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Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Prominent cultural studies scholars from around the world reflect on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks in an era of university managerialism, marketization, and globalization.
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Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Cooking Data Cal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi in which she rethinks how quantitative health data is produced by showing how data production is inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it.
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Emergent Ecologies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the last thirty years of Greg Tate's influential cultural criticism of contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics.... Læs mere
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From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called... Læs mere
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Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brenna Bhandar examines how the emergence of modern property law contributed to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies,... Læs mere
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Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The contributors to this volume explore how non-Western, pluriversal approaches to core questions in the social sciences and humanities can help to dramatically rethink the relationship between knowledge and power.
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Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how particular sexual practices and identifications were normalized while others were outlawed in medieval England. This work... Læs mere
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Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Assesses various aspects of Edward Said's work - his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, his aesthetics... Læs mere
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The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic traditional culture.
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Dark Shamans: Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Uses an ethnographic example of ritual violence to illuminate cultural expression more widely and thereby reformulate anthropological and historical approaches to warfare and violence.
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The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Deals with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring.
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