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Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation
Saree Makdisi

$42.95 (Hardcover book / W W Norton )

How the "peace process" has made life impossible for ordinary Palestinians. This book is not about suicide bombers. Tending one's fields, visiting a relative, going to the hospital: for ordinary Palestinians, such everyd... More »

North Of Capricorn
Henry Reynolds

$35.00 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

This scintillating account by Henry Reynolds, a revisionist history in its best sense, is a door opening wide onto [another Australia].'- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian



'Reynolds reveals yet another forgotten aspect o... More »


Taboo Memories Diasporic Voices
Ella Shohat

$52.95 (Paperback book / Duke Univ Pr )

Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices brings together for the first time a selection of trailblazing essays by Ella Shohat, an internationally renowned theorist of postcolonial and cultural studies of Iraqi-Jewish background.... More »

Tropical Multiculturalism
Robert Stam

$52.95 (Paperback book / Duke Univ Pr )

Tropical Multiculturalism provides a major study of race in Brazilian culture through the most complete critical analysis of Brazilian cinema in any language. Focusing on representations of multicultural themes involving... More »


Imperialism, Sovereignty And The Making Of International Law
Antony Anghie

$85.00 (Paperback book / Cambridge Univ Pres )

This book argues that the colonial confrontation was central to the formation of international law and, in particular, its founding concept, sovereignty. Traditional histories of the discipline present colonialism and no... More »

Achieving Social Justice
Larissa Behrendt

$29.95 (Paperback book / Federation Press )

Larissa Behrendt attacks the chasm which has grown between Indigenous lives and aspirations in Australia, and the psychological terra nullius which continues, despite Mabo, to pervade so much of Australia’s mythology and... More »


Globalism Nationalism Tribalism Bringing Theory Back In
Paul James

$73.00 (Paperback book / Sage )

Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism establishes a new basis for understanding the changing nature of polity and community and offers unprecedented attention to these dominant trends. James charts the contradictions and ten... More »

Talking Visions : Multicultural Feminism In A Transnationalage
Ella Shohat

$56.95 (Trade paperback / Mit Press )

This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and cultural boundaries,... More »


Global Matrix Nationalism Globalism And State Terrorism
Tom Nairn and Paul James

$52.95 (Paperback book / Pluto Press )

Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individual insecurities. This book takes a critical look at three key areas - gl... More »

Against Paranoid Nationalism
Ghassan Hage

$19.95 (Paperback book / Pluto Australia )

Not long ago, an excessive 'worrying' about the nation was associated with extreme Right organisations. Today this worrying and the paranoid nationalism in which it is grounded have become part of our mainstream politica... More »


Drawing the Global Colour Line
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

$36.95 (Paperback book / Melb Univ Press )

"[This] is a pioneering account of the transnational production of whiteness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A work remarkable both for its international breadth and for its sensitivity to local par... More »

Unthinking Eurocentrism Multiculturalism And The Media
Ella Shohat

$72.00 (Paperback book / Routledge )

Unthinking Eurocentrism explores issues of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism in relation to popular culture, film and the mass media. The book "multiculturalizes" media studies by looking at Hollywood movie genres such a... More »


Flagging Patriotism
Ella Shohat & Robert Stam

$45.00 (Paperback book / Routledge )

n this bold new work, Ella Shohat and Robert Stam take apart the "hate discourse" of right-wing politics, placing it in an international context. How, for example, do other nations love themselves, and how is that love c... More »

Nowhere People
Henry Reynolds

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

'That's how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person... Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my mother was Aboriginal and my father was n... More »


Fate Of A Free People
Henry Reynolds

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )

In this critically acclaimed and ground-breaking book, first published in 1995, Henry Reynolds presented a landmark reassessment of the nineteenth century 'black wars' between the Tasmanian Aborigines and the white settl... More »

Why Werent We Told
Henry Reynolds

$26.95 (Paperback book / Viking )

Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told? is a frank account of his personal journal towards the... More »


Other Side Of The Frontier Aboriginal Resistance To The European Invasion Of Australia
Henry Reynolds

$29.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )

The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. D... More »

Home
Larissa Behrendt

$24.95 (Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr )

A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with city bred young lawyer Candice as she sets out on her first visit to her ancestral homeland. She arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the long abandoned cam... More »


Native America Discovered And Conquered
Robert J Miller

$29.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nebraska Pr )

Native America, Discovered and Conquered takes a fresh look at American history through the lens of the Doctrine of Discovery—the legal basis that Europeans and Americans used to lay claim to the land of the indigenous p... More »

Globalization And Economy 4 Vol Set
paul James (Ed)

$1013.00 (Hardcover book / Sage )

Central Currents in Globalization Series

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. Central Currents in Globalization is an integrat... More »


Globalization And Violence
Paul James

$1013.00 (Hardcover book / Sage )

Central Currents in Globalization Series:

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. Central Currents in Globalization is an integra... More »

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