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Cultural Locations of Disability

Cultural Locations of Disability

Sharon L. Snyder; David T. Mitchell

University of Chicago Press
2005
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In "Cultural Locations of Disability", Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.
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Cultural Locations of Disability

Cultural Locations of Disability

Sharon L. Snyder; David T. Mitchell

University of Chicago Press
2005
nidottu
In "Cultural Locations of Disability", Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.
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Banking on Slavery

Banking on Slavery

Sharon Ann Murphy

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2023
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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery. It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with—and often profited from—slavery’s perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann Murphy shows in her powerful and unprecedented book, the centrality of enslaved labor to banking in the antebellum United States is far greater than previously thought. Banking on Slavery sheds light on precisely how the financial relationships between banks and slaveholders worked across the nineteenth-century South. Murphy argues that the rapid spread of slavery in the South during the 1820s and ’30s depended significantly upon southern banks’ willingness to financialize enslaved lives, with the use of enslaved individuals as loan collateral proving central to these financial relationships. She makes clear how southern banks were ready—and, in some cases, even eager—to alter time-honored banking practices to meet the needs of slaveholders. In the end, many of these banks sacrificed themselves in their efforts to stabilize the slave economy. Murphy also details how banks and slaveholders transformed enslaved lives from physical bodies into abstract capital assets. Her book provides an essential examination of how our nation’s financial history is more intimately intertwined with the dehumanizing institution of slavery than scholars have previously thought.
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Banking on Slavery

Banking on Slavery

Sharon Ann Murphy

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2023
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A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery. It’s now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found in the structures of chattel slavery. It’s also understood that almost every other institution and aspect of life then was at least entangled with—and often profited from—slavery’s perpetuation. Yet as Sharon Ann Murphy shows in her powerful and unprecedented book, the centrality of enslaved labor to banking in the antebellum United States is far greater than previously thought. Banking on Slavery sheds light on precisely how the financial relationships between banks and slaveholders worked across the nineteenth-century South. Murphy argues that the rapid spread of slavery in the South during the 1820s and ’30s depended significantly upon southern banks’ willingness to financialize enslaved lives, with the use of enslaved individuals as loan collateral proving central to these financial relationships. She makes clear how southern banks were ready—and, in some cases, even eager—to alter time-honored banking practices to meet the needs of slaveholders. In the end, many of these banks sacrificed themselves in their efforts to stabilize the slave economy. Murphy also details how banks and slaveholders transformed enslaved lives from physical bodies into abstract capital assets. Her book provides an essential examination of how our nation’s financial history is more intimately intertwined with the dehumanizing institution of slavery than scholars have previously thought.
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Insurgent Communities

Insurgent Communities

Sharon M. Quinsaat

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2024
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Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands-examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants' rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime-to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants' diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.
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Insurgent Communities

Insurgent Communities

Sharon M. Quinsaat

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2024
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Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests. When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities, Sharon M. Quinsaat explains the dynamic process through which a diaspora is strategically constructed. Quinsaat looks to Filipinos in the United States and the Netherlands—examining their resistance against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, their mobilization for migrants’ rights, and the construction of a collective memory of the Marcos regime—to argue that diasporas emerge through political activism. Social movements provide an essential space for addressing migrants’ diverse experiences and relationships with their homeland and its history. A significant contribution to the interdisciplinary field of migration and social movements studies, Insurgent Communities illuminates how people develop collective identities in times of social upheaval.
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The Likeness of Things Unlike

The Likeness of Things Unlike

Sharon Cameron

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2025
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A study of the incommensurable, often discordant elements that define major works of American literature. In Sharon Cameron’s essays, a magnetic constellation gathers works of Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Cather, and Stevens—each manifesting in its own terms “the likeness of things unlike”—to form a loose commonality in a strain of American writing in which incommensurable elements can’t be integrated and can’t be separated. The Likeness of Things Unlike is concerned with discordant elements of an aesthetic work and argues that these elements refigure the aesthetic wholes whose integrity they apparently violate. These intertwined, subversive elements are challenges to literary systems and are essentially philosophical in their rethinking of categories, and thus go beyond the aesthetic particulars that exemplify them. Cameron is known for rigorously and brilliantly connecting artistic achievement to radical ways of thinking. Georg Lukcás describes the essayist as one who “adapts himself to the essay’s ‘smallness’ of form—the eternal smallness of the most profound work of the intellect in [the] face of life.” With The Likeness of Things Unlike Cameron powerfully demonstrates Lukács’s remarkable insight.
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The Likeness of Things Unlike

The Likeness of Things Unlike

Sharon Cameron

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2025
nidottu
A study of the incommensurable, often discordant elements that define major works of American literature. In Sharon Cameron’s essays, a magnetic constellation gathers works of Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Cather, and Stevens—each manifesting in its own terms “the likeness of things unlike”—to form a loose commonality in a strain of American writing in which incommensurable elements can’t be integrated and can’t be separated. The Likeness of Things Unlike is concerned with discordant elements of an aesthetic work and argues that these elements refigure the aesthetic wholes whose integrity they apparently violate. These intertwined, subversive elements are challenges to literary systems and are essentially philosophical in their rethinking of categories, and thus go beyond the aesthetic particulars that exemplify them. Cameron is known for rigorously and brilliantly connecting artistic achievement to radical ways of thinking. Georg Lukcás describes the essayist as one who “adapts himself to the essay’s ‘smallness’ of form—the eternal smallness of the most profound work of the intellect in [the] face of life.” With The Likeness of Things Unlike Cameron powerfully demonstrates Lukács’s remarkable insight.
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The Last House on the Block

The Last House on the Block

Sharon Cornelissen

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
2025
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Gentrification is not inevitable, reveals Sharon Cornelissen, in this surprising, close look at the Detroit neighborhood of Brightmoor and the harsh reality of depopulation and urban decline. In the minds of many, Detroit is undergoing a renaissance thanks to gentrifying urbanites who’ve been drawn to the city with the promise of cheap housing and thriving culture. But what happens when gentrification attempts to come to one of the most depopulated neighborhoods in the country—a place where every other property in the neighborhood was a vacant lot and every third house stood empty? To find out, Sharon Cornelissen moved to the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit for three years and became the owner of a $7,000 house. The Last House on the Block takes us to Brightmoor to meet Cornelissen’s fellow residents. She introduces us to the long-time residents of the neighborhood who reveal their struggles to keep a home while keeping violence, tall grass, and yes—gentrification—at bay. We also meet the eclectic white newcomers of Brightmoor and learn about their real estate bargains, urban farms, and how they became the unlikely defenders of urban desolation. Where oldtimers take pride in neatly mowed lawns and hope for a return to residential density, newcomers love the open space and aim to buy more empty lots to raise chickens and goats. It is a story of gentrification, but not at all in the usual sense: it is a case of failed gentrification. We often think about gentrification as an unstoppable force—once the first white newcomers with yoga mats enter an often brown or Black community, the coffee shops and restaurants follow. But in Brightmoor, the dreams of white newcomers met the harsh reality of decade-long decline. Nearly a decade after Cornelissen’s fieldwork began, Brightmoor is even emptier than it was when she started. Today, depopulation remains more common than gentrification in poor communities. Cornelissen’s story offers deep insights into what it is like to live in a declining neighborhood, and through the example of Brightmoor, Cornelissen reveals why depopulation continues and helps us imagine a more inclusive and equitable city turnaround.
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Besieged

Besieged

Sharon Alker; Holly Faith Nelson

McGill-Queen's University Press
2021
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Siege literature has existed since antiquity but has not always been understood as a crucial element of culture. Focusing on its magnetic force, Besieged brings to light its popularity and potency between the British Civil War and the Great Northern War in Europe, a period in which literary texts reflected an urgent interest in siege mentality and tactics.Exploring the siege as represented in canonical works by Milton, Dryden, Defoe, Davenant, Cowley, Cavendish, and Bunyan, alongside a wide array of little-known memoirs, plays, poems, and works of prose fiction on military and civilian experiences of siege warfare, Besieged breaks new ground in the field of early modern war literature. Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson draw on theories of space and place to show how early modern Britons feverishly worked to make sense of the immediacy, horror, and trauma of urban warfare, offering a valuable perspective on the literature that captured the cultural imagination during and after the traumatic civil wars of the 1640s.Alker and Nelson demonstrate how the narratives of besieged cities became a compelling way to engage with the fragility of urban space, unstable social structures, developing technologies, and the inadequacy of old heroic martial models. Given the reality of urban warfare in our own age, Besieged provides a timely foundation for understanding the history of such spaces and their cultural representation.
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Tough Plants for Tough Places: Invincible Plants for Every Situation

Tough Plants for Tough Places: Invincible Plants for Every Situation

Sharon Amos

Firefly Books
2023
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A book gardeners need with climate change upon us. Few gardens have perfect growing conditions. Invariably, there's a corner too shady, wet, windy or dry. The solution: a tough plant. Unkillable. One that will shrug off the worst conditions, and even thrive despite them. Tough Plants for Tough Places is an easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to more than 100 virtually unkillable plants for your garden - whatever the growing conditions. With a handy guide to symbols used in the book to denote special conditions and the plant's properties and advantages, Tough Plants for Tough Places includes: An extensive directory with more than 100 plants chosen for their ability to survive difficult conditions while adding beauty and color to the garden Techniques to assess your garden and improve what you have Pointers to match available plants to garden conditions Information to help you understand soil and microclimates created by sun, shade and wind Advice on caring for plants in tough situations Suggestions on where and how to plant Practical tips on getting started, planting, routine care and weed control The book now includes Russian Sage, Coneflowers (echinaceas), Blanketflower and other drought-tolerant favorites.
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Picking Apples In The Sunshine

Picking Apples In The Sunshine

Sharon J Harrison

Tellwell Talent
2019
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Wake up You cannot get out of your life These thoughts arose in Laura Bennett's mind and startled her into wakefulness. Her mind and body come alive as she repeats the words to herself. The feelings of despair and hopelessness, over the sudden death of her husband, temporarily lessened, giving her clarity and motivation. Determined to take responsibility for her life, Laura seizes her fledgling courage and makes a decision that shocks and surprises her family and friends. She quits her long-term job, leases her home, and sets out on a new journey. Optimism, tempered with a dash of apprehension accompanies Laura along the way. But will a brief encounter, with a motorcyclist that September day, be a catalyst that shakes both their lives? Jacob Wieter, on his journey, wants to make peace with a painful past, Will his intentions to start over and fulfill the longings of his heart, come to fruition? Engaged in her new adventure, Laura discovers life is full of possibilities and satisfaction. There is sunshine everywhere when she is willing to look at life differently and to face the fact she is the shadow that obscures her happiness. Experience comes from living, but when faced with a choice, will her doubts overtake her and the unlived future? Will her newfound courage fail her? In a long slow waltz and neither, Laura nor Jacob are sure how it will end.
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Picking Apples In The Sunshine

Picking Apples In The Sunshine

Sharon J Harrison

Tellwell Talent
2019
pokkari
Wake up You cannot get out of your life These thoughts arose in Laura Bennett's mind and startled her into wakefulness. Her mind and body come alive as she repeats the words to herself. The feelings of despair and hopelessness, over the sudden death of her husband, temporarily lessened, giving her clarity and motivation. Determined to take responsibility for her life, Laura seizes her fledgling courage and makes a decision that shocks and surprises her family and friends. She quits her long-term job, leases her home, and sets out on a new journey. Optimism, tempered with a dash of apprehension accompanies Laura along the way. But will a brief encounter, with a motorcyclist that September day, be a catalyst that shakes both their lives? Jacob Wieter, on his journey, wants to make peace with a painful past, Will his intentions to start over and fulfill the longings of his heart, come to fruition? Engaged in her new adventure, Laura discovers life is full of possibilities and satisfaction. There is sunshine everywhere when she is willing to look at life differently and to face the fact she is the shadow that obscures her happiness. Experience comes from living, but when faced with a choice, will her doubts overtake her and the unlived future? Will her newfound courage fail her? In a long slow waltz and neither, Laura nor Jacob are sure how it will end.
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Outside the Margins

Outside the Margins

Sharon Bieber

Tellwell Talent
2020
pokkari
Have you wondered why economic aid seems to have no impact on poverty? Why justice and equality seem to work for some and not others? In the late 1970's a young couple from the foothills of the Canadian Rockies embarked on a journey to the hills of Papua New Guinea. Little did they know that this would be a lifelong quest or that the overlooked and underserved in some of the world's poorest places would be their teachers. Sense hope in the fascinating stories of remote communities taking initiative for their own development; despair as you contemplate the plight of squatters and working poor. Woven into the stories is candid wisdom as Outside the Margins moves beyond current development data to offer solid principles for change. It may even challenge you to step outside the margins of your own world.
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Take a Breath

Take a Breath

Sharon Sigurdson Deugo

Tellwell Talent
2020
pokkari
Do you feel out of touch with the life you once dreamed about? Have you asked yourself the questions Why am I here? and What is my purpose? Do you feel stuck or stalled in your life and wonder what is next for you? Or do you find yourself in a difficult situation and wonder how to get out of it? Take a Breath is a book that will inspire you to open your heart to connect with the possibilitythat you can live a bigger, better and more beautiful life. The breath will take you on ajourney inward where you will discover the unique gifts, talents and passions you possess.Understanding your true nature and creating the life of your dreams is within your graspwhen you cultivate the conditions for all that you dream of to become your reality. Do you want to learn about the secrets of the Universe? Are you ready to learn about the laws of energy, coupled with our human consciousness? Are you eager to discover your unique gifts, talents and life purpose? Are you ready to feel empowered to use simple tools and guidance to create the life of yourdreams? If you are, Take a Breath: The Path to Living your Best Life, will take you on a journey inward to discover the parts of you that went missing when you weren't paying attention. Learning to live your best life will be an experience you will not want to miss. You are the only one that can decide if that is the path you want to take. Take a Breath is knowing that when you pause long enough to connect with the love in your heart you will know that you are the answer to all that you have been looking for and the next best part of your life is waiting for you.
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Take a Breath

Take a Breath

Sharon Sigurdson Deugo

Tellwell Talent
2020
sidottu
Do you feel out of touch with the life you once dreamed about? Have you asked yourself the questions Why am I here? and What is my purpose? Do you feel stuck or stalled in your life and wonder what is next for you? Or do you find yourself in a difficult situation and wonder how to get out of it? Take a Breath is a book that will inspire you to open your heart to connect with the possibilitythat you can live a bigger, better and more beautiful life. The breath will take you on ajourney inward where you will discover the unique gifts, talents and passions you possess.Understanding your true nature and creating the life of your dreams is within your graspwhen you cultivate the conditions for all that you dream of to become your reality. Do you want to learn about the secrets of the Universe? Are you ready to learn about the laws of energy, coupled with our human consciousness? Are you eager to discover your unique gifts, talents and life purpose? Are you ready to feel empowered to use simple tools and guidance to create the life of yourdreams? If you are, Take a Breath: The Path to Living your Best Life, will take you on a journey inward to discover the parts of you that went missing when you weren't paying attention. Learning to live your best life will be an experience you will not want to miss. You are the only one that can decide if that is the path you want to take. Take a Breath is knowing that when you pause long enough to connect with the love in your heart you will know that you are the answer to all that you have been looking for and the next best part of your life is waiting for you.
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Leo the Lion

Leo the Lion

Sharon Neale

Tellwell Talent
2021
pokkari
Leo the Lion needs to remember the important lesson Mummy Lion taught him when he finds Grandma Lion on the floor and needs urgent medical help. Leo must go through the process of calling an ambulance to get the help she needs.
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