Cover is a drawing of a night elf, a character of the game, with what seems to be a weapon that holds something looking like a full moon, and with a straight look.
Blurry forlorn dog in the foreground and a rural plot of land in the background with trees, a tent, and a white man crouched, cooking over a fire. What most caught my eye was the beat-up red armchair. There are only three colors in the image - green, brown, and a pop of red.
The cover for “Hope and Healing in Urban Education,” seems to be modeled after an old political or community organizing poster. HOPE and HEALING are in bold, colorful lettering—green and red. The background of the image is a light yellow or even gold. Outlines of what seems to be a young, black man in a community area or even a school playground are in black coloring. The cover almost seems expected, but also problematic for this type of book: why is the person sketched alone? Why are the structures behind the person fences and steel/concrete infrastructures? Any connections to hope and healing are lost in this cover. I remember Damien mentioning there seems to be a template for books in urban anthropology, especially those working within vulnerable communities in the US. They tend to follow the Alice Goffman “On the Run” style—dystopian looking backdrops, cement walls, stell/brick infrastructure.. This seems to fit that mold and I’m troubled by it. The “Hope and Healing” cover looks bleak. How does this immediately frame the way we think of these case studies? Then again, I haven’t read it, but I don’t know if I agree with his “hopelessness” argument. What are the consequences of labeling a community “hopeless?”
The cover is a custodian walking down a campus hallway with their back turned and holding a broom. It tells me that custodians and the work they do are significant to the text but not really anything else.
The cover shows a picture of two webcams facing each other, evoking the ways that technology is used to connect and communicate. I find it significant that there is no mention of people in the cover image, perhaps highlighting their stance on how ‘all communication is mediated'.
Graffiti on what appears to be an old building stating that the people of Zanzibar wish to be left alone in peace, and they are willing to fight for that peace. It sets the stage for a text about a time of great change, as well as places the author (and thus reader) decisively on one side of the issue at play.
The cover on the book is of three women smiling at the photographer, with a relatively barren wall behind them, save for what appears to be a corkboard, outlet, and long wire. The photo is in a sepia tone, rendering it with the appearance of an old photograph. The women are wearing head covers. Based on the description of the text, I would guess that one of the author's interviewees is present in the photo, and that this is a display of several generations of women from an Egyptian family. I like that it is a relatively simple photo, focused on the women themselves as opposed to the women and their surrounding environment, as many photos of a colonial gaze opt towards. I find that it can be a sufficient photograph given the themes of the text, but I would prefer some form of imagery that pushes the boundaries of the typical position ascribed women and their need to be fertile, as the text itself seeks to achieve. This photo captures the notion of family, but not so much the underlying patriarchy informing the cultural politics in which the women are embedded.
The cover of this text has a digital image of an orange spherical “web” made up of points and lines with varying degrees of shading in between coupled with bold blue font. As the text has to do with cyberspace I assume it is meant to represent this aspect of the text however, it does not give any further insight into what the text will be about nor does it draw me in.
The cover is just what you might expect from a book on this subject - a photography of male migrants riding on top of a train. A few appear smiling, which is different from typical representations. However, I found this to be quite an overused image for books on migration. I generally feel uncomfortable with book covers that have identifiable faces on them.
The cover is a drawn picture showing young African men and women using computers together. I guess this illustrates the general situation of the studied internet cafes. One monitor of the computers shows the global earth. It probabaly denotes the process of globalization discussed in the book.