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14 books match the query 'Periphery'
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism
Machado de AssisRoberto Schwarz
Duke University Press, 2001
Widely acknowledged as the most important novelist to have written in Latin America before 1940, Machado had a surprisingly modern style. Schwarz notes that the unprecedented wit, sarcasm, structural inventiveness, and mercurial changes of tone and subject matter found in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas marked a crucial moment in the history of Latin American literature. He argues that Machado’s vanguard narrative reflects the Brazilian owner class and its peculiar status in both national and international contexts, and shows why this novel’s success was no accident. The author was able to confront some of the most prestigious ideologies of the nineteenth century with some uncomfortable truths, not the least of which was that slavery remained the basis of the Brazilian economy.
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism will appeal to those with interests in Latin American literature, nineteenth century history, and Marxist literary theory.
At the Periphery of a World War?
Urban Experiences of the First World War in Africa, East Asia, Latin America and South EuropeEdited by María Inés Tato, Ana Paula Pires, and Jan Schmidt
Campus Verlag, 2024
The First World War and its aftermath were significant events with widespread consequences that impacted everyday people. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the various ways in which the Great War affected urban life, extending beyond the typically recognized regions such as the European great powers, the United States, and US colonies and spheres of influence. It explores the impacts on peripheral cities in East Asia, South Europe, Latin America, and Africa, which have often been overlooked in the historiography of the 1914 to 1918 conflict. Despite their historical neglect, these urban areas felt the repercussions of the war as it reshaped their structures, rhythms, and daily routines. This transformation influenced both private and public life, highlighting the crucial role these cities played as actors during wartime.
Digital Rights at the Periphery
Making Brazil's Marco CivilGuy T. Hoskins
University of Illinois Press, 2025
Signed into law in 2014, the Marco Civil da Internet (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) appeared to offer pioneering legislation for a digital bill of rights that addressed issues like network neutrality and privacy. Guy T. Hoskins chronicles the Marco Civil’s development and its failure to confront the greatest concentration of power in the digital age: informational capitalism. Combining interviews with discourse and political-economic analysis, Hoskins reveals why the legislation fell short while examining the implications of its emergence in Brazil, which remains on the margins of the global system of informational capitalism. Hoskins places collectivist and public service principles at the core of any framework’s effectiveness. He also shows why we must create systems sensitive to the sociocultural and political-economic contexts that will shape digital rights and their usefulness.
Compelling and contrarian, Digital Rights at the Periphery looks at communications policy and internet governance in the Global South and the lessons they provide for the rest of the world.
Elena, Princesa of the Periphery
Disney’s Flexible Latina GirlDiana Leon-Boys
Rutgers University Press, 2023
2024 National Communication Association's Critical and Cultural Communication Studies Division (CCSD) Book of the year award
2023 National Communication Association's Feminist and Gender Studies Division Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award
In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture model, author Diana Leon-Boys teases out moments of complex negotiations by Disney, producers, and audiences as they navigate Elena’s circulation. Case studies highlight how a flexible Latinidad is deployed through corporate materials, social media pages, theme park experiences, and the television series to create a princess who is both marginal to Disney’s normative vision of princesshood and central to Disney’s claims of diversification. This multi-layered analysis of Disney’s mediated Latina girlhood interrogates the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and a global conglomerate that stands in for the U.S. on the global stage.
Empire of the Periphery
Russia and the World SystemBoris Kagarlitsky
Pluto Press, 2007
Leading writer Boris Kagarlitsky offers an ambitious account of 1000 years of Russian history. Encompassing all key periods in Russia's dramatic development, the book covers everything from early settlers, through medieval decline, Ivan the Terrible - the 'English Tsar', Peter the Great, the Crimean War and the rise of capitalism, the revolution, the Soviet period, finally ending with the return of capitalism after 1991.
Setting Russia within the context of the 'World System', as outlined by Wallerstein, this is a major work of historical Marxist theory that is set to become a future classic.
Extra/ordinary Johannesburg
Centrality, Periphery and the Spaces BetweenLindsay Blair Howe
University College London, 2025
In Extra/ordinary Johannesburg, urbanist Lindsay Blair Howe argues that Johannesburg, part of the highly urbanized Gauteng City-Region and often labeled as an “apartheid city,” is an “ordinary” space where spatial changes both marginalize and create opportunities for people in their everyday lives. Structured around the concepts of urbanization and peripheralization and drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s theory of spatial dialectics, the book uses empirical research methods like smartphone applications and volunteered geographic information to draw theoretical conclusions, providing exciting new insights into urban denizens’ daily lives and how urbanization in the Gauteng region relates to the decolonial project. One central premise is that understanding how people navigate the urban fabric of centralities, peripheries, and the spaces in between is crucial for reimagining effective ways to address poverty and inequality in urban Africa.
Healing at the Periphery
Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in IndiaLaurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos, editors
Duke University Press, 2022
Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig, Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guérin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordié
Life on the Periphery
Economic Change in Late Prehistoric Southeastern New MexicoEdited by John D. Speth
University of Michigan Press, 2004
Living and Dying on the Periphery
The Archaeology and Human Remains from Two 13th-15th Century AD Villages in Southeastern New MexicoJamie L. Clark and John D. Speth
University of Utah Press, 2022
Summarizing results from eight seasons of research, Clark and Speth document human burials and associated grave offerings from the two sites. They discuss evidence for pathologies and trauma, raising questions about the nature and causes of violence that led to the demise of Henderson and Bloom Mound, and the abandonment of many other farming-hunting communities in the surrounding region.
Pastoralists at the Periphery
Herders in a Capitalist WorldClaudia Chang
University of Arizona Press, 1994
The authors of this collection of essays examine the impact of capitalism on nineteenth- and early twentieth century pastoralists and discuss the historical transformations that have occurred in the lives and societies of herding peoples around the world. They argue that pastoralists were not simply passive recipients of change imposed by capitalist polities and that historical and economic factors impinging on their societies were as important as ecological ones. Collectively, these papers demonstrate that twentieth-century pastoralists and their nineteenth-century predecessors should not be seen as immutably locked in a pastoral "mode of production" but rather as actively negotiating encounters between themselves and the expanding power of capitalist states.
Potential on the Periphery
College Access from the Ground UpOmari Scott Simmons
Rutgers University Press, 2019
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Asymmetrical Encounters in European and Global ContextsEdited by Tessa Hauswedell, Axel Körner, and Ulrich Tiedau
University College London, 2019
The Core and the Periphery
Data-Driven Perspectives on Syntax Inspired by Ivan A. SagEdited by Philip Hofmeister and Elisabeth Norcliffe
CSLI, 2013
The History of a Periphery
Spanish Colonial Cartography from Colombia's Pacific LowlandsJuliet B. Wiersema
University of Texas Press, 2024
2025 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, College Art Association
An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.
During the late Spanish colonial period, the Pacific Lowlands, also called the Greater Chocó, was famed for its rich placer deposits. Gold mined here was central to New Granada’s economy yet this Pacific frontier in today’s Colombia was considered the “periphery of the periphery.” Infamous for its fierce, unconquered Indigenous inhabitants and its brutal tropical climate, it was rarely visited by Spanish administrators, engineers, or topographers and seldom appeared in detail on printed maps of the period.
In this lavishly illustrated and meticulously researched volume, Juliet Wiersema uncovers little-known manuscript cartography and makes visible an unexamined corner of the Spanish empire. In concert with thousands of archival documents from Colombia, Spain, and the United States, she reveals how a "periphery" was imagined and projected, largely for political or economic reasons. Along the way, she unearths untold narratives about ephemeral settlements, African adaptation and autonomy, Indigenous strategies of resistance, and tenuous colonialisms on the margins of a beleaguered viceroyalty.