650582298860,"sku":"9781509569885","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509569885-spectrology-of-authoritarian-neoliberalism.jpg?v=1779328073"},{"product_id":"the-earth-gives-the-earth-wants-by-antonio-bispo-dos-santos-9781509570201","title":"The Earth Gives, the Earth Wants","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book by the late Brazilian activist and \u003ci\u003equilombo\u003c\/i\u003e leader Antônio Bispo dos Santos offers an original perspective on ways of living and relating to others and to the land that is rooted in a \u003ci\u003equilombo\u003c\/i\u003e cosmovision – the polytheistic, counter-colonial, confluential worldview articulated by Bispo through \u003ci\u003equilombola\u003c\/i\u003e thinking in Brazil. It presents a fresh critique of capitalism and colonialism that emerges from a \u003ci\u003equilombola\u003c\/i\u003e perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNêgo Bispo lays out a set of terms and concepts developed over his lifetime, based on ancestral \u003ci\u003equilombola\u003c\/i\u003e knowledge. His key concept is \"counter-colonialism\" – a practice of confronting and undoing colonial domination through \u003ci\u003equilombola\u003c\/i\u003e modes of life, struggle, and thought. He argues that the hyper-individualistic, capitalistic, colonial approach to cultivating the earth sees the land as subservient to its desires. A \u003ci\u003equilombo\u003c\/i\u003e cosmovision, by contrast, understands that our desires are always in dialogue with the wants and needs of the earth – we must live in harmony with the earth, animals, and people, and if we take from the earth, we must also give to the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable book introduces a new perspective on the debates about the destructive consequences of capitalism and colonialism and will be of interest to anyone who wants to think about how we live in relation to each other and to the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650591310060,"sku":"9781509570201","price":53.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509570201-the-earth-gives-the-earth-wants.jpg?v=1779328485"},{"product_id":"dispositif-of-raciality-by-sueli-carneiro-9781509564590","title":"Dispositif of Raciality","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book by the leading political thinker and philosopher Sueli Carneiro examines how race operates in Brazilian society and why myths of racial democracy have so much staying power in the country despite the many ideological and cultural shifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo understand this, Carneiro develops Foucault's concepts of biopower and dispositif and links them with Charles W. Mills's writings on the racial contract, creating the \u003cem\u003edispositif of raciality\u003c\/em\u003e. Carneiro argues that this concept operates through, on the one hand, \"epistemicide,\" the process whereby Black people are invalidated as knowing subjects, and, on the other, a complicity among white people in relation to the social subordination and elimination of Black people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs with all dispositifs, however, the \u003cem\u003edispositif of raciality\u003c\/em\u003e possesses its own resistance, and Carneiro also addresses Black resistance, understood through the voices and testimonies of insurgents against subordination and epistemicide. Their words reveal that it is from the strength of self-esteem, the recognition of their own autonomy, and the triumph of memory and collective action that the sap of resistance is extracted. It is only through collective struggle, where the care of self and of others becomes emancipatory, that the \u003cem\u003edispositif of raciality\u003c\/em\u003e can be confronted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHailed as one of the most important works of political philosophy written in Brazil, this book sheds new light on the mechanisms through which racial regimes reproduce themselves and how these patterns might be broken. It will be of great value to students and scholars of Brazil, Latin America, and Black studies, and it will appeal to anyone interested in questions of race, racism, and the legacies of colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48038250184940,"sku":"9781509564590","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509564590-dispositif-of-raciality.jpg?v=1785391409"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/series-critical-south.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}