{"product_id":"life-in-and-against-the-odds-debts-of-freedom-and-the-speculative-roots-of-u-s-culture-hardback-9781439912171","title":"Life in and Against the Odds; Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture (Hardback) 9781439912171","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLife in and Against the Odds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDebts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeidi Hoechst (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439912171\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 November 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, \u003ci\u003eLife in and against the Odds, \u003c\/i\u003eHoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and ´30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife in and against the Odds\u003c\/i\u003e identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52584912584984,"sku":"9781439912171","price":53.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/life-in-and-against-the-odds-debts-of-freedom-and-the-speculative-roots-of-u-s-culture-hardback-9781439912171","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}