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Governing Affect
Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
Inbunden, 2017
744 kr
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Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing …
Holding on
African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
Häftad, 2016
343 kr
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In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the …
White Gold
Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Av Susan Falls
Inbunden, 2017
741 kr
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Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the …
America's Digital Army
Games at Work and War
Inbunden, 2017
744 kr
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America’s Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked to …
Religious, Feminist, Activist
Cosmologies of Interconnection
Inbunden, 2018
741 kr
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In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their …
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds
Creating Community by Voicing the Past
Av A. Lynn Smith, Anna Eisenstein
Häftad, 2016
343 kr
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Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced residents. Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, the authors highlight the intersecting languages of blight, race, and place as elderly …
White Gold
Stories of Breast Milk Sharing
Av Susan Falls
Häftad, 2017
275 kr
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Women have shared breast milk for eons, but in White Gold, Susan Falls shows how the meanings of capitalism, technology, motherhood, and risk can be understood against the backdrop of an emerging practice in which donors and recipients of breast milk are connected through social media in the …
Governing Affect
Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
Häftad, 2017
332 kr
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Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing …
America's Digital Army
Games at Work and War
Häftad, 2017
332 kr
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America’s Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked to …
Mexicans in Alaska
An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life
Inbunden, 2018
706 kr
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Mexicans in Alaska analyzes the mobility and experience of place of three generations of migrants who have been moving between Acuitzio del Canje, MichoacÁn, Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska, since the 1950s. Based on Sara V. Komarnisky’s twelve months of ethnographic research at both sites and on …
Religious, Feminist, Activist
Cosmologies of Interconnection
Häftad, 2018
332 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their …
Mexicans in Alaska
An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life
Häftad, 2018
342 kr
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Mexicans in Alaska analyzes the mobility and experience of place of three generations of migrants who have been moving between Acuitzio del Canje, MichoacÁn, Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska, since the 1950s. Based on Sara V. Komarnisky’s twelve months of ethnographic research at both sites and on …
Back to America
Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement
Inbunden, 2019
799 kr
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Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox …
Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss
Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality
Inbunden, 2019
742 kr
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Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of …
Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss
Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality
Häftad, 2019
389 kr
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Since the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of …
Back to America
Identity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement
Häftad, 2019
332 kr
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Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox …
Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out
Counter-Conduct and LGBTQ Evangelical Activism
Inbunden, 2021
1124 kr
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Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out provides a look into a community that challenges common narratives about what it means to be LGBTQ and Christian in the contemporary United States. Based on his participant-observation fieldwork with a faith-based organization called the Reformation Project, Jon …
Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out
Counter-Conduct and LGBTQ Evangelical Activism
Häftad, 2021
332 kr
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Come Now, Let Us Argue It Out provides a look into a community that challenges common narratives about what it means to be LGBTQ and Christian in the contemporary United States. Based on his participant-observation fieldwork with a faith-based organization called the Reformation Project, Jon …
Public Land and Democracy in America
Understanding Conflict Over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Inbunden, 2025
1157 kr
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In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America’s public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting …
Prison Town
Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York
Inbunden, 2025
1157 kr
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Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town-with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. The city, however, is best known as home to Elmira Correctional Facility and, until its closure …
Public Land and Democracy in America
Understanding Conflict Over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Häftad, 2025
400 kr
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In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America’s public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create the monument, with the goal of protecting …
Prison Town
Making the Carceral State in Elmira, New York
Häftad, 2025
334 kr
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Elmira, a town of about twenty-six thousand people in central New York, is in some ways a typical town-with quiet, tree-lined residential streets, an art museum, local coffee shops, and a small college. The city, however, is best known as home to Elmira Correctional Facility and, until its closure …
Becoming Utopia
History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest
Av Margaret E. Farrar, Adam Kaul
Inbunden, 2026
1157 kr
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Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it "Utopia on the Prairie," home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnographic analyses, Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul tell …
Playing to the End
Elder Black Men, Placemaking, and Dominoes in Denver
Inbunden, 2026
1157 kr
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In Playing to the End, Steve Bialostok immerses readers in the vibrant world of the card room at Denver’s Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center, where a group of older Black men gather to play dominoes, exchange playful banter known as “talking shit,” and cultivate a space of belonging. More than …
Playing to the End
Elder Black Men, Placemaking, and Dominoes in Denver
Häftad, 2026
400 kr
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In Playing to the End, Steve Bialostok immerses readers in the vibrant world of the card room at Denver’s Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center, where a group of older Black men gather to play dominoes, exchange playful banter known as “talking shit,” and cultivate a space of belonging. More than …
Becoming Utopia
History, Heritage, and Sustainability in the American Midwest
Av Margaret E. Farrar, Adam Kaul
Häftad, 2026
342 kr
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Becoming Utopia centers on the tiny community of Bishop Hill, Illinois, whose marketing materials call it "Utopia on the Prairie," home to a radical communal religious sect that emigrated from Sweden in the 1840s. Through rich textual and ethnographic analyses, Margaret E. Farrar and Adam Kaul tell …
