Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Leverage of the Weak
Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?
Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization,...
Games of Empire
Global Capitalism and Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have...
Eating Anxiety
The Perils of Food Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Debates about obesity are really about the meaning of responsibility. The trend toward local foods reflects the changing nature of space due to new communication technologies. Vegetarian theory capitalizes on biotechnology’s challenge to the meaning of species. And food politics, as this book makes...
American by Paper
How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers—the...
The Anti-Black City
Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive...
Otaku
Japan's Database Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture...
Brand Aid
Shopping Well to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying “cappuccinos or cashmere” will help to fight AIDS in Africa. Cofounded in 2006 by the rock star Bono, Product RED has been a particularly successful...
Fighting for the Future of Food
Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
When scientists working in the agricultural biotechnology industry first altered the genetic material of one organism by introducing genes from an entirely different organism, the reaction was generally enthusiastic. To many, these genetically modified organisms (GMOs) promised to solve the challenges...
OurSpace
Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
When reporters asked about the Bush administration’s timing in making their case for the Iraq war, then Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded that “from an marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.” While surprising only in its candor, this statement signified the extent...
Mechademia 7
Lines of Sight
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Lines of Sight—the seventh volume in the Mechademia series, an annual forum devoted to Japanese anime and manga—explores the various ways in which anime, manga, digital media, fan culture, and Japanese art—from scroll paintings to superflat—challenge, undermine, or disregard the concept of...
Zombie Theory
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated...
by E. R. Eddison
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
E. R. Eddison’s classic saga novel now in paperback—includes for the first time Eddison’s remarkable letter of introduction and his unabridged closing note Styrbiorn the Strong tells the grand tale of Styrbiorn Olafsson, heir to the Swedish throne and known both for his impressive size and strength...
Simultaneous Worlds
Global Science Fiction Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Since the 1927 release of Fritz Lang’s pioneer film Metropolis, science fiction cinema has largely been regarded a Western genre. In Simultaneous Worlds, Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells showcase authors who challenge this notion by focusing on cinemas and cultures, from Cuba to North Korea,...
Bodies in Suspense
Time and Affect in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the “time machine” of suspense,...