Explores the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screens—both large and small—as tools for mediation that are laden with... Læs mere
Kester traces the idea of aesthetic autonomy—the sense that art should be autonomous from social forces while retaining... Læs mere
Barbara Winslow tells the critical history of the Seattle women’s liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, outlining its... Læs mere
Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and cultural critique in search of ways of writing about depression as a public cultural and political phenomenon rather than as a personal medical pathology.
Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.
The Spanish terms cursi and cursileria are not easily translated, but they refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish... Læs mere
Addresses Western officials' responses to post-Cold War conflicts and analyses the reactions of the Left to their governments' positions.
Catalogue of the collection of medieval art in the Duke University Museum.
Applying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.
In this revised and updated edition of The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi tells the story of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra,... Læs mere
Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities in the United States,... Læs mere
Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence of racialized militarism and environmental destruction.