... This chapter analyzes the rise of human rights activism within the context of political terror, working-class setback, and ascendant neoliberalism. It traces the emergence of human rights advocacy from earlier forms of activism and considers how it appeared as a new way of making claims on the...

... implicated in the great fishing crisis of 1992, when the Grand Banks cod fishery was closed down. Across these stories, it relates how the more-than-human must also be considered in its gender, queer, class, and ethnic dimensions. ...

... This chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a neuroscience laboratory on whose research reports of the discovery of a monogamy gene were based. This chapter demonstrates how assumptions about human monogamy are naturalized and shape the notions of the normal (sexual/social/pair-bonded...