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***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp
intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly
develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on
women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the
relationship between debt and social reproduction. Exploring the
link between financial activity and the rise of conservative forces
in Latin America, the book demonstrates that debt is intimately
linked to gendered violence and patriarchal notions of the family.
Yet, rather than seeing these forces as insurmountable, the authors
also show ways in which debt can be resisted, drawing on concrete
experiences and practices from Latin America and around the world.
Featuring interviews with women in Argentina and Brazil, the book
reveals the real-life impact of debt and how it falls mainly on the
shoulders of women, from the household to the wider effects of
national debt and austerity. However, through discussions around
experiences of work, prisons, domestic labour, agriculture, family,
abortion and housing, a narrative of resistance emerges. Translated
by Liz Mason-Deese.
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the
nation's first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of
Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators,
representing the American people, classified lynching as a federal
hate crime. While lynching histories and memories have received
attention among communication scholars and some interdisciplinary
studies of traditional civil rights memorials exist, contemporary
studies often fail to examine the politicized nature of the spaces.
This volume represents the first investigation of the National
Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, both of which
strategically make clear the various links between America's
history of racial terror and contemporary mass incarceration
conditions, the mistreatment of juveniles, and capital punishment.
Racial Terrorism: A Rhetorical Investigation of Lynching focuses on
several key social agents and organizations that played vital roles
in the public and legal consciousness raising that finally led to
the passage of the act. Marouf A. Hasian Jr. and Nicholas S.
Paliewicz argue that the advocacy of attorney Bryan Stevenson, the
work of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), and the efforts of
curators at Montgomery's new Legacy Museum all contributed to the
formation of a rhetorical culture that set the stage at last for
this hallmark lynching legislation. The authors examine how the EJI
uses spaces of remembrance to confront audiences with
race-conscious messages and measure to what extent those messages
are successful.
A raw, moving and uplifting memoir about courage, resilience and
the transformative power of love, from one of Australia's most
captivating personalities 'Powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful
... a story of incredible triumph fuelled by love and compassion'
Osher Gunsberg 'Brooke Blurton is an icon for people of all
generations and backgrounds. I love seeing her star shine.'
Clementine Ford My story is about the one thing that I never went
without. Love. Big love, that filled me up and made me feel like
there was a future for me. The kind of love that's unconditional,
and that lasts across time and space ... From the moment Brooke
Blurton appeared on Australian television, she dazzled audiences
with her authenticity, self-knowledge, generosity and honesty. As a
proud young Noongar-Yamatji woman, Brooke's connection to her
culture and country is deep, and as an openly queer woman, she
knows that love is simply love. Most of all Brooke knows the
importance of family, and the uplifting power of unconditional
connection. But behind the public persona Brooke presents to the
world is a story of epic proportions and awe-inspiring resilience -
she had to grow up fast from a very young age, surviving an
extremely challenging childhood and youth, and overcoming the
shocking legacy of intergenerational trauma, abuse and
homelessness. She's also had to defy labels and perceptions about
who she is, and her worth, all her life. But through it all, Brooke
didn't just survive, she found her voice and thrived, and in this
raw, heartbreaking, often funny and ultimately life-affirming
memoir, Brooke lays her journey bare about how she refused to allow
the past to define her and reclaimed her own identity - and
realised the power of love, for herself, for her family, and her
community.
This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and
institutions and provides case studies and best practices in the
context of broader theoretical analysis. The impact global
multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on
development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and
influence. Therefore, the main aim of this book is to examine the
concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and,
more broadly, look at the role of ideas in these institutions and
how they have affected current development discourse. With the aim,
the objectives, therefore, to enhance the understanding of how the
ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into
policy, modified, distorted, or resisted. It is not about creating
something fundamentally new, nor is it about completely
transcending the efforts of these global institutions. Rather, it
is about creating effective global institutions at a global level,
that can aid in social and economic development globally. The
scholarly value of the proposed publication is self-evident because
of the increase in the emphasis placed on global institutions and
the role they play for corporate governance, innovation, and
sustainability globally and it is going to be more crucial
post-pandemic when the economies restart and more so in emerging
economies. Moreover, there is a dire need for understanding
comprehensively the complexity in the process of how these global
institutions work multi-laterally.
Sustainable Work in Europe brings together a strong core of Swedish
working life research, with additional contributions from across
Europe, and discussion of current issues such as digitalisation,
climate change and the Covid pandemic. It bridges gaps between
social science and medicine, and adds emphasis on age and gender.
The book links workplace practice, theory and policy, and is
intended to provide the basis for ongoing debate and dialogue.
Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of
interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best
known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging
from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously
unpublished interview conducted in 2009, these twelve interviews
give insight to Campbell's unique religious beliefs and highlight
pivotal moments of his career. Will D. Campbell (1924-2013) was
born poor in rural Mississippi and became an ordained minister when
he was barely seventeen years old. After serving in the Army during
World War II, Campbell ministered in a variety of positions,
including a pastorate in Louisiana, as religious director at the
University of Mississippi, and as a race relations consultant for
the National Council of Churches. Along the way, Campbell worked
with civil rights figures, Klansmen, Black Panthers, and country
music icons, believing all were equal in the eyes of God.
Throughout his career, Campbell drew attention for criticizing the
institutional churches and supporting women's rights, gay rights,
and school desegregation. From 1962 through 2012, Campbell
published over fifteen books including novels, biographies, and
memoirs. His first book, Race and the Renewal of the Church,
introduced his theories of reconciliation and the failures of
institutional churches. His best-known work, Brother to a
Dragonfly, was a National Book Award finalist.
In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their
definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the
field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins,
principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this
important movement in legal thought. Since then, critical race
theory has gone on to influence numerous other fields of
scholarship, and the Delgado and Stefancic primer has remained an
indispensible guide for students and teachers. Delgado and
Stefancic have revised the book to include material on key issues
such as colorblind jurisprudence, Latino-Critical scholarship,
immigration, and the rollback of affirmative action. This second
edition introduces readers to important new voices in fields
outside of law, including education and psychology, and offers
greatly expanded issues for discussion, updated reading lists, and
an extensive glossary of terms.
'Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She
reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not
all in the same boat.' - Greta Thunberg No matter your age,
location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist.
Devastating flooding, deforestation, extinction and starvation.
These are the issues that not only threaten in the future, they are
a reality. After witnessing some of these issues first-hand,
Vanessa Nakate saw how the world's biggest polluters are asleep at
the wheel, ignoring the Global South where the effects of climate
injustice are most fiercely felt. Inspired by a shared vision of
hope, Vanessa's commanding political voice demands attention for
the biggest issue of our time and, in this rousing manifesto for
change, shows how you can join her to protect our planet now and
for the future. Vanessa realized the importance of her place in the
climate movement after she, the only Black activist in an image
with four white Europeans, was cropped out of a press photograph at
Davos in 2020. This example illustrates how those who will see the
biggest impacts of the climate crisis are repeatedly omitted from
the conversation. As she explains, 'We are on the front line, but
we are not on the front page.' Without A Bigger Picture, you're
missing the full story on climate change. 'An indispensable voice
for our future.' - Malala Yousafzai 'A powerful global voice.' -
Angelina Jolie
Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by
the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020
Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the
American Sociological Association How the female body has been
racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic
in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized
as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This
is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women,
which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years
ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative
ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing
important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and
scientific literature and medical journals-where fat bodies were
once praised-showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women,
did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment
era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial
inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of
slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it
was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized
attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture,
that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity.
An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues
convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather
a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender
prejudice.
Toleration is one of the most studied concepts in contemporary
political theory and philosophy, yet the range of contemporary
normative prescriptions concerning how to do toleration or how to
be tolerant is remarkably narrow and limited. The literature is
largely dominated by a neo-Kantian moral-juridical frame, in which
toleration is a matter to be decided in terms of constitutional
rights. According to this framework, cooperation equates to public
reasonableness and willingness to engage in certain types of civil
moral dialogue. Crucially, this vision of politics makes no claims
about how to cultivate and secure the conditions required to make
cooperation possible in the first place. It also has little to say
about how to motivate one to become a tolerant person. Instead it
offers highly abstract ideas that do not by themselves suggest what
political activity is required to negotiate overlapping values and
interests in which cooperation is not already assured. Contemporary
thinking about toleration indicates, paradoxically, an intolerance
of politics. Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics argues for
toleration as a practice of negotiation, looking to a philosopher
not usually considered political: Michel de Montaigne. For
Montaigne, toleration is an expansive, active practice of political
endurance in negotiating public goods across lines of value
difference. In other words, to be tolerant means to possess a
particular set of political capacities for negotiation. What
matters most is not how we talk to our political opponents, but
that we talk to each other across lines of disagreement. Douglas I.
Thompson draws on Montaigne's Essais to recover the idea that
political negotiation grows out of genuine care for public goods
and the establishment of political trust. He argues that we need a
Montaignian conception of toleration today if we are to negotiate
effectively the circumstances of increasing political polarization
and ongoing value conflict, and he applies this notion to current
debates in political theory as well as contemporary issues,
including the problem of migration and refugee asylum.
Additionally, for Montaigne scholars, he reads the Essais
principally as a work of public political education, and resituates
the work as an extension of Montaigne's political activity as a
high-level negotiator between Catholic and Huguenot parties during
the French Wars of Religion. Ultimately, this book argues that
Montaigne's view of tolerance is worth recovering and reconsidering
in contemporary democratic societies where political leaders and
ordinary citizens are becoming less able to talk to each other to
resolve political conflicts and work for shared public goods.
'An instant classic. Sabir is an inspiration' Arun Kundnani, author
of The Muslims are Coming! What impact has two decades' worth of
policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims
in Britain? The Suspect draws on the author's experiences to take
the reader on a journey through British counterterrorism practices
and the policing of Muslims. Rizwaan Sabir describes what led to
his arrest for suspected terrorism, his time in detention, and the
surveillance he was subjected to on release from custody, including
stop and search at the roadside, detentions at the border,
monitoring by police and government departments, and an attempt by
the UK military to recruit him into their psychological warfare
unit. Writing publicly for the first time about the traumatising
mental health effects of these experiences, Sabir argues that these
harmful outcomes are not the result of errors in government
planning, but the consequences of using a counterinsurgency warfare
approach to fight terrorism and police Muslims. To resist the
injustice of these policies and practices, we need to centre our
lived experiences and build networks of solidarity and support.
This is the life story of a South African political detainee who underwent 104 days of solitary confinement under Section 29 of the draconian apartheid-era Terrorism Act before being brought to trial with 13 other political activists in what became known as the "Yengeni Trial".
Gertrude Fester begins her story with her childhood and young adult life in Cape Town until she becomes politically active in the city's progressive women's organisation before focusing on her above-ground and underground work for the liberation struggle that led to her detention in the second half of the 1980s.
It is in her depictions of her recollections of the daily experiences of solitary confinement and use of poetry written during this period that Gertrude takes the reader through the physically and emotionally draining experience of solitary confinement in apartheid South Africa during the height of repression and resistance.
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