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University of California Press Adventure Capital
Book SynopsisParis's Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international transit centers in the world. In the past three decades, it has become an important hub for West African migrantsself-fashioned adventurersnavigating life in the city. In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, including an internship at the French national railway company, Kleinman reveals how racial inequality is ingrained in the order of Parisian public space. She vividly describes the extraordinary ways that African migrants retool French transit infrastructure to build alternative pathways toward social and economic integration where state institutions have failed. In doing so, these adventurers defy boundariesbetween migrant and citizen, center and periphery, neighbor and strangerthat have shaped urban planning and immigration policy. Adventure Capital offers a new understanding of contemporary migration and belonging, capturing the central role that West African migrants play in revitalizing French urban life. Trade Review"Adventure Capital demonstrates beautifully how the drive for continued mobility arises as much from a position of precariousness as it does from a 'trader’s logic' that extols difference and enables connection." * Antipode *"[S]cholars in the social sciences and humanities will find Kleinman’s book extremely valuable. It is beautifully written, engaging, and powerful in delivering its message and argument." * International Migration *"Reframes the way we tend to think about migration, French public space, and about living together and valuable encounters across difference." * Journal of Economic and Social Geography *"A vivid reminder that urban planning and programming is inherently political with far-reaching repercussions on social life. . . . The book is beautifully written and a definite page-turner." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Theoretically sophisticated, accessibly written, and ethnographically engaged, Adventure Capital makes an important and timely intervention into the study of migration. . . . The book makes for essential reading for scholars of mobility and contemporary urban life." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"[A] fantastic ethnography" * Sociological Review *"bishops in flight" * Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees *
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University of California Press Captured at Sea Piracy and Protection in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Captured at Sea [is] an engaging and rigorous example of contemporary ethnography of law and capitalism." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Language List of Abbreviations Introduction: An Anthropology of Protection 1 • Protectors of the Sea: The Rise of Maritime Piracy off the Coast of Somalia 2 • Anchoring Pirates: Grounding a Protection Economy 3 • Regulating the Ocean: The Governance of Counter-Piracy 4 • Markets of Negotiation: The Making of a Ransom 5 • Captivity at Sea: Pirates on Dhows Epilogue: The Gifts of the Sea Notes References Index
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University of California Press Sacrificial Limbs Masculinity Disability and
Book SynopsisSacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits,Açiksözexamines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.Trade Review"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before." * Conflict and Society *"Offers a timely, rare, and robust look at the making and unmaking of political subjectivities, communities, and the state through a profound analysis of conscripts’ experiences of war and bodily loss." * New Perspectives on Turkey *"Sacrificial Limbs brings a critical approach to the often Eurocentric field of disability studies and contributes to gender studies and masculinity studies in the Middle East. Açıksöz’s perspectives on sacrificial crisis, sovereignty, and authoritarianism will encourage debates about the anthropology of state and conspiracy, disappointment, and crisis and temporality." * American Ethnologist *"An elegantly woven narrative that goes well beyond its manifest ethnographic aim and reads as an astute commentary on the recent past and present of Turkish politics. Combining theoretical rigor with ethnographic finesse, Sacrificial Limbs is an essential read for scholars of gender, disability, militarism, and political violence." * Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association *"The strength of Sacrificial Limbs is twofold: on one hand, it delves deeply into the history of Turkish politics, culture, and social life while at the same time it opens up to a broader sphere of applicability for those interested in gender, sexuality, disability, nationalism, and politics." * Disability Studies Quarterly *"The book is equally a work of political anthropology and medical anthropology and would easily be at home in upper- level undergraduate or graduate courses about either subject. With its careful attention to the sociocultural and political, and the embodiment of disabled masculinity, the book is also an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of disability anthropology, and one that clearly demonstrates how work on disability can push medical anthropology to attend to the political in new ways." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Açıksöz effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açıksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence." * Kurdish Studies *"Sacrificial Limbs weaves an extremely well-written and caring ethnography with important theoretical insights. It is a must-read for those interested in contemporary political dynamics in Turkey and the Middle East. . . . It is no surprise that this elegant ethnography has won several prestigious book awards including the 2021 New Millennium Book Award by the Society of Medical Anthropology and 2020 Fatema Mernisi Award by MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association). It is highly recommended to political anthropologists." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Moving in its description and insightful in its analysis, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey provides timely and important contributions to the study of nationalism, sovereignty, violence, masculinity, and embodiment. The author’s discussion of prostheses and their political significance is particularly fascinating." * Ethnos *"This is the kind of book one would point to as a textbook example of ethnographic description or, if you like, of ‘thick description’. But the thickness under consideration does not just mean a mass of statements lumped together by a certain thematic resemblance but rather indicates an eloquently weaved narrative that moves, unsettles, and affects the reader." * Cultural Studies *"Can we still understand the suffering of the people whose politics are offensive to our worldviews if they are simultaneously threatening us or the people sharing our political stance? In Sacrificial Limbs, an ethnography of the disabled veterans and martyrs’ families in Turkey, Salih Can Açıksöz asks and answers this question by inhabiting a ‘grey zone’ and by writing critically, tragically and beautifully from within it." * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Entering a Gray Zone Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Being-on-the-Mountains 2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State 3 • Of Gazis and Beggars 4 • Communities of Loss 5 • Prosthetic Revenge 6 • Prosthetic Debts Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities of Political Violence Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness Anxieties Hopes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An invaluable contribution to diversifying and complicating the study of happiness across the world." * China Review International *"This book is one of those rare edited volumes where all chapters are of high quality: beautifully written, theoretically thoughtful, and empirically grounded. The book is strongly recommended for anyone interested in the sociology of morality, cultural sociology, and contemporary China." * Contemporary Sociology *"The volume offers nuanced and textured moral and ethical understandings of the good life in China at individual, familial, and societal levels. . . . It sets a high bar for future mappings of happiness imaginaries." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Becky Yang Hsu 1. The Changing Notion of Happiness: A History of Xingfu Lang Chen 2. Having It All: Filial Piety, Moral Weighting, and Anxiety among Young Adults Becky Yang Hsu 3. Performing Happiness for Self and Others: Weddings in Shanghai Deborah S. Davis 4. Happy and Unhappy Meals: Culinary Expressions of the Good Life in Shanghai James Farrer 5. Making the People or the Government Happy? Dilemmas of Social Workers in a Morally Pluralistic Society Richard Madsen 6. Deriving Happiness from Making Society Better: Chinese Activists as Warring Gods Chih-Jou Jay Chen Epilogue Richard Madsen References Contributors Index
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University of California Press Fires of Gold Law Spirit and Sacrificial Labor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lauren Coyle Rosen’s compelling ethnography of a Ghanaian gold-mining city centers on the value of gold. But, as in those early modern mercantile encounters, it is also about the very logics of religion and ritual that place conflicting understandings of the value of exchange at the center of political struggles. Fires of Gold masterfully theorizes the dynamics of “liberalization,” which have occurred not just in Ghana but across the world since the late 1980s, as altered early modern ideas about the free market have reformed postcolonial welfare states." * Religiology *"Rosen’s ethnography provides important insights into the force field that structures life around Obuasi’s gold mines and goes beyond mere political and legal analysis by revealing the different forms of power, violence, and activism that complicate the success story of Ghana’s gold industry and rule-of-law system." * Allegra Laboratory *"Fires of Gold remains a dense, compelling and well-constructed ethnography that enriches the growing literature in the anthropology of resource extraction and uses an entry point on mining-related conflicts to bring together issues of labor struggles and existential precarity, spiritual controversies and religious change, political authority under constant contestation and redefinition, all ultimately shaping the uncertain future of a bustling but crisis-ridden one-company town." * Cahiers D'études Africaines *"Coyle Rosen convincingly describes the flattening of sovereignty between a diversity of actors in Obuasi that parallels a conflictual verticalisation of spiritual authorities spurred by the growth in monotheist practice. Ghana’s praised success as a liberal democracy should be read in the context of the spiritual and pragmatic violence that reshapes the state in what the author describes as ‘a re-spiritualization, or re-enchantment, of sovereignty and political life.'" * Journal of Modern African Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction 1. Artisanal Miners and Sacrificial Laws 2. Spiritual Sovereigns in the Shadows 3. Pray for the Mine 4. Fallen Chiefs and Divine Violence 5. Effigies, Strikes, and Courts Conclusion: Out of the Golden Twilight? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Testing Testing Social Consequences of the Examined Life
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University of California Press Magical Medicine The Folkloric Component of
Book SynopsisDistilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see; Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives; Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected field in twentieth-century Europe and America.Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as in olden times.Folk medicine has expanded in recent years to include holistic medicine and other forms of alternative medicine, but little attention has been paid to magical medicine. Despite the benefits of medical science in an advance culture, the magical medicine of Europe and America has clung to an unusually rich and original body of magical lore that lies at the base of its folk medical thought. Ethnomedicine in the inner cities of America can be better understood by practitioners who know something about folk medicine and, especially, if they kno some of the basics of magical medicine.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
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University of California Press There Is No More Haiti
Book SynopsisThis is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a crisis that never seems to end. It is about the experience of living amid the ruins of ecological devastation, economic collapse, political upheaval, violence, and humanitarian disaster. It is about how catastrophic events and political and economic forces shape the most intimate aspects of everyday life. In this gripping account, anthropologist Greg Beckett offers a stunning ethnographic portrait of ordinary people struggling to survive in Port-au-Prince in the twenty-first century. Drawing on over a decade of research, There Is No More Haiti builds on stories of death and rebirth to powerfully reframe the narrative of a country in crisis. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Haiti today. Trade Review“Beckett’s deep and thoughtful ethnography effectively demonstrates that disorder is not the absence of order, but is a structured confluence of scripts and externalities that are profoundly felt by people in Haiti.” * LSE Review of Books *“While the author seeds his book with historical context, his strong narrative style emphasizes individual people... who work in the informal economy and with whom he becomes fast friends while meticulously studying their lives.” * Diplomat & International Canada *"In There is No More Haiti: Life and Death in Port-au-Prince, Greg Beckett combines a decade of ethnographic research with a novelist’s sensitivity to style to create a deeply empathetic and theoretically expansive portrait of urban life in Haiti between 2002 and 2006. . . . Overall, the book is a remarkable contribution to Haitian studies, presented with such accessible and beautiful prose that it is suitable both for experts and undergraduates." * H-Net *"At once poignant and urgent, There is No More Haiti develops a slow and intensively empathic ethnography that unfolds . . . through, and despite, a furiously rapid, chaotic historical moment marked by multiple crises." * New West Indian Guide * "There Is No More Haiti is an essential book for thinking about Haiti today." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Forest and the City 2. Looking for Life 3. Making Disorder 4. Between Life and Death 5. Aftermath Postscript Notes References Index
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University of California Press Weighing the Future Race Science and Pregnancy
Book SynopsisEpigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health risks for future generations. As the first ethnography of its kind, Weighing the Future examines the sociopolitical implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and the United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. Natali Valdez argues that a focus on individual behavior rather than social environments ignores the vital impacts of systemic racism. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are intimately tied to race, gender, and structures of inequality. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake.Trade Review"A ground-breaking book, both subtle and razor-sharp in its analysis. It provides an immensely valuable critique of the workings of epigenetic foreclosure in pregnancy trials." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Weighing the Future Part I 1. Epistemic Environments: Reproducing Solutions to Past, Present, and Future Maternal Health 2. Un/Altered: The Durability of Individualized Interventions for Multidimensional Illness Part II 3. Politics of Recruitment: How Fatness, Race, and Risk Shape Contemporary Pregnancy Trials 4. Pregnant Narratives: Experiencing Lifestyle Interventions Part III 5. Environmental Animations: What Counts as the Maternal Environment? 6. Prospecting Pregnancies: Data, Time, and Speculative Value Conclusion: The Afterbirth of Foreclosure Epilogue: [The Future] Is Composed of Nows Notes References Index
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University of California Press Traces of Violence Writings on the Disaster in
Book SynopsisIn this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths.Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Note on transcription of Arabic terms Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence Preface: Blue flight terminal Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . 1 • Névralgique Interruption: Neuralgia in the Goutte d’Or 2 • Graffs Interruption: Graffiti, traces, and disappearance 3 • Operation vigilance Interruption: "Vigilance is double-edged, to say the least" 4 • Learning with the body Interruption: Give me your FAMAS 5 • Archive sorrow Interruption: Listen to the passing of time 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there Interruption: 3alesh? Why? 7 • "Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew" Interruption: Paris is an apparition, sharing visions 8 • The histories of these wounds Interruption: Nervous activity Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Industrial Ephemeral
Book SynopsisWhat transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it?The Industrial Ephemeralpresents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The personal histories of those in India's large laboring classes are brought to life as Namita Vijay Dharia discusses the aggressive environmental and ecological metamorphosis of the region in the twenty-first century. Urban planning and architecture are messy processes that intertwine migratory pathways, corruption politics, labor struggle, ecological transformations, and technological development. Rampant construction activity produces an atmosphere of ephemerality in urban regions, creating an aesthetic condition that supports industrial political economy. Dharia's brilliant analysis of the sensibilities and experiences of work lends visibility to the struggle of workers in an era of growing urban inequality.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Anonymity Introduction: An Asynchronous Time Line 1. Ephemeral Infrastructures 2. The Financial Sublime 3. Drawing Fantasies 4. The Industry of Sound 5. Inside the Pit 6. Concrete Love Conclusion: Inquilab Zindabad (Long Live Revolution) Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Resurrecting the Black Body
Book SynopsisThe first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital ageand an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death. In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland considers the consequences of digitally raising the dead. Attending to the violent deaths of Black Americansand the records that document themfrom slavery through the social media age, Sutherland explores media evidence, digital acts of remembering, and the right and desire to be forgotten. From the popular image of Gordon (also known as Whipped Peter) to photographs of the lynching of Jesse Washington to the video of George Floyd's murder, from DNA to holograms to posthumous communication, this book traces the commodification of Black bodies and lives across time. Through the lens of (anti-)Blackness in the United States, Sutherland interrogates the intersections of life, death, personal data, and human autonomy in the era of Google, Twitter, and Facebook, and presents a critique of digital resurrection technologies. If the Black digital afterlife is rooted in bigotry and inspires new forms of racialized aggression, Resurrecting the Black Body asks what other visions of life and remembrance are possible, illuminating the unique ways that Black cultures have fought against erasure and oblivion.Trade Review"In Resurrecting the Black Body, Tonia Sutherland intricately examines Black embodiment, death and remembering, specifically the effects that inclusion and visibility within the digital archival record can have on individuals and the collective. Sutherland argues for autonomy and imagination in determining the Black digital afterlife." * Ms. Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction: Trouble These Waters Part I RECORDS 1. Recording Trauma 2. Recording Hate Part II RESURRECTION 3. The Resurrection of Henrietta Lacks 4. The Resurrection of Tupac Shakur Part III RIGHTS 5. The Right to Be Forgotten 6. The Right to Be Remembered Conclusion: Homegoing Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Side Hustle Safety Net
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A lively, fascinating panorama of the neo-Dickensian labor regime so many workers endure." * Publishers Weekly *"Eye-opening. . . . A startling examination of the patchy response to pandemic-era unemployment." * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 “Officially Unemployed” or “Forgotten Jobless”? 2 The Side Hustle Safety Net 3 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, Scam Jobs 4 Making More and Moving On Up 5 Strategies of Survival 6 Stuck in Place 7 It’s a Beautiful Life 8 Learning from Covid Appendix: Research Methodology Notes References Index
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University of California Press Visions of Global Environmental Justice
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University of California Press Keep the Bones Alive Missing People and the
Book SynopsisEvery year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not.Keep the Bones Aliveexplores this phenomenon and why there is little concern for those who vanish. Ethnographer Graham Denyer Willis works beside family members, state workers, and gravediggers to examine the rationalization behind why bodies are missing in spacefrom cemeteries, the criminal coroner's office, prisons, and elsewhere. By accompanying the bereaved as they confront an indifferent state and a suspicious society and search for loved ones against all odds, this gripping book reveals where missing bodies go and the reasons why people can disappear without being pursued. Recognizing that disappearance has long been central to Brazil's everyday political order, this humanistic account of the silences surrounding disappearance shows why a demand for a politics of life is needed now more than ever. Trade Review"Denyer Willis’s Keep the Bones Alive makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary disappearances in Latin America." * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Gone 1 Disappearance and the Search 2 Keep the Bones Alive 3 Unearthing Life 4 Disappearance and the Cemetery 5 The Usefulness of Capricious Knowledge 6 The Disappearable Subject 7 From Disappearance, Presence 8 Muted Martyrdom 9 Make Live, Make Disappear 10 “I Just Want to Live” Appendix. Reading Life through Disappearance: A Note on Method Notes References Index
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University of California Press Being Single in India
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an unintended conseTrade Review"The book strikes a balance between examining the challenges as well as the possibilities of being single. . . . Lamb’s discussion of what makes a woman unmarriageable is both poignant and relevant." * Anthropology & Aging *"No doubt this book is a must read for scholars, students as well as a non-specialist audience interested in studying gender, sexuality, marriage and social change in India." * Contributions to Indian Sociology Journal *
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University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Collateral Damages Tracing the Debts and
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University of California Press Why Snap Works
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a crucial read for anyone interested in understanding food accessibility and welfare in the United States. . . . Christopher Bosso provides a balanced analysis of SNAP, shedding light on its far-reaching benefits and making a persuasive case for its continued support." * Food Tank *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Tales at the Intersection of Want and Plenty 2. “To Encourage Domestic Consumption” 3. The Paradox Anew 4. Farm Programs + Food Programs 5. Welfare Politics 6. Let Us Now Praise the Food Stamp Plan Appendix: Table 1. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation and costs, 1961–2022 Chronology: Key Moments in Food Stamps and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Notes Suggested Reading Index
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University of California Press Cancer Intersections
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University of California Press Ways of Eating
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a study that arcs gracefully from our changing understanding of the Neolithic Revolution to the era of genetically modified organisms, fast food, Slow Food, and environmental depletion, the focus is forward-facing." * World of Fine Wine *"Food has always provided ways of expressing cultural identity, regional differences, degrees of sophistication and economic status. Wurgaft and White trace these processes over centuries and across the globe. Their conclusions are both celebratory and thought-provoking." * Inside Story *"[A]t its heart, Ways of Eating is a love letter to the anthropology and history of food." * Current *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction VIGNETTE 1 Duccio’s Eden CHAPTER 1 Nature and Culture in the Origins Of Agriculture VIGNETTE 2 Akashiyaki at Nishi-Akashi CHAPTER 2 Staple Empires of the Ancient World VIGNETTE 3 Coffee and Pepper CHAPTER 3 Medieval Tastes VIGNETTE 4 Before Kimchi CHAPTER 4 The Columbian Exchange, or, the World Remade VIGNETTE 5 The Spirit Safe CHAPTER 5 Social Beverages and Modernity VIGNETTE 6 Authenticity in Panama CHAPTER 6 Colony and Curry VIGNETTE 7 The Icebox CHAPTER 7 Food’s Industrial Revolution VIGNETTE 8 Bricolage CHAPTER 8 Twentieth-Century Foodways, or, Big Food and Its Discontents VIGNETTE 9 Nem on the Menu CHAPTER 9 Ways of Eating Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Corporate Alibi
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University of California Press Go with God Political Exhaustion and Evangelical
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Ana’s Angels 1. Avowal 2. Disinfectant 3. In Attention to Pain 4. Wolves at the Heels 5. Failures and Demons Conclusion: A Politics of Grace Notes References Index
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University of California Press Behind the Startup
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University of California Press Tackling the Everyday Race and Nation in BigTime
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University of California Press Law in Light
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University of California Press Law in Light
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University of California Press Lived Refuge
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. In Lived Refuge, Vinh Nguyen reconceptualizes refuge as an ongoing affective experience and lived relation rather than a fixed category with legitimacy derived from the state. Focusing on Southeast Asian diasporas in the wake of the Vietnam War, Nguyen examines three affective experiencesgratitude, resentment, and resilienceto reveal the actively lived dimensions of refuge. Through multifaceted analyses of literary and cultural productions, Nguyen argues that the meaning of refuge emerges from how displaced people negotiate the kinds of safety and protection that are offered to (and withheld f
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University of California Press How to Love a Rat
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University of California Press The 0.5 Generation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Overview of Research Project and Participants 1. Theoretical Journey 2. The Demographics of Child Migration 3. The Heterogeneity of the Migratory Experience 4. The Geographic Itineraries of Migrant Children 5. Children of the Great Expulsion on Their Way to Mexico 6. International Child Migrants in Mexican Schools 7. Families Divided by the Border 8. Subjective Affiliations and Identifications Conclusion: Historical and Political Implications Appendix: Children’s Responses to the Question: “Why Have You Returned to Mexico?” Notes References Index
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University of California Press The 0.5 Generation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Overview of Research Project and Participants 1. Theoretical Journey 2. The Demographics of Child Migration 3. The Heterogeneity of the Migratory Experience 4. The Geographic Itineraries of Migrant Children 5. Children of the Great Expulsion on Their Way to Mexico 6. International Child Migrants in Mexican Schools 7. Families Divided by the Border 8. Subjective Affiliations and Identifications Conclusion: Historical and Political Implications Appendix: Children’s Responses to the Question: “Why Have You Returned to Mexico?” Notes References Index
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University of California Press Breaking Points
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University of California Press A Burdensome Experiment
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University of California Press Tabula Raza Mapping Race and Human Diversity in
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University of California Press Biotraffic
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University of California Press Biotraffic
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University of California Press Dawn Rose on a Dead Body Armed Violence and
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University of California Press Local Color
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University of California Press Moorings Voyages of Capital across the Indian
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University of California Press Delta Futures Time Territory and Capture on a
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University of California Press Circulations Modernist Imaginaries of
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University of California Press Sonic Socialism
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University of California Press Atmospheric Knowledge Environmentality Latency and Sonic Multimodality
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University of California Press Exit Wounds How Americas Guns Fuel Violence
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University of California Press No Place Like Home in a New City
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