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By: Joe Turner

ISBN: 9781526163745
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be 'family' and how 'family' is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Joe Turner

ISBN: 9781526146960
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be 'family' and how 'family' is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. -- .


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By: Bogdan Popa

ISBN: 9781526174659
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.


(Hardback)

By: Bogdan Popa

ISBN: 9781526156952
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.


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By: Richard H. Robbins

ISBN: 9781784993252
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors."


(Paperback)

By: Richard H. Robbins

ISBN: 9781784993269
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors."


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By: Ipek Demir

ISBN: 9781526178732
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as the global south in the global north, as well as providing a case study of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe.


(Hardback)

By: Ipek Demir

ISBN: 9781526134684
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as the global south in the global north, as well as providing a case study of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe.


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By: Jan Balon

ISBN: 9781526168603
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The book outlines the sociological arguments and political activities of the US pragmatist sociologist, Herbert Adolphus Miller, part of the milieu of Chicago sociology and involved in its studies of race and immigration.


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By: Philip Nanton

ISBN: 9781526113740
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. -- .


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By: Philip Nanton

ISBN: 9781526113733
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This bold inter-disciplinary study analyses the history, retention and development of frontier processes in the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. -- .


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By: John Narayan

ISBN: 9781526141873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism. -- .


(Hardback)

By: John Narayan

ISBN: 9781784993245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism. -- .


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By: Ajay Parasram

ISBN: 9781526148407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explains how the processes of total territorial rule at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a pluriverse of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation.


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By: Catherine Baker

ISBN: 9781526126603
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of 'race', and that the ambiguities of perceiving 'race' in the region's past and present in fact have complex historical roots. -- .


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By: Catherine Baker

ISBN: 9781526126627
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of 'race', and that the ambiguities of perceiving 'race' in the region's past and present in fact have complex historical roots. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Saurabh Dube

ISBN: 9781526140272
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2019
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures. -- .


(Hardback)

By: Saurabh Dube

ISBN: 9781526105110
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Subjects of Modernity brings together the past and the present as well as theory and narrative, sowing the historical, the ethnographic, and the methodological deep into its critical procedures. -- .


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By: Julija Sardelic

ISBN: 9781526174635
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.


(Hardback)

By: Julija Sardelic

ISBN: 9781526143143
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.


(Paperback)

By: Ajay Parasram

ISBN: 9781526191571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book explains how the processes of 'total territorial rule' at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a 'pluriverse' of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation.