Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
by Kenneth J. Saltman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs...
Proust And Signs
The Complete Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
In a remarkable instance of literary and philosophical interpretation, the incomparable Gilles Deleuze reads Marcel Proust’s work as a narrative of an apprenticeship—more precisely, the apprenticeship of a man of letters. Considering the search to be one directed by an experience of signs, in...
by Davide Panagia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics is an invitation to culture makers, political thinkers of all kinds, and everyday spectators to reconsider their love of the world of appearances. Inspired by Jacques Rancière’s Ten Theses on Politics and work by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, and Roland Barthes,...
The Price of Thirst
Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
“There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean...
Civil Resistance
Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring,...
Biko's Ghost
The Iconography of Black Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
“When you say, ‘Black is Beautiful,’ what in fact you are saying . . . is: Man, you are okay as you are; begin to look upon yourself as a human being.” With such statements, Stephen Biko became the voice of Black Consciousness. And with Biko’s brutal death in the custody of the South African...
Against Purity
Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better...
Repainting the Walls of Lunda
Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
Peace Corps Fantasies
How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative...
The Fourth Eye
M ori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Indigenous and settler cultures to the emergence of the first-ever state-funded Māori television network, New Zealand has been a hotbed of Indigenous concerns. Given its history of colonization, coping with biculturalism is central to New Zealand life....
Inheriting Possibility
Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
How has the dominant social scientific paradigm limited our understanding of the impact of inherited economic resources, social privilege, and sociocultural practices on multigenerational inequality? In what ways might multiple forces of social difference haunt quantitative measurements of ability such...
by Thierry Bardini
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Are we made of junk? Thierry Bardini believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, he explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise...
The Tropics Bite Back
Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing—from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises—signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response...
Graziella
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
**In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman’s erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period **
In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with...