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Influx and Efflux: Writing Up with Walt Whitman (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Exploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois,... Læs mere
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Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture.... Læs mere
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Islamic Republic of Iran permits, and even partially subsidizes, sex reassignment surgery. Based on historical and ethnographic research, Afsaneh Najmabadi examines what transsexuality means in postrevolutionary Iran.
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Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Natasha Myers shows in this ethnography how scientists who build three-dimensional models of proteins use their senses and bodies to create,... Læs mere
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Tourist Distractions: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Tourist Distractions Youngmin Choe uses Korean hallyu cinema as a lens to examine the importance of tourist films and film tourism in creating transnational bonds throughout East Asia and how they help Korea negotiate its twentieth-century history with the neoliberal present.
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This Was not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Combines Bosnian women's personal testimony about the recent war and its aftermath with Ambassador Hunt's analysis of the U.S. government's appproach to the conflict
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The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Regarded by many as one of the leading works of this century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during WWII.
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Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Cinema of Actuality analyzes Japanese avant-garde filmmakers' struggle to radicalize cinema in light of the intensifying politics of spectacle and a rapidly changing media environment, one that was increasingly dominated by television.
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The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers an account of development in action. Focusing on experts' attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia,... Læs mere
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Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Providing a reading of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor as political thinkers, Gary Wilder explains how these eminent anti-colonial... Læs mere
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Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified labor—the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase of demands of work—as a way to work toward social justice and economic equality.
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Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Asks what is meant by complexity and how it might be handled within knowledge practices without generating a chaos of further complexities.
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