Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction.
Emilie Boone considers James Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily... Læs mere
The contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated.
Explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived... Læs mere
Asks what we can learn about modern law and its authority by understanding how it operates in the dark of night. He outlines how the social experience and cultural meanings of night promote... Læs mere
Questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of... Læs mere
Explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with... Læs mere
Diving in to the history of South African gold and uranium mining, Gabrielle Hecht shows how forms of state governance and the fight for infrastructural and environmental justice tell a global story of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene.
Revises the medieval form of the bestiary to meet Marxist critique to show how cats have been central to both the consolidation of capitalism as well as some of its most... Læs mere
Examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect... Læs mere
Drawing on a diverse array of materials and documents contained in the Grateful Dead Archive, Live Dead details how live... Læs mere
Explores the origin of the punitive approach to drugs and its continued appeal, despite its obvious flaws. Foster also outlines the social and cultural changes prompting different... Læs mere