Publications
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Ever Faithful - Race, Loyalty and the Ends of Empire in Spanish Cuba
(2014)
Known for much of the nineteenth century as "the ever-faithful isle," Cuba did not earn its independence from Spain until 1898, long after most American colonies had achieved emancipation from European rule. In this ...
My Voice Is My Weapon - Music, Nationalism and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance
(2013)
David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from ...
Para-States and Medical Science: Making African Global Health
(2015)
In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, ...
Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
(2017-04-12)
Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms—from jazz and cinema to dance and literature—this volume's contributors locate improvisation as a key site of mediation between the social and the aesthetic. As a ...
Sovereignty in Ruins
(2017-04-07)
Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of ...