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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- ONE: Introduction: Encounters with Difference in a Neoliberal Context -- TWO: Mourning the Death of Social Welfare: Remaining Inconsolable before History -- THREE: Enactments of Racial Dominance in the Production of Ethical Selves: Not a Moral Project -- FOUR: Green Encounters and Indigenous Subjectivity: A Cautionary Tale -- FIVE: Bathhouse Encounters: Settler Colonialism, Volunteerism, and Indigenous Misrecognition -- SIX: Canadian Temporary Migrant Workers Teaching English in Seoul: The Contradictions between Racial Privilege and Precarious Status -- SEVEN: Feel-good Tourism: An Ethical Option for Socially Conscious Westerners? -- EIGHT: Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and University-Community Engagement: What Sorts of Encounters with Difference Are Our Institutions Prioritizing? -- NINE: The Apology Act: Ethical Encounters and Actuarial Conduct -- TEN: The Right to Know: Impossible Demands, Unintelligible Knowledge, and Ethical Encounters with Evil -- ELEVEN: The Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Encounter with the Other: A Levinasian Analysis -- TWELVE: Afterword: A Two Row Ethics of Encounter -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Over the past decade, Canadian media coverage of street sex work has steadily increased. The majority of this interest pertains to graphic violence against street sex workers, most notably from Vancouver, British Columbia. In this article, the authors analyze newspaper coverage that appeared in western Canadian publications between 2006 and 2009. In theorizing the violence both depicted and perpetrated by newspapers, the authors propose an analytic framework capable of attending to the process of othering in all of its complexity. To this end, the authors supplement a Foucauldian analysis of abjection by considering the work of Judith Butler along with Julia Kristeva's conceptualization of abjection. Using excerpts from western Canadian newspapers, the authors illustrate how the media's discursive practices function as triggers for the process of cultural abjection by inscribing street sex workers with images of defilement. The authors argue that newspaper coverage of street sex workers reinforces the inviolability of normalized life by constantly reiterating the horror reserved for abjected bodies.

Abstract
The relationship between transgender studies and somatechnics has been generative. In this reflection on the intersection between somatechnics and transgender studies, the editorial collective of the Somatechnics journal provides a brief outline of what has been accomplished in the latter through an engagement with the former. This reflection is not intended to be an exhaustive review of trans*-somatechnics relations. Instead, here we highlight topics and modes of study that are indicative of critical interest in trans* matters at this time and how these matters intersect with our related areas of research. We outline how the somatechnical understanding of transgender as relational and constitutively realized through particular kinds of sociopolitical contexts explains the critical purchase of somatechnical investigations to trans* matters. We also cover somatechnics and transgender studies' engagements with technologies of mobility, race, and coloniality as well as media. We suggest that work in the journal on somatechnics and transgender studies constitutes a trans-substantial dialogue that trans*-identified scholars make specific via their contributions to social sciences and the humanities.