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Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer traces the scientific and technological development of militarized surveillance at the US-Mexico border across time and space as well as the efforts of Native peoples to continue ancestral practices in the face of ecological and social violence.
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The Doctor Who Would Be King (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David—a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II—whose failed attempt to create a medical utopia continues to be felt in Cameroon.
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A Primer for Teaching Digital History: Ten Design Principles (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A Primer for Teaching Digital History is a practical guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching digital history for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their pedagogy.
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Discovering Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Eminent Chinese novelist Yan Lianke offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing.
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Myriad Intimacies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lata Mani oscillates between poetry and prose, genre and form, register and voice, and secular and sacred to meditate on the ways in which everyone and everything exists in mutually constitutive interrelations.
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Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examining the reception of evolutionary biology, the 1925 Scopes Trial, and the New Atheist movement of the 2000s, Donovan O. Schaefer theorizes the relationship between thinking and feeling by challenging the conventional wisdom that they are separate.
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In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sophie Chao examines the multispecies entanglements of oil palm plantations in West Papua, Indonesia, showing how Indigenous Marind communities understand and navigate the social, political, and environmental demands of the oil palm plant.
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Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the afterlife of the cold war and its lingering shadows, showing how a nostalgia and longing for stability fuels US-led militarism and the rise of xenophobic right-wing nationalism and authoritarianism around the world.
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The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South.
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The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Working at the intersection of urban theory, Black studies, and decolonial and Islamic thought, AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political.
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A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Robyn d’Avignon tells the history of West Africa’s centuries-old indigenous gold mining industries and its shared practices, prohibitions, and cosmological engagements.
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