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“joseph masco”

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  • The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making

    by Joseph Masco ...
    In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger. Tracking the simultaneous production of nuclear emergency and climate disruption since 1945, he focuses on the psychosocial accommodations as well as the technological revolutions that have produced these linked planetary-scale ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • The Nuclear Borderlands

    The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico | New Edition

    by Joseph Masco ...
    An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear weapons project in the post–Cold War period. He shows that the American ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The Theater of Operations

    National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror

    by Joseph Masco ...
    How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Sovereignty Unhinged

    An Illustrated Primer for the Study of Present Intensities, Disavowals, and Temporal Derangements

    Edited by Deborah A. Thomas, Joseph Masco ...
    Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it reflects people’s aspirations for new futures. In a series of ethnographic case studies ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Conspiracy/Theory

    Edited by Joseph Masco, Lisa Wedeen ...
    In an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling terms for political judgment? How are we to build the knowledge needed to recognize and address important forms of harm when critical information is either not to be trusted or kept hidden? Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

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  • Rehearsals for Living

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  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

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  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
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  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

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