An exploration of the symbolic role that the illicit drug user fulfills for the neoliberal state and of counterpublic health measures that do not cast health as antithetical to pleasure.
Esra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.
Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. This book traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a contextualized perspective.
Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval... Læs mere
Moving Stones examines the groundbreaking work and life of Black and Ojibwe sculptor Edmonia Lewis through a queer and Black feminist lens, offering a rich biographical, historical, and theoretical exploration of her art, identity, and enduring influence.
In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle interrogates the avant-garde art of Aboriginal communities in the Australian desert, showing how it is an act of survival in the face of state occupation and a means to revive at-risk vernacular languages and cultural heritages.
A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the... Læs mere
Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, this title investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time.
Looks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narration
It has long been considered a mark of naivete to ask of a work of art: What does it say? By critically examining the exhibition of art in... Læs mere