The Briny South

Nienke Boer

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, indentured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocea... Lees meer

Students of the World

Pedro Monaville

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• On June 30, 1960--the day of the Congo's independence--Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away... Lees meer

The Surrounds

Abdoumaliq Simone

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• In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the interse... Lees meer

Markets of Civilization

Muriam Haleh Davis

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• In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic... Lees meer

The Doctor Who Would Be King

Guillaume Lachenal

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed ... Lees meer

Brutalism

Achille Mbembe

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In Brutalism , eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up ... Lees meer

An Unformed Map

Philip Janzen

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In An Unformed Map , Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of Caribbean people who joined the British and French colonial administrations... Lees meer

Secularism as Misdirection

Nivedita Menon

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• In Secularism as Misdirection , Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while ... Lees meer

Elementary Aspects of the Political

Prathama Banerjee

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• In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethin... Lees meer

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world p... Lees meer

Psychiatric Contours

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory in Forms
• Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volum... Lees meer

Architecture of Migration

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking both history and architecture. As Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi demonstrates in... Lees meer

History 4° Celsius

Ian Baucom

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• In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Puttin... Lees meer

Naked Agency

Naminata Diabate

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This in... Lees meer

The Wombs of Women

Françoise Vergès

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doct... Lees meer

Genetic Afterlives

Noah Tamarkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa, announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA s... Lees meer

In the Skin of the City

António Tomás

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• With In the Skin of the City , António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldes... Lees meer

Archaism and Actuality

Harry Harootunian

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of ... Lees meer

Composing Violence

Moyukh Chatterjee

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, l... Lees meer

The Doctor Who Would Be King

Guillaume Lachenal

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed ... Lees meer

Wake Up, This Is Joburg

Tanya Zack, Mark Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• A single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history--from its premise and promise of gold to its curr... Lees meer

Revolution and Disenchantment

Fadi A Bardawil

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Rev... Lees meer

The Wombs of Women

Françoise Vergès

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doct... Lees meer

Archaism and Actuality

Harry Harootunian

• Hardcover | Engels | Theory in Forms
• In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of ... Lees meer