"Intelligent, provocative, and challenging, Disability Theory revolutionizes the terrain of theory by providing indisputable evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to key critical and cultural questions. Tobin Siebers persuasively argue…
Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capita…
In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable …
An investigation into some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades she has worked as an advocate for victims of unethical research while also def…
An investigation into some of the most contentious debates of our time, Galileo's Middle Finger describes Alice Dreger's experiences on the front lines of scientific controversy, where for two decades she has worked as an advocate for victims of unethical research while also def…
"In a unique format of intellectual challenge and counter-challenge prominent Native Americans and Marxists debate the viability of Marxism and the prevalence of ethnocentric bias in politics, culture, and social theory. The authors examine the status of Western notions of "prog…
"Presents a searing indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends, and offers a powerful vision for a constructive alternative rooted in the politics of solidarity."--Page 4 of cover.
"Presents a searing indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends, and offers a powerful vision for a constructive alternative rooted in the politics of solidarity."--Page 4 of cover.
"Presents a searing indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends, and offers a powerful vision for a constructive alternative rooted in the politics of solidarity."--Page 4 of cover. “Identity politics” is everywhere…
Presents a searing indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends, and offers a powerful vision for a constructive alternative rooted in the politics of solidarity.
This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environme…
"Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism makes new connections between post-feminism and queer theory to explore the complexities of contemporary gender and sexuality. In a wide-ranging examination of sex education, safe sex, and sexual healthcare, this book demonstrates how …
"Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism makes new connections between post-feminism and queer theory to explore the complexities of contemporary gender and sexuality. In a wide-ranging examination of sex education, safe sex, and sexual healthcare, this book demonstrates how …
Takes up the challenge of exploring how the new polarizations relate to the contradictions that underlie them and how far 'centrist' politics can continue to contain them. Original essays examine the multiplication of antagonistic national, racial, generational, and other identi…
Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of ""migrantification"" - in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society.
Has 'migrant' become an unshakeable identity for some people? How does this happen and what role does the media play in classifying individuals as 'migrants' rather than people? This volume denaturalises the idea of the 'migrant', pointing instead to the array of systems and pro…
