William E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to... Læs mere
In The End of Japanese Cinema Alexander Zahlten traces the evolution of a new form of holistic media studies-media ecology-through historical overview and analysis of Japanese film and industry from the 1960s to the 2000s.
The contributors to this collection examine the lasting impact of the Great Depression on Latin America in terms of its effects on the role of the state, political-party competition, and the formation of working-class and other social and political movements.
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.
In this first book-length study of contemporary Native American artist Edgar Heap of Birds, Bill Anthes analyzes Heap of Bird's art and politics in relation to Native American... Læs mere
Prominent cultural studies scholars from around the world reflect on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks in an era of university managerialism, marketization, and globalization.
In Cooking Data Cal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi in which she rethinks how quantitative health data is produced by showing how data production is inevitably entangled with the lives of those who produce it.
In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the last thirty years of Greg Tate's influential cultural criticism of contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics.... Læs mere
Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called... Læs mere
Brenna Bhandar examines how the emergence of modern property law contributed to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies,... Læs mere
The contributors to this volume explore how non-Western, pluriversal approaches to core questions in the social sciences and humanities can help to dramatically rethink the relationship between knowledge and power.