Duke University Press Forlag
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Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing.
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The Impasse of the Latin American Left (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Franck Gaudichaud, Massimo Modonesi, and Jeffery R. Webber explore the Latin American Pink Tide as a political, economic, and cultural phenomenon, showing how it... Læs mere
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Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Shannen Dee Williams provides a comprehensive history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, tracing how Black sisters’ struggles were central to the long African American freedom movement.
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The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sarah Imhoff tells the story of the queer, disabled, Zionist writer Jessie Sampter (1883–1938), whose body and life did not match typical Zionist ideals and serves as an example of the complex relationships between the body, queerness, disability, religion, and nationalism.
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Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Omar Kasmani theorizes the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan’s most important Sufi site by examining the affective and intimate relationship between the site’s pilgrims and its patron saint.
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Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized surveillance at the US-Mexico border across time and space as well as the efforts of Native peoples to continue ancestral practices in the face of ecological and social violence.
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The Doctor Who Would Be King (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David—a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II—whose failed attempt to create a medical utopia continues to be felt in Cameroon.
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A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A Primer for Teaching Digital History is a practical guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy.
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Discovering Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eminent Chinese novelist Yan Lianke offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing.
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Myriad Intimacies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lata Mani oscillates between poetry and prose, genre and form, register and voice, and secular and sacred to meditate on the ways in which everyone and everything exists in mutually constitutive interrelations.
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Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining the reception of evolutionary biology, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, Donovan O. Schaefer theorizes the relationship between thinking and feeling by challenging the conventional wisdom that they are separate.
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