21st Century Studies – serie
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21 produkter
After Extinction
Häftad, 2018
274 kr
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A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes nextWhat comes after extinction? Including both prominent and unusual voices in current debates around the Anthropocene, this collection asks authors from diverse backgrounds to address this question. After Extinction looks at the future …
Question of Gender
Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism
Av Judith Butler, Elizabeth Weed
Häftad, 2011
301 kr
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A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term—and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, …
New Routes for Diaspora Studies
Av Sukanya Banerjee, Aims McGuinness m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
329 kr
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Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U.S., the …
Long 1968
Revisions and New Perspectives
Av Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud van Dijk m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
997 kr
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From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on …
Long 1968
Revisions and New Perspectives
Av Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud van Dijk m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
353 kr
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From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on …
Debt
Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy
Av Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Inbunden, 2013
911 kr
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From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. …
Debt
Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy
Av Peter Y. Paik, Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Häftad, 2013
301 kr
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From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives. …
Making Place
Space and Embodiment in the City
Inbunden, 2014
903 kr
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Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and …
Making Place
Space and Embodiment in the City
Häftad, 2014
329 kr
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Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated in the making and …
Museums and Difference
Häftad, 2007
324 kr
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Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference—notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race—have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. …
State of Sovereignty
Territories, Laws, Populations
Av Douglas Howland, Luise S. White
Häftad, 2008
273 kr
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The State of Sovereignty examines how it came to pass that the nation-state became the prevailing form of governance in the world today. Spanning the 19th and 20th centuries and addressing colonization and decolonization around the globe, these essays argue that sovereignty is a set of historically …
Nonhuman Turn
Häftad, 2015
301 kr
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Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize-and therefore consolidate-a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences under the concept of the nonhuman turn. Each …
Anthropocene Feminism
Häftad, 2017
302 kr
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What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative approach to the Anthropocene so often taken by technoscientists, artists, humanists, and social …
Big No
Inbunden, 2022
1141 kr
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What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of noWhat does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say “no”? Against the ubiquitous demands for positive solutions, action-oriented policies, and optimistic compromises, The …
Big No
Häftad, 2022
276 kr
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What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of noWhat does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say “no”? Against the ubiquitous demands for positive solutions, action-oriented policies, and optimistic compromises, The …
Ends of Cinema
Av Richard Grusin, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Inbunden, 2020
1271 kr
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At the dawn of the digital era in the final decades of the twentieth century, film and media studies scholars grappled with the prospective end of what was deemed cinema: analog celluloid production, darkened public movie theaters, festival culture. The notion of the “end of cinema” had already …
Ends of Cinema
Av Richard Grusin, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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At the dawn of the digital era in the final decades of the twentieth century, film and media studies scholars grappled with the prospective end of what was deemed cinema: analog celluloid production, darkened public movie theaters, festival culture. The notion of the “end of cinema” had already …
Insecurity
Inbunden, 2022
1283 kr
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Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present momentChallenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, …
Insecurity
Häftad, 2022
305 kr
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Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present momentChallenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securitization, and resilience, this collection explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, …
Long 2020
Av Richard Grusin, Maureen Ryan
Inbunden, 2023
1408 kr
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Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoingBy all accounts, 2020 was the longest year in recent memory, as people in the United States and across the globe careened from one unfolding catastrophe to another. The consequences of this …
Long 2020
Av Richard Grusin, Maureen Ryan
Häftad, 2023
253 kr
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Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoingBy all accounts, 2020 was the longest year in recent memory, as people in the United States and across the globe careened from one unfolding catastrophe to another. The consequences of this …
