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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine

    How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge

    by Jess Bier ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    Digital practices in social and political landscapes: Why two researchers can look at the same feature and see different things.Maps are widely believed to be objective, and data-rich computer-made maps are iconic examples of digital knowledge. It is often claimed that digital maps, and rational boundaries, can solve political conflict. But in Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, Jess Bier ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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  • Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

    by Lila Abu-Lughod ...
    Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live. ... Read more

    $21.79 CAD

  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Themes in Global Social Change
    Explores the role of women’s status, bodies, and sexuality in global conflicts.Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In Of Virgins and ... Read more

    $33.69 CAD

  • Terrorist Assemblages

    Homonationalism in Queer Times

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary ... Read more

    $33.69 CAD

  • Egypt in the Future Tense

    Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

    by Samuli Schielke ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended." — ChoiceAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Authoritarian Apprehensions

    Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of Human Rights

    Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine

    by Lori Allen ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    The Rise and Fall of Human Rights provides a groundbreaking ethnographic investigation of the Palestinian human rights world—its NGOs, activists, and "victims," as well as their politics, training, and discourse—since 1979. Though human rights activity began as a means of struggle against the Israeli occupation, in failing to end the Israeli occupation, protect basic human rights, or establish an ... Read more

    $32.59 CAD

  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    by Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Read more

    $78.71 CAD

  • At the Limits of Justice

    Women of Colour on Terror

    Edited by Sherene Razack, Suvendrini Perera ...
    The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Refugees of the Revolution

    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

    $30.49 CAD

  • On Shifting Ground

    Muslim Women in the Global Era

    Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ...
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jewish-Arab City

    Spatio-politics in a mixed community

    by Haim Yacobi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary.Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built ... Read more

    $89.56 CAD