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In Trafficking Hector Amaya examines how the dramatic escalation of drug violence in Mexico in 2008 prompted new forms of participation in public culture in Mexico and the United States. […]
Hector Amaya is a professor of communication and director of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. He has authored three books and has published dozens […]
Diana J. Nucera, a.k.a. “Mother Cyborg,” is a multimedia artist who uses music, performance, DIY publishing, community organizing tactics and popular education methods to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency. […]
Tara Conley is an interdisciplinary scholar and mediamaker with an established research agenda in the field of communication and media. She is also an assistant professor of media studies at […]
“In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted. She shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices […]
Simone Browne is an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also research director of Critical Surveillance […]
Touching on the role and destiny of Haiti in the Americas, Haiti Unbound engages with long-standing issues of imperialism and resistance culture in the transatlantic world. Glover’s timely project emphatically […]
Kaiama L. Glover examines Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature whose female protagonists enact practices of freedom that privilege the self, challenge the prioritization of the community over the individual, and […]
Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French & Africana Studies and faculty director of the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received a BA […]