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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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Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9783593501017, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
230 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates
In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real" impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic imperso...
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£45,00
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Fitting In and Getting Happy How Conformity to Societal Norms Affects Subjective Well-being
ISBN: PB: 9783593500560, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
196 pp., 22x13.9 cm
Do unemployment, religiosity, or morality play a role in people's perception of happiness and well-being?  Using large-scale survey data from more than seventy countries, Olga Stavrova shows in "Fitting In and Getting Happy" that to a large extent ha...
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£37,00
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Feelings at the Margins Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia
ISBN: PB: 9783593500058, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, June 2014
240 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones
"Feelings at the Margins" offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional impact on affected individuals and groups. By combining anthropological, political, and historical per...
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£37,00
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From the Far Right to the Mainstream Islamophobia in Party Politics and the Media
ISBN: PB: 9783593396484, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2012
210 pp., 21.6x14 cm
This volume focuses on how the far right's views of Islam have been increasingly co-opted by both liberal and conservative parties and woven into the policies of Western governments over the past two decades. The unprecedented influence of xenophobic...
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£37,00
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Food for Thought Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany
ISBN: PB: 9783593392523, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
451 pp., 21x14 cm, 35 colour illus.
In recent decades, many Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have settled in Germany and Israel. In "Food for Thought", Julia Bernstein conducts a widely interdisciplinary investigation into the ways in which such immigrant...
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£41,50
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Frames of Friction Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention
ISBN: PB: 9783593390994, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2010
294 pp., 21.5x14 cm
In "Frames of Friction", Carsten Junker maps out a dazzling panorama of critical cultural debates from the twentieth century to explore the ways in which African American speakers and writers established their authority and gained recognition. Taking...
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£40,00
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