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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of 'living thought' against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Gordon takes into account scholars from across the Global South to address controversies around Fanon''s writings on gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond colonial paradigms.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation be- came so widespread in China. After the country''s devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of ''race'', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which ''yellows'' competed with ''whites'' in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world ac- cording to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People''s Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of ''race''. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter taking the reader up to the twenty-first century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Revolt: Eye-Witness to the Syrian Uprising, Stephen Starr delves deep into the lives of Syrians whose destiny has been shaped by the state for almost fifty years.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Guide to the landscapes of poverty in Britain, their historic monuments and their secret geography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of these kings, emirs, and sultans is going to happen, and was always going to.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - About Critical Muslim: A quarterly publication of ideas and issues showcasing groundbreaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. Each edition centers on a discrete theme, and contributions include reportage, academic analysis, cultural commentary, photography, poetry, and book reviews.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the taboo subject of sexual violence against men during conflict and war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a fresh analysis of the role of exemplary violence and its psychological impact. It considers the role emotions such as shame and disgust play in facilitating a climate of extreme brutality and what lessons we can learn from the case of Sierra Leone in understanding the atrocities of other contemporary conflicts.