Thursday, January 5, 2012

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 2, no. 2, October 2011) is out. Contents include:
  • Samuel Martinez & Kathryn Libal, Introduction: The Gender of Humanitarian Narrative
  • Mimi Sheller, Bleeding Humanity and Gendered Embodiments: From Antislavery Sugar Boycotts to Ethical Consumers
  • Gretchen Soderlund, The Rhetoric of Revelation: Sex Trafficking and the Journalistic Exposé
  • Kerry Bystrom, On "Humanitarian" Adoption (Madonna in Malawi)
  • Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg & Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Old Questions in New Boxes: Mia Kirshner's I LIVE HERE and the Problematics of Transnational Witnessing
  • Diana Tietjens Meyers, Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of "Impure" Victims
  • Samuel Martinez, Taking Better Account: Contemporary Slavery, Gendered Narratives, and the Feminization of Struggle
  • Greg Constantine, Photo Essay: Nowhere People
  • Amy Shuman & Wendy S. Hesford, Emergent Human Rights Contexts: Greg Constantine's "Nowhere People"
  • Tobias Kelly, What We Talk About When We Talk About Torture