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  • - Sex Offender Profiling and U.S. Security Culture
    av Gillian Harkins
    299,-

    Gillian Harkins traces the genealogy of the transformation of cultural construction of the pedophile as a social outcast into the image of normative white masculinity from the 1980s to the present, showing how his "normalcy" makes him hard to identify and stop.

  • - Race and the Performance of Desire
    av Ricardo Montez
    356 - 1 458,-

    Ricardo Montez traces the drawn and painted line that was at the center of Keith Haring's artistic practice, engaging with Haring's messy relationships to race-making and racial imaginaries.

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    - Confronting Elitism in the University
    av Matt Brim
    299,-

    Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from sites of elite education toward poor and working-class students and locations, showing how the field is driven by those flagship institutions that perpetuate class and race inequity in higher education.

  • av David Grubbs
    274,-

    In his new book-length prose poem, David Grubbs draws on decades of recording experience, taking readers into the recording studio to tell the story of an unnamed musician who struggles to complete a film soundtrack in a day-long marathon recording session.

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    - Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others
    av Louise Amoore
    268

    Louise Amoore examines how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society, proposing what she calls cloud ethics as a way to hold algorithms accountable by engaging with the social and technical conditions under which they emerge and operate.

  • av Neetu Khanna
    519

    Focusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.

  • - Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious
    av Tejaswini Niranjana
    296,-

    Tejaswini Niranjana traces the place of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai throughout the long twentieth century, showing how the widespread love of music throughout the city created a culture of collective listening and social subjects who embodied new forms of modernity.

  • - Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility
    av Erin Y. Huang
    396 - 1 132,-

    Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, geography, and aesthetics and film from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan made between the 1990s and the present, Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal postsocialist China.

  • - The Struggle for Life Is the Matter
    av Fernando Coronil
    651

    This posthumously published collection of Fernando Coronil's most important work highlights his deep concern with the global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach.

  • Spar 18%
    - Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
    av Elizabeth Freeman
    268

    Elizabeth Freeman expands bipolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century and showing how time became a social and sensory means by which people resisted disciplinary regimes and assembled into groups in ways that created new forms of sociality.

  • - Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity
    av Ann Elias
    311,-

    Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature.

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    av Susan Laxton
    1 266,-

    Susan Laxton writes a new history of surrealism in which she traces the centrality of play to the movement and its ongoing legacy, showing how its emphasis on chance provided the means to refashion artistic practice and everyday experience.

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    - Essays for Radicals
    av Aurora Levins Morales
    276

    In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together the insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice, bringing clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.

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    - Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science
    av Daniel M. Goldstein, Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia Lopez Juarez & m.fl.
    256,99

    The coauthors of Decolonizing Ethnography integrate ethnography with activist work in a New Jersey center for undocumented workers, showing how anthropology can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their own experiences.

  • - Excavating Contemporary Capitalism
    av Brett Neilson & Sandro Mezzadra
    307,-

    Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.

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    - The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia
    av Leo T. S. Ching
    288,-

    Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia, showing how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region.

  • - Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
    av Emily Callaci
    577,-

    Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid-twentieth-century Tanzanian cities. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party adopted a policy of rural socialism-Ujamaa-an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of street archives.

  • - Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeno
    av Alex E. Chavez
    442

    Alex E. Chavez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeno, a musical genre from north-central Mexico that helps Mexicans build communities on both sides of the US border and give voice to the transnational migrant experience.

  • - The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism
    av Nicholas Brown
    390,-

    Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.

  • - Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History
    av Kadji Amin
    299 - 1 132,-

    Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory, bringing the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing.

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    av Kojin Karatani
    273,-

    Questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey.

  • - Affect, Assemblage, and Foreign Policy
    av Jason Dittmer
    273 - 1 358,-

    Applying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.

  • - Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
    av Denise Brennan
    577,-

    Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.

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    av Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
    284

  • - Television and Reaganism
    av Jane Feuer
    273,-

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    - Race, Capital, Feminism
    av Francoise Verges
    256,99 - 1 052,-

    Francoise Verges examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Reunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

  • Spar 18%
    - Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde
    av Ryan Bishop & John Beck
    290 - 1 394,-

    John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the 1960s interdisciplinary art and technology collaborations between American avant-garde artists and the military-industrial complex that took place in universities, private labs, and museums.

  • - Going to the Movies in the City of Light, 1930-1950
    av Eric Smoodin
    376

    Eric Smoodin takes readers on a journey through the streets, cinemas, and theaters of Paris to sketch a comprehensive picture of French film culture during the 1930s and 1940s.

  • - The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939
    av Doron Galili
    378 - 1 132,-

    Doron Galili traces television's early history, from the fantastical devices initially imagined fifty years before the first television prototypes to the emergence of broadcast television in the 1930s, showing how television was always discussed and treated in relation to cinema.

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    - Soil Practitioners and Life Politics
    av Kristina M. Lyons
    286,-

    Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations in which she follows state soil scientists and peasant farmers in Colombia's Putumayo region, showing how their relationship with soil is key to caring for the forest and growing non-illicit crops in the face of violence, militarism, and environmental destruction.

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