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Professional Wrestling Politics and Populism

Mazer Sharon, Levi Heather, Laine Eero, Haynes Nell

ISBN: PB: 9780857427946, Seagull Books, March 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A wildly popular form of mass media and live entertainment, professional wrestling makes a spectacle of violent acts. With its long history of working contemporary events into storylines and commenting upon cultural and military conflicts, profession...

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Problem with Feeding Cities The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226703077, ISBN: HB: 9780226702919, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables

For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents...

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Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa

Ludwig Carmen

ISBN: PB: 9783593510477, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
430 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate, 15 halftones

"Politics of Solidarity" explores the transformation of public services in post-apartheid South Africa and the effects of privatization in three cities: Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork, Carmen Ludwi...

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Polygamy An Early American History

Pearsall Sarah M. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226843, Yale University Press, October 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities,...

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Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila

Garrido Marco Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...

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Players and Pawns How Chess Builds Community and Culture

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639864, ISBN: HB: 9780226264981, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones

A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess is a social duet: two players in silent dialogue who always take each other into account i...

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Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia

McKee Guian A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598420, ISBN: HB: 9780226560120, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables

Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, "The Problem of Jobs" reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rat...

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Protest. The Aesthetics of Resistance

ISBN: PB: 9783037785607, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2018
448 pp., 24x16 cm, 199 illus.

"Protest." presents and reflects on present and past forms of protest and looks at marginalized communities' practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives. The publication shows how protest draws on irony, subversion, and provocation fr...

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Phoenix Zones Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives

Ferdowsian Hope

ISBN: HB: 9780226475936, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few things get our compassion flowing like the sight of suffering. But our response is often shaped by our ability to empathize with others. Some people respond to the suffering of only humans or to one person's plight more than another's. Others rea...

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Passing Two Publics in a Mexican Border City

Yeh Rihan

ISBN: PB: 9780226511917, ISBN: HB: 9780226511887, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables

Tijuana is the largest of Mexico's northern border cities, and although it has struggled during the United States' dramatic escalation of border enforcement, it nonetheless remains deeply connected with California by one of the largest, busiest inter...

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