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AbstractTrans studies is a burgeoning and global interdisciplinary field of scholarship. Although trans people in general continue to remain on the margins of the academy in Canada and the United States, some of the trans scholars who contribute to the field of trans studies are in continuing faculty (tenure-track and tenured) positions. Trans women in general and trans women and trans feminine people of color, in particular, however, are particularly underrepresented in this labor pool. The author brings together a theoretical pastiche consisting of a Black feminist analysis of patriarchy as a layered phenomenon, trans necropolitics, and a masculinity contest culture paradigm to trouble this limit to representation within trans studies in Canada and the United States.

Intro -- Note on Referencing and Citations -- Acknowledgments -- Declaration -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Existing Criticism -- Definitions, Cultural Trauma Theory and Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 2: Trauma and Postmodernism: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining -- Postmodernism -- Trauma -- House of Leaves -- Trauma Produced by Postmodern Conditions -- The Shining -- Narrative Crash -- Labyrinthine Plot -- Exhausted Horror -- Writer's Block -- Labyrinth Characters -- Narrative Break Down -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Competitive Narration: Tim Burton's Batman Returns and David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks -- Trauma and Phallocentricism -- Diversity and the Supernatural -- Competitive Narration -- Batman Returns -- Overtakes the Narrative -- Refusing Roles -- Hero -- Twin Peaks -- Trauma Concepts -- Mythologisation -- Competing and Experimental Scenes -- Laura's Return -- Critiquing Trauma Conventions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Polynarration: The Wachowskis' Sense8, Rebecca Sugar's Steven Universe and Nia DaCosta's Candyman -- Contemporary Feminism -- Polyphony, Trauma -- Trauma and the Internet -- Sense8 -- Interconnectivity Powers -- Sense8: Polynarration -- Steven Universe -- Fusion -- Steven Universe: Polynarration -- Candyman -- Candyman 1992 and 2021 -- Black Communal Trauma -- The Hive -- Candyman: Polynarration -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Sceptical Scriptotherapy: Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's The OA and Sam Esmai's Mr Robot -- Scriptotherapy -- Trauma Culture, Phallocentricism and Feminism -- Trauma and Naturalism -- The OA -- The New Five -- Mr Robot -- Mr Robot's Persona as the Protector Personality -- Sitcom Episode -- Mr Robot as the Superhero Personality, Escapism -- Alternate Reality, Oppressive Forces -- Further Characters: Agency and Escapism -- Conclusion.

What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' - the Second World War - was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different ways. While D-Day or Dunkirk is embedded in British collective memory, how many Britons can recall that Finns were interned on the Isle of Man, that enemy soldiers developed British infrastructure in Orkney, or that British subjects were sent to concentration camps from Guernsey? Such experiences, tangential to the dominant British war narrative, are commemorated elsewhere in the `other British Isles'. In this remarkable contribution to British Island Studies, Daniel Travers pursues these histories and their commemoration across numerous local sites of memory: museums, heritage sites and public spaces. He examines the way these island identities assert their own distinctiveness over the British wartime story, and ultimately the way they fit into the ongoing discourse about how the memory of the Second World War has been constructed since 1945

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Transgender Kids -- 2. Schools -- 3. Spaces -- 4. Parents -- 5. Supportive Healthcare -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Promises, Promises, Promises -- The Promise of Neutrality -- The Myth of Neutrality -- Masculinist Bias -- Technology and Power -- Disembodiment -- Conversational Virtues -- Admission to the Community -- The Promise of Universal Access -- The Myth of Access -- Economic Limitations -- Literacy -- Participation -- Climate -- The Search for Public Space -- Chapter 2: Case Study of the National Capital Freenet -- A Visit to ncf.general -- About ncf.general -- Writing the Public in Cyberspace -- Quantitative Analysis: Breakdown of Participation by Gender -- Beyond Counting -- (1) Frequent Posters -- (2) NCF.Board -- (3) Internet Racism -- Dominant, Marginalized, and Missing Discourses of the Public in ncf.general -- Chapter 3: Policing the Subject-Social Control in ncf.general -- (4) Violence Against Women (Janice M) -- (5) Reform MP for Nanaimo-Cowichan -- (6) Racial Purity/White Supremacy (Ernie T) -- (7) Long Live Canada (Elliott D) -- (8) Bert R's Signoff -- Policing the Subject -- Climate -- Hopeful Signs/Where Do We Go from Here? -- Chapter 4: Educational Change and the Public Sphere -- Learning to Engage with and about New Information Technologies -- Learning How to Write the Public -- Connection to Old vs. New Paradigms of Post-Secondary Teaching -- Trying It Out: SA 292 -- Be My Fag/SA292 in the Chat Room -- Freedom of Speech vs. Censorship/Freedom To vs. Freedom From -- Conclusions from Trying It Out -- Chapter 5: Feminist Counterpublics -- Strategies for Feminist Contestation and Re-Writing of the Public in Cyberspace -- Feminist Activity in Cyberspace -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Public Technologies -- Index

A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families Some "boys" will only wear dresses; some "girls" refuse to wear dresses; in both cases, as Ann Travers shows in this fascinating account of the lives of transgender kids, these are often more than just wardrobe choices. Travers shows that from very early ages, some at two and three years old, these kids find themselves to be different from the sex category that was assigned to them at birth. How they make their voices heard--to their parents and friends, in schools, in public spaces, and through the courts--is the focus of this remarkable and groundbreaking book. Based on interviews with transgender kids, ranging in age from 4 to 20, and their parents, and over five years of research in the US and Canada, The Trans Generation offers a rare look into what it is like to grow up as a trans child. From daycare to birthday parties and from the playground to the school bathroom, Travers takes the reader inside the day-to-day realities of trans kids who regularly experience crisis as a result of the restrictive ways in which sex categories regulate their lives and put pressure on them to deny their internal sense of who they are in gendered terms. As a transgender activist and as an advocate for trans kids, Travers is able to document from first-hand experience the difficulties of growing up trans and the challenges that parents can face. The book shows the incredible time, energy, and love that these parents give to their children, even in the face of, at times, unsupportive communities, schools, courts, health systems, and government laws. Keeping in mind that all trans kids are among the most vulnerable to bullying, violent attacks, self-harm, and suicide, and that those who struggle with poverty, racism, lack of parental support, learning differences, etc, are extremely at risk, Travers offers ways to support all trans kids through policy recommendations and activist interventions. Ultimately, the book is meant to open up options for kids' own gender self-determination, to question the need for the sex binary, and to highlight ways that cultural and material resources can be redistributed more equitably. The Trans Generation offers an essential and important new understanding of childhood. --Publisher description

Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: The growth of London and its need for government -- 1965 -- LONDON'S GROWTH - A BRIEF HISTORY -- THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE GROWTH OF A METROPOLIS -- A GROWING DEMAND FOR METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT -- THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL -- THE COMING OF 'GREATER' LONDON -- FURTHER STRUGGLE FOR REFORM -- THE FINAL PUSH -- THE BIRTH OF THE LONDON BOROUGHS -- Chapter 2: The new boroughs and their context -- Chapter 3: 1963-65: creating the boroughs -- PART II: HISTORY -- Chapter 4: The thirty-two boroughs: a brief history -- INNER LONDON -- OUTER LONDON -- PART III: CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 5: Fifty years: an analysis -- IMPACT OF HISTORY AND THE PROCESS OF REFORM -- SETTING UP THE BOROUGHS -- HOUSING -- ROADS -- PLANNING -- EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES -- THE CHANGING ECONOMY, REGENERATION AND A NEW MODEL OF LONDON GOVERNMENT -- DEMOGRAPHY AND IMMIGRATION -- BOROUGH POLITICS -- THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION OF THE 1980S -- THE BOROUGHS AND THE INTERREGNUM -- BOROUGH JOINT WORKING AND REPRESENTATION -- FIFTY GLORIOUS YEARS? -- THE STUDY OF CITIES -- Chapter 6: Counterfactuals -- IF DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS FROM THE 1965 ONES HAD BEEN INTRODUCED -- IF DIFFERENT POLICIES HAD BEEN PURSUED IN KEY SPHERES -- IF DIFFERENT SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE HAD OCCURRED -- Chapter 7: Concluding observations -- APPENDIX 1: Borough population data -- APPENDIX 2: Non-borough London government institutions -- APPENDIX 3: Abbreviations frequently used -- APPENDIX 4: Borough leaders and chief executives -- Index -- A, B, C -- D, E, F -- G, H, I -- J, K, L -- M, N, O -- P, Q, R -- S, T, U -- V, W, X -- Y, Z -- Copyright

War and security have traditionally been held up as two areas where it is largely assumed international law has little influence on state action. 'Rule of Law in War' shows that it is possible to isolate the impact of rules, and to do so in areas that have historically been impenetrable.

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pirate World; 2 From Classical Piracy to the Medieval Mediterranean; 3 Piracy in the Northern World; 4 The Elizabethan Sea Rovers and the Jacobean Pirates; 5 Buccaneers of the Caribbean; 6 The Madagascar Men; 7 Death to the Pirates; 8 The Barbary Corsairs of North Africa; 9 Pirates of the Eastern Seas; 10 The Road to Modern Piracy; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Definitions; List of Illustrations; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Copyright

This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilize, pacify and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas, contributing to a vision of an urban renaissance which is perhaps as much about control as it is about the broader physical and social renewal of our towns and cities. The book has three key themes: the theories, strategies and assumptions underpinning the securing of 'Urban Renaissance'; the agendas of current urban policy in the field of crime control; and, thirdly, the role of communities within these agendas. The book provides focused discussions and engagement with these issues from a range of scholars who examine policy connections that can be traced between social, urban and crime policy and the wider processes of regeneration in British towns and cities. The book also seeks to develop our understanding of policies, theories and practices surrounding contemporary British urban policy where a move from concerns with 'urban renaissance' to those of sustainable communities clearly intersect with issues of community security, policing and disorder. Providing a rare disciplinary crossover between urban studies, criminology and community studies, "Securing an Urban Renaissance" will be essential reading for academics and students in criminology, social policy and human geography concerned with the future of British cities and the political debates shaping the regulation of conduct, crime and disorder in these spaces