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  • Life by Algorithms

    How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World

    Edited by Catherine Besteman, Hugh Gusterson ...
    Essays on the downsides, dysfunctions, and dangers of automated decision-making: "An excellent survey of the algorithmically managed life." — ChoiceThe phone systems that businesses use to screen calls. The link between student standardized test scores and public schools' access to resources. The algorithms that regulate patient diagnoses and reimbursements to doctors. The impenetrable corporate ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Refuge

    Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

    by Catherine Besteman ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Militarized Global Apartheid

    by Catherine Besteman ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    In Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa's apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Unraveling Somalia

    Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

    by Catherine Besteman ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees.During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How to Get Published in Anthropology

    A Guide for Students and Young Professionals

    by Jason E. Miller, Oona Schmid, Catherine Besteman, Peter Biella, Tom Boellstorff, Don Brenneis, Paul N. Edwards, Paul A. Garber, Linda Forman, Ricky S. Huard, Hugh W. Jarvis, John Kevin Trainor, James M. Wallace, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Mary Bucholtz, Peter Givler, William Green ...
    This one-stop guide to getting published in anthropology gives graduate students and young professionals the crucial information and tools they need to tackle the all-important requirement to publish. Part I provides step-by-step guidance on key efforts that budding anthropologists can benefit from, including organizing a conference panel, creating a poster, presenting a paper, getting an article ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Unraveling Somalia

    Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery

    by Catherine Besteman ...
    Series series The Ethnography of Political Violence
    In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees.During the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Insecure American

    How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It

    Edited by Hugh Gusterson, Catherine Besteman ...
    Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

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  • Could It Happen Here?

    Canada in the Age of Trump and Brexit

    by Michael Adams ...
    From award-winning author Michael Adams, Could It Happen Here? draws on groundbreaking new social research to show whether Canadian society is at risk of the populist forces afflicting other parts of the world.Americans elected Donald Trump. Britons opted to leave the European Union. Far-right, populist politicians channeling anger at out-of-touch “elites” are gaining ground across Europe. In vote ... Read more

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  • The Case for Colonialism

    by Bruce Gilley ...
    "For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name." So began Professor Bruce Gilley's watershed academic article "The Case for Colonialism" of 2017. The article sparked a global furor. Critics and defenders of Gilley's argument battled it out in the court of public opinion. The Times of London described Gilley as "probably the academic most likely to be no-platformed in Britain." ... Read more

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  • How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism

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    OneZero, Medium's official technology publication, is thrilled to announce a print-on-demand edition of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow, with an exclusive new chapter. How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism was first published online in August, where it was an instant hit with readers, scholars, and critics alike. For years now, we've been hearing about the ills of ... Read more

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