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  • Psychiatric Contours

    New African Histories of Madness

    Edición de Nancy Rose Hunt, Hubertus Büschel ...
    Series series Theory in Forms
    Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term madness broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters detect the mad or the psychiatric in unhinged persons, frantic collectives, and distressing situations. Others investigate individuals suffering from ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Cunning of Recognition

    Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism

    de Elizabeth A. Povinelli, George Steinmetz, Julia Adams, Nancy Rose Hunt, Webb Keane, Fatma Müge Göcek ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with their colonizers but by demanding that they identify with an impossible standard of authentic ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A Colonial Lexicon

    Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

    de Nancy Rose Hunt, Arjun Appadurai, John L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A Nervous State

    Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

    de Nancy Rose Hunt ...
    In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states—one "nervous," one biopolitical—the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Not Born Yesterday

    The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe

    de Hugo Mercier ...
    Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe—and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion—whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers—fail miserably. Drawing on recent findings ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Why We Think What We Think

    The Unexpected Origins of Our Deepest Beliefs

    de Turi Munthe ...
    'Lively [and] fascinating'Julian Baggini, Financial Times'This book is always fascinating but frequently mind-blowing'Marina Hyde, Guardian columnist and co-host of The Rest Is Entertainment'Beguiling and compelling’Spectator'Fizzing with insights and ideas... I loved ... ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • The White Possessive

    Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty

    de Aileen Moreton-Robinson ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its preoccupation with foregrounding slavery and migration. The nation, she argues, is socially and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Ethical Loneliness

    The Injustice of Not Being Heard

    de Jill Stauffer ...
    Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. It is the result of multiple lapses on the part of human beings and political institutions that, in failing to listen well to survivors, deny them redress by negating their testimony and thwarting their claims for justice.Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Justice and the Politics of Difference

    de Iris Marion Young ...
    In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Duress

    Imperial Durabilities in Our Times

    de Ann Laura Stoler ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as "legacies" of a dead past rather than as active and violating forces in the world today? With precision and clarity, Ann Laura Stoler argues that recognizing "colonial presence" may have as much to do with how the connections between colonial ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Jurgen Habermas and Deliberative Democracy

    Understanding Deliberative Democracy, #3

    de Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Libro 3 - Understanding Deliberative Democracy
    Jurgen Habermas is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. This detailed, article length guide examines his theory of deliberative democracy and covers many of the central concepts such as communicative reason, communicative power, and the ideal speech community. ... Leer más

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