Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American culture

This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of child migrant detention by bringing together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. The chapters explore the harms of detention while also looking at survival in and resistance to this violent institution.

Cuba on the Labels: A Selection of Cuba-Themed Cigar Labels Printed Outside of Cuba is Emilio Cueto’s third book in his Inspired by Cuba! series. Cueto explores how the island of Cuba and one of the island’s top exports, the Cuban cigar, have been immortalized in cigar labels created outside of Cuba. Seen through the eyes of these cigar label makers, Cuba itself serves as the book’s protagonist.

This book focuses on the analysis of the contemporary literary movement of Maya writers of Chiapas. At the heart of this examination is a journey into the trajectory of this literary movement and its connection to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (or EZLN) insurgency. This work shows two movements that are rooted in shared visions of rescuing, reclaiming, and recentering Maya worldviews.

Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.

After Ice asks us to consider how we define the experience of cold – its temporal, spatial, and material qualities – as cycles of freezing and thawing change across our warming planet.

Against the backdrop of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context.