Humans increasingly perform like dressaged animals since the second half of the twentieth century. As it seems impossible to live, move, and work to-gether without harming other animals under competitive capitalism, there has been a trend to increasingly include animals—whether human imita-tions, real, or mediated—in the visual and performing arts since the late 1960s. …
Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportuni…
For scholars of the Arab world, the state remains an elusive, unsettled, and unsettling presence. Since mandatory and then independent states emerged in the Arab world in the aftermath of World War I, theorizing the Arab state has been a central preoccupation for generations of regional specialists. The gravitational pull of the state is not surprising. As a pr…
“More Jamaican women migrating to Canada, Statistics reveal” is a headline inthe Jamaican newspaperThe Gleanerin January (2018) discussing the recent cen-sus results gathered in Canada from 2012 to 2016. The data indicates that almost20,000 more Jamaican women than men migrated to Canada within that timespan,demonstratinga recentdisparity in migrants’genderdistribution.The socio-economic …
Trauma in journalism is not a new phenomenon? From the battlefields to the city streets, humani-tarian crises to the courtrooms, trauma has plagued the profession whether directly or indirectly, vicariously or through lived experience, since the ink dried on the first newspaper sheets in 1566?A systematic review of studies conducted between 2010 and 2022 revealed significant numbers of journali…
Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern Afri…
In perhaps the most striking passages of The Dominion in 1983, the author writing under the pseudonym Ralph Centennius predicted the use of “light and beautiful rocket cars, which [dart] through the air at the rate of sixty miles in one minute.” Constructed of polished metal, these fifty-seat rocket cars would fly through the sky at heights of up to fifteen hundred feet and land on rails wh…
Brainstorming is a way of gathering ideas about a topic. Think of a storm; thousands of drops of rain, all coming down together. Now, imagine thousands of ideas raining down onto your paper. When you brainstorm, write down every idea that comes to you. Don't worry now about whether the ideas are good or silly, useful or not. You can decide that later. Right now, you are gathering as many ideas …
Organic farming appears to generate 30% more employment in rural areas and labor achieves higher returns per unit of labor input. By using local resources better, organic agriculture facilitates smallholders’ access to markets and thus income generation; and relocalizes food production in market-marginalized areas. Generally, organic yields are 20% less as compared to high-input systems in de…
In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attend…
Life has shattered all around you. Now what? What do you do when you are suddenly navigating a life you didn't sign up for? You never saw this pain coming, and you're facing a future you'd pass up if you could. Lisa Appelo understands deeply. She has experienced the raw emotions and uncertainty that come when everything falls apart. Lisa went to bed married and woke up a widow and single mom …
"Reach into this trickbox of memory and rummage around: you may find a tiny spaceship, or perhaps a signpost, a parade, a raised fist, an entire museum. The essays in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concep…
At the origin of the cooperation that eventually led to this book, there is the idea of emphasizing the gap between the ordinariness of diversity, as it occurs in everyday life, and the many ways of representing and addressing it as something exceptional, independently of whether those representations and practices carry with them posi-tive or negative connotations. On the on…
Understanding the underlying concepts of human genetics and the role of genes, behavior, and the environment will be important to appropriately collecting and applying genetic information and technologies during clinical care. This chapter provides some fundamental information about basic genetic concepts including cell structure, the molecular and biochemical basis of disease, major types of g…
The Chinese have been using martial arts for thousands of years, both among themselves and against others, but organized Kung Fu needed a parent system from which to evolve. Recorded history is sparse on the subject. However, there are many indications that Kung Fu originated from the Long Fist system. It is reported to have been created during the reign of Tai Tzu, the first emperor of the Su…
Pada masa Eisenhower, AS berupaya mengubah arah politik Indonesia dan menggulingkan Sukarno yang cenderung sosialis. CIA secara diam-diam menyalurkan senjata untuk para jenderal yang melancarkan serangkaian pemberontakan regional. Selama Perang Dingin, tujuan utama bantuan AS kepada Indonesia bersifat politis: memperkuat kepemimpinan militer yang antikomunis karena AS amat mengkhawatirkan manuv…