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Politics of Solidarity Privatisation, Precarious Work and Labour in South Africa
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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£34,00
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Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism
ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones
"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...
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£55,00
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Value of Critique Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour
ISBN: PB: 9783593510101, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"The Value of Critique" casts its gaze on the two dominant modes of passing judgment in art – critique and value (or evaluation). The act of critique has long held sway in the world of art theory but has recently been increasingly abandoned in favor...
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£36,00
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Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction
ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones
More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...
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£36,00
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Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics
ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...
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£44,00
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Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy
ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones
The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...
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£34,00
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Failed Individual Amid Exclusion, Resistance, and the Pleasure of Non-Conformity
ISBN: PB: 9783593507828, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
399 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 halftones
The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? "The Failed Indivi...
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£37,50
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Core Europe and Greater Eurasia A Roadmap for the Future
ISBN: PB: 9783593507842, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
226 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables, 2 figures
In today's world, interstate wars are fairly rare – but when they happen, they tend to be more complicated than in the past, combining regional causes with the involvement of external actors as well. This book looks at that problem in the wake of the...
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£28,50
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Biographies in the Global South Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses
ISBN: PB: 9783593507835, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Research into biography has historically focused almost wholly on the lives of people in the wealthier nations of the Global North. This book corrects that with a focus on the biographical histories of people – seen as part of larger groups or collec...
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£37,00
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Chocolate and Blackness A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9783593507767, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2018
187 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 17 halftones
This book draws out a number of unexpected connections between chocolate and blackness as both idea and reality. Silke Hackenesch builds her argument around four main focal points. First is the modes of production of chocolate – the economic realitie...
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£36,00
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