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Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey.
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Remapping Sound Studies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exploring a wide range of sonic practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors reorient the field of sound studies toward the global South in order to rethink and decolonize modes of understanding and listening to sound.
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Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City, a zero-carbon city built by Abu Dhabi that houses a... Læs mere
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Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system that is entrenched in and reinforces racial capitalism and patriarchy.
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Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
By foregrounding bodily pleasure in the experience of time and its representation in queer literature, film, video, and art, Elizabeth Freeman challenges queer theory s recent emphasis on loss and trauma.
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Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Americas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a collection of essays on Latin American, Caribbean, and US - based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations.
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The Black Jacobins Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on memoir, history, and theory, Eli Clare complicates the understanding of cure, seeing it as an ideology that serves contradictory purposes-from saving... Læs mere
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Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining the evolution of the Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven), which aspires to a unitary worldview that cherishes... Læs mere
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African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six... Læs mere
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Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Caren Kaplan traces the cultural history of aerial imagery-from the first vistas provided by balloons in the eighteenth century to the sensing operations of military... Læs mere
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