In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, …
The Sacromonte Lead Books : The Events -- Granada Conquered : Castilianization and Conversion -- The Noble Families -- Alonso del Castillo : Translator, Author? -- Alonso del Castillo's Friends : Priests, Soldiers, Interpreters -- Diego Bejarano Al-Ajar and the Morisco Understan…
This edited volume presents a critique of citizenship as exclusively and even originally a European or 'Western' institution. It explores the ways in which we may begin to think differently about citizenship as political subjectivity.
"The word 'citizen' evokes a particular legacy that is inexorably associated with 'European' values that define especially Euro-American states, such as secularism, democracy, law, and rights. However, since 1945, these very values have been increasingly placed under question fr…
