Jacqueline Adams: 4 books

Art can be a powerful avenue of resistance to oppressive governments. During the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, some of the country’s least powerful citizens—impoverished women living in Santiago’s shantytowns—spotlighted the government’s failings and use of violence by creating...

Written as a book for undergraduate students as well as scholars, Surviving Dictatorship is a work of visual sociology and oral history, and a case study that communicates the lived experience of poverty, repression, and resistance in an authoritarian society: Pinochet’s Chile. It focuses...

‘Hello, sweetie!’ Melody Pond, Melody Malone, River Song…She has had many names. Whoever she really is, this archaeologist and time traveller has had more adventures (and got into more trouble) than most people in the universe. And she’s written a lot of it down. Well, when you’re...

Eine Zugfahrt nach Paris gegen Liebeskummer, ein Gerät, das einen in andere Welten befördert, echte Aliens auf einer Science-Fiction-Convetion, ein Urlaub ohne Wiederkehr oder der Versuch, aus einem verödeten Städtchen eine Touristenattraktion zu machen. Ob witzig, tragisch, gruselig oder einfach...