1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996657772603316

Autore

Grandia Liza

Titolo

Kernels of Resistance : Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780295753317

0295753315

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 pages)

Disciplina

338.1/9

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Milperos' Dilemma -- One: Maize Futures -- Two: Sacred Maize, Stalwart Maize -- Three: Green to Gene Revolution -- Four: Legal Maze -- Five: Many Mexican Worlds in Defense of Maize -- Six: Guatemala and Goliath -- Conclusion: An Ode to the Pitchfork -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

"Liza Grandia expertly weaves together ethnographic narrative, Maya agricultural knowledge, and legal sleuthing to shine light on maize- and seed-related activism in the face of transnational corporate incursion. She invites activists and scholars alike to consider food politics as a hemispheric and even global issue of equity and sustainability rather than personal choices affecting localized health and environmental outcomes"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996691902303316

Autore

Tyburczy Jennifer

Titolo

Queer traffic : Sex, panic, free trade. / / Jennifer Tyburczy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2025

Durham, : Duke University Press, , [2025]

©2025

ISBN

1-4780-9452-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Dissident Acts.

Classificazione

POL033000SOC008050SOC064020

Disciplina

306.740972

Soggetti

Nonfiction

LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction)

Multi-Cultural

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface. NAFTA's Bottoms: An Opening -- Introduction. Sex on the Move -- 1. Porn Pirates -- The Free Eating Agreement -- 2. Importing Degradation -- When the State Says "No One Likes Fat Girls -- 3. Sex, Drugs, and Intellectual Property Law -- Exhuming the Chupacabras -- 4. Dancing Punta on NAFTA Time -- NAFTA's Funeral -- Epilogue. Why Queer Traffic(k) Now? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Queer Traffic , Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives. She situates the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a pivot point in the formation of panics aimed at stamping out these outlaw sex practices. Highlighting NAFTA's erotic investments in hetero- and homonormativity, racial capitalism, markets of dispossession, and neocolonialism, Tyburczy directly engages with art, activism, and archives to revisit the struggles of people who invented circuits of sexual exchange through four decades of violence and criminalization. In conversing with actors from bureaucrats to pornographers and in



studying choreographies, social movements, and street vocabularies, she examines an array of tactics that undermine the market logics of trade law and policy. Dreaming of other forms of living that go beyond mere survival, Queer Traffic guides us through the renegade pathways that circumvent the seemingly endless reach of free-trade capitalism toward other routes to pleasure.