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Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican Forests
Here, Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298537
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- 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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White sight :visual politics and practices of whiteness
"How whiteness has been constructed, naturalized, and wielded; and how we can unmake it. By a renowned visual culture scholar; grounded in visual and cultural critique, feminism, and the Black radical tradition"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373104
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You know you're Black in France when... :the fact of everyday antiblackness
"How daily antiblackness in mainland France, rooted in enslavement and coloniality, legitimizes antiblack dehumanization in spite of the "official" state position of raceblindness, echoing structural racism conversations worldwide"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373319
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Of one blood :or, the hidden self
"Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman's life through mesmerism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The autobiography of a transgender scientist
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in December 2017, Barres (born Barbara Barres in 1954) describes a life full of remarkable accomplishments-from his childhood as a precocious math and science whiz to his experiences as a female st…
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- 9780262350365
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 142 pages)
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Butch heroes
Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for que…
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- 9780262349956
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 79 pages) :color illustrations.
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Changing minds :how aging affects language and how language affects aging
Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262353533
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Conservation refugees :the hundred-year conflict between global conservation …
How native people--from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa--have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous peop…
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Changing South-Pacific Identities and Transformations
The texts collected in this volume take an anthropological approach to the variety of contemporary societal problems which confront the peoples of the contemporary South Pacific: religious revival, the sociology of relations between local groups, regions and nation-States, the problem of culture areas, the place of democracy in the transition of States founded on sacred chiefdoms, the role of c…
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The Neoliberal State, Recognition and Indigenous Rights New paternalism to n…
The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states—Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, but also exposes idiosyncrasies in the operational dynamic…
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