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34 produkter
Crip Theory
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Häftad, 2006
378 kr
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A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and …
Disarticulate
Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
Av James Berger
Inbunden, 2014
894 kr
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Language is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, "wild" children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a …
Employment of English
Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
Inbunden, 1997
1109 kr
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What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary …
Employment of English
Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
Häftad, 1997
489 kr
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What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary …
Bending Over Backwards
Essays on Disability and the Body
Inbunden, 2002
965 kr
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With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over …
Bending Over Backwards
Essays on Disability and the Body
Häftad, 2002
370 kr
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With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over …
Disarticulate
Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity
Av James Berger
Häftad, 2014
425 kr
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Language is integral to oursocial being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language?The mentally disabled, "wild" children, people with autism and otherneurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificialintelligences, have all engaged with language from a …
No University Is an Island
Saving Academic Freedom
Av Cary Nelson
Häftad, 2011
373 kr
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The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited …
Doing Time
Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture
Av Rita Felski
Inbunden, 2000
1218 kr
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Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis?In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern …
Doing Time
Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture
Av Rita Felski
Häftad, 2000
425 kr
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Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis?In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern …
After Whiteness
Unmaking an American Majority
Av Mike Hill
Inbunden, 2004
1007 kr
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View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction."Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and …
After Whiteness
Unmaking an American Majority
Av Mike Hill
Häftad, 2004
384 kr
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View the Table of Contents.Read the Introduction."Beautifully written and rigorously argued, After Whiteness is the most important theoretical statement on white racial formation since 'whiteness studies' began its current academic sojourn. By reading debates about multiculturalism, ethnicity, and …
Claiming Disability
Knowledge and Identity
Av Simi Linton
Inbunden, 1998
1218 kr
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A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaningFrom public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with …
Claiming Disability
Knowledge and Identity
Av Simi Linton
Häftad, 1998
370 kr
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A comprehensive assessment of the field of Disability Studies that presents beyond the medical to dig into the meaningFrom public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with …
Crip Theory
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Inbunden, 2006
1218 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and …
Bad Subjects
Political Education for Everyday Life
Av Bad Subjects Production Team
Inbunden, 1997
415 kr
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Using the cheap desktop publishing techniques of 'zine culture, and supplementing them with an extensive presence on the World Wide Web, the Bad Subjects Production Team has produced one of the only successful political 'zines in the US, as well as one of the first--and longest-running--on-line …
Bad Subjects
Political Education for Everyday Life
Av Bad Subjects Production Team
Häftad, 1997
300 kr
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Using the cheap desktop publishing techniques of 'zine culture, and supplementing them with an extensive presence on the World Wide Web, the Bad Subjects Production Team has produced one of the only successful political 'zines in the US, as well as one of the first--and longest-running--on-line …
No University Is an Island
Saving Academic Freedom
Av Cary Nelson
Inbunden, 2010
979 kr
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The modern university is sustained by academic freedom; it guarantees higher education's independence, its quality, and its success in educating students. The need to uphold those values would seem obvious. Yet the university is presently under siege from all corners; workers are being exploited …
Feeling Global
Internationalism in Distress
Inbunden, 1999
1218 kr
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Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.Building on his previous work, Robbins …
Feeling Global
Internationalism in Distress
Av Bruce Robbins, Robert Seltzer
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.Building on his previous work, Robbins …
Modernism, Inc.
Body, Memory, Capital
Av Jani Scandura, Michael Thurston
Inbunden, 2000
1218 kr
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Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.Organized around the idea of …
Modernism, Inc.
Body, Memory, Capital
Av Jani Scandura, Michael Thurston
Häftad, 2000
425 kr
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Drawing on a variety of interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies and contemporary theory, Modernism, Inc. provides a new look at the relationship between modernism and postmodernism within the critical frame of twentieth-century American culture.Organized around the idea of …
Critics at Work
Interviews 1993-2003
Inbunden, 2004
1401 kr
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Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies, gay and lesbian studies, philosophy, and other fields. It provides informative, timely, and often …
Critics at Work
Interviews 1993-2003
Häftad, 2004
494 kr
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Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies, gay and lesbian studies, philosophy, and other fields. It provides informative, timely, and often …
Deaf Subjects
Between Identities and Places
Inbunden, 2009
1007 kr
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In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our …
Deaf Subjects
Between Identities and Places
Häftad, 2009
370 kr
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In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a variety of cultural texts, she brings her fascination with borders and between-places to expose and enrich our …
How the University Works
Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
Inbunden, 2008
938 kr
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Uncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the countryAs much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast …
How the University Works
Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
Häftad, 2008
373 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Uncovers the labor exploitation occurring in universities across the countryAs much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast …
Left at War
Inbunden, 2009
1007 kr
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major …
Left at War
Häftad, 2011
425 kr
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major …
