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Murder on the Mountain
Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey
By Peter J. Wosh and Patricia L. Schall
Rutgers University Press
Charged with murdering her husband in 1879, Margaret Meierhofer became the last woman executed by the state of New Jersey. Murder on the Mountain considers all sides of this fascinating and mysterious true crime story, investigating how the case’s sensational details about domestic violence and female sexuality gripped the nation.
Infected Empires
Decolonizing Zombies
By Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini
Rutgers University Press
Infected Empires examines a central figure in contemporary apocalyptic film: the zombie. This creature reveals bloody truths about the human condition, the wounds of history, and methods of contending with them. Studying films from a transnational perspective, Infected Empires presents a vision of a global zombie that resists oppressive structures that racialize, marginalize, disable, and dispose of bodies.
Global Health for All
Knowledge, Politics, and Practices
Rutgers University Press
Global Health for All is a deeply historical and ethnographically rich analysis of health at a global scale. It combines sixteen inquiries into actors, institutions, objects, and ideas at the centers and margins of global health, to give a uniquely collaborative account of health’s entanglement with development, science, and globalization.
Global Health for All
Knowledge, Politics, and Practices
Rutgers University Press
Global Health for All is a deeply historical and ethnographically rich analysis of health at a global scale. It combines sixteen inquiries into actors, institutions, objects, and ideas at the centers and margins of global health, to give a uniquely collaborative account of health’s entanglement with development, science, and globalization.
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean
Ways of Being Non/Sovereign
Edited by Yvon van der Pijl and Francio Guadeloupe; Foreword by Linden F. Lewis; Epilogue by Anton Allahar
Rutgers University Press
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the various non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. While this collection of essays recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it challenges conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty, opening a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life.
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean
Ways of Being Non/Sovereign
Edited by Yvon van der Pijl and Francio Guadeloupe; Foreword by Linden F. Lewis; Epilogue by Anton Allahar
Rutgers University Press
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the various non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. While this collection of essays recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it challenges conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty, opening a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life.
Childfree across the Disciplines
Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children
Edited by Davinia Thornley
Rutgers University Press
Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children focuses on the relationship between childfreedom, social ideologies, and community activism. The authors ask (and frequently answer) the question: how do childfree people negotiate their subjectivity in a changing demographic, economic, media-saturated cultural landscape?
Building Something Better
Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change
Rutgers University Press
Showing that it is possible to challenge social inequality and environmental degradation by refusing to continue business-as-usual, Building Something Better shares vivid case studies of small groups who are making a big impact by crafting alternatives to neoliberal capitalism. It offers both a call to action and a dose of hope in these troubled times.
Here to Stay
Uncovering South Asian American History
Rutgers University Press
In Here to Stay, Geetika Rudra takes readers on a journey across the United States to unearth the little-known histories of South Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how South Asians made a home for themselves in America, despite racist laws that only granted citizenship to European immigrants.
War without Bodies
Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War
Rutgers University Press
Thanks to the invention of photography and the telegraph descriptions and images of war have proliferated from the nineteenth century onward, yet wars continue to be fought. The way descriptions of war are framed blunts the impact of images of death and makes war an acceptable option by representing it as “war without bodies” therefore without casualties. Beginning with Crimean War, War Without Bodies traces the ways that death was framed in poetry, photography, video and video games up to and including the Iraq War.
The Work of Hospitals
Global Medicine in Local Cultures
Rutgers University Press
The Work of Hospitals, a volume on hospitals as clinical and social institutions, foregrounds the tensions inherent in efforts to sustain functional health services in resource-poor states. Global ethnographic research shows how clinicians and patients struggle, without adequate supplies and personnel, in times of financial austerity. The chapters document a vast gulf worldwide between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice.
The Paris Commune
A Brief History
Rutgers University Press
The Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and as the crucible allowing alternate possibilities. Upending hierarchies, the Commune became a touchstone for subsequent revolutionary and radical social movements.
Risky Cities
The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism
By Albert S. Fu
Rutgers University Press
Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards.
OutWrite
The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture
Edited by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross
Rutgers University Press
This collection gives readers a front-row seat to a pivotal moment in LGBTQ literary history with twenty-seven of the most memorable speeches from the 1990-1999 OutWrite conferences, including talks from such luminaries as Allen Ginsberg, Essex Hemphill, Patrick Califia, Dorothy Allison, and Edmund White that cover everything from racial representation to sexual politics.
Literature and Revolution
British Responses to the Paris Commune of 1871
By Owen Holland
Rutgers University Press
The Parisian Communards fought for a vision of internationalism, radical democracy and economic justice for the working masses that cut across national borders. Its eventual defeat resonated far beyond Paris. Literature and Revolution examines how authors in Britain projected their hopes and fears in literary representations of the Commune.
Immigrant Agency
Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation
Rutgers University Press
Although political incorporation is often seen as something that states do, immigrants exert agency in incorporating themselves. Through a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency uncovers the dynamic interactions between immigrant agency and state racialization that generate racialized incorporation.
Double Exposure
How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies
Rutgers University Press
Double Exposure examines the role of cinema in shaping social psychology’s landmark post-war experiments. The most influential experiments left a trail of visual evidence central to capturing the public imagination. Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.
Black Women Directors
Rutgers University Press
For far too long, the cultural and historical narratives about film have overlooked the contributions of Black women directors. This book remedies this omission by highlighting the trajectory of the culturally significant work of Black women directors in the U.S., from the under-examined pioneers of the silent era to the contemporary Black women directors in Hollywood.
Babylost
Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z
Rutgers University Press
The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Babylost tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 26 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code.
Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration
Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust
Rutgers University Press
This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.
Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration
Constellations of Security, Citizenship, and Rights
Edited by Anne-Marie D'Aoust
Rutgers University Press
This multidisciplinary collection investigates how marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny for control and exclusion in several states around the world. Covering cases across several countries, contributors offer a compelling multidisciplinary perspective on the interplay between security, citizenship and rights as experienced by migrants, policymakers, and actors who negotiate encounters with the state.
Speaking Truths
Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism
Rutgers University Press
The twenty-first century has seen countless protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards, there are also young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics. In Speaking Truths, sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind the scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry—and young people’s participation in it—contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social justice activism, including this generation’s attention to the political importance of identity, well-being, and love.
See Me Naked
Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era
Rutgers University Press
Lena Horne, Moms Mabley, Yolande DuBois, and Memphis Minnie were Black women who, despite their public profiles, discovered ways to enjoy pleasure in their public and private lives. See Me Naked looks at these women as representative of Black women who were watched, criticized, and judged by their families, peers, and, in some cases, the government. Despite the pressures of respectability, they lived extraordinary lives.
Resonant Violence
Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies
Rutgers University Press
Resonant Violence explores both the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots collectives respond to and transform this violence through memory practices and grassroots activism. By calling upon lessons from Germany, Poland, Argentina, and the Indigenous United States, Resonant Violence demonstrates how ordinary individuals come together to engage with a violent past to pave the way for a less violent future.
Played Out
The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire
Rutgers University Press
Through contemporary examples, including the work of Kendrick Lamar, Key and Peele and the presidency of Barack Obama and many others, Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire examines how Black satirists create vulnerability to highlight the inner emotional lives of Black men.
From Bureaucracy to Bullets
Extreme Domicide and the Right to Home
By Bree Akesson and Andrew R. Basso
Rutgers University Press
From Bureaucracy to Bullets uses eight compelling case studies—from five continents and spanning the 20th and 21st centuries—to explore the concept of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of home as a result of political violence. Moving beyond mere description, From Bureaucracy to Bullets identifies common factors that contribute to extreme domicide, thereby providing human rights actors with a framework to hold perpetrators accountable for their actions.
Badass Feminist Politics
Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism
Edited by Sarah Jane Blithe and Janell C. Bauer
Rutgers University Press
Badass Feminist Politics explores gender, difference, feminist methods, stigma, social movements, mediated communication, intersectional feminist theory and pedagogy. It is a testament to resilience, resistance, and forward thinking about what these themes mean for new feminist agendas.
Population Trends in New Jersey
By James W. Hughes and David Listokin
Rutgers University Press
Present-day New Jersey is the result of a long demographic and economic journey that has taken place over centuries, constantly influenced by national and global forces. Population Trends in New Jersey provides a detailed examination of this journey.
The Baseball Film
A Cultural and Transmedia History
By Aaron Baker
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from Bull Durham (1988) to The Bad News Bears (1976) this book examines how baseball-themed films and TV series depict the game, its players, fans, and place in American society. It considers works that nostalgically lionize white male heroes alongside films and television that dramatize the contributions of female and BIPOC players.
The American Girl Goes to War
Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film
By Liz Clarke
Rutgers University Press
The American Girl Goes to War demonstrates the predominance of heroic female characters in in early narrative films about war. American Girls were filled with the military spirit of their forefathers and became one of the major ways that American women’s changing political involvement, independence, and active natures were contained by and subsumed into pre-existing American ideologies.
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