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Maisam Alomar,
Carceral Care

How care and criminalization became entangled--and why abolition medicine matters Medicine likes to tell an altruistic story. Maisam Alomar shows how that story masks an enduring partnership with racism a…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya
A Volatile Picture

Global South Asia

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound …

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Xan S Chacko,
The Last Seed

Seed vaults promise salvation--yet their frozen futures carry colonial histories of extraction and control Often celebrated as humanity's last defense against ecological collapse, seed banks are meant to …

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Miriam Chusid
The Ill-Fated Afterlife

Visions of Buddhist hell transformed fear of death into ritual care and hope for salvation In thirteenth-century Japan, death was fraught with spiritual uncertainty. Salvation depended on dying with perfe…

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Tomas Cole
Possessed Landscapes

Culture, Place, and Nature

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily lifeWhat does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anthr…

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily life What does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anth…

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Lynn Fujiwara
Refusing Normativity

Reveals how race, gender, and sexuality structure belonging, violence, and resistance Queer theorists of color have illuminated the extensive and pervasive ways sexuality and race are interconnected. In R…

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers h…

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Vinay Gidwani, Priti Ramamurthy
City Lives, Rural Ties

Stories of migrants building precarious futures through ingenuity, desire, obligation, and resilience India's cities depend on millions of rural migrants whose labor sustains urban life. City Lives, Rural…

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Nisa Goksel
Kurdish Women's Transnational Resistance

Decolonizing Feminisms

Reveals how Kurdish women mobilize political resistance within and beyond the boundaries of nation-state politics In January 2013, the assassination of three Kurdish militant women in Paris brought global…

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Nisa Göksel,
Kurdish Women's Transnational Resistance

Reveals how Kurdish women mobilize political resistance within and beyond the boundaries of nation-state politicsIn January 2013, the assassination of three Kurdish militant women in Paris brought global …

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Timothy A Grose,
Settling Xinjiang

Where everyday governance transforms hospitality, dress, and time into instruments of colonial rule Mass detention camps and forced labor in Xinjiang have garnered global attention. Settling Xinjiang reve…

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Kristina Gupta,
Acing Science

Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universalCompulsory sexuality---where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience---not only pervades popular culture but is foundation…

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Kristina Gupta,
Acing Science

Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal Compulsory sexuality---where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience - not only pervades popular culture but is foundatio…

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Adam R Hodge
The Cannibal of Montana's Streams

A maligned predator's past reveals how colonialism and conservation reshaped western waterways Once condemned as an aquatic menace, the bull trout was hunted, despised, and blamed for the decline of prize…

lieferbar ab 1.12.2026.

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Po-Yi Hung
Routes of Taiwan Tea

Taiwan and the World

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopolitics From misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan's teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested …

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Po-Yi Hung,
Routes of Taiwan Tea

Demonstrates how a popular commodity has reshaped borders, traditions, and geopoliticsFrom misty mountain oolongs to the global boba boom, Taiwan's teas carry far more than flavor. They embody contested b…

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Nancy J Jacobs,
The Global Grey Parrot

A sweeping story of one species' entanglement with global extraction and captivity Few animals have fascinated people like the grey parrot, celebrated for its intelligence, mimicry, and uncanny ability to…

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Nik Janos
Damming Debates

Rivers, salmon, and dams collide where climate urgency meets justice, memory, and power Hydropower has long defined the Northwest. Massive dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers electrify cities, fuel indu…

lieferbar ab 26.1.2027.

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