Traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of... Læs mere
Examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, queer, femme, and gender-nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary South Africa.
Anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry examines the popular Black working-class dance rumba as a way of knowing to account for the embodied and spiritual dimensions of Black political imagination in post-Fidel Cuba.
Reading seventeenth-century legal theory, natural history, inventories, and political pamphlets alongside contemporary poetry, theory, and philosophy from Black... Læs mere
Using the Five Colleges in Massachusetts as a case study, Zurn draws on archival work and oral histories to outline how trans students, faculty, and staff make and live their lives at the edges of higher education.
Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience, Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that... Læs mere
Mariana Ortega presents a phenomenological study of aesthetics grounded in the work of primarily Latinx artists. Motivated by her experience of loss and exile,... Læs mere
A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss’s three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time.
Examines how filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s use of pre-existing music to create the soundtracks for his films constitutes a practice of musical remixing that challenges conventional notions of musical composition.
Smith follows the classic song’s long and varied journey, from Brel’s iconic 1966 performance on French television to Simone’s cover to Shirley Bassey’s English-language version (“If You Go Away”) to its contemporary manifestations in popular culture.
Taking as his primary object Palestinian refugee camps, created in the fallout of the eliminatory violence of Israel’s founding, Abourahme shows how these camps become the primary place where settler colonial attempts to dominate space and time encounter Indigenous refusal.