Recent Books
Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community
Devin Proctor
Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community is an ethnographic exploration of the Otherkin—a technologically-mediated community of practice whose members identify as other-than-human—breaking down barriers of identity and calling into question assumptions about what it means to be a human.
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Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education: Stories of Selfhood
Alison Cook-Sather
Shifting Blind Identities in Higher Education features accounts of how blindness and low vision intersect with other dimensions of identity for both students and faculty in higher education. Contributors from a range of institutional contexts illuminate “common but not comparable” experiences, as well as importantly different ones, and explore different intersections of identity while navigating higher education spaces.
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Practice Dialogues: Listening to the Wisdom of Care Work
Alice Lesnick, editor, and the Practice Dialogues Collective
Attending to the wisdom that emerges through care work, Practice Dialogues uplifts the complexity, creativity, and interconnection of care across fields of endeavor. Written by a collective of practitioners, Practice Dialogues calls readers to learn from, not simply about, care work and those dedicated to it.
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God’s Own Land: Sacred Landscape, Pilgrim Economy, and Religious Change in the Ganga Himalaya
James G. Lochtefeld
God’s Own Land follows the tectonic shift from traditional religious pilgrimage in the early twentieth-century to contemporary pilgrim tourism, in which ever-burgeoning visitor numbers have brought both benefits and challenges to the Garhwal region of India—the source of Hindu India’s sacred river, the Ganges.
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