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The Long War on Drugs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the origin of the punitive approach to drugs and its continued appeal, despite its obvious flaws. Foster also outlines the social and cultural changes prompting different... Læs mere
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Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black art to outline the distinct utopian desire... Læs mere
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Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining English scientist John Langdon Down’s characterization of white intellectual disability as Asian interiority and Queensland’s... Læs mere
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An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black death and chronic war.
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How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Dana Luciano examines the impacts of the new science of geology on nineteenth-century US culture, showing how it catalyzed transformative conversations regarding the intersections between humans and the nonhuman world.
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Conspiracy/Theory (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The contributors to Conspiracy/Theory evaluate the relationship between critical theory and conspiracy theory as the basis for political thought, showing how people rely on conspiracy theory or critical theory to make sense of complex and confusing events and social crises.
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Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice.
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Environments associated with migration are often seen as provisional, lacking history or architecture. Focusing on the... Læs mere
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The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its vision of liberation.
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A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Draws on a high-resolution digital scan of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s woodcut View of Venice printed in the year 1500 to outline the ways it depicts the social,... Læs mere
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Tendings: Feminist Esoterisms and the Abolition of Man (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture’s resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into... Læs mere
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