Nelson Varas-Díaz is Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA.Vivek Venkatesh is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, CAN.

• List of Tables and FiguresChapter 1: Towards an Ethics of Extremity by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek VenkateshSection 1: Engagement in an Uncomfortable ClosenessChapter 2: Hard Listening: An Ethics of Extremity by Veronica MocklerChapter 3: Invisible in Plain Sight: The Ethics of Participatory Photography among Street-Based Heroin Users in The Dominican Republic by Mark PadillaChapter 4: Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Occlusion by Bradley J. NelsonSection 2: Seeing/Feeling Extremity AnewChapter 5: Miniaturization and the Ethical Magnification of Extremity by Nelson Varas-DíazChapter 6: “We Shall By Morning Inherit the Earth”: Eco-horror and the Limits of Ethics by Jason WallinChapter 7: When the Game is not a Game: Extremity and the Politics of Combat Sports Daniel Nevárez AraújoSection 3: Reclaiming Truth in a Post-Truth EraChapter 8: Conspiratorial Illusions and the Monetization of Fundamentalist Fantasies in Our AI Assisted World: Lessons on Extremity from the Cervantes Lab by David R. CastilloChapter 9: Examining Marketing Practices and Products that Facilitate Religious Extremism by Jeffrey S. PodoshenSection 4: Rethinking IllegalityChapter 10: One Needle at a Time: Illegal Communal Acupuncture in Disaster-Stricken Puerto Rico by Sheilla R. MaderaChapter 11: Ethics of Addressing Extreme Poverty: Permanent Supportive Housing as Social Infrastructure for the Formerly Unhoused in Miami-Dade County by Matthew D. Marr, Lisa Mueller and Catherine VelardeSection 5: Extremity as a Teaching ToolChapter 12: Extremity as Pedagogy: A Case Study on Gender Training through Feminist Metal Strategies in Contexts of Extreme Violence Against Women by Susana González-MartínezChapter 13: Discomfort as an Axis of Arts-Based Social Pedagogy: Ethics of Dissension in an Era of Polarization by Vivek VenkateshIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

This compelling collection probes ethics in extreme contexts—from participatory photography with heroin users to feminist metal pedagogy amid violence, and the unsettling terrain of eco-horror—offering vital insights for scholars of ethics, aesthetics, and social change.

Nelson Varas-Díaz is Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA.Vivek Venkatesh is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, CAN.

• List of Tables and FiguresChapter 1: Towards an Ethics of Extremity by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek VenkateshSection 1: Engagement in an Uncomfortable ClosenessChapter 2: Hard Listening: An Ethics of Extremity by Veronica MocklerChapter 3: Invisible in Plain Sight: The Ethics of Participatory Photography among Street-Based Heroin Users in The Dominican Republic by Mark PadillaChapter 4: Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Occlusion by Bradley J. NelsonSection 2: Seeing/Feeling Extremity AnewChapter 5: Miniaturization and the Ethical Magnification of Extremity by Nelson Varas-DíazChapter 6: “We Shall By Morning Inherit the Earth”: Eco-horror and the Limits of Ethics by Jason WallinChapter 7: When the Game is not a Game: Extremity and the Politics of Combat Sports Daniel Nevárez AraújoSection 3: Reclaiming Truth in a Post-Truth EraChapter 8: Conspiratorial Illusions and the Monetization of Fundamentalist Fantasies in Our AI Assisted World: Lessons on Extremity from the Cervantes Lab by David R. CastilloChapter 9: Examining Marketing Practices and Products that Facilitate Religious Extremism by Jeffrey S. PodoshenSection 4: Rethinking IllegalityChapter 10: One Needle at a Time: Illegal Communal Acupuncture in Disaster-Stricken Puerto Rico by Sheilla R. MaderaChapter 11: Ethics of Addressing Extreme Poverty: Permanent Supportive Housing as Social Infrastructure for the Formerly Unhoused in Miami-Dade County by Matthew D. Marr, Lisa Mueller and Catherine VelardeSection 5: Extremity as a Teaching ToolChapter 12: Extremity as Pedagogy: A Case Study on Gender Training through Feminist Metal Strategies in Contexts of Extreme Violence Against Women by Susana González-MartínezChapter 13: Discomfort as an Axis of Arts-Based Social Pedagogy: Ethics of Dissension in an Era of Polarization by Vivek VenkateshIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

This compelling collection probes ethics in extreme contexts—from participatory photography with heroin users to feminist metal pedagogy amid violence, and the unsettling terrain of eco-horror—offering vital insights for scholars of ethics, aesthetics, and social change.

Nelson Varas-Díaz is Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA.Vivek Venkatesh is Dean of the Faculty of Education and a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, CAN.

• List of Tables and FiguresChapter 1: Towards an Ethics of Extremity by Nelson Varas-Díaz and Vivek VenkateshSection 1: Engagement in an Uncomfortable ClosenessChapter 2: Hard Listening: An Ethics of Extremity by Veronica MocklerChapter 3: Invisible in Plain Sight: The Ethics of Participatory Photography among Street-Based Heroin Users in The Dominican Republic by Mark PadillaChapter 4: Quixotism as Extremity: The Aesthetics and Politics of Occlusion by Bradley J. NelsonSection 2: Seeing/Feeling Extremity AnewChapter 5: Miniaturization and the Ethical Magnification of Extremity by Nelson Varas-DíazChapter 6: “We Shall By Morning Inherit the Earth”: Eco-horror and the Limits of Ethics by Jason WallinChapter 7: When the Game is not a Game: Extremity and the Politics of Combat Sports Daniel Nevárez AraújoSection 3: Reclaiming Truth in a Post-Truth EraChapter 8: Conspiratorial Illusions and the Monetization of Fundamentalist Fantasies in Our AI Assisted World: Lessons on Extremity from the Cervantes Lab by David R. CastilloChapter 9: Examining Marketing Practices and Products that Facilitate Religious Extremism by Jeffrey S. PodoshenSection 4: Rethinking IllegalityChapter 10: One Needle at a Time: Illegal Communal Acupuncture in Disaster-Stricken Puerto Rico by Sheilla R. MaderaChapter 11: Ethics of Addressing Extreme Poverty: Permanent Supportive Housing as Social Infrastructure for the Formerly Unhoused in Miami-Dade County by Matthew D. Marr, Lisa Mueller and Catherine VelardeSection 5: Extremity as a Teaching ToolChapter 12: Extremity as Pedagogy: A Case Study on Gender Training through Feminist Metal Strategies in Contexts of Extreme Violence Against Women by Susana González-MartínezChapter 13: Discomfort as an Axis of Arts-Based Social Pedagogy: Ethics of Dissension in an Era of Polarization by Vivek VenkateshIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

This compelling collection probes ethics in extreme contexts—from participatory photography with heroin users to feminist metal pedagogy amid violence, and the unsettling terrain of eco-horror—offering vital insights for scholars of ethics, aesthetics, and social change.