Zbirka: Sociologija in antropologija
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Beijing from Below(2020) EVANS, HARRIETHarriet Evans tells the history of the residents in Dashalar—now redeveloped and gentrified but once one of the Beijing's poorest neighborhoods—to show how their experiences complicate official state narratives of Chinese economic development and progressVezava: Mehka45,01 € -
Fencing in Democracy(2020) DIAZ-BARRIGA, MIGUEL,DORSEY, MARGARET E.Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction along the U.S.–Mexico border manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also enmeshing citizens into a wider politicVezava: Mehka35,36 € -
An Ecology of Knowledges - Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation(2020) RAHDER, MICHAMicha Rahder explores how multiple ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation practice, local livelihoods, and landscapes.Vezava: Mehka45,01 € -
Government of Beans(2020) HETHERINGTON, KREGGKregg Hetherington uses Paraguay's turn of the twenty-first century adoption of massive soybean production and the regulatory attempts to mitigate the resulting environmental degradation as a way to show how the tools used to drive economic growth exacerbVezava: Mehka40,18 € -
Affective Justice - The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback(2019) CLARKE, KAMARI MAXINEKamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the International Criminal Court in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice.Vezava: Mehka49,84 € -
Revolution and Disenchantment - Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation(2020) BARDAWIL, FADI A.Fadi A. Bardawil explores the hopes for and disenchantments with Marxism-Leninism in the writings and actions of revolutionary intellectuals within the 1960s Arab New Left.Vezava: Mehka38,57 € -
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation(2019) THOMAS, DEBORAH A.Deborah A. Thomas uses the 2010 military and police incursion into the Kingston, Jamaica, Tivoli Gardens neighborhood as a point of departure for theorizing the roots of contemporary state violence in Jamaica and other post-plantation societies.Vezava: Mehka41,79 € -
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Animals Reader(2021)Contains 42 classic and contemporary writings from philosophy, ethics, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, history, law and science. Essential reading for anyone interested in human-animal relations.Vezava: Mehka69,83 € -
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Sporting Gender(2019) HARPER, JOANNA, ADVISER TO THE INTERNATIOSporting Gender explores both the historical and current issues of defining gender in sports, especially regarding intersex and transgender athletes. It not only covers important events and regulations, but also delves into the lives of the athletes themsVezava: Trda60,29 € -
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Divided Bodies - Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine(2020) DUMES, ABIGAIL A.Abigail A. Dumes offers an ethnographic exploration of the Lyme disease controversy to shed light on the relationship between contested illness and evidence-based medicine in the United States.Vezava: Mehka49,84 € -
Under Construction - Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia(2019) MAINS, DANIELDaniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surrounding the construction of specific infrastructural technologies and how that construction impacts the daily liveVezava: Mehka40,18 € -
Self-Devouring Growth(2019) LIVINGSTON, JULIEJulie Livingston shows how the global pursuit of economic and resource-driven growth comes at the expense of catastrophic destruction, thereby upending popular notions that economic growth and development is necessary for improving a community’s wellbeingVezava: Mehka35,36 € -
Futureproof - Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life(2020)The contributors to Futureproof examine the affective and aesthetic dimensions of security infrastructures and technology with studies ranging from Jamaica and Jakarta to Colombia and the US-Mexico border.Vezava: Trda171,28 € -
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Bomb Children(2019) ZANI, LEAHLeah Zani considers how the people and landscape of Laos have been shaped and haunted by the physical remains of unexploded ordnance from the CIA's Secret War.Vezava: Mehka41,73 €
