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    av Lorraine O'Grady
    324 - 1 647,-

    Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, including artist statements, scripts, magazine articles, critical essays on art and culture, and interviews.

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    - The Disorder of Desire
    av Jack Halberstam
    266 - 1 573,-

    Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild-a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality-offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject.

  • - The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam
    av Christina Schwenkel
    424 - 2 998,-

    Christina Schwenkel analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city.

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    - Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter
    av Lyle Fearnley
    344 - 1 130,-

    Lyle Fearnley situates the production of ecological facts about the likely epicenter of viral pandemics inside the shifting cultural landscapes of agrarian change and the geopolitics of global health.

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    av Jose Esteban Munoz
    284,-

    The Sense of Brown, which he was completing at the time of his death, is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies.

  • - Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black
    av R. A. Judy
    377 - 1 490,-

    Examining black performance practices that critique Western humanism, R. A. Judy offers an extended meditation on questions of blackness, the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood.

  • av Sabu Kohso
    324,-

    Political theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state, showing how nuclear power has become the organizing principle of the global order.

  • av Bret Gustafson
    376,-

    Bret Gustafson examines the centrality of natural gas and oil to the making of modern Bolivia and the contradictory convergence of fossil-fueled capitalism, Indigenous politics, and revolutionary nationalism.

  • - Militarism and Care in Kashmir
    av Saiba Varma
    376,-

    Saiba Varma explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmir-the world's most militarized place-to examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.

  • Spar 19%
    - Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade
    av Rosemary-Claire Collard
    275,-

    Rosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.

  • Spar 13%
    av Anustup Basu
    1 130,-

    In this genealogy of Hindu right-wing nationalism, Anustup Basu connects Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, illustrating how Western and Indian theorists imagined a single Hindu political and religious people.

  • - Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
    av Erica Fretwell
    311,-

    Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics-a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience-became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.

  • av Shane Denson
    364 - 1 184,-

    Shane Denson examines the ways in which computer-generated digital images displace and transform the traditional spatial and temporal relationships that viewers had with conventional analog forms of cinema.

  • Spar 19%
    - Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change
    av Hannah Knox
    286,-

    Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.

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    - Life and Death along a Changing River
    av Andrew Alan Johnson
    288,-

    As vast infrastructure projects transform the Mekong River, Andrew Alan Johnson explores of how rapid environmental change affects how people live, believe, and dream.

  • - The Art of Parasitical Resistance
    av Anna Watkins Fisher
    311,-

    Acknowledging the difficulty for artists in the twenty-first century to effectively critique systems of power, Anna Watkins Fisher theorizes parasitism-a form of resistance in which artists comply with dominant structures as a tool for practicing resistance from within.

  • - Technological Art in Africa
    av Delinda Collier
    297 - 1 130,-

    Delinda Collier finds alternative concepts of mediation in African art by closely engaging with electricity-based works since 1944.

  • - Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
    av Noah Tamarkin
    393 - 1 130,-

    Noah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people in South Africa give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests that substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.

  • av Lesley Stern
    271 - 1 184,-

    Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with cancer, where she chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable disease and turns to alternative obsessions and pleasures, from travel and friendships to her four chickens.

  • av Laura Hyun Yi Kang
    396 - 1 184,-

    Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of US power and knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century.

  • - The Crises of Latinx Visibility in Cities
    av Johana Londono
    311,-

    Johana Londono examines how the barrio has become a cultural force that has been manipulated in order to create Latinized urban landscapes that are palatable for white Americans who view concentrated areas of Latinx populations as a threat.

  • - Culture, Politics, Everyday Life
    av Sujatha Fernandes
    271,-

    In essays addressing topics ranging from cinema, feminism, and art to hip hop, urban slums, and digital technology, Sujatha Fernandes explores the multitudinous ways ordinary Cubans have sought to hustle, survive, and create expressive cultures in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse.

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    - Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s
    av Emily J. Lordi
    284,-

    Examining the work of Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Solange Knowles, Flying Lotus, and others, Emily J. Lordi proposes a new understanding of soul, showing how it came to signify a belief in black resilience enacted through musical practices.

  • - Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System
    av Christopher Chitty
    374 - 1 130,-

    Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations, showing how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule.

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    - Arts of Living at the Crossing
    av T. J. Demos
    297,-

    T. J. Demos explores a range of artistic, activist, and cultural practices that provide compelling and radical propositions for building a just, decolonial, and environmentally sustainable future.

  • av Alessandro Russo
    324,-

    Alessandro Russo rethinks the history of China's Cultural Revolution, arguing that it must be understood as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism itself.

  • av Chris Ingraham
    376,-

    Chris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.

  • - Movies, Technology, and Wonder
    av Charles R. Acland
    374 - 1 264,-

    Charles R. Acland charts the origins, impact, and dynamics of the blockbuster, showing how it became a complex economic and cultural machine designed to advance popular support for technological advances.

  • av Daisuke Miyao
    359,-

    Daisuke Miyao reveals the undetected influence that Japanese art and aesthetics had on early cinema and the pioneering films of the Lumiere brothers.

  • Spar 13%
    - African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
    av Monica Popescu
    344 - 1 130,-

    Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century, showing how the United States and the Soviet Union's efforts to further their geopolitical and ideological goals influenced literary practices and knowledge production on the African continent.

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