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The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Maura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers in Mumbai—who are assumed to not exist—to live during a period of... Læs mere
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Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Available in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop.
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Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass produce synthetic... Læs mere
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Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
showcases a new generation of scholarship on music video as a cultural form.
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Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that over the years, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and... Læs mere
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Framed: Women in Law and Film (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Intervenes in the emerging discipline of law-and-film by developing a framework for evaluating how films represent "gender crimes" and how those representations affect audiences' ideas about women, their legal rights, and their roles in society
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Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Essays consider the relationship of gender, time, and space to globalization, describing conditions under which South and Southeast Asians can resist the attempted erasure of their spaces and histories.
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From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Suitable for anthropologists and historians, but also for scholars in colonial, postcolonial, and globalization studies, this book gathers essays... Læs mere
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Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? What is the secret to Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2000 years? This title deals with these questions.
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Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of Gender (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents an examination of the political and social construction of gender under the Vichy regime. This book argues that the regime used symbolic violence to reshape a liberal culture once based on individual rights into one of deference to hierarchical authority.
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Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state, and subjects into citizens. The author considers several ways that identification with the nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
