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University of Minnesota Press Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis
Book SynopsisA veteran Twin Cities journalist and raconteur summons the life of the city after reporting and recording its stories for more than thirty years Two or three times a week, as a columnist, hustling freelance writer, and genuinely curious reporter, Jim Walsh would hang out in a coffee shop or a bar, or wander in a club or on a side street, and invariably a story would unfold—one more chapter in the story of Minneapolis, the city that was his home and his beat for more than thirty years. Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis tells that story, collecting the encounters and adventures and lives that make a city hum—and make South Minneapolis what it is. Here is a man who drives around Minneapolis in a van that sports a neon sign and keeps a running tally of the soldiers killed in Iraq. Here is another, haunted by the woman he fell in love with, and lost, many years ago at the Minnesota Music Café on St. Paul’s East Side. Here are strangers on a cold night on the corner of Forty-sixth and Nicollet, finding comfort in each other’s company in the wake of the shootings in Paris. And here are Walsh’s own memories catching up with him: the woman who joined him in representing “junior royalty” for the Minneapolis Aquatennial when they were both seven years old; the lost friend, Soul Asylum’s Karl Mueller, recalled while sitting on his memorial bench at Walsh’s go-to refuge, the Rose Gardens near Lake Harriet. These everyday interactions, ordinary people, and quiet moments in Jim Walsh’s writing create an extraordinary picture of a city’s life. James Joyce famously bragged that if Dublin were ever destroyed, it could be rebuilt in its entirety from his written works. The Minneapolis that Jim Walsh maps is more a matter of heart, of urban life built on human connections, than of streets intersecting and literal landmarks: it is that lived city, documented in measures large and small, that his book brings so vividly to mind, drafting a blueprint of a community’s soul and inviting a reader into the boundless, enduring experience of Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis.Trade Review"As fine a writer as the Twin Cities has ever spawned."—Bob Collins, Minnesota Public Radio"Throughout this generous, sprawling, and haunted (yes, it is) volume, characters rise and descend, slip into still lake waters on dark summer nights and emerge luminous; they wail and sing, and we don’t need to know the difference between; for in Jim Walsh’s telling (and as his Irish ancestors knew too well) sorrow invariably moves into bright song, and song—no matter how buoyantly intoned—is forever laced with melancholy and loss. This is what it means to love profoundly and without condition, as Jim seems to love not only his town but us as well. The place he describes feels to be both lost to the past, and yet somehow still in the process of becoming. Jim is the most faithful of narrators, and as such, be prepared: the story he tells might just be your own."—Joe Henry, Grammy Award–winning producer/singer/songwriter/author"Jim Walsh gives us genuine affection in revealing the soul of growing up in South Minneapolis. Home to so many of us, born and bred. The treatment bound, the ain’t never gonna leave’s. Lapsed midwesterners, returning prodigal daughters and sons. Death, drunks, democrats. Dads and dogs. Brother Walsh is the ride or die guardian angel of all teenage prayers."—Mary Lucia"To some, Jim Walsh is a modern-day troubadour. To others, he's simply ‘The Dude.’ Whichever is the case, in this volume that is at times rollicking, irreverent, always poignant and even sentimental, though never maudlin, he writes beautifully about Minneapolis, the city he deeply loves. One can't help but see that love with each page and each vignette crafted by a master who knows that to best feel the soul of the city, one must spend time with its individuals, and to know them truthfully, one must ‘hear’ the stories they inhabit. In Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis, Jim shares with us his eyes and ears, along with his own soul that brings them all together."—William D. Green, author of The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876"The essays and columns by Jim Walsh that resonate with me most in Fear and Loving in South Minneapolis center around his observations of the beautiful natural spaces in our city. Now more than ever, we are turning to our parks and lakes to find solace in these tremendously tumultuous and challenging times. We should all take time to savor these beautiful places like Jim does and renew our spirits."—Sarah McKenzie, former editor of the Southwest & Downtown Journals "He writes lovingly about how the light changes over the lakes, the human parade in public places, and his need to connect with the human condition."—St. Paul Pioneer Press "Readers will come to know and love the people and places of the author’s Lake Harriet neighborhood."—Star TribuneTable of ContentsContentsForewordTommy MischkePrologue1. Stay WarmJust Read the Newspaper“It Feels Like a Brighter Day”Citizen Berquist: The Man with the VanMisanthropes for $500, AlexConfessions of a CommodoreThe Santa Claus Diaries, 19892. Nature CityStop and Smell the Rose GardensLucky UsSummer of the Super SunsetsSeize the LightLoving Lake HarrietHarriet Lovejoy was HereNightswimming3. Family TiesFrom Colombia, with LoveThanks GivenFinding HenryPolice Off My Kid’s BackFire Alarm FluffyAn Ambulance Chaser Is BornLetter to a Young Soccer Parent4. I’m Only OneThanks for The Skerch, DadMy Hobby Is LonelyWhy Sylvia? Why Now?Gold Experience at First AvenueThe Tao of Spring Forest QigongKrista Tippett and the Wisdom of ‘On Being’Fear and Loving in South MinneapolisWalking the PathBeing the Buddha at Mile 85. HootenannyPeace, Love, and Bobby ShermanMad RippleRings of Fire (Brothers United)Sing Out!Minneapolis to MontanaThe First Dad Rock Column in the History of Rock CriticismHermitageThis Week’s Best Bet: Shhh . . .Crossroads AgainDan Israel and the StruggleGratitudeThat Thing You Do!HootInside the Hollow Square: Shape-Note Singing from the HeartGather ’Round Children, And Ye Shall Hear A Tale of Standing in Actual Physical Line for TicketsIn Praise of Great Expectations6. Famous Lasting WordsA Lesson before DyingFamous Lasting WordsWorking StiffsTears in HeavenFamily ManNotes from Karl’s BenchThe Day David Bowie DiedThe Funeral Singer7. Falling in Love with Everything I HaveTwo Hearts are Better than OneBrilliant DisguiseBecause the NightI Wanna Be where the Bands Are (The Autograph Man)She’s the OneReason to BelieveDrive All Night (Desperately Seeking Denise)Glory DaysBack to MinneapolisPublication History
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University of Minnesota Press Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans
Book SynopsisWhat exactly is it we want from dogs today? This is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal—in something like the original interspecies space, as old or older than any other practice that might be called human. But it’s also about the role of this relationship in the attrition of life—especially social life—in late capitalism. As we become more and more obsessed with imagining ourselves as benevolent rescuers of dogs, it is increasingly clear that it is dogs who are rescuing us. But from what? And toward what? Exploring adoption, work, food, and training, this book considers the social as fundamentally more-than-human and argues that the future belongs to dogs—and the humans they are pulling along.
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University of Minnesota Press The Long 2020
Book SynopsisSharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing By all accounts, 2020 was the longest year in recent memory, as people in the United States and across the globe careened from one unfolding catastrophe to another. The consequences of this devastating year are sure to impact the planet for decades, if not centuries, to come. This collection considers the question of that long 2020 from the perspective of the lived experience of the year, its long and deep roots in various human and nonhuman pasts, and the transformation of our sense of the future.The Long 2020 assembles a strikingly interdisciplinary group of scholars and thinkers to address how the many crises of 2020—epidemiological, political, ecological, and social—have unfolded, examining both their origins as well as their ongoing effects. The contributors address questions of time, history, and scale as they have played out, and continue to play out; the relationship between home and environment, with a focus on architecture, breathing, and human–nonhuman relations; and the experience of cultural, political, and social life, deploying cultural and political theory to explore questions of race, gender and sexuality, and democracy.The global pandemic has still not abated, reflecting the need to rethink our interrelatedness to viruses and other species. In bringing together this diverse group of authors, The Long 2020 offers a variety of perspectives on the impacts of that fraught year, the effects of which continue to permeate daily life.Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Oregon; Elisabeth Anker, George Washington U; Janelle Baker, Athabasca U, Alberta, Canada; Daniel A. Barber, U of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design; Adia Benton, Northwestern U; Levi R. Bryant, Collin College; Beatriz Colomina, Princeton U; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Cary Gabriel Costello, U of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Megan Craig, Stony Brook U; Wai Chee Dimock, Harvard U; Paulla Ebron, Stanford U; Nirmala Erevelles, U of Alabama; Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale U; Rosa E. Ficek, U of Puerto Rico at Cayey; Stefanie Fishel, U of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland; Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State U; Jennifer Gabrys, U of Cambridge; David Gissen, Parsons School of Design and the New School, New York; Dehlia Hannah, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; Karen Ho, U of Minnesota; Bonnie Honig, Brown U; Frédéric Keck, Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS Paris); Eben Kirksey, Deakin Institute in Melbourne, Australia; Bernard C. Perley, U of British Columbia, Vancouver; Tom Rademacher; Renya Ramirez, U of California, Santa Cruz; Zoe Todd (Métis); Anna Tsing, U of California, Santa Cruz; Sarah E. Vaughn, U of California, Berkeley; Rebecca Wanzo, Washington U; McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, New York City.
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Bristol University Press Visual Criminology
Book SynopsisFrom fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent approaches at work in visual criminology, this book explores the visual perspective in relation to prisons, police, the environment, and drugs, while noting the complex social and ethical implications embedded in visual research. This original book broadens the horizons of criminological engagement and reveals how visual criminology offers new and critical ways to understand and theorize crime and harm.Trade Review“McClanahan has unquestionably achieved the stated aims of the New Horizons in Criminology series, producing a clear and concise introduction to and argument for a recent development in the discipline. I have no hesitation in recommending the monograph, which makes an indispensable contribution to criminology and is an excellent resource for research and teaching alike.” Critical CriminologyTable of ContentsIntroducing Visual Criminology The Visual in Social Science Visual Methods in Criminology Environmental Harm and the Visual Drugs and the Visual Punishment, Prisons, and the Visual Police and the Visual New Horizons in Visual Criminology
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Bristol University Press Visual Criminology
Book SynopsisFrom fine art to popular digital culture, criminologists are increasingly engaged in the processes of the visual. In this pioneering work, Bill McClanahan provides a concise and lively overview of the origins and contemporary role of visual criminology. Detailing and employing the most prominent approaches at work in visual criminology, this book explores the visual perspective in relation to prisons, police, the environment, and drugs, while noting the complex social and ethical implications embedded in visual research. This original book broadens the horizons of criminological engagement and reveals how visual criminology offers new and critical ways to understand and theorize crime and harm.Table of ContentsIntroducing Visual Criminology The Visual in Social Science Visual Methods in Criminology Environmental Harm and the Visual Drugs and the Visual Punishment, Prisons, and the Visual Police and the Visual New Horizons in Visual Criminology
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Bristol University Press The Ironic State: British Comedy and the Everyday
Book SynopsisWhat can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in Britain. The book explores British comedy and Britain’s global politics from post-war imperial decline through to its awkward embrace of globalization, examining a wide variety of comedic mediums, such as the popular television show The Office and the online satire The Daily Mash. Touching on issues such as empire, the class system and capitalism, the author demonstrates how comedy offers valuable insights on how global market life is experienced, mediated, contested and accommodated.Trade Review“…a fascinating book... The Ironic State is an engaging study of the intimate relationship between comedy and politics, shedding light on how British comedians both resist and are constrained by the values and attitudes of the day.” International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Comedy and the Politics of (Global) Resistance Everyday Comic Resistance in Global Context The Satire Boom: Imperial Decline and the Rise of the Everyday Elite Alternative Comedy and Resistance to ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ Irony and the Liminality of Resistance Austerity and the Rise of Radical Comedy Brexit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Single Market The Globalization of Comic Resistance?
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Bristol University Press The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious
Book SynopsisBased on qualitative interviews with sustainability-oriented parents of young children, this book describes what happens when people make interventions into mundane and easy-to-overlook aspects of everyday life to bring the way they get things done into alignment with their environmental values. Because the ability to make changes is constrained by their culture and capitalist society, there are negative consequences and trade-offs involved in these household-level sustainability practices. The households described in this book shed light on the full extent of the trade-offs involved in promoting sustainability at the household level as a solution to environmental problems.Table of Contents1. Introduction: “This Can’t Be All Up to Me” 2. Eco-Conscious Household Production and Capitalist Society 3. Priorities in Eco-Conscious Households 4. Resources and Constraints in Eco-Conscious Households 5. Managing Household Waste 6. Cleanliness and Comfort 7. Doing Their Own Research 8. Conflict 9. “How Do We Live with Ourselves?” 10. Conclusion: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”
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Bristol University Press Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban
Book SynopsisConnolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 2. Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 3. Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 4. Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a World Ing City 5. The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 6. Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 7. Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 8. Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanising Frontier
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Bristol University Press Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life that Does
Book SynopsisHow can we create a thriving life for us all that doesn’t come at the price of ecological destruction? This book calls to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and disconnection. Drawing on science and ancient Greek philosophers the author details how we can cultivate our skills for enjoying life without harming ourselves or others, and can live an autonomous, creative and connected life. Complementary to our intellectual understanding, the experiential method of role play and theatre can powerfully facilitate the exploration of the inner drivers and hindrances of a thriving life.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Is There Anyone Who Does Not Want to Thrive? PART I: The Challenge 1 Unintended Consequences of Economics as a Science 2 The Narrative of Success in Capitalism, and Its Failures PART II: What Is a Good Life? 3 Pleasure, Joy, Satisfaction, Purpose: Refining Our Quest for Happiness 4 Sustainable Hedonism 5 A Flourishing Life: Living Well and Doing Well 6 Values in an Era of Free Choice PART III: How Do We Get There? 7 The Laboratory of the Flourishing Life: Serious Change Can Be Playful 8 Inner Agents and Saboteurs of the Good Life: Role Theory Conclusions: Flourishing Life in the World
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Bristol University Press Mediated Emotions of Migration: Reclaiming Affect
Book SynopsisThis book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feelings and Migrants Come and Go, and Some Stay/Stick Part 1: Empathy 1. Witnessing as an Expression of Critical Empathy: An Examination of Audience Responses to a Refugee-Themed Documentary 2. Jacinda Ardern and the Politics of Leadership Empathy: Towards Emotional Communities of Transformation Part 2: Aspiration 3. Asian Americans and Asian Australians on Screen: Aspiring to Centre the Community through Comedy 4. Aspiration for Collective Progress: Diversity and Digital Intimacy as Practised by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (US), Sadiq Khan (UK), and Jagmeet Singh (Canada) Part 3: Belonging 5. Refugee Storytellers Claim Belonging: Agency, Community and Change Through the Arts 6. Belonging as Affect: Towards Paradigms for Reciprocal Care in Community-Based Research Conclusion: Care and Resilience in The Face of Increasing Precarity: COVID-19 and Beyond
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Bristol University Press Volume 2: Housing and Home
Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing. Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case studies from around the world examine issues around gentrification, housing processes, design, systems, finance and policy. Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik Part 1: Housing Markets, Systems, Design and Policies Is COVID-19 a Housing Disease? Housing, COVID-19 Risk and COVID-19 Harms in the UK ~ Becky Tunstall De-Gentrification or Disaster Gentrification? Debating the Impact of COVID-19 on Anglo-American Urban Gentrification ~ Derek Hyra and Loretta Lees ‘Living in a Glass Box’: The Intimate City in the Time of COVID-19 ~ Phil Hubbard Mardin Lockdown Experience: Strategies for a More Tolerant Urban Development ~ Zeynep Atas and Yuvacan Atmaca Towards the Post-Pandemic (Healthy) City: Barcelona’s Poblenou Superblock Challenges and Opportunities ~ Federico Camerin and Luca Maria Francesco Fabris Urban Crises and COVID-19 in Brazil: Poor People, Victims Again ~ Wescley Xavier Flexible Temporalities, Flexible Trajectories: Montreal’s Nursing Home Crisis as an Example of Temporary Workers’ Complicated Urban Labour Geographies ~ Lukas Stevens Part 2: Experiences of Housing and Home During the Pandemic Bold Words, a Hero or a Traitor? Fang Fang’s Diaries of the Wuhan Lockdown on Chinese Social Media ~ Liangni Sally Liu, Guanyu Jason Ran and Yu Wang The COVID-19 Lockdown and the Impact of Poor-Quality Housing on Occupants in the UK ~ Philip Brown, Rachel Armitage, Leanne Monchuk, Dillon Newton and Brian Robson Aging at Home: The Elderly in Gauteng, South Africa in the Context of COVID-19 ~ Alexandra Parker and Julia De Kadt COVID-19, Lockdown(s) and Housing Inequalities Amongst Families Who Have Children With Autism in London ~ Rosalie Warnock Detroit’s Work To Address the Pandemic for Older Adults: A City of Challenge, History and Resilience ~ Tam E. Perry, James McQuaid, Claudia Sanford and Dennis Archambault Ethnic Enclaves in a Time of Plague: A Comparative Analysis of New York City and Chicago ~ Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen Migration in the Times of Immobility: Geographies of Walking and Dispossession in India ~ Kamalika Banerjee and Samadrita Das Living Through a Pandemic in the Shadows of Gentrification and Displacement: Experiences of Marginalized Residents in Waterloo Region, Canada ~ William Turman, Brian Doucet and Faryal Diwan Cities Under Lockdown: Public Health, Urban Vulnerabilities and Neighbourhood Planning in Dublin ~ Carla Maria Kayanan, Niamh Moore-Cherry and Alma Clavin Conclusion ~ Brian Doucet, Pierre Filion and Rianne Van Melik
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Bristol University Press Contemporary Economic Geographies
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Bristol University Press The Practice of Collective Escape
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in urban growing projects in Glasgow, this book explores community dynamics and asks who benefits from such projects. A timely consideration of localism and community empowerment, the book sheds light on key issues of light on key issues of urban land use, the right to the city and the value of social connection.
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Bristol University Press The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance
Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor. Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the ‘migration governance complex.’ They offer insights not only into the actors involved in the different components of migration governance, but also into the varying ways of interpreting and explaining the meaning and value of these interactions. Together, they enable readers to better understand migration in this important region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Mapping and Theorizing Migration Governance: Insights From the South-to-West Asian Migration Corridor Nicolas Blarel and Crystal A. Ennis Part II: Levels and Forms of Migration Governance 2. Gendered Mobility and Multi-Scalar Governance Models: Exploring the Case of Nurse Migration From India to the Gulf Margaret Walton-Roberts, S Irudaya Rajan, and Jolin Joseph 3. Understanding Irregularity in Legal Frameworks of National, Bilateral, Regional, and Global Migration Governance: The Nepal to Gulf Migration Corridor Anurag Devkota 4. State and Non-State Actors in Subnational Migration Governance from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to the Gulf: A Comparative Study C.S. Akhil and Aarathi Ganga Part III: Private Authorities and Transnational Actors 5. Two Bad Places at Once: Pakistani Labour Migrants and the Transnational Recruitment Industry to the Gulf Zahra Babar 6. “We Sent Our Sons across the Seven Rivers”: Tracing the Migratory Network and the Risky Migration of Bangladeshi Fishermen to Oman Marie Percot Part IV: Contestation and Absences in Migration Governance 7. Contested Governance and Sovereignty in the Kerala-Dubai Migration Corridor Crystal A. Ennis, and Nicolas Blarel 8. Kafala and Social Reproduction: Migration Governance Regimes and Labour Relations in the Gulf Faisal Hamadah 9. Invisiblized Migration, Unaccounted Work: The Governance of Women’s Migration for Paid Domestic Work From Nepal and Sri Lanka to the Gulf Neha Wadhawan Part V: Conclusion 10. Bottom-up Politics of Labour Migration: Perspectives From the South-to-West Asia Corridor for a More Inclusive Governance M. Stella Morgana
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Bristol University Press HIV Gender and the Politics of Medicine
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Bristol University Press Developing a Critical Pedagogy of Migration
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Bristol University Press Interpreting Identities
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Bristol University Press Sound Order and Survival in Prison
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Bristol University Press Gendering Green Criminology
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Bristol University Press Infrastructural Times
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Bristol University Press Drug Policy Constellations
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Bristol University Press Global Development and Environment
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Bristol University Press Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City
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Bristol University Press Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of
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Bristol University Press Borders Citizenship and Pregnancy Migrant Womens
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Bristol University Press Envisioning Abolition
Book SynopsisAbolitionist thought visualises a world without prisons or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, writing from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. It considers how these radical thinkers can provide insights into our present condition, both by highlighting the harms of punishment and by pointing to inspiring alternatives to current policy and practice. By examining their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination and repression, the book shows how the ideas of early socialists and anarchists can assist those engaging in emancipatory struggles against penal and social injustice today.
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Bristol University Press The Harms of Beauty
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Bristol University Press Onlife Criminology
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Bristol University Press The Politics of Intersectional Practice
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Bristol University Press 1000 Platforms
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Bristol University Press True Crime
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Bristol University Press The Politics of Pride Events
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Bristol University Press Racism and Austerity Tory Ideology Migrants
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Bristol University Press Racism and Austerity Tory Ideology Migrants
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Bristol University Press PostMulticulturalism Religion and Recognition
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Bristol University Press The Material Geographies of the Belt and Road Initiative
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Bristol University Press Neoliberalism and UrbRegeneration Londons
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Bristol University Press Turning Water into a Commodity
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Bristol University Press Rhythm and Vigilance
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Bristol University Press The Culture of Care in Britain since the Second
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Bristol University Press The Territories of Digital Machines
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Fordham University Press Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways. The book also includes short essays by a number of faculty colleagues who have been teaching in BC’s new innovative core courses, providing practical advice about the challenges of trying interdisciplinary teaching, team teaching, project-or problem-based learning, intentional reflection, and other new structures and pedagogies for the first time. It will also address some of the nuts and bolts issues they have encountered when trying to create structures to make curriculum change sustainable over time and to foster ongoing innovation.Table of ContentsPreface: Curriculum Revision and the Foundations of American Higher Education David Quigley | xi PART I: INNOVATION AND THE LIBERAL ARTS CORE | 1 Choreographing the Conversation: How Designers Helped Clear an Academic Logjam William Bole | 3 What Do We Know? Or, The Perils of Expertise Toby Bottorf | 13 Innovation Andy Boynton | 21 Ambitious Plans Meet Reality: How We Made the Renewed Core Work Mary Thomas Crane | 31 Slowing Down and Opening Up: Preparing Faculty to Co-design a General Education Course Stacy Grooters | 41 Core Renewal as Creative Fidelity Gregory Kalscheur, S.J. | 50 Reflection and Core Renewal Jack Butler, S.J. | 62 Surprised by Conversation: A Reflection on Core Renewal at Boston College Brian D. Robinette | 69 PART II: TEACHING THE RENEWED CORE | 73 Complex Problem Courses | 75 Teaching about a Planet in Peril Prasannan Parthasarathi and Juliet B. Schor | 77 Experimenting with Science and Technology in American Society Jenna Tonn | 82 Global Implications of Climate Change: Importance of Mentorship in a Core Education Tara Pisani Gareau and Brian J. Gareau | 104 Enduring Question Courses: Bringing Together Divergent Disciplines | 115 How to Live in the Material World: Two Perspectives Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace and Dunwei Wang | 117 Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, in and beyond the Classroom Daniel Callahan and Brian D. Robinette | 123 Enduring Question Courses: Differentiating Similar Disciplines | 133 Death in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia: Reflecting on Our Reflection Sessions Hanne Eisenfeld and Thomas Epstein | 135 Spending a Semester with “A Possession for All Time”: Justice and War in Thucydides Robert C. Bartlett | 144 Inquiring about Humans and Nature: Creativity, Planning, and Serendipity Holly VandeWall and Min Hyoung Song | 150 The Liberal Arts Core: Engaging with Current Events, 2016–2020 | 157 Crossings: Teaching “Roots and Routes: Reading/Writing Identity, Migration, and Culture” Lynne Anderson and Elizabeth Graver | 159 The Architecture of a Black Feminist Classroom: Pedagogical Praxis in “Where #BlackLivesMatter Meets #MeToo” Régine Michelle Jean-Charles | 167 Truth-Telling in History and Literature: Constructive Uncertainty Allison Adair and Sylvia Sellers-García | 178 Covid Core Lessons Elizabeth H. Shlala | 190 Acknowledgments | 199 Appendix A: The Vision Animating the Boston College Core Curriculum | 203 Appendix B: Boston College Core Curriculum Required Courses | 209 Appendix C: Complex Problem and Enduring Question Courses, 2015–2021 | 211 List of Contributors | 235 Index | 243
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Fordham University Press Curriculum by Design: Innovation and the Liberal
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators, faculty, and students to view liberal arts education as an ongoing process of innovation. It aims to provide insight into what they did and why they did it and to provide a candid account of what has worked and what has not worked. Although all institutions are different, they believe their experiences can provide guidance to others who want to change their general education curriculum or who are being asked to teach core or general education courses in new ways. The book also includes short essays by a number of faculty colleagues who have been teaching in BC’s new innovative core courses, providing practical advice about the challenges of trying interdisciplinary teaching, team teaching, project-or problem-based learning, intentional reflection, and other new structures and pedagogies for the first time. It will also address some of the nuts and bolts issues they have encountered when trying to create structures to make curriculum change sustainable over time and to foster ongoing innovation.Table of ContentsPreface: Curriculum Revision and the Foundations of American Higher Education David Quigley | xi PART I: INNOVATION AND THE LIBERAL ARTS CORE | 1 Choreographing the Conversation: How Designers Helped Clear an Academic Logjam William Bole | 3 What Do We Know? Or, The Perils of Expertise Toby Bottorf | 13 Innovation Andy Boynton | 21 Ambitious Plans Meet Reality: How We Made the Renewed Core Work Mary Thomas Crane | 31 Slowing Down and Opening Up: Preparing Faculty to Co-design a General Education Course Stacy Grooters | 41 Core Renewal as Creative Fidelity Gregory Kalscheur, S.J. | 50 Reflection and Core Renewal Jack Butler, S.J. | 62 Surprised by Conversation: A Reflection on Core Renewal at Boston College Brian D. Robinette | 69 PART II: TEACHING THE RENEWED CORE | 73 Complex Problem Courses | 75 Teaching about a Planet in Peril Prasannan Parthasarathi and Juliet B. Schor | 77 Experimenting with Science and Technology in American Society Jenna Tonn | 82 Global Implications of Climate Change: Importance of Mentorship in a Core Education Tara Pisani Gareau and Brian J. Gareau | 104 Enduring Question Courses: Bringing Together Divergent Disciplines | 115 How to Live in the Material World: Two Perspectives Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace and Dunwei Wang | 117 Aesthetic and Spiritual Exercises, in and beyond the Classroom Daniel Callahan and Brian D. Robinette | 123 Enduring Question Courses: Differentiating Similar Disciplines | 133 Death in Ancient Greece and Modern Russia: Reflecting on Our Reflection Sessions Hanne Eisenfeld and Thomas Epstein | 135 Spending a Semester with “A Possession for All Time”: Justice and War in Thucydides Robert C. Bartlett | 144 Inquiring about Humans and Nature: Creativity, Planning, and Serendipity Holly VandeWall and Min Hyoung Song | 150 The Liberal Arts Core: Engaging with Current Events, 2016–2020 | 157 Crossings: Teaching “Roots and Routes: Reading/Writing Identity, Migration, and Culture” Lynne Anderson and Elizabeth Graver | 159 The Architecture of a Black Feminist Classroom: Pedagogical Praxis in “Where #BlackLivesMatter Meets #MeToo” Régine Michelle Jean-Charles | 167 Truth-Telling in History and Literature: Constructive Uncertainty Allison Adair and Sylvia Sellers-García | 178 Covid Core Lessons Elizabeth H. Shlala | 190 Acknowledgments | 199 Appendix A: The Vision Animating the Boston College Core Curriculum | 203 Appendix B: Boston College Core Curriculum Required Courses | 209 Appendix C: Complex Problem and Enduring Question Courses, 2015–2021 | 211 List of Contributors | 235 Index | 243
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Brown Bear Press Research as Resistance: Revisiting Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches
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University of Calgary Press How Canadians Communicate II: Media, Globalization and Identity
Book SynopsisThe follow-up to How Canadians Communicate, this second volume embarks upon a new examination of Canada's current media health and turns its attention to the impact of globalization on Canadian communication, culture, and identity. How Canadians Communicate II: Media, Globalization and Identity, includes contributions from experts from a wide range of specialties in the areas of communication and technology. Some, as the editors point out, are optimistic about the future of Canadian media, while others are pessimistic. All, however, recognize the profound impact of rapidly changing technologies and the new globalized world on Canadian culture. The contributors highlight the new tools such as blogs, Blackberries, and peer-to-peer networks that are continuously changing how Canadians communicate. And, they explore the various ways in which Canada is adapting to the new climate of globalization, suggesting new and innovative paths to further define and strengthen our uniquely Canadian cultural identity.Trade ReviewA trenchant and timely analysis of the state of Canadian communication. Sara-Jane Finlay, University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of Contents Media, Globalization and Identity in Canada: An Introduction David Taras A. The Debate Over Policy From Assumptions of Scarcity to the Facts of Fragmentation Kenneth J. Goldstein Canadian Communication and the Spectre of Globalization: "Just another word…" Richard Schultz Other People's Money: The Debate over Foreign Ownership in the Media Christopher Dornan Canadian Television and the Limits of Cultural Citizenship Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan On Life Support: The CBC And the Future of Public Broadcasting in Canada Marc Raboy and David Taras B. The Quest for Identity Dimensions of Empowerment: Identity Politics on the Internet Maria Bakardjieva How Canadians Blog Michael Keren The Canadian Music Industry at a Crossroads Richard Sutherland and Will Straw Digital Disturbances: ON the Promotion, Panic, and Politics of Video Game Violence Stephen Kline C. The Struggle for Control Download This!: Contesting Digital Rights in a Global Era: The Case of Music Downloading in Canada Graham Longford Now It's Personal: Copyright Issues in Canada Sheryl N. Hamilton Globalization and Scholarly Communication: A Story of Canadian Marginalization Frits Pannekoek, Helen Clarke, and Andrew Waller Broadband and the Margins: Challenges to Supernet Deployment in Rural and Remote Albertian Communities David Mitchell Keywords in Canadian Communication: A Student Afterword Index
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University of Calgary Press Social Work in Africa: Exploring Culturally Relevant Education and Practice in Ghana
Book SynopsisSocial Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make it more culturally relevant.Drawing on her experience as a social work instructor in Ghana with field research conducted for her doctoral thesis, author Linda Kreitzer addresses the history of social work in African countries, the hegemony of western knowledge in the field, and the need for culturally and regionally informed teaching resources and programs. Guided by a strong sense of her limitations and responsibilities as a privileged outsider and a belief that ""only Ghanaians can critically look at and decide on a culturally relevant curriculum for themselves"", Kreitzer utilizes Participatory Action Research methodology to successfully move the topic of culturally relevant practices from rhetoric to demonstration.Social Work in Africa is aimed at programs and practise in Ghana; at the same time, it is intended as a framework for the creation of culturally relevant social work curricula in other African countries and other contexts.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; Environment: Modern and Early Holocene; Hunter-Gatherer Land Use, Lithic Technology, and Late Paleoindian Occupation of the Project Area; Projectile Point Analysis Procedure; Late Paleoindian Projectile Point Typology in the Western United States; Late Paleoindian Projectile Points: Typological Variability; Late Paleoindian Projectile Points: Raw Material Variability; Late Paleoindian Projectile Points: Qualitative Technological Variability; Late Paleoindian Projectile Points: Quantitative Technological Variability; Late Paleoindian Projectile Points: Condition and Reworking; Discussion and Conclusions.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in
Book SynopsisScandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government's multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural theory of the philosopher Charles Taylor to the cultural responsibilities of diasporic critics such as Kamboureli herself. Smaro Kamboureli proposes no neat or comforting solutions to the problems she addresses. Rather than adhere to a single method of reading or make her argument follow a systematic approach, she lets the texts and the socio-cultural contexts she examines give shape to her reading. In fact, methodological issues, and the need to revisit them, become a leitmotif in the book. Theoretically rigorous and historically situated, this study also engages with close readingânot the kind that views a text as a sovereign world, but one that opens the text in order to reveal the method of its making. Her practice of what she calls negative pedagogyâa self-reflexive method of learning and unlearning, of decoding the means through which knowledge is producedâallows her to avoid the pitfalls of constructing a narrative of progress. Her critique of Canadian multiculturalism as a policy that advocates what she calls "sedative politics" and of the epistemologies of ethnicity that have shaped, for example, the first wave of ethnic anthologies in Canada are the backdrop against which she examines the various discourses that inform the diasporic experience in Canada. Scandalous Bodies was first published in 2000 and received the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada by Smaro Kamboureli Foreword | Imre Szeman Preface and Acknowledgements Critical Correspondences: The Diasporic Criticâs (Self-)Location One: Realism and the History of Reality: F.P. Groveâs Settlers of the Marsh Two: Sedative Politics: Media, Law, Philosophy Three: Ethnic Anthologies: From Designated Margins to Postmodern Multiculturalism Four: The Body in Joy Kogawaâs Obasan: Race, Gender, Sexuality Notes Works Cited Index
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and
Book Synopsis Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new ""cultural grammar"" is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways it operates. The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment and dispersal of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s, the politics of migrant labour and the ""domestic labour scheme"" in the 1960s, and the trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver in 2007. The contributors are particularly interested in how diaspora and indigeneity continue to contribute to this critical reconfiguration and in how conversations about diaspora and indigeneity in the Canadian context have themselves been transformed. Cultural Grammars is an attempt to address both the interconnections and the schisms between these multiply fractured critical terms as well as the larger conceptual shifts that have occurred in response to national and postnational arguments. Trade Review``These essays map the fields of debate about nation, Indigeneity, and diaspora to clarify the stakes of discussion rather than simply to choose a singular definition of those complex concepts.... As a whole, the collection's charge to think deeply about terms of critique challenges critics not only to question the assumptions and stakes of various projects, but also to look outside the shibboleths of cultural studies subfields in order to avoid blindspots and to envision alternative futures free of corporatized modernity.'' -- Paul Lai -- Canadian Literature, 215, Winter 2012`` Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada is a valuable contribution to an emerging discourse within the field of Indigenous Studies. It furthers a multi-disciplinary dialogue by exploring the relationship between transnationalism, diaspora, and indigeneity in Canada, while interrogating the value of postcolonial theory as a lens for working through these topics. With the objective of [making] discernible the language rules governing our critical choices and the conceptual framework we mobilize, consciously or not (9), Cultural Grammars challenges existing notions of home, nostalgia, and authenticity, and explores the linkages between the respective histories that shape transnational and Indigenous identities.... Cultural Grammars is highly sophisticated, intensely theoretical, and can be difficult to apply across disciplines on account of the specificity of some of the literary analysis; however.... there are moments of insight in each chapter that encourage a broad array of readers to be self-reflexive of the nomenclature and theoretical frameworks employed in their own work.'' -- Gabrielle Legault -- BC Studies: The British Columbian QuarterlyTable of Contents Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada, edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer Introduction Christine Kim and Sophie McCall I: PRESENT TENSE Diaspora and Nation in Métis Writing Sophie McCall Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism? Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts—A Collaborative Interlogue Kristina Fagan, Daniel Heath Justice, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Deanna Reder, and Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair Breaking the Framework of Representational Violence: Testimonial Publics, Memorial Arts, and a Critique of Postcolonial Violence (the Pickton Trial) Julia Emberley ""Grammars of Exchange"": The ""Oriental Woman"" in the Global Market Belén Martín-Lucas II: PAST PARTICIPLES Unhomely Moves: A.M. Klein, Jewish Diasporic Difference, Racialization, and Coercive Whiteness Melina Baum Singer Asian Canadian Critical Practice as Commemoration Christopher Lee Diasporic Longings: (Re)Figurations of Home and Homelessness in Richard Wagamese's Work Renate Eigenbrod Afro-Caribbean Writing in Canada and the Politics of Migrant Labour Mobility Jody Mason III: FUTURE IMPERFECT Racialized Diasporas, Entangled Postmemories, and Kyo Maclear's The Letter Opener Christine Kim Underwater Signposts: Richard Fung's Islands and Enabling Nostalgia Lily Cho ""Phoenicia ≠ Lebanon"": Transsexual Poetics as Poetics of the Body within and across the Nation Alessandra Capperdoni Word Warriors: Indigenous Political Consciousness in Prison Deena Rymhs Works Cited Contributors Index Contributors' Bios Melina Baum Singer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her research explores the transnational and diasporic literatures in English Canada. She has co-edited, with Lily Cho, two special issues of Open Letter, ""Poetics and Public Culture"" and ""Dialogues on Poetics and Public Culture,"" and has a recent article, ""Is Richler Canadian Content?: Jewishness, Race, and Diaspora,"" in Canadian Literature 27 (2010). Alessandra Capperdoni teaches modern and contemporary literature in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She specializes in Canadian and anglophone literatures, feminist poetics, critical theory, and postcolonial and European studies. Her articles have appeared in Translating from the Margins / Traduire des marges, Translation Effects: The Making of Modern Canadian Culture, Inspiring Collaborations: Canadian Literature, Culture, and Theory, and the journals TTR: Traduction, traductologie, rédaction, Open Letter, and West Coast Line. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Shifting Geographies: Poetics of Citizenship in the Age of Global Modernity. Lily Cho is associate professor of English at York University in Toronto. Her recent publications include ""Future Perfect Loss: Richard Fung's Sea in the Blood,"" Screen 49.4 (2008); ""Asian Canadian Futures: Indenture Routes and Diasporic Passages,"" Canadian Literature 199 (2009); and Eating Chinese: Culture on the Menu in Small Town Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2010). Renate Eigenbrod is associate professor and head of the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba, specializing in Aboriginal literatures. Besides the publication of her monograph, entitled Travelling Knowledge: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada, she has co-edited several volumes of scholarly articles, most recently a special literature issue of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies and the volume Across Cultures/Across Borders, published by Broadview Press. Julia Emberley is professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Her recent book is Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada. Recently, she has published articles in English Studies in Canada, Topia, The Journal of Visual Culture, Humanities Research, and Fashion Theory. kristina fagan teaches Aboriginal literature and storytelling in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She co-edited Henry Pennier's autobiography, Call Me Hank: A Sto:lo Man's Reflections on Living, Logging, and Growing Old, which was launched with a traditional Sto:lo feast and book-burning (so that the dead can read the book). She is a member of the Labrador Métis Nation, and her current project is a study of Labrador Métis narrative and identity. Daniel Heath Justice is an enrolled Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (University of Minnesota Press), The Way of Thorn and Thunder (published as a trilogy by Kegedonce, and a single-volume omnibus edition by the University of New Mexico Press), and numerous articles on Indigenous literary criticism, history, and cultural studies. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Indigenous North American Literatures and associate professor of Aboriginal literatures and Aboriginal studies at the University of Toronto. Christine Kim is assistant professor of English at Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and diasporic writing. Her journal publications include Open Letter, Studies in Canadian Literature, Mosaic, and Interventions (forthcoming). She is currently working on a book-length project titled Racialized Publics. Christopher Lee is assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia. His articles have appeared in Amerasia Journal, Canadian Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Router, and differences. His book The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature will be published by Stanford University Press in 2012. His current research focuses on trans-Pacific literary formalism during the Cold War and formations of ""Asia"" across settler colonial societies. Keavy Martin lives in Treaty 6 territory, where she is assistant professor of Indigenous literatures at the University of Alberta. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, English Studies in Canada, and Canadian Literature, and she is currently completing a book-length project on Inuit literature in Canada. In the summer, she teaches with the University of Manitoba's annual program in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Belén Martín-Lucas teaches postcolonial literatures in English and diasporic film and literatures at the University of Vigo, Spain. Her research focuses on the politics of resistance in contemporary postcolonial feminist fiction, looking at the diverse strategies employed in literary works, such as tropes and genres. Jody Mason is assistant professor in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa. Her book, which analyzes discourses of unemployment in twentieth-century Canadian literatures, is forthcoming in 2012 with the University of Toronto Press. Mason has published work on the relations among class, diasporic formations, and the politics of mobility in Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, and University of Toronto Quarterly. Sophie McCall teaches contemporary Canadian and Indigenous literatures in the English department at Simon Fraser University. Her book, First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (2011), explores the complexity of the issue of ""voice"" by examining double-voiced, cross-cultural, composite productions among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal collaborators. She has published articles in Essays on Canadian Writing, Canadian Review of American Studies, Resources for Feminist Research, Canadian Literature, and C.L.R. James Journal. Sam McKegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He grew up in Anishinaabe territory on the Saugeen Peninsula along the shores of Lake Huron, and currently resides with his partner and their two daughters in lands of shared stewardship between the Haudenosaunee and Algonquin nations, where he is an associate professor of Indigenous and Canadian literatures at Queen's University. He has written a book entitled Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School and articles on such topics as environmental kinship, masculinity theory, prison writing, Indigenous governance, and Canadian hockey mythologies. Deanna Reder (Cree/Métis) received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in 2007 and is currently assistant professor in English and First Nations studies at Simon Fraser University. She co-edited an anthology with Linda Morra (Bishops University) titled Troubling Tricksters: Revisiting Critical Conversations (2010) and is currently working on a monograph on Cree and Métis autobiography in Canada. Her article, ""Writing Autobiographically: A Neglected Indigenous Intellectual Tradition,"" is included in Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures (2009). Deena Rymhs is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008), and her work on imprisoned authors has appeared in Life Writing, Biography, and the Journal of Gender Studies. She is currently writing another book on spaces of violence in Indigenous literature. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Anishinaabe) is originally from St. Peter's (Little Peguis) Indian Settlement and is an assistant professor in the departments of English and Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. In 2009, he co-edited (with Renate Eigenbrod) a double issue of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies (29.1 and 2), focusing on ""Responsible, Ethical, and Indigenous-Centred Literary Criticisms of Indigenous Literatures"" and was a featured author in The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, edited by Daniel David Moses (2011). He currently has two books under contract, the first (co-edited with Warren Cariou) is an anthology of Manitoba Aboriginal writing over the past three centuries titled Manitowapow (Portage & Main Press) and the second (co-edited with Jill Doerfler and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark) is a collection of critical and creative works on Anishinaabe story titled Centering Anishinaabeg Studies (Michigan State University Press).
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