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Wild Religion(2012) CHIDESTER, DAVIDTakes us through South African history from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the football World Cup in 2010. This title analyses indigenous rituals of purification on Robben Island, rituals of healing and reconciliation at the national sVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Amateur Cinema(2014) TEPPERMAN, CHARLESFrom the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a reality, and by the 1950s, over a million Americans had amateur movie cameras. ThVezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Migrating into Financial Markets(2015) BAKKER, MATTAnalyzes how the connection between remittances and development was forged through the concrete political and intellectual practices of policy entrepreneurs within a variety of institutional settings, from national government agencies and international deVezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Twilight Policing(2015) DIPHOORN, DR. TESSA G.South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actiVezava: Mehka54,93 €
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Precarious Claims(2016) GLEESON, SHANNONTells the human story behind the bureaucratic process of fighting for justice in the US workplace. Based on extensive fieldwork in Northern California, the author investigates the array of gatekeepers with whom workers must negotiate in the labor standardVezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Modern Peoplehood(2011) LIE, JOHNContends that ideas of race, ethnicity, and nationality can be subsumed under the rubric of "peoplehood." Far from being transhistorical and transcultural phenomena, race, ethnicity, and nation, the author argues, are modern notions - modernity here assocVezava: Mehka59,50 €
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Burning Dislike(2016) SANCHEZ-JANKOWSKI, MARTINWhy do young people engage in violence while in school? What is it about ethnicity that leads to fights? This title documents the process of ethnic school violence from start to finish.Vezava: Mehka40,39 €
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Finding Women in the State(2016) WANG, ZHENGPresents a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglemeVezava: Mehka48,47 €
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Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans(2017) MAYER, VICKIEarly in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers to become the number one location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television sVezava: Mehka48,47 €
