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The pivotal role of social media in understanding how justice-impacted individuals reconcile the past, establish the present, and project their future mediated lives What does it mean to be incarcerated in the age of social media? At any given moment, there are close to 2 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. This population ......
What Popular Culture Teaches Kids About Crime and Punishment
How children's books, tv shows, cartoons, and films often reproduce stereotypes about "good guys" and "bad guys" in terms of crime, policing, and the role of the criminal justice system in society In Cops and Robbers, Liam Kennedy examines children's popular culture to provide an understanding of how ideas about crime and the criminal justice ......
The Taking and Remaking of the Chacachas Treaty Nation
An unprecedented look inside a 150 year-long legal battle for independence, land, and justice In 1874, Chief Chacachas entered a sacred covenant with the Government of Canada by signing Treaty 4 at Fort Qu'Appelle, securing reserve lands for his people at the Crooked Lakes in Southeast Saskatchewan. Only seven years later, the Department of ......
The pivotal role of social media in understanding how justice-impacted individuals reconcile the past, establish the present, and project their future mediated lives What does it mean to be incarcerated in the age of social media? At any given moment, there are close to 2 million people incarcerated in American prisons and jails. This population ......
Explores closeness as a minoritarian method in contemporary art and performance. On Closeness explores closeness as a transformative, if sometimes fraught, mode of engagement across aesthetic, social, and scholarly realms. Olivia Michiko Gagnon theorizes closeness as a minoritarian method that refuses knowledge grounded in possession or mastery ......
Explores closeness as a minoritarian method in contemporary art and performance. On Closeness explores closeness as a transformative, if sometimes fraught, mode of engagement across aesthetic, social, and scholarly realms. Olivia Michiko Gagnon theorizes closeness as a minoritarian method that refuses knowledge grounded in possession or mastery ......
Gender, Judaism, and American Identity in the Rise of Mass Tourism
Vividly reveals how American Jewish women's travels transformed both their personal identities and the meaning of diaspora itself While Americans have gone abroad for leisure and education since the early days of American history, the period between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II saw the rise of mass tourism, with ......
Truth, Reconciliation, and the Future of Social Work
Confronting structural inequities in child welfare that have long harmed Indigenous children and families A decade after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action-five of which focused directly on the protection of children-and in the wake of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, systemic ......
Truth, Reconciliation, and the Future of Social Work
Confronting structural inequities in child welfare that have long harmed Indigenous children and families A decade after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action-five of which focused directly on the protection of children-and in the wake of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, systemic ......
