Duke University Press Forlag
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Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Since the 1970s, Indian workers have flooded into Dubai, enabling its construction boom. Barred from becoming citizens, they comprise the emirate's largest noncitizen population. Neha Vora examines their existence in a state of permanent temporariness.
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Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cultural history of the flower trade in New York City and the transformation of the cut-flower industry into a global commodity system.
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Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The "Other" - source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonised and romanticised. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. This title encompasses Segalen's attempts to define "true Exoticism."
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Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their appeal... Læs mere
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How the Soviet Union Disappeared: An Essay on the Causes of Dissolution (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Useful to sovietologists, political scientists, and students of communism and nationalism. This title argues that the collapse of... Læs mere
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Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides a set of readings of William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses - sometimes characterized as a novel, sometimes as a collection of... Læs mere
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Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications... Læs mere
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Centering Animals in Latin American History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays examining Latin American cultural history through a focus on animals and their vital but often ignored roles in colonization and nation-building.
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Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.
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The Space in-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Author has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially... Læs mere
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Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers a collection of essays - captures the birth and growth of feminist film as no other book has done. This title introduces each essay with an autobiographical prologue that describes the intellectual, political, and personal moments from which the work arose.
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