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  • - An Essay on the Geography of Anger
    af Arjun Appadurai
    233,95 - 888,95 kr.

    Providing a conceptually framework for understanding sources of global violence, this title describes how the nation-state has grown ambivalent about minorities at the same time that minorities, because of global communication technologies and migration flows, increasingly see themselves as parts of powerful global majorities.

  • - A New Sentimental Education
    af Doris Sommer
    304,95 - 953,95 kr.

    An analysis of the changing status of bi- and multi-lingualness in relation to issues of citizenship, ethnicity, and diversity

  • - Public Monuments in Changing Societies
    af Sanford Levinson
    263,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Is it "Stalinist" for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capital? Is it possible for America to honour General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? This title deals with these questions.

  • - Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality
    af Elizabeth A. Povinelli
    318,95 - 998,95 kr.

    Anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes intimate relations as sites which bring into view the interplay between liberalism's contradictory ideals of freedom and constraint.

  • - A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy
    af Janet E. Halley
    218,95 - 828,95 kr.

    Explains how the American military's anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, 'Don't Ask/Don't Tell.' This title shows that this ubiquitous phrase implies that it discharges service members not for who they are, but for what they do. It is suitable for legal scholars, policymakers, activists, and military historians.

  • af Marc Abeles
    293,95 - 953,95 kr.

    An argument that in the era of globalization, survival-outlasting the uncertainties and threats of a precarious future-has supplanted harmonious coexistence as the primary goal of politics.

  • af Benjamin Lee & Edward LiPuma
    292,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy.

  • af Julie Taylor
    269,95 - 888,95 kr.

    Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation's sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerises dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. This title examines the poetics of the tango while describing author's own quest to dance this most dramatic of paired dances.

  • - The Age of the International Community
    af Michel Feher
    343,95 - 933,95 kr.

    Addresses Western officials' responses to post-Cold War conflicts and analyses the reactions of the Left to their governments' positions.

  • - The Lessons of Gore Vidal
    af Marcie Frank
    272,95 - 888,95 kr.

    An analysis of how Gore Vidal, as a public intellectual, negotiates the print/screen media divide

  • af Jane Kramer
    267,95 - 888,95 kr.

  • - The Future of Europe's Public Sphere
    af Nilufer Gole
    307,95 - 953,95 kr.

    In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Goele examines the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. She demonstrates that Islam and secularism are mutually constitutive, constantly changing, and that the presence of Islam unsettles dominant narratives of Western modernism.

  • af Jane Gallop
    318,95 - 833,95 kr.

    Tells the story of how and why the author was charged with sexual harassment, and what resulted from the accusations. It uses her personal experience to offer an analysis of trends in sexual harassment policy, and to pose questions regarding teaching and sex, feminism and knowledge. It is aimed at those interested in these issues.

  • af Charles Taylor
    268,95 - 953,95 kr.

    Offers a clear and concise framework for understanding the structure of modern life in the West and the different forms modernity has taken around the world