Global Insecurities – serie
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32 produkter
Making Refuge
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Inbunden, 2016
1253 kr
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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge …
Owners of the Sidewalk
Security and Survival in the Informal City
Inbunden, 2016
1369 kr
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Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in …
Making Refuge
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Häftad, 2016
340 kr
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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge …
Owners of the Sidewalk
Security and Survival in the Informal City
Häftad, 2016
456 kr
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Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in …
Endangered City
The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Inbunden, 2016
1369 kr
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Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and …
Exiled Home
Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence
Inbunden, 2016
1446 kr
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In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many grew …
Endangered City
The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Häftad, 2016
398 kr
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Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and …
Exiled Home
Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence
Häftad, 2016
353 kr
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In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many grew …
Grateful Nation
Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus
Av Ellen Moore
Inbunden, 2018
1237 kr
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In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student veterans have been attributed to various factors: poor academic preparation, PTSD and other postwar …
Grateful Nation
Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus
Av Ellen Moore
Häftad, 2017
376 kr
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In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student veterans have been attributed to various factors: poor academic preparation, PTSD and other postwar …
Bodies As Evidence
Security, Knowledge, and Power
Av Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1568 kr
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From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as …
Bodies As Evidence
Security, Knowledge, and Power
Av Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
383 kr
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From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body. Bringing together new anthropological perspectives on the complexities of security in the present moment, the contributors to Bodies as …
Militarization
A Reader
Av Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1844 kr
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Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public …
Fencing in Democracy
Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State
Av Miguel Díaz-Barriga, Margaret E. Dorsey
Inbunden, 2020
1155 kr
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Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel DÍaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at …
Futureproof
Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life
Av D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1568 kr
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Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to …
Militarization
A Reader
Av Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
452 kr
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Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public …
Futureproof
Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life
Av D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
383 kr
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Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to …
Fencing in Democracy
Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State
Av Miguel Díaz-Barriga, Margaret E. Dorsey
Häftad, 2020
294 kr
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Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel DÍaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at …
Paper Trails
Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity
Av Sarah B. Horton, Josiah Heyman
Inbunden, 2020
1568 kr
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Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are increasingly issuing new temporary and …
Paper Trails
Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity
Av Sarah B. Horton, Josiah Heyman
Häftad, 2020
383 kr
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Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are now less likely to grant permanent legal status, they are increasingly issuing new temporary and …
Chemical Heroes
Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
Inbunden, 2021
1206 kr
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In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of withstanding extreme trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically fortify and extend the health and …
Militarized Global Apartheid
Inbunden, 2020
1387 kr
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In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different …
Chemical Heroes
Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
Häftad, 2021
316 kr
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In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of withstanding extreme trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically fortify and extend the health and …
Militarized Global Apartheid
Häftad, 2020
325 kr
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In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different …
See How We Roll
Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia
Inbunden, 2021
1184 kr
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In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as …
See How We Roll
Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia
Häftad, 2021
294 kr
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In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide. Banished from her hometown, Nungarrayi energetically navigates promises of transformation as …
No God but Man
On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism
Av Atiya Husain
Inbunden, 2025
1150 kr
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Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI’s post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point. Atiya Husain traces the origins of the FBI wanted poster form to the work of …
Occupied Refuge
Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya
Inbunden, 2026
1178 kr
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In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens for millions of people fleeing crises. In Occupied Refuge, Hanno Brankamp challenges the presumed innocence of refugee humanitarianism as a system of civilian protection that can …
No God but Man
On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism
Av Atiya Husain
Häftad, 2025
288 kr
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Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI’s post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point. Atiya Husain traces the origins of the FBI wanted poster form to the work of …
Occupied Refuge
Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya
Häftad, 2026
302 kr
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In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens for millions of people fleeing crises. In Occupied Refuge, Hanno Brankamp challenges the presumed innocence of refugee humanitarianism as a system of civilian protection that can …
