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Hardback. In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of models of social change to show how ingenious and subversive acts disrupt traditional practices of liberal citizenship in order to exercise political agency. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 311
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360216
- ISBN
- 9780822360216
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€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action. Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360209
- ISBN
- 9780822360209
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€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. This thoughtful ethnography of Islam in Pakistan moves from the smallest scale-a single worshiper striving to be a better Muslim who is seeking guidance at a neighborhood mosque-to the largest, examining the thought of poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal, considered to be the spiritual visionary of the country. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JHB; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352310
- ISBN
- 9780822352310
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Considers how a culture of crisis management - what the author calls "the new chronic" - has come to dominate various aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. This title unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations, 4 charts. BIC Classification: JHBZ; MBP; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352280
- ISBN
- 9780822352280
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€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Paperback. Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351900
- ISBN
- 9780822351900
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.20
€ 26.99
€ 25.20
Hardback. Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351764
- ISBN
- 9780822351764
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€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations. Num Pages: 352 pages, 58 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350972
- ISBN
- 9780822350972
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Condition: New
€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. This volume collects Gayle Rubin's essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history. Rubin's introduction gives a history and context to this pioneering and much anticipated work. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 498 pages, 4 drawings. BIC Classification: JFSK; JHBK5; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 498
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822349716
- ISBN
- 9780822349716
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Condition: New
€ 132.97
€ 132.97
Paperback. Anthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; GTB; JFSJ; JHBS; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348566
- ISBN
- 9780822348566
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€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. A passionate call for Native peoples to decolonize their own concepts and self-determination projects Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ; JFSL9; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348511
- ISBN
- 9780822348511
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€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
€ 27.47
Hardback. Leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein s world-systems analysis. Editor(s): Palumbo-Liu, David; Robbins, Bruce; Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 photographs, 2 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348344
- ISBN
- 9780822348344
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Condition: New
€ 110.51
€ 110.51
Hardback. Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights. Editor(s): Feldman, Ilana; Ticktin, Miriam Iris. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: JHB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822348108
- ISBN
- 9780822348108
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Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Paperback. A feminist analysis of the Chicano family that sees it as a site of political struggle with patriarchal masculinity, nationalism, and homophobia. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345435
- ISBN
- 9780822345435
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
Paperback. Shows how Portugal's economic integration into the European Union (EU) in 1996 fundamentally changed ordinary encounters between African migrants and Portuguese citizens. This book examines this economic transition through transformations in popular ideologies of difference in workspaces in Lisbon between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1HFDV; JFFN; JFSL3; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822345121
- ISBN
- 9780822345121
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. Leading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan. Editor(s): Hinton, Alexander Laban; O'Neill, Kevin Lewis. Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 352 pages, 19 b&w photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBZ; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822344056
- ISBN
- 9780822344056
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€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Paperback. An ethnography of class dynamics and the subject formation of migrant domestic workers. It explores what the migrant domestic workers mean to the families that hire them, to urban economies, to rural provinces such as Anhui, and to the Chinese state. Num Pages: 328 pages, 2 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFN; JFSJ1; JHBL; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822343042
- ISBN
- 9780822343042
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.51
€ 31.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. This work contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. It explores the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity. Num Pages: 239 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJC; JHBS; WSJT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822342762
- ISBN
- 9780822342762
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€ 27.99€ 26.39
€ 27.99
€ 26.39
Paperback. A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences. Editor(s): Creager, Angela N. H.; Lunbeck, Elizabeth; Wise, M. Norton. Series: Science & Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340683
- ISBN
- 9780822340683
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Paperback. Compares women's organizing efforts in Mexico and in the borderlands to assess the way Latina mobilization and activism is influenced by the socio-political context in which the groups of women find themselves. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822339519
- ISBN
- 9780822339519
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. An innovative analysis of how ideas of Indian identity negotiated within the Indian diaspora in Trinidad affect cultural identities "back home" in India. Num Pages: 288 pages, 46 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JFSJ1; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822338420
- ISBN
- 9780822338420
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
Paperback. An ethnographic analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry illuminates the growing phenomenon of "virtual migration" Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 b&w photos, 4 tables, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; GTB; JHBL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822336693
- ISBN
- 9780822336693
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. How grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 304 pages, 14 b&w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLCN; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822335658
- ISBN
- 9780822335658
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.42
€ 31.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. A personal and historical account of the particular place of death and funerals in African American life. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 248 pages, 56 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332459
- ISBN
- 9780822332459
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.43
€ 27.99
€ 26.43
Paperback. Presents an examination of how the migration of nurses from the Philippines to the US is inextricably linked to American imperialism and the US colonization of the Philippine Islands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; JHBL; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330899
- ISBN
- 9780822330899
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
€ 30.99
€ 27.31