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The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rivke Jaffe shows how dons’ power relies on a widespread belief in their right to rule, explaining how criminal power is... Læs mere
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Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces two widespread rhetorics of perversion—sexual and moral—in postsocialist Armenia, showing how they are tied to anxieties... Læs mere
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Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A close study of infrastructural expansion as a lens onto state capital relations and the politics of expertise in Kenya over the long-twentieth century.
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Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism—the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage.... Læs mere
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Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Taking a palimpsestic approach,... Læs mere
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Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those Without It (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lennard J. Davis shows how “poornography”— distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes — creates harmful and... Læs mere
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Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By drawing connections between innovation discourse, the rise of neoliberalism, financialized capitalism, and the social and... Læs mere
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Laboratory Epistemologies: A Hands-on Perspective (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the vital role of hands-on experiences in shaping scientific knowledge in contemporary life science laboratories with an in-depth analysis of the interaction between “manual” practices in experimental research and “hands-off” theories of (scientific) knowledge formation.
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A Sense of Arrival (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean Blackness. Arguing that the story of Caribbeanness cannot be told through words... Læs mere
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The Buenos Aires Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider’s look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina’s capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Feminism and the Cinema of Experience (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines a diverse group of feminist film and cinema to show how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encountering and examining the political... Læs mere
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The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to global Black history and radicalism, tracing the influence of Garveyism and its legacies from the 1920s onward.
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