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James Stafford teaches at Columbia University, where he specializes in the political and intellectua
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Victor Seow’s Carbon Technocracy: Energy regimes in Modern East Asia (U Chicago Press, 2021) is an a
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In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler
Transactions have always taken place. For hundreds of years that 'place' was a market or, more recen
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