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  • Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis

    Politicizing the Unconscious from the Core of a Crumbling Empire

    by Robert K. Beshara ...
    Series series The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
    In Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis, Robert K. Beshara establishes a groundbreaking framework that links the Freudo-Lacanian tradition directly to transmodernity and decoloniality. Traditional psychoanalytic institutions have long been tethered to colonial logic, often pathologizing the marginalized rather than challenging the structures that oppress them, but Beshara shows how ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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  • Radical Humanism

    Decolonizing Perspectives in Critical Psychology

    Edited by Robert K. Beshara ...
    Radical Humanism uses concepts from Marxism, anarchism, critical theory, psychoanalysis, and African, Asian, and Latin American philosophies to critique bourgeois, liberal, and Eurocentric humanism(s) from the perspectives of Indigenous studies, Black studies, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.The book problematizes and expands the Euromodern conception of the “human” to document and develop ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory

    A Study of Youssef Chahine's al-Masir

    by Assistant Professor Robert K. Beshara ...
    In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine's (1997) *Al-Masir (Destiny).***Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory is the first book on decolonial film theory, which unpacks key concepts in decoloniality and decolonial aesthetics. Decolonial film theory is then applied to Youssef Chahine's (1997) historical drama al-Ma*?*ir in an effort ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Fundamentalism and Secularization

    by Emeritus Professor Mourad Wahba ...
    Translated by Assistant Professor Robert K. Beshara ...
    Series series Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
    In Fundamentalism and Secularization, Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba traces the historical origins of fundamentalism and secularization as ideas and practices in order to theorize their symbiotic relationship, and how it is impacted by global capitalism and, more recently, postmodernism.This gives voice to an argument from within the Islamic world that is very different to that given platform ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Freud and Said

    Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis

    by Robert K. Beshara ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W. Said and Sigmund Freud as well the relationship between psychoanalysis, postcolonialism and decoloniality more broadly.The author begins by offering a comprehensive review of the literature on psychoanalysis and postcolonialism, which is contextualized within the apparatus of racialized capitalism. In the close analysis of the ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

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    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

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  • The Posthuman

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

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  • Vulnerability in Resistance

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    Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including Turkey, Palestine, France, and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors to Vulnerability in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Foucault - The Key Ideas

    Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction

    by Paul Oliver ...
    Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to understand his most complex ideas with ease; it will also demonstrate the practical impact of those ideas on life today. Covering everything from Foucault's views on the philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Restating Orientalism

    A Critique of Modern Knowledge

    by Wael Hallaq ...
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    $43.99 CAD

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    by Rosi Braidotti ...
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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

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