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Nadia Bozak's innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies leads her to make provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media--with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov's prescient eye, from Chris Marker's analog experiments to the digital work of Agn s Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk.

Covering topics such as: foetal rights, in vitro fertilization, prenatal diagnosis, and surrogacy, this text argues that a social policy for dealing with mothers and motherhood is needed, and that such a policy should be consistent with feminist policy and feminist theory.

Explores two interrelated issues: U.S. citizenship and the Mexican migrants' position in the United States. Through an extensive and multifaceted collection of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, ethno-historical research, and public policy analysis, Plascencia probes the ways in which citizenship discourses are understood and taken up by individuals.

In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. She offers a nuanced analysis of the technique, judiciously assessing both its limitations and its potential benefits.

Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving sectarian violence, this volume captures the day-to-day experiences of citizens of Beirut moving through a war-torn landscape.

The first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the US, Labor of Love examines the conflicted attitudes that emerge when the ostensibly priceless act of bringing a child into the world becomes a paid occupation. Heather Jacobson interviews surrogate mothers, their family members, the intended parents, and the various professionals who work to facilitate the process.

Integrates legal, regulatory, industrial, and political histories to chronicle the dramatic transformation within the media between 1980 and 1996. This expands the conventional models and boundaries of media history. A fundamental part of its argument is that media industries have been intertwined for decades and, as such, cannot be considered separately.

Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored.

In Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structureaEURO"characterized by a melodramatic conflict between good and evil and embodied in the core characters of victim/survivor and perpetratoraEURO"and that it provides the paradigm for representing personal experiences of pain and suffering in the mass media.

At the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed by well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. The common thread in these essays covering the gender division of housework, childcare networks, families in the global economy, and children of consumers is the incorporation of emotion, feelings, and meaning into the study of working families. These examinations connect micro-level interaction to larger social and economic forces and illustrate the continued relevance of linking economic relations to emotional ones for understanding contemporary work-family life.

Provides a rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. It explores political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones - a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation - to offer a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization.

Provides a rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. It explores political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones aEURO" a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation aEURO" to offer a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization.

Examines the issue of national affiliation in cases where two nations have become one or one nation has become two. It uses the US Civil War as a case study to demonstrate loyalty and allegiance can be used. It analyses literary works written during and after the conflict to reveal that post-war literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.

Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane Katrina. It discusses how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region.

Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane Katrina. It discusses how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region.

Connecting economic and social reforms to racial and class inequality, this counters the myth of steady race progress by analyzing how the federal government and local politicians have sometimes 'reformed' politics in ways that have amplified racism in the post civil-rights era.

Examines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in Argentina during a period of profound social upheaval. Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, this title illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies.

Presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, this book looks at the heart of what it means to live with anorexia on a daily basis.

On December 8, 1941, as the Pacific War reached the Philippines, Yay Panlilio, a Filipina-Irish American, faced a question with no easy answer: how could she contribute to the war? This memoir narrates her experience as a journalist, leader in the Philippine resistance against the Japanese, and lover of the guerrilla general Marcos V Augustin.

Surveillance is not simply about monitoring or tracking individuals and their data - it is about the structuring of power relations through human, technical, or hybrid control mechanisms. This title gathers together some of the very best researchers studying surveillance and discipline in contemporary public schools.