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  • Anthropology's World

    Life in a Twenty-first-century Discipline

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.Raising fundamental questions such as 'What is anthropology really about?', 'How does the public understand, or misunderstand, anthropology?' and 'What and where do anthropologists study now, and for whom do they write?', ... Read more

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  • Foreign News

    Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afropolitan Horizons

    Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists ... Read more

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  • Writing Future Worlds

    An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of global future scenarios and their impact on a growing, shared culture. Ever since the end of the Cold War, a diverse range of future concepts has emerged in various areas of academia—and even in popular journalism. A number of these key concepts—‘the end of history,’ ‘the clash of civilizations,’ ‘the coming anarchy,’ ‘the world is flat,’ ‘soft ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • World Watching

    Streetcorners and Newsbeats on a Journey through Anthropology

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    This book reflects on the author’s distinguished scholarly career over half a century, linking personal biography to changes in the discipline of anthropology. Ulf Hannerz presents a number of important essays and a brand new chapter that allow readers to track developments in his own thinking and interests as well as broader changes in the field. In doing so he provides students with valuable ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Transnational Connections

    Culture, People, Places

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Series series Comedia
    This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical ... Read more

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  • Small Countries

    Structures and Sensibilities

    Edited by Ulf Hannerz, Andre Gingrich ...
    What is a small country? Is a country small because of the size of its territory or its population? Can smallness be relative, based on the subjective perception of a country's inhabitants or in comparison with one's neighbors? How does smallness, however it is defined, shape a country and its relations with other countries? Answers to these questions, among others, can be found in Small Countries ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Small Countries

    Structures and Sensibilities

    Edited by Ulf Hannerz, Andre Gingrich ...
    What is a small country? Is a country small because of the size of its territory or its population? Can smallness be relative, based on the subjective perception of a country's inhabitants or in comparison with one's neighbors? How does smallness, however it is defined, shape a country and its relations with other countries? Answers to these questions, among others, can be found in Small Countries ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era

    Edited by Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin ...
    The tension between nationalism and internationalism has been a major feature of world politics since the end of the Cold War. Based on a Nobel symposium, this collection brings together an international selection of acclaimed authors from a wide variety of academic disciplines. The book combines focused case-studies and more theoretically based material to examine critically the post-Cold War ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    Edited by Yifat Gutman, Jenny Wüstenberg ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk about ... Read more

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  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

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  • The Decline of American Power

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account ( The New York Times).The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.The United States in decline? Its ... Read more

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