Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Drawing... Læs mere
Through her own beautiful writing, Jennifer C. Nash shows how Black feminism offers itself as a companion to readers to chart their own lives with and in loss, from devastating personal losses to organizing around the movement for Black lives.
Using the Black folk magic tradition of conjure as a lens for understanding Reverend John Marrant’s religious imagination,... Læs mere
As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume demonstrates the breadth and range of Hall’s thinking on art, film, photography, archives, and museums. In so doing, it enables us to arrive at radical and innovative ways of understanding the world.
From the Chinese revolution to the global rise of right-wing movements, Dutton rethinks politics in the contemporary world. He juxtaposes ancient Chinese cosmology,... Læs mere
Drawing on research spanning fifteen years, Maan Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amid tea plantations in the Indian state of... Læs mere
Mainstream addiction science either sees addiction as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control, or as a... Læs mere
Theorizing how what they call “carceral eugenics” informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century... Læs mere
Reveals how the American empire has benefitted from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Potts argues that law is an essential tool for US geopolitical and economic interests.
Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escape the everyday, Barbara Andrea Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.
Detailing the protocols that have been put in place and evaluating their enactment, Faier reveals how the continued failure of... Læs mere
Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies which existed during the seventeenth century in what would become northeast Brazil.