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  • Knowing History in Mexico

    An Ethnography of Citizenship

    by Trevor Stack ...
    While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on the history and citizenship of towns and cities. Basing his inquiry on fieldwork in west Mexican towns near Guadalajara, Stack begins by observing that people talked (and wrote) of their towns’ history and not just of Mexico’s.Key to Stack’s study is the insight that knowing history can give ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Citizens against Crime and Violence

    Societal Responses in Mexico

    by Trevor Stack, Irene Álvarez, Denisse Román, Edgar Guerra, Ariadna Sánchez, Iran Guerrero, Salvador Maldonado, Catherine Whittaker, Pilar Domingo, Sasha Jesperson0 ...
    Mexico has become notorious for crime-related violence, and the efforts of governments and national and international NGOs to counter this violence have proven largely futile. Citizens against Crime and Violence studies societal responses to crime and violence within one of Mexico’s most affected regions, the state of Michoacán. Based on comparative ethnography conducted over twelve months by a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Engaging Authority

    Citizenship and Political Community

    Edited by Rose Luminiello, Trevor Stack ...
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    Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community aims to explore how authority is entailed in different versions of citizenship and political community. Who or what claims authority in the name of “a people,” and to what effect? What kind and scope of authority is claimed? And who is held to be part of such a people”? Engaging Authority brings together scholars from anthropology, ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Breaching the Civil Order

    Radicalism and the Civil Sphere

    Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Trevor Stack, Farhad Khosrokhavar ...
    It is not only a paradox but something of an intellectual scandal that, in an era so shaken by radical actions and ideologies, social science has had nothing theoretically new to say about radicalism since the middle of the last century. Breaching the Civil Order fills this void. It argues that, rather than seeing radicalism in substantive terms - as violent or militant, communist or fascist - ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

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  • The Broken Village

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  • Kuxlejal Politics

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  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

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  • The Feminist Subversion of the Economy

    Contributions for a Life Against Capital

    by Amaia Pérez Orozco ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Mason-Deese ...
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