Christina Schwenkel analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city.
Analyzing the personal clothing, makeup, and hairstyles of working-class Black and Latina girls, Jillian Hernandez examines how cultural discourses of aesthetic value racialize the bodies of women and girls of color.
The contributors to Animalia analyze twenty-six animals—from yaks and vultures to whales and platypuses—that played central roles in the history of British imperial control.
Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.
Tiffany Lethabo King uses the shoal—an offshore geologic formation that is neither land nor sea—as metaphor, mode of critique, and... Læs mere
Drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience, as well as critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Cressida J. Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and analyzes phenomena that press against them.
Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the International Criminal Court in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice.
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they... Læs mere
Examining the relationship between emotional intensity and difficulty in works of avant-garde art, Jennifer Doyle seeks to develop a critical language for understanding affectively charged contemporary art.
Gabriel Rockhill examines the widespread understanding that we are living in an era of globalization that is... Læs mere
Integrating psychoanalytic and Marxist theory, this book describes the social and psychic dynamics of what has come to be called homophobia and on how the 'homosexual' as social being has come to be constituted in capitalist society.
Moving away from a simplified food politics that is largely land based, Elspeth Probyn looks at food politics from an ocean-centric perspective by tracing the global movement of several marine species to explore the complex and entangled relationship between humans and fish.