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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.
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