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+# Background reading
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+These are a few readings that inform MEDLab's work. See also MEDLab's own [publications](https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/publications "https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/publications").
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+-   brown, adrienne maree. _[Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds](https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html "https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html")._ AK Press, 2017.
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+-   Costanza-Chock, Sasha. _[Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need](https://design-justice.pubpub.org/ "https://design-justice.pubpub.org/")._ MIT Press, 2020.
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+-   Escobar, Arturo. _[Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds](https://www.dukeupress.edu/designs-for-the-pluriverse/ "https://www.dukeupress.edu/designs-for-the-pluriverse/")_. Duke University Press, 2018.
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+-   Kelly, Marjorie. _[Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution](https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/owning-our-future "https://www.bkconnection.com/books/title/owning-our-future")_ Berrett-Koehler, 2013.
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+-   Wershler, Darren, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka. _[The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies](https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-lab-book "https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-lab-book")_. University of Minnesota Press, 2022
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