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...Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, this book raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, it explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent...

... Humanitarian intervention Lakoff George Canguilhelm Georges Johnson Mark Coevolution Marks Michael Walker R B J body politic biopolitics bacteria social theory microbes biome state security ecology Does the earth gravitate? Does not all matter, aching, attract all matter...

... state Homo contaminatus body politic biopolitics bacteria social theory microbes biome state security ecology I have all lives, all effects, all causes, all germes, invisibly hidden in myself, This is the earth’s word—the round and compact earth’s, I...

... body politic biopolitics bacteria social theory microbes biome state security ecology But now I sing not war, Nor the measur’d march of soldiers, nor the tents of camps, Nor the regiments hastily coming up deploying in line of battle...

... points of convergence in contemporary social theory and political philosophy. These involve questions about the politics of ontology and the conception of multiplicity, citing theories of Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou; as well as questions about the immanence of expression and the role...

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... strains in social theory, the book contends that cultural studies simply replicates the populism that conditions it, and that civil society theory merely nourishes the neoliberalism that it sets out to oppose. Both end up entrenching the fiction of a social contract. In place of hegemony or civil society...