Political Science

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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

Practicing Caste

Practicing Caste

Aniket Jaaware, Anupama Rao

Aniket Jaaware

Touch: A Study of 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

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

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

Xamissa

Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw

Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running...

ISBN: 9780823281107

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

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

Oh Capitano!

Rudolph J. Vecoli, Francesco Durante, Donna R. Gabaccia, Elizabeth O. Venditto

Rudolph J. Vecoli and Francesco Durante

Edited by Donna R. Gabaccia

Translated by Elizabeth O. Venditto

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii, and meddle in international affairs during a critical era of imperial expansion.

ISBN: 9780823279876

Contested Loyalty

Contested Loyalty

Robert M. Sandow, Gary W. Gallagher, Judith Giesberg, Ryan W. Keating, Melinda Lawson, Julie A. Mujic, Timothy J. Orr, Thaddeus M. Romansky, Sean A. Scott, Matthew Warshauer, Jonathan W. White, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Edited by Robert M. Sandow

Contributor(s): Judith Giesberg, Ryan W. Keating, Melinda Lawson, Julie A. Mujic, Timothy J. Orr, Thaddeus M. Romansky, Sean A. Scott, Matthew Warshauer, Jonathan W. White and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai

Situational and wartime constructions of "Patriotism" and "Loyalty" shaped American discourse and actions throughout the Civil War. While most scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, this volume examines the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the Civil War Era North.

ISBN: 9780823279753

Our Country

Grant R. Brodrecht

Grant R. Brodrecht

Our Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment regarding the concept of Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A primary aim of the book is to shift our focus back toward the Union’s importance in relation to northern understanding during the Civil War-era.

ISBN: 9780823279913

Poetry and Mind

Poetry and Mind

Laurent Dubreuil

Laurent Dubreuil

“What one cannot compute, one must poetize.” So concludes this remarkable sequence of propositions on the centrality of poetry for what we call cognition. Developed through brief, lucid, and...

ISBN: 9780823279647

On the Nature of Marx's Things

On the Nature of Marx's Things

Jacques Lezra, Vittorio Morfino

Jacques Lezra

On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

ISBN: 9780823279432

Finance Fictions

Finance Fictions

Arne De Boever

Arne De Boever

Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.

ISBN: 9780823279173

The Watchdog Still Barks

The Watchdog Still Barks

Beth Knobel

Beth Knobel

Perhaps no function of the press is as important as being a watchdog over the government. Based on the first content analysis to focus specifically on accountability journalism nationally, this book shows how American newspapers held fast to the watchdog role in the digital age, despite financial and technological challenges.

ISBN: 9780823279340

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Anson Rabinbach

Anson Rabinbach

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor brings together a series of essays bridging intellectual history and the history of the body tracing the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century concept of digital organisms. The book looks at the rise and decline of “the great utopias of labor” in the first half of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780823278572

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

David Prior

David Prior

As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings,...

ISBN: 9780823278312

Political Concepts

Political Concepts

J. M. Bernstein, Adi Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Gil Anidjar, Ann Laura Stoler, Adi Ophir, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein, Joan Copjec, Jacques Lezra, Andreas Kalyvas, Jean L. Cohen, Akeel Bilgrami

Adi Ophir and Ann Laura Stoler

Edited by J. M. Bernstein

Contributor(s): Stathis Gourgouris, Gil Anidjar, Ann Laura Stoler, Adi Ophir, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein, Joan Copjec, Jacques Lezra, Andreas Kalyvas, Jean L. Cohen and Akeel Bilgrami

Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well as newly politicized concepts) and asking what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now.

ISBN: 9780823276691

Fighting Authoritarianism

Fighting Authoritarianism

Britt Haas

Britt Haas

Calling into question the Cold War perspective that continued to permeate analyses of radicalism long after the fall of the Soviet Union, this study examines young Depression-Era radicals’ worldview—a worldview developed from the epicenter of young radical activism and ideology: New York City college campuses.

ISBN: 9780823277995

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