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War without Bodies

War without Bodies

Framing Death from the Crimean to the Iraq War

By Martin Danahay

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

The Work of Hospitals

Global Medicine in Local Cultures

Edited by William C. Olsen and Carolyn Sargent; Afterword by Claire Wendland

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

The Paris Commune

A Brief History

By Carolyn J. Eichner

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

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

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

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

Immigrant Agency

Hmong American Movements and the Politics of Racialized Incorporation

By Yang Sao Xiong

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

Double Exposure

How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies

By Kathryn Millard

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

Black Women Directors

By Christina N. Baker

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

Babylost

Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

By Monica J. Casper

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

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

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

Speaking Truths

Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism

By Valerie Chepp

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

See Me Naked

Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era

By Tara T. Green

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

Resonant Violence

Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies

By Kerry Whigham

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

Played Out

The Race Man in Twenty-First-Century Satire

By Brandon J. Manning

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

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

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

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

The Baseball Film

A Cultural and Transmedia History

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

The American Girl Goes to War

Women and National Identity in U.S. Silent Film

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.

Stellar Transformations

Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

Edited by Steven Rybin

Rutgers University Press

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s explores stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. Stellar Transformations looks at the roles stars played in the complex and turbulent decade of the 2010s, and in doing so will offer useful case studies for scholars and students engaged in the study of stardom, celebrity, and performance in cinema.

Stellar Transformations

Stellar Transformations

Movie Stars of the 2010s

Edited by Steven Rybin

Rutgers University Press

Stellar Transformations: Movie Stars of the 2010s explores stardom, performance, and their cultural contexts in ways that remind us of the alluring magic of stars while also bringing to the fore the changing ways in which viewers engaged with them during the last decade. Stellar Transformations looks at the roles stars played in the complex and turbulent decade of the 2010s, and in doing so will offer useful case studies for scholars and students engaged in the study of stardom, celebrity, and performance in cinema.

Star Decades Complete 11 Volume Set

Star Decades Complete 11 Volume Set

Edited by Adrienne L. McLean and Murray Pomerance

Rutgers University Press

The Star Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an eleven volume set: Movie Stars from the 1910s to the 2010s. Each volume presents original essays that analyze the movie star against the background of American cultural history. As icon, as mediated personality, and as object of audience fascination and desire, the Hollywood star remains the model for celebrity in modern culture, representing a combination of achievement, talent, ability, luck, authenticity, superficiality, and even ordinariness.

Latinas on the Line

Latinas on the Line

Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications

By Melissa Villa-Nicholas

Rutgers University Press

Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications brings to attention the histories of Latinas in telecommunications, demonstrating how these histories contribute to the larger canons on Latina labor, communications, race, gender, and social constructions of technology. Through their intersectional identities, Latinas in telecommunications offer particular insights to the history of telecommunications and their own ‘belonging’ within these technological spaces.

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

Edited by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, and Michael Cramer

Rutgers University Press

A radical new intervention into film studies and Marxist cultural studies, this book considers the contributions of Fredric Jameson to film Studies, and finds scholars applying, questioning, and developing his ideas in a wide-ranging collection of case studies from around the globe.

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

Fredric Jameson and Film Theory

Marxism, Allegory, and Geopolitics in World Cinema

Edited by Keith B. Wagner, Jeremi Szaniawski, and Michael Cramer

Rutgers University Press

A radical new intervention into film studies and Marxist cultural studies, this book considers the contributions of Fredric Jameson to film Studies, and finds scholars applying, questioning, and developing his ideas in a wide-ranging collection of case studies from around the globe.

Erotic Cartographies

Erotic Cartographies

Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination

By Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan

Rutgers University Press

Erotic Cartographies uses maps drawn by Trinidadian same-sex-loving women to demonstrate how their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging, and challenge colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.

Collision Course

Collision Course

Economic Change, Criminal Justice Reform, and Work in America

By Kathleen Auerhahn

Rutgers University Press

This book is about the convergence of trends in two American institutions – the economy and the criminal justice system. The American economy has radically transformed in the past half-century, led by advances in automation technology that have permanently altered labor market dynamics. Over the same period, the US criminal justice system experienced an unprecedented expansion, at great cost. These costs include not only the $80 billion annually in direct expenditures on criminal justice, but also the devastating impacts experienced by justice-involved individuals, families, and communities. This book examines these potential consequences, the meaning of work in American society, and suggests alternative redistributive and policy solutions to avert the collision course of these economic and criminal justice policy trends.

Carrying On

Carrying On

Another School of Thought on Pregnancy and Health

By Brittany Clair

Rutgers University Press

Unlike traditional pregnancy guidebooks that offer recommendations, Carrying On investigates prenatal health norms by exploring the origin stories for issues at the center of pregnancy, ranging from morning sickness and weight gain to ultrasounds and induction. In a world of information overload, Carrying On helps expecting parents make sense of the overwhelming amount of counsel by shedding light on where it all came from: how and why did such confusing and contradictory guidance on pregnancy come to exist?

Black Space

Black Space

Negotiating Race, Diversity, and Belonging in the Ivory Tower

By Sherry L. Deckman

Rutgers University Press

Protests against systemic racism have swept across elite colleges and universities, raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong on these campuses. Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of students in the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization with racially diverse members and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students, as a case study in exploring race, diversity, and safe space.

Residues

Residues

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

By Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody A. Roberts

Rutgers University Press

Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce “residual materialism” as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.

Screen Decades Complete 12 Volume Set

Screen Decades Complete 12 Volume Set

Edited by Murray Pomerance and Lester D. Friedman

Rutgers University Press

The Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series is now available as an twelve-volume set: American Cinema from the 1890s to the 2010s. Each volume presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema on society. Every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events to provide a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the nation.

Painting in Excess

Painting in Excess

Kyiv's Art Revival, 1985-1993

Edited by Olena Martynyuk

Rutgers University Press

The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art scene in Kyiv, launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a global phenomenon. This exhibition catalogue traces and documents the diverse artistic manifestations of these transitional and exhilarating years while providing historical artworks for context.

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships

Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti

By Vincent Joos

Rutgers University Press

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes how, in the meantime, people from various backgrounds use, transform, and create vibrant urban spaces and economies that enable them to rebuild their lives. By exploring how the state, international organizations, and everyday people transform the environment,the book reflects on the possibilities of dwelling in post-disaster landscapes.

The Politics of International Marriage in Japan

The Politics of International Marriage in Japan

By Viktoriya Kim, Nelia G. Balgoa, and Beverley Anne Yamamoto

Rutgers University Press

Focusing on three cultural/ethnic groups in terms of empirical data - women from the former Soviet Union countries, the Philippines, and Western countries - this book highlights the complex interplay between national, cultural, gender, and ethnicity boundary maintenance that constructs international marriages in Japan at multiple levels, providing a comprehensive account of international marriage in the contemporary Japanese context.

The Marion Thompson Wright Reader

The Marion Thompson Wright Reader

Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Edited by Graham Russell Gao Hodges

Rutgers University Press

In The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work. Thompson’s work and her life are highly significant to the history of New Jersey, African Americans, women’s, and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work, existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

By Andrew J. Kunka

Rutgers University Press

This book tells the remarkable story of how a preacher’s kid from Birmingham, Alabama became the so-called “Godfather of Gay Comics.” Lavishly illustrated with a broad selection of comics from Howard Cruse’s fifty-year career, this study showcases his critical role as a satirist and commentator on his times.

The Great Disappearing Act

The Great Disappearing Act

Germans in New York City, 1880-1930

By Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson

Rutgers University Press

Where did all the Germans go? How does a community of several hundred thousand people become invisible within a generation? This study examines these questions in relation to the German immigrant community in New York City between 1880-1930, and seeks to understand how German-American New Yorkers assimilated into the larger American society in the early twentieth century.

Intimate Connections

Intimate Connections

Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains

By Anna-Maria Walter

Rutgers University Press

Intimate Connections dissects changing ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of northern Pakistan. It offers deep insights into the affective lives of local Shia women, gender practices, and young couples’ mobile phone relationships in South Asia as well as in the wider Muslim world.

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