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  • THE TEMPORALITIES OF WASTE
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    THE TEMPORALITIES OF WASTE
    FIONA ALLON / RUTH BARCAN / KARMA EDDISONCOGAN
    This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity and environmental challenges, the book covers a wide range of settings, from the municipal garbage crisis in Beirut, to food rescue campaigns in Hong Kong and the toxic by-products of computer chip product...

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  • COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
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    COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
    RUTH BARCAN
    Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they are more than a medical and economic sensation. At once spiritual and bodily, medical and recreational, they are an enormously popular cultural practice bound up with the pleasure-seeking drive of consumer culture as well as with spiritual and neo-liberal values.Comp...

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  • ACADEMIC LIFE AND LABOUR IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY
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    ACADEMIC LIFE AND LABOUR IN THE NEW UNIVERSITY
    RUTH BARCAN
    What does it mean to be an academic today? What kinds of experiences do students have, and how are they affected by what they learn? Why do so many students and their teachers feel like frauds? Can we learn to teach and research in ways that foster hope and deflate pretension? Academic Life and Labour in the New University: Hope and Other Choices addresses these big questions,...

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