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Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.
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The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how... Læs mere
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Mimesis Across Empires: Artworks and Networks in India, 1765-1860 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Natasha Eaton theorizes the relationship between art and empire through analysis of the interconnected visual cultures of British and Mughal empires in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India.
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Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This book analyzes the folk songs from the Bhojpuri-speaking regions of North India to explore how ideas of gender, caste, and class are socially constructed, transmitted, questioned, and reaffirmed through their performance.
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Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Monumental Matters analyzes the role of Mughal architecture-magnificent tombs, mosques, forts, and palaces, such as the Taj Mahal-in India s cultural politics from the colonial era to the present.
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Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. This title provides... Læs mere
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En-Gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and... Læs mere
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Averting the Apocalypse: Social Movements in India Today (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Chocolate and Other Writings on Male Homoeroticism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A translation of a 1927 short-story collection that was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations; its publication sparked India s first public debates about homosexuality.
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Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy."
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Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western - particularly American - popular culture. Yet if one... Læs mere
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When Biometrics Fail: Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies - such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting - that have come... Læs mere
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