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  • Rhythm and Vigilance

    Ethnographies of Surveillance and Time

    Edited by Vita Peacock, Mikkel Kenni Bruun, Claire Elisabeth Dungey, Matan Shapiro ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Studies of surveillance have emphasised how technology is used to control space. This innovative collection examines how new monitoring technologies are also affecting the experience of time.Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythm, the book brings together ethnographic research from Europe, China and the US, to show how digital ... Read more

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  • Stories of the Dust Cosmos

    The Trodomite Parsec

    by James A McGettigan ...
    Series Book 1 - Stories of the Dust Cosmos
    What do ghosts warn of, when their destroyers still walk beside you?Join Bod Criptous, when he was merely a Pac, cooperating on a joint mission with the elusive Jinn-hid, to seek out the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations outside Galiza. In the second year of their voyage, Pac Criptous explores a world with familiar oddities, shared across several others.But something outstanding lies in ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Towards an Anthropology of Psychology

    Ethnographic Studies of Psychological Healthcare

    Edited by Rebecca Hutten, Mikkel Kenni Bruun ...
    Anthropology and psychology share a long history of rivalry, collaboration, and mutual disregard. This volume reconsiders psychology as a field of anthropological enquiry. In doing so, it takes an ethnographic approach to psychology, examining psychotherapeutic practices and models of mental health at the heart of ‘psy’. Featuring ethnographic studies of psychological therapies, subjects, and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

    Edited by Klaus Lörcher, Professor Niklas Bruun, Ana Teresa Ribeiro ...
    This book is the first comprehensive academic treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights, which has a global vocation demonstrated by having been ratified by 173 States since it was adopted in 1966.Workers' rights need protection and reinforcement. To achieve this aim, international human rights standards can play an important ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • Ostia-by-the-Sea

    Society, Population, and Identities in Rome's Port

    by Christer Bruun ...
    Ostia, the Roman settlement founded at the mouth of the river Tiber, was the port of the imperial capital and one of the most important urban centers in the Mediterranean world during the last decades of the Roman Republic and the Early and High Empires. The town's role as a maritime mercantile hub explains why, in its heyday, it was Italy's largest town after the mighty Rome. Ostia is still ... Read more

    $161.99 CAD

  • Southern Anthropocenes

    Edited by Casper Bruun Jensen ...
    Series series CRESC
    This wide‑ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. It envisions Southern Anthropocenes as an opening towards forms and ends of life that exceed—while remaining in partial relation with—modern socio‑economic horizons and the determinations of the geo ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Effective Enforcement of EU Labour Law

    Edited by Dr Zane Rasnaca, Dr Aristea Koukiadaki, Professor Niklas Bruun, Klaus Lörcher ...
    This book by the ETUI Transnational Trade Union Rights Expert Network analyses enforcement as a key element making EU labour law effective or ineffective.Enforcement is the key ingredient that makes rights effective and ensures compliance. It can make or break a legal system. Despite this, enforcement of EU labour law has received little scholarly attention in recent decades and has rarely been ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Antihero in American Television

    by Margrethe Bruun Vaage ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter) are not morally good, so how do these television series make us engage in these morally bad main characters? And what does this tell us about our moral ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Deleuzian Intersections

    Science, Technology, Anthropology

    Edited by Casper Bruun Jensen ...
    Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous assemblages, moving across distinctions such as the human and non-human or the material and ideal. This volume outlines a Deleuzian approach to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The New Foundations of Labour Law

    Edited by Kerstin Ahlberg, Niklas Bruun ...
    This book explores the challenges of globalisation and digitalisation to labour law and social security under three headings. The first, «The changing foundations of labour law» focuses on the law itself. Here the authors discuss how a changing political setting influences the very foundations of contemporary labour law. The contributions in the second section, «Precarious work – the new normative ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • Videogames and Art

    Edited by Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell ...
    Videogames are firmly enmeshed in modern culture. Acknowledging the increasing cultural impact of this rapidly changing industry on artistic and creative practices, Videogames and Art features in-depth essays that offer an unparalleled overview of the field.Together, the contributions position videogame art as an interdisciplinary mix of digital technologies and the traditional art forms. Of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology

    Edited by Maja Hojer Bruun, Ayo Wahlberg, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Cathrine Hasse, Klaus Hoeyer, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, Brit Ross Winthereik ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD