Search results for ""duke university press""
MD - Duke University Press Chinese Modern
An analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artefacts that represent it. Examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent 20th-century, this book will be useful to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies.
£85.43
MD - Duke University Press Art beyond Itself
Art is expanding into urban development and the design and tourism industries. Art practices based on objects are displaced by practices based on contexts. Aesthetic distinctions dissolve as artworks are inserted into the media, urban spaces, digital networks, and social forums. This book deals with this topic.
£23.85
MD - Duke University Press Incongruous Entertainment
A look at the camp cult appeal of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s to gay men today, along with an historical analysis of the films' production histories
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press The Libertine Colony
Explores the founding discourses of race, hybridity, savagery, and degenercy in the seventeenth and eighteenth century French Caribbean, in particular the way many of these discourses were used to describe French settlers.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Survival of a Perverse Nation Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia
£24.75
MD - Duke University Press The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole An Aurora Levins Morales Reader
£27.63
MD - Duke University Press Artist Audience Accomplice Ethics and Authorship in Art of the 1970s and 1980s
£21.43
MD - Duke University Press Heavyweight Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation
£22.24
MD - Duke University Press Mu 49 Marks of Abolition
£21.43
MD - Duke University Press Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters Black Women Voice and the Musical Stage
£76.55
MD - Duke University Press Shooting for Change Korean Photography after the War
£78.98
MD - Duke University Press Secularism as Misdirection Critical Thought from the Global South
£29.55
MD - Duke University Press Revolutionary Papers
£12.51
MD - Duke University Press Art and Social Movements
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.
£23.85
MD - Duke University Press Wizards and Scientists
Offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture to demonstrate that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are steeped in the same history that produced modernity and represent complex hybrid formations.
£85.43
MD - Duke University Press The Fragility of Things
Seeking to extend sensitivity to the world's fragilities and intensify democratic activism, William E. Connolly explores how neoliberal capitalism collides with the fragile self-organizing systems that help to constitute our world.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
This ethnography shows how the struggle to practice clinical medicine in a resource-strapped public hospital in Papua New Guinea is complicated by the attempts of doctors, nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to others—kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.
£78.98
MD - Duke University Press Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
A comparative perspective on the way ideas of gender relations and identities shaped the struggle over resources, cultural practices, and political rights that followed the end of slavery in the Atlantic world
£83.84
MD - Duke University Press The Age of Beloveds
Examines the "golden age" of the culture of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, exploring sexuality, gender and literary society, as well as the demographics, economics, politics, society of love and other cultural productions of the Ottomans. In part
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Mimesis Across Empires
In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and British Empires during the formative period of British imperial rule in India. Eaton explores how the aesthetics of Mughal 'vernacular' art and British 'realist' art mutually informed one another to create a hybrid visual economy. By tracing the exchange of objects and ideas—between Mughal artists and British collectors, British artists and Indian subjects, and Indian elites and British artists—she shows how Mughal artists influenced British conceptions of their art, their empire, and themselves, even as European art gave Indian painters a new visual vocabulary with which to critique colonial politics and aesthetics. By placing her analysis of visual culture in relation to other cultural encounters—ethnographic, legislative, diplomatic—Eaton uncovers deeper intimacies and hostilities between the colonizer and th
£23.04
MD - Duke University Press Cultures of United States Imperialism
£31.16
MD - Duke University Press addicted.pregnant.poor
In this ethnography of addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco, Kelly Ray Knight examines the myriad struggles these women face, as well as their encounters with social and medical institutions. She asks: what kinds of futures are possible for these women?
£22.24
MD - Duke University Press Rumba Rules
Mobutu Sese Seko, who ruled Zaire from 1965 until 1997, was fond of saying "happy are those who sing and dance," and his regime energetically promoted the notion of culture as a national resource. This title deals with political leadership, social mobility, and what it meant to be a bon chef (good leader) in Mobutu's Zaire.
£22.24
MD - Duke University Press Rancières Sentiments
Attending to diverse practices of everyday living and doingof form, style, and scenographyin Jacques Rancière's writings, Davide Panagia explores Rancière's aesthetics of politics as it informs his radical democratic theory of participation.
£19.80
MD - Duke University Press The Promise of the Foreign
A study of the effects of translation practices and historical writings in the Philippines on questions of nationalism
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Touching Feeling
Brings together the author's exploration of emotion and expression. This work features essays which offer "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and transforming such theoretical discourses as psychoanalysis, speech-act theory, Western Buddhism, and the Foucauldian "hermeneutics of suspicion."
£73.30
MD - Duke University Press Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
A history of women's political organizing and state formation in Mexico before and during the populist regime of Cardenas, challenging assumptions that all Mexican women were conservative and anti-revolutionary
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press CityArt
An interdisciplinary collection exploring how creative practices broadly conceived to encompass urban design, museums, graffiti, film, music, literature, architecture, and performance art, continually reconstruct the urban scene in Latin America.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Violence in a Time of Liberation
This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively—and often wrongly.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press The Problem with Work
The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.
£78.98
MD - Duke University Press Art from a Fractured Past
Art from a Fractured Past is an interdisciplinary collection examining how Peruvians are representing, and attempting to make sense of, the violence of the 1980s and 1990s through art, including drawings, monuments, fiction, theater, and cinema.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Clairvoyance For Those In The Desert
Includes sixteen colour photographs; images from Joanna in the Desert, a 2006 collaboration between Frueh and the photographer Jill O'Bryan; and several photographs of Frueh performing.
£31.98
MD - Duke University Press In Oceania
A collection of essays that explores the historicisation of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. It describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Designing Culture
The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Managing Legal Uncertainty
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
Published in English for the first time, Didier Eribon' s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life
£87.09
MD - Duke University Press A Small Boy and Others
Explores an array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
£23.04
MD - Duke University Press Tito Mihailovic and the Allies
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Paper Knowledge Toward a Media History of Documents
Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document.
£75.74
MD - Duke University Press Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk
Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy.
£23.85
MD - Duke University Press Bound by Law
Why do we have copyrights? What's "fair use"? This book provides a commentary on the most pressing issues facing law, art, property, and the digital world of remixed culture.
£18.18
MD - Duke University Press Two Bits
Investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software. By exploring in detail how various practices came together as the Free Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, the author shows how it is possible to understand the new movements that are emerging out of Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons.
£83.84
MD - Duke University Press Three Napoleonic Battles
£20.61
MD - Duke University Press Erosion
£24.75
MD - Duke University Press Impossible Things
£21.86
MD - Duke University Press Jill Johnston in Motion
£24.75
MD - Duke University Press Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture Detour to the Imaginary
£23.04
MD - Duke University Press The Color Black Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
£20.61
