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Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister - Minoo Moallem - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister - Minoo Moallem - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Minoo Moallem challenges the mainstream stereotypical representation of Islam and Muslims as backward, fanatical, and premodern by showing how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are by-products of modernity. Writing with a deep personal and scholarly concern for recent Iranian history, Moallem refers to the gendered notions of brother and sister as keys to understanding the invention of the Islamic ummat as a modern fraternal community. Using magazines, novels, and films, she offers a feminist transnational analysis of contemporary Iranian culture that questions dominant binaries of modern and traditional, West and East, secular and religious, and civilized and barbaric. Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister responds to a number of important questions raised in connection with 9/11. The author considers how veiling intersects with other identity markers in nation-state building and modern formations of gendered citizenship. She shows how Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism are fed by a hybrid blend of images and myths of both pre-Islamic and Islamic Iran, as well as globally circulated patriarchal ideologies.

DKK 280.00
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Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) - Kenneth Dewhurst - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) - Kenneth Dewhurst - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): His Life and Original Writings presents for the first time Sydenham’s works in their original English, nearly three centuries after their initial publication. Known as the English Hippocrates, Sydenham revolutionized clinical medicine and helped free it from medieval traditions. This volume offers his unembellished seventeenth-century prose, untainted by the Latin retranslations that obscured his straightforward writing style in previous editions. It includes a comprehensive collection of his manuscripts, letters, and essays, many of which are being published for the first time, offering readers an authentic view of his pioneering medical insights. The book also features a newly updated biography of Sydenham, incorporating previously unknown material, including documents from the Lovelace Collection of John Locke’s papers. Sydenham’s life, shaped by the tumultuous political environment of the English Civil War and the Restoration, provides crucial context for understanding the criticism he faced throughout his medical career. This work serves as a tribute to a man whose observations and clinical judgment laid the foundation for modern medicine, shedding light on the historical forces that influenced his medical practice and personal challenges. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

DKK 412.00
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Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) - Kenneth Dewhurst - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) - Kenneth Dewhurst - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): His Life and Original Writings presents for the first time Sydenham’s works in their original English, nearly three centuries after their initial publication. Known as the English Hippocrates, Sydenham revolutionized clinical medicine and helped free it from medieval traditions. This volume offers his unembellished seventeenth-century prose, untainted by the Latin retranslations that obscured his straightforward writing style in previous editions. It includes a comprehensive collection of his manuscripts, letters, and essays, many of which are being published for the first time, offering readers an authentic view of his pioneering medical insights. The book also features a newly updated biography of Sydenham, incorporating previously unknown material, including documents from the Lovelace Collection of John Locke’s papers. Sydenham’s life, shaped by the tumultuous political environment of the English Civil War and the Restoration, provides crucial context for understanding the criticism he faced throughout his medical career. This work serves as a tribute to a man whose observations and clinical judgment laid the foundation for modern medicine, shedding light on the historical forces that influenced his medical practice and personal challenges. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

DKK 971.00
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Sensing Disaster - Dr. Matthew Lauer - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Sensing Disaster - Dr. Matthew Lauer - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster’s outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanding the causes and consequences of calamity, the unintended effects of humanitarian recovery and mitigation efforts, and the nature of local knowledge.

DKK 661.00
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Participant Observers - Dr. Freddy Foks - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Participant Observers - Dr. Freddy Foks - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.

DKK 661.00
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After Servitude - Dr. Mareike Winchell - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

After Servitude - Dr. Mareike Winchell - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from Mestizo elites and, when that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against institutional faith in property ownership as a means to detach land from people and present from past, the kin of former masters and servants alike have insisted that ethical debts from earlier racial violence stretch across epochs and formal land sales. What emerges is a vision of justice grounded in popular demands that wealth remain beholden to the region’s agrarian past. By tracing Ayopayans’ active efforts to contend with servitude’s long shadow, Mareike Winchell illuminates the challenges that property confronts as both an extractive paradigm and a means of historical redress.

DKK 661.00
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Experimental Times - Dr. Hemangini Gupta - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Experimental Times - Dr. Hemangini Gupta - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of "backend" IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. The book journeys alongside the migrant workers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who shape and survive the dreams of a "Startup India" knitted through office work, at networking meetings and urban festivals, and across sites of leisure in the city. Tracking techno-futures that involve automation and impending precarity, Hemangini Gupta details the everyday forms of experimentation, care, and friendship that sustain and reproduce life and labor in India's current economy.

DKK 811.00
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Human Shields - Dr. Neve Gordon - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Human Shields - Dr. Neve Gordon - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their lives more expendable. They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of dehumanization. Ultimately, Human Shields unsettles our common ethical assumptions about violence and the law and urges us to imagine entirely new forms of humane politics.

DKK 253.00
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Constantinople - Dr. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Constantinople - Dr. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

As Christian spaces and agents assumed prominent positions in civic life, the end of the long span of the fourth century was marked by large-scale religious change. Churches had overtaken once-thriving pagan temples, old civic priesthoods were replaced by prominent bishops, and the rituals of the city were directed toward the Christian God. Such changes were particularly pronounced in the newly established city of Constantinople, where elites from various groups contended to control civic and imperial religion. Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos argues that imperial Christianity was in fact a manifestation of traditional Roman religious structures. In particular, she explores how deeply established habits of ritual engagement in shared social spaces—ones that resonated with imperial ideology and appealed to the memories of previous generations—constructed meaning to create a new imperial religious identity. By examining three dynamics—ritual performance, rhetoric around violence, and the preservation and curation of civic memory—she distinguishes the role of Christian practice in transforming the civic and cultic landscapes of the late antique polis.

DKK 811.00
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Participant Observers - Dr. Freddy Foks - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Participant Observers - Dr. Freddy Foks - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Social anthropology was at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and economic development in the British Empire. This book explores the discipline's rise in the interwar period, crisis amid decolonization, and ironic reemergence in the postwar metropole. Across the humanities and social sciences, activists and scholars used anthropological concepts forged in empire to rethink British society at midcentury. Participant Observers shows how colonial anthropology helped define the social imagination of postimperial Britain. Part institutional history of the discipline's formation, part cultural history of its impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's intellectual culture.

DKK 296.00
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Sensing Disaster - Dr. Matthew Lauer - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Sensing Disaster - Dr. Matthew Lauer - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

In 2007, a three-story-high tsunami slammed the small island of Simbo in the western Solomon Islands. Drawing on over ten years of research, Matthew Lauer provides a vivid and intimate account of this calamitous event and the tumultuous recovery process. His stimulating analysis surveys the unpredictable entanglements of the powerful waves with colonization, capitalism, human-animal communication, spirit beings, ancestral territory, and technoscientific expertise that shaped the disaster’s outcomes. Although the Simbo people had never experienced another tsunami in their lifetimes, nearly everyone fled to safety before the destructive waves hit. To understand their astonishing response, Lauer argues that we need to rethink popular and scholarly portrayals of Indigenous knowledge to avert epistemic imperialism and improve disaster preparedness strategies. In an increasingly disaster-prone era of ecological crises, this provocative book brings new possibilities into view for understanding the causes and consequences of calamity, the unintended effects of humanitarian recovery and mitigation efforts, and the nature of local knowledge.

DKK 252.00
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Experimental Times - Dr. Hemangini Gupta - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Experimental Times - Dr. Hemangini Gupta - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of "backend" IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. The book journeys alongside the migrant workers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who shape and survive the dreams of a "Startup India" knitted through office work, at networking meetings and urban festivals, and across sites of leisure in the city. Tracking techno-futures that involve automation and impending precarity, Hemangini Gupta details the everyday forms of experimentation, care, and friendship that sustain and reproduce life and labor in India's current economy.

DKK 252.00
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After Servitude - Dr. Mareike Winchell - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

After Servitude - Dr. Mareike Winchell - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

How are injurious pasts redeployed by the dispossessed? After Servitude explores how agrarian engineers, Indigenous farmers, Mestizo mining bosses, and rural workers navigate racial hierarchies rooted in histories of forced agrarian labor. In the rural Bolivian province of Ayopaya, where the liberatory promises of property remain elusive, Quechua people address such hierarchies by demanding aid from Mestizo elites and, when that fails, through acts of labor militancy. Against institutional faith in property ownership as a means to detach land from people and present from past, the kin of former masters and servants alike have insisted that ethical debts from earlier racial violence stretch across epochs and formal land sales. What emerges is a vision of justice grounded in popular demands that wealth remain beholden to the region’s agrarian past. By tracing Ayopayans’ active efforts to contend with servitude’s long shadow, Mareike Winchell illuminates the challenges that property confronts as both an extractive paradigm and a means of historical redress.

DKK 252.00
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Essential Dads - Dr. Jennifer M. Randles - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Essential Dads - Dr. Jennifer M. Randles - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

In Essential Dads, sociologist Jennifer Randles shares the stories of more than 60 marginalized men as they sought to become more engaged parents through a government-supported “responsible” fatherhood program. Dads’ experiences serve as a unique window into long-standing controversies about the importance of fathering, its connection to inequality, and the state’s role in shaping men’s parenting. With a compassionate and hopeful voice, Randles proposes a more equitable political agenda for fatherhood, one that carefully considers the social and economic factors shaping men’s abilities to be involved in their children’s lives and the ideologies that rationalize the necessity of that involvement.

DKK 661.00
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Visions of Nature - Dr. Jarrod Hore - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Visions of Nature - Dr. Jarrod Hore - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.

DKK 661.00
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