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Intervention Narratives
Afghanistan, the United States, and the Global War on Terror
By Purnima Bose
Rutgers University Press
Intervention Narratives examines contradictory cultural representations of the US intervention in Afghanistan that justify an imperial foreign policy. Bose demonstrates that contemporary imperialism operates on an ideologically diverse terrain by marshaling familiar tropes of entrepreneurship, pet love, and Orientalist stereotypes to enlist support for the war across the political spectrum.
Implementing Inequality
The Invisible Labor of International Development
Rutgers University Press
An ethnographic study of development work in postwar Angola, Implementing Inequality demonstrates how the international development industry’s internal social dynamics inadvertently replicate global inequalities. Underestimating the intense relational work of the development implementariat, its in-country implementation agents, development sabotages itself and must revisit how to assesses its work and workers.
Guilty People
By Abbe Smith
Rutgers University Press
In Guilty People, law professor and longtime criminal defense attorney Abbe Smith gives us a thoughtful and honest look at people under trial, from petty criminals to rapists and murderers. Telling compelling stories about real cases, she reveals how individuals get embroiled in the justice system and what happens to them there.
Global Mental Health
Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations
Edited by Javier I Escobar
Rutgers University Press
Global Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America.
Dreaming the Graphic Novel
The Novelization of Comics
Rutgers University Press
This book examines the early history of the graphic novel in the 1970s, after the term was coined but before this art form achieved popular success and critical acclaim. Unearthing a treasure trove of fanzines, adverts, and unpublished letters, it gives readers an exciting inside look at a pivotal moment in the development of the graphic novel.
Courting Desire
Litigating for Love in North India
Rutgers University Press
Courting Desire traces organically evolving ideas on sexual consent and legal subjectivity through a study of marital patterns in North India. Through research in courtrooms and community spaces, it outlines the processes through which eloping couples secure legal validity for their relationships of choice where family-arranged matches are the norm.
Collaborating for Change
A Participatory Action Research Casebook
Rutgers University Press
Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects in the United States. The book is for social justice activists and their research allies that learn best from real stories and real projects that bring insight about how democratizing research supports social change and our understanding of complex social issues.
Queer Objects
Edited by Chris Brickell and Judith Collard
Rutgers University Press
Queer lives give rise to a vast array of objects, from home items to digital technology, but what makes an object queer? Queer Objects considers this question in a unique collection of essays from a collaboration of well-known and newer writers who transverse world history to write about items from ancient Egyptian tombs to today’s smartphone.
Holocaust Graphic Narratives
Generation, Trauma, and Memory
Rutgers University Press
Holocaust Graphic Narratives examines Holocaust graphic novels and memoirs, analyzing the genre as one that enables intergenerational transmission of trauma and memory. Here, the graphic novel becomes a medium uniquely positioned to create a sense of felt immediacy, urgency, and authenticity at the intersection of history and the imagination.
Under Quarantine
Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate
Rutgers University Press
Under Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha’aliya, Israel’s central immigration camp. Focusing on the conflicts surrounding the camp’s medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life.
Transnational Korean Cinema
Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies
By Dal Yong Jin
Rutgers University Press
In Transnational Korean Cinema author Dal Yong Jin explores the interactions of local and global politics, economics, and culture to contextualize the development of Korean cinema and its current place in an era of neoliberal globalization and convergent digital technologies.
The Superhero Symbol
Media, Culture, and Politics
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together superhero scholars and key industry figures The Superhero Symbol unmasks how superheroes have become so pervasive in media, culture, and politics. This timely collection explores how these powerful icons are among the entertainment industry’s most valuable intellectual properties, yet can be appropriated for everything from activism to cosplay and real-life vigilantism.
The Superhero Symbol
Media, Culture, and Politics
Rutgers University Press
Bringing together superhero scholars and key industry figures The Superhero Symbol unmasks how superheroes have become so pervasive in media, culture, and politics. This timely collection explores how these powerful icons are among the entertainment industry’s most valuable intellectual properties, yet can be appropriated for everything from activism to cosplay and real-life vigilantism.
Putting Their Hands on Race
Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers
Rutgers University Press
Putting Their Hands on Race is an intersectional and comparative labor history of southern African American and Irish immigrant women who labored as domestic workers after migrating to northeastern cities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Point of Sale
Analyzing Media Retail
Edited by Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson
Rutgers University Press
Point of Sale examines media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars that show how retail matters as a site of significance to culture industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and participation for consumers.
Point of Sale
Analyzing Media Retail
Edited by Daniel Herbert and Derek Johnson
Rutgers University Press
Point of Sale examines media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars that show how retail matters as a site of significance to culture industries as well as a crucial locus of meaning and participation for consumers.
Only at Comic-Con
Hollywood, Fans, and the Limits of Exclusivity
By Erin Hanna
Rutgers University Press
Only at Comic-Con examines the relationship between exclusivity and the proliferation of media industry promotion at the San Diego Comic-Con, from the convention’s founding in 1970 to its current status as a destination for hundreds of thousands of pop culture fans and a hub of Hollywood hype and buzz.
In Plenty and in Time of Need
Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity
Rutgers University Press
In Plenty and in Time of Need uses music and performance as sites of analysis for the competing ideals and realities of Barbadian national culture. The book demonstrates complex relations between national, gendered, and sexual identities in Barbados, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage.
Healthcare and Human Dignity
Law Matters
Rutgers University Press
The biases that permeate the American healthcare system are nearly invisible; invisible to all but those they handicap. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, law professor Frank McClellan recounts the experiences of some such individuals and highlights the importance of establishing a healthcare system that prioritizes human dignity.
Conditionally Accepted
Christians' Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights
Rutgers University Press
This book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs vary widely based on religious affiliation. Overall, conservative Christian identity overshadows the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family.
Best Actress
The History of Oscar®-Winning Women
By Stephen Tapert; Foreword by Roxane Gay
Rutgers University Press
Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women – from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone – to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.
Irina Nakhova
Museum on the Edge
Edited by Jane A. Sharp and Julia Tulovsky
Rutgers University Press
Released in conjunction with Russian conceptual artist Irina Nakhova’s first museum retrospective exhibition in the United States, this book includes many full-color illustrations of her work—spanning the entirety of her forty-year career and demonstrating her facility with a variety of media—plus essays by world-renowned curators and an interview with the artist herself. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
Music Is Power
Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
Rutgers University Press
Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious popular music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, and soul, Brad Schreiber tells fascinating stories about the origins and impact of dozens of world-changing songs.
War Games
By Jonna Eagle
Rutgers University Press
Covering everything from chess to football, from Saving Private Ryan to American Sniper, and from Call of Duty to drone interfaces, War Games is an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the militarization of American culture, offering a compact yet comprehensive look at how we play with images of war.
Reluctant Interveners
America's Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur
By Eyal Mayroz
Rutgers University Press
Why do we allow our governments to get away with “bystanding” to genocide? Focusing on the relationships between citizens, political elites, and U.S. institutions in the most powerful nation in the world, Reluctant Interveners offers a sobering account of the interplays between values and interests, words and deeds, which transformed the pledge of “never again” to a recurring reality of ever again.
I Wonder U
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
By Adilifu Nama
Rutgers University Press
I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.
I Wonder U
How Prince Went beyond Race and Back
By Adilifu Nama
Rutgers University Press
I Wonder U examines the entirety of Prince’s diverse career as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, record label mogul, movie star, and director, revealing how he refused to be typecast by the music industry’s limiting definitions of masculinity and femininity, of straightness and queerness, or of black music and white music.
Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage
Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
By Joanne Payton; Foreword by Deeyah Khan
Rutgers University Press
‘Honor' crimes target women and girls for transgressions against the moral code of the community, punishing female sexual autonomy in particular. This book argues that ‘honor’ represents women’s conformity to culturally-enforced standards of marriageability and underpins family and marital connections which form a primary method of organization within the community.
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Edited by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Rutgers University Press
This collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity
Edited by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett
Rutgers University Press
This collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.
Chronic Failures
Kidneys, Regimes of Care, and the Mexican State
Rutgers University Press
Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for care within a context of poverty, inequality and uneven welfare arrangements. Documenting the routes taken to access care, the practices of patients without entitlement offer critical perspectives on state-market-healthcare relations.
Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World
Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity
By Laura Moran
Rutgers University Press
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brisbane, Australia, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World provides a critical analysis of the shortcomings and underpinning contradictions of modern multicultural inclusion. It demonstrates how creating a sense of identity among young Sudanese and Karen refugees is a continual process shaped by powerful social forces.
A Mayor for All the People
Kenneth Gibson's Newark
Rutgers University Press
This book offers a balanced assessment of the leadership and legacy of Kenneth Gibson, Newark’s first African-American mayor, who took office at a time when the city was plagued by dying industries and soaring crime rates. Weaving together accounts by city employees, politicians, activists, journalists, and educators, it provides a compelling inside look at a city in crisis.
The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood
Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development
By Hannah Dyer
Rutgers University Press
In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. She asserts that in the aesthetics of childhood, a more just future can be conjured.
San Francisco Year Zero
Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team
Rutgers University Press
In San Francisco Year Zero, San Francisco native Lincoln Mitchell deftly weaves together the personal and the political, tracing the city’s current state back to three key events that all occurred in 1978: the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk occurring fewer than two weeks after the massacre of Peoples Temple members in Jonestown, Guyana, the explosion of the city’s punk rock scene, and a breakthrough season for the San Francisco Giants.
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
Rutgers University Press
Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.
Diversifying STEM
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender
Edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson
Rutgers University Press
Research frequently neglects the important ways that race and gender intersect within the complex structural dynamics of STEM. Diversifying STEM fills this void, bringing together a wide array of perspectives and the voices of a number of multidisciplinary scholars.
Medical Entanglements
Rethinking Feminist Debates about Healthcare
Rutgers University Press
Medical Entanglements uses intersectional feminist, queer, and crip theory to move beyond “for or against” approaches to medicine. Drawing on case studies, the book argues that most medical interventions will simultaneously reinforce inequality and alleviate individual suffering. Thus, the book argues that feminists should allow individuals choice in regards to medical intervention, while working to dismantle systems of oppression.
Indigenous Communalism
Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective
Rutgers University Press
Indigenous Communalism is a study of community building in Native communities, and considers what models might be drawn from the strategies of Indigenous groups for post-colonial communalism and native self-determination in contemporary global society. Drawing on her ethnographic work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri, Carolyn Smith-Morris shows how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive indigenous bonds.
American Community
Radical Experiments in Intentional Living
Rutgers University Press
American Community takes us inside forty of our nation’s most interesting experiments in collective living, from the colonial era to the present day. By shining a light on these forgotten histories, it shows that far from being foreign concepts, communitarianism and socialism have always been vital parts of the American experience.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Rutgers University Press
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Fight the Tower
Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy
Edited by Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis
Rutgers University Press
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Crisis Leadership in Higher Education
Theory and Practice
Rutgers University Press
There was a time when crises on college and university campuses were relatively rare and episodic. Much has changed, and it has changed quite rapidly. Drawing upon original research, Crisis Leadership in Higher Education presents a theory-informed framework for academic and administrative leaders who must navigate the institutional and environmental crises that are most germane to institutions of higher education.
Becoming Rwandan
Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on extensive survey data, interviews, and observations carried out with teachers and students in fifteen schools across Rwanda, Becoming Rwandan is a thought-provoking study of the power and the limitations of education as a peacebuilding and state-building tool.
Women Artists on the Leading Edge
Visual Arts at Douglass College
Rutgers University Press
This book explores the achievements of a group of young women artists who learned about the New Art through an extraordinary faculty of innovators at Douglass College. New Art rejected the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, advocating that art should be based on everyday life and that “anything can be art.”
Long Walk Home
Reflections on Bruce Springsteen
Edited by Jonathan D. Cohen and June Skinner Sawyers
Rutgers University Press
In this unique collection, critics, musicians, scholars, and fans describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by Bruce Springsteen’s music. A diverse array of contributors reflect on their personal connections to Springsteen’s songs, illustrating the meaning of his music and its resonance for listeners over the course of nearly five decades.
Time to Get Real!
Turning Uncertainty into an Action Plan for Personal and Professional Success
By Alex J. Plinio and Melissa Smith
Rutgers University Press
This book is a unique guide to life and career planning providing you with a step-by-step approach to create your intentional life. It is market and time-tested, filled with instructive case studies, inspiration, and interactive exercises, enabling you to unlock those things within that lead to personal satisfaction and success.
Colonialism Is Crime
By Marianne Nielsen and Linda M. Robyn
Rutgers University Press
There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. In this book Nielsen and Robyn present an analysis of the relationship between these colonial crimes and their continuing criminal and socially injurious consequences that exist today.
Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health
Zulu Tradition, HIV Stigma, and AIDS Activism in South Africa
Rutgers University Press
Speech and Song at the Margins of Global Health tells the story of a unique Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa, and how they maintained healthy, productive lives amid globalized inequality, international aid, and the stigma that often comes with having HIV.
Science by the People
Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge
By Aya H. Kimura and Abby Kinchy
Rutgers University Press
Studies show that citizen science projects—projects involving nonprofessionals—face dilemmas ranging from austerity to presumed boundaries between science and activism. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.
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