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17 produkter
Life by Algorithms
How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
Av Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson
Häftad, 2019
374 kr
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Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that regulate patient diagnoses and reimbursements to …
Violence
A Reader
Av Catherine Besteman, C. Besteman
Häftad, 2002
716 kr
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The essays in this book address the inter-relationship of power, politics, and violence, examining why the political process of managing power within states sometimes becomes physically violent. This volume brings together some of the classic writings on the relationship between states and violence …
Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong
Anthropologists Talk Back
Av Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson
Häftad, 2005
264 kr
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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, …
Transforming Cape Town
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule …
Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
Av Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Besteman
Häftad, 2009
307 kr
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Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and …
Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong
Anthropologists Talk Back
Av Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Besteman
E-bok, 2005
433 kr
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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today''s most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America''s top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, …
Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
Av Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson
E-bok, 2009
520 kr
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Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and …
Unraveling Somalia
Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery
Häftad, 1999
400 kr
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In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil …
Unraveling Somalia
Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery
E-bok, 2014
493 kr
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In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. During the civil …
Violence
A Reader
Inbunden, 2002
1481 kr
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Historians consider the previous century to have been one of the most violent periods in human history. As we move into an era where violence is sanitized and normalized in the media, and depicted as glamorous and fun, how will we relate to the violence in our midst? Why do people and their …
Violence
A Reader
Häftad, 2002
481 kr
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Historians consider the previous century to have been one of the most violent periods in human history. As we move into an era where violence is sanitized and normalized in the media, and depicted as glamorous and fun, how will we relate to the violence in our midst? Why do people and their …
Making Refuge
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Inbunden, 2016
1247 kr
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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge …
Making Refuge
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Häftad, 2016
339 kr
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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge …
Militarized Global Apartheid
Inbunden, 2020
1397 kr
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In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different …
Militarized Global Apartheid
Häftad, 2020
325 kr
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In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different …
Militarized Global Apartheid
E-bok, 2020
494 kr
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In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa''s apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different …
Life by Algorithms
How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
Av Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson
Inbunden, 2019
753 kr
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Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources; the algorithms that regulate patient diagnoses and reimbursements to …
