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Open hand, closed fist : practices of undocumented organizing in a hostile state
\"How does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of \"attrition by enforcement\" aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would \"self-deport.\" Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains how the practices of storytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the \"open hand\" (the affective bonds among participants) and the \"closed fist\" (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) that have allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Imagining New Legalities
Imagining New Legalities reminds us that examining the right to privacy and the public/private distinction is an important way of mapping the forms and limits of power that can legitimately be exercised by collective bodies over individuals and by governments over their citizens. This book does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of threats to privacy and rejoinders to them. Instead it considers several different conceptions of privacy and provides examples of legal inventiveness in confronting some contemporary challenges to the public/private distinction.
It provides a context for that consideration by surveying the meanings of privacy in three domains--the first, involving intimacy and intimate relations; the second, implicating criminal procedure, in particular, the 4th amendment; and the third, addressing control of information in the digital age. The first two provide examples of what are taken to be classic breaches of the public/private distinction, namely instances when government intrudes in an area claimed to be private. The third has to do with voluntary circulation of information and the question of who gets to control what happens to and with that information.
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