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Vibrant Matter
A Political Ecology of Things
Av Jane Bennett
Häftad, 2010
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
266 kr
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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman …
World-Systems Analysis
An Introduction
Häftad, 2004
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
269 kr
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In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a …
Equaliberty
Political Essays
Häftad, 2014
438 kr
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First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two ideals of modern democracy: equality (social …
Liquidated
An Ethnography of Wall Street
Av Karen Ho
Häftad, 2009
341 kr
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Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how …
A Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Häftad, 2001
451 kr
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In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements-picturesque …
Constructing the Black Masculine
Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775–1995
Häftad, 2002
383 kr
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In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history-from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones-Constructing the Black Masculine maps black men’s historical efforts to negotiate …
The Archive and the Repertoire
Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
Av Diana Taylor
Häftad, 2003
321 kr
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In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and …
Passed on
African American Mourning Stories, a Memorial
Häftad, 2003
280 kr
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Passed On is a portrait of death and dying in twentieth-century African America. Through poignant reflection and thorough investigation of the myths, rituals, economics, and politics of African American mourning and burial practices, Karla FC Holloway finds that ways of dying are just as much a …
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Häftad, 2004
451 kr
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Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Shawn Michelle Smith reveals the visual dimension of the color line that Du Bois famously called “the problem of the twentieth century.” Du Bois’s …
The Libertine Colony
Creolization in the Early French Caribbean
Häftad, 2005
451 kr
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Presenting incisive original readings of French writing about the Caribbean from the inception of colonization in the 1640s until the onset of the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s, Doris Garraway sheds new light on a significant chapter in French colonial history. At the same time, she makes a …
Authentic Indians
Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Häftad, 2005
383 kr
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In this innovative history, Paige Raibmon examines the political ramifications of ideas about “real Indians.” Focusing on the Northwest Coast in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, she describes how government officials, missionaries, anthropologists, reformers, settlers, and tourists …
The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Av Erica Rand
Inbunden, 2005
1315 kr
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In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is …
The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Av Erica Rand
Häftad, 2005
438 kr
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In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is …
The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Inbunden, 2006
1337 kr
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The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams …
The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Häftad, 2006
406 kr
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The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams …
Lynching in the West
1850-1935
Inbunden, 2006
1239 kr
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Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South. Ken Gonzales-Day reveals racially motivated lynching as a more widespread practice. His research uncovered 350 instances of lynching that occurred in the state of California between …
Shaky Colonialism
The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
Häftad, 2008
394 kr
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Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community’s best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism …
Screening Sex
Inbunden, 2008
1454 kr
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For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema “grew up” in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the …
Screening Sex
Häftad, 2008
341 kr
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For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, American cinema “grew up” in response to the sexual revolution, and movie audiences came to expect more knowledge about what happened between the sheets. In Screening Sex, the …
Translating Time
Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique
Häftad, 2009
671 kr
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Under modernity, time is regarded as linear and measurable by clocks and calendars. Despite the historicity of clock-time itself, the modern concept of time is considered universal and culturally neutral. What Walter Benjamin called “homogeneous, empty time” founds the modern notions of progress …
The Afro-Latin@ Reader
History and Culture in the United States
Av Miriam Jiménez Román, Juan Flores
Häftad, 2010
383 kr
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The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s …
A Certain Age
Colonial Jakarta Through the Memories of Its Intellectuals
Häftad, 2010
394 kr
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A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf MrÁzek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and …
Biopolitics
A Reader
Av Timothy Campbell, Adam Sitze
Inbunden, 2013
1398 kr
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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical-the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body-is not surprising given its …
Biopolitics
A Reader
Av Timothy Campbell, Adam Sitze
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sciences today. The far-reaching influence of the biopolitical-the relation of politics to life, or the state to the body-is not surprising given its …
The Barbara Johnson Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Av Barbara Johnson, Melissa Feuerstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1544 kr
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This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of …
The Barbara Johnson Reader
The Surprise of Otherness
Av Barbara Johnson, Melissa Feuerstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
401 kr
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This Reader collects in a single volume some of the most influential essays written by Barbara Johnson over the course of her thirty-year career as a pioneering literary theorist and cultural critic. Johnson achieved renown early in her career, both as a brilliant student of the Yale School of …
Equaliberty
Political Essays
Inbunden, 2014
1788 kr
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First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Étienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term coined by Balibar to connote the tension between the two ideals of modern democracy: equality (social …
Duress
Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Inbunden, 2016
1383 kr
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How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that …
Duress
Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Häftad, 2016
351 kr
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How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that …
Critique of Black Reason
Inbunden, 2017
1148 kr
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In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that …
