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The Politics of Taste: Beatriz Gonzalez and Cold War Aesthetics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ana María Reyes examines how the polarizing art of Beatriz González disrupted Cold War aesthetic discourses and the politics of class and modernization in 1960s Colombia.
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The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland,... Læs mere
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Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Combining political theory with ethnographic research among the Mohawks of Kahnawake, a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec, this book examines their struggles to articulate and maintain political sovereignty through centuries of settler colonialism.
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The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it.
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Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran (Bog, Paperback / softback, 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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Nature As Event: The Lure of the Possible (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Didier Debaise brings Alfred North Whitehead's philosophies of nature to bear on the Anthropocene, creating a new theory of nature that does not recognize a divide between the human and nonhuman, a theory in which all organisms have the power to unleash potential into the world.
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What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What We Made presents a series of fifteen conversations in which contemporary artists who create activist, participatory work discuss the cooperative process. Colleagues from fields including architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media join the conversations.
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Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Magdalena J. Zaborowska uses James Baldwin's house in the south of France as a lens through which to reconstruct his biography and to explore the politics and poetics of blackness, queerness, and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later works.
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Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
David L. Eng and Shinhee Han draw on psychoanalytic case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore... Læs mere
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A World of Many Worlds (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Drawing on indigenous social movements and politics, this volume’s contributors question Western epistemologies, theorize new forms of knowledge production, and critique the... Læs mere
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The Philosopher and His Poor (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ranciere's account of Western philosophical thought from Plato to Bourdieu argues that philosophers depend on an ideal "poor" for their own analyses but preclude them from abstract thought
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The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Prominent feminist theorist rethinks the relationship between evolution and the biological body through the study of three key figures--Darwin, Nietzsche, and Bergson.
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