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On Addiction: Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mainstream addiction science either sees addiction as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control, or as a... Læs mere
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Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Theorizing how what they call “carceral eugenics” informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century... Læs mere
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Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reveals how the American empire has benefitted from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Potts argues that law is an essential tool for US geopolitical and economic interests.
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Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escape the everyday, Barbara Andrea Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.
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The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Detailing the protocols that have been put in place and evaluating their enactment, Faier reveals how the continued failure of... Læs mere
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After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies which existed during the seventeenth century in what would become northeast Brazil.
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Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to Be a Puta (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore is the fascinating memoir of Brazilian sex worker and activist Gabriela Leite, who was a pioneering figure in organizing for sex workers? rights, HIV/AIDS prevention, and grassroots feminism.
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Queering the Domestic (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Topics covered include queering the domestic by examining the diverse functionings of “home” for past and present LGBTQ and other marginalized groups; housing precarity and... Læs mere
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The Promise of Beauty (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Drawing widely from aesthetic and critical theories, Nguyen outlines how beauty—or its lack—points to the conditions that must exist for it to flourish.
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of Black women singers in US musical theatre between... Læs mere
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A Resonant Ecology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massive industrial expansion. Through a situated geographical... Læs mere
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The Essential Jill Johnston Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From personal essays, travel writing, and artist profiles to dance and visual art reviews as well as her infamous series of columns in the 1960s for the Village Voice... Læs mere
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