Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
by Vidar Sundstøl
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave...
Out of the Blue
New Short Fiction from Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This extraordinary collection, the first anthology of Icelandic short fiction published in English translation, features work by twenty of Iceland’s most popular and celebrated living authors—including Andri Snær Magnason, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, and Auður Jónsdóttir—granddaughter...
by Yi-Fu Tuan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear—written immediately after his classic Space and Place—is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary...
The Transit of Empire
Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves...
Ariel's Ecology
Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal...
Between Feminism and Islam
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari’a as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend shari’a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how the interactions of these movements over...
Elusive Jannah
The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As a Somali working since high school in the United Arab Emirates, Osman considers himself “blessed” to be in a Muslim country, though citizenship, with the security it offers, remains elusive. For Ardo, smuggled out of Somalia to join her husband in South Africa, insecurities are of a more immediate,...
Ghostly Matters
Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
“Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz “The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International “Ghostly...
Screens
Viewing Media Installation Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Media screens—film, video, and computer screens—have increasingly pervaded both artistic production and everyday life since the 1960s. Yet the nature of viewing artworks made from these media, along with their subjective effects, remains largely unexplored. Screens addresses this gap, offering...
Connected
Or What It Means To Live In The Network Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2003
In the twenty-first century, a network society is emerging. Fragmented, visually saturated, characterized by rapid technological change and constant social upheavals, it is dizzying, excessive, and sometimes surreal. In this breathtaking work, Steven Shaviro investigates popular culture, new technologies,...
Disidentifications
Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these...
Fires on the Border
The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven...
Antebellum at Sea
Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
In the antebellum years, the Western world’s symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing...
Body Drift
Butler, Hayles, Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
As exemplary representatives of a form of critical feminism, the writings of Judith Butler, Katherine Hayles, and Donna Haraway offer entry into the great crises of contemporary society, politics, and culture. Butler leads readers to rethink the boundaries of the human in a time of perpetual war....