Reorients the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. The contributors examine how... Læs mere
Examines the emergence of new death practices in Japan as the old customs of mortuary care are coming undone. She outlines the new proliferation of industries, services,... Læs mere
Isabelle Stengers addresses the challenges of situating modern, scientific, and technical practices of thinking without falling into the disabling scientific/nonscientific binary.
Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a... Læs mere
World-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays Yan Lianke describes his literary project, reflects on censorship in China, and his perspectives on life, writing, and literary history.
Through ethnographic vignettes written in story form, pearson offers an alternative history of the unruly and unexpected ways that people resist, get by, make money, find joy, and build radical social life in the small, unseen spaces beside large-scale confinement.
In this authoritative history of cannabis in Africa, Chris S. Duvall challenges what readers thought they knew about cannabis by correcting widespread myths, outlining its... Læs mere
Originally published in German in 1978 and appearing here in English for the first time, the second volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The... Læs mere
Extending decolonial theory into greater conversation with race, sexuality, and Indigenous studies, Macarena Gomez-Barris traces the... Læs mere
Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological... Læs mere
Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical conditions for the persistence of art's autonomy from the realm of the commodity by showing how an artist's commitment to form and by demanding interpretive attention elude the logic of capital.
Argues that the political left has failed to claim its ideological victories and subsequently has enabled a depoliticization of crucially political concerns.