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Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century – Review

Stephan Scheel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:20:16 +0000

The central question of Escape Routes sounds quite simple: 'How does social transformation begin?' But the answer that the book provides is provocative and contests many dominant explanations of social change: according to the authors it is not the brimming revolutionary events occupying the imagination of the left that capture the mechanics of social transformation but the seemingly 'insignificant occurrences of people’s daily actions'.

Digitizing Race – Lisa Nakamura

Sanjay Sharma — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:15:09 +0000

For those of you with a soft spot for the anthropomorphized cartoon dog surfing the Internet, Lisa Nakamura abolishes such nostalgia, and misunderstanding. Half way through Digitizing Race, she coolly declares '...nobody believes anymore that on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog...'.

Darker than Blue

Ben Pitcher — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:04:55 +0000

Paul Gilroy carries a lot of symbolic weight. In our transnational academic milieu, Gilroy’s status as a superstar professor overdetermines his writing, forcing a peculiar disjuncture between the character of his project and the expectations of his eager audience. While Gilroy speaks of a poststructural cultural politics, he is too often forced into the position of custodian or leader that sometimes rubs up uncomfortably with his analysis...

“To be loved, of course, and to be safe”

Denise Decaires Narain — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:22:14 +0000

Review of: Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2008.

The Empire of Love: Review of Elizabeth Povinelli

Silvia Posocco — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:51:46 +0000

A review of Povinelli, Elizabeth (2006) The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality, Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale

Max Farrar — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:52:43 +0000

Review of: Kester Aspden (2007) Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale, London: Jonathan Cape

This is an important, even ‘must-read’ book for anyone interested in the history of crime in the UK, especially if that crime has…

Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad

Sanjay Sharma — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:53:29 +0000

Review of: Tejaswini Niranjana (2006) Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad. London: Duke University Press.

Review can be read at anti-babel. (Due to copyright restrictions, this article can only appear on the reviewer’s own website).

Infidel: My Life

Sara Wajid — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:47:15 +0000

Review of: Infidel: My Life (2007), Free Press.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has hurled herself violently into the eye of the storm with her polemical pronouncements on the threat of political Islam, the dangers of multi-culturalism and the need for…

A Postcolonial People

Katy Sian — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:44:12 +0000

A Review of: N. Ali, V. Kalra & S. Sayyid (eds) (2005) A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. London: Hurst.

In Roland Barthes’s Mythologies, the last sentence of the book urges that we must seek “a reconciliation between reality…

“Londonstani” by Gautam Malkani; “Tourism” by Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal

Anamik Saha — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:39:00 +0000

Review of: Gautam Malkani (2007) Londonstani, HarperPerennial; and Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal (2006) Tourism, Vintage.

With last year’s protests surrounding the filming of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane the debate on authenticity and representation yet again reared its head. It seems a…