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  • - Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
    av Ann Laura Stoler
    425 - 1 315,-

    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.

  • - The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil
    av Esther Gabara
    356 - 1 182,-

    Looks at the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexican avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. This illustrated study introduces the concept of a modernist 'ethos' to illuminate the intertwining of aesthetic innovation and ethical concerns in the work of leading Brazilian and Mexican literary figures.

  • - Political Essays
    av Etienne Balibar
    496 - 1 182,-

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

  • av Alain Badiou
    271 - 1 049,-

    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.

  • - Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
    av Brian Larkin
    311 - 1 122,-

    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 Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
    av Orin Starn
    320 - 1 003,-

    This book examines the career of Tiger Woods, from child star to global sports celebrity. Starn shows that while the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years, by examining the way Woods was seen afterwards, we can learn a lot about race and sex in contemporary America.

  • - Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject
    av Sherry B. Ortner
    315 - 1 051,-

    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.

  • - W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
    av Shawn Michelle Smith
    298 - 1 129,-

    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

  • - The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico
    av Jake Kosek
    329 - 1 262,-

    A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.

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