The contributors to The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human.
Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the avant-garde music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and early 2010s.
Carol Vernallis examines short form audiovisual media—from TikTok mashups to Beyoncé’s Lemonade—to offer techniques for understanding digital media.
Follows activists across Europe as they struggle to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Drawing on ethnographic... Læs mere
Fischer calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today. Fischer examines the work of... Læs mere
Cohen focuses on art activism after the turn of the twenty-first century that confronts the slow violence perpetuated... Læs mere
Andrea Muehlebach follows activists across Europe as they struggle to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization.
First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural tradition that is essential for scholars, activists, and practitioners alike.
Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium... Læs mere
Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool, proposing mutual recognition as a way to create a more meaningful affective engagement with the world.
Examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with... Læs mere
Drawing on fieldwork at an NGO in rural Tanzania, Jenna N. Hanchey explores the how the processes of ruination in Western institutions hold the potential for decolonial renewal.