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Télécharger le livre :  We, the Decolonized
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We, the Decolonized


Hélé Beji , Matthew B. Smith


We, the Decolonized is a passionate reflection on the pitfalls of the decolonial venture in postcolonial countries, with particular reference to North Africa. Hélé Béji shows that in many formerly colonized countries, the reality of independence took the form of elusive...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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20,03
Télécharger le livre :  Spheres of Insurrection
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Spheres of Insurrection


Sergio Delgado Moya , Suely Rolnik


As the globalized 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...

Parution : 2025-02-03
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Texturing Difference
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Texturing Difference


Maurits Van Bever Donker


This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black Consciousness Movement, in addition to its urgent political focus,...

Parution : 2024-12-03
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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22,14
Télécharger le livre :  Toussaint Louverture
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Toussaint Louverture


Aime Cesaire , Kate Nash


This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. ...

Parution : 2024-11-18
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
22,14
Télécharger le livre :  The War Against Women
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The War Against Women


Ramsey Mcglazer , Rita Segato


Recent 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...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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22,14
Télécharger le livre :  Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences
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Ibn Khaldun and the Social Sciences


Philip Grant , Javad Tabatabai


Arabic and European studies of Ibn Khaldun, the great medieval polymath, follow one of two paths. In one direction, scholars interpret his Muqaddimah (‘Prolegomenon’), written in 1377, as the point at which the new social sciences emerged. They identify Ibn Khaldun’s...

Parution : 2024-10-16
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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24,25
Télécharger le livre :  On Tropical Grounds
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On Tropical Grounds


Francisco-J. Hernandez Adrian


On Tropical Grounds develops a new approach to the avant-garde and Surrealism in Caribbean and Atlantic studies. The book examines how islands and their tropical associations figure in the cultural and political imaginaries of the Caribbean and the Atlantic, and...

Parution : 2024-10-11
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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24,25
Télécharger le livre :  The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act
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The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act


MÁrio Pinto De Andrade , Fabienne Moore


Foreword by Lanie MillarThis 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 think through the task...

Parution : 2024-07-09
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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19,62
Télécharger le livre :  Fugitive, Where Are You Running?
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Fugitive, Where Are You Running?


Dénètem Touam Bona


Hunting 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...

Parution : 2022-12-01
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  The Scent of the Father
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The Scent of the Father


Valentin-Yves Mudimbe


Valentin-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 The...

Parution : 2022-11-09
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
20,26
Télécharger le livre :  Undoing Apartheid
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Undoing Apartheid


Premesh Lalu


Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the...

Parution : 2022-10-27
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Collection : Critical South
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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  From Ashes to Text
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From Ashes to Text


Diego Falconí Trávez


According 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...

Parution : 2022-08-31
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  Decolonial Ecology
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Decolonial Ecology


Malcom Ferdinand


The 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 civilization that led to the ongoing devastation of the Earth’s ecosystems and its...

Parution : 2021-11-11
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  Error, Illusion, Madness
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Error, Illusion, Madness


Bento Prado


This 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, Error, Illusion, Madness is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and role of the...

Parution : 2021-03-11
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Colonial Trauma
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Colonial Trauma


Karima Lazali


Colonial Trauma 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...

Parution : 2021-01-22
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  Seven Essays on Populism
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Seven Essays on Populism


Paula Biglieri , Luciana Cadahia


This 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...

Parution : 2021-01-14
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Doing Justice
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Doing Justice


Pablo Oyarzun


Pablo 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...

Parution : 2020-09-01
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
19,10
Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Autobiography
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Memory and Autobiography


Leonor Arfuch


This 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. Arfuch argues that the on-going proliferation of private and intimate stories – what she...

Parution : 2020-08-04
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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19,10
Télécharger le livre :  The Black Register
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The Black Register


Tendayi Sithole


How can thinkers grapple with the question of the human when they have been dehumanized? How can black thinkers confront and make sense of a world structured by antiblackness, a world that militates against the very existence of blacks?    These are the questions that...

Parution : 2020-04-09
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  The Haitian Revolution
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The Haitian Revolution


Eduardo Grüner


It is impossible to understand capitalism without analyzing slavery, an institution that tied together three world regions: Europe, the Americas, and Africa. The exploitation of slave labor led to a form of proto-globalization in which violence was indispensable to the...

Parution : 2020-01-07
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
J'achète
21,52
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