{"product_id":"life-in-and-against-the-odds-debts-of-freedom-and-the-speculative-roots-of-u-s-culture-paperback","title":"Life in and against the Odds: Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeidi Hoechst\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003e Hoechst 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 \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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeidi Hoechst\u003c\/b\u003e is an activist scholar and educator working in the United States labor movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53212912714035,"sku":"9781439912188","price":58.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OLHKth7yQx9781439912188.webp?v=1775688040","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/life-in-and-against-the-odds-debts-of-freedom-and-the-speculative-roots-of-u-s-culture-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}