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  • Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

    Series series The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
    From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though these events affect us all, some members of society are more vulnerable to harm than others.This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, ... Read more

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  • Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture

    by Basuli Deb ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book revisits other such racialized wars in Palestine, Guatemala, India, Algeria, and South Africa. It draws widely on postcolonial literature, photography ... Read more

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  • Healing South African Wounds / Guérir les blessures de l’Afrique du Sud

    Series series Horizons anglophones - Série PoCoPages
    On the eve of the democratic elections scheduled in South Africa in 2009, this collection of essays analyses the many ways in which South Africans have been trying to heal the wounds of apartheid, as advocated in Nelson Mandela’s famous 1994 speech, delivered at the dawn of the ‘ new ’ South Africa. The articles encompass such diverse fields as politics, literature, cinema, welfare policies or ... Read more

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  • Viral Justice

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  • Just Us

    An American Conversation

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  • Epidemic Illusions

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