AIDS and American Apocalypticism Refugees and political asylum

AIDS and American Apocalypticism Refugees and political asylumLooks at how both anti gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis. Since public discourse about AIDS began in 1981, it has characterized AIDS as an apocalyptic plague: a punishment for sin and a sign of the end of the world. Christian fundamentalists had already configured the gay male population most visibly affected by AIDS as apocalyptic signifiers or signs of the "end times." Their discourse grew out of a centuries

England Lara Selina Kurmann

Winner of the 2021 Gregory Bateson Book Prize presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

In Energy and Empire

Surviving health care reform today and tomorrow

nutrient management for saline/acid saline soils

Information and communication technologies are transforming the way maize is cultivated around the world by providing farmers with a suite of novel tools and techniques for improving crop production

The efficient and accurate monitoring of insects and mites is a cornerstone of integrated pest management (IPM)

Song to Song

a contemporary or historically set novel

Focusing on points of contact and difference between their writings on transcendence

the spread of pests and diseases

this book looks at how the discourses and texts produced by students themselves are appropriated toward this end