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Hardback. This volume examines the power that can be imposed, and the misery that is caused, especially for the poor, by the simple act of waiting. Although set in Buenos Aires, Auyero describes a variety of different situations, including waiting for national identity cards, for welfare agencies, and the endless waiting for relocation from the slums. Num Pages: 216 pages, 17 photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; JFC; JFFH; JPQB; MBP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352594
- ISBN
- 9780822352594
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Condition: New
€ 109.24
€ 109.24
Hardback. Radical Sensations examines the radical world-movements that emerged between 1886 and 1927 adapted sentiment, sensation, and new forms of visual culture to move people to participate in projects of social, political, and economic transformation. Num Pages: 368 pages, 88 illustrations. BIC Classification: ACX; HBJK; JFD; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352808
- ISBN
- 9780822352808
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Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353003
- ISBN
- 9780822353003
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Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. In Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Michelle Murphy's initial focus on the alternative health practices developed by radical feminists in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s opens into a sophisticated analysis of the transnational entanglements of American empire, population control, neoliberalism, and late-twentieth-century feminisms. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353317
- ISBN
- 9780822353317
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Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. Politically engaged ethnographers examine the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, challenging dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism. Editor(s): Juris, Jeffrey S.; Khasnabish, Alex. Num Pages: 472 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 244 x 35. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353492
- ISBN
- 9780822353492
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Condition: New
€ 129.31
€ 129.31
Hardback. In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353539
- ISBN
- 9780822353539
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Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. A father-daughter research team tell the behind-the-scenes story of a social movement started by a group of Brazilian women in 1986 in order to secure economic rights for women and transform their roles in homes and communities. Num Pages: 200 pages, 26 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFC; JFSJ1; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354062
- ISBN
- 9780822354062
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Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Hardback. In the wake of the King assassination and subsequent uprisings, Black Public Affairs Television emerged. Devorah Heitner tells its story, analyzing the production, reception, and content of its early groundbreaking programs. Num Pages: 208 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 15. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354093
- ISBN
- 9780822354093
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Condition: New
€ 108.92
€ 108.92
Hardback. The indigenous peoples of the Pacific nations of Vanuatu and New Zealand are reconfiguring global cultural and intellectual property regimes as they successfully advance claims to ancestral practices such as ephemeral sand drawings. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 328 pages, 26 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 4369 x 23. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822354123
- ISBN
- 9780822354123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. Examines how the rise of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has transformed the conditions of women's lives and of feminist organizing. This book brings together feminist research on NGOs from various perspectives and disciplines. Editor(s): Bernal, Victoria; Grewal, Inderpal. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPWH; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 649.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822355519
- ISBN
- 9780822355519
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Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Hardback. Legal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Num Pages: 176 pages, 3 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JHMC; LN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5193 x 3895 x 20. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822355816
- ISBN
- 9780822355816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Hardback. Offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of forestry "miracle" in Chile. This book narrates the century-long struggles among peasants, indigenous communities, large landowners, and the state over access to forest commons in the frontier territory. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 416 pages, 13 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBG; HBLW; JFC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822355984
- ISBN
- 9780822355984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.20
€ 124.20
Hardback. Addressing a range of topics - civic clubs and folkloric societies, science, public health and agrarian policies, popular culture, national memory, and the intersection of race and labor, this title features contributors who explore how a broad spectrum of Cubans embraced a political and civic culture of national self-realization. Editor(s): Palmer, Steven; Piqueras, Jose Antonio; Sanchez Cobos, Amparo. Num Pages: 376 pages, 36 photos, 1 table, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBG; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 25. Weight in Grams: 645.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822356301
- ISBN
- 9780822356301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, this title details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 photographs, 1 table, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822356660
- ISBN
- 9780822356660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.56
€ 116.56
Hardback. Exploring the practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid, Anne-Maria Makhulu how these squatters engaged in an important form of resistance that helped to end apartheid. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359470
- ISBN
- 9780822359470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Gole 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. Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822359555
- ISBN
- 9780822359555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA; HBTB; JFFN; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359586
- ISBN
- 9780822359586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Paperback. The Project on Vegas shows how the Las Vegas Strip concentrates and magnifies American culture's core truths. Among others, the Strip's buffets, surveillance, large scale branding and consumption, and transformation of nature reflects larger trends and practices throughout America. Includes over 100 photographs by Karen Klugman. Num Pages: 384 pages, 101 photographs. BIC Classification: JFSG; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359678
- ISBN
- 9780822359678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Hardback. In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu demonstrates how queer Marxist critics in China use queer theory as a non-liberal alternative to Western models of queer emancipation, and in doing so, he revises current understandings of what queer theory is, does, and can be. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359722
- ISBN
- 9780822359722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Num Pages: 248 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822359760
- ISBN
- 9780822359760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46