Points of View – serie
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7 produkter
Present Colonizes the Past
The Future Forsaken?
Häftad, 2026
169 kr
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Short, rigorous intervention on history-writing in public life.How does the present reshape what a society chooses to remember as its past? Recent interpretations of India's history have replaced careful inquiry with narratives that mirror contemporary anxieties and ambitions, sidelining the …
Fate of Rural Hell
Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand, New Edition
Häftad, 2027
166 kr
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A new edition of Benedict Anderson's masterpiece of political and social interpretation, which asks what a rural Thai “hell temple” reveals about Buddhism and modern life.In 1975, political scientist Benedict Anderson encountered Wat Phai Rong Wua, a vast temple complex conceived by the monk Luang …
Poetry and Photography
Häftad, 2026
189 kr
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A short, critical text by poet Yves Bonnefoy on the fraught relationship between poetry and photography, masterfully translated by Chris Turner. The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France’s greatest poets of the last …
Torture and the War on Terror
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
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One of the world's leading intellectuals dismantles the political and ethical justifications for institutional torture. In the aftermath of 9/11, the US government approved interrogation tactics for enemy combatant detainees that could be defined as torture, which was outlawed in Europe in the …
Slaves of Palamau and Other Writings
Häftad, 2026
189 kr
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A collection of Mahasweta Devi's activist essays, reportage, and editorials on rural development and dispossession. What do India’s poorest communities reveal about power, land, and survival? In the late 1970s, writer Mahasweta Devi shifted her focus to the lives of Adivasi (Indigenous peoples of …
