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Remapping Sound Studies

• Paperback | Engels
• The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global Sout... Lees meer

The Sonic Episteme

Robin James

• Paperback | Engels
• In The Sonic Episteme Robin James examines how twenty-first-century conceptions of sound as acoustic resonance shape notions of the social world, pers... Lees meer

Animalia

• Paperback | Engels
• From yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses, animals have played central roles in the history of British imperial control. The contributors to Ani... Lees meer

Meat!

• Hardcover | Engels | Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• What is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can "bloody" vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk... Lees meer

Working Out in Japan

Laura Spielvogel

• Paperback | Engels
• Beer, ice cream, and socializing; thighs, abs, and pecs-Japanese fitness clubs combine entertainment and exercise, reflecting the Japanese concept of ... Lees meer

Thinking Literature across Continents

Ranjan Ghosh

• Hardcover | Engels
• Thinking Literature across Continents finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller-two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical... Lees meer

Ethereal Queer

Amy Villarejo

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Ethereal Queer , Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of ... Lees meer

Mexico's Once and Future Revolution

Gilbert M Joseph

• Paperback | Engels
• In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, conseq... Lees meer

C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain

Christian Høgsbjerg

• Hardcover | Engels | C. L. R. James Archives
• C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended st... Lees meer

Black Business in the New South

Walter B Weare

• Paperback | Engels
• At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." Located in Durham, North Car... Lees meer

The Doctor Who Would Be King

Guillaume Lachenal

• Paperback | Engels | Theory in Forms
• 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 ... Lees meer

Strange Gourmets

Joseph Litvak

• Paperback | Engels | Series Q
• Theoretically sophisticated: How often has this term been used to distinguish a work of contemporary criticism, and what, exactly, does it mean? In St... Lees meer

Dictablanda

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship; after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship. A single party r... Lees meer

The Korean Popular Culture Reader

• Hardcover | Engels
• Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generat... Lees meer

Tissue Economies

Robert Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Science and Cultural Theory
• As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues-such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines-are stored and ... Lees meer

Since Time Immemorial

Yanna Yannakakis

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marr... Lees meer

Dissident Practices

Claudia Calirman

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Dissident Practices , Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the p... Lees meer

Peripheral Nerve

• Hardcover | Engels | American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolution... Lees meer

The Mayan in the Mall

J T Way

• Paperback | Engels
• In The Mayan in the Mall , J. T. Way traces the creation of modern Guatemala from the 1920s to the present through a series of national and internatio... Lees meer

Unsettled Borders

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

• Hardcover | Engels | Dissident Acts
• In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Toho... Lees meer

Junot Díaz

José David Saldívar

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love , José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. ... Lees meer

Unconsolable Contemporary

Paul Rabinow

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Unconsolable Contemporary Paul Rabinow continues his explorations of "a philosophic anthropology of the contemporary." Defining the contemporary as... Lees meer

Of Gardens and Graves

Suvir Kaul

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarization i... Lees meer

South Asian Feminisms

• Paperback | Engels
• During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. In this collectio... Lees meer