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The Undersea Network (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Nicole Starosielski examines undersea communication cable network, bringing it to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the "wireless" network's materiality. She... Læs mere
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Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to... Læs mere
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Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.
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Neoliberalism from Below: Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Veronica Gago provides a new theory of neoliberalism by examining how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by... Læs mere
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The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.
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Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Patrick Galbraith examines Japanese “otaku,” their relationships with fictional girl characters, the Japanese public's interpretations of them as... Læs mere
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The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of the idea of energy from the Industrial Revolution to the present, showing how it has informed fossil fuel imperialism, the governance of work, and our relationship to the Earth.
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable As Told from Southern Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Julie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction, thereby upending popular notions that economic growth and development is necessary for improving a community?s wellbeing.
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Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from sites of elite education toward poor and working-class students and locations, showing how the field is driven by those flagship institutions that perpetuate class and race inequity in higher education.
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Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire.
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No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Prominent theorist rethinks the psychoanalytic assumptions underlying queer theory.
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Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A leading anthropologist of Africa considers that continent's place within an egregiously imbalanced world economic and social order
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