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Anthropology

Immensity of Being Singular Approaching Migrant Lives in S?o Paulo Through Resonance

Toji Simone

ISBN: PB: 9781912808571, University of Chicago Press, HAU, July 2021
70 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this powerful new work, Simone Toji reconsiders ethnography as a form of appreciation of the contradictions inherent in the making of life itself. Recovering Bronislaw Malinowski's idea of the "imponderabilia of actual life" as an inspiring ethnog...

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Philosophy

Image Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination

Taylor Mark C., Rubenstein Mary-Jane, Carlson Thomas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226782287, ISBN: HB: 9780226782140, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display images. The thr...

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Africa

Infinite Repertoire On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea

Cohen Adrienne J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226781020, ISBN: HB: 9780226762845, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 2 maps, 2 line drawings

In Guinea's capital city of Conakry, dance is everywhere. Most neighborhoods boast at least one dance troupe, and members of those troupes animate the city's major rites of passage and social events. In Infinite Repertoire, Adrienne Cohen shows how d...

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Political Science

Idiocracy Thinking and Acting in the Age of the Idiot

Terzic Zoran

ISBN: PB: 9783035803679, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Beyond the universal story of human incapability, there is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. This new idiot appears merely as the figure of the s...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

In Honor of Fadime Murder and Shame

Wikan Unni

ISBN: PB: 9780226896878, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime's relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonore...

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America

Political Science

Insurance Era Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America

Horan Caley

ISBN: HB: 9780226784380, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Actuarial thinking is everywhere in contemporary America, an oft-unnoticed byproduct of the postwar insurance industry's political and economic influence. Calculations of risk permeate our institutions, influencing how we understand and manage crime,...

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Education

General

Integrations The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education

Blum Lawrence, Burkholder Zoe

ISBN: PB: 9780226786032, ISBN: HB: 9780226785981, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

The promise of a free, high quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American Dream. Yet, today many children of color do not have access to equal educational opportunities due primarily to white supremacy and class...

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Fiction

I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction Essays

Clarke Brock

ISBN: PB: 9781946724366, University of Chicago Press, Acre Books, March 2021
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and...

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Other

General

Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives

Hennig Anja, Weiberg-Salzmann Mirjam

ISBN: PB: 9783593509976, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2021
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Despite the broadly assumed institutional separation of church and state in contemporary Western politics, there is a trend towards renewed alliances between illiberal interpretations of religion and right-wing populist politics that challenge libera...

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Poetry

In the Antarctic Circle

Sweeney Dennis James

ISBN: PB: 9781938769726, University of Chicago Press, Autumn House Press, March 2021
88 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a l...

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