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Missing Bodies

The Politics of Visibility

By: Monica Casper,Lisa Jean Moore

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Missing Bodies

The Politics of Visibility

By: Monica Casper,Lisa Jean Moore

We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes—than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century. The authors examine bodies, both actual and symbolic, in a variety of arenas: pornography, fashion, sports, medicine, photography, cinema, sex work, labor, migration, medical tourism, and war. This new politicsof visibility can lead to the overexposure of some bodies—Lance Armstrong, Jessica Lynch—and to the near invisibility of others—dead Iraqi civilians, illegal immigrants, the victims of HIV/AIDS and "natural" disasters. Missing Bodies presents a call for a new, engaged way of seeing and recovering bodies in a world that routinely, often strategically,obscures or erases them. It poses difficult, even startling questions: Why did it take so long for the United States media to begin telling stories about the "falling bodies" of 9/11? Why has the United States government refused to allow photographs or filming of flag-draped coffins carrying the bodies of soldiers who are dying in Iraq? Why are the bodies of girls and women so relentlessly sexualized? By examining the cultural politics at work in such disappearances and inclusions of the physical body the authors show how the social, medical and economic consequences of visibility can reward or undermine privilege in society.

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NYU Press

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0814716784

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9780814716786

Catch and Release

The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab

By: Lisa Jean Moore

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Catch and Release

The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab

By: Lisa Jean Moore

The unexpected and fascinating interspecies relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs. Horseshoe crabs are considered both a prehistoric and indicator species. They have not changed in tens of millions of years and provide useful data to scientists who monitor the health of the environment. From the pharmaceutical industry to paleontologists to the fishing industry, the horseshoe crab has made vast, but largely unknown, contributions to human life and our shared ecosystem. Catch and Release examines how these intersections steer the trajectory of both species’ lives, and futures. Based on interviews with conservationists, field biologists, ecologists, and paleontologists over three years of fieldwork on urban beaches, noted ethnographer Lisa Jean Moore shows how humans literally harvest the life out of the horseshoe crabs. We use them as markers for understanding geologic time, collect them for agricultural fertilizer, and eat them as delicacies, capture them as bait, then rescue them for conservation, and categorize them as endangered. The book details the biomedical bleeding of crabs; how they are caught, drained of 40% of their blood, and then released back into their habitat. The model of catch and release is essential. Horseshoe crabs cannot be bred in captivity and can only survive in their own ecosystems. Moore shows how horseshoe crabs are used as an exploitable resource, and are now considered a “vulnerable” species. An investigation of how humans approach animals that are essential for their survival, Catch and Release questions whether humans should have divine, moral, or ethical claims to any living being in their path.

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NYU Press

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1479848093

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9781479848096

Buzz

Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Mary Kosut

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Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Mary Kosut

Winner, 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological Association Bees are essential for human survival—one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of the bee is ubiquitous in our culture: we can feel buzzed; we can create buzz; we have worker bees, drones, and Queen bees; we establish collectives and even have communities that share a hive-mind. In Buzz, authors Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut convincingly argue that the power of bees goes beyond the food cycle, bees are our mascots, our models, and, unlike any other insect, are both feared and revered. In this fascinating account, Moore and Kosut travel into the land of urban beekeeping in New York City, where raising bees has become all the rage. We follow them as they climb up on rooftops, attend beekeeping workshops and honey festivals, and even put on full-body beekeeping suits and open up the hives. In the process, we meet a passionate, dedicated, and eclectic group of urban beekeepers who tend to their brood with an emotional and ecological connection that many find restorative and empowering. Kosut and Moore also interview professional beekeepers and many others who tend to their bees for their all-important production of a food staple: honey. The artisanal food shops that are so popular in Brooklyn are a perfect place to sell not just honey, but all manner of goods: soaps, candles, beeswax, beauty products, and even bee pollen. Buzz also examines media representations of bees, such as children’s books, films, and consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the bee and our idea of the bee inform one another. Partly an ethnographic investigation and partly a meditation on the very nature of human/insect relations, Moore and Kosut argue that how we define, visualize, and interact with bees clearly reflects our changing social and ecological landscape, pointing to how we conceive of and create culture, and how, in essence, we create ourselves.

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1479874337

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Missing Bodies

The Politics of Visibility

By: Monica Casper,Lisa Jean Moore

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The Politics of Visibility

By: Monica Casper,Lisa Jean Moore

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Buzz

Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Mary Kosut

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Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Mary Kosut

- "A fascinating reminder of the interconnections between humans and animals... In this intrepid and lively tour of beedom, nature is cultural." - Gary Alan Fine, author of Sticky Reputations "A unique, important, and fascinating addition to the literature." - Clinton Sanders, author of Regarding Animals

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0814763065

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Catch and Release

The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab

By: Lisa Jean Moore

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The Enduring Yet Vulnerable Horseshoe Crab

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1479848093

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The Body

Social and Cultural Dissections

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Monica J. Casper

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The Body

Social and Cultural Dissections

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Monica J. Casper

This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized along the lines of a standard anatomical textbook delineated by body parts and processes, this volume subverts the expected content in favor of providing tools for social and cultural analysis. Students will learn about the human body in its social, cultural, and political contexts, with emphasis on multiple, contested meanings of the body, body parts, and systems. Case studies, examples, and discussion questions are both US-based and international. Advancing critical body studies, the book explicitly discusses bodies in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, age, health, geography, and citizenship status. The framing is sociological rather than biomedical, attentive to cultural meanings, institutional practices, politics, and social problems. The authors use commonly understood anatomical frames to discuss social, cultural, political, and ethical issues concerning embodiment.

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Routledge

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1136771727

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9781136771729

Save the Bees!

Beekeepers on the Frontlines of New York’s Urban Environmentalism

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Mary Kosut

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Beekeepers on the Frontlines of New York’s Urban Environmentalism

By: Lisa Jean Moore,Mary Kosut

Grappling with the strange phenomenon of colony collapse disorder—the baffling disappearance of all bees from a hive that is often blamed for the honeybee’s increasingly endangered status—New York City’s hobbyist beekeeping communities have gone green. Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut introduce beekeepers of all stripes: the careful cultivators of ‘scientific’ beekeeping groups, the passionately political radical ‘backwards’ beekeepers who hope to return the species to its most natural state, and DIY-influenced ‘hipster’ beekeepers who share a holistic approach to lowering their environmental impact. Though their approaches may differ, these beekeepers agree on one thing: to save the bee is to save our planet.

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1479880787

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Gender and Governance

By: Lisa Diane Brush

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Gender and Governance

By: Lisa Diane Brush

Lisa D. Brush turns a gendered lens on states, power, and governance, showing the inherent inequalities in political systems and gender systems and how they intersect. She reveals the way in which state power supports male dominance in American and other western political systems. This book a useful antidote to traditional textbooks on government, the state, politics, and social policy.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759101426

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9780759101425

Fireworks 4

Expert Edge

By: Jeffrey Bardzell,Lisa Lopuck

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Fireworks 4

Expert Edge

By: Jeffrey Bardzell,Lisa Lopuck

Geared specifically toward the growing number of intermediate to advanced level users, this title deconstructs real-world examples, showing readers how they were created using the Habitat for Humanity Web site. Readers get access to interactive online training modules and learning templates designed by eHandsOn.

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0072131462

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9780072131468

Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - Insiders' Guide

By: Kimberly Duncan,Lisa Tomer Rentz

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Myrtle Beach and the Grand Strand - Insiders' Guide

By: Kimberly Duncan,Lisa Tomer Rentz

A comprehensive guide to this legendary resort community, from golf courses and beaches to shopping and nightlife. Whether planning a vacation or a permanent move, this guide has it all.

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Insiders' Guide

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0762726814

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9780762726813

The Insiders' Guide to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand

By: Denise Mullen,Lisa T. Rentz

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The Insiders' Guide to Myrtle Beach and Grand Strand

By: Denise Mullen,Lisa T. Rentz

Popsicle-blue skies, sun-bleached sand and golden sunshine. Scores of culinary delights, world-class golf, dazzling nightlife and amusements galore. This indispensable guide covers it all with vivid detail to the Southern hot spot the American Automobile Association (AAA) found to be the second-busiest summer destination in the country.

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Falcon Guides

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1573800635

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9781573800631

New Orleans - Frommer's Travel Guides

By: George McDonald,Lisa Legarde

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New Orleans - Frommer's Travel Guides

By: George McDonald,Lisa Legarde

Frommer's is packed with completely up-to-date practical information, exact prices, and candid insider advice.

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0028609069

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New Orleans - Frommer's Travel Guides

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