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The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Includes essays in the field of postcolonial studies. This title addresses the broad theoretical issues at stake within the field and the position of the field itself within the academy, as well as its relationship to modern, post-modern, and Marxist discourses.
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Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the environment, and bodies and minds, in the present.
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Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An ethnographic study of the relationship between Filipina and Indonesian women who work as domestics in Taiwan and their Taiwanese employers
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Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Argues that satellites are not a transparent form of distribution of information, but rather that they produce specific media practices and modes of production.
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Wake Up, This Is Joburg (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of its residents, showing how its urban transformation occurs not in a series of dramatic, widescale changes but in the everyday lives, actions, and dreams of individuals.
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Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers-Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley-to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.
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Cities from Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a collection of essays that challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor.
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Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnography about the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea; an... Læs mere
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Science Without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.
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Home Away from Home: Japanese Corporate Wives in the United States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An ethnography about 'Japan outside of Japan' - specifically, how Japanese families on corporate re-assignment in the United States recreate their homeland within domestic spaces
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Enter the Lion: The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Kan forudbestilles (Forventes d. 15-09-2026)
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The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Kan forudbestilles (Forventes d. 29-09-2026)
