Political Science

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Colonizing Christianity

Colonizing Christianity

George E. Demacopoulos

George E. Demacopoulos

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.

ISBN: 9780823284436

The Tongue-Tied Imagination

The Tongue-Tied Imagination

Tobias Warner

Tobias Warner

Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century....

ISBN: 9780823284290

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places

Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, Bryan Wagner, Saba Mahmood, Wendy Brown, Daniel Boyarin, Leti Volpp, Marianne Constable, Bryan Wagner, Ramona Naddaff, Kathryn Abrams, Christopher Tomlins, Sara Ludin, Sarah Song, Beth Piatote, Daniel Fisher, Samera Esmeir, Rebecca McLennan

Edited by Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp and Bryan Wagner

Contributor(s): Saba Mahmood, Wendy Brown, Daniel Boyarin, Leti Volpp, Marianne Constable, Bryan Wagner, Ramona Naddaff, Kathryn Abrams, Christopher Tomlins, Sara Ludin, Sarah Song, Beth Piatote, Daniel Fisher, Samera Esmeir and Rebecca McLennan

For most, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This interdisciplinary collection looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears—geographic regions beyond the law’s reach, everyday practices ungoverned by law, works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Beyond showing law to be determined by or determinative of cultural phenomena, the contributors show how law is itself interwoven with language, text, image, and culture.

ISBN: 9780823283705

The Supermarket of the Visible

The Supermarket of the Visible

Peter Szendy, Jan Plug

Peter Szendy

Translated by Jan Plug

The Supermarket of the Visible elaborates a political economy of the images that saturate our world. From the first elevators and escalators (tracking shots avant la lettre) to cinema (the great conductor of gazes), all the way down to contemporary eye-tracking techniques that monitor the slightest saccades of our eyes, Peter Szendy offers an entirely novel theory of the intersection of visual culture and economics.

ISBN: 9780823283576

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

Damian J. Smith, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Damian J. Smith, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Teofilo Ruiz, Miriam Shadis, James J. Todesca

Edited by Damian J. Smith, Miguel Gómez and Kyle C. Lincoln

Contributor(s): Martín Alvira Cabrer, Carlos de Ayala Martinez, Janna Bianchini, Thomas E. Burman, Sam Zeno Conedera, Miguel Gómez, Kyle C. Lincoln, Damian J. Smith, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, Teofilo Ruiz, Miriam Shadis and James J. Todesca

King Alfonso VIII of Castile: Government, Family and War brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period...

ISBN: 9780823284146

Forms of a World

Forms of a World

Walt Hunter

Walt Hunter

Forms of a World argues that poetic innovations of contemporary Anglophone poetry shape and are shaped by global forces. The poets in this book sense these conditions before they are made fully present and offer various responses to global transformation.

ISBN: 9780823282210

A Worldly Affair

A Worldly Affair

Pamela Hanlon

Pamela Hanlon

For more than seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, living and working together in a bond that has been likened to a long marriage—both tempestuous...

ISBN: 9780823284320

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park

Joanne Witty, Henrik Krogius

Joanne Witty and Henrik Krogius

A major social and political phenomenon of how a community overcame overwhelming opposition and obstacles to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of...

ISBN: 9780823284337

Murderous Consent

Murderous Consent

Marc Crépon, Michael Loriaux, Jacob Levi, James Martel

Marc Crépon

Translated by Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi

Murderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerability and mortality of the other enjoin everywhere.

ISBN: 9780823283743

Administering Interpretation

Administering Interpretation

Peter Goodrich, Michel Rosenfeld, Bernhard Schlink, Stanley Fish, Jeanne Schroeder, Michel Rosenfeld, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Katrin Truestedt, Marinos Diamantides, Laurent de Sutter, Giovanna Borradori, Marco Wan, Allen Feldman

Edited by Peter Goodrich and Michel Rosenfeld

Contributor(s): Bernhard Schlink, Stanley Fish, Jeanne Schroeder, Michel Rosenfeld, Pierre Legrand, Bernadette Meyler, Katrin Truestedt, Marinos Diamantides, Laurent de Sutter, Giovanna Borradori, Marco Wan and Allen Feldman

Populism in politics and policy orientations in law have thrown the jurisdiction of the academy and the disciplines of interpretation into disarray. Administering Interpretation brings together...

ISBN: 9780823283781

A Theology of Failure

A Theology of Failure

Marika Rose

Marika Rose

This book draws the work of Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the Christian mystical theological tradition in order to propose a materialist account of Christian identity as constituted by failure.

ISBN: 9780823284061

Last Acts

Maggie Vinter

Maggie Vinter

Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death. The book analyzes representations of dying in plays...

ISBN: 9780823284252

Alegal

Annmaria M. Shimabuku

Annmaria M. Shimabuku

Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.

ISBN: 9780823282654

Practicing Caste

Practicing Caste

Aniket Jaaware, Anupama Rao

Aniket Jaaware

Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.

ISBN: 9780823282258

Decolonial Love

Decolonial Love

Joseph Drexler-Dreis

Joseph Drexler-Dreis

Bringing together theologies of liberation and decolonial thought, Decolonial Love interrogates colonial frameworks that shape Christian thought and legitimize structures of oppression and...

ISBN: 9780823281879

Novel Shocks

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Myka Tucker-Abramson

Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects,...

ISBN: 9780823282692

People's Car

Sarasij Majumder

Sarasij Majumder

People's Car studies divergent populist responses to land acquisition for industries in rural India. It contends that landownership enables small landowners to aspire and look forward to social mobility in the non-farm sector, which are contingent upon industrialization. The protests against land acquisition, thus, have contradictory tendencies.

ISBN: 9780823282418

Under Representation

Under Representation

David Lloyd

David Lloyd

Under Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity’s racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a “racial regime of representation” whose genealogy runs from Kant to Adorno and Benjamin.

ISBN: 9780823282371

The Unconstructable Earth

The Unconstructable Earth

Frédéric Neyrat, Drew S. Burk

Frédéric Neyrat

Translated by Drew S. Burk

This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.

ISBN: 9780823282579

Mapping Memory

Kaitlin M. Murphy

Kaitlin M. Murphy

Interweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of place.

ISBN: 9780823282531

The Last Professors

The Last Professors

Frank Donoghue, Frank Donoghue

Frank Donoghue

In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.

ISBN: 9780823279135

The Postcolonial Contemporary

The Postcolonial Contemporary

Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder, Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder, Vinay Gidwani

Edited by Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder

Contributor(s): Sadia Abbas, Anthony C. Alessandrini, Sharad Chari, Carlos A. Forment, Peter Hitchcock, Laurie Lambert, Stephen Muecke, Anupama Rao, Adam Spanos, Jini Kim Watson, Gary Wilder and Vinay Gidwani

This volume invokes the “postcolonial contemporary” in order to recognize and reflect upon the emphatically postcolonial character of the contemporary conjuncture, as well as to inquire into whether postcolonial criticism can adequately grasp it.

ISBN: 9780823280070

Goods

Emanuele Coccia, Marissa Gemma

Emanuele Coccia

Translated by Marissa Gemma

Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness—not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection for any one of us.

ISBN: 9780823280230

Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Kelly Oliver, Stephanie Straub, Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Kas Saghafi, Sarah Tyson, Nicole Anderson, Adam Thurschwell

Edited by Kelly Oliver and Stephanie Straub

Contributor(s): Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Elizabeth Rottenberg, Kas Saghafi, Sarah Tyson, Nicole Anderson and Adam Thurschwell

This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.

ISBN: 9780823280117

Reified Life

J. Paul Narkunas

J. Paul Narkunas

Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the human, and documents their effects on culture, human rights, language and literature.

ISBN: 9780823280315

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