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Book SynopsisAlthough cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practices to American literary production. Countering the prevailing notion of the literary Indian as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people''s pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. Focusing on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra lo

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Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive study of the surprisingly diverse ways that psychotherapists have related to Buddhist traditions. Through extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews with clinicians, many of whom have been formative to the therapeutic use of Buddhist practices, Helderman gives voice to the psychotherapists themselves.

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Book SynopsisExamines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labour formation. The book highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class.

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Book SynopsisMuch is known about America's history of Asian immigrant exclusion laws, but how did these laws end? Why did the US begin opening its borders to Asians after barring them for decades? Jane Hong argues that the transpacific movement to repeal Asian exclusion was part of US empire-building efforts and the rise of a new informal US empire in Asia.

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Book SynopsisFrom battlefields, boxcars, and forgotten warehouses to notorious prison camps, prisoners seemed to be everywhere during the American Civil War. Living by Inches is the first book to examine how imprisoned men in the Civil War perceived captivity through the basic building blocks of human experience - their five senses.

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Book SynopsisIn 1970s Mississippi, educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. This book explores the story of a controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds.Trade ReviewEagles] builds his narrative around primary sources. . . . He not only sets the stage for the story, he gives us succinct biographical information on the players." - Jackson Clarion-Ledger"Eagles helps us recognize the significance of . . . cultural action through his detailed and clearly written account of the conflicts over Mississippi: Conflict and Change." - Educational Policy"Eagles deserves our gratitude for bringing a landmark case back into the limelight." - American Historical Review"Eagles's imaginative recovery of a civil rights moment informs readers about the accomplishment of two courageous professors from Tougaloo and Millsaps Colleges. . . . Congratulations to Eagles and the University of North Carolina Press on their splendid achievement in this pathbreaking publication. Essential." - Choice

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Book SynopsisThe story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals. But that story is a muddied one. This new and expanded edition of a classroom favorite tells a jolting of how American society has been and continues to be replete with religious intolerance.

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Book SynopsisIn this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing victory. In a time of limited federal authority, governors were an essential part of the machine that maintained the Union while it mobilized and sustained the war effort.Trade ReviewEngle has done more than anyone previously to survey the Union governors and make the case for their centrality." - Journal of the Civil War Era"Engle offers a convincingly argued and well-researched volume that supplants Hesseltine's to become the definitive work on the subject." - The Lincoln Herald"An amazingly well-weaved and balanced book, allowing the reader to appreciate the efforts 'back home' by the proactive governors, to first fill the early regimental ranks, but to support the Union soldiers through the fighting. I enjoyed it immensely!" - Civil War Talk"Will stand for years as the book on Lincoln's relationship with the Union governors. . . . Essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the North mobilized to win the Civil War." - Journal of American History"Will long stand as the authoritative account on Lincoln's wartime relationship with the governors and is essential to understanding how the North mobilized its society on the unprecedented scale necessary to defeat the Confederacy." - North Carolina Historical Review"Offers a valuable and convincing corrective to a long-standing thesis on the war president and the war governors." - Indiana Magazine of History"In a thorough and well-written study on a topic not covered in almost 70 years, Engle presents a much-needed reexamination of the relationship between Lincoln and the Union governors during the Civil War. Highly recommended." - Choice"Will assuredly become the standard work on the subject of Lincoln and the Union war governors for generations to come." - Civil War Book Review"Mr. Engle thoroughly covers a subject that has been analyzed in a piecemeal manner by prior historians, and in the process accomplishes the rare feat of adding something new to discussions of the Civil War." - Weston Democrat"The definitive monograph on the relationship between federal and state government during the Civil War." - Journal of Southern History"Should be read by anyone interested in the growth of federal authority, as well as political historians of the Civil War Era." - Civil War Monitor"Engle's study is rich and deep, thorough and convincing. . . . Explores the changes that occurred as the war lengthened with care and complexity." - Emerging Civil War"This book will be very useful for scholars interested in Lincoln, politics during U.S. Civil War, mobilization, and the relationship between the states and the federal government." - The Lincoln Herald"Engle's book will be the indispensable source on Union governors for a long time to come." - The Annals of Iowa

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Book SynopsisBased on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts to protect their interests and reconfigure their place in a tense society.Trade ReviewA remarkably well-researched and truly startling history." - Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisJennifer Ritterhouse pieces together Jonathan Daniels's unpublished notes from his tour of the American South, along with his published writings and a wealth of archival evidence to put this one man's journey through a South in transition into a larger context.Trade ReviewProvides a good on-the-ground view of how the New Deal affected the South in large and small ways." - Journal of American History"Scholars and a general audience will gain insights from this panorama of the New Deal South, its problems, people, and potential, and the quandary of a white southern liberal on his way to becoming a racial liberal." - The Journal of Southern History"How a Tar Heel Southerner discovered the South." - Wilmington Star-News"An uncommonly well-informed reexamination of the Dixie of the latter Depression." - Ed Yoder, The Weekly Standard"Fascinating and well-researched. . . . Ritterhouse has done an admirable job in transporting us to a time and place and a southern liberal's struggle to describe a region on the cusp of change." - Rob Christensen, News and Observer"Puts Daniels' tour in context of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs and the growing movement for greater civil rights for all." - Durham Herald-Sun

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Book SynopsisDrawn from extensive archival research, Convulsed States offers insights into revivalism, nation remaking, and the relationship between religious and political authority across Native nations and the United States in the early nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisMirsad Hadžkadic never planned for a life in politics. Yet, in 2018, he decided to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirsad made the life-changing decision to run, despite the fact that he had a successful, thirty-year career as a professor at the University of North Carolina.

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Book SynopsisBy delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the American Century'.

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Book SynopsisA most comprehensive and linguistic look at Ocracoke to date.

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Book SynopsisGeometric group theory refers to the study of discrete groups using tools from topology, geometry, dynamics and analysis. The field is evolving very rapidly and this volume provides an introduction to and overview of various topics which have played critical roles in this evolution. The book contains lecture notes from courses given at the Park City Math Institute on Geometric Group Theory.Table of Contents CAT(0) cube complexes and groups by M. Sageev Geometric small cancellation by V. Guirardel Lectures on proper CAT(0) spaces and their isometry groups by P.-E. Caprace Lectures on quasi-isometric rigidity by M. Kapovich Geometry of outer space by M. Bestvina Some arithmetic groups that do not act on the circle by D. W. Morris Lectures on lattices and locally symmetric spaces by T. Gelander Lectures on marked length spectrum rigidity by A. Wilkinson Expander graphs, property t and approximate groups by E. Breuillard Cube complexes, subgroups of mapping class groups, and nilpotent genus by M. R. Bridson

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Book SynopsisThis book starts with simple arithmetic inequalities and builds to sophisticated inequality results such as the Cauchy-Schwarz and Chebyshev inequalities. Nothing beyond high school algebra is required of the student. The exposition is lean. Most of the learning occurs as the student engages in the problems posed in each chapter. And the learning is not “linear”.Trade ReviewThis slim book moves economically, effectively, and elegantly from basic arithmetic to sophisticated inequality topics...Part of what makes the presentation effective, despite requiring no more than high school algebra, are the detailed solutions for the problem sets...This compact and concentrated work will be a useful service to students and teachers in fundamental mathematics." — Tom Schulte, MAA ReviewsTable of Contents Some introductory problems Squares are never negative The arithmetic-geometric mean inequality, part I The arithmetic-geometric mean inequality, part II The harmonic mean Symmetry in algebra, part I Symmetry in algebra, part II Symmetry in algebra, part III The rearrangement inequality The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.

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Book SynopsisPresents a readable and accessible introductory course in algebraic geometry, with most of the fundamental classical results presented with complete proofs. An emphasis is placed on developing connections between geometric and algebraic aspects of the theory. Differences between the theory in characteristic $0$ and positive characteristic are emphasized.Table of Contents A crash course in commutative algebra Affine varieties Projective varieties Regular and rational maps of quasi-projective varieties Products The blow-up of an ideal Finite maps of quasi-projective varieties Dimension of quasi-projective algebraic sets Zariski's main theorem Nonsingularity Sheaves Applications to regular and rational maps Divisors Differential forms and the canonical divisor Schemes The degree of a projective variety Cohomology Curves An introduction to intersection theory Surfaces Ramification and etale maps Bertini's theorem and general fibers of maps Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents Intervals Toplogy of the real line Continuous functions from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ Sequences of real numbers Connectedness and the intermediate value theorem; Compactness and the extreme value theorem; Limits of real valued functions; Differentiation of real valued functions; Metric spaces; Interiors, closures, and boundaries; The topology of metric spaces; Sequences in metric spaces; Uniform convergence; More on continuity and limits; Compact metric spaces; Sequenctial characterization of compactness; Connectedness; Complete spaces; A fixed point theorem; Vector spaces; Linearity; Norms; Continuity and linearity; The Cauchy integral; Differential calculus; Partial derivatives and iterated integrals; Computations in $\mathbb{R}^n$; Infinite series; The implicit function theorem; Higher order derivatives; Quantifiers; Sets; Special subsets of $\mathbb{R}$; Logical connectives; Writing mathematics; Set operations; Arithmetic; Order propertiers of $\mathbb{R}$; Natural numbers and mathematical induction; Least upper bounds and greatest lower bounds; Products, relations, and functions; Properties of functions; Functions that have inverses; Products; Finite and infinite sets; Countable and uncountable sets; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to the fundamentals of enumeration for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the mathematical sciences. The book offers a careful and comprehensive account of the standard tools of enumeration and their application to counting problems for the fundamental structures of discrete mathematics.Table of Contents Prologue: Compositions of an integer Sets, functions, and relations Binomial coefficients Multinomial coefficients and ordered partitions Graphs and trees Partitions: Stirling, Lah, and cycle numbers Intermission: Some unifying themes Combinatorics and number theory Differences and sums Enumeration under group actions Finite vector spaces Ordered sets Formal power series Incidence algebra: The grand unified theory of enumerative combinatorics Analysis review Topology review Abstract algebra review Index.

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Book SynopsisDesigned for use in an introductory undergraduate course in real analysis. Much of the development is in the setting of the general metric space. The book makes substantial use not only of the real line and $n$-dimensional Euclidean space, but also sequence and function spaces.Table of Contents Where we're starting and where we're going Essential tools Metric spaces Sequences Continuity Compactness and connectedness The derivative The Riemannn integral Sequences of functions Chaos in discrete dynamical systems The Hausdorff metric and fractals Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArt can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating and selling arpilleras, appliquéd pictures in cloth that portrayed the unemployment, poverty, and repression that they endured, their work to make ends meet, and their varied forms of protest. Smuggled out of Chile by human rights organizations, the arpilleras raised international awareness of the Pinochet regime’s abuses while providing income for the arpillera makers and creating a network of solidarity between the people of Chile and sympathizers throughout the world.Using the Chilean arpilleras as a case study, this book explores how dissident art can be produced under dictatorship, when freedom of expression is absTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Solidarity Art 2. Beginnings: Unemployment and Joining Groups 3. The First Arpillera Groups 4. Arpillera Making in Other Groups and Its Spread 5. Producing the Arpilleras 6. Selling Arpilleras 7. The Buyers Abroad 8. Selling, Giving, and Exhibiting Arpilleras in Chile 9. The Consequences of Arpillera Making 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography

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Book Synopsis The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of the comic book market. Since the 2000s, the company’s iconic characters have leaped from page to screens with the creation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which includes everything from live-action film franchises of Iron Man and the Avengers to television and streaming media, including the critically acclaimed Netflix series Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Marvel, now owned by Disney, has clearly found the key to transmedia success. Make Ours Marvel traces the rise of the Marvel brand and its transformation into a transmedia empire over the past fifty years. A dozen original essays range across topics such as how Marvel expanded the notion of an all-sTrade ReviewWell-written. . . .[A]nd packed with information about the workings of the Marvel Universe. There is much to ponder and learn here. * Choice *Make Ours Marvel is a well-timed anthology that fairly and critically examines Marvel’s long history as one of the great myth-makers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. * Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature *The contributors [to Make Ours Marvel]...lay the groundwork for the future study of Marvel Entertainment, a great achievement unto itself. The audience for this book may be wide considering the popularity of the subject matter, but more specifically it is highly recommended to those scholars invested in studying Marvel Entertainment. This strong collection of essays on transmedia study is undoubtedly made for those studying Marvel Entertainment across its permutations in comics, film, TV, and more. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Excelsior! Or, Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Matt Yockey Chapter 1. Reforming the “Justice” System: Marvel’s Avengers and the Transformation of the All-Star Team Book, by Mark Minett and Bradley Schauer Chapter 2. Man Without Fear: David Mack, Daredevil, and the “Bounds of Difference” in Superhero Comics, by Henry Jenkins Chapter 3. “This Female Fights Back!”: A Feminist History of Marvel Comics, by Anna F. Peppard Chapter 4. “Share Your Universe”: Generation, Gender, and the Future of Marvel Publishing, by Derek Johnson Chapter 5. Breaking Brand: From NuMarvel to MarvelNOW! Marvel Comics in the Age of Media Convergence, by Deron Overpeck Chapter 6. Marvel and the Form of Motion Comics, by Darren Wershler and Kalervo A. Sinervo Chapter 7. Transmedia Storytelling in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” and the Logics of Convergence-Era Popular Seriality, by Felix Brinker Chapter 8. The Marvel One-Shots and Transmedia Storytelling, by Michael Graves Chapter 9. Spinning Webs: Constructing Authors, Genre, and Fans in the Spider-Man Film Franchise, by James N. Gilmore Chapter 10. Playing Peter Parker: Spider-Man and Superhero Film Performance, by Aaron Taylor Chapter 11. Spotting Stan: The Fun and Function of Stan Lee’s Cameos in the Marvel Universe(s), by Dru Jeffries Chapter 12. Schrödinger’s Cape: The Quantum Seriality of the Marvel Multiverse, by William Proctor Notes on Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis In the postdictatorial era, Latin American cultural production and criticism have been defined by a series of assumptions about politics and art—especially the claim that political freedom can be achieved by promoting a more direct experience between the textual subject (often a victim) and the reader by eliminating the division between art and life. The Vanishing Frame argues against this conception of freedom, demonstrating how it is based on a politics of human rights complicit with economic injustices. Presenting a provocative counternarrative, Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano examines literary, visual, and interdisciplinary artists who insist on the autonomy of the work of art in order to think beyond the politics of human rights and neoliberalism in Latin American theory and culture. Di Stefano demonstrates that while artists such as Diamela Eltit, Ariel Dorfman, and Albertina Carri develop a concept of justice premised on recognizing victims’ experiencesTrade Review[The Vanishing Frame's] main novelty lies in the fact that the theoretical argumentation is founded on an anticapitalistic perspective in contradiction with what the author labels as the human rights Left…I recommend in the strongest possible terms that this essay be included as required reading for any graduate course on Latin American History or Literature dealing with the topics of human rights, dictatorships, and artistic/literary representations. * Hispania *One of the most important merits of...The Vanishing Frame [is] its force to make visible an old discussion between ethics and aesthetics, between representation of catastrophe and horizons of justice. * Revista de Esudios Hispánicos * An ambitious work that weaves together a wide array of disciplinary discourses and approaches...valuable for its ambition to perform interdisciplinary criticism in literary studies, art history, political theory, and cultural criticism...I would suggest this book to scholars who are interested in the interaction of affect, aesthetics, and politics in Latin American dictatorial and postdictatorial literature and visual art since the late 1970s. On the other hand, the book speaks not only to scholars of Latin American culture and literature but also to students and scholars interested in the relationship between aesthetics, politics, and theory more broadly. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *There is no doubt in my mind that The Vanishing Frame is one of the most important theoretical works of criticism to be published in the field of Latin American literature in the last few years. Not only because it is successful in its critique of the connection between human rights politics and the emergence of a neoliberal period in South America, but also because, in the process, it gives us a reading of the evolution of Latin Americanism since the end of the last century. * Nonsite *An ambitious entry into debates on postdictatorial literature and neoliberal aesthetics...The Vanishing Frame’s thought-provoking approach to thinking through identity politics and human rights discourse will no doubt initiate rigorous and much-needed debate about the future of the Left in literary and cultural studies. This book will be of interest to scholars of Latin American literary studies, human rights, trauma and memory studies, neoliberalism and aesthetics, and affect theory. * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Freedom at the End of the Postdictatorial Era Part 1. Postdictatorial Aesthetics Chapter 1. From Revolution to Human Rights Chapter 2. Disability and Redemocratization Chapter 3. Making Neoliberal History Part 2. Toward a Politics of the Frame Chapter 4. The Reappearance of the Frame Chapter 5. Anti-intentionalism and the Neoliberal Left Chapter 6. Literary Form Now Coda: The Victim, the Frame Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe broadcasting industry's trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content via its self-regulatory document, the Television Code. The Code covered everything from the stories, images, and sounds of TV programs (no profanity, illicit sex and drinking, negative portrayals of family life and law enforcement officials, or irreverence for God and religion) to the allowable number of commercial minutes per hour of programming. It mandated that broadcasters make time for religious programming and discouraged them from charging for it. And it called for tasteful and accurate coverage of news, public events, and controversial issues. Using archival documents from the Federal Communications Commission, NBC, the NAB, and a television reformer, Senator William Benton, this book explores the run-up to the adoption of the 1952 Television Code from the perspectives of the government, TV viewers, local broadcasters, national networks, and the industry's trade association. Deborah L. Jaramillo analyzes the competing motives and agendas of each of these groups as she builds a convincing case that the NAB actually developed the Television Code to protect commercial television from reformers who wanted more educational programming, as well as from advocates of subscription television, an alternative distribution model to the commercial system. By agreeing to self-censor content that viewers, local stations, and politicians found objectionable, Jaramillo concludes, the NAB helped to ensure that commercial broadcast television would remain the dominant model for decades to come.Trade Review[A] valuable resource for media scholars and graduate students. * Choice *Jaramillo has authored a work with applications across many disciplines, especially history, media law, and even political science. Her search for primary sources in both the development of the code and the short life of the [Television Broadcasters Association] is a valuable insight into the origins of U.S. television. * Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media *[The Television Code] is a strong intellectual contribution to debates about what television is and who it serves which will no doubt become a staple in reading lists of television history and regulation...The Television Code is an engaging, well-written, and thought-provoking study on the key role played by regulation in the early negotiations about television’s identity. * Critical Studies in Television *An essential account of a transitional period in television’s rise, The Television Code establishes the [National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters'] role in crafting the industry’s master narratives and would interest scholars and students of US broadcast history, media policy, and censorship... Jaramillo’s careful attention to the voices of the various players involved in the Code further enriches the complicated history of commercial broadcasting and provides a model for rigorous archival research. * Television & New Media *[The Television Code] is a well-researched, articulate, and sound book that would contribute toward thinking of popular culture studies in ways that intersect with overlooked subfields such as media policy, and, perhaps, political sociology. This book effectively maps out the road to the Television Code, along with the detours and back roads that led to its ultimate implementation. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Television Code and the Trade Association 1. Regulatory Precedents before Television: The Government and the NAB Experiment with Radio 2. Distinguishing Television from Radio via the Trade Association: The Rise and Fall of the Television Broadcasters Association 3. The Industry Talks about a Television Code: Discourses of Decency, Self-Regulation, and Medium Specificity 4. The Television Audience Speaks Out: Viewer Complaints and the Demand for Government Intervention 5. The Federal Communications Commission: Impotent Bureaucrats, Underhanded Censors, or Exasperated Intermediaries? 6. Senator William Benton Challenges the Commercial Television Paradigm Conclusion: After the Code Appendix A. The Television Code: Section on “Acceptability of Program Material” Appendix B. The Television Code: Section on “Decency and Decorum in Production” Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis rich theoretical analysis redefines and relocates the concept of universal citizenship at the revolutionary limits of the nation and identity.Trade ReviewGuzmán’s incisive approach to the role of identity in Latino studies and broader collective group formation offers a timely intervention that will serve scholars in numerous disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. A compelling read that adds necessary revisions to understandings of undocumentation in Latino studies and of migration more broadly, Guzmán’s text offers a nuanced perspective on political action and structural change. By moving in scale from the individual’s relation to the self to the individual’s relationship to broader society, Guzmán activates a wide range of methods for cohering the social into radical democratic acts, offering new ways to approach the subject at the limits of identity and the nation-state. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Universal Citizenship at the Limits of Nature and Culture Chapter 1. Cause and Consistency: The Democratic Act, Universal Citizenship, and Nation Chapter 2. Ethnics of the Real: HB 2281 and the Alien(ated) Subject Chapter 3. Criminalization at the Edge of the Evental Site: Migrant “Illegality,” Universal Citizenship, and the 2006 Immigration Marches Chapter 4. Oscar “Zeta” Acosta and Generic Politics: At the Margins of Identity and Law Chapter 5. Between Crowd and Group: Fantasy, Revolutionary Nation, and the Politics of the Not-All Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA contemplative exploration of cultural representations of Mexican American fathers in contemporary media.Trade ReviewFatherhood in the Borderlands is a true joy to read--a page turner! The autoethnographic, epistemic, and creative space of the author’s storytelling; the theorizing; and the deep and engaged readings of key film and literary texts in the Chicanx borderlands pantheon of creative/cultural production are all beautifully realized. Perez’s book will be a huge hit. -- Arturo J. Aldama, University of Colorado Boulder, author of Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for RepresentationThis book is personal and necessary. Domino Perez makes a disrupting gesture with Fatherhood in the Borderlands that is deliberate and thoughtful. It is a bold decision to make it a many-faceted work—there is no other book like Perez’s, with its amalgam of beautiful insights and tremendous depth. -- Christopher González, Southern Methodist University, author of Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a LiteratureTable of Contents Preface: The Slow Lowdown Introduction: A Slow Approach to Fathers and Other Fictions Part I. Sourcing Authority Film: Ancianos not Abuelos: Making Space and Mediating Male Power Personal Narrative: “No, I Am Your Father” Literature: Fathers and Racialized Masculinities in Luis Alberto Urrea’s In Search of Snow Part II. Instrumentalizing Indigeneity Personal Narrative: Nobody Ever Said We Were Aztecs Film: Fatherhood, Chicanismo, and the Cultural Politics of Healing in La Mission Literature: New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldúa Part III. Fantasmas and Fronteras Literature: Fathers, Sons, and Other (Short) Fictions Film: Meta and Mutant Fathers Personal Narrative: Family Fictions and Other Lies about the Truth Conclusion: Fathers and Futurity Parting Shot Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited and Consulted Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru's rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided with the rise of mass-produced cookbooks, the first televised cooking shows, glossy lifestyle magazines, and imported domestic appliances and foodstuffs. Amy Cox Hall's The Taste of Nostalgia uses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian longings for modernity, both during the Cold War and today.Drawing on interviews, personal stories, media images, and archival and ethnographic research, Cox Hall considers how elite, European-descended women and the urban home were central to Peru's modernizing project and finds that all women who labored within the deeply racialized and gendered world of food helped set the stage for a Peruvian food nationalism that is now global in the twenty-f

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Book SynopsisHow indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive. Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in productivist ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacking off, lounging, daydreaming, and partying are liberatory practices-revolts that in turn are treated as revolting. Gonsalez explores how queer and trans Latinx artists refute discourses in which work is a moral good. In Paris Is Burning, RuPaul's Drag Race, documentary photography of queer and trans Latinx life in Los Angeles, and other sources, Gonsalez identifies two lazy styles: first, flagrant refusals of work that critique capitalist reason; and second, the invention of alternative aesthetic worlds beyond racial capitalism and violence targeting queer and trans people, whose rejection of the cisgender nuclear family paradigm is rightly seen as threatening the stability of a functioning capitalist system. Reclaiming laziness as a resource for radical imagining, Revolting Indolence asks us to do that which we want most and which capitalist exploitation can least tolerate: to slow down.

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of mezcal and how it has become a global, "artisanal" good. Mezcal is booming. Once considered a peasant drink-the rough, lowbrow cousin of the more refined tequila-the smoky spirit is now prized by connoisseurs the world over. It is also hailed as a savior of Oaxaca, powering a craft industry that can uphold rural economies and Indigenous traditions. Ronda L. Brulotte traces mezcal's swift rise and its effects on communities that have distilled and enjoyed the beverage for generations. Only in the late 1990s did mezcal begin to escape its longstanding associations with Indigenous and working-class life, even as these very qualities supply the authenticity that elite consumers crave. Through a detailed ethnography of the spirits industry in Oaxaca, Brulotte compares the ideal of the artisanal economy with the reality of participation in global markets. Her findings-focused on tourism-led development and gentrification, the exploitation of women and smallholders, and swelling regional migration pressures-raise troubling questions about the ecological and social sustainability of a new craft imaginary that rebrands rustic products as luxury goods.

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Book SynopsisHow Spanish-language television networks continue to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape. The US television industry has suffered blow after blow amid media convergence and the rise of streaming. Those legacy broadcasters that survive are much diminished and highly dependent on live programming-the last redoubt of old media. There is an exception, though: Spanish-language television is thriving. Spanish-Language Television surveys the Latinx media landscape to better appreciate why Univision and Telemundo have flourished while others faltered. Manuel G. AvilÉs-Santiago and Jillian M. BÁez show that the major Spanish-language networks are unusually flexible and open to innovation in hopes of reaching new demographics. Univision and Telemundo were early to streaming. To appeal to billennial audiences-bilingual millennials-who threatened to stray from TV, they rebuilt the telenovela, which now features social commentary, diverse characters, and genre crossovers. Today's reality programs defy old norms of linguistic correctness, and the airwaves are becoming less hospitable to racism and sexism, resulting in rising ratings and ad revenues. The first book-length treatment of reception patterns in Latinx TV, Spanish-Language Television deepens our understanding of new media in a moment of transformation and possibility.

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 1970s to the present day.

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Book SynopsisHow music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora. Music has played a large role in recent Dominican literature, whether of the island or the diaspora. Bridging Sonic Borders explores this sonic connection linking the homeland and far-flung locales-especially New York, the center of Dominican cultural production in the United States. Sharina MaÍllo-Pozo argues that literary representations of popular music delineate a shared aesthetic territory for US and Caribbean Dominicans, fostering an inclusive and transnational Dominicanidad. Examining works written in Spanish, English, and Dominicanish, MaÍllo-Pozo focuses on Dominican/Dominicanyork writings that have nurtured a borderless aesthetics through their shared investment in hip-hop, jazz, blues, pop, rock, and merengue. For Dominican writers, popular music has become a way of exploring memory and nostalgia and a means of centering people rejected from hegemonic identity formation-the working class, those of African descent, rural and queer people. For example, many works focused on the life of rocker Luis Terror DÍas have emphasized the in-between identity of being both Dominican and a New Yorker. Collectively, these writings have created a space in which boundaries of nation and diaspora are revealed for their fundamental porosity.

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Book SynopsisShort stories by a celebrated playwright bare the horrors of the Syrian civil war. A selection of stories by Syrian author and playwright Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa about characters enduring the horrors of the Syrian civil war. With exquisite wit and lightness of touch, Almosa portrays the internal world of characters facing great physical violence or psychological pressures. Using both realism and fantastic elements, Almosa weaves short stories that are strange, violent, and delicate at the same time. This collection is an invaluable attempt to denounce war, to exist, to love life in all its manifestations and to learn how to cope with loss and disappointment. It is a cry against fear and death as much as it is an ode and a homage to life and love in times of both war and peace.

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Book Synopsis2023 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation A fascinating account of the modern reinvention of the image of the Indian in nineteenth-century literature and visual culture, seen through the work of Peruvian painter Francisco Laso. One of the outstanding painters of the nineteenth century, Francisco Laso (18231869) set out to give visual form to modern Peru. His solemn and still paintings of indigenous subjects were part of a larger project, spurred by writers and intellectuals actively crafting a nation in the aftermath of independence from Spain. In this book, at once an innovative account of modern indigenism and the first major monograph on Laso, Natalia Majluf explores the rise of the image of the Indian in literature and visual culture. Reading Laso's works through a broad range of sources, Majluf traces a decisive break in a long history of representations of indigenous peoples that began with the Spanish conquest. She ties this transformation to the modern concept of culture, which redefined both the artistic field and the notion of indigeneity. As an abstraction produced through indigenist discourse, an icon of authenticity, and a densely racialized cultural construct, the Indian would emerge as a central symbol of modern Andean nationalisms. Inventing Indigenism brings the work and influence of this extraordinary painter to the forefront as it offers a broad perspective on the dynamics of art and visual culture in nineteenth-century Latin America.

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Book SynopsisThe end of authoritarian rule in 1998 ushered in an exhilarating but unsettled period of democratization in Indonesia. A more open political climate converged with a rapidly changing media landscape, yielding a vibrant and volatile public sphere within which Indonesians grappled with the possibilities and limits of democracy amid entrenched corruption, state violence, and rising forms of intolerance. In Demanding Images Karen Strassler theorizes image-events as political processes in which publicly circulating images become the material ground of struggles over the nation''s past, present, and future. Considering photographs, posters, contemporary art, graffiti, selfies, memes, and other visual media, she argues that people increasingly engage with politics through acts of making, circulating, manipulating, and scrutinizing images. Demanding Images is both a closely observed account of Indonesia''s turbulent democratic transition and a globally salient analysis of the worTrade Review“Karen Strassler convincingly links ideologies of transparency that are associated with new media forms with political and social concepts. Especially valuable is her attentiveness to both the ideological valence of new media and the pragmatic implications of what it can and cannot do in practice. Smart, stylish, and sophisticated, Demanding Images is absolutely superb.” -- Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan“An inspiring account of the demands made upon images (to testify and endure) and the complex demands images make in turn upon those who use them. Establishing the conflictual politics of the visual, Karen Strassler dissects the ambivalence and volatility of image-events in prose that is both analytically precise and poetically rich. This is a learned contribution to the study of contemporary Indonesia and an ominous handbook illuminating the convulsive nature of new media landscapes that are changing lives everywhere.” -- Christopher Pinney, Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture, University College London"Demanding Images encourages readers to adopt a valuable new perspective on post-authoritarian Indonesian politics." -- Megan Brankley Abbas * PoLAR *"Demanding Images is a fascinating, entertaining, and insightful read. A one-of-a-kind book on Indonesia, it will appeal to those interested in Indonesian media, politics, and society, as well as those who want to understand how images affect politics in our more complex media environment." -- Colm Fox * Pacific Affairs *"As an interdisciplinary work that draws from a number of sophisticated analytical frameworks, this accessible study holds value far beyond the immediate topic of Indonesian visual culture and public discourse in recent decades." -- S. G. Jug * Choice *"Karen Strassler is highly regarded in Indonesian studies, and . . . her ideas and theories have incredible depth and should be relevant to a larger audience critically engaged with photography and visual culture, those actively trying to grapple with the complexity of images within our social and political experience." -- Brian Arnold * Afterimage *"An engaging and thought-provoking book, which certainly demands attention from anyone with an interest in Media, Cultural, and Area Studies." -- Edward Jurriens * Anthropos *"Strassler's notion of the 'image-event' elegently draws attention to the permeability between static and mobile, enduring and fleeting, picture and performance, making her work relevant well beyond the limits of Indonesian studies and her disciplinary home in visual anthropology." -- Krishna Sen * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Whether one is interested in contemporary Indonesian politics, in understanding the role of images in public spheres more generally, or in the production and life of images themselves, this book will certainly be a valuable read." -- Jonathan Kraemer * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsPreface VII Acknowledgments XI Introduction. The Eventfulness of Images 3 1. Face Value 33 2. The Gender of Transparency 67 3. The Scandal of Exposure 95 4. Naked Effects 133 5. Street Signs 169 Conclusion. The Eye of the Crowd 221 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisRobert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present.Trade Review“Theft Is Property! is an intellectually riveting and necessary critical consideration of the genealogy of dispossession as it is used to different ends by Indigenous scholars and activists and within Marxist critiques of capitalism and labor. Its emphasis on the normativity of dispossession as a recursive theft into property formation that explains the structural formation of settler colonialism will be a central text in shaping discussions around why Indigenous critique matters beyond identity politics.” -- Jodi A. Byrd, author of * The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism *“In this extraordinary work of political theory, Robert Nichols offers a wholesale revision of the conceptual problematic of dispossession in light of the history of settler colonialism and in a context of contemporary Indigenous resurgence. Through sustained engagements with critical race theory, Marxism, and feminism, Nichols forcefully reanimates the moral sense and political understanding of Indigenous dispossession as a recursive process by which proprietary claims of settlers have been constituted and Indigenous subjects simultaneously made bereft of something they never claimed to own—a transformation of theft into property. This profound and pathbreaking work will change the conversation across several fields.” -- Nikhil Pal Singh, author of * Race and America’s Long War *"Nichols’ book certainly adds to the scholarly literature about the subjects of property, dispossession, slavery, and the resistance of the various people affected to the injustices done to them. The book is timely: this is the right moment in history for such a book to appear. . . . The book is highly recommended." -- John T. Sneed * International Social Science Review *"Theft is Property! will prove an important and influential book. It is an exemplary work of political theory, which makes its political and methodological arguments with exceptional clarity and precision. The dialogue Nichols stages, drawing from anarchism, Marxism, critical race theory, and feminism alongside Indigenous political thought, is sure to have a wide-ranging impact across multiple fields. Most significantly, Theft is Property! will prove a landmark text in studies of dispossession and counterdispossession, centering Indigenous scholarship and activism while elaborating a broader problematic that requires further attention and investigation." -- Christopher Balcom * Contemporary Political Theory *"Nichols’s historically grounded text is essential reading for anyone seeking a broader critical understanding of dispossession at the intersection of contract law, land seizure, and class warfare." -- Caitlin Simmons * Western American Literature *"With incredible precision, dexterity, and clarity, Theft is Property! leaves us with the diverse modalities of dispossession in relation to bodily integrity and selfhood as well as land and the nonhuman world—which far exceed the discrete parameters of property and territory." -- Iyko Day * American Quarterly *"Theft is Property! is an act of expressive insurgency.… This is a complex and deeply layered book that will repay multiple readings." -- Shane Chalmers * Theory & Event *"Theft Is Property! quietly but decidedly calls us to collective action and expressive insurgency, laying the groundwork for multigenerational, transnational struggles of counter-dispossession." -- Sandy Grande * Political Theory *"For those of us outside of the field of political/critical theory, Nichols’s Theft Is Property! is an important reminder of the instability of core critical concepts and the advantages of putting them into dialogue with the conditions of their specific contexts." -- Rita M. Palacios * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. That Sole and Despotic Dominion 16 2. Marx, after the Feast 52 3. Indigenous Structural Critique 85 4. Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill 116 Conclusion 144 Notes 161 Bibliography 203 Index 225

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Book SynopsisMelody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based media theory frameworks and reorients the perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived.Trade Review“‘Blood is seawater,’ said the French biologist René Quinton more than a century ago. Melody Jue shows that seawater can be the lifeblood of a new ‘milieu-specific’ analysis that discards terrestrial biases in understanding media. Navigating across topics such as iron lungs, squid skin, and Google maps of the ocean floor, this book invites us to let our thinking go productively wild by transcending our lazily land-based concepts via a deep dive into the wet blue yonder.” -- John Durham Peters, Yale University“Melody Jue's bracing and brilliant Wild Blue Media invites readers to reorient their terrestrially tuned assumptions about media by dunking such notions as inscription, storage, and transmission underwater, into the multiplicitous materialities of the oceanic. Jue teaches us the vital lesson that by rethinking the medium of the ocean through media theory—and vice versa—we may better apprehend the sea changes of our fraught, climate-changing time.” -- Stefan Helmreich, author of * Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond *“Forging an innovative speculative methodology of ‘conceptual displacement’, the book configures oceanic immersion as a critical and imaginative resource for thinking otherwise.... Wild Blue Media embarks upon a vital reassessment of the parameters through which media studies and literary criticism mediate oceanic knowledge.” -- Alexandra Campbell * Wasafiri *"I love how this book beckons us to new depths in its pursuit of a defamiliarization that might hold ameliorating potential for the planet and those who dwell on it. . . . Wild Blue Media aims to jolt its readers out of accustomed habits of perception, and for me, creating the conditions for such heightened sensitivity is what teaching is all about." -- Sari Edelstein * Edge Effects *“Wild Blue Media makes an important and timely contribution to the oceanic turn within literary theory and media studies. Notably for a monograph focused on mediation, the book is also a beautiful object. Jue’s skill and passion for diving inform the volume’s design as well as her contributions to media theory.” -- Rachel Webb Jekanowski * Science Fiction Studies *“Wild Blue Media . . . is a gift to the ocean humanities, suturing concepts across media studies, literary criticism, oceanographic research, feminist science, and technology studies and visual culture with formidable deftness.” -- Pujita Guha * Configurations *“Jue’s sophisticated theorizing is combined with an ethical commitment to care for the ocean, and she refers to Wild Blue Media as a pre-activist book. . . . Jue’s book will hopefully inspire scholars and activists to immerse themselves into underwater worlds, and show people above the surface what a wonderful world of many worlds our pluriversal blue planet is.” -- Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsPreface: Into the Blue ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Thinking through Seawater 1 1. Interface / Breathing Underwater 34 2. Inscription / Vampire Squid Media 71 3. Database / Proteus and the Digital 112 4. Underwater Museums / Diving as Method 142 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth''s troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies—the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism whTrade Review“This is a book populated by many of my favorite writers, analysts, and storytellers. Here, they resituate elemental things for me once again. The book is a kind of periodic table for recharting possible responses to Earth’s troubled ecologies with verve and seriousness. These writers always take formal, aesthetic, and intellectual risks to say something important, and they have done it again. The book provokes curiosity because its authors are actually curious rather than self certain. Reactivating Elements is a book to savor!” -- Donna J. Haraway, author of * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene *“Expanding on critiques of the Anthropocene, this compelling volume refreshingly offers new theoretical and methodological approaches to researching and responding to the multiple toxicities of late industrialism.” -- Sara Ann Wylie, author of * Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds *“Tracking waves and wind, bromine, plutonium, and plastics—elemental thinking becomes a way to unsettle long-established category schemes and ways of working. Starting with a critique of how the periodic table itself organizes knowledge and practice, the collection shows how elemental thinking can become creative and animating rather than formulaic, provocative and generative rather than reductive and foreclosing. Paradoxes abound and are a powerful draw for contemporary cultural analysts.” -- Kim Fortun, author of * Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders *“The diversity of detailed subjects, methods, and philosophical underpinnings represented here ensures that most readers will find these well-written, engaging essays inspiring and challenging. . . . [Reactivating Elements] belongs in all good scholarly libraries, especially those with strong collections in science and technology studies (STS), science writing, and/or cultural criticism. Highly recommended.” -- D. Bantz * Choice *"This is a book one could approach slowly and return to repeatedly, and each time, like in a kaleidoscope, discover a different layout of meanings. . . . This volume represents a solid contribution to STS and environmental humanities literature. . . . It will be a relevant and exciting read for scholars, students, and activists interested in more-than-human assemblages, power and resistance, as well as alternative ways of engaging with nonhuman actors in a shared landscape." -- Anna Varfoolmeeva * Technoscienza *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Elements: From Cosmology to Episteme and Back / Dimitris Papadopoulos, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, and Natasha Myers 1 1. Receiving the Gift: Earthly Events, Chemical Invariants, and Elemental Powers / Isabelle Stengers 18 2. Chemicals, Ecology, and Reparative Justice / Dimitris Papadopoulos 34 3. Elementary Forms of Elementary Forms: Old, New, and Wavy / Stefan Helmreich 70 4. Substance as Method: Bromine, for Example / Joseph Dumit 84 5. Elemental Ghosts, Haunted Carbon Imaginaries, and Living Matter at the Edge of Life / Astrid Schrader 108 6. The Artificial World / Joseph Masco 131 7. Tilting at Windmills / Patrick Bresnihan 151 8. Crowding the Elements / Cori Hayden 176 9. Embracing Breakdown: Soil Ecopoethics and the Ambivalences of Remediation / Maria Puig de la Bellcasa 196 10. Externality, Breathers, Conspiracy: Forms for Atmospheric Reckoning / Tim Choy 231 11. Reimagining Chemicals, With and Against Technoscience / Michelle Murphy 257 Contributors 280 Index 285

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Book SynopsisIn eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations-biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta SchubertTrade Review“This innovative and ethnographically tantalizing book presents the notion of decay as a keyword for our times—times that are depressive and apocalyptic—and connects it to a broad array of terms that circulate in today's pop culture and critical scholarship. Decay's punchy and insightful essays introduce readers to an exciting new terrain in social theory, one that is good to think with and pregnant with possibility.” -- Charles Piot, author of * The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles *“Striking out at the lack of decay in our conceptual approaches, Decay encourages anthropologists to examine entropy and the tendency toward disorder as a new way of thinking about social change, persistence, and relationality.” -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of * Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism *“These essays in Decay provide an attractive opening invitation for further thought. Taking up the difficult task of uniting a disparate number of biological, physical, organisational, moral, political, personal and social concerns, they are provocative, imaginative and stimulating in their reach.” -- Helen Mackreath * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: States of Decay / Ghassan Hage 1 1. Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert 17 2. Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall 28 3. Infrastructure as Decay and the Decay of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 37 4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer 47 5. "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld 58 6. Decay or Fresh Contact? The Morality of Mixture after War's End / Bart Klem 73 7. Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli 86 8. Discourses of Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein 99 9. Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage 110 10. Relational Decay: White Helpers in Australia's Indigenous Communities / Cameo Dalley 128 11. Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn 140 References 153 Contributors 171 Index 175

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Book SynopsisCajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture, showing how African visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture deliver a unique perspective on the socio-ecological costs of media production.Trade Review“Cajetan Iheka writes of the most pressing and complicated issues with clear-sightedness. This major contribution will undoubtedly reach beyond the academy to become a stirring call to anyone interested in the interconnectedness engendered by globalization and the attendant toxicity and suffering that have been unleashed on various populations across Africa and elsewhere. This is truly a joy to read.” -- Ato Quayson, author of * Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature *“This outstanding book powerfully reorients ecocritical studies. Cajetan Iheka has taken on three of the most pressing issues of our times: the aftermath of colonialism and globalization; the social intensification of communications media; and the environmental impact of human societies. His scholarship is impressive in its scope and depth, his thinking original and significant. African Ecomedia will reverberate with students and researchers in media and communications, environmental humanities, ecocritical studies, anthropology, and social sciences.” -- Sean Cubitt, author of * Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies *"A provocative account of how contemporary works of African visual culture embody the 'infinite resourcefulness' needed to survive an anthropogenic planet defined by the 'limitedness of resources.'" -- Michael Dango * ASAP/Journal *“Iheka provides piercing analyses of the ecological footprints of media technologies in Africa and the representation in media of ecological issues affecting Africa. [He] challenges all media forms to remind humanity of the environmental crisis and climate change, African lessons on sustainable ways of consuming energy, and the opportunities to improve quality of life. Recommended. All readers.” -- Z. N. Nchinda * Choice *“[Iheka] makes a resounding case for the centrality of African ecomedia in confronting the most critical issues of our time, which makes this book equally as indispensable.” -- Dustin Crowley * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"Iheka’s work demonstrates the centrality of pollution to media infrastructure, foregrounding the toxicity that is produced both at the point of extraction of resources and at the end point of disposal, following the planned obsolescence of media devices. . . . African Ecomedia’s analysis of diverse African contexts carries out vital work to counteract the dynamics of invisibility that they depend upon." -- Rebecca Macklin * Year's Work in Ecocriticism *“The arguments in Cajetan Iheka’s [African Ecomedia] are clever and exciting, and the book as artefact is a thing of great beauty.” -- Carli Coetzee * Journal of the African Literature Association *“Iheka offers a meticulous historical contextualization of Africa’s present economic demise while beautifully answering the question, ‘Why can’t we be seen?’ . . . A recuperative postcolonial project, African Ecomedia centralizes Africa ‘as the ground zero of the energy humanities.’” -- Gugu Hlongwane * Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry *“Cajetan Iheka’s outstanding book on environmental issues in African visual culture and screen media paves the way for scholarship in African ecocritical studies. . . . The main strength of African Ecomedia lies in how Iheka builds on previous Anthropocene scholarship by focusing on the Global South, specifically the dependence and complicity in the ecological footprint of visual media in Africa. The volume essentially advocates for media practices arising from the African continent that are innovatively and ecologically framed.” -- Sheila Petty * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Waste Reconsidered: Afrofuturism, Technologies of the Past, and the History of the Future 25 2. Spatial Networks, Toxic Ecoscapes, and (In)visible Labor 64 3. Ecologies of Oil and Uranium: Extractive Energy and the Trauma of the Future 108 4. Human Meets Animal, Africa Meets Diaspora: The Conjunctions of Cecil the Lion and Black Lives Matter 152 5. African Urban Ecologies: Transcriptions of Precarity, Creativity, and Futurity 186 Epilogue. Toward Imperfect Media 221 Notes 231 Bibliography 273 Index 305

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