The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the status quo of the telemobility landscape in the United States, forcing millions of Americans into lock down, significantly changing the way we work, travel, and spend our time and money for an extended period of time. After several months of adaptation, adoption, learning, and unlearning,...
Dunsky weaves historical background and data with the everyday narratives of Palestinian farmers, scientists, professors, writers, entrepreneurs, cultural initiators, and artists in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi calls the book “meticulously reported” and an “uplifting but gritty book.”
An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
What makes some characters seem so real? Mimetic Lives: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Character in the Novel explores this question through readings of major works by Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Working at the height of the Russian realist tradition, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky each discovered unprecedented techniques for intensifying the aesthetic...
This dataset includes all raw data, corrected data, and correction calculations for the soil moisture, light intensity, and temperature data analyzed during the experimental work.
The current Corona crisis has (again) laid bare the differential logics at the heart of racial gendered
capitalism. Whether it be the continuing necropolitical responses to the flight and movement of
those rendered migrants, refugees and asylum seekers; the further expansion of neoliberal
securitization and policing alongside intersectional vectors of...
In the recent years, the relationship between race and digital technologies has gained new momentum.
Emergent forms of engineered inequalities, from the governance of life and death through biotechnologies
and algorithms to the commodification of bodies in platform capitalism or the biopolitical management of
b/ordering are now at the core...
Standpunkttheorien argumentieren, dass unser Wissen in bestimmten Bereichen von unserer sozialen Position abhängt. Sie sind die philosophische Grundlage von politischer Kritik, die mit Bezug auf die soziale Position argumentiert, wie beispielsweise antirassistische oder feministi-sche Kritiken. Zentral ist dabei, die hegemoniale Perspektive der Dominanzkultur, die sich als universell gültig versteht, als...