Rebecca Herzig - Böcker

An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its futureColonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields...

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Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable r...

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Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans, animals, and gods transform each other and ancien...

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Challenges the way we think about pit bulls and their human companionsFifty-plus years of media fearmongering coupled with targeted breed bans have produced what could be called "America's Most Wanted" dog: the pit bull. However, at the turn of th...

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Reveals how knowledge from the margins shapes infrastructures"Minding the gap" while using a wheelchair on the London Underground goes beyond a sharp eye and careful foot placement to avoid a fall: it can entail carrying and deploying a portable r...

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Untangles how data shapes and is shaped by queer worldsData, perilous and powerful, is both a worldmaking and a dismantling force. The collection of data about queer lives and bodies, the consequences of data analysis for queer subjects, and consi...

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Untangles how data shapes and is shaped by queer worldsData, perilous and powerful, is both a worldmaking and a dismantling force. The collection of data about queer lives and bodies, the consequences of data analysis for queer subjects, and consi...

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An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its futureColonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields...

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Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universalCompulsory sexuality-where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience-not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research. Through a sharp inte...

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Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universalCompulsory sexuality-where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience-not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research. Through a sharp inte...

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From gruesome self-experimentation to exhausting theoretical calculations, stories abound of scientists willfully surrendering health, well-being, and personal interests for the sake of their work. What accounts for the prevalence of this coupling...

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Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today,...

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Uncovers the history of hair removal practices and sheds light on the prolific culture of beauty From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today,...

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A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history. The Nature of Difference documents how distinctions between people have been generated ...

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