Search results for ""Duke University Press""
MD - Duke University Press Lively Capital
This collection of anthropology of science essays explores the new forms of capital, markets, ethical, legal, and intellectual property concerns associated with new forms of research in the life sciences.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Working Like a Homosexual
What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? This book responds to these questions by arguing that post-World War II gay male subcultures have fostered their own ways not only of consuming mass culture but of producing it as well. It is suitable for students of cinema, and queer studies.
£23.85
MD - Duke University Press Information Please
Mark Poster considers how new media—from TiVO to digital file sharing—affects society, and he traces its implications for cultural theory and progressive political change.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press The Tail of the Dragon
Tracing the evolution of modern dance movements in New York City, this survey focuses on the choreographers, such as Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, Trisha Brown and David Gordon, who were propelled into rebellion against conventional modern dance by various counter-cultural dance troupes.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Chinese Reportage The Aesthetics of Historical Experience
Explores the origins of Chinese reportage (journalism) in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, and develops an understanding of the aesthetics that governed the creation of this literature.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press The Battle of the Sexes in French Cinema 19301956
This comprehensive historical study of French films made between 1930 and 1956—before, during, and after the Second World War—homes in on cinematic representations of gender relations.
£23.04
MD - Duke University Press Emergence and Embodiment
Explores the cultural legacy of cybernetics and neocybernetics that offers new insight on the role of the human in an era of the posthuman.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Drugs for Life
Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.
£75.74
MD - Duke University Press Mestizo Genomics
Based on ethnographic research in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this title helps you explore how the concepts of race, ethnicity, nation, and gender enter into and are affected by genomic research.
£25.71
MD - Duke University Press Desiring China
Argues that the creation of such "desiring subjects" is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Sociology Empire
The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project—assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq—caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology and Empire show, such affiliations are not new. Sociologists have been active as advisers, theorists, and analysts of Western imperialism for more than a century. The collection has a threefold agenda: to trace an intellectual history of sociology as it pertains to empire; to offer empirical studies based around colonies and empires, both past and present; and to provide a theoretical basis for future sociological analyses that may take empire more fully into account. In the 1940s, the British Colonial Office began employing sociologists in its African colonies. In Nazi Germany, sociologists played a leading role in organizing the occupation of Eastern Europe
£99.20
MD - Duke University Press Chinas AvantGarde Fiction
Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. This book includes a selection of examples of this school of writing, which gained prominence in the late 1980s.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Goth
Includes twenty-three essays from various disciplines explore the music, cinema, television, fashion, literature, aesthetics, and fandoms associated with the subculture. In this title, the editors provide a history of goth, describing its play of resistance and consumerism, its impact on class, race, and gender.
£115.45
MD - Duke University Press The Woman in the Zoot Suit Gender Nationalism and the Cultural Politics of Memory
Recovers the neglected history of young Mexican American women zoot-suiters in wartime Los Angeles and explains their absence from Chicano movement narratives.
£20.61
MD - Duke University Press HipHop Japan
An ethnographic study of Japanese hip-hop.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press E.T. Culture
Cultural readings of alien encounters
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Intimate Outsiders
Brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process of cultural exchange. The author focuses on images produced by nineteenth-century European artists and writers who were granted access to harems in the urban centres of Istanbul and Cairo. These Europeans were "intimate outsiders" within the women's quarters.
£75.74
MD - Duke University Press The Enduring Legacy
A history of the oil industrys rise in Venezuela focused especially on the experiences and perceptions of industry employees, both American and Venezuelan.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press A Time for Tea
Provides an examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. This book reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements came to symbolise the heart of colonialism in India. It exposes how this image has distracted from working conditions, low wages, and coercive labour practices enforced by the patronage system.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Colonial Fantasies
Uncovering Germany's colonial legacy and imagination, this book describes the significance of colonial fantasies, and explores imaginary colonial encounters of Germans with natives in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century literature. This book is of interest to historians, literary theorists, cultural critics, students, and scholars.
£23.04
MD - Duke University Press Visible Histories Disappearing Women Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal
Examines how Muslim women came to represented as invisible, backward, and victimized in the written history of late colonial Bengal. This title argues that their near-invisibility, except as victims, in normative histories of India was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Life beside Bars
£23.79
MD - Duke University Press Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters Black Women Voice and the Musical Stage
£24.75
MD - Duke University Press The Essential Jill Johnston Reader
£24.75
MD - Duke University Press Learning to Lead Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education
£22.83
MD - Duke University Press When Monsters Speak A Susan Stryker Reader
£45.48
MD - Duke University Press The Ethnographers Way A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design
£341.64
MD - Duke University Press Shooting for Change Korean Photography after the War
£22.24
MD - Duke University Press Violent Intimacies The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
£76.55
MD - Duke University Press Grime Glitter and Glass The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art
£21.43
MD - Duke University Press Visual Disobedience Art and Decoloniality in Central America
£22.24
MD - Duke University Press dear elia Letters from the Asian American Abyss
£21.43
MD - Duke University Press Transnational Feminist Vistas
£16.56
MD - Duke University Press Queering the Domestic
£15.13
MD - Duke University Press Expansive Trajectories
£12.51
MD - Duke University Press Strange Affinities
A collection of essays analyzing the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or strange affinities, afforded by nuanced comparative analyses of racial formations.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Pop Out
Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films. This title demonstrates that to ignore Warhol's queerness is to miss what is valuable, interesting, sexy, and political about his life and work.
£26.29
MD - Duke University Press Things Fall Away
An argument that subaltern experiences that are devalued and overlooked in progressive late-twentieth-century Philippine literature have been essential to the social and economic changes wrought by globalization.
£87.09
MD - Duke University Press Political Policing
Examines the nature and consequences of US police training in Brazil and other Latin American countries. This book uncovers how US strategies to gain political control through police assistance - in the name of hemispheric and national security - has spawned torture, murder, and death squads in Latin America.
£32.20
MD - Duke University Press ReadytoWear and ReadytoWork
Presents the story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who came to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry in the US. This book also provides an examination of gender and ethnicity, historical conflict and consensus, and notions of class and cultural difference.
£28.73
MD - Duke University Press Talking to the Dead
Presents an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, this book highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.
£22.24
MD - Duke University Press New Organs Within Us Transplants and the Moral Economy
An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.
£75.74
MD - Duke University Press Biological Relatives
Sarah Franklin explores the history and future of in vitro fertilization (IVF) thirty-five years and five million babies after its initial success as a form of technologically-assisted human reproduction.
£115.45
MD - Duke University Press In the Place of Origins
A theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity.
£23.04
MD - Duke University Press The Body Multiple Ontology in Medical Practice
Suitable for those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine, this book looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis.
£73.30
MD - Duke University Press Chinese Narrative Poetry
£87.09
MD - Duke University Press The Lima Reader
Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru’s capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that consider the social tensions and cultural heritages of the “City of Kings.”
£29.54
MD - Duke University Press Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain
Tracing the development of British cultural Marxism from beginnings in postwar Britain to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, this book shows this history to reflect a coherent intellectual tradition, one that represents an implicit and explicit theoretical effort to resolve the crisis of the postwar British Left.
£26.29
