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  • - Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
    av Brian Larkin
    392

    Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. This work provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point.

  • - An Ethnography of Wall Street
    av Karen Ho
    367

    An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.

  • - A Reader
     
    338

    A compilation of the primary texts-by Foucault, Arendt, Agamben, Badiou, and other theorists-that laid the ground for contemporary thinking about biopolitics, or the relations between life and politics.

  • - Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
    av Akhil Gupta
    412,-

    Examining the chronic, widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Akhil Gupta theorizes the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence.

  • av Rey Chow
    273,-

    This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Ranciere.

  • - Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
    av Priscilla Wald
    412,-

    Argues that we need to understand the appeal and persistence of the outbreak narrative because the stories we tell about disease emergence have consequences. This title presents cautionary tale about how the stories we tell circumscribe our thinking about global health and human interactions as the world imagines the next Great Plague.

  • av Linda Williams
    335,-

    For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. This title investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations.

  • - The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath
    av Charles F. Walker
    299,-

    A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.

  • - W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
    av Shawn Michelle Smith
    379,-

    An exploration of the visual meaning of the color line and racial politics through the analysis of archival photographs collected by W.E.B. Du Bois and exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900

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    - Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
    av Sherry B. Ortner
    277

    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.

  • - Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
    av Ann Laura Stoler
    426

    In Duress Ann Laura Stoler traces how imperial formations and colonialism's presence shape current inequities around the globe by examining Israel's colonial practices, the United State's imperial practices, the recent rise of the French right wing, and affect's importance to governance.

  • av Alain Badiou
    430,-

    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 in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.

  • - Political Essays
    av Etienne Balibar
    651

    The preeminent political theorist Etienne Balibar examines what he calls "equaliberty," the fundamental tension in modern democracies between equality and liberty, humanity and citizenship.

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    - A Political Ecology of Things
    av Jane Bennett
    256,99 - 1 106,-

    Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena-such as trash, food, weather, and electricity-to examine how non-human elements exert force on human politics and social relations.

  • - A Gayle Rubin Reader
    av Gayle S. Rubin
    380

    Gayle Rubin laid the foundation for queer theory as a graduate student at Michigan in the early 70s with the essay The Traffic in Women, which was followed a decade later by an equally influential essay, Thinking Sex. This volume collects her essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history.

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    - Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
    av Kathi Weeks
    268

    The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.

  • - The Surprise of Otherness
    av Barbara Johnson
    366,-

    Offers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers.

  • av Judith Halberstam
    320,-

    Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions

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    av Achille Mbembe
    268

    Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression.

  • - Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas
    av Diana Taylor
    338

    Provides an understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. This title shows how the repertoire of embodied memory - conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances - offers alternative perspectives to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact.

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