... This chapter advances the analytics of “legal violence” to capture the normalized but cumulatively injurious effects of the law. It draws on the interrelated arenas of work, family, and school to expose how the criminalization of Central American migrants at the federal, state, and local levels...

... An emergence of performance art in postwar Central America facilitated a critical approach to gender, sexuality, and desire beyond the right-/left-wing rhetoric of decades prior. Through embodied acts, artists expose the coloniality of gender and unravel how heteropatriarchal culture...

... This chapter revisits a conversation between the author and the performance artist Adrian Howells, who was celebrated for the intimacy of especially his one-on-one performance. In that conversation, Doyle and Howells shared their experiences of becoming exposed in and through their work...

... During the Guatemalan civil war, the military labeled a generation of Maya Indigenous children as “bad seeds” to justify their elimination. Some grew anyway, and some became artists. These Maya artists now use their bodies in public spaces to expose hidden sounds, language, and memories...

... A close examination of a 2014 Title IX report that cleared Larry Nassar, who was later exposed as having abused hundreds of students and athletes over many years. This chapter situates that investigation in the context of campus antirape activism at Michigan State University and national debate...

... The conclusion explores contemporary examples of the accomplice paradigm and the implications of how artists in the 1970s and 1980s developed artistic strategies for putting pressure on social relationships to expose a level of dispossession and shared responsibility that only becomes visible...

... and the bedrock for the expansion of neoliberal capitalism. The chapter considers how the paramilitary takeover of the city created a crisis for working people that tore them from their social and institutional moorings and exposed them to political and economic forces beyond their control. It focuses on how...

... in giving problems their names we also make these wrongs appear even more tangible. The chapter introduces the figure of the killjoy as the one who poses a problem because she exposes a problem. Throughout there is a concern with the role of sensation and emotion in building a feminist knowledge...

... of reality that one for a moment takes as real and that collapses when exposed. The sudden collapse of the Berlin wall, triggered by a media confusion, serves as one example. The novels of Agatha Christie—the most popular writer in world history—provide another. Berlin Wall Practical Jokes Gerd...

..., and prostitution. White settlers and officials argued that Africans must be protected from “contaminating” forces, like mission education, urbanization, and political participation, that could expose them to sexual vice. The introduction situates the book within the fields of settler colonial studies and queer...

... exposes the deep-rootedness of the phantasmatic structures that ground this epochal proposal and the narratives surrounding it, which remain bound up with affects and genres associated with underrepresented Man. The present crisis requires not the “geology of Man”—a term sometimes used synonymously...

... that countered the devaluation of migrant lives. Accompaniment with migrants means challenging carceral eugenics. The epilogue argues that to dismantle eugenics means abolishing entire systems of incarceration, institutionalization, and detention that exposes migrants to illness, injury, premature aging...

...-Z's work suggests a type of irrelevance through a signifying of traditional moral and ethical standards by means of which the hypocrisy of the social world is exposed. And it is in relationship to this irrelevance that Jay-Z's framing of the hustle projects him as above and outside the grasp of forces...

... The subject Unni Wikan deals with exposes those who study it to difficult ordeals: the relationships between Muslim migrants and their European host communities. She experienced this peril with two of her books, which generated fierce criticisms: one contested the widely celebrated success...

... activists who remapped Colombian politics in the 1920s and 1930s, including the socialist-feminist María Cano and the self-taught indigenous intellectual Quintín Lame. Also translated here are extracts from a short story by the writer Marvel Moreno and the lyrics of a rap song aimed at exposing...