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How the UK's immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain In the UK's fully outsourced "immigration detainee escorting system," private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national...

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environment For the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life--including...

A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activists, The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind surveyof the linguistic landscape surrounding...

A groundbreaking deep dive into the history, politics and lived experiences of three often-misunderstood identities: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender. How did asexual identity form? What is aromanticism? How does agender identity function? Researcher and writer...

The Indus civilization in South Asia (c. 320 - 1500BC) was one of the most important Old World Bronze Age cultures. Located at the cross-roads of Asia, in modern Pakistan and India, it encompassed ca. one million square kilometers, making it one the largest  and most ecologically, culturally,...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The...

At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafe´s, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for its connection with declining birth rates...

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America--and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying...