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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)
270 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 …
Queer Art of Failure
Häftad, 2011
292 kr
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The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground …
World-Systems Analysis
An Introduction
Häftad, 2004
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
268 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
403 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 …
Dolly Mixtures
The Remaking of Genealogy
Häftad, 2007
579 kr
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While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons why the iconic animal's birth and death …
Liquidated
An Ethnography of Wall Street
Av Karen Ho
Häftad, 2009
343 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 …
Can Politics Be Thought?
Av Alain Badiou
Häftad, 2019
274 kr
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In Can Politics Be Thought?-published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time-Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism. Distinguishing politics as an active mode of thinking from the political as a domain of the State, Badiou …
Signal and Noise
Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Av Brian Larkin
Häftad, 2008
387 kr
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Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or …
Time for Tea
Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Häftad, 2001
456 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
387 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 …
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 …
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2004
1862 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 …
Photography on the Color Line
W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Häftad, 2004
456 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 …
Libertine Colony
Creolization in the Early French Caribbean
Häftad, 2005
456 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
387 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 …
Ellis Island Snow Globe
Av Erica Rand
Inbunden, 2005
1330 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 …
Ellis Island Snow Globe
Av Erica Rand
Häftad, 2005
443 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 …
Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Inbunden, 2006
1352 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 …
Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Häftad, 2006
411 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
1253 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 …
Understories
The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
Av Jake Kosek
Inbunden, 2006
1301 kr
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Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the …
Understories
The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
Av Jake Kosek
Häftad, 2006
345 kr
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Through lively, engaging narrative, Understories demonstrates how volatile politics of race, class, and nation animate the notoriously violent struggles over forests in the southwestern United States. Rather than reproduce traditional understandings of nature and environment, Jake Kosek shifts the …
Anthropology and Social Theory
Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
Häftad, 2006
325 kr
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In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and …
Sessue Hayakawa
Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Inbunden, 2007
1501 kr
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While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886–1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or …
Sessue Hayakawa
Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Häftad, 2007
470 kr
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While the actor Sessue Hayakawa (1886–1973) is perhaps best known today for his Oscar-nominated turn as a Japanese military officer in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), in the early twentieth century he was an internationally renowned silent film star, as recognizable as Charlie Chaplin or …
Contagious
Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Inbunden, 2008
1414 kr
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How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines-of Patients Zero and …
Contagious
Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
Häftad, 2008
442 kr
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How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the emergence of HIV, in scientific publications and the mainstream media? The repetition of particular characters, images, and story lines-of Patients Zero and …
Shaky Colonialism
The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
Häftad, 2008
398 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
1470 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
345 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 …
