Human rights, civil rights Books
University of Pennsylvania Press Fighting Machines
Book SynopsisLethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines?In the book, Dan Saxon argues that the use of LAWS to take human life constitutes a violation of human dignity. Rather than concentrating on the victims of the use of lethal force, Saxon instead focuses on the technology and relevant legal principles and rules to advance several propositions. First, as LAWS operate at increasingly greater speeds, their use will undermine Trade ReviewLethal autonomous weapons systems – ‘killer robots’ — are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Their champions argue that taking targeting decisions out of the hands of fallible humans will save lives in wartime. In this powerful and rigorously reasoned critique, legal expert Dan Saxon warns that very soon the speed and complexity of the weapons will make it impossible to keep human decision makers in the loop. The result is a disastrous loss of responsibility – and responsibility lies at the heart of war fighters’ human dignity and capacity for empathy. This is the best book I know on the law and morality of autonomous weapons systems. * David Luban, Georgetown University Law Center *Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the moral and legal challenges posed by the use of lethal autonomous weapons. Saxon adeptly traverses multiple bodies of law to examine how such weapons will erode moral agency, human dignity, and international law. * Sarah Knuckey, Columbia Law School *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South
Book SynopsisDrawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea''s democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s. It shows how local pro-democracy activists pragmatically engaged with global advocacy groups, especially Amnesty International and the World Council of Churches, to maximize their socioeconomic and political struggles against the backdrop of South Korea''s authoritarian industrialization and U.S. hegemony in East Asia. Ingu Hwang details how local prodemocracy protesters were able to translate their sufferings and causes into international human rights claims that highlighted how U.S. Cold War geopolitics impeded democratization in South Korea. In tracing the increasing coalitional ties between local pro-democracy protests and transnational human rights activism, the book also calls attention to the parallel development of counteraction human rights policies by theTrade Review"In this outstanding book, the scholar Ingu Hwang makes a case that the final triumph of South Korea’s 40-year struggle for constitutional democracy was made possible in large part by an unprecedented international coalition linking Korean workers, clergy, students, trade unionists, and journalists with their counterparts in the United States, Japan, and Europe." * Asian Studies Review *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Citizenship on the Edge
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Editors Nancy J. Hirschmann and Deborah A Thomas in Citizenship on the Edge open the door to discussions that go beyond the assumptions of citizenship rights to explain how singular and compounding social inequalities make citizenship unstable and precarious around the world. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary volume breaks down the complex relationship between sex, gender and race, and the liberal conception of citizenship and democracy. Contributors from a plethora of perspectives reveal the harsh truth of obtaining and maintaining citizenship within the social, economic, and political realms while confronting negative societal backlash." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction. Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race Deborah A. Thomas and Nancy J. Hirschmann Chapter 1. When Words Don't Disappear: An Intersectional Analysis of Hate Speech Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro Chapter 2. A Trinity of Inequality: Wealth, Marriage, and Masculinity Erez Aloni Chapter 3. New-Old Law in the Postcolony: Regulating Sex in the Anglophone Caribbean Tracy Robinson Chapter 4. Institutional Changes and Women's Citizenship in the Maghreb: Toward a New Gender Regime? Valentine M. Moghadam Chapter 5. The Murder of Malcoum Tate: Madness, Violence, and Black Masculinity in the Late Twentieth-Century United States Michael Rembis Chapter 6. From Anomaly to Alarm: Trans and Crip Bodies in the Security State Ellen Samuels Chapter 7. It's Blue and It's Up to You! Examining Federal Antitrafficking Awareness Campaigns in the United States Samantha Majic Chapter 8. Reproductive Warfare: Enforced Sterilizations in Peru Kimberly Theidon Afterword. Citizenship on the Edge in the Age of COVID Nancy J. Hirschmann Index Acknowledgments List of Contributors
£40.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom
Book SynopsisTrade Review".Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom is an accessible book that shares valuable insights learned from comparative and collaborative research engagement with Zapotec and Yurok educators across several years, including pandemic years, which attest to the commitment of the researcher to Indigenous education. Engaging with this book can inspire readers to consider how we can engage in Indigenous education research and practice to benefit its diverse actors and how we can do so by drawing on a wide range of knowledges and ways of knowing—across cultures, across disciplines and across methodological paradigms." * Revista: Harvard Reiew of Latin America *"Mneesha Gellman shows how Indigenous language programs in high schools operate as collaborative platforms for Indigenous identity reclamation, multicultural empowerment, and decolonization, and demonstrates how Indigenous languages and cultures are relevant issues to anyone interested in forging a fairer society." * Américo Mendoza Mori, Harvard University *"This book shows why language matters so much for Indigenous identity, and how communities like mine are keeping our language alive. Mneesha Gellman demonstrates how important it is for young people to learn about themselves and their cultures, and for schools to make a place for everyone in the schoolroom." * Victoria Carlson, Yurok Language Program Manager for the Yurok Tribe *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Contemporary Culturecide: Why Language Politics Matters for Youth Participation Chapter 2. Collaborative Methodology: Research With, Not On, Indigenous Communities Chapter 3. Language Regimes, Education, and Culturecide in Mexico and the United States Chapter 4. Weaving Resistance: Zapotec Language Survival in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico Chapter 5. “My Art Is My Participation”: Language and Rights in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico Chapter 6. Like Water Slipping Through Cracks in a Basket: Teaching and Learning Yurok at Hoopa Valley High School, California Chapter 7. “We Are Still Here”: Navigating Cultural Rights and Discrimination at Eureka High School, California Conclusion. Advocating for Multilingual, Pluricultural Democracy Appendix 1. Informational Letter for Students, Parents, Guardians, and Community Members Appendix 2. Permission Form Appendix 3. Examples of Qualitative Interview Questions for Research Appendix 4. Examples of Focus Group Questions Appendix 5. Survey, English Version for Use in Language Classes (V1) Appendix 6. Discussion of Survey Data in Relation to Language and Identity Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press When I Look into the Mirror and See You Women
Book SynopsisIn the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America's decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suarez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to rape and other tortures. Here, Margaret Randall recounts the terror, resistance and remarkable survival of the two women.
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Rutgers University Press Domestic Violence at the Margins Readings on Race
Book SynopsisThis anthology reorients the field of domestic violence research by bringing attention to the structural forms of oppression in communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, or social class. It is for courses in sociology, criminology, social work, and women's studies and provides information and resources for professionals.Trade ReviewBy bringing together these writings, Natalie Sokoloff has exposed the inherent biases that have influenced so much of the mainstream work to end violence against women. The authors do not avoid discussion of racism within organizations, the heterosexist assumptions that permeate many approaches, or the conservative and class-based strategies that have come to be accepted as model interventions.... It is rare to read such thoughtful analyses of gender violence that include ample attention to other vulnerabilities in addition to gender oppression.--from the foreword by Beth E. RichieTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword BETH E. RICHIE 1- Domestic Violence: Examining the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender--An Introduction NATALIE J. SOKOLOFF AND IDA DUPONT PART I. FRAMEOWORKS AND OVERARCHING THEMES 2-Strengthening Domestic Violence Theories: Intersections of Race, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Gender MICHELLE BOGRAD 3- Feminism versus Multiculturalism LETI VOLPP 4- A Black Feminist Reflection on the Antiviolence Movement BETH E. RICHIE 5- Women's Relaities: Defining Violence against Women by Immigration, Race, and Class SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA 6- Compounding the Triple Jeopardy: Battering in Lesbian of COlor Relationships VALLI KALEI KANUHA 7- The Intersectionality of DOmestic Violence and Welfare in the Lives of Poor Women JYL JOSEPHSON 8- Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex: Interpersonal and State Violence against Women of Color INCITE!-CRITICAL RESISTANCE STATEMENT WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIA SUDBURY PART II. CULTURE, RESISTANCE, AND COMMUNITY Introduction NATALIE J. SOKOLOFF AND KATHRYN LAUGHON 9- Domestic Violence in African American Communities ROBERT L. HAMPTON, RICARDO CARRILLO, AND JOAN KIM 10- Nashville: Domestic Violence and Incarcerated Women in Poor Black Neighborhoods NEIL WEBSDALE 11- Domestic violence in Ethnically and Racially Diverse Families: The "Political Gag Order" Has Been Lifted CAROLYN M. WEST 12- The Importance of Community in a Feminist Analysis of Domestic Violence among Native Americans SHERRY L. HAMBY 13- Rethinking Battered Women Syndrome: A Black Feminist Perspective SHARON ANGELLA ALLARD 14- Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community BEVERLY HORSBURGH 15- "I've Slept in Clothes Long Enough": Excavating the Sounds of Domestic Violence among Women in the White Working Class LIOS WEIS, MICHELLE FINE, AMIRA PROWELLER, CORINE BERTRAM, AND JULIA MARUSZA 16- FIghting Back: Abused South Asian Women's Strategies of Resistance MARGARET ABRAHAM 17- Puertyo Rican Battered Women Redefining Gneder, Sexuality, Culture, Violence, and Resistance MICHELLE FINE, ROSEMARIE A. ROBERTS, AND LOIS WEIS PART III. STRUCTURAL CONTEXTS, CULTURALLY COMPETENT APPROACHES, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, AND SOCIAL CHANGE Introduction CHRISTINA PRATT AND NATALIE J. SOKOLOFF 18- The Cultural Context Model: A New Paradigm for Accountability, Empowerment, and the Development of Critical Consciousness against Domestic Violence RHEA V. ALMEIDA AND JUDITH LOCKARD 19- Battering, Forgiveness, and Redemption: Alternative Models for Addressing Domestic Violence in COmmunities of Color BRENDA V. SMITH 20- Sustaining an Ethic of Resistance against Domestic Violence in Black Faith-Based Communities TRACI C. WEST 21- Navigating the Anti-Immigratnt Wave: The Korean Women's Hotline and the Politics of Community LISA SUN-HEE PARK 22- Shifting Power for Battered Women: Law, Material Resources, and Por Women of Color DONNA COKER 23- Reducing Women Battering: The Role of Structural Approaches NEIL WEBSDALE AND BYRON JOHNSON 24- Looking to the Future: Domestic Violence, Women of Color, the State, and Social Change ANDREA SMITH Biographical Notes
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Rutgers University Press Just Advocacy Womens Human Rights Transnational
Book SynopsisJust Advocacy? sheds light on the often overlooked ways that women and children are further subjugated when political or humanitarian groups represent them solely as victims and portray the individuals that are helping them as paternal saviours. It proposes a more nuanced and politically responsible understanding of human rights.Trade ReviewInterdisciplinary in design and transnational in scope, this book brings together some of the best new work in feminist scholarship on human rights. -- Patrice Petro * professor and director of the Center for International Education at the Universi *Not a moment too soon, Just Advocacy? arrives to guide us in our thinking about international human rights and the gender politics of representation. Presenting a timely critique of the ways in which global feminism constructs gendered subjects of aid, the editors and contributors to this volume challenge us to recognize the legacies of colonialism in the workings of governmental and non-governmental organizations. -- Caren Kaplan * associate professor of women & gender studies at the University of California at *Table of ContentsForeword by Inderpal GrewalAcknowledgments Introduction by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol Part One: Human Rights, Trans/Nationalisms, and Cultures of Security 1. Claiming Afghan Women: The Challenge of Human Rights Discourse for Transnational Feminism by Amy Farrell and Patrice McDermott 2. The Boundaries of Terror: Feminism, Human Rights, and the Politics of Global Crisis by Leela Fernandes 3. The Campaign for Fair Trials Abroad: Long-Distance Nationalism and Post-Imperial Anxiety by Susan Koshy Part Two: Human Rights and the Evidence of Experience 4. Autobiography's Wounds by Leigh Gilmore 5. Belated Narrating: "Grandmothers" Telling Stores of Forced Sexual Servitude during World War II by Sidonie Smith 6. Kairos and the Geopolitical Rhetorics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy by Wendy S. Hesford 7. Misrepresentations of Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and Compassion by Arabella Lyon Part Three: Correspondences: Activist and "Official" Networks 8. Intensifications: Representing Gender and Sexuality at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS by Meredith Raimondo 9. Human Rights, Feminism, and Transnational Labor Solidarity by Mary Margaret Fonow 10. Feminist Strategic Rethinking of Human Rights Discourses in Education by Jill Blackmore 11. Piercing the Veil by Mahavi SunderList of ContributorsIndex
£28.80
Rutgers University Press A Peoples History of the European Court of Human
Book SynopsisIntroduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe - a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger - whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. In the battle for the world's conscience, this title shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.Trade ReviewA gripping account of the stories behind the cases that have made European human rights jurisprudence the force for moral good that it is today. -- Conor Gearty * director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics *A one-of-a kind account of Strasbourg law. -- Mark Janis * William F. Starr Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law *We in the United States, who have watched the deterioration of constitutional rights in the absence of strong judicial oversight, can learn from the remarkable example of the European Court of Human Rights in this wonderful book. -- Howard ZinnA wonderfully written and researched book that celebrates Europe's achievements in defending human rights through the stories of the victims who took their complaints to the European Court of Human Rights. -- Professor Kevin Boyle * Human Rights Centre, University of Essex *Apart from the legal issues, the stories of lives shattered by torturers are compelling and poignant . . . [G]eneral readers will be rewarded by its lively content and readability. Highly recommended. * Choice *If you haven't come across this book, all the stories behind the cases are here. It is often funny and always moving, written in a light style that celebrates all those that made the Strasbourg caselaw. -- Jonathan Cooper * European Human Rights Law Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I. The Expanding Ambit of Personal Life 1. Why Bastard? 2. When Irish Eyes Are Crying 3. Gay in a Time of Troubles 4. Dudgeon's Children 5. The Greening of Europe? 6. Dumb Immigrants Part II. The Rights of Expression 7. Minos and Jehovah 8. Recovered Memories 9. Mohammed Comes to Strasbourg Part III. State Violence 10. The Death Penalty, Mutilation, and the Whip 11. The Original Hooded Men 12. The Tortures of Aksoy 13. Two Faces of Kurdish Feminism Part IV. Challenges for the Future 14. The Chechen Challenge 15. The Roma Challenge Part V. Concluding Thoughts 16. A Constitutional Identity for Europe 17. Human Rights in Europe and America Sources Index
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Rutgers University Press Invisible No More A Photographic Chronicle of the
Book SynopsisRenowned photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo presents a moving photographic chronicle—a celebration—filled with more than one hundred dynamic images and thirty evocative stories of people with intellectual disabilities, those who may have been born with Down syndrome, autism, or who are "otherwise abled." Trade Review"This is a very special book indeed. Poignant, powerful and heart rending to say the least, Vincenzo Pietropaolo has through his photographs and short evocative stories that accompany them, made visible the too often invisible lives of individuals who are born with intellectual disabilities." * Metapsychology *"Invisible No More is special for its blend of Pietropaolo techniques-from straightforward news photography to painterly evocations-and for the perceptual ruse it plays on its readers." * Toronto Star *Table of Contents Photographs and stories Friendship Confidence Adoption Mothers Puppy love Amy and Ginny Apprehension Reflections Sound surfer Doubt Navigating Acceptance Making raindrops No patronage, please Immigration Bells of inclusion Dance of wheelchairs Theater Max, a musician Opera tales Confluences Like an ex-convict Family A piano concerto Baby brothers Dinner Baby won't cry Working for a living A walk in the park Cyberspace The ice patch Health care professionals On children's books Retirement home Oak tree
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Rutgers University Press The Indecent Screen Regulating Television in the
Book SynopsisThe Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, the Federal Communications Commission, the TV industry, and audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on decency debates since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which have called into question the roles of family and government, and the value of free speech. Trade Review“The Indecent Screen may represent the literal ‘bookend’ on the history of broadcasting in relation to questions of choice in the market, public service and the airwaves, and decency. It could not be more timely and engaged with present debates.” -- Victoria E. Johnson * author of Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity *"The Indecent Screen is an incisive look at the limits and limitations of contemporary media policy." -- Jennifer Holt * author of Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996 *"Instead of...innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen." * Concurring Opinions *"Recommended." * Choice *"Mass Communication and media law scholars will find this text most helpful." * Communications Booknotes Quarterly *"The Indecent Screen is a unique and necessary contribution to the field of censorship studies, and like broadcast television itself, justifies its place with enthralling detail and a powerful, complex history." * Journal of Digital Media & Policy *“The Indecent Screen may represent the literal ‘bookend’ on the history of broadcasting in relation to questions of choice in the market, public service and the airwaves, and decency. It could not be more timely and engaged with present debates.” -- Victoria E. Johnson * author of Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity *"The Indecent Screen is an incisive look at the limits and limitations of contemporary media policy." -- Jennifer Holt * author of Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996 *"Instead of...innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen." * Concurring Opinions *"Recommended." * Choice *"Mass Communication and media law scholars will find this text most helpful." * Communications Booknotes Quarterly *"The Indecent Screen is a unique and necessary contribution to the field of censorship studies, and like broadcast television itself, justifies its place with enthralling detail and a powerful, complex history." * Journal of Digital Media & Policy *Table of ContentsContents Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Television and Indecency 1 A Brief History of Indecency in Media in the Twentieth Century 2 Targeting Television in the Twenty-First Century 3 Television: More or Less? 4 Bleeps and Other Obscenities 5 Who’s Afraid of Dick Smart? The Body Politic, Public Access, and the Punitive State Conclusion: The Future of Indecency, and Why It Matters Acknowledgments Notes Index
£26.99
Rutgers University Press The Indecent Screen Regulating Television in the
Book SynopsisThe Indecent Screen explores clashes over indecency in broadcast television among U.S.-based media advocates, the Federal Communications Commission, the TV industry, and audiences. Cynthia Chris focuses on decency debates since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which have called into question the roles of family and government, and the value of free speech. Trade Review“The Indecent Screen may represent the literal ‘bookend’ on the history of broadcasting in relation to questions of choice in the market, public service and the airwaves, and decency. It could not be more timely and engaged with present debates.” -- Victoria E. Johnson * author of Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity *"The Indecent Screen is an incisive look at the limits and limitations of contemporary media policy." -- Jennifer Holt * author of Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996 *"Instead of...innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen." * Concurring Opinions *"Recommended." * Choice *"Mass Communication and media law scholars will find this text most helpful." * Communications Booknotes Quarterly *"The Indecent Screen is a unique and necessary contribution to the field of censorship studies, and like broadcast television itself, justifies its place with enthralling detail and a powerful, complex history." * Journal of Digital Media & Policy *“The Indecent Screen may represent the literal ‘bookend’ on the history of broadcasting in relation to questions of choice in the market, public service and the airwaves, and decency. It could not be more timely and engaged with present debates.” -- Victoria E. Johnson * author of Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity *"The Indecent Screen is an incisive look at the limits and limitations of contemporary media policy." -- Jennifer Holt * author of Empires of Entertainment: Media Industries and the Politics of Deregulation, 1980-1996 *"Instead of...innovations quelling concerns that TV networks were too often transmitting indecent material that was accessible to children, complaints about indecency skyrocketed soon after the turn of the century. Chris demonstrates that these clashes are significant battles over the role of family, the role of government, and the value of free speech in our lives, arguing that an uncensored media is so imperative to the public good that we can, and must, endure the occasional indecent screen." * Concurring Opinions *"Recommended." * Choice *"Mass Communication and media law scholars will find this text most helpful." * Communications Booknotes Quarterly *"The Indecent Screen is a unique and necessary contribution to the field of censorship studies, and like broadcast television itself, justifies its place with enthralling detail and a powerful, complex history." * Journal of Digital Media & Policy *Table of ContentsContents Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Television and Indecency 1 A Brief History of Indecency in Media in the Twentieth Century 2 Targeting Television in the Twenty-First Century 3 Television: More or Less? 4 Bleeps and Other Obscenities 5 Who’s Afraid of Dick Smart? The Body Politic, Public Access, and the Punitive State Conclusion: The Future of Indecency, and Why It Matters Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Virginia Press Making Charlottesville
Book SynopsisThe 2017 ‘Summer of Hate’ in Charlottesville became a worldwide media event. Aniko Bodroghkozy examines this formative moment in US history by juxtaposing it against two other epochal moments that put American racism and the struggle against it on worldwide display: the 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma campaigns of the civil rights movement.Trade Review“Professor Bodroghkozy deliberately likens the 1963 Birmingham and 1965 Selma protests, Charlottesville in 2017, and the January 6th insurrection insofar that the organizers use media coverage to spread their message. Antiracists have garnered national media attention to expose racism to galvanize outrage to change racist policies. White nationalists have captured media attention to organize and amplify racist violence and white supremacy. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to understand the power of media.” - Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Center for Antiracist Research at, Boston University, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America“Bodroghkozy makes a timely and original connection of the power of media to both contemporary racial unrest and the civil rights movement. A pleasure to read and a flat-out good book.” - Julian Maxwell Hayter, University of Richmond, author of The Dream is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia“In Making #Charlottesville, Aniko Bodroghkozy gives us an important entry in the historical record of the events of August 2017 and connects it to the attempted coup four years later. She ties her analysis of the visual imagery and iconography that inspires the far right to the core of mainstream American values. Yet there is much to be hopeful about here in the work of antiracist activists who took to the streets and to social media to combat the fascists who converged on Charlottesville. This is a crucial intervention in media studies and the far right.” - Jessie Daniels, Hunter College (CUNY), author of Cyber Racism: White Supremacy Online and the New Attack on Civil Rights“Media is an inescapable influence in shaping our perceptions. Dr. Bodroghkozy offers keen insight into how it has been used to create the truths and myths that have shaped the world’s view of #Charlottesville. She also compares and contrasts how media was used to manipulate the public in the past. We have been played.” - Susan Bro, mother of Heather Heyer
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New York University Press And Gently He Shall Lead Them
Book SynopsisNext to Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X, Bob Moses was arguably one of the most influential and respected leaders of the civil rights movement. This book chronicles both Moses' political activity and his intellectual development, revealing the strong influence of French philosopher Albert Camus on his life and work.Trade ReviewThis moving account of a key figure in American history contributes greatly to our understanding of the past. It also informs our vision of the servant leader needed to guide the 1990s movement. -- Marian Wright Edelman, President Emerita, Children's Defense FundFirst-rate intellectual and political history, this study explores the relations between the practical objectives of SNCC and its moral and cultural goals. -- Irwin Unger, author of These United States and Postwar AmericaRobert Moses emerges from these pages as that rare modern hero, the man whose life enacts his principles, the rebel who steadfastly refuses to be victim or executioner and who mistrusts even his own leadership out of commitment to cultivating the strength, self-reliance, and solidarity of those with and for whom he is working. Eric Burner's engrossing account of Robert Moses's legendary career brings alive the everyday realities of the Civil Rights Movement, especially the grueling campaign for voter registration and political organization in Mississippi. -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities, Emory University, author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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New York University Press The New Black Politician Cory Booker Newark and
Book SynopsisThis book provides an on the ground understanding of contemporary Black and mayoral politics.Trade Review"While centered on Booker's political life (his 1998 election to the Newark Municipal Council, when he defeated incumbent George Branch; his defeat in his 2002 run against Mayor Sharpe James, who held the office for 20 years (1986-2006); his successful campaign in 2006; his re-election in 2010), Gillespie fleshes out her account through reviews of relevant contemporary political theory and scores of interviews with largely political figures whose opinions about Booker are quite varied. The illustrations of campaign posters enliven and enrich the text." * Publishers Weekly *"The underlying study on which Andra Gillespie hangs this portrait of Booker is the phenomenon she labels the 'entrepreneurial black politician' who attempts to move out the old guardthe black officeholders who forged victories based on the fruits of the civil rights movement." * Newark Star Ledger *"The New Black Politicianwill be of interest to all who ponder [Cory] Booker's political future in New Jersey." -- Kathleen Daley * Star-Ledger Entertainment Desk *"Gillespie has performed the difficult task of objectively evaluating her personal acquaintances in a way that adds to the understanding of urban politics in general." * CHOICE *"[] Gillespie provides a noteworthy contribution to the scholarship of deracialization among Black politicians. Her work is certain to spark much debate about the dilemmas and implications of Black candidates running against each other in minority-majority jurisdictionsall while attempting to maintain true to the interests of the communities they serve." * National Political Science Review *"Anybody with an acute interest in the future of black politics in postracial" America should absolutely read this book." -- Nick Peruffo * The Trentorian *"Interesting, thoughtful, and broad in its revelation of the post-racial black politician." -- Andrea Simpson,author of The Tie That Binds"The New Black Politician is a telling and insightful analysis of the rise of Newark's city mayor Cory Booker, arguably one of the nation's most interesting and visible city mayors. Andra Gillespie goes deep into the inner working of that city's politics. She derives political meaning from what to causal observers looks like urban pandemonium. This remarkable book will have a significant impact on the study of black politics and, more broadly, on urban politics." -- Wilbur C. Rich,author of David Dinkins and New York City Politics: Race, Images, and the Media"A careful, detailed and penetrating case-study of one of the leading African American politicians of the post-civil rights era, this groundbreaking work will allow political science students to compare and contrast both his electoral strategies with his administrative strategies in trying to revitalize this moribund urban area. The nature and scope of this unparalleled scholarly work is bold, imaginative, and timely." -- Hanes Walton, Jr.,co-author of The African American Electorate"In The New Black Politician, Gillespie confirms her place as a leading scholar of racial politics. Using a lengthy period of close observation, Gillespie provides anastute account of Mayor Cory Booker's experiencein juggling the cross-pressures at work in Newark, New Jersey.Newark proves in Gillespie's able hands to be an illuminating case of tensions between generations, between classes, and, above all, between high aspirations and adifficult reality." -- Clarence N. Stone,author of Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Clash of Two Black Americas? Black Political Entrepreneurship, Twenty-First-Century Style: The theory of Elite Displacement ? Prelude: The Rise of Cory Booker ? Losing: The 2002 Mayoral Election ? Winning: h e 2006 Election Part II: It's Not Easy Being Elite: Governing Challenges in Post-Racial Black America? Policy Is Politics ? Perception Is Reality: Judging Cory Booker ? The Politics of Perception: Cory Booker in Local and State Affairs ? 2010: Electoral Politics Revisited ? Uncle Julius's Cabin: Black Political Entrepreneurs and the Future of Black Politics Epilogue Appendix A: Methodological Notes Appendix B: List of Interviewees Notes Index 305About the Author
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New York University Press Refugee Roulette Disparities in Asylum
Book SynopsisA disturbing look at how asylum seekers fare in AmericaTrade Review"Refugee Roulette reveals how far the nations asylum adjudication system has veered from its traditional moorings of equal justice under law and protection for those in danger of political persecution. The authors bring impressive experience, care, and seasoned judgment to the table. Refugee Roulette should serve as a blueprint for action by policymakers and a new administration." -- Doris Meissner,Former Commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization, Service and Senior Fellow, Migration Polic"A clarion call for a new humanitarian and transparent system that must be brought into line with our supposed democratic principles, particularly in this era of Obama reform. A must-read for students of immigration law and international human rights." -- David Brotherton,Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York"Insiders have long bemoaned the arbitrary and unfair outcomes of the U.S. asylum system. Finally we have a meticulous and compelling study that lays bare the indisputable problems and essential remedies for all to see." -- Jacqueline Bhabha,Jeremiah Smith Jnr Lecturer, Harvard Law School, Director, University Committee on Human Rights Studies"This pathbreaking study of the asylum system in the United States, coupled with the comparative commentary, reveals the enormous challenges of making fair decisions about asylum claims when the underlying facts are far away and decisions rest on assessments of credibilityof people who often do not speak the language of the judge. At its core, this work raises the profound question of when a system of decision making qualifies to be called a & court." -- Judith Resnik,Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School"The study concerns one & big idea which, importantly, is accessible to both lawyers and laymen without any special jurisprudential or philosophical introduction: the right to have like cases treated alike [The authors] seem to be stones that have rubbed each other smooth. Their prose is beautifully clear throughout." * Modern Law Review *"[T]his is research in the best tradition: it confirms what you largely know already but gives you the ammunition to prove it." * Justice Journal *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Refugee Roulette 1 The Asylum Process 2 The Regional Asylum Offices 3 The Immigration Courts 4 The Board of Immigration Appeals 5 The United States Courts of Appeals 6 Conclusions and Policy RecommendationsPart II International, Judicial, and Scholarly Perspectives 7 Refugee Roulette in the Canadian Casino Audrey Macklin 8 Refugee Roulette: A UK Perspective Robert Thomas 9 Consistency, Credibility, and Culture Bruce J. Einhorn 10 Asylum in a Different Voice? Judging Immigration Claims and Gender Carrie Menkel-Meadow 11 Refugee Roulette in an Administrative Law Context: The Deja Vu of Decisional Disparities in Agency Adjudication Margaret H. Taylor 12 Learning to Live with Unequal Justice: Asylum and the Limits to Consistency Steven H. Legomsky 13 The Counsel Conundrum: Effective Representation in Immigration Proceedings M. Margaret McKeown and Allegra McLeod Methodological Appendix Ninth Circuit Appendix Index About the Authors
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New York University Press Bloody Lowndes Civil Rights and Black Power in
Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movementTrade Review"Without succumbing to the temptation to paint the struggle for black equality in broad strokes, Jeffries isolates the locus of the issues that framed the movement and uses these to explain how, through a variety of social networks, the movement spread regionally and ultimately nationally... is an exceptional piece of scholarship. Jeffries has produced an important work that will unquestionably reshape the debate over the origins and legacy of the civil rights and black power movements for years to come." * Journal of American History *"Bloody Lowndes is an important book. The authors careful analysis of the 1966 election is both readable and quite useful to understanding the importance of the moment." * EverythingAlabama.com *"Jeffries examines the topic more thoroughly and in greater depth than any previous study, pressing the narrative back to Reconstruction but focusing most of his narrative and analysis on the mid-1960s and 1970s. The research is wide-ranging and in great depth, both in archival and oral history sources. . .this book is a needed and important addition to the historiography of the Civil Rights Movement." * CHOICE *"Hasan Kwame Jeffries Bloody Lowndesprovides a nuanced portrait of the marriage between federal policy initiatives and local activism in the battle to dismantle Jim Crow, focusing on the months from March 1965 through November 1966 when SNCC workers, led by Stokely Carmichael, were active in Lowndes County, Alabama." * American Studies *"Jeffries' book sets a new standard for the political history of African Americans in the rural South by refocusing on the mechanics of power taken, used, lost, and retaken between blacks and whites, rather than the larger fabric of social and cultural politics. Given the stark and still unrelieved inequalities of the black belt, thisis a salutary stance." -- Van Gosse * Journal of Southern History *"An extensively researched, well-written, and extremely important book that will make a tremendous contribution to the historiography of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements." -- Emilye Crosby,author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi"Excellent scholarship, important history, and an invaluable contribution to understanding current and future conversations on race and politics in a dynamically changing political environment." -- Charles V. Hamilton,co-author of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation"Jeffries has written the book historians of the black freedom movement have been waiting for. His beautifully written account rescues Lowndes County from its role as merely a backdrop to & Black Power, to being one of the key battlegrounds for democracy in the United States. Here are local people whose local struggles have contributed mightily to the kind of politics we desperately need in the Obama agethe politics of ‘freedom democracy,’ a politics born in Reconstruction, rooted in social justice and human rights, and honed in the Alabama cotton belt." -- Robin D. G. Kelley,author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"Jeffries is at the top of a very short list of ‘young lions’ paving the way for a new interpretation of the history of the Civil Rights-Black Power movement. His work on the legendary Lowndes County Freedom Organization is outstanding in terms of the breadth and carefulness of research, depth and clarity of conceptualization, organization and presentation of material, and the originality and the wealth of the results." -- Komozi Woodard,author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics"Jeffriess Bloody Lowndes is an important contribution to the literature of the African American freedom struggle. Jeffries reveals the deep historical roots of black struggles against racial and economic oppression in the Black Belt. He makes clear that the civil rights reforms of the 1960s were insufficient responses to the & freedom politics that spawned the Lowndes County Freedom Organizationthe first Black Panther Party." -- Clayborne Carson,author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960sTable of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Conditions Unfavorable to the Rise of the Negro: The Pursuit of Freedom Rights before the Civil Rights Era 2 I Didn't Come Here to Knock: The Making of a Grassroots Social Movement 3 We Ain't Going to Shed a Tear for Jon: School Desegregation, White Resistance, and the African American Response 4 I'm Going to Try to Take Some of the Freedom Here Back Home: The Federal Government and the Fight for Freedom Rights 5 We Gonna Show Alabama Just How Bad We Are: The Birth of the Original Black Panther Party and the Development of Freedom Politics 6 Tax the Rich to Feed the Poor: Black Power and the Election of 1966 7 Now Is the Time for Work to Begin: Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era Epilogue: That Black Dirt Gets in Your Soul: The Fight for Freedom Rights in the Days Ahead Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press The Barbarization of Warfare
Book SynopsisExplores the effects of the barbarization of warfare on our cultures and societiesTrade Review"Warfare, [Kassimeris] reminds us, can foster the best of human virtues. But it can also provide an arena in which a nation’s true character is demonstrated in the eyes of the world." * Kansas City Star *"This book shows us the true barbarism of warfare. It makes brilliant but unsettling reading. Viewed together, the essays offer as good a sustained critique of war as is available anywhere in print, combined with a passion and engagement that is all too rare in first rate scholarship. The book is to be greatly treasured as an important contribution in a field of study that remains depressingly relevant in the world today." -- C. A. Gearty,London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements pageThe ContributorsThe Barbarisation of Warfare: a User's ManualGeorge KassimerisThe Second World War: a Barbarous Con?ict?Richard OveryTime, Space and Barbarisation: the German Army and the Eastern Front in Two World WarsHew StrachanThe Modern and the Primitive: Barbarity and Warfare on the Eastern FrontMary R. HabeckSomething to Die For, a Lot to Kill For: the Soviet System and the Barbarisation of Warfare, 1939-1945 Amir WeinerPrisoner Taking and Prisoner Killing: the Dynamics of Defeat, Surrender and Barbarity in the Age of Total WarNiall FergusonSurrogates of the State: Collaboration and Atrocity in Kenya's Mau Mau War David AndersonThe American Empires at WarMarilyn B. YoungThe Global War on Terror and its Impact on the Conduct of WarPaul RogersThe Texts of TortureDavid SimpsonThe Laws of War in the Age of Asymmetric ConflictAnthony DworkinOn Brainwashing Kathleen TaylorEpilogue: Reflections on War and Barbarism Joy WintersNotesIndex
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New York University Press After the Rebellion
Book SynopsisWhat happened to black youth in the post-civil rights generation? What kind of causes did they rally around and were they even rallying in the first place? This book looks at a variety of key civil rights groups across the country over the years to provide a view of black youth and social movement activism.Trade Review"Where others have bemoaned the absence of youth activism after the & 70s, Franklins impressive scholarship finds thoughtful, creative, and impactful Black youth activism into the 2000s. Both theoretical and practical in approach, this book will require the rethinking of several well-worn narratives about Black youth activism in the post-civil rights generations." -- Charles M. Payne,author of I've Got the Light of Freedom"After the Rebellion is an exceptional work. Franklins keen analysis is a welcomed antidote to the clichés and wish fulfillment that hinder conventional thinking about youth politics and so-called hip-hop activism." -- Cedric Johnson,author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics"[T]his book is useful to social movement scholars across disciplines as well as current activists in need of historical markers and anchors for their ongoing campaigns." * Labour *"This is an important book that examines the changing context of youth activism in the post-civil rights era. Sekou M. Franklin explores the dilemma youth activists since the 1960s have faced between pursuing transformative social movement activism versus engaging in mobilization focused on leveraging the institutional resources now available in the post-civil rights era. Anyone committed to understanding or promoting activism among youth of color needs to read this book." -- Cathy Cohen,author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics"With & black lives matter emerging as a national rallying cry, this book is a timely and compelling contribution to contemporary social movement theory and to histories of African American protest." * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations of Organizations and Initiatives Introduction Part I 1 Movement Activism and the Post-Civil Rights Generation 2 The World beyond the Campus 3 From Civil Rights to Anti-Apartheid 4 The New Haven Youth MovementPart II 5 The Origins of the Black Student Leadership Network 6 Organizing for Change 7 The Collapse of the Black Student Leadership Network Part III 8 Reclaiming Our Youth: Policing and Protesting Juvenile Injustice 9 We Are Labor Too Conclusion Appendix A: Study Design and MethodologyAppendix B: Interview Methodology and Biographies of Interviewees Appendix C: Profiles of Principal Organizations and Networks Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press After Race Racism After Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisFurther investigations of what race and racism mean in America.Trade Review"“...It is a MUST read for any educator." * The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues *"Offers fascinating new insights to the longstanding debate over racial discrimination in the United States. This important book will undoubtedly be influential in helping us analyze some of the most pressing civil rights issues of the twenty-first century." -- Kevin R. Johnson,University of California, Davis, School of Law"A very thoughtful analysis of the need to move beyond the traditional black/white paradigm to address the dynamic aspects of racialized inequalities. . . . This provocative book will be widely discussed and debated." -- William Julius Wilson,Harvard University"This book joins a growing body of work that challenges essentialist ideas about race while also rejecting the colorblind and end-of-racism theses of conservative commentators...The authors have done an excellent job of articulating the implications of what it means to bring class back into critical race theory." * Choice *
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New York University Press Groundwork Local Black Freedom Movements in
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of essays on the civil rights movement focusing on smaller, regional civil organizations across the country - not just in the South.Trade Review"These essays enrich understanding of the valiant struggles to make real the promise of a more democratic US." * CHOICEHighly Recommended *"The thirteen essays in this important collection examine grass-roots struggles for racial justice throughout the United States from 1940-1980...Read together, these essays remind us that activism changes people as much as society." * Journal of American History *"A major contribution to the ever expanding historical literature of the modern African American freedom struggle. This book brings together outstanding examples of detailed and thoughtful studies of northern as well as southern local movements." -- Clayborne Carson,Professor of History and Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University"Brilliantly conveys the vibrancy and creativity of community-based movements that transformed America's racial and civic landscape in the decades following World War II." -- Patricia Sullivan,author of Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years"Required reading for anyone who wants to understand what the Civil Rights Movement actually was - a national movement conceived and executed by local people in cities and towns across this country. They are the people who made the movement that made Martin Luther King, Jr.not the other way around." -- Julian Bond,Professor of History, University of Virginia, American University, and Chairman of the NAACP"The essays in Groundwork assert individually and collectively that at the root of any national movement for change are local activists working from the bottom up to change their communities first, then the world. This excellent and invigorating collection is crucial reading in an election year." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and author of America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans"This work demonstrates again and again how local movements complicate the standard civil rights narrative of nonviolence, black power, busing, and the nature of leadership." -- Tracy E. KMeyer,Associate Professor US History, University of LouisvilleTable of ContentsForeword Introduction"They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid": Ruth Batson & the Educational Movement in Boston "Drive Awhile for Freedom": Brooklyn CORE's Stall-In & Public Discourses on Protest Violence Message from the Grassroots: The Black Power Experiment in NewarkGloria Richardson & the Civil Rights Movement in CambridgeWe've Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings, & the Changing Civil Rights Movement Organizing for More Than the Vote: The Political Radicalization of Local People in Lowndes County "God's Appointed Savior": Charles Evers's Use of Local Movements for National Stature Local Women & the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: Re-visioning Woman power Unlimited The Stirrings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Cincinnati"We Cannot Wait for Understanding to Come to Us": Community Activists Respond to Violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School"Not a Color, but an Attitude": Father James Groppi and Black Power Politics in Milwaukee Practical Internationalists: The Story of the Des Moines, Black Panther Party Inside the Panther Revolution: The Black Freedom Movement and the Black Panther Party in OaklandAbout the Contributors
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New York University Press Privilege Revealed How Invisible Preference
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A brilliant and compassionate book. A dazzling integration of high theory and splendid story." * Sylvia A. Law, Professor Emerita NYU Law School *"Unlocks a critical piece of the puzzle that activists and scholars have called ‘subordination.’ It reveals the complex interaction of systems of privilege. Yet the analysis is compelling, personal, and completely accessible. By breaking the silence about our unwritten rules, Privilege Revealed demonstrates how to reject privilege and embrace inclusion in a way that lights our passage toward the end of the tunnel." * Lisa C. Ikemoto, U.C. Davis School of Law *"Speaks with powerful understanding and empathy about privilege and subordination. In these times of backlash, when our politicians speak only in words that divide us, Privilege Revealed gives us a language to help us discover our common cause in the struggle against oppression." * Charles R. Lawrence III, Professor Emeritus Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai'i, Manoa *"A remarkably readable and persuasive account of how problematic the status quo actually is … This book can and should be read by an audience far beyond the usual readers of books about law." * Aviam Soifer, University of Hawai‘i Richardson School of Law *"Privilege Revealed, by Stephanie M. Wildman, displays a new way of thinking about the continuing problem of racial subordination in this country … This book explores the use of a new vocabulary about privilege. Thus, Privilege Revealed is an important contribution to the effort to rethink how the U.S. describes the role of race." * Cleveland State Law Review *"The book's major achievement is to make visible the many ways in which people with certain identities benefit from their privileged positions." * Peace Review *
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New York University Press The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
Book SynopsisOriginating in 1795, the term "Caucasian" identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be "Caucasian." The author explores the history of the term and the category of the "Caucasian race" more broadly in light of the changing politics of racial theory and notions of racial identity.Trade ReviewAdd[s] a needed dimension to the study of race in political science that I hope scholars beyond the field of theory will take to heart. * Perspectives on Politics *An indispensable book. The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race takes the study of whiteness to a new level both historically and theoretically. No previous study of the familiar racial category-& white-has attained such global breadth and analytical depth. It remedies a significant gap in the social scientific study of race, providing an intellectual history of whiteness that is both erudite and accessible. -- Howard Winant,author of The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, JusticeClearly and stylishly written and argued. . . well-supported by wide-ranging research and striking knowledge. . . . The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race ranges across centuries and continents and moves from intellectual to political and social history gracefully. -- David Roediger,author of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working ClassIn charting the course of the 'Caucasian race' from a despised, barely European peoples to a scientific classification for white identity, Bruce Baum illuminates the socially constructed nature of race and the role of science in shaping it. His analysis of the changing fortunes of this curious concept demonstrates that even scientific inquiry is deeply influenced by the social and political assumptions of its time. By showing that the Caucasian race is a product of power rather than a racial group descended from the Caucasus region, The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race makes an important contribution to the study of race and whiteness. -- Joel Olson,author of The Abolition of White DemocracyIn racial discourse, the term & Caucasian has always had a scientific aura and a prestige elevated above that of the simpler colloquial 'white.' Bruce Baum's fascinating and extensively researched genealogy of the concept and its subsequent career provides an eye-opening history of the utter bogusness of these pretensions. As such, the book is not merely an invaluable addition to the recent & whiteness literature and a documentation of the myriad shifting possibilities of racialization, but a salutary reminder of the political economy that always underlies the category & race. -- Charles W. Mills,author of The Racial ContractTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: "Caucasians"and the Political History of Racial Identities * 1 Before the "Caucasian Race": Antecedents of European Racialism, ca. 1000-1684 * 2 Enlightenment Science and the Invention of the "Caucasian Race," 1684-1795 * 3 Passage into "Our Ordinary Forms of Expression": The "Caucasian Race," ca. 1795-1850 * 4 Racialized Nationalism and the Partial Eclipse of the "Caucasian Race," ca. 1840-1935 * 5 The Color Line and the "Caucasian Race" Revival, 1935-51 * 6 Not-so-Benign Racialism: The "Caucasian Race" after Decolonization, 1952-2005 * 7 "Where Caucasian Means Black": "Race," Nation, and the Chechen Wars Conclusion: Deconstructing "Caucasia," Dismantling Racism Notes Index About the Author
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Readings in Syrian Prison Literature
Book SynopsisPrison literature has played an essential role in generating the “experimental shift” in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreaking work explores prison writing's critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.
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John Wiley & Sons Killing Contention
Book SynopsisBased on nine months of fieldwork, Killing Contention deepens our understanding of modern political movements and the complicated factors that lead to their demise.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Killing Contention Demobilization in Morocco
Book SynopsisBased on nine months of fieldwork, Killing Contention deepens our understanding of modern political movements and the complicated factors that lead to their demise.
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University of Arizona Press Linking Human Rights and the Environment
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University of Arizona Press The Sovereign Street Making Revolution in Urban
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University of Arizona Press Our Fight Has Just Begun
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University of Minnesota Press Repression And Mobilization
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book will be of great interest to scholars of the mobilization-repression nexus. It offers an excellent collection of the latest work in this field and highlights both the multitude of questions that still beg further inquiry as well as the varied conceptual and methodological approaches that help us to better understand the casual linkages and mechanisms that lead to conflict and human suffering."—Extremism and Democracy Newsletter"A timely and prophetic book."—Human Rights Quarterly"Its contents represent the most significant advance in collective knowledge in some time."—Contemporary Sociology"This volume gives us many mechanisms of protest/repression dynamics to consider and advances considerably our understanding of those dynamics. This book offers a new model of protest and contention that is far more actor rich, event- and regime-specific, and interactive than conventional models."—Journal of Peace Research"An innovative combination of subtly nuanced theoretical insights backed by solid empirical case studies."—Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"Recommended."—Choice"Repression and Mobilization’s chapters are framed by a thorough introduction from one of the field’s best new scholars from the last decade or so, coeditor Christian Davenport, and by concluding contributions from two of the most distinguished scholars of conflict studies, Mark Lichbach and Charles Tilly."—American Journal of Sociology"Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of social movements and social conflict. They suggest new ways of approaching the phenomena of repression and mobilization and call us to broaden the object and enrich the means of our analysis. A stimulating and outstanding contribution not only for postgraduate students and academics with a special interest in the relevant literature, but for those interested in the broader issue of the object of social theory as well."—Political Studies Review
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University of Minnesota Press Trafficking Womens Human Rights
Book SynopsisHow images of sex trafficking produce notions of race, sex, and citizenshipTrade Review"Julietta Hua provides a fresh, vital account of the fundamental pitfalls of human rights policy. This is an engaging and provocative book that frames important questions in productive and generative ways. It is a beautiful example of how sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis can push our thinking and our actions towards true social justice. And, as this book attests, it is never easy." —Lisa Sun-Hee Park, author of Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant EntrepreneursTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Legal Stakes of Human Trafficking1. Universalism and the Conceptual Limits to Human Rights2. Speaking Subjects, Classifying Consent: Narrating Sexual Violence and Morality through Law3. Front Page News: Writing Stories of Victimization and Rescue4. Seeing Race and Sexuality: Origin Stories and Public Images of Trafficking5. Refiguring Slavery: Constructing the United States as a Racial ExceptionConclusion: Considering the Transnational in Feminist ActionsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Creating the Witness Documenting Genocide on
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Screen Media and Witnessing Publics1. To Acquaint America with Ravished Armenia 2. Witness for the Prosecution: Films at Nuremberg3. Reflections on the World Stage: Imagining Fields of Witnessing for Rwanda and the Balkans4. The Work of WITNESS: Negotiating the Challenges of Video Advocacy5. iWitnesses and Citizentube: Focus on DarfurConclusion: Testimonial Encounters and Tempering the Celebratory NarrativeNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Civil Resistance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A major contribution to our understanding of nonviolent social change."—Mobilization"Kurt Schock’s edited volume provides an excellent overview of some of the latest research findings and theoretical developments of the rapidly growing subfield of strategic nonviolent action. Civil Resistance reminds us why the study of civil resistance has become mainstream in political science and related fields."—Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Civil Resistance in Comparative PerspectiveKurt SchockPart I. Dynamics of Civil Resistance1. “We Do Not Work for Peace”: Reframing Nonviolence in Post-Oslo PalestineJulie M. Norman2. Nonviolent Action as the Interplay between Political Context and “Insider’s Knowledge”: Otpor in SerbiaJanjira Sombatpoonsiri3. Youth Mobilization before and during the Orange Revolution: Learning from LossesOlena Nikolayenko4. How Regimes Counter Civil Resistance Movements: The Cases of Panama and KenyaSharon Erickson Nepstad5. From Political Jiu-jitsu to the Backfire Dynamic: How Repression Can Promote MobilizationBrian Martin6. Sources, Functions, and Dilemmas of External Assistance to Civil Resistance MovementsVéronique DudouetPart II. Frontiers of Civil Resistance7. Defending Freedom with Civil Resistance in the Early Roman RepublicDustin Ells Howes8. Making Sense of Civil Resistance: From Theories and Techniques to Social Movement PhronesisSean Chabot9. Four Dimensions of Nonviolent Action: A Sociological PerspectiveStellan Vinthagen10. Overcoming Illusory Division: Between Nonviolence as a Pragmatic Strategy and a Principled Way of LifeChaiwat Satha-Anand11. Civil Resistance in the Twenty-First CenturyKurt SchockAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Straight Line How the Fringe Science of
Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive participant observation at conferences for exgays, reorientation therapists, mainstream psychologists, and survivors of exgay therapy, The Straight Line traces reorientation debates in the United States from the 1950s to the present.Trade Review"In The Straight Line, Tom Waidzunas offers a nuanced account of conflicts over sexual mutability in relation to civil rights and equal protection under the law. This book astutely analyzes the cultural saturations of scientific claims concerning ‘reorientation,’ tracing the ex-gay movement’s origins and its decline in the United States as well as its troubling ascent in post-colonial Uganda."—Jennifer Terry, University of California, Irvine"How do you measure sexual orientation? In this intriguing book, Tom Waidzunas examines encounters between opposing social movements and mainstream science over the efficacy of ‘reorientation,’ ‘reparative,’ or ‘ex-gay’ therapies, tracing how these battles have affected the way we think about sexuality. The Straight Line masterfully queers the meaning of evidence, credibility, and knowledge in the construction of sexual subjectivities."—Amin Ghaziani, author of There Goes the Gayborhood?"Finally we have a book that takes a deep, inside look at sexual reorientation therapies and their far-reaching cultural effects. In a provocative turn, The Straight Line not only interrogates the fringe science of sexual reorientation, but it shows us how these efforts to reorient gays and lesbians have shaped—and been shaped by—more liberal ideas about sexuality."—Jane Ward, author of Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men"The Straight Line is a remarkably forward-thinking work of scholarship with the potential to disrupt normative academic discourses in the best possible ways. "—Lambda Literary"An excellent exploration of the way opposing movements influence the scientific process, and advances an intellectual opportunity structure model useful for understanding how dominant processes of knowledge production enable or constrain social movement mobilization and success. Scholars interested in social movements, sociology of science, or sociology of sexuality will find something of interest to them in this book."—MobilizationTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. The Shifting Straight Line: Ex-Gay Activists Confront Limited Intellectual Opportunities1. The Reorientation Regime: Therapeutic Techniques in an Anti-Homosexual Era, 1948–19722. The Evolution of Dr. Robert Spitzer: The Rise of Gay Affirmative Therapies, 1970–20033. Ex-Ex-Gays Match Testimony with Testimony, 2004–20074. Reorientation's Last Stand: Showdown at the American Psychological Association5. A National Movement against "Homos": How Reorientation Concepts Traveled to Uganda, 2009–2014Conclusion. Sexuality is a Matter of PerspectiveAcknowledgmentsMethodological AppendixNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Free Speech on Trial Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
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The University of Alabama Press The Conscience of a Lawyer Clifford J Durr and American Civil Liberties 18991975
Book SynopsisClifford Judkins Durr was an Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and other accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras. His uncompromising commitment to civil liberties and civic decency caused him to often take unpopular positions.Trade ReviewThis book is well-researched and provides much inside information about Washington in the New Deal era and about the New Deal itself. The experience of the Durrs during the McCarthy era attests to the horrors of that period. It also tells much about the plight of Southern moderates during the Civil Rights era." - James C. Cobb, University of Tennessee-Knoxville"Although Durr's family, social, and political connections undoubtedly eased his way, his way was not easy. The Conscience of a Lawyer makes it clear that Durr was, above all, a decent and honest man who had the courage of his convictions." - Journal of Southern History
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University of Alabama Press Learning from Birmingham
Book SynopsisThis volume reminds us that stories of civil rights, structural oppression, privilege, abuse, race and gender bias, and inequity are difficult and complicated, but their telling, especially from multiple stakeholder perspectives, is absolutely necessary.Trade ReviewSo much of this book speaks to the process of recovering a history more accurate and coherent than the stories. gleaned from our formal or informal educations and also provides commentary on the ways in which history is told or not told, taught or not taught, remembered or misremembered." —B. J. Hollars, author of The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders"Having long educated students and teachers about the “modern” Civil Rights Movement in the US, Julie Buckner Armstrong takes herself ‘back to school’ in Learning from Birmingham. She returns to this iconic city of her birth to trace her family’s history in order to tell a larger story about the history of her hometown, complete with an unflinching view of its legendary violence, resilient racism, and the elusive redemption it seems determined to find." —Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English at the University of Virginia"Armstrong describes how . . . Birmingham—a city of oppression, and repression, and finally progression—‘laid the foundation for the work of waking up that needed to be done’ in the world. It is but one of many profound truths in these pages . . . When you dare to stare it in the face—as Armstrong has done through family, and history, and honest self‐reflection—you can’t help but see yourself, and your own responses to injustice. When you really see a place like Birmingham, you cannot help but want to change the world." —John Archibald, Pulitzer prizewinning columnist and author of Shaking the Gates of Hell
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Bricks before Brown The Chinese American
Book SynopsisWrites about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown v. Board of Education. Marisela Martinez-Cola reveals that the road to Brown is lined with ""bricks"" representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country.
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John Wiley & Sons The Land Governance Assessment Framework Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector
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Ohio University Press The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Volume I
Book SynopsisClarence Mitchell Jr. was the driving force in the movement for passage of civil rights laws in America.
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Ohio University Press South Africas Struggle for Human Rights
Book SynopsisThe human rights movement in South Africa’s transition to a postapartheid democracy has been widely celebrated as a triumph for global human rights. It was a key aspect of the political transition, often referred to as a miracle, which brought majority rule and democracy to South Africa.
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Ohio University Press Womens Perspectives on Human Security Violence
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection examines women’s security threats stemming from conflict, environmental policy, and economic limitations, as well as the growing repertoire of grass-roots solutions women are creating, demanding, and sharing throughout the world to increase their security.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Women’s Voices: Perspectives on Violence, Environmental Threats, and Human Security (Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Richard A. Matthew, Tera Dornfeld, and Patricia A. Weitsman) PART 1: CONFLICT AND VIOLENCE Chapter 2. Women, War, and Identity: Policies of Mass Rape in Bosnia and Rwanda (Patricia A. Weitsman) Chapter 3. Women and Human Security: Women, Small Arms, and Light Weapons (Rachel Stohl) Chapter 4. Feminism, Rape, and War: Engendering Suicide Terror? (Mia Bloom) Chapter 5. Women, Human Security, and Countering Violent Extremism (Joana Cook) Chapter 6. The Challenges for Gender Awareness in Civil-Military Operations (Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv) Chapter 7. Fieldwork in the Land of Savages, Victims, and Saviors: Lessons from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Holly Dunn) PART 2: ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY Chapter 8. The Tehri Dam Project in India: Impact on Women’s Household Food and Economic Security (Vandana Asthana) Chapter 9. Reimagining Citizen Science for Women’s Human Security: Shifting Power with Critical Pedagogy and Feminist Perspectives (Tera Dornfeld and Nina M. Flores) Chapter 10. Women Building Sustainable Communities: Comondú, Baja California Sur, Mexico (Martha Adriana Márquez-Salaices and Manuel Ángeles) Chapter 11. Women and Financial Inclusion (Elissa McCarter LaBorde) Chapter 12. Reflections and Looking Ahead (Richard A. Matthew, Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Nora Davis, and Tera Dornfeld) Contributors Index
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Ohio University Press Environment Power and Justice
Book SynopsisWith appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volume’s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.Trade Review“This is an excellent essay collection breaking new ground on environmental histories. Its aim of illuminating how environment, power, and justice are imbricated in Southern Africa builds on old academic foci … but speaks to new ecological issues. Together the chapters in this volume span African thought on ecology in the context of colonialism, water injustice, land dispossession, GMOs, rethinking invasive species and racialized urban development. It adds in a sophisticated way to the literature on environmental justice.” -- Vishwas Satgar, associate professor of international relations, University of Witwatersrand“Wynn, Jacobs, and Carruthers have carefully brought together a dozen scholars of distinct disciplines and diasporas to offer wisdom and insight into environmental justice and power in southern Africa. In offering specificity and precision as to the ways environmental harm and human inequality vary but conjoin, the volume collectively frames contemporary discussions of justice in concepts of harm from the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid pasts. This lively conversation not only gives new perspectives on the contingencies of the past, it opens up possibilities for the future.” -- Emily Wakild, coeditor of The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation“This is a remarkable volume that offers important new insights into ways in which environmental justice and injustice play out in contemporary and historical Southern Africa. The case studies demonstrate strikingly that environmental injustice varies greatly across time and space and, to paraphrase the editors, Rachel Carson is indeed not the beginning of the southern African ‘story’ of fighting for environmental justice. This is a must-read volume for everyone interested in environmental justice, not only in the Southern African context, but also on the African continent and globally.” -- Phia Steyn, University of Stirling lecturer in African environmental history“A critical text on postcolonial environmental humanities scholarship and presents environmental justice as a ‘traveling’ multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary concept [that is] useful for scholars in many fields, such as environmental historians, political scientists, sociologists, policy planners, activists, and environmental scientists.” * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *
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Ohio University Press Environment Power and Justice Southern African
Book SynopsisWith appreciation for both regional and chronological variation, this volume’s contributors track the global concept of environmental justice to analyze its influence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho and to expand popular understandings of social-environmental harm.Trade Review“This is an excellent essay collection breaking new ground on environmental histories. Its aim of illuminating how environment, power, and justice are imbricated in Southern Africa builds on old academic foci … but speaks to new ecological issues. Together the chapters in this volume span African thought on ecology in the context of colonialism, water injustice, land dispossession, GMOs, rethinking invasive species and racialized urban development. It adds in a sophisticated way to the literature on environmental justice.” -- Vishwas Satgar, associate professor of international relations, University of Witwatersrand“Wynn, Jacobs, and Carruthers have carefully brought together a dozen scholars of distinct disciplines and diasporas to offer wisdom and insight into environmental justice and power in southern Africa. In offering specificity and precision as to the ways environmental harm and human inequality vary but conjoin, the volume collectively frames contemporary discussions of justice in concepts of harm from the colonial, postcolonial, and postapartheid pasts. This lively conversation not only gives new perspectives on the contingencies of the past, it opens up possibilities for the future.” -- Emily Wakild, coeditor of The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation“This is a remarkable volume that offers important new insights into ways in which environmental justice and injustice play out in contemporary and historical Southern Africa. The case studies demonstrate strikingly that environmental injustice varies greatly across time and space and, to paraphrase the editors, Rachel Carson is indeed not the beginning of the southern African ‘story’ of fighting for environmental justice. This is a must-read volume for everyone interested in environmental justice, not only in the Southern African context, but also on the African continent and globally.” -- Phia Steyn, University of Stirling lecturer in African environmental history“A critical text on postcolonial environmental humanities scholarship and presents environmental justice as a ‘traveling’ multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary concept [that is] useful for scholars in many fields, such as environmental historians, political scientists, sociologists, policy planners, activists, and environmental scientists.” * H-Environment, H-Net Reviews *
£26.09
Duke University Press Neoliberalism as Exception
Book SynopsisThrough a series of ethnographic case studies, Aihwa Ong reconceptualizes neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable technology of governing that is taken up in different ways by different regimes, be they authoritarian, democratic, or communist.Trade Review“Aihwa Ong’s keen ethnographic perspective brings into sharp relief some of the differences that are essential not only for understanding the contemporary global economic and political systems but also for struggling against them to make a better world.”—Michael Hardt, coauthor of Multitude and Empire“Armed with big ideas and a sharp sense of where the fault lines lie, Aihwa Ong examines a variety of instances which illuminate the changing relationship between those who govern and the governed. These are brilliant essays.”—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights“This book by a leading scholar in development studies clearly documents the fact that governments and institutions have a more decisive role than markets in the successful experiences of development in the new global economy. It will become mandatory reading for students and policy makers around the world.”—Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern California“Neoliberalism as Exception offers an elegant and vigorous argument which relates and interprets exceptionally dynamic and complex processes with great dexterity, and offers pertinent challenges to thinking in a range of fields—governance, sovereignty, neoliberal rationality, ethics. . . .” -- Kathy Powell * Dialectical Anthropology *“This subtleness and wealth of insight—particularly her illustrations of neoliberal citizenship, subjectivity, and state strategy—rather than theoretical unity, that constitute the strength of the book. Furthermore, Ong’s openness to ambiguous political possibilities, and to both optimism and pessimism, make this book a durable source of insights and tools for understanding the peculiar times we live in.” -- Federico Helfgott * Comparative Studies in Society and History *“In this inspiring, wide-ranging volume, we are indebted to Aihwa Ong for skillfully unmasking and persuasively destabilizing the over-confident certainties of our own troubling era.” -- David Ley * Pacific Affairs *“Ong’s great strength as an essayist, this book makes clear, is her focus on contradictions: making them both plain to see and addressing how they must be attended to if we are to understand the cultural and social complexity of neoliberalism as exception and exceptions to neoliberalism, not only in ‘emerging countries’, but also in the West.” -- Don Mitchell * Gender, Place & Culture *“Ong’s revelations in Neoliberalism as Exception are so numerous, empirically engaged and imaginatively engaging that at least this moderately informed reader of the developmental and globalization literatures is inclined to regard her as a leading theorist of the global economy in the new millennium. . . . Every student of globalization, neoliberalism, economic sociology and global culture, politics, sociology and political economy might read Ong’s Neoliberalism as Exception to great intellectual enjoyment and advantage” -- Alexander Hicks * Contemporary Sociology *“Ong's arguments are made vigorously and with her customary linguistic verve and virtuosity. . . . This book will be of considerable interest to a wide range of readers interested in exploring neoliberal rhetoric and its complex translations, irrationalities, and contradictions.” -- Maila Stivens * Intersections *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism 1 I. Ethics in Contention 1. Sisterly Solidarity: Feminist Virtue under “Moderate Islam” 31 2. Cyberpublics and the Pitfalls of Diasporic Chinese Politics 53 II. Spaces of Governing 3. Graduated Sovereignty 75 4. Zoning Technologies in East Asia 97 III. Circuits of Expertise 5. Latitudes, or How Markets Stretch the Bounds of Governmentality 121 6. Higher Learning in Global Space 139 7. Labor Arbitrage: Displacements and Betrayals in Silicon Valley 157 IV. The Edge of Emergence 8. Baroque Ecology, Effervescent Citizenship 177 9. A Biocartography: Maids, Neoslavery, and NGOs 195 10. Reengineering the “Chinese Soul” in Shanghai? 219 Notes 241 Bibliography 261 Index 279
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Duke University Press Genocide
Book SynopsisLeading anthropologists consider issues of truth, memory, and representation in the aftermath of genocides in the Balkans, Guatemala, Indonesia, East Timor, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan.Trade Review“While the volume intends to make a special contribution to anthropology, a wide range of readers will find it fascinating and insightful, including this political scientist.” - Elisabeth King, Human Rights & Human Welfare“Overall, this book is a useful and equally fascinating read for scholars and students of genocide studies, as well as for those who are otherwise interested in the subject matter. The coherent organization of the chapters, including cross-references between essays, makes it a strong and concise contribution.” - Maria Irchenhauser, H-Net Reviews“This is an extraordinary book, anthropology at its best, drawing on the extreme to enlighten more common features of memory, representation, and the variability of truth. . . . This well-constructed book will be of interest to many, especially to all social anthropologists who try to grasp the complex intertwining of imagination, action, and comprehension and their individual and societal nexus that the last chapter hints at. Theoretical distance may help them cope with, at times, painful or troubling empathy.” - Danielle de Lame, American Ethnologist“A timely and relevant collection of essays interrogating genocide’s relationship to the Truth/Memory/Representation triumvirate, this anthology weaves together new and old themes in Genocide Studies while paying attention to underserved genocidal incidents and offering new insights on well-covered events. This makes it a worthy read for an audience with a wide-range of backgrounds and interests.” - Christina M. Morus, Journal for Peace and Justice Studies“Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation includes case studies and analyses about individuals worldwide who continue to live in communities and cope in their everyday lives with the aftermath of genocide and other mass violence. And, for the anthropologists who arrive at these places, this volume reveals their difficulties of trying to hear testimony and analyze past and present truths and memories. The essays reveal how complicated, risky but much needed such undertakings are.” - Joyce Apsel, Human Rights Review“Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation brings the scholarship on genocide to a new level. The editors have assembled a superb group of anthropologists who demonstrate that innovative research and deep, probing questions can also be accompanied by great empathy for victims. Every chapter inspires a rethinking of received categories without ever losing sight of the immense, tragic dimension of genocide.”—Eric D. Weitz, author of A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation“This volume brings rich historical and contemporary ethnographic material to bear on the urgent task of writing against violence and terror. The volume benefits greatly from the long-term professional commitments of anthropologists working in settings embroiled in violence and engaging with peoples suffering the ongoing sequelae and cycles of genocidal terror.”—Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and co-editor of Violence in War and Peace“Genocide: Truth, Memory and Representation includes case studies and analyses about individuals worldwide who continue to live in communities and cope in their everyday lives with the aftermath of genocide and other mass violence. And, for the anthropologists who arrive at these places, this volume reveals their difficulties of trying to hear testimony and analyze past and present truths and memories. The essays reveal how complicated, risky but much needed such undertakings are.” -- Joyce Apsel * Human Rights Review *“A timely and relevant collection of essays interrogating genocide’s relationship to the Truth/Memory/Representation triumvirate, this anthology weaves together new and old themes in Genocide Studies while paying attention to underserved genocidal incidents and offering new insights on well-covered events. This makes it a worthy read for an audience with a wide-range of backgrounds and interests.” -- Christina M. Morus * Journal for Peace and Justice Studies *“Overall, this book is a useful and equally fascinating read for scholars and students of genocide studies, as well as for those who are otherwise interested in the subject matter. The coherent organization of the chapters, including cross-references between essays, makes it a strong and concise contribution.” -- Maria Irchenhauser * H-Net Reviews *“This is an extraordinary book, anthropology at its best, drawing on the extreme to enlighten more common features of memory, representation, and the variability of truth. . . . This well-constructed book will be of interest to many, especially to all social anthropologists who try to grasp the complex intertwining of imagination, action, and comprehension and their individual and societal nexus that the last chapter hints at. Theoretical distance may help them cope with, at times, painful or troubling empathy.” -- Danielle de Lame * American Ethnologist *“While the volume intends to make a special contribution to anthropology, a wide range of readers will find it fascinating and insightful, including this political scientist.” -- Elisabeth King, * Human Rights & Human Welfare *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Genocide, Truth, Memory, and Representation: An Introduction / Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Alexander Laban Hinton 1 Part 1. Truth/Memory/Representation 1. What Is an Anthropology of Genocide? Reflections on Field Research with Maya Survivors in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford 29 2. Perverse Outcomes: International Monitoring and the Perpetuation of Violence in Sudan / Sharon E. Hutchinson 54 3. Whose Genocide? Whose Truth? Representations of Victim and Perpetrator in Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet 80 Part 2. Truth/Memory/Representation 4. A Politics of Silences: Violence, Memory, and Treacherous Speech in Post-1965 Bali / Leslie Dwyer 113 5. The Limits of Empathy: Emotional Anesthesia and the Museum of Corpses in Post-Holocaust Germany / Uli Linke 147 6. Forgotten Guatemala: Genocide, Truth, and Denial in Guatemala's Oriente / Debra Rodman 193 Part 3. Truth/Memory/Representation 7. Addressing the Legacies of Mass Violence and Genocide in Indonesia and East Timor: Truth, Memory, and Corruption / Elizabeth Drexler 219 8. Mediated Hostility: Media, Affective Citizenship, and Genocide in Northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey 247 9. Cleansed of Experience? Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Challenges of Anthropological Representation / Pamela Ballinger 279 Epilogue: The Imagination of Genocide / Antonius C. G. M. Robben 317 Contributors 333 Index 339
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Duke University Press We Cannot Remain Silent
Book SynopsisA history of the U.S. grassroots campaign against torture in Brazil, and the ways those efforts helped to create a new discourse about human-rights violations in Latin America.Trade Review“For American audiences who ask why Brazil matters, Brown University history professor James N. Green answers with an extensive study of a country ruled by law absent of habeas corpus and filled with unspeakable torture. Green highlights both the U.S. government’s complicity in the 1964 coup that overthrew a reform-minded president and the decades long efforts of American activists and Brazilian exiles to unmask the horror.” - John Pantalone, Providence Journal“We Cannot Remain Silent is an important contribution to Brazilian scholarship. . . . Yet its value goes well beyond the field of Brazilian history. Green’s study reminds Latin Americanists of the importance of looking beyond the geographical boundaries of authoritarian nation-states when analyzing opposition movements. For U.S. scholars, his work provides insight into an oft-overlooked aspect of American responses to military regimes in Latin America. . . . Green’s balanced integration of scholarship and resources from both Brazil and the United States provides a useful model for transnational history. . . . [V]arious contributions make Green’s work an important and enjoyable study for scholars throughout the Americas.” - Colin Michael Snider, H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews“We Cannot Remain Silent makes a substantial contribution, both methodologically and theoretically, to understanding the role of aesthetics and emotions in framing and resource mobilization processes. It is also an important example of the use of oral histories in studying the construction of activist identities. In addition, the book provides methodological elements in the analysis of affinity networks and frame convergence that can be used in other social movement case studies.” - Ana Margarida Esteves, Mobilization“James N. Green provides a volume that in itself is an exemplar ofhistorical presentation in that he provides multiple perspectives. He alsocreated innovative narrative strategies that carry the reader along withpleasure through a long and richly detailed history.” - Edward L. Cleary, A Contracorriente“We Cannot Remain Silent is an important book that deserves to be read by a wide audience. Human rights activists, Latin American specialists, and students of U.S. foreign relations can learn much from Green’s analysis of the campaign to end human rights abuses in Brazil. This book makes a strong case that global social activism can make a difference in ways that are sometimes unpredictable and hard to fathom except in retrospect.” - Stephen M. Streeter, Journal of American History“We Cannot Remain Silent is an exemplary piece of historical research that simultaneously performs an act of recuperation and interpretation. James N. Green’s gripping study not only discloses an aspect of (U.S.-based) opposition to the Brazilian military regime that had previously gone largely unacknowledged, but also demonstrates how a transnational approach to this history can reveal and reconstitute a series of narratives that are crucial for understanding the politics of this era.”—Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964“We Cannot Remain Silent is the most complete and comprehensive analysis ever made of the multiple paths and confluences among the political and cultural resistance in Brazil and the United States after the military coup d’état in Brazil in 1964. Based on new sources and a broad range of interviews, James N. Green reveals unexpected coalitions, introduces new actors, and tells fascinating human stories. His book is obligatory reading and a tool for reaching the truth about the background of torture and political killings carried out during twenty-one years of military dictatorship. It is essential for understanding the struggle for human rights in Brazil then and now.”—Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Commissioner, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States“We Cannot Remain Silent provides a new understanding of the development of human rights discourses in Brazil and the Americas. Working with a range of sources, both oral and written, James N. Green shows how a small group of activists in the educational and religious spheres successfully created a transnational space for changing U.S. policy toward Brazil’s military dictatorship and, with it, the systematic torture of political activists. This book challenges the traditional understanding of political opposition in Latin America during the sixties and seventies. In doing so, We Cannot Remain Silent opens up new methodological vistas toward all post–World War II dictatorships.”—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980“We Cannot Remain Silent makes a substantial contribution, both methodologically and theoretically, to understanding the role of aesthetics and emotions in framing and resource mobilization processes. It is also an important example of the use of oral histories in studying the construction of activist identities. In addition, the book provides methodological elements in the analysis of affinity networks and frame convergence that can be used in other social movement case studies.” -- Ana Margarida Esteves * Mobilization *“We Cannot Remain Silent is an important book that deserves to be read by a wide audience. Human rights activists, Latin American specialists, and students of U.S. foreign relations can learn much from Green’s analysis of the campaign to end human rights abuses in Brazil. This book makes a strong case that global social activism can make a difference in ways that are sometimes unpredictable and hard to fathom except in retrospect.” -- Stephen M. Streeter * Journal of American History *“We Cannot Remain Silent is an important contribution to Brazilian scholarship. . . . Yet its value goes well beyond the field of Brazilian history. Green’s study reminds Latin Americanists of the importance of looking beyond the geographical boundaries of authoritarian nation-states when analyzing opposition movements. For U.S. scholars, his work provides insight into an oft-overlooked aspect of American responses to military regimes in Latin America. . . . Green’s balanced integration of scholarship and resources from both Brazil and the United States provides a useful model for transnational history. . . . Various contributions make Green’s work an important and enjoyable study for scholars throughout the Americas.” -- Colin Michael Snider * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“For American audiences who ask why Brazil matters, Brown University history professor James N. Green answers with an extensive study of a country ruled by law absent of habeas corpus and filled with unspeakable torture. Green highlights both the U.S. government’s complicity in the 1964 coup that overthrew a reform-minded president and the decades long efforts of American activists and Brazilian exiles to unmask the horror.” -- John Pantalone * Providence Journal *“James N. Green provides a volume that in itself is an exemplar of historical presentation in that he provides multiple perspectives. He also created innovative narrative strategies that carry the reader along with pleasure through a long and richly detailed history.” -- Edward L. Cleary * A Contracorriente *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Tropical Delights and Torture Chambers, or Imagining Brazil in the United States Prólogo "Era um país subdesenvolvido" 13 1. Revolution and Counterrevolution in Brazil 19 Capítulo I "A gente quer ter voz ativa" 49 2. The Birth of a Movement 55 Capítulo II "Caminhando e cantando e seguindo a canção" 77 3. The World Turned Upside Down 85 Capítulo III "Agora falando sério" 107 4. Defending Artistic and Academic Freedom 115 Capítulo IV "Acorda amor" 137 5. The Campaign against Torture 143 Capítulo V "Vai meu irmão" 167 6. Latin Americanists Take a Stand 177 Capítulo VI "Pode me prender, pode me bater" 197 7. Human Rights and the Organization of American States 201 Capítulo VII "Fado tropical" 225 8. Congressional Questioning 233 Capítulo VIII "While my eyes go looking for flying saucers in the sky" 255 9. Denouncing the Dictatorship 259 Capítulo IX "Navegar é preciso" 291 10. Performing Opposition 293 Capítulo X "Quem é essa mulhar" 315 11. The Slow-Motion Return to Democracy 321 Capítulo XI "Amanhã há de ser outro dia" 355 Conclusions: Making a Difference 359 Notes 367 Bibliography 411 Index 431
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Duke University Press Freedom in Entangled Worlds
Book SynopsisWest Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto.Trade Review“Here at last is the account I can unreservedly recommend to anyone interested in the courageous people and fragile geography of West Papua. Eben Kirksey makes accessible the unique imagery of West Papuans long subject to racism, corporate exploitation, and a brutal military. Marshaling impeccable scholarship, he transcends conventional political ideology to define a form of conflict resolution relevant to many ‘entangled worlds.’ Bravo!”—Max White, Amnesty International USA"In a page-turning blend of cultural analysis, human rights reportage, and ethnography, Eben Kirksey documents the West Papuan freedom struggle. In the process, he provides keen insight into the movement's dynamics and the desires that have led West Papuans to rise up against seemingly insurmountable odds. Kirksey clarifies the possibilities and predicaments they face, and he makes sense of the multiple times, mundane and messianic, in which many West Papuans seem to live."—Danilyn Rutherford, author of Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua"In this remarkable book, Eben Kirksey attends to West Papuan indigenous thinkers and activists as they craft practical, surprising, and generative freedom projects in the fissures of power exercised by Indonesian occupiers, global financial interests, and foreign governments. Freedom in Entangled Worlds is shaped by explorations of complex messianisms, attention to the pragmatics of unexpected collaborations, and Kirksey's own unassuming and sustained commitment to the worlds and dreams of his West Papuan teachers."—Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz“[O]ne of the delights of Kirksey’s book is his determination to see events from multiple angles and to bring together a wide range of well researched materials to tell the political story of Papua from a resolutely human perspective. We are treated to wonderful descriptions of vibrant political characters and detailed descriptions of infamous encounters.” -- Leslie Butts * American Ethnologist *“This very rich combination of personal reportage, history, interviews, and blow-by-blow narration of conflicts will draw its readers closely into the entanglements it describes.” -- Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart (Strathern) * Journal of Anthropological Research *“[E]xtensively researched…. [I]t will be welcomed by scholars and historians seeking to understand the many entanglements of this part of New Guinea. It raises important questions about the collusions between corporations and governments, and can help us read between the lines of news articles and annual reports.” -- Larry M. Lake * Pacific Affairs *“Readers cannot help ask themselves at what point does the consumer of these resources also take responsibility for their first world lifestyle? Eben Kirksey answers that questioning by finishing the book with a call for an ethical and political transformation through the imaging of open-ended possibilities, a powerful lesson he learnt from imbuing the spirit of the merdeka and so the spirit of the land of West Papua.” -- C. F. Black * Leonardo Reviews *“The struggle in West Papua is as extraordinary as it is complex. But Kirksey is a gifted narrator and patient guide. Combining metaphor, mysticism and allegory with the hard positivist data of the most rigorous investigator, Kirksey delivers a brilliant read wrapped up with enormous insight. He does the struggle for freedom in West Papua a great service.” -- Jason MacLeod * Inside Indonesia *“I would recommend this book to those who are interested in reading about indigenous independence movements, people who are curious about how even remote areas of the world often play an important part in the world system, and to sociologists and anthropologists who are interested in conducting an ethnography that is very informative, scholarly and enjoyable to read.” -- Michael A. Long * Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics *“Freedom in Entangled Worlds would be useful not only to students and researchers interested in West Papua itself, but also to those looking at how social movements arise and are sustained, the nature of current, ongoing independence struggles and, above all, the entangled nature of power in the twenty-first century.” -- Morgan Harrington * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *“Freedom in Entangled Worlds is an impressive and poignant study of the fight for self-determination, the interplay of collaboration and imagination, and what it means to inhabit a world of hope... Freedom in Entangled Worlds is essential reading for anyone interested in the political history of West Papua.” -- Judith Bovensiepen * PoLAR *Table of ContentsPreface: Flying Fish, Flying Tourists, September 1994 ix List of Key Characters xv Introduction 1 Part I: Breakout, 1998–2000 Interlude: The King Has Left the Palace, Java, May 1998 23 1. The Messianic Multiple, July 1998 29 2. From the Rhizome to the Banyan, 1998– 2000 55 Part II: Plateau, 2000–2002 Interlude: Freeport Sweet Potato Distribution Inc. 83 3. Entangled Worlds at War, 2000–2001 90 4. Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow, June 13, 2001 125 5. Innocents Murdered, Innocent Murderers, August 31, 2002 138 Part III. Horizons, 2002–2028 Interlude: Bald Grandfather Willy 175 6. First Voice Honey Center, 2002–2008 182 Epilogue: The Tube, 2006–2028 210 Acknowledgments 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 283 Index 301
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Duke University Press The Security Archipelago
Book SynopsisBased on in-depth ethnographic research in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Paul Amar describes new forms of governance emerging in the Global South, partly in opposition to neoliberalism.Trade Review"The Security Archipelago is a singular book by a unique scholar. Paul Amar works in English, Arabic, and Portuguese, and he studies security regimes in a comparative framework encompassing the Middle East, North and South America, and Europe. Combining research that he has done in Brazil and Egypt on the emergence of new forms of security and new grammars of protest politics with the unfolding stories of an economic boom in Brazil and political change in Egypt, Amar has written an up-to-the-moment account of the 'human-security state' and its opponents."—Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure"The Security Archipelago accomplishes several theoretical and methodological feats through his combination of archival, ethnographic, and fieldwork research.... The Security Archipelago is a necessary read for anthropologists interested in the Middle East, South America, transnational anthropology, urban studies, securitization studies, studies of the state, and, finally, feminist and queer theory." -- Maya Mikdashi * American Anthropologist *"This book is overwhelming in the best way possible, combining ethnography with theoretical finesse. His chapters draw upon and speak within and between the fields of political anthropology, comparative political studies, critical security studies, queer studies, urban development, political economy, peace studies, and feminist International Relations." -- Meghana Nayak * International Studies Review *"An extraordinary book that revolutionizes the way to think about security, undermines conventional wisdom, and offers us a wonderfully lucid study of an obscure subject-matter, including detailed inquiry into state/society relations in Egypt and Brazil. Among many contributions is the brilliant depiction of the evolving interface between state security (its visible and invisible apparatus) and people subject to its control, including a fascinating account of the sexualization of politics as an emergent dimension of both oppression and resistance. A must-read!"—Richard Falk, coauthor of The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers“Amar’s analysis of the politics and culture of the human-security state provides an alternative and declining history of neoliberalism. . . . He pushes critical security studies forward when he questions whether decisions to disregard the Global South contribute to the field’s tendency to legitimate securitization.” -- Jaime Madden * Powerlines *“Amar traces the contradictory contours of state power, more interested in its own survival than that of its citizens. Especially for scholars of the changing global status of gender and sexuality, this is a book which expands the scope of the field.” -- Constance G. Anthony * New Political Science *"The book puts forth numerous ground-breaking arguments that will enable its readers to rethink the very nature of contemporary neoliberal governance, humanitarianism, and the relation between the global North and global South. It speaks very clearly to contemporary political struggles surrounding state security logics, militarism, sexuality, and human trafficking, but in ways that are entirely unanticipated." -- Omnia El Shakry * GLQ *“Through the lenses of the intensely overlapping realms of morality and urban politics, The Security Archipelago provides a new map that refigures how rule works and how it fails to work. … Amar poses the labor of the activist as a form of theorization. Dissidents and revolutionaries are, after all, the social theorists whomthe experts must finally listen to, as Amar does so carefully and attentively in this work.” -- Sherene Seikaly * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“[T]his is an ambitious text, and one that offers much for scholars to work with and on which they may build. Amar has articulated a generative framework for thinking about the ways in which political formations develop and spread. Furthermore, he has linked a variety of social, cultural, and economic phenomena to processes of governance and securitization in novel ways that may be productively mobilized in future scholarship.” -- Claire Panetta * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“The Security Archipelago is a prescient interdisciplinary analysis that anticipates the Arab rebellions in Cairo and locates them in a longer history of what Amar calls ‘human security states.’ … The Security Archipelago helps us understand how both visions for the global South employ a discourse of human security.” -- Alex Lubin * American Quarterly *“The book is smart, creative, and deserves to be widely read. . . . [A]dvanced students and scholars of the anthropology of policing, governmentality, sexual politics, the rising Global South, Brazil, or Egypt, will find The Security Archipelago to be a bold and intellectually provocative contribution to these fields of inquiry.” -- Avram Bornstein * American Ethnologist *“[W]ide-ranging case studies ground the book’s critical security analysis in sites of struggle, making important contributions to the understanding of the spread of urban violence and progressive social policy in Brazil and the rise of left-right coalitions in Islamic urban planning and revolutionary uprisings in Egypt. … Amar’s book offers a two-pronged challenge to dominant theories of neoliberalism.” -- Neel Ahuja * boundary 2 *"Paul Amar’s The Security Archipelago has received (well-deserved) attention for its interventions into political science discussions of security, into queer studies discussions of sexuality, and within the general academic humanities for its arguments concerning a transition from neoliberalism to human security. What Amar’s The Security Archipelago proposes is nothing less than the thesis that neoliberal forms of governance in the Global South, which feature market legitimation and consumer subjectivity, have been overcome by forms of human security governance. … Amar’s work gives Latin Americanists a way into discussions of sexuality and race which don’t collapse into the dreaded identity politics." -- Brian Whitener * Pública Común *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Archipelago of New Security-State Uprisings 1 1. Mooring a New Global Order between Cairo and Rio de Janeiro: World Summits and Human-Security Laboratories 39 2. Policing the Perversions of Globalization in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo: Emerging Parastatal Security Regimes Confront Queer Globalisms 65 3. Muhammad Atta's Urbanism: Rescuing Islam, Saving Humanity, and Securing Gender's Proper Place in Cairo 99 4. Saving the Cradle of Samba in Rio de Janeiro: Shadow-State Uprisings, Urban Infranationalisms, and the Racial Politics of Human Security 139 5. Operation Princess in Rio de Janeiro: Rescuing Sex Slaves, Challenging the Labor-Evangelical Alliance, and Defining the Sexuality Politics of an Emerging Human-Security Superpower 172 6. Feminist Insurrections and the Egyptian Revolution: Harassing Police, Recognizing Classphobias, and Everting the Logics of the Human-Security State in Tahrir Square 200 Conclusion. The End of Neoliberalism? 235 Notes 253 References 261 Index 297
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