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  • A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam

    by Sabine Planka, Philip van der Merwe, Ian Bekker, Chris Broodryk, Michael Charlton, Jonathan Fruoco, Ulrich Meurer, Garreth O’Brien0, Ivy Roberts1, Karen Randell2, Andrew Grossman3, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr.4, David Robinson5 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam provides a fresh, up-to-date exploration of the director’s films and artistic practices, ranging from his first film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to his recently released and latest film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). This volume presents Gilliam as a director whose films weave together an avant-garde cinematic style, imaginative exaggeration ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Public Intellectuals in South Africa

    Critical voices from the past

    Edited by Chris Broodryk ...
    This edited collection gives voice to neglected public intellectuals in the arts, humanities, and journalism in South Africa who gave voice and presence to those who have been marginalized and silenced in South African historyEdward Said described a public intellectual as someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public on matters of social and political significance. The essays ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Blood, History and Becoming; Quarterly Essay 64

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    In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities.In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary ... Read more

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  • Razing Africville

    A Geography of Racism

    by Jennifer Nelson ...
    In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect and the refusal of essential services. In the 1980s, the city created a park on Africville's former ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack

    by Paul Gilroy ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    This classic book is a powerful indictment of contemporary attitudes to race. By accusing British intellectuals and politicians on both sides of the political divide of refusing to take race seriously, Paul Gilroy caused immediate uproar when this book was first published in 1987. A brilliant and explosive exploration of racial discourses, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack provided a powerful ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Making a Global City

    How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity

    by Robert Vipond ...
    Series series Munk Series on Global Affairs
    Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on.Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist

    John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction

    by Guy Rundle ...
    Series Book 3 - Quarterly Essay
    In the third Quarterly Essay, Guy Rundle comes to grips with John Howard, the prime minister who, on the eve of an election, seems to have turned round his political fortunes by spurning refugees and writing blank cheques for America's War on Terror.This is a brilliant account of John Howard's dominant ideas, his concerted 'dreaming' with its emphasis on unity and national identity that reveals ... Read more

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  • A History of African Popular Culture

    by Karin Barber ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to African History
    Popular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a journey through the history of music, theatre, fiction, song, dance, poetry, and film from the seventeenth century to the present day. From satires created by those living in West African coastal towns ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Truth about Crime

    Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order

    by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff ...
    In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves—it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing—from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the ... Read more

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  • Desire Lines

    Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City

    Edited by Noëleen Murray, Nick Shepherd, Martin Hall ...
    Series series Architext
    This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act.Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • The Identity Myth

    Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality

    by David Swift ...
    We are in crisis.As a society we have never been less connected.The internet and globalisation fuel ignorance and anger, while the disconnect between people's reality and perceived identities has never been greater.Karl Marx outlined the idea of a material 'base' and politico-cultural 'superstructure'. According to this formula, a material reality - wealth, income, occupation - determined your ... Read more

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  • Elitism

    A Progressive Defence

    by Eliane Glaser ...
    Series Book 23 - Provocations
    The populist right have marshalled public anger against the real elites – corporate and financial power – and turned it onto those who represent us in Parliament, uphold our rights, treat us when we're sick, and create and curate the best books, art and ideas. Culture and education have been made into symbolic arenas of 'democratisation' while gross inequality remains intact.This important book ... Read more

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