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... How have the practice and “idea” of safety changed as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic? In this chapter, Serres’s work on the foundation and marking out of social relations is used to analyze the shifting porous boundaries between the “soft” semiotic and “hard” social distancing aspects...

... effects. wastes of war earthly violence topology temporality pollution How have the practice and “idea” of safety changed as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic? In this chapter, Serres’s work on the foundation and marking out of social relations is used to analyze the shifting porous...

... communities define community beyond policing. From their establishment, these communities have fostered a level of human connectivity and communal trust and care that often precludes their need to rely on police. Central to this chapter is a discussion of Black epistemologies and practices of community rooted...

... At a time when intimacy coordinators are increasingly hired on film sets to ensure the safety and well-being of actors, porn performers—who have long been practicing intimacy facilitation—are developing innovative visions and processes for best-practice ethics on intimate sets. In the absence...

... Using James Baldwin’s nonfiction as muse and framing device, this essay examines the language and practice of identification in contemporary social redress efforts. It argues that the use of slogans such as “Todos Somos Arizona” and “I am Troy Davis” do violence to people of color and black...

... Chapter 4 examines the origins of conjugal visits in Mississippi and their increasing acceptance by professional penologists. The practice began when officials believed that Black prisoners would work harder if they were sexually satisfied, but it came to be seen as a progressive measure...

... do more than place in relief US militarization efforts and longstanding practices and commitments to empire building in the Antilles: they focalize a turn in US geopolitics and national defense strategy away from isolationism and toward an understanding of the world as a global theater of potential...

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... psychosis” of urban, fortress-like facilities. Thus, penologists around the country identified Mississippi’s furlough practices as a model for modern corrections. Christmas leave furloughs prison bands prison sports rehabilitation Far from being scientifically measurable or objectively...

... to the violence of reproductive and sexual orders for poor and marginalized people. Feminists argue that sexual and reproductive freedom means being able to bring children, whether one’s own or those of others, to robust adulthood in health and safety in intact communities. Too often the policies of population...

... practices of pleasure. By merging joy and pain, death and life are denied the difference that would support the social world constructed in relationship to the demands of whiteness. Tyler Okonma (the Creator) eroticism/erotic Georges Bataille Bacchus joy Focusing on horrorcore rap...

...The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights Using James Baldwin’s nonfiction as muse and framing device, this essay examines the language and practice of identification in contemporary social redress efforts. It argues that the use of slogans such as “Todos Somos Arizona...

...Strange Bedfellows<subtitle>Conjugal Visits, Belonging, and Social Death</subtitle> Chapter 4 examines the origins of conjugal visits in Mississippi and their increasing acceptance by professional penologists. The practice began when officials believed that Black prisoners would work harder...

... a tradition of American continentalism that narrowly reads islands as isolated, peripheral, and ancillary. The circulation and social history of this stolen calypso tune do more than place in relief US militarization efforts and longstanding practices and commitments to empire building in the Antilles...