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Public catastrophes, private losses / edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein

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New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2025]
Physical Description
viii, 198 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Additional Creators
Tobias, Sarah, 1963- and Stein, Arlene

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Contents
Labor of loss : climate change and the emerging economy of care and repair / Naomi Klein -- Slavery's shadows : the afterlife of dispossession / Marisa J. Fuentes, Christina Sharpe, Michelle Commander -- The cruelty is the point : women and children as weapons in the war on drugs / Jennifer Flynn Walker, Bela August Walker -- Memories of two pandemics / Marcia M. Gallo, Carmen Vázquez -- Skin and screen : a collaborative take on touch in the time of COVID / Kathleen C. Riley, Smruthi Bala Kannan, Stacy S. Klein, Ellen Malenas Ledoux, Basuli Deb, Leslye Amede Obiora
Summary
"There are many sorts of catastrophes, ranging from devastating fires, floods, and earthquakes to sexual violence, genocides, and wars-but this collection of feminist essays focuses upon three broad types: epidemics/pandemics, anti-Black racism, and climate breakdown. These are public catastrophes, profoundly shaped by government action and inaction. The essays reveal that it is impossible to fully understand-or challenge-the structural harms associated with public catastrophe without appreciating their personal dimension, or reckoning with the ways that power thoroughly conditions our experiences as individuals and as members of communities. The public and private are intertwined, and during catastrophes, families and communities become repositories for loss, silence, mourning, witnessing, reconstruction, and reparation. The essays in this collection examine how public catastrophes imprint themselves on lives, how individuals, as members of groups, narrate, process, and grapple with legacies of loss, and how, though both attention or neglect, governments and nonprofits frequently exacerbate preexisting vulnerabilities"--
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9781978838765 hardcover
197883876X hardcover
9781978838758 paperback
1978838751 paperback
9781978838772 electronic book
9781978838789 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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