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Global Health for All

Global Health for All

Knowledge, Politics, and Practices

Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, and Claire Beaudevin

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

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

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

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

Building Something Better

Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change

By Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

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

Here to Stay

Uncovering South Asian American History

By Geetika Rudra

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

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.

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