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  • - Security and Survival in the Informal City
    von Daniel M. Goldstein
    43,00 €

    In this ethnography of the Cancha mega-market in Cochabama, Bolivia, Daniel M. Goldstein examines what it means for the market's poorest vendors to maintain personal safety and economic stability by navigating systems of informality and illegality and how this dynamic is representative of the neoliberal modern city.

  • - A Reader
     
    45,00 €

    Militarization: A Reader offers an anthropological perspective on militarization's origin and sustained presence as a cultural process in its full social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, and symbolic contexts throughout the world.

  • - Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
    von Catherine Besteman
    43,00 €

    In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine.

  • - Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus
    von Ellen Moore
    39,00 €

    Tracing the college experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, Ellen Moore challenges the popular narratives that explain student veterans' academic difficulties while showing how these narratives and institutional support for the military lead to suppression of campus debate about the wars, discourage anti-war activism, and encourage a growing militarization.

  • - Security, Knowledge, and Power
     
    38,00 €

    Through global case studies that explore biometric identification, border control, forensics, militarized policing, and counterterrorism, the contributors show how bodies have become critical sources of evidence that is organized and deployed to classify, recognize, and manage human life.

  • - Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life
     
    41,00 €

    The contributors to Futureproof examine the affective and aesthetic dimensions of security infrastructures and technology with studies ranging from Jamaica and Jakarta to Colombia and the US-Mexico border.

  • von Catherine Besteman
    37,00 - 119,00 €

    Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global North are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global South.

  • - Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
    von Andrew Bickford
    41,00 - 128,00 €

    Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.

  • - Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia
    von Melinda Hinkson
    38,00 - 122,00 €

    Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide.

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