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  • The Economy of Anonymity

    Power in the Age of Identification

    by Hector Amaya ...
    We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wish to hide, experiment, and deceive. But we are anonymous in more contexts than the digital. In urban settings, we routinely experience the anonymity of the crowd, and routinely use anonymity to ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Trafficking

    Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States

    by Hector Amaya ...
    In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. He contends that, by becoming a site of national and transnational debate about the role of the state, this violence altered the modes publicness could take, transforming assumptions about freedom of expression ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Citizenship Excess

    Latino/as, Media, and the Nation

    by Hector Amaya ...
    Series Book 29 - Critical Cultural Communication
    “Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media Scholars today.”—Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and ... Read more

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  • Revisualising Intersectionality

    by Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Magdalena Nowicka, Tiara Roxanne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Immigration

    by Joseph Carens ...
    Series series Oxford Political Theory
    In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about citizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality. Carens begins by focusing ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender

    A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars

    by Pierre Wilbert Orelus ...
    Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances people, across various race, class, language, and gender lines, have. Utilizing dialogue as a form ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Categories We Live By

    The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories

    by Ásta ...
    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them? Ásta approaches these questions through analytic feminist metaphysics. Her theory of social ... Read more

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  • The Everyday Language of White Racism

    by Jane H. Hill ...
    Series Book 7 - Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture.provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racismreveals how racializing discourse—talk and text that produces and reproduces ideas about races and assigns people to them—facilitates a ... Read more

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  • Feminism against Cisness

    Edited by Emma Heaney ...
    Series series ASTERISK
    The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class ... Read more

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  • Human Rights

    Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self ... Read more

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  • Culture and Development in a Globalizing World

    Geographies, Actors and Paradigms

    Edited by Sarah Radcliffe ...
    Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:development for indigenous peoplenatural resource managementsocial capital and ... Read more

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