Duke University Press Forlag
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Birthing Black Mothers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jennifer C. Nash examines how the figure of the “Black mother” has become a powerful political category synonymous with crisis, showing how they are often rendered into one-dimensional symbols of tragic heroism and the ground zero of Black life.
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A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
David Boarder Giles traces the work of Food Not Bombs—a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that... Læs mere
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Art As Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on close readings of 1960s American art, Jason A. Hoelscher offers an information theory of art and an aesthetic theory of information in which he shows how art operates as information wherein art's meaning cannot be determined.
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Reimagining Social Medicine from the South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine's possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (PCHC) in South Africa.
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Maroon Choreography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, fahima ife speculates on the afterlives of Black fugitivity, unsettling the historic knowledge of it while moving inside the ongoing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery.
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No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Syd Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi Holocaust survivor Paul Celan—“No one / bears witness for the / witness”—to theorize the poetics and im/possibility of witnessing.
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Complaint! (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power.
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COVID-19 Politics and Policy: Pandemic Inequity in the United States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
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Philosophy for Spiders: On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
McKenzie Wark combines an autobiographical account of her relationship with Kathy Acker with her transgender reading of Acker's writing to outline Acker's philosophy of embodiment and its importance for theorizing the trans experience.
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Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes how the legacies of colonial violence and the ways the dispossession and extraction that destroyed Indigenous and colonized peoples' lives now poses an existential threat to the West.
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To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century,... Læs mere
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Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sarah Jane Cervenak traces how Black artists and writers who create alternative spaces for Black people to gather free from those Enlightenment philosophies that presume Black people and land as given to enclosure and ownership.
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