Recent Works
There are 4 publications in this collection, published between 2019 and 2024.
Faier, Lieba: The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight against Human Trafficking, 2024
Abstract: In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member-state governments....
Potts, Shaina: Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire, 2024
Abstract: In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Introducing the term “judicial territory”...
Herrera, Juan: Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space, 2022
Abstract: Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space....
Moore, Adam: Empire’s labor: the global army that supports U.S. wars, 2019
Abstract: In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire's Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds...