Jessica Smartt Gullion: 3 books
Fracking the Neighborhood
Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of...
Teacher, Scholar, Mother
Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions...
Diffractive Ethnography
Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Across intellectual disciplines, the ontological turn is restructuring how we think about our relationships with the natural world. Influenced by the seemingly disparate realms of indigenous philosophy and quantum physics, the turn invites us to think about intra-actions and assemblages of human and...