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Production of Local Knowledge History and Politics in the Work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado
ISBN: HB: 9780857423344, Seagull Books, July 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This volume presents a comprehensive examination of the work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado (1939-1984), the most notable Bolivian political thinker of the twentieth century. While Zavaleta did not live to see the triumph of the indigenous social movements...
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£30,00
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Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism
ISBN: PB: 9780857427946, Seagull Books, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...
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£35,00
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Assassination Who Killed Indira G?
ISBN: PB: 9780857426383, ISBN: HB: 9781905422852, Seagull Books, March 2019
152 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a Prime Minister who...
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£12,99
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£16,50
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Banker for All Seasons Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc.
ISBN: PB: 9780857426406, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 20x14.4 cm
During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank... the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce Internation...
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£12,99
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Leopard and the Fox A Pakistani Tragedy
ISBN: PB: 9780857426390, ISBN: HB: 9781905422296, Seagull Books, March 2019
224 pp., 20x14.6 cm
The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarc...
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£12,99
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£20,50
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Season in the Congo
ISBN: PB: 9780857424877, ISBN: HB: 9781905422944, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cesaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. "A Season in the Congo" follows Lumumba's efforts to free the...
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£12,99
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£13,50
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Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia
ISBN: HB: 9780857423580, Seagull Books, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Bolivia's foremost social and political theorist, Rene Zavaleta Mercado held diplomatic and ministerial posts with the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in the 1950s and '60s, before eventually aligning with the Marxist left, where he developed the...
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£26,50
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Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For
ISBN: HB: 9780857423627, Seagull Books, March 2017
112 pp., 19x12.7 cm
In 2010, Robert Menasse journeyed to Brussels to begin work on a novel centered on the European Union. His extended stay resulted in a completely different book – "Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficiencies", a work of nonfiction ex...
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£11,00
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Nationalism and the Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780857423184, Seagull Books, August 2015
92 pp., 18.5x11.4 cm
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's "On Grammatology" and her groundbreaking essay, "Can th...
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£11,50
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Anthropology of the Name
ISBN: HB: 9780857422309, Seagull Books, August 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Translated by Gila Walker for the first time into English, "Anthropology of the Name" is French thinker Sylvain Lazarus's response to the intellectual caesura of May 1968. Taking up thought, politics, and the name, Lazarus presents an original doctri...
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£22,50
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