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116 produkter
Staying with the Trouble
Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
310 kr
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In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she …
Connector
Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics
Häftad, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
302 kr
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In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal …
Avian Reservoirs
Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts
Häftad, 2020
378 kr
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After experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all invested in various techniques to mitigate future pandemics involving myriad cross-species interactions between humans and birds. In some locations microbiologists allied with veterinarians and birdwatchers to follow …
Beautiful Data
A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945
Av Orit Halpern
Häftad, 2015
326 kr
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Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the …
How Climate Change Comes to Matter
The Communal Life of Facts
Häftad, 2014
316 kr
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During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American …
Eating in Theory
Häftad, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
272 kr
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As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food …
Decolonizing Extinction
The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation
Häftad, 2018
298 kr
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In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar ParreÑas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. ParreÑas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the …
Two Bits
The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Inbunden, 2008
1414 kr
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In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation …
Networking Futures
The Movements Against Corporate Globalization
Inbunden, 2008
1414 kr
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Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as …
Two Bits
The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation …
Networking Futures
The Movements Against Corporate Globalization
Häftad, 2008
145 kr
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Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as …
Anthropological Futures
Häftad, 2009
443 kr
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In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays, …
Asian Biotech
Ethics and Communities of Fate
Häftad, 2010
387 kr
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Providing the first overview of Asia’s emerging biosciences landscape, this timely and important collection brings together ethnographic case studies on biotech endeavors such as genetically modified foods in China, clinical trials in India, blood collection in Singapore and China, and stem-cell …
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Inbunden, 2012
1527 kr
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Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship …
Lively Capital
Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets
Häftad, 2012
442 kr
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Lively Capital is an urgent and important collection of essays addressing the reconfigured relations between the life sciences and the market. Exploring the ground where social and cultural anthropology intersect with science and technology studies, prominent scholars investigate the relationship …
Drugs for Life
How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Av Joseph Dumit
Inbunden, 2012
1195 kr
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Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of …
Drugs for Life
How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Av Joseph Dumit
Häftad, 2012
311 kr
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Every year the average number of prescriptions purchased by Americans increases, as do healthcare expenditures, which are projected to reach one-fifth of the U.S. gross domestic product by 2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit considers how our burgeoning consumption of medicine and cost of …
New Organs Within Us
Transplants and the Moral Economy
Inbunden, 2011
1273 kr
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New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey. Drawing on the moving stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul, Aslihan Sanal examines how imported biotechnologies are made meaningful and …
New Organs Within Us
Transplants and the Moral Economy
Häftad, 2011
387 kr
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New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey. Drawing on the moving stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul, Aslihan Sanal examines how imported biotechnologies are made meaningful and …
Ecologies of Comparison
An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong
Av Tim Choy
Inbunden, 2011
1273 kr
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A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990s, as the region shifted to Chinese sovereignty, Ecologies of Comparison describes how ecological concepts of uniqueness and scale resonated among environmentalists, including those seeking to preserve a species of white dolphin, to …
Ecologies of Comparison
An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong
Av Tim Choy
Häftad, 2011
345 kr
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A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990s, as the region shifted to Chinese sovereignty, Ecologies of Comparison describes how ecological concepts of uniqueness and scale resonated among environmentalists, including those seeking to preserve a species of white dolphin, to …
Bodies in Formation
An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
Inbunden, 2012
1369 kr
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Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe, and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Prentice …
Bodies in Formation
An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe, and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-first century. Prentice …
Revolutionary Medicine
Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba
Inbunden, 2012
1311 kr
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Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those changes for ordinary Cubans. Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to …
Revolutionary Medicine
Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those changes for ordinary Cubans. Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to …
Medicating Race
Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Av Anne Pollock
Inbunden, 2012
1311 kr
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In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race. She examines …
Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
Av M. Murphy
Inbunden, 2012
1161 kr
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In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, …
Seizing the Means of Reproduction
Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience
Av M. Murphy
Häftad, 2012
302 kr
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In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, M. Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, …
Medicating Race
Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
Av Anne Pollock
Häftad, 2012
398 kr
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In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race. She examines …
Addiction Trajectories
Av Eugene Raikhel, William Garriott
Inbunden, 2013
1330 kr
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Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment clinics in Russia to Pentecostal …
