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Necropolitics
Häftad, 2019
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281 kr
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In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces …
Brutalism
Häftad, 2024
272 kr
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In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and …
Colonial Transactions
Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon
Inbunden, 2019
1574 kr
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In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the …
Colonial Transactions
Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon
Häftad, 2019
386 kr
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In Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the …
Fixer
Visa Lottery Chronicles
Av Charles Piot
Inbunden, 2019
1434 kr
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In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview to the gamesmanship of …
Fixer
Visa Lottery Chronicles
Av Charles Piot
Häftad, 2019
344 kr
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In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interview to the gamesmanship of …
Experiments with Empire
Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic
Av Justin Izzo
Inbunden, 2019
1809 kr
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In Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, …
Experiments with Empire
Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic
Av Justin Izzo
Häftad, 2019
442 kr
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In Experiments with Empire Justin Izzo examines how twentieth-century writers, artists, and anthropologists from France, West Africa, and the Caribbean experimented with ethnography and fiction in order to explore new ways of knowing the colonial and postcolonial world. Focusing on novels, films, …
Beneath the Surface
A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Inbunden, 2020
2312 kr
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For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture-embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In Beneath the Surface, Lynn M. Thomas constructs a …
Complete Lives of Camp People
Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity
Inbunden, 2020
1851 kr
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In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf MrÁzek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of modernity. MrÁzek focuses on the minutiae of daily …
Necropolitics
Inbunden, 2019
1154 kr
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In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces …
Naked Agency
Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
Inbunden, 2020
1620 kr
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Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can …
Revolution and Disenchantment
Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Inbunden, 2020
1188 kr
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The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, …
Beneath the Surface
A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Häftad, 2020
526 kr
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For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture-embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely opposed by medical professionals, consumer health advocates, and antiracist thinkers and activists. In Beneath the Surface, Lynn M. Thomas constructs a …
Complete Lives of Camp People
Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity
Häftad, 2020
455 kr
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In The Complete Lives of Camp People Rudolf MrÁzek presents a sweeping study of the material and cultural lives of twentieth-century concentration camp internees and the multiple ways in which their experiences speak to the fundamental logics of modernity. MrÁzek focuses on the minutiae of daily …
Revolution and Disenchantment
Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, …
Naked Agency
Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
Häftad, 2020
397 kr
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Across Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can …
History 4° Celsius
Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
Av Ian Baucom
Inbunden, 2020
1552 kr
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In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies …
History 4° Celsius
Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
Av Ian Baucom
Häftad, 2020
379 kr
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In History 4° Celsius Ian Baucom continues his inquiries into the place of the Black Atlantic in the making of the modern and postmodern world. Putting black studies into conversation with climate change, Baucom outlines how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies …
At Penpoint
African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
Inbunden, 2020
1809 kr
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In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers …
Wombs of Women
Race, Capital, Feminism
Inbunden, 2020
1102 kr
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In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in …
Genetic Afterlives
Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
Inbunden, 2020
1620 kr
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In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa, announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA study substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek recognition from the …
At Penpoint
African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
Häftad, 2020
442 kr
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In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers …
Wombs of Women
Race, Capital, Feminism
Häftad, 2020
282 kr
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In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in …
Genetic Afterlives
Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
Häftad, 2020
397 kr
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In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa, announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA study substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek recognition from the …
Elementary Aspects of the Political
Histories from the Global South
Inbunden, 2020
1574 kr
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In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the …
Colonizing Self
Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Av Hagar Kotef
Inbunden, 2020
1246 kr
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Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive …
Elementary Aspects of the Political
Histories from the Global South
Häftad, 2020
386 kr
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In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the …
Colonizing Self
Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Av Hagar Kotef
Häftad, 2020
325 kr
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Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive …
Doctor Who Would Be King
Inbunden, 2022
1246 kr
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In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David-whom locals called “emperor”-dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through …
