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  • Audiobook

    Drink Less, Live More

    A Personal and Practical Guide to Drinking Less and Living Better.

    Narrated by Patrick Shannon ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 35 min

    Drink Less, Live More is an honest and practical guide for anyone who wants to take control of their alcohol consumption – without necessarily giving up alcohol completely. Through personal experiences, practical strategies, exercises, and research-based insights, you’ll gain the tools to drink less, build healthier habits, and enjoy more energy and balance in everyday life. ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics

    Understanding the War on Drugs in Bagong Silang, Philippines

    Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang. Police killings have been regular occurrences since the birth of Bagong Silang. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons

    Stuckness and Confinement

    Edited by Simon Turner, Steffen Jensen ...
    Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens of ‘stuckness’.From a point of departure in anthropology, with important contributions from criminology, geography and philosophy, the chapters ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Situating Displacement

    Explorations of Global (Im)Mobility

    Series Book 10 - Political and Social Change
    This anthology offers a fresh look at the theme of forced mobility and displace¬ment. By situating displacement and creating a dialogue with disciplines and analytical perspectives from other academic fields, we broaden the scope of thinking about displacement with different chapters taking well-established ideas from migration, mobility, and refugee research into the conversation. By situating ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • South African Homelands as Frontiers

    Apartheid’s Loose Ends in the Postcolonial Era

    Edited by Steffen Jensen, Olaf Zenker ...
    Series series Southern African Studies
    This book explores what happened to the homelands – in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace – after the fall of apartheid. The nine chapters contribute to understanding the multiple configurations that currently exist in areas formerly declared "homelands" or "Bantustans". Using the concept of frontier zones, the homelands emerge as areas in which the future of the South African postcolony is ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Histories of Victimhood

    Edited by Steffen Jensen, Henrik Ronsbo ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    The word and concept of victim bear a heavy weight. To represent oneself or to be represented as a victim is often a first and vital step toward having one's suffering and one's claims to rights socially and legally recognized. Yet to name oneself or be called a victim is a risky claim, and social scientists must struggle to avoid erasing either survivors' experience of suffering or their agency ... Read more

    $91.19 CAD

  • Histories of Victimhood

    Edited by Steffen Jensen, Henrik Ronsbo ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    The word and concept of victim bear a heavy weight. To represent oneself or to be represented as a victim is often a first and vital step toward having one's suffering and one's claims to rights socially and legally recognized. Yet to name oneself or be called a victim is a risky claim, and social scientists must struggle to avoid erasing either survivors' experience of suffering or their agency ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • State Violence and Human Rights

    State Officials in the South

    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    State Violence and Human Rights addresses how legal practices – rooted in global human rights discourse or local demands – take hold in societies where issues of state violence remain to be resolved. Attempts to make societies accountable to human rights norms regularly draw on international legal conventions governing state conduct. As such, interventions tend to be based on inherently normative ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Everyday Europe

    Social Transnationalism in an Unsettled Continent

    Drawing on unique research and rich data on cross-border practices, this book offers an empirically-based view on Europeans’ interconnections in everyday life. It looks at the ways in which EU residents have been getting closer across national frontiers: in their everyday experiences of foreign countries – work, travel, personal networks – but also their knowledge, consumption of foreign products, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Queer and Trans Migrations

    Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

    Series series Dissident Feminisms
    More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Writing the World of Policing

    The Difference Ethnography Makes

    Edited by Didier Fassin ...
    As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Critical Ethnic Studies

    A Reader

    Building on the intellectual and political momentum that established the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, this Reader inaugurates a radical response to the appropriations of liberal multiculturalism while building on the possibilities enlivened by the historical work of Ethnic Studies. It does not attempt to circumscribe the boundaries of Critical Ethnic Studies; rather, it offers a space to ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD