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On Othering
Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world, this volume attends to the deep injustices brought about by processes of othering perpetuated by colonialism and globalization and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace.
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Political Activist Ethnography
As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors examine how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political activist ethnography, a unique social research strategy that uses political confrontation as a resource and focuses on moments and spaces of direct struggle to reveal how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them.
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Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier and place the island within broad transnational networks such as the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, and more.
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Cultural Dialectics provides an open arena in which to debate questions of culture and dialectic—their practices, their theoretical forms, and their relations to one another and to other spheres and modes of inquiry.
How to Read Like You Mean It
Kyle Conway
Speaking Power to Truth Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins
Imperfection
Patrick Grant
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