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Paperback. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360919
- ISBN
- 9780822360919
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€ 31.99€ 30.33
€ 31.99
€ 30.33
Hardback. In Moral Economies of Corruption Steven Pierce provides a cultural history of the last 150 years of corruption in Nigeria as a case study for considering corruption's dynamic nature, finding it to be a culturally contingent set of political discourses and historically embedded practices. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360773
- ISBN
- 9780822360773
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€ 123.67
€ 123.67
Paperback. Romand Coles's new mode of scholarship and political practice called "visionary pragmatism" blends theory with practice in the generation of new transformative responses to contemporary political and ecological crises. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360643
- ISBN
- 9780822360643
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€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Hardback. In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H. Hearn proposes a new paradigm for economic development in Mexico and Cuba that is predicated on the development of trust among the state, society, and each nation's resident Chinese diaspora communities, lest they get left behind in the twenty-first century economy. Num Pages: 280 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; HBJK; JHMC; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360575
- ISBN
- 9780822360575
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Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
Hardback. Romand Coles's new mode of scholarship and political practice called "visionary pragmatism" blends theory with practice in the generation of new transformative responses to contemporary political and ecological crises. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360490
- ISBN
- 9780822360490
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Condition: New
€ 117.46
€ 117.46
Paperback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360438
- ISBN
- 9780822360438
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€ 28.39
€ 28.39
Paperback. 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: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JHB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360377
- ISBN
- 9780822360377
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€ 31.99€ 30.35
€ 31.99
€ 30.35
Hardback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360261
- ISBN
- 9780822360261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.62
€ 117.62
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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Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
Hardback. In Metroimperial Intimacies Victor Roman Mendoza shows how America's imperial incursions into the Philippines fostered social and sexual intimacies between Americans and native Filipinos, that along with representations of Filipinos as sexually degenerate, were crucial to regulating both colonial subjects and gender norms at home. Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe. Num Pages: 312 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 545.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360193
- ISBN
- 9780822360193
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Condition: New
€ 123.67
€ 123.67
Hardback. Appearing here in English for the first time, Janus's Gaze is the culmination of Carlo Galli's ongoing critique of the work of Carl Schmitt where he finds the unifying thread of Schmitt's work to be his creation of the genealogy of modernity. Editor(s): Sitze, Adam. Translator(s): Minervini, Amanda. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822360186
- ISBN
- 9780822360186
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€ 118.59
€ 118.59
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822355519
- ISBN
- 9780822355519
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€ 122.57
€ 122.57
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354062
- ISBN
- 9780822354062
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€ 115.12
€ 115.12
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.
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- 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
€ 136.27
€ 136.27
Hardback. An innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964-85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822352983
- ISBN
- 9780822352983
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Condition: New
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
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.
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- 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
€ 123.83
€ 123.83
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.
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- 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
€ 106.90
€ 106.90
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
€ 27.09
€ 27.09
Paperback. This is a study of artist/activists and their participation in social movements in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and California. McCaughan places the three movements within their own local histories, cultures, and conditions, but also links them to the 1968 rebellions that were going on across the world. Num Pages: 232 pages, 42 illustratons. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; ACX; JFC; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822351825
- ISBN
- 9780822351825
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.10
€ 27.99
€ 26.10
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. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351764
- ISBN
- 9780822351764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.12
€ 115.12