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A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius
of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food,
shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha
Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the imagination.
Deadly systems shaped by mass incarceration, ableism, digital
surveillance, and eugenics emerged from the human imagination, but
they have real-world impacts. To fight these systems and create a
world that works for all of us, we will have to imagine things
differently. As Benjamin shows, educators, artists, technologists,
and more are experimenting with new ways of thinking and tackling
seemingly intractable problems. Drawing from the work of these
visionaries—including Black feminists, climate activists,
Afrofuturists, and troublemakers of all sorts—Imagination: A
Manifesto explores the possibility and practices required to
imagine and create more just and habitable worlds.
From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of
how we can build a more just world-one small change at a time "A
book as urgent as the moment that produced it."-Jelani Cobb,
Columbia Journalism School Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin
was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice,
focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of
COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the
importance of small, individual actions. Part memoir, part
manifesto, Viral Justice is a sweeping and deeply personal
exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we
make every day. Vividly recounting her personal experiences and
those of her family, Benjamin shows how seemingly minor decisions
and habits could spread virally and have exponentially positive
effects. She recounts her father's premature death, illuminating
the devastating impact of the chronic stress of racism, but she
also introduces us to community organizers who are fostering mutual
aid and collective healing. Through her brother's experience with
the criminal justice system, we see the trauma caused by policing
practices and mass imprisonment, but we also witness family members
finding strength as they come together to demand justice for their
loved ones. And while her own challenges as a young mother reveal
the vast inequities of our healthcare system, Benjamin also
describes how the support of doulas and midwives can keep Black
mothers and babies alive and well. Born of a stubborn hopefulness,
Viral Justice offers a passionate, inspiring, and practical vision
of how small changes can add up to large ones, transforming our
relationships and communities and helping us build a more just and
joyful world.
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since
the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently
these debates devolve to simple judgmentsOCogood or bad,
life-saving medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human
ingenuity or our fall from graceOCoignoring the people affected.
With this book, Ruha Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on
the shifting relationship between science and society, on the
people who benefitOCoor don'tOCofrom regenerative medicine and what
this says about our democratic commitments to an equitable society.
"People's Science" uncovers the tension between scientific
innovation and social equality, taking the reader inside
California's 2004 stem cell initiative, the first of many state
referenda on scientific research, to consider the lives it has
affected. Benjamin reveals the promise and peril of public
participation in science, illuminating issues of race, disability,
gender, and socio-economic class that serve to define certain
groups as more or less deserving in their political aims and
biomedical hopes. Under the shadow of the free market and in a
nation still at odds with universal healthcare, the socially
marginalized are often eagerly embraced as test-subjects, yet often
are unable to afford new medicines and treatment regimes as
patients.
Ultimately, Ruha Benjamin argues that without more deliberate
consideration about how scientific initiatives can and should
reflect a wider array of social concerns, stem cell researchOCo
from African Americans' struggle with sickle cell treatment to the
recruitment of women as tissue donorsOCostill risks excluding many.
Even as regenerative medicine is described as a participatory
science for the people, Benjamin asks us to consider if the people
ultimately reflects our democratic ideals.
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The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed
migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these
states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching
and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume
exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and
violence. In the name of “smart” borders, the U.S. and Europe
have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial
laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and
routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases,
digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition
software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more
“efficiently” categorize and control human beings and their
movement. These technologies rarely capture widespread public
attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world,
scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from
undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from
undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and
Technologies of Violence shed light on this new threat, offering
analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and
inspiring stories of resistance to it. The organizers, journalists,
and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward,
employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize
globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine
a world without borders.
The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral
technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and
predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and
coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be
appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.
Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since
the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently
these debates devolve to simple judgments-good or bad, life-saving
medicine or bioethical nightmare, symbol of human ingenuity or our
fall from grace-ignoring the people affected. With this book, Ruha
Benjamin moves the terms of debate to focus on the shifting
relationship between science and society, on the people who
benefit-or don't-from regenerative medicine and what this says
about our democratic commitments to an equitable society. People's
Science uncovers the tension between scientific innovation and
social equality, taking the reader inside California's 2004 stem
cell initiative, the first of many state referenda on scientific
research, to consider the lives it has affected. Benjamin reveals
the promise and peril of public participation in science,
illuminating issues of race, disability, gender, and socio-economic
class that serve to define certain groups as more or less deserving
in their political aims and biomedical hopes. Under the shadow of
the free market and in a nation still at odds with universal
healthcare, the socially marginalized are often eagerly embraced as
test-subjects, yet often are unable to afford new medicines and
treatment regimes as patients. Ultimately, Ruha Benjamin argues
that without more deliberate consideration about how scientific
initiatives can and should reflect a wider array of social
concerns, stem cell research- from African Americans' struggle with
sickle cell treatment to the recruitment of women as tissue
donors-still risks excluding many. Even as regenerative medicine is
described as a participatory science for the people, Benjamin asks
us to consider if "the people" ultimately reflects our democratic
ideals.
The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral
technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and
predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and
coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be
appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.
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