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Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Christina Schwenkel analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city.
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Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color.
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Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—from yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses—that played central roles in the history of British imperial control.
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Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.
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The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and... Læs mere
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Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.
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Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the International Criminal Court in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice.
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Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they... Læs mere
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Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
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Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations Into Globalization, Technology, Democracy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is... Læs mere
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Homosexual Desire (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Integrating psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia and on how the 'homosexual' as social being has come to be constituted in capitalist society.
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Eating the Ocean (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Moving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.
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