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Lifelines : the traffic of trauma
Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478092728
- Collation
- xi, 305p.; ill.
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- -
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- 363.125650954792 LIF s
The small matter of suing Chevron
Suzana Sawyer traces Ecuador’s lawsuit against the Chevron corporation for the environmental devastation resulting from its oil drilling practices, showing how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil.
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- 4
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- 9781478092612
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- xiii, 417p.; ill.
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- -
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- 305.563309 SMA s
Critical perspectives on cultural memory and heritage : construction, transfo…
Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural h…
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- -
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- 9781787354845
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- xviii, 313 p. ill;
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- -
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- 302 CRI V
Genres of listening : an ethnography of psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires.
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- 2
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478092698
- Collation
- ix, 249p.
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- -
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- 153.733 GEN m
Knowing Women : Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of …
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- -
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- 9781108863575
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- ix, 332 p ; ill
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- 306.766309667 KNO S
Cold War Cosmopolitanism
"Han Hyung-mo was a major figure within South Korea’s Golden Age cinema. The director of Madame Freedom (1956), the most famous film of the 1950s, Han made popular films that explored women’s relationship to modernity. He was also a master stylist who introduced technological innovations and fresh ideas about film form and genre into Korean cinema. This book offers a transnational cultural …
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- 9780520296503
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No Truth Without Beauty : God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- -
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- 9783030835828
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- xxxiii, 306 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 297.082 NOT L
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean: : Encounters with Alterity in Bir…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
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- -
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- 9783030565855
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- xii, 132 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 MIG V
ANTHROPOCENE CHILDHOODS : speculative fiction, racialization, and climate crisis
This open access book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and fi…
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- 2
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- 9781350262409
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- ix, 208p.; ill.
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- -
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- 372.21 ANT a
Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality and Coloniality : Challenging Swed…
This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation often cited as one of the most gender-equal and LGBTQ-tolerant nations, the contributions investigate political processes, decolonial struggles, a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030474324
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- xiii, 316 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.9485 PLU E
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