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MD - Duke University Press An Unformed Map Geographies of Belonging between
Book SynopsisIn An Unformed Map, Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of Caribbean people who joined the British and French colonial administrations in Africa between 1890 and 1930. Caribbean administrators grew up in colonial societies, saw themselves as British and French, and tended to look down on Africans. Once in Africa, however, they were doubly marginalized-excluded by Europeans and unwelcome among Africans. This marginalization was then reproduced in colonial archives, where their lives appear only in fragments. Drawing on sources beyond the archives of empire, from dictionaries and language exams to a suitcase full of poems, Janzen considers how Caribbean administrators reckoned with the profound effects of assimilation, racism, and dislocation. As they learned African languages, formed relationships with African intellectuals, and engaged with African cultures and histories, they began to rethink their positions in the British and French empires. They also created new geographies of belonging across the Atlantic, foundations from which others imagined new political horizons. Ultimately, Janzen offers a model for reading across sources and writing history in the face of archival fragmentation.
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New York University Press Still Straight
Book SynopsisWhy some straight men have sex with other menWhy do some straight men in rural America have sex with other men? In Still Straight, Tony Silva convincingly argues that these menmany of whom enjoy hunting, fishing, and shooting gunsare not gay, bisexual, or just experimenting. As he shows, these men can enjoy a range of relationships with other men, from hookups to sexual friendships to secretive loving partnerships, all while strongly identifying with straight culture. Drawing on riveting interviews with straight white men who live in rural America, Silva explores the fascinating, and unexpected, disconnect between sexual behavior and identity. Some use sex with men to bond with other men in an acceptably masculine way; some are not particularly attracted to men, but are wary of emotional attachment with women; and others view sex with menas opposed to womenas a more acceptable form of extramarital sexual behavior. Taking us inside the lives of straight white men who have sex with oTrade Review"Could it be that straightness is more than a sexual orientation? Through illuminating interviews with straight identified men who have sex with other men, Silva’s answer is a resounding yes. This groundbreaking research documents ways that we might understand sexual identity as deeply tied to culture, place and age. A must read for scholars of sexuality." -- C.J. Pascoe, co-author of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change"Tony Silva’s revealing study of men who have sex with men (MSM) in rural America shows us how white racial identity statuses, heterosexual identity claims, and geography intersect in the secretive practices of men who seek out same-sex sexual encounters in America. Based on 60 in-depth interviews with a hard to study population, Silva argues that MSM and claim to be straight are a patterned phenomenon in a post-closeted American culture. Filled with important insights about sexual identity, race, and rural America, Still Straight is an important addition to the fields of masculinities and queer studies." -- James Joseph Dean, co-editor of Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies"In Silva’s extensive interviews with adult men living in conservative, rural communities, we observe the messy paradox of their lives as they attempt to reconcile their same-sex behavior with a straight identity. You will be amazed by their justifications." -- Ritch C. Savin-Williams, author of Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity among Men
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New York University Press Conditional Belonging
Book SynopsisA compelling account of how race and politics have affected Iranian immigrants in the United Statesand GermanyIranians have a complex and contradictory relationship with race. Though categorized as white by the US census, many Iranian Americans remain marginalized, and experience racial and political stigma daily. On the other hand, Iranian Germans who have been in Germany for decades, and are typically regarded as 'good foreigners,' continue to experience marginality and discrimination illustrating the limitations of integration and citizenship. Conditional Belonging explores these apparent contradictions through a comparative analysis of the Iranian diasporic experience in the United States and Germany, focusing particularly on the different processes of racialization of the immigrants. Drawing from eighty-eight interviews with first- and second-generation Iranians living in California and Hamburg, Sahar Sadeghi illuminates how international events, global political policy, and natTrade ReviewConditional Belonging is a serious, timely contribution to scholarship on the racialization and migration experiences of Iranians. By providing the first in-depth, comparative analysis of Iranian immigrants in the United States and Germany, Sahar Sadeghi deepens our understanding of national and cultural membership in both societies. Clear, readable, and effective, this is an important book that answers the call for a more global and comparative Iranian diaspora studies * Neda Maghbouleh, author of The Limits of Whiteness *Conditional Belonging is a brilliant, piercing ethnographic portrayal of how first-and second-generation Iranians in the United States and Germany navigate the complexities of racialization while struggling to gain full recognition and social belonging—without ever quite succeeding. Gripping first-hand accounts reveal how race-based nationalism continues to inform the social order in liberal, democratic states and amplify the sidelining of so-called foreign others. This timely book is a must-read for understanding both the visible and hidden racial projects that undermine collective commitments to unconditional inclusion and equality. * Manata Hashemi, author of Coming of Age in Iran *Conditional Belonging demonstrates the ways in which empire (US) and racial nationalism (Germany) operate to situate Iranians as perpetual foreigners, including among the linguistically and culturally adept second generation and the most socially integrated of immigrants. Sadeghi’s fine attention to empirical detail shows us how these variations play out and how the rise of white nationalism in both countries has produced new yet divergent strategies of resistance. * Louise Cainkar, author of Homeland Insecurity *Review on Faculti Podcast, https://faculti.net/conditional-belonging/ -- Muhlenberg College * Faculti Podcast *
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New York University Press Downwind of the Atomic State
Book SynopsisHow the scientific community overlooked, ignored, and denied the catastrophic fallout of decades ofnuclear testing in the American WestIn December of 1950, President Harry Truman gave authorization for the Atomic Energy Commission to conduct weapons tests and experiments on a section of a Nevada gunnery range. Over the next eleven years, more than a hundred detonations were conducted at the Nevada Test Site, and radioactive debris dispersed across the communities just downwind and through much of the country. In this important work, James C. Rice tells the hidden story of nuclear weapons testing and the negligence of the US government in protecting public health. Downwind of the Atomic State focuses on the key decisions and events shaping the Commission's mismanagement of radiological contamination in the region, specifically on how the risks of fallout were defined and redefined, or, importantly, not defined at all, owing to organizational mistakes and the impetus to keep atomic tes
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New York University Press Virtual Searches Regulating the Covert World of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWell-written, encyclopedic, and persuasive, Virtual Searches offers a fully-formed theory on the Fourth Amendment’s future in the face of new technologies. The rigor and depth of Slobogin’s analysis is rock solid and he offers a clear approach to regulating the hardest questions emerging around new policing technologies. -- Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, author of The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law EnforcementCutting-edge and well-written, this is an important book on a critical issue in policing and surveillance, and it presents a number of original ideas that will assist academics and policymakers in navigating these issues. I have never seen any other scholar offer such a comprehensive typology for different types of digital surveillance. -- Ric Simmons, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State UniversityIn a world of pervasive cameras and sensors, data harvesting, and artificial intelligence, what will become of privacy? Steering a middle course between outright bans and hands-off complacency, Christopher Slobogin argues persuasively that different investigative strategies pose different levels of risks and deserve different kinds of oversight. He offers an invaluable road map to new forms of surveillance and a thoughtful set of proposals for how they can and should be regulated in a democratic society. This is essential reading for anyone interested in balancing the interests of privacy and crime control as technology changes the nature of law enforcement. -- David Alan Sklansky, author of A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice"A leading scholar of the security and privacy implications of digital policing, Slobogin points out that Virtual Searches is not actually about searches—at least not within the legal meaning of the term. And that is exactly the book’s point (as its clever double-entendre of a title suggests): the Supreme Court’s narrow interpretation of a Fourth Amendment 'search' allows police to adopt a vast swath of investigative tactics without having to get a warrant based on probable cause. At the same time, Slobogin recognizes that not all 'virtual searches' are created equal, and he provides a reasonable framework for thinking about how to regulate the different kinds of investigations enabled by existing surveillance technology." -- Emily Berman * Boston Review *
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MI - New York University The Creative Lives of Animals
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New York University Press The Church of Stop Shopping and Religious
Book SynopsisExplores the religious activism of the Stop Shopping Church performance groupSince the dawn of the new millennium, the grassroots performance activist group the Stop Shopping Church has advanced a sophisticated anti-capitalist critique in what they call Earth Justice. Led by co-founders, Reverend Billy and Savitri D, the Church of Stop Shopping have sung with Joan Baez and toured with Pussy Riot and Neil Young. They performed at festivals around the world, and been the subject of the nationally released documentary, What Would Jesus Buy? They opposed the forces of consumerism on the global stage, and taken on the corporate practices of Disney, Starbucks, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Walmart, Amazon, and many others. While the Church maintains an anti-consumerism stance at its corethrough performances, street actions, and social activismthe community also prioritizes work for racial justice, queer liberation, justice and sanctuary for immigrants, First Amendment
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New York University Press Sex Work Today
Book SynopsisA cutting-edge volume on current trends in sex work, from sugar relationships and cyber brothels to financial domination, sex worker activism, and feminist pornSex is for sale in more ways than ever. It can be bought and sold online, in sex clubs, on the street, and around the world. As with many industries, discrimination, exploitation, and inequality persist in sex work. Yet it also offers autonomy, job satisfaction, and even pleasurable experiences for those involved. Sex Work Today explores these contradictions, offering an intimate look at the benefits and challenges of sex work across geographic contexts.Featuring thirty-one original essays by sex workers, advocates, researchers, and activists, Sex Work Today is the first compilation of research on new forms of digital sex such as camming, sugar dating, and AI sex dolls. Providing a lens to understand contemporary labor dynamics and the nature of sex work itself, this collection captures former
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New York University Press The Crimes of Digital Capitalism
Book SynopsisHow technology companies profit from our increasing dependence on digital infrastructure and the privatization of dataThe Crimes of Digital Capitalism proposes the first comprehensive theory of corporate crime for the digital age. Aitor Jiménez explores the criminal structure of digital capitalism fostered by states and corporations along the supply chain, illustrating how the rise of algorithmic racism, the Googlization of education, and the deployment of AI surveillance/killing technologies brutally impacts the lives of millions of people around the world. Under the label of digital capitalism, argues Jiménez, lives a system of exploitation that, standing on digital technologies, is pushing the neoliberal project into an entirely new dimension of practices and exploitative policies with its own set of socially harmful consequences. Digital capitalism has accelerated the neoliberal attack on labor rights, expanded previous forms of exploitation, and developed new ways of surveilling
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New York University Press Narrating Justice and Hope
Book SynopsisThe power of storytelling in troubling times Violence, pain and punishment dominate portrayals of social problems but the reality is more complex. In the world of actual people and experience, other, more hopeful stories are told in relation to crime and harm: narratives of justice, cooperation, kindness, and redemption. Narrating Justice and Hope examines the rich potential for narratives to do good in the context of interpersonal harm and the devastating social conditions of the present momentincluding climate crisis, political polarization, and interconnected systems of inequality. Featuring a stellar list of contributors from across the globe, this volume asks: How do people produce good stories in the context of these harms? What types of narratives will create lasting social change? What does it take to tell good stories? Each chapter examines subjects ranging from the success stories of formerly incarcerated people, women speaking out about sexual violence, and young climate activists. Throughout Narrating Justice and Hope, stories and storytelling thwart trouble, foster healing and connection, and envision better futures. The collection also grapples with critical issues including the nature of good, the performative nature of storytelling, and the hazards of exploiting subjugated people's stories. With chapters from a number of well-known scholars, this volume will be an important contribution for sociology, criminology, and legal scholars.
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New York University Press 42 Today
Book SynopsisExplores Jackie Robinson's compelling and complicated legacy Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world that both celebrated and despised him. Many are familiar with Robinson as a baseball hero. Few, however, know of the inner turmoil that came with his historic status. Featuring piercing essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters, cultural critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson's perspectives and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth, and nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles and strength of one of the nation's mTrade Review"[Michael] Long and his contributors attempt to separate the man from the myth and show how his influence continues to extend ...These pieces embody all of what made Robinson special, assessing him through many different lenses...give[s] a towering cultural figure his due beyond the baselines."" * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *"This collection of essays explores baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s complicated legacy, his impact on society and the inner turmoil that came with his historic achievements." * USA Today *"[Michael] Long, along with 13 contributors, explore lesser-known aspects of the life of Jackie Robinson, who became the first Black American to play Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947...Even those who know nothing about Robinson will take something inspiring away from this excellent anthology." * Publishers Weekly *"Juxtaposing events in the sports world from the ‘40s to now, 42 Today recalls Robinson’s legacy and establishes how he paved a way for future civil rights activism, from Black Lives Matter to Colin Kaepernick." * TheRoot.com *"Whether you consider yourself a baseball scholar or not, 42 Today has something to teach you. With 13 essays as well as a foreword by Ken and Sarah Burns and David McMahon and an introduction by the editor, there is no shortage of information about the man’s life, some well known and some obscure. In addition to correcting the errors in what we know about Robinson, there is also detail of how Robinson and his legacy affected groups beyond the typically male-dominated realm of baseball fans." * CoveringtheCorner.com *"2021 marks the 75th anniversary of Branch Rickey signing Jackie Robinson to the Montreal Royals, which integrated organized baseball for the first time since the 19th century. Anniversaries of important historical events offer opportunities to reflect on their significance, and this collection of essays makes use of the occasion to explore Robinson's activism in civil rights, politics, and sports." * Choice *"The value of this collection is in its breadth and accessibility… an excellent addition to an undergraduate course on baseball, race, and American history." -- Sarah L. Trembanis (University of Delaware) * Journal of African American History *
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John Wiley & Sons Undesirability and Her Sisters Black Womens
Book SynopsisHow Black women's visual work functions in an era of new racial and gender meaning In the wake of contemporary art's post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women's art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first century. Tiffany Barber argues that Black women's social positions at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class are inherently queer, thus spurring unexpected aesthetic strategies that throw into high relief the ethical terrain of what it means to be Black and a woman now. Undesirability and Her Sisters collates what Barber terms "undesirable" representations of Black female bodies in recent American sculpture, collage, photography, and dance-based performance art by Kara Walker, Wangechi Mutu, Xaviera Simmons, and Narcissister. These works not only engage the visual senses but also incorporate olfactory, haptic, and sonic experiences that challenge traditional interpretations of Blackness and womanhood in art history, Black Studies, feminist and gender studies, dance and performance studies, and queer studies. Instead of transcendental beauty, wholeness, and individual and collective becoming, the perverse Black female figures profiled here eschew sublimation and synthesis as necessary responses to racial and gender subjugation in the past, present, and future. Through its unique, groundbreaking analysis, this book contributes to the ongoing discussions on the ethics of representationthe capacity to speak and act for oneself, to have significance and impact, and ultimately, to reject acknowledgment.
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New York University Press Redface
Book SynopsisConsiders the character of the Stage Indian in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even more crucially, exclude them from full citizenship in the United States. Arguing that redface is more than just the costumes or makeup an actor wears, Bethany Hughes contends that it is a collaborative, curatorial process through which artists and audiences make certain bodies legible as Indian. By chronicling how performances and definitions of redface rely upon legibility and delineations of race that are culturally constructed and routinely shifting, this book offers an understanding of how redface works to naturalize a very particular version of history and, in doing so, mask its own performativity.Tracing the Stage Indian from its early nineteenth-century
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New York University Press Crime Wave
Book SynopsisWhy homicides have increasedThe homicide rate in the United States increased by approximately 55 percent from 2014 to 2021. An initial spike in homicide rates began in 2015, and the rate continued on its generally upward trajectory through subsequent years, eventually increasing by the largest annual margin in recorded history during 2020. By 2021, several cities and states recorded homicide rates higher than during the crime-plagued 1990s. Why did America suddenly become more violent?James Tuttle examines the underlying causes behind this surge in violence, arguing that it is the result of the decline in American well-being, a growing distrust in institutions, an increase in alcohol and drug abuse, and escalating firearm sales. Tuttle also shows how the homicide epidemic has hit different parts of the country; notably there has been an increase in homicide in the Midwest that is 25 percent greater than in the rest of the country. Through comprehensive analysis of the most recent cri
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John Wiley & Sons Carbon Capital Climate Change and the Ethics of
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John Wiley & Sons Seminal On Sperm Health and Politics
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MI - New York University Gluten Free for Life Celiac Disease Medical
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking exploration of celiac disease, a serious autoimmune condition that affects approximately three million Americans, or 1 percent of the population The manifestations of celiac diseaseincluding anemia, gastrointestinal problems, and infertilityare diverse and can have severe consequences if left untreated. The only therapy is lifelong adherence to a gluten-free diet. Because many doctors know little about celiac, nearly half of the individuals with the disease remain undiagnosed, and many wait years for the correct diagnosis. In Gluten Free for Life, Emily K. Abel delves into the social, cultural, and historical dimensions of celiac disease, and sheds light on the challenges faced by affected individuals. The book uncovers the profit- driven motivations behind certain food companies, which often produce exorbitantly priced and ultraprocessed gluten-free products that remain out of reach for many people. Abel also emphasizes the parallels between celiac disease and other disabilities, stressing the condition's invisible nature. The absence of observable symptoms poses significant challenges in terms of social interactions, workplace dynamics, and the overall perception of those living with the disease. Abel cautions against viewing a medical cure as the sole solution for celiac disease. Instead, she advocates for a comprehensive approach that addresses the socioeconomic factors impacting adherence to the gluten-free diet. By redirecting attention toward necessary social and political reforms, Gluten Free for Life proposes remedies capable of alleviating the burdens faced by individuals with celiac disease.
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John Wiley & Sons Critical Dreaming
Book SynopsisWays of knowing against colonialism In the 1990s, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and US and Canadian boarding/residential schools' practices led to an increase in cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women from the US-Mexico border, Guatemala, Canada, and the United States. Indigenous artists aiming to recontextualize these state-sponsored instances of violence created works grappling with time, ancestry, and relationality. Lilian Mengesha interprets the works of these artists within a decolonial context through an aesthetic frame she calls "critical dreaming." Using methods from performance studies, gender studies, and Indigenous studies, Critical Dreaming considers artists as expert world makers. Mengesha examines selected works by Lara Kramer, Regina José Galindo, Rebecca Belmore, Monique Mojica, LeAnne Howe, and Sky Hopinka, demonstrating how each materializes alternative modes of experiencing time, making kin, and communing with land. Mengesha argues that critical dreaming is a performance that advances material and embodied practices of survival, both individual and collective, to challenge colonial and nationalist discourses invested in a teleology of disappeared people, history, and land. Her writing provides valuable insight into the intergenerational effects of settler colonialism on Indigenous communities throughout the Americas, looking at how artists build worlds anew through Indigenous ways of knowing and making inspired from the past and repurposed for the present. Critical Dreaming offers a resonant framework for understanding Indigenous embodied ways of knowing that work against colonial attempts to discredit or disappear forms of imagination, relationality, and resistance connecting disparate Indigenous communities. This powerful book urges readers to recognize how Indigenous artists contribute to ongoing struggles against multiple forms of colonialism.
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MI - New York University On the Side of ICE Policing Immigrants in a Sanctuary State
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New York University Press The Color of Crime Third Edition
Book SynopsisHow we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives MatterWhen The Color of Crime was first published in 1998, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its third edition, Katheryn Russell-Brown's book is more relevant than ever, as police killings of unarmed Black civilianssuch as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Daniel Prudecontinue to make headlines around the world. She continues to ask, why do Black and white Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is white fear of Black crime justified?With three new chapters, over forty new racial hoax cases, and other timely updates, this edition offers an even more expansive view of crime and punishment in the twenty-first century. Russell-Brown gives us much-needed insight into some of the most recent racial hoaxes, such as the one perpetrated by Amy Cooper. Should perpetrators of racial hoaxes be charged with a felony? Further, Russell-Brown makes a compelling case for race and crimTrade Review"Russell-Brown’s new edition of The Color of Crime is essential reading for students and scholars of race, crime, and justice. It not only provides excellent overviews of concepts and issues for those who are newer to investigating this huge topic, but also presents stimulating material for those more steeped in conversations about race and crime. Be prepared to be wowed by her thoughtful and provocative final chapter–the 'Parable of the Soul Savers.'" -- Lauren J. Krivo, co-author of Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide"Katheryn Russell-Brownprovides plenty of food for thought, new information, and intriguing perspectives in the portrayal of race, crime and justice in the United States. This updated edition of The Color of Crime will be a valuable resource for a variety of audiences, providing a broader and more thorough treatment of race and crime than many other works, including attention to timely issues like racial hoaxes, White crime, and more." -- Ruth D. Peterson, co-author of Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide"This book is a classic. When The Color of Crime was first released, Russell-Brown shook the worlds of criminology, penology, and a then-burgeoning sociology of punishment by centering anti-black images in the media in her study of what we would later understand as the rise of mass incarceration. Updated with chapters and case studies that account for new kinds of media and racism, as well as our broader understanding of the carceral state’s reach, this interdisciplinary, accessible, and ambitious work has proven, once again, that Russell-Brown’s trenchant analysis is indispensable for serious students of race and crime control in the United States and beyond." -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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New York University Press Pastrami on Rye
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council The history of an iconic food in Jewish American cultureFor much of the twentieth century, the New York Jewish deli was an iconic institution in both Jewish and American life. As a social space it rivaledand in some ways surpassedthe synagogue as the primary gathering place for the Jewish community. In popular culture it has been the setting for classics like When Harry Met Sally. And today, after a long period languishing in the trenches of the hopelessly old-fashioned, it is experiencing a nostalgic resurgence. Pastrami on Rye is the first full-length history of the New York Jewish deli. The deli, argues Ted Merwin, reached its full flowering not in the immigrant period, as some might assume, but in the interwar era, when the children of Jewish immigrants celebrated the first flush of their success in America by downing sandwiches and cheesecake in theater district delis. But iTrade ReviewTed Merwin... delivers a scholarly paean--like an ample but lean corned beef sandwich--to a vanishing New York ethnic icon. * New York Times "Metropolitan" *Try reading Ted Merwins new book,Pastrami on Ryewithout having your mouth water.Merwin offers plenty of delicious descriptions as he traces how delis rose up first as take-out services for Jewish immigrants, to gathering places for Jewish communities, to symbols of integration as pastrami piled high became popular nationwide. * New York Post *The writing is so lively and entertaining readers will forget theyre being educated. The work is also an excellent example of a multidisciplinary approach combining food studies, Judaic studies, history and sociology. * Long Island Jewish World *A pleasing exercise in culinary and cultural history, evoking some favorite New York-centric comfort foods... [Merwin] does a solid job of locating the delicatessen... as a cultural and culinary center of New York Jewish life. * Kirkus Reviews *[V]ery well researched and enjoyable. * JWeekly.com *Merwins tasty exploration of deli cuisine and culture also tracks larger shifts in the American Jewish experience, particularly in the post-World War II period when delis upstaged shuls as Jewish gathering places. * JTA *Merwin has written a spectacularly funny, engaging and sharply analytical book. * Forward *[A]cultural history of American Judaism told through a particularly revealing culinary lens. * Haaretz *Avital addition to the academic literature in cultural history, American studies, American Jewish studies, food studies, and popular culture studies. * Journal of American Culture *Thorough and thoughtful, scholarly and readable, Ted Merwin's Pastrami on Rye provides a vital addition to the academic literature in cultural history, American studies, American Jewish studies, food studies, and popular culture studies. * Journal of American Culture *Pastrami on Rye proves entertaining, provocative, and--appropriately--food for thought. * JewishBookCouncil.org *Combining a flair for anecdote with exhaustive research, Merwin has produced an exuberantly readable history of delis, and he reveals how their prepared foods helped free early twentieth-century women from daily kitchen drudgery. The very success of ethnic Jewish delicatessens led inevitably to cultural assimilation for Jews and to appreciative acceptance by Gentiles, and the delicatessen became indisputably an American institution. * Booklist *In Pastrami on Rye, author Ted Merwin captures the essence of the New York deli experience...Merwin offers a thoughtful, 'overstuffed' look at all aspects of the Jewish deli by examining the role of its food in America through, as he puts it, the 'greasy...gluttonous lens of the pastrami sandwich.' [A] delightful exploration of one of America's favorite culinary institutions. * Chicago Tribune *[Merwin's] writing is so lively and entertaining readers will forget they're being educated. The workis also an excellent example of a multidisciplinary approach--combining food studies, Judaic studies, history and sociology. * Reporter *[Pastrami on Rye] is an entertaining work of merit, written in a fluent style that recalls Calvin Trillin at his foodie best and Ludwig Bemelmans at his most observant. * Santa Fe New Mexican *Professor and journalist Ted Merwin uses interviews, archives and popular representation to tell the history of the Jewish deli in America. Calling on food studies and an eclectic mix of sociological theory, he builds a narrative from a space of civic engagement and mutual support, it grows into a site bound up with nostalgic and un-nuanced readings of the past. * Religion & Culture *The fruit of more than ten years of research and writing, Mr. Merwin's account shows that delis have been a rich part of the story of Jewish assimilation in America. * The Economist *Merwin has set out to trace the rise and fall of the delicatessen in American Jewish culture, using this analysis to help us understand the American-immigrant experience. He has been more than successful. By meticulous and thorough research, Merwin has shown that in the postwar migration to the suburbs, city neighborhoods fragmented and delis closed. * St. Louis Jewish Light *Pastrami on Rye is both a celebration of the deli and an elegy for it. This lively book traces the delis evolution from dynamic gathering place to kitschy tourist site, peppered with hefty doses of popular culture. Merwin tells a fascinating story of cultural and culinary assimilation as he explores what it means to be modern and American. This book left me longing for the lost delis of my youth! -- Darra Goldstein,Founding Editor, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and CultureBrings together a vast range of scholarship and anecdote to produce the first comprehensive history of the Jewish delicatessen. Both culinary and cultural history, this book will be of interest to scholars and common readers alike, the former for its incisive interpretations of modern Jewish foodways and the latter for its ability to recreate a time and place that was 'home' for so many 20th century Jews in America. Its evocation of deli menus alone will get your mouth watering. -- David Kraemer,author of Jewish Eating and Jewish Identity Through the AgesIn Pastrami on Rye, Merwin finally addresses the pressing question overlooked in his first book on New York Jews (In Their Own Image): but where did they eat? This fun and informative examination of the New York Jewish deli is half history and half love story; batampte und geshmacht, with a heaping helping of sakhelyoull kvell before you plotz! -- Eric Michael Mazur,co-editor of God in the Details: American Religion in Popular CultureMerwins extraordinarily exhaustive research and his skill in selecting just the right fact, telling detail, quote, and anecdote makes this one of the most enjoyable, enlightening, fluid and fascinating food histories I've ever read. And it is my history, too, being one of those many Jews for whom the delicatessen and love of delicatessen foods is as much a part of my identity as the ethics and humanity my religion has taught me. -- Arthur Schwartz,author of Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes RevisitedA comprehensive history of the New York deli from its European antecedent beginnings to what Ted Merwin calls the 'postgastronomic' deli we have today. After doing exhaustive research into the subject, Dr. Merwin has put his scholarly pen and thoughtful gaze to work to create this marvelous book. I got really hungry for pastrami reading this comprehensive story of the American deli. Now that is a sign of a great read. -- Joan Nathan,author of Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in FranceMerwin's long awaited history of the deli delivers like the best deli fress: this is a book that nails the mustard-slicked soulful flavor of this cultural gem, with a heft of academic substance that leaves the mind thoroughly satisfied (and the body starved for chopped liver). -- David Sax,author of The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up with FondueIn Pastrami on Rye, Ted Merwin gamely sets out to show how American Jews evolved from the clannish immigrants of the late 1800s into well-heeled secularists who atone for their parents' assimilation through (mostly culinary) nostalgia. * The Times Literary Supplement,Samuel Ashworth *This delightful book just about guarantees that its readers will want to head to the nearest deli for a hot pastrami sandwich, or maybe corned beef, naturally on fresh rye bread. * Western States Jewish History *
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New York University Press The Digital Border
Book SynopsisHow do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration?As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental disaster reach unprecedented levels worldwide, states also step up their mechanisms of border control. In this, they rely on digital technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, and institutional journalism to manage not only the flow of people at crossing-points, but also the flow of stories and images of human mobility that circulate among their publics. What is the role of digital technologies is shaping migration today? How do digital infrastructures, platforms, and institutions control the flow of people at the border? And how do they also control the public narratives of migration as a crisis? Finally, how do migrants themselves use these same platforms to speak back and make themselves heard in the face of hardship and hostility? Taking their case studies from the biggest migration eTrade ReviewIn a provocative contribution, Chouliaraki and Georgiou illuminate the exclusionary workings of digital borders. This broad-ranging book launches a compelling critique of the constitutive power of digital infrastructures in shaping the crisis of migration. Timely and topical, The Digital Border will be essential reading across disciplines about transformations in border regimes. * Radha S. Hegde, author of Mediating Migration *Provides a striking critical analysis of the mutations and workings of border regimes. While its focus is the digitalization of border control, it more broadly places its analysis within an understanding of the border as a field of tensions, shedding light on its territorial and symbolic dimension as well as on the multiple regimes of securitization at work today. * Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna *The Digital Border’s contribution lies in many spaces but its ability to connect questions of power, technology, datafication, entrepreneurship, the commons and media narratives is impressive... That this book is timely goes without saying. It’s nuanced and thickly layered conceptual focus married to rich empirical cases does the work of appealing to different audiences at a time when imaginaries of crisis exist in a heightened form globally. As such, this book is the perfect companion to help debunk, re-imagine and understand the aggrieved world we find ourselves inhabiting in 2023. -- Ethnic and Racial Studies * Ethnic and Racial Studies *This book ... is a loud and well-crafted call for fundamental human rights and a deep analytical work that critically explores the structures and practices of inequality in citizenship and mobility. The book reveals a complex combination of humanitarianism and dehumanization of border work based on a pedagogy of crisis in Western societies that has the security-migration nexus at its core. * Nordic Journal of Migration Research *
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New York University Press The Psychology of Environmental Law
Book SynopsisOffers psychological insights into how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environmentEnvironmental law may seem a strange space to seek insights from psychology. Psychology, after all, seeks to illuminate the interior of the human mind, while environmental law is fundamentally concerned with the exterior surroundingsthe environmentin which people live. Yet psychology is a crucial, undervalued factor in how laws shape people's interactions with the environment. Psychology can offer environmental law a rich, empirically informed account of why, when, and how people act in ways that affect the environmentwhich can then be used to more effectively pursue specific policy goals. When environmental law fails to incorporate insights from psychology, it risks misunderstanding and mispredicting human behaviors that may injure or otherwise affect the environment, and misprescribing legal tools to shape or mitigate those behaviors. The Psychology of Environmental Trade ReviewHow many books create a whole new field? Rowell and Bilz have done exactly that -- and produced, at once, brilliant theoretical insights and terrific practical suggestions. (World, please take notice.) Their book is a landmark. -- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, and coauthor, NudgeSynthesizing a large body of evidence, Rowell and Bilz offer a forthright description of the extraordinary difficulties environmental conflicts pose and the hope that awareness of psychological barriers can help decision makers respond more effectively. -- Holly Doremus, University of California, BerkeleyRowell and Bilz pull off two impressive feats: they present a novel and penetrating survey of legal regulation of the environment; and they add an important member to the list of legal domains insightfully illuminated by psychological methods. -- Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law & Professor of Psychology, Yale Law School
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Baylor University Press Negotiating Jewishness
Book SynopsisThe assertion that Paul remained a Jew throughout his life requires little further justification. However, questions remain, including, How can his relationship with Judaism be positively articulated? and How was that relationship influenced by Paul's belief in Jesus as the Messiah? A particular difficulty arises here: reconciling the sometimes contradictory statements in Paul's epistles concerning his connection to the Jewish people and their beliefs and behavior. A lively discussion surrounding the Jewishness of Paul in the last fifteen years has yielded the "radical new perspective on Paul," or "Paul Within Judaism" perspective. Dismissing older conceptions that contrast the Christ-believing Paul with a monolithic and negatively characterized ancient Judaism, new approaches focus on the extent to which we should depict Paul as "within Judaism" or still torah observant. With Negotiating Jewishness, Ruben Bühner addresses these issues and offers a different, more balanced approach by considering three key aspects: ancient ethnicity, neglected sources, and scholarly debates. Drawing from studies in cultural science and ethnology, Bühner shows that ancient Jewish identity can be characterized as "mesomorphic" as it integrated diverseeven divergentparameters in ethnic construction. With a focus on passages from the Pauline Epistles crucial for understanding Paul's Jewishness, alongside a thorough excavation of the realities of Jewish life in the Greco-Roman diaspora, the book aims to bridge the gap between English-speaking and continental European scholarship, with a particular emphasis on underrepresented German perspectives. Paul navigated his Jewish identity within the myriad cultural landscapes of the first-century Mediterranean world and in constant dialogue with his missional calling and interactions with other Jews. Traces of this process emerge from his writings amidst their diverse historical, social, and rhetorical contexts. Negotiating Jewishness probes these scattered glimpses into Paul's self-understanding to demonstrate that Paul's relationship to Judaism can be best understood as a reflection of ancient Jewish ethnic negotiation. Bühner contributes to the scholarly conversation with a new definition of what it means to read Paul (or any New Testament text) "within Judaism."
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University of Toronto Press Opening Doors to Diversity in Leadership
Book SynopsisThis book was shortlisted for the National Business Book Award 2022. What accounts for the lack of diversity in leadership positions? Looking carefully at how current leaders view the relationship between top tier management and diverse groups, Opening Doors to Diversity in Leadership examines recruitment selection, performance evaluation, workplace succession, working conditions, and corporate culture and how they impact hiring, promotion, and retention of diverse groups. Using a psychological, organizational, and cultural framework Opening Doors to Diversity in Leadership will help businesses integrate a more diverse presence in leadership, Emphasizing the interlocking relationship between our thoughts and actions, this book stresses the importance of organizational review and self-reflection as well as the pivotal role of removing unconscious biases from the workplace and identifying the systemic biases embedded in many aspects Trade Review"Opening Doors to Diversity in Leadership is not just a book that looks into the deepest crevasse of societal oppression; it takes the opportunity to explore the root causes, attitudes, and prejudices that undermine marginalized groups and lead to systemic disadvantages in the workplace. This book acts as a highly valuable guidepost for anyone interested in being part of a solution-oriented organization or those just looking to gain a better understanding of the impact of systemic oppression on marginalized communities. I strongly recommend that anyone who is compelled toward leadership, in a leadership role, or can act as an agent of change should be introduced to this text as the insights provided and the comprehensive overview shared paint a thorough picture of societal norms and leaves just enough a silver lining for the reader to believe that true corporate and societal change is possible." -- Amanda Paul, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education * Leadership *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables 1. A Changing World 2. Diversity Gaps in Leadership 3. Concepts of Leadership 4. Perceptions and Attitudes 5. Moving In – Recruitment and Selection 6. Moving Up – Promotion, Performance and Succession 7. Moving Out – Retention, Work Environment and Corporate Cultures 8. Diversity, Business and Government Appendices Appendix I: Representation Data Issue – Benchmarking Appendix II: Representation Data Issue – Comparability Appendix III: Summary of Best Options and Practices for Building Diversity in Leadership Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Delivery by Design
Book SynopsisDelivery by Design explores shifts in local governance service delivery practices and the complex inter-governmental network that ensures Canadians receive quality local services.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Mapping the Cooperative Landscape 3. Explaining Cooperation 4. Agreement Failure and Non-cooperation 5. The Role of the Provinces 6. Conclusion Works Cited
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University of Toronto Press Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics
Book SynopsisDo negative campaigns win elections? Do voters abandon candidates accused of scandalous behaviour? Do government apologies affect prospects for re-election? While many people assume the answer to each of these questions is yes, there is limited empirical evidence to support these assumptions. In this book, Jason Roy and Christopher Alcantara use a series of experiments to test these and other commonly held beliefs. Each chapter draws upon contemporary events and literature to frame the issues and strategies. The findings suggest that not all of the assumptions that people have about the best strategies for winning and keeping political power hold up to empirical scrutiny. In fact, some work in ways that many readers may find surprising. Original and innovative in its use of experimental methods, Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics is a persuasive analysis of some of our most prominent and long-standing political myths. It will be a go to resoTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Appendices Preface Acknowledgments 1. An Overview of Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics Part One: Winning Power – Election Campaigns 2. Going Negative in Canadian Federal Elections 3. Political Scandals 4. Candidate Endorsements 5. The Quality of Local Candidates Part Two: Keeping Power – Public Opinion and Incumbency 6. Parliamentary Configurations and Assigning Political Responsibility 7. Election Timing 8. The Supreme Court of Canada, Parliament, and the Role of Experts 9. Framing Public Budgeting 10. Political Apologies 11. Reflections, Recommendations, and Future Research
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University of Toronto Press Barcelona City of Margins
Book SynopsisBarcelona, City of Margins studies the creation of a space of dissent in the 1950s and 1960s that became the pillar of the protest movements during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. This space of dissent took shape in the margins of what is considered the official space of the city of Barcelona, revealing the interconnection of urbanism, literature, and photography in the formation of the political, social, and cultural movements to come in the 1970s. Olga Sendra Ferrer draws from theoretical readings on built environments, neighbourhoods, housing projects and developments, and everyday life within Spanish urban spaces. Literature and photography demonstrate the political value of cultural production and forms of cultural representation that occur from peripheral zones those pushed aside by exclusionary politics, fascist forms of control, surveillance, and homogenization. In search of the origins of the protest movemeTrade Review"Sendra Ferrer sees her work as a recovery project, and the findings are illuminating and intriguing. The book is not an easy read, but it includes extremely valuable information and arguments." -- E. H. Friedman, Vanderbilt University * CHOICE Connect *"Barcelona, City of Margins is an impressive piece of scholarship, uncovering the dialogic interaction between centre and margins, to provide new important insights into Barcelona’s urban and sociocultural history." -- John McCulloch, The Bulletin of Spanish Studies Trust * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Coming into Presence: Margin and Dissent in the Barcelona of Francoism 1. A Change of Pace: The Spatial Dimensions of the Franco Dictatorship 2. Breaking the Silence: The Cultural Mobilization of Francisco Candel 3. The Quiet Revolution of Photography: The Barcelona of Joan Colom 4. A Female City: Colita and the Conceptualization of Barcelona Conclusion: The Elusive Landscape Notes Works Cited
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University of Toronto Press Butinage
Book SynopsisUsing the metaphor of religious butinage, this book explores the idea of religious practices as predominantly mobile, eschewing rigid frameworks oriented around exclusive categories of membership and conversion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I: Rethinking Religious Normativity 1. Introduction: The Mobile Religious Practitioner 1.1. The Mobile Practitioner 1.2. The Butinage Metaphor 1.3. The Structure of this Book 2. Religious Mobility: Current Debates 2.1. The Conceptual Limitations of Religious Conversion 2.2. Religious Combinations and Syncretism 2.3. ‘Lived Religion’ and Everyday Religion 2.4. Conclusion Part II: Case Studies Introduction to Part II: Methodology 3. Neighborliness as a Driver for Mobility in Brazil 3.1. The Circularity of Practice 3.2. Territories and Bridges 3.3. Butinage and Neighborliness 3.4. Conclusion 4. The Kenyan Case: Dynamism and Precariousness 4.1. The Kenyan Religious Landscape 4.2. Hierarchy in Practice: Members Versus Visitors 4.3. Return Mobility 4.4. A Precarious Religious Landscape: Scandals, Schisms, and Sects 4.5. Conclusion 5. Mobility Intertwined: Migration, Kinship, and Education in Ghana 5.1. Religious Pluralism in Ghana 5.2. Religious Trajectories: Intertwined Kinship, Migration, and Educational Strategies 5.3. Additional Practices: Logics and Economies of Religious Mobility 5.4. Conclusion 6. Religion and Mobility in Switzerland: A Most Private Affair 6.1. Uneasiness with Religion: ‘Institutionalists’ Versus ‘Seculars’ 6.2. Between Embrace and Suspicion: ‘Distanced’ Practitioners 6.3. Eastern Religions, Animism, and New Age: ‘Alternatives’ 6.4. Butinage in Action 6.5. Between Religious Heritage and Religion as a Taboo 6.6. Conclusion Part III: Between a Metaphor and a Model 7. Between Bees and Flowers 7.1. A Typology of Butineurs 7.2. Territories 7.3. From ‘Motivation’ to ‘Logic’ 7.4. Degrees of Practice and Their Complementarity 7.5. Conclusion 8. From Religious Mobility to Dynamic Religious Identities 8.1. Familiarity and Familiarization 8.2. Religious Repertoires 8.3. Religious Identity in Context and Motion 8.4. Conclusion 9. Conclusion: The Peripatetic Practitioner Annex: Interview Guide Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Making Gender
Book SynopsisThis book aims to understand how gender and risk have been incorporated into women's decision-making around the HPV vaccine.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Navigating Controversies and Doing Mothering: Making HPV Vaccine Decisions for Their Daughters 3. University-Aged Women’s Experiences with HPV Infection and Vaccine Decision-Making 4. Media Landscape: Controversies and Competing Narratives 5. Vaccine Marketing by Harnessing Hegemonic Cultural Discourses of Risk and Gender 6. Gendered Vaccine Policymaking 7. Conclusion: Theoretical Contributions and Reassessing Gender-Based Analysis Policymaking Notes References Index
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University of Toronto Press But I Live
Book SynopsisShortlisted - 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based Work.An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust.David Schaffer and his family survived in Romania due to their refusal to obey Nazi collaborators. In the Netherlands, brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp were separated from their parents and hidden by the Dutch resistance in thirteen different places. Through the story of Emmie Arbel, a child survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, we see the lifelong trauma inflicted by the Holocaust.To complement these hauntingly beautiful and unforgettable visual stories, But I Live includes historical essays, an illustrated postscript from the artists, and personal words from each of the survivors.As we urgently approach the post-witness era without livinTrade Review"The superb, heart-rending book But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust collects the testimonies of four survivors in a graphic narrative format for new generations. It is a powerful and indispensable educational tool not just for high school students, for whom it was designed, but for anyone. Readers can now carry these indelible stories forward." * Quill & Quire *"I'm convinced that we need more books like this, so that we can preserve a terrible history in a way that makes it easily accessible on the one hand, but also allows a different, very personal access to the stories on the other. I think that this book belongs with Maus in every bookcase." -- Tobi Dahmen, comic artist and illustrator * www.tobidahmen.de *"The graphic narratives in But I Live are powerful and relate the Holocaust stories in profound and intense ways that words alone cannot. Created for middle readers, this book is suitable for adults too." -- Beverly Cramp * BC BookWorld *"Last week I was given a gift of sadness, a gift of violence, fear, tragedy and suffering…But it was also a gift of courage, extraordinary determination, unimaginable resilience, and ultimately triumph…The gift came in the form of a recently published collection of three graphic novellas called But I Live. It is a remarkable achievement bringing together four survivors with three writer/illustrators who help portray the harrowing journey of the survivors’ young lives." -- Chris * In a Spacious Place *"The combination of stories and artwork is powerful and chilling." -- Dean Poling * Valdosta Daily Times *“Who should read this book? Young adults, for sure. But also teachers. Makers of memorials and exhibitions. Historians, literary and art scholars, everyone.” -- Christian Staas * Die Zeit *Table of ContentsPreface Bernice Eisenstein The Stories “A Kind of Resistance” Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer “Thirteen Secrets” Gilad Seliktar, Nico Kamp, and Rolf Kamp “But I Live” Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel The Histories The Holocaust in Transnistria Alexander Korb Surviving in Hiding from the Nazis Dienke Hondius Surviving Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen as a Child Andrea Löw In Their Own Words David Schaffer Nico Kamp Rolf Kamp Emmie Arbel Behind the Art Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin Afterword Charlotte Schallié, Matt Huculak, Ilona Shulman Spaar, and Jan Erik Dubbelman Acknowledgments Biographies
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University of Toronto Press Hidden Paradigms
Book SynopsisUnderstanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the values exemplified by such stories’ central heroes and heroines. In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than thirty-eight hours to complete over eighteen nights. Bringing this unique example of Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other culturally significant works the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the BibleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Summarizing an Epic Legend, The Legend of Ponnivala Nadu 2. Character and Plot Structures, The Mahabharata 3. Human Life as a Balancing Act, The Epic of Gilgamesh 4. Seven Great Phases of History, The Bible’s Old and New Testament Stories 5. Landscapes and Identity Formation, The Vatsendaela Saga 6. Human versus Extra-Human Powers, The Nanabush Legend Cycle 7. Hidden Paradigms, Additional Themes and Some Overview Theories 8. The Story Told by the Stars, Babylonian Star-lore and the Hindu Nakshatras 9. An Epic Story Visualized as a Lotus Plant, The Lotus Plant in Barabudur, Central Java Conclusion Annotated Bibliography Listing Sources for Specific Epics Discussed General Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Thug Criminology
Book SynopsisDrawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a street life, Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.Table of ContentsIntroduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise 1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs Olga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers” Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women Clare Choak 4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower 5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang” Gregory (Chris) Brown 6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project Ian Joseph 7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide Part III: Word on the Street 8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi 9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women Melissa McLetchie 11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter Chad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me TG 11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me Alejandro Vivar 11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry 12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities Anthony Gunter 13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative Malte Riemann 14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention” Tammy Tinney 15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen 16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways Rick Kelly Epilogue Adam Ellis Contributor Biographies
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University of Toronto Press Before Official Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisFor almost two decades before Canada officially adopted multiculturalism in 1971, a large network of women and their allies in Toronto were promoting pluralism as a city- and nation-building project. Before Official Multiculturalism assesses women as liberal pluralist advocates and activists, critically examining the key roles they played as community organizers, frontline social workers, and promoters of ethnic festivals. The book explores women’s community-based activism in support of a liberal pluralist vision of multiculturalism through an analysis of the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto, a postwar agency that sought to integrate newcomers into the mainstream and promote cultural diversity. Drawing on the rich records of the Institute, as well as the massive International Institutes collection in Minnesota, the book situates Toronto within its Canadian and North American contexts and addresses the flawed mandate to integrate immigrants and refTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Part One: Introduction 1. The Case Study 2. The Scholarship Part Two: Narrative, Subjectivities, and Affect in the Multicultural Social Welfare Encounter 3. Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice 4. Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities 5. Marital Conflict, Emotions, and “De-culturalizing” Violence 6. Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and “Mini-Skirt” Feminism Part Three: Community-Building Experiments, Integration Projects, and Collective Belonging 7. Making Multicultural Community at the Institute 8. Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training 9. Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget Part Four: Ethnic Folk Cultures and Modern Multicultural Mandates 10. Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation 11. Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism Conclusion Appendices Notes Index
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University of Toronto Press Courting Celebrity
Book SynopsisIn 1826 Angela Veronese, a gardener’s daughter, wrote and published the first modern autobiography by an Italian woman. Veronese’s account focuses on her unique experience as a peasant girl who came of age among the Venetian elite, and details how she attained a certain renown in and out of Italy by improvising, writing, and publishing her own lyrics. Courting Celebrity is a bilingual annotated edition of Veronese’s autobiography. To better elucidate Veronese’s thinking, the book includes the autobiographical writing of another contemporary Italian poet, Teresa Bandettini, a well-known Tuscan poet-improviser. The book offers a substantial sample of Veronese’s poems, translated and in the original. These compositions, together with detailed bibliographical documentation, point to the success of Veronese’s autobiographical enterprise and offer an unparalleled view of both high society and popular culture at the time. Courting Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword 1. Angela Veronese Notizie sulla vita di Aglaja Anassillide scritte da lei medesima Information on the Life of Aglaja Anassillide, Written by Herself Selected Poems by Angela Veronese Biography of Angela Veronese Bio-Bibliography for Angela Veronese 2. Teresa Bandettini “Autobiografia” “Autobiography” Biography of Teresa Bandettini 3. Contexts and Conclusions 4. Poem by Luigi Carrer Dedicated to Angela Veronese Works Cited Index
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University of Toronto Press Thug Criminology
Book SynopsisDrawing in part on the lived experiences of contributors who have overcome a street life, Thug Criminology seeks to challenge the traditional scholarship on gangs and their behaviours.Table of ContentsIntroduction Adam Ellis, Olga Marques, and Anthony Gunter Part I: They Don’t Give a F**k about Us! Defanging and Decolonizing the Criminological Enterprise 1. Problematizing Traditional Criminological Perspectives on Thugs and Gangs Olga Marques 2. The White Male Criminological Gaze as Pornography: The Quasi-Sexual Academic Obsession with Black “Gang Bangers” Anthony Gunter 3. Writing Themselves Out of Research: “Whitemaleness” and the Study of “Gang” Active Young Women Clare Choak 4. Somethin’ Doesn’t Seem Right: A Commentary on the “Scientific Method” and “Gang”Research Adam Ellis and Anthony Gunter Part II: “Getting Over” and Inside the Ivory Tower 5. I Am (Not) What You Say I Am: The Colonizers’ “Gang” Gregory (Chris) Brown 6. A Black Scholar’s Intellectual Journey and Subsequent Perspective on the White Colonial “Gang” Project Ian Joseph 7. Good Trouble: Creating Spaces for Criminalized Populations in the Ivory Tower Lily Gonzalez, Javier Rodriguez, and Robert Weide Part III: Word on the Street 8. Shook Ones: An Insider’s Perspective on Trauma, PTSD, and the Reenactment of Street-Related Violence Adam Elis, Stephanie Belanger, and Luca Berardi 9. (De)Criminalizing the “Code of Silence" – Reflections of a Former “Gangbanger” Turned Academic Anthony Hutchinson and Jared Millican 10. The Raid: State Violence and Traumatic Responses in the Lives of Black Women Melissa McLetchie 11a. Letter from the Streetz: Growing Up in the Gutter Chad Briand aka Turk 11b. Letter from the Streetz: Don’t Interrupt Me TG 11c. Letter from the Penetentiary: The Change in Me Alejandro Vivar 11d. Letter from the Streetz: Dear Hip Hop Marcus Singleton aka Iomos Marad Part IV: Decolonizing the Gang Industry 12. Crime as Disease Contagion and Control: The Public Health Perspective and Implications for Black and Other Ethnic Minority Communities Anthony Gunter 13. A Violent Cure? Problematizing the “Cure Violence” Initiative Malte Riemann 14. When the System Harms: An Insider’s Perspective on the Negative Socio-psychological Impact of So-Called “Gang Intervention” Tammy Tinney 15. Fight Poverty, Fight Crime: A Justice Focused Approach for Toronto/Canada Yafet Tewelde and Julet Allen 16. We Make the Path by Walking It: Repairing, Restoring, and Constructing Pathways Rick Kelly Epilogue Adam Ellis Contributor Biographies
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University of Toronto Press Margherita Costa Diva of the Baroque Court
Book SynopsisThe Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. She secured a steady stream of elite patrons including popes, queens, grand dukes, and influential cardinals while male poets and librettists wrote celebratory poetry on her behalf. In addition to her appearances as a soprano on the opera stage, Costa published a remarkable fourteen full-length texts across an expanse of genres: burlesque comedy, drama, equestrian ballet, pastoral opera, amorous letters, lyric poetry, and history. Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court brings together close textual readings of Costa’s numerous publications with archival materials detailing her performance itinerary and social-cultural networks. The book progresses chronologically through her life, geographically along the routes she travelled, and thematically via the genres in which she experimented. Jessica Goethals iTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Editing History 2. Bizzarria, Burlesque, and Buffoonery 3. From the Golden Oak to the Weeping Cypress: Epic, Lament, and Dynastic Messaging 4. Starry Carousels: Equestrian Ballet and Aristocratic Astronomies 5. The Singing Saint and the Plumed Bee: Courting the Barberini 6. Hunting for Diana, or An Ode to Regents 7. “A Change of Sky Does Me No Good”: Envy, Rivalry, and Other Courtly Criticisms Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Managing Federalism through Pandemic
Book SynopsisManaging Federalism through Pandemic summarizes and analyses multiple policy dimensions of Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy issues from the perspective of Canadian federalism. Contributors address the relative effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation at the summit level and in policy fields including emergency management, public health, national security, Indigenous Peoples and governments, border governance, crisis communications, fiscal federalism, income security policies (CERB), supply chain resilience, and interacting energy and climate policies. Despite serious policy failures of individual governments, repeated fluctuations in the overall effectiveness of pandemic management, and growing public frustration across provinces and regions, contributors show how processes for intergovernmental cooperation adapted reasonably well to the pandemic’s unprecedented stresses, particularly at the outset. The book concludes Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acronyms and Abbreviations Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction 1. Pandemic Federalism: Bridging the Normative–Functional Federalism Gap Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale 2. Cooperative Federalism and Managing Intergovernmental Relations through the Pandemic: Setting the Framework Kathy L. Brock Part Two: Anticipating and Managing the Pandemic Response 3. Coordinating Emergency Management within and across Governments Johanu Botha and Geoffrey Hale 4. COVID-19 Federalism and Public Health Regimes in Canada Carey Doberstein 5. Global Pandemics and National Security: Will the Federal Government Have Your Back? Andrew Graham and Eugene Lang 6. What We Have Here Is a Failure to Anticipate (Again!): Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, and Canada’s COVID-19 Pandemic Response Yale D. Belanger and Calvin Hanselmann 7. Canada–US Border Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic Kathryn Friedman and Laurie Trautman 8. Pandemic Communications: How Leaders Encouraged Canadians to Stay the Blazes Home Jeni Armstrong and Alex Marland Part Three: Economic and Social Issues: Responses, Reopenings, Relaunching, and Rebuilding 9. Pandemic Fiscal Federalism and Future Prospects Kyle Hanniman 10. Interactions between Federal and Provincial Cash Transfer Programs: The Effect of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit on Provincial Income Assistance Eligibility and Benefits Gillian Petit and Lindsay M. Tedds 11. Globalization, Federalism, and Supply Chain Security Patrick James and Geoffrey Hale 12. A Crisis within a Crisis: Canadian Energy and Climate Federalism during the Pandemic Brendan Boyd Part Four: Lessons for the Federation from the Pandemic 13. Crises, Mega-Crises, and Beyond: The Evolving and Functions of Intergovernmental Units in Federal Governance Systems Evert Lindquist 14. Pandemic Federalism: Bridging the Normative–Functional Federalism Gap – Conclusions and Continuing Challenges Kathy L. Brock and Geoffrey Hale References List of Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press 1950s Canada
Book SynopsisWhile the 1950s in Canada were years of social conformity, it was also a time of political, economic, and technological change. Against a background of growing prosperity, federal and provincial politics became increasingly competitive, intergovernmental relations became more contentious, and Canada’s presence in the world expanded. The life expectancy of Canadians increased as the social pathologies of poverty, crime, and racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination were in retreat. 1950s Canada illuminates the fault lines around which Canadian politics and public affairs have revolved. Chronicling the themes and events of Canadian politics and public affairs during the 1950s, Nelson Wiseman reviews social, economic, and cultural developments during each year of the decade, focusing on developments in federal politics, intergovernmental relations, provincial affairs, and Canada’s role in the world. The book examines Canada’s subordinate relationship Table of Contents1. Introduction: Reflections on Studying Canada of the 1950s 2. 1950 3. 1951 4. 1952 5. 1953 6. 1954 7. 1955 8. 1956 9. 1957 10. 1958 11. 1959 12. Conclusion: Politics and Public Affairs in the 1950s 13. Appendices
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Human Kinetics Publishers Conditioning for Dance
Book SynopsisConditioning for Dance, Second Edition, offers over 100 new conditioning exercises, for all parts of the body. It features two new chapters and a new web resource with video clips showing correct execution of the exercises, two 20-minute workouts, and a personal conditioning program. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Conditioning Concepts for Body and Mind Chapter 2. Mental Techniques for Successful Performance Chapter 3. Improving Balance and Stability Chapter 4. Flexibility in the Muscles and Fascia Chapter 5. Dynamic Alignment and the Pelvic Floor Chapter 6. Creating a Strong Core and Powerful Abdominal Muscles Chapter 7. Conditioning the Muscles of the Pelvis, Hip Joint, and Knee Chapter 8. Creating Stable, Flexible, and Expressive Feet Chapter 9. Developing Power in the Torso, Shoulders, and Arms Chapter 10. Improving Turns, Jumps, and Turnout Chapter 11. Elastic Band Centre Workout Appendix. Franklin Method Equipment and Resources
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Human Kinetics Publishers The Physiology of Yoga
Book SynopsisThe Physiology of Yoga is an evidence-based look at how yoga influences the body’s systems and positively affects health and well-being. Discover how to evaluate common claims about yoga and decide what works best for your body. Explore meditations, breathing exercises, and asanas as part of your mindful movement practice.Trade Review“This is the book I didn’t know I was waiting for! There are lots of books on yoga and anatomy but very few on yoga and physiology. This book beautifully meets the need. It is extensive and yet very accessible. I am pleased to add it to my library.”—Bernie Clark, Yoga Teacher and Author of the Your Body, Your Yoga Trilogy“At last! A thorough, evidence-based resource (complete with much-needed myth busting!) about the many systems of the body and how a yoga practice interacts with and influences them."—Jenni Rawlings, E-RYT, Cofounder of Strength for Yoga and Cohost of the Yoga Meets Movement Science Podcast“Every now and then, in the 40-odd years I’ve been practising yoga, I come across a book that makes an invaluable contribution to some aspect of my understanding of yoga. The Physiology of Yoga is just such a book. I give this book my highest recommendation; it’s an essential study guide and reference source for serious students and teachers, and it should be on the recommended reading list of every yoga teacher training program.”—Richard Rosen, Yoga Teacher and Author“This title fills a long-standing gap in the essential reading lists for yoga teacher training programs. Hopefully, it will prevent yoga teachers from repeating some of the most commonly held myths and misconceptions about the physiological effects of yoga practice.”—Leslie Kaminoff, Coauthor of Yoga Anatomy “Matthew and Andrew are world-class leaders in the field of yoga anatomy and physiology. Their clear and articulate perspective about the practice is matched only by their passion and undeniable service to teachers and dedicated practitioners worldwide. In the modern era of the yoga practice, it is reassuring to know that we have their work to guide us forward.”—Michael James Wong, Author, Educator, and Founder of Just Breathe and Krama Yoga“Andrew and Matthew have done the work so we can do what we do better. A physiology book for anyone with a keen interest in the body. Full of detailed descriptions, clear illustrations, and beautiful images to inspire you to keep moving.”—Naomi Annand, Yoga Teacher and Author of Yoga: A Manual for Life and Yoga for Motherhood“The Physiology of Yoga sheds light upon the latest scientific research on how yoga affects—or doesn't affect—our bodies. It is a must for the modern yoga teacher or practitioner who seeks to learn more about yoga and anatomy from a fresh perspective.”—Tatiana Avila Bouru, Yoga Teacher and Cofounder of Yoga With Alex and Tatiana“The Physiology of Yoga is a truly evidence-based resource that busts many myths. It delves into some big questions about movement that would be hard to answer accurately on Google! An essential guide for all yoga teachers—new and old—packed full of useful tips and practices.”—Kate Brandon, “The Physio Yogi,” Physiotherapist and Yoga Educator“What a brilliant, witty book! I really loved the dispelling of myths sections and the clear and concise illustrations. It was a sheer pleasure to read. I certainly learned a tremendous amount to update myself on the latest research and current principles of physiology. This book is sure to be a constant companion for an academic doing research in yoga and the avid yogi or yogi in training who wants to take a deeper dive into how yoga affects the body.”—Indira Subramanian, MD, Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of NeurologyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Musculoskeletal SystemBoneJointsMusclesCartilageTendons, Ligaments, and AponeurosesFasciaThe Science of Stretching and FlexibilityPathologies, Injuries, and ConditionsConclusionChapter 2. Nervous SystemCells of the Nervous SystemCentral Nervous SystemPeripheral Nervous SystemNervous System ConditionsConclusionChapter 3. Respiratory SystemAnatomy and Physiology of the Respiratory SystemThe Biomechanics of Quiet BreathingAll About the DiaphragmForced Exhalation and InhalationAtmospheric Air and Expelled AirGood, Wholesome Oxygen?Ujjayi BreathingNose Breathing and Mouth BreathingThe Psychological and Physiological Effects of Pranayama and Slow BreathingPathologies and Conditions of the Respiratory SystemConclusionChapter 4. Cardiovascular SystemBloodHeartCirculationRole of the Cardiovascular System in Maintaining HomeostasisResting Heart Rate and Cardiac OutputHeart Rate VariabilityBlood PressureCardiovascular ConditionsConclusionChapter 5. Lymphatic and Immune SystemsLymphatic SystemImmune SystemConclusionChapter 6. Endocrine SystemWhat Is a Hormone?Cortisol: The Master HormoneInsulinThyroid HormonesEndorphins: Our Body’s MorphineDopaminePathologiesConclusionChapter 7. Reproductive SystemFemale Reproductive System AnatomyFemale Reproductive System PhysiologyMale Reproductive SystemReproductive System ConditionsConclusionChapter 8. Digestive SystemAnatomy and Physiology of the Digestive SystemDiet and the Digestive SystemPathologies and Gastrointestinal ProblemsConclusionChapter 9. Practice With ConfidenceStrong, Dynamic PracticeSlow Hatha PracticeChair Yoga PracticeRestorative Yoga PracticeConclusion
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University of Nebraska Press The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Book SynopsisAfter the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders with former slaves providing the bulk of the labor force. By developing these new centers of agricultural production and commercial exchange, the Mexican government hoped to open up new markets and, by extending the few existing railroads in the region, also spur further development.The Southern Exodus to Mexico considers the experiences of both white southern elites and common white and black southern farmers and laborers who moved to Mexico during this period. Todd W. Wahlstrom examines in particular how the endemic warfare, raids, and violence along the borderlands of Texas and Coahuila affected the colonization effort. Ultimately, Native groups such as the ComanTrade Review"A welcome contribution to the lately growing scholarship on the Confederate-exile experience that is excellently grounded in historiography."—Robert May, American Historical Review“A well-researched study of the people, events, and ideas surrounding Confederate migration and colonization efforts in Mexico.”—C. L. Sinclair, Choice “Should be included in any conversation about the global dimensions of southern history.”—John Mckiernan-González, Journal of Southern History"This is an important book, and it deserves a place on reading lists for graduate seminars and Civil War enthusiasts alike. Indeed, not only does Wahlstrom add a great deal to the historiographical discussion in Civil War history, but his work also serves as a significant contribution to Southern, emancipation, and borderlands history."—Matthew M. Stith, Civil War Book Review“The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an intervention in borderlands history, in black-white-Indian history, in migration history, in economic history, and in the history of national, class, and racial identities. It is also that rare and wonderful kind of historical writing: a tale of roads not taken, of dreams not quite fulfilled. Even though most of the migrants did not achieve all that they had hoped, there is much for us to learn from their ventures. Wahlstrom shows us a dynamic borderland and the peoples who traversed it.”—Paul Spickard, author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and IdentityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War 2. White and Black Southerners Migrate to Mexico after the American Civil War 3. Southern Colonization and the Texas-Coahuila Borderlands 4. Southern Colonization and the Fall of the Mexican Empire, 1866–67 5. Southern Colonization, Railroads, and U.S. and Mexican Modernization Conclusion: Regions and Nations Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
University of Nebraska Press A Place More Void
Book SynopsisA Place More Void takes its name from a scene in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, wherein an elderly soothsayer has a final chance to warn Caesar about the Ides of March. Worried that he won't be able to deliver his message because of the crowded alleyways, the soothsayer devises a plan to find and intercept Caesar in a place more void. It is precisely such an elusive place that this volume makes space for by theorizing and empirically exploring the many yet widely neglected ways in which the void permeates geographical thinking. This collection presents geography's most in-depth and sustained engagements with the void to date, demonstrating the extent to which related themes such as gaps, cracks, lacks, and emptiness perforate geography's fundamental concepts, practices, and passions. Arranged in four parts around the themes of Holes, Absences, Edges, and Voids, the contributions demonstrate the fecundity of the void for thinking across a wide range of phenomena:Trade Review“In the current period of climatic and political uncertainty A Place More Void explores the generative capacities of the unknown through the lens of different conceptualizations of the void. I came away from the reading invigorated by the productive mobilizations of the concept and fully convinced of its potential to assist in understanding and moving forward in the current conjuncture.”—Susan M. Ruddick, professor of geography at the University of Toronto“As a spatial concept the void—or a space that reflects a gap in place or time—is a curious yet compelling question to investigate in geographical research. A Place More Void is conceptually unique and definitely provides a step forward as a contribution in the discipline of geography.”—Nadia Bartolini, associate research fellow of geography at the University of ExeterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Into the Void Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor Part 1. Holes 1. Urban Renewal and the Actuality of Absence: The “Hole” (Trou) of Paris, 1973 Ulf Strohmayer 2. The Crack in the Earth: Environmentalism after Speleology Kai Bosworth 3. The Vortex and the Void: Meta/Geophysics in Sedona Keith Woodward and John Paul Jones III 4. Six Voids Flora Parrott and Harriet Hawkins Part 2. Absences 5. Tracking Silence: Place, Embodiment, and Politics Morgan Meyer 6. The Void and Its Summons: Subjectivity, Signs, and the Enigmatic Mitch Rose 7. Derwent’s Ghost: The Haunting Silences of Geography at Harvard Alison Mountz and Kira Williams 8. It Watches You Vanish: On Landscape and W. G. Sebald John Wylie Part 3. Edges 9. enfolding: An Experimental geographical imagination system (gis) Nick Lally and Luke Bergmann 10. Beyond the Feminine Void: Rethinking Sexuation through an Ettingerial Lens Carmen Antreasian 11. Politics for the Impasse Jess Linz and Anna J. Secor 12. Raising Sasquatch to the Place of the Cryptozoological Thing Oliver Keane and Paul Kingsbury Part 4. Voids 13. O(void): Excerpts from “Lot,” a Long Ethnopoetics Project about the Colonial Geographies of Haida Gwaii Sarah de Leeuw 14. Playing with Plenitude and Finitude: Attuning to a Mysterious Void of Being Mikko Joronen 15. In the Void of Formalization: The Homology between Surplus Value and Surplus Jouissance Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya M. Madra 16. Localizing the Void: From Material to Immaterial Materialism Lucas Pohl Coda: A Void More Placed Paul Kingsbury and Anna J. Secor Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Centering the Margins of Anthropologys History
Book SynopsisThe series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing the awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology. Volume 14, Centering the Margins of Anthropology’s History, focuses on the conscious recognition of margins and suggests it is time to bring the margins to the center, both in terms of a changing theoretical openness and a supporting body of scholarship—if not to problematize the very dichotomy of center and margins itself. The essays explore two major themes of anthropology’s margins. First, anthropologists and historians have long sought out marginalized and forgotten ancestors, arguing for their present-day relevance and offering explanations for the lacTrade Review"Scholars have argued that intellectual and knowledge borders and margins and their intersections are where paradigmatic and theoretical breakthroughs occur, but also that the margins are where those without disciplinary power are relegated to work upon being denied more central positions. Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History adds a new dimension to these considerations while challenging the existing dichotomy, arguing that intellectual margins must be viewed as the center of knowledge production. In 11 insightful chapters, contributors explore overlooked scholars who were marginalized due to their subdiscipline, attempts to make their work socially relevant, where they worked, their gender and heritage, the types of writing they pursued, and critical institutional events."—N. J. Parezo, Choice“Vital for the discipline of anthropology and for those wanting to perform a history of science. This volume brings to light a plethora of authors, studies, and subjects that are often left on the periphery of the discipline so that we can discover and rediscover forgotten heroes. It is a wonderfully eclectic set of papers that group together in some truly fascinating ways.”—Robert P. Wishart, coeditor of Dogs in the North: Stories of Cooperation and Co-DomesticationTable of ContentsContentsEditors’ IntroductionRegna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach 1. A Forgotten Pioneer: Haviland Scudder Mekeel and the Expansion of AnthropologyHerbert S. Lewis2. Dear Dr. Boas: The Collaboration and Contribution of Ella Cara Deloria and Franz BoasDavid C. Posthumus3. Reckoning with Rietz: A Sketch of an Action AnthropologistJoshua Smith4. Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital Archives Project—Barriers in Bringing Medical Anthropology to Medical Practice: Adrian Tanner, the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital, and Cross-Cultural MiscommunicationIan Puppe, North de Pencier, and Gerald McKinley5. Sickness and Ideology among the Ojibway (Summer 1971)Adrian Tanner 6. We Hope That You Will Continue to Teach Us How Best to Learn: Assembling the Pascua Yaqui Tribe at the 89th Wenner-Gren International SymposiumNicholas Barron7. His Past Rose Up to Defeat Him: F. G. G. Rose and Academic and Political FreedomGeoffrey Gray8. Extraterrestrial Anthropology and Science Fiction: A Review and ReflectionCharles D. Laughlin9. Genres of Memory: Reading Anthropology’s History through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Science Fiction and Contemporary Native American Oral TraditionRegna Darnell10. A Public Anthropology of TransitionVintilă Mihăilescu11. An Interview with Stephen O. Murray on Stephen O. Murray as Historian of Anthropology (and More)Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Regna Darnell, Nathan Dawthorne, and Robert OppenheimContributors
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University of Nebraska Press Aquaman and the War against Oceans
Book SynopsisThe reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination. Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, aTrade Review"While at times a mocked superhero, DC's Aquaman has much to teach its readers about environmental justice, the Ocean, and fighting oppression during the Anthropocene."—Nicole Rehnberg, Journal of Popular Culture“Aquaman and the War against Oceans couldn’t be more important to read. It is the book for our times. Ryan Poll has written a page-turner, and not many academic texts can be called that. It is probably the smoothest integration of scholarly and journalistic sources I have yet encountered, written in a style that could be enjoyed by superhero fandom, undergraduates in an environmental humanities course, and scholars doing research on ecocriticism and superhero politics.”—Marc DiPaolo, author of Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to “Game of Thrones”“In this scholarly tour de force, Poll sonar-maps new scholarly biomes. He radically reorientates research frames and opens scholarly slipstreams to vital new ways of engaging with and adding to blue humanities, Black Atlantic, ecofeminist, and critical race studies. This is superhero comics scholarship at its best!”—Frederick Luis Aldama, author of the Eisner Award–winning Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream ComicsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction: The New 52 Aquaman’s Allegorical Project to See beyond the Anthropocene 1. Deep in the Trenches: Monsters, Humanism, and Ecological Allegories 2. Waves of Feminism: Mera, Paradigm Shifts, and Allegories of Reading 3. The Apocalyptic Ocean: Orm, Frames of Justice, and Allegories of Radical Politics 4. Allegories of White Supremacy: Black Manta and the Black Atlantic Afterword: The Ocean’s Black, Queer, Brown, and Indigenous Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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