Derrida and Foucault provide key starting points to understanding archives. They see
archives as hegemonic, characterizing ways of thought, modes of colonization, and the …

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How
have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as" legacies" of a dead past rather …

19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

I first wrote about media imperialism in the 1970s, from a variety of perspectives. In my study
of international news agencies (Boyd-Barrett, 1980) I dealt with media that sometimes are …

“Drawing inspiration from actor-network theory, science studies, and semiotics, this brilliant
book makes us completely rethink the workings of bureaucracy as analyzed by Max Weber …

This book brings into dialogue two major fields of scholarship that are rarely studied
together: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam. In doing so, it offers an original …

Anthropologists engaged in post-colonial studies are increasingly adopting an historical
perspective and using archives. Yet their archival activity tends to remain more an extractive …

Introduction hese essays were written over a long period of time, in answer to a single but
vastly complex question. How does one try to understand coherently the internally diverse …

Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this
study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by …

Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely
in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key …