Over The Edge Cayman

Over the Edge

Angie has been living her life on the edge for a long time, but despite this, she is a very successful real estate salesperson. At a Christmas party, her boss Allan avenges what he considers to be a slight by spiking the punch with vodka, which is very difficult to detect. Angie, who is the only person that has been drinking the punch, leaves the party thinking she is sober. Driving home, she hits a child chasing a ball on to the road. The ambulance and police are called. Angie is charged with drunk driving and could also be facing a charge of manslaughter if the child dies. She loses her driving licence, and her job with it. Her sister is no longer speaking to her and refuses to let her see her much-loved niece. Her life has now tilted over the edge. She has lost everything she ever valued. Despite enormous personal problems, can Angie reclaim all that she has lost and rebuild her life? Praise for Siblings, an intense, well-crafted story of how the people closest to us can become our worst enemies (Kirkus Reviews).

Citizenship on the Edge

What does it mean to claim, two decades into the twenty-first century, that citizenship is on the edge? The questions that animate this volume focus attention on the relationships between liberal conceptions of citizenship and democracy on one hand, and sex, race, and gender on the other. Who "counts" as a citizen in today's world, and what are the mechanisms through which the rights, benefits, and protections of liberal citizenship are differentially bestowed upon diverse groups? What are the relationships between global economic processes and political and legal empowerment? What forms of violence emerge in order to defend and define these rights, benefits, and protections, and how do these forms of violence reflect long histories? How might we recognize and account for the various avenues through which people attempt to make themselves as political subjects? Citizenship on the Edge approaches these questions from multiple disciplines, including Africana Studies, anthropology, disability studies, film studies, gender studies, history, law, political science, and sociology. Contributors explore the ways in which compounding social inequalities redound to the conditions and expressions of citizenship in the U.S. and throughout the world. They give a sense of the breathtaking range of the ways that citizenship is controlled, repressed, undercut, and denied at the same time as they outline people's attempts to claim citizenship in ways that are meaningful to them. From university speech policies, to labor and immigration policies, to a rethinking of the security theatre, to women's empowerment in the family and economy and a rethinking of marriage and the family, we see slivers of possibility for a more inclusive and less hostile world, in which citizenship is no longer so in doubt, so on the edge, for so many. As a whole, the volume argues that citizenship cannot be conceptualized as a transcendent good but must instead always be contextualized within specific places and times, and in relation to dynamic struggle. Contributors: Erez Aloni, Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Samantha Majic, Valentine M. Moghadam, Michael Rembis, Tracy Robinson, Ellen Samuels, Kimberly Theidon, Deborah A. Thomas.

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