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  • WRITING POLITICS
    MICHAEL J SHAPIRO
    Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry. Exploring the political sensibilities that arise from the way literary fiction re-textualizes historical periods and events, the book features a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically attuned historiography. Each investiga...

    $1,120.00

  • GEOPOLITICS OF THE PAKISTAN–AFGHANISTAN BORDERLAND
    SYED SAMI RAZA / MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO
    To understand the historical complexity of the Pakistan–Afghanistan borderland, this book brings together some of the foremost thinkers of this borderland and seeks to approach its various problematic dimensions. This book presents an overview of the geopolitics of the Pakistan–Afghanistan borderland and approaches the topic from different methods and perspectives. It focuses o...

    $1,200.00

  • THE CINEMATIC POLITICAL
    MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO
    In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text’s distinctiveness is its focus on the intermediation between two textual genres. It is aimed at ...

    $1,100.00

  • DEFORMING AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
    MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO
    Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to the dominant American historical imagination, treating issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's vision of an egalitarian nation to the persistence of racial inequality. Presenting multifaceted arguments that transcend the myopic scope of traditional political discourses, Michael J. Shapiro summons disp...

    $1,060.00

  • GENRE AND THE (POST-)COMMUNIST WOMAN
    FLORENTINA C. ANDREESCU AND MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO
    This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed, represented, and embodied in communist societies and on its transformation resulting from the political, economic, and social changes specific to the post-communist social and political transitions. During the ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE NEW VIOLENT CARTOGRAPHY
    OPONDO, SAMSON / SHAPIRO, MICHAEL J.
    This edited volume seeks to propose and examine different, though related, critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the political and draw on a broad range of cultural contexts and genres of expressions to provoke the thinking that exceeds the conventional ...

    $1,560.00

  • CINEMATIC GEOPOLITICS
    MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO
    In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and co...

    $1,260.00

  • METHODS AND NATIONS
    MICHAEL J. SHAPIRO
    Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, unable to resist the "cognitive imperialism" of a state-centric social science, hav...

    $1,240.00