The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia
A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful ......
This book investigates how a Japanese pornographic star can be treated as a cultural product and can be a window into the effects of the cross-cultural migration of cultural products. This in turn reveals that the transformative intermediaries play a significant role in the transformation of cultural products in China.
Europe's Border Technologies Between Colony and Crisis
Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today's border technologies. The book takes a longue duree perspective to uncover how Europe's colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into EU border migration policies, border ......
Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents case studies that raise discussions about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.
Ethics in American, British, and Israeli Counterinsurgency
During combat, soldiers make life-and-death choices dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. This work examines the theory and practice of military ethics in counterinsurgency operations. Marcus Schulzke surveys the ethical traditions that militaries borrow from; compares ethics in practice in ......
Ethics in American, British, and Israeli Counterinsurgency
During combat, soldiers make life-and-death choices dozens of times a day. These individual decisions accumulate to determine the outcome of wars. This work examines the theory and practice of military ethics in counterinsurgency operations. Marcus Schulzke surveys the ethical traditions that militaries borrow from; compares ethics in practice in ......
Offers guidance to social scientists regarding their ethical and legal responsibilities to respond appropriately to threats of harm that may arise during the course of data collection. This book examines the challenges of conducting research designed to responsibly gain a better understanding of the origins of serious health problems.
Ranging from black market babies to exploitative sex trade operations to the marketing of race and culture, Rethinking Commodification presents an interdisciplinary collection of writings, including legal theory, case law, and original essays to re-examine the question: To commodify or not to commodify?
