Kennan Ferguson, professor of political science at UWM and former director of C21, has just published Cookbook Politics (Penn Press, 2020), an exploration of cookbooks as political objects. In it, Ferguson argues that cookbooks highlight aspects of our lives we rarely recognize as political—taste, production, domesticity, collectivity, and imagination—and...
By Eli Frank
I began this summer’s Archive Fellowship ruminating on the historical intimacies between C21’s institutional history and my own research project. Both C21...
Professor Keramet Reiter gives some detail about the consequences of solitary confinement, and begins to frame a longer discussion for thinking about changes in...
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Sassafras Lowery
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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors--one of the most vulnerable populations to the illness--are more isolated than ever before. Ageless Innovation,...
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Juno Salazar Parreñas
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In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan...
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Nicole R. Fleetwood
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More than two million people are currently behind bars in the United States. Incarceration not only separates the imprisoned from their families...
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Baktash Ahadi
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In this episode, we discuss loneliness and brokenness, and the power of music to be the catalyst for connection and healing. Vijay shares...
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Keramet Reiter
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Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day...
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Barbara J. King
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As people come to understand more about animals’ inner lives—the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day...
Contributors
THE STANFORD GRAPHIC NOVEL PROJECT 2018-2019: Candice Kim, Katherine Liu, Lily Nilipour, Sarah Shourd, Lucy Zhu, Peter DiCampo, Danial Shadmany, Nik Wesson, Elena Kamas,...
