Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Art Labor, Sex Politics
Feminist Effects in 1970s British Art and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Contrary to critics who have called it the “undecade,” the 1970s were a time of risky, innovative art—and nowhere more so than in Britain, where the forces of feminism and labor politics merged in a radical new aesthetic. In Art Labor, Sex Politics Siona Wilson investigates the charged relationship...
Singular Images, Failed Copies
William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Focusing on early nineteenth-century England?and on the works and texts of the inventor of paper photography, William Henry Fox Talbot?Singular Images, Failed Copies historicizes the conceptualization of photography in that era as part of a major historical change.Treating photography not merely as a...
The White Possessive
Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The White Possessive explores the links between race, sovereignty, and possession through themes of property: owning property, being property, and becoming propertyless. Focusing on the Australian Aboriginal context, Aileen Moreton-Robinson questions current race theory in the first world and its...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses—like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism—that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary. Object-oriented feminism approaches all objects from...
Fictionalizing Anthropology
Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than...
Mestizo State
Reading Race in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
The Mestizo State examines how the ideas, images, and public discourse around race, nation, and citizen formation have been transformed in Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Starting with the Porfiriato, Joshua Lund investigates the rise of a racialized “mestizo state,” its reinvention...
Juárez Girls Rising
Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Working-class girls in Ciudad Juárez grow up in a context marked by violence against women, the devastating effects of drug cartel wars, unresponsive and abusive authorities, and predatory U.S. capitalism: under constantly precarious conditions, these girls are often struggling to shape their lives...
Veer Ecology
A Companion for Environmental Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement—save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore—describe what we can do to help the environment, but few suggest how we might transform ourselves to better navigate the sudden turns of the late Anthropocene. Which words can help...
by Joseph J. Fischel
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. For Joseph J. Fischel, consent is not necessarily always ethically sound. It is, he argues, a moralized fiction, and it churns out figures for its normativity: the predatory sex offender...
Gaming at the Edge
Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people of color, and LGBT people, are often brutalized in forums and in public channels in online play. Discussion...
Universes without Us
Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view—scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary—they suggested that such energies would eventually...
Hope at Sea
Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
As far back as Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the Pacific Ocean has inspired literary creations of promising worlds. Hope at Sea asks how literary writers have more recently conceived the future of ocean living. In doing so, it provides a new perspective on art and imagination...
Civil Racism
The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The 1992 Los Angeles rebellion, also known as the Rodney King riots, followed the acquittal of four police officers who had been charged with assault and the use of excessive force against a Black motorist. The violence included widespread looting and destruction of stores, many of which were owned or...
Split Screen Korea
Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Shin Sang-ok (1926–2006) was arguably the most important Korean filmmaker of the postwar era. Over seven decades, he directed or produced nearly 200 films, including A Flower in Hell (1958) and Pulgasari (1985), and his career took him from late-colonial Korea to postwar South and North Korea to...