An event to celebrate 11 recent publications from faculty in 91ɫ's Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LAPS), will take place on Thursday, Jan. 25 from 2 to 4pm.
This event is open to the 91ɫ community and will take place in the Ross Building, South 752. Refreshments will be served.
The event will celebrate the following publications:
•(University of Toronto Press, 2016) by Annette Bickford
Using a Foucauldian framework,Southern Mercyexamines the liberal-humanist underpinnings ofwhite supremacy andthe modern biopolitical state.Through a historical analysis of juvenile reform in the American South, Bickford demonstrates the dangerous power of “civilized” mercy to renew racist practices of discipline and to forge a white national, imperialist and capitalist alliancein the wake of Reconstruction.
• (Zed Books, 2016) by Kean Birch, Mark Peacock, Richard Wellen, Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Sonya Scott & Alberto Salazar
Ideal for undergraduates, this introductory textbook comprehensively examines the often fraught and contentious relationship between business and society.
• (UBC Press, 2017) by Annie Bunting and Joel Quirk
This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances.
• (Fernwood Publishing, 2016) by Carlo Fanelli
Focusing on the post-amalgamation era at the city of Toronto,Megacity Malaiseshows how municipal finances have been eroded to justify the policies of permanent austerity, which has led to a deterioration of public services and demands for concessions from civic workers based on the contention that they are unaffordable.
• (University of Toronto Press, 2016) by Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Hossein explores the politics, histories, and social prejudices that have shaped the legacy of micro-banking in Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad. Her analysis is rooted in original qualitative data and offers multiple solutions that prioritize the needs of marginalized and historically oppressed people of African descent.
• (Routledge, 2017) by Jennifer Hyndman & Wenona Giles
Shifting the conversation away from the salient discourse of ‘solutions’ and technical fixes within state-centric international relations, the authors recover the subjectivity lost for those stuck in extended exile.
• (UBC Press, 2017) by Allyson Lunny
Lunny explores how the tropes, metaphors, and other linguistic signifiers used in Canada’s federal parliamentary hate crime debates expose the particular concerns, trepidations, and anxieties of Canadian lawmakers and the expert witnesses called before their committees, resulting in a rich historical and analytical account of some of Canada’s most passionate public debates on victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.
• (Routledge, 2016) by Merouan Mekouar
The book examines the reasons why some acts of protest trigger mass mobilization under authoritarian regimes whereas similar acts of protest do not.
• (Oxford University Press, 2017) by Linda Peake & Alison Bain (eds)
This textbook provides a critical introduction to the conceptual framings, theoretical frameworks, planned dynamics, and lived experiences of contemporary cities around the world as products of capital investment, as collective urban commons or public goods, and as socio-cultural-natural spaces.
• (Peter Lang, 2018) by Anna Roosvall & Matthew Tegelberg
This book explores the roles and activism of indigenous peoples who do not have full representation at UN climate summits despite being among those most exposed to injustices pertaining to climate change, as well as to injustices relating to politics and media coverage.
• (University of California Press, 2016) by Natasha Tusikov
Chokepoints traces the emergence of a state-endorsed private transnational regime, through secret handshake deals, for global Internet intermediaries, like Google, to regulate the online trade in counterfeit goods.