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“jan simonsen”

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  • Movement and Connectivity

    Configurations of Belonging

    Edited by Jan Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen, Ada Engebrigtsen ...
    Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of «mobility» for anthropological thought and theorization.The book scrutinizes mobility through long-term ethnographies that encompass life histories of individual persons, cyclical household developments, ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD

  • Voices from the North

    New Trends in Nordic Human Geography

    by Jan Öhman, Kirsten Simonsen ...
    While contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses. Any interest in destabilizing such power-knowledge systems calls upon interventions from other voices. Nordic voices in particular have not been well represented in current ... Read more

    $152.52 CAD

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    Warrior in Wellington Boots

    Autobiography

    by Cornelius Carr ...
    Narrated by Jan Stefan Simonsen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 59 min

    Warrior in Wellington Boots is an inspirational book recounting the memoirs of Cornelius Carr. Cornelius is a former professional boxer who beat the odds fighting his way out of an impoverished life on a large council estate/projects in North Eastern England, United Kingdom. Because of his dedication and persistence to the sport of boxing Cornelius became a British Super Middleweight Champion and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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