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Encounters eBook Series

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  • The Multilingual Citizen

    Towards a Politics of Language for Agency and Change

    Edited by Assist. Prof. Lisa Lim, Christopher Stroud, Dr. Lionel Wee ...
    Series Book 11 - Encounters
    In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    by Larry Siems ...
    The "profound and disturbing" national bestseller written by a Guantánamo prisoner—now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster ( The New York Times Book Review).When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantánamo Diary in 2015—heavily redacted by the U.S. government—Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Austerity

    The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy

    by Kerry-anne Mendoza ...
    For the last five years, Britain has been under the hammer of Austerity’. In its name, wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country and by the poor and disabled most of all. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Covering

    The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

    by Kenji Yoshino ...
    A lyrical memoir that identifies the pressure to conform as a hidden threat to our civil rights, drawing on the author’s life as a gay Asian American man and his career as an acclaimed legal scholar.“[Kenji] Yoshino offers his personal search for authenticity as an encouragement for everyone to think deeply about the ways in which all of us have covered our true selves. . . . We really do feel ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Captive Genders

    Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

    Edited by Nat Smith, Eric A. Stanley ...
    While other titles have explored gender in the context of the American prison population, Captive Genders is the first book to explicitly examine self-identified trans-folk and gender-queer individuals inside US prisons.Composed largely of first-hand accounts of the policing of trans and gender-queer folks, this book is suitable for readers in the GLBTQ community, as well as for readers who are ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Acting White?

    Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America

    by Devon W. Carbado, Mitu Gulati ...
    What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado and Mitu ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Unsettling the Commons

    Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

    by Craig Fortier ...
    Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim “the commons” on stolen land. Travelling ... Read more

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  • The Inaugural Addresses and Ascension Speeches of Nigerian Elected and Non-Elected Presidents and Prime Minister, 1960-2010

    Edited by Solomon Williams Obotetukudo ...
    From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor, 'This generation [of Nigerians]... have no other country than Nigeria,' to Obasanjo's confident ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Making Citizens in Africa

    Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia

    by Lahra Smith ...
    Series Book 125 - African Studies
    Smith argues that citizenship creation and expansion is a pivotal part of political contestation in Africa today. Citizenship is a powerful analytical tool to approach political life in contemporary Africa because the institutional and structural reforms of the past two decades have been inextricably linked with the battle over the 'right to have rights'. Professor Lahra Smith's work advances the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture

    Making and Being Made

    Edited by Corey Dzenko, Theresa Avila ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Taking citizenship as a political position, cultural process, and intertwining of both, this edited volume examines the role of visual art and visual culture as sites for the construction and contestation of both state-sanctioned and cultural citizenships from the late 1970s to today. Contributors to this book examine an assortment of visual media—painting, sculpture, photography, performance, the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Speaking Truth to Power Signs from the 2017 Women's March

    Speaking Truth to Power, #1

    by Deborah Hamilton-Lynne, Robin Romans ...
    Series Book 1 - Speaking Truth to Power
    Were you one of the millions who marched in the Women's March on January 21, 2017? We were overwhelmed by the hopeful spirit of the day and the way marchers used signs to speak their truth to power. In this book we have gathered those signs and truths and combined them with quotes that speak to the reasons why millions marched. We compiled a collection of representative signs to encourage readers ... Read more

    $2.99 USD