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In Prosthetic Memories, Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, and technologies across South Korea and the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Interrogating a...

In Prosthetic Memories, Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, and technologies across South Korea and the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Interrogating a...

Psychiatric Contours investigates the history of madness and psychiatry in Africa, focusing on the colonial and early postcolonial periods. The objects of study are varied, but they circle around a...

Elizabeth Rodwell follows the conflict between mass media conglomerates and independent media creators as they worked to redefine what interactivity meant for Japan's television industry.Author:...

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In...

Like his fellow filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Sofia Coppola, Wong Kar-wai crafts the soundtracks of his films by jettisoning original scores in favor of commercial recordings. In...

Barbara Andrea Sostaita looks closely at the Sonoran Desert along the U.S.-Mexico border, reconceptualizing sanctuary not as a particular place such as a church but as a fugitive practice.Author:...

Shadow of My ShadowAuthor: Jennifer DoylePublisher: Duke University PressPublication Date: Aug 27, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1478026421ISBN-13:...

Jung Joon Lee examines postwar Korean photography across multiple genres and practices, showing how the practice of photography is central to shaping memory of historical events, representing the...

Erin McElroy maps processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation in the San Francisco Bay Area and postsocialist Romania to expose the mechanisms through which global...

The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique...

Samuel Fury Childs Daly tell the history of how Africa's postcolonial military regimes tried and ultimately failed to transform their societies into martial utopias.Author: Samuel Fury Childs...

Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss,...

Writing as a scholar, composer, and musician, Jessie Cox foregrounds the experience of Black Swiss through sound and music in his first book, Sounds of Black Switzerland. Cox, himself Black Swiss,...

Claudio Lomnitz proposes a new theorization of the Mexican state in relation to extreme violence, showing how the current crisis represents a fundamental shift in the relationship between the state...

Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control by examining the ethnographic and historical genealogies of Indonesian...

In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect...

Eric Drott undertakes a wide-ranging study of the political economy of music streaming to engage in a broader reconsideration of music's complex relation to capitalism.Author: Eric DrottPublisher:...

From early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired...

Nathan Snaza brings contemporary feminist and queer popular culture's resurging interest in esoteric practices like tarot and witchcraft into conversation with Black feminist and new materialist...

A major literary event, the publication of the final volume of Peter Weiss's three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature...

Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member...

Drawing on Western and Chinese social theory and practice, Michael Dutton offers an affective theorization of the political and a political theorization of affect that rethinks politics in the...

The Buenos Aires Reader offers an insider's look at the diverse lived experiences of the people, politics, and culture of Argentina's capital city primarily from the nineteenth century to the present...

An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its...

Iván Chaar López argues that the United States uses a combination of drone, surveillance, and informational technologies to protect the US-Mexico border in ways that mark border crossers as...

In The Ends of Research Tom ?zden-Schilling explores the afterlives of several research initiatives that emerged in the wake of the "War in the Woods," a period of anti-logging blockades in Canada in...

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life...

Jill Johnston began the 1960s as an influential dance columnist for the Village Voice and by the start of the next decade she was known as a keen observer of postmodern art and lesbian feminist life...

Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the...