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Disastrous Consequences

Eric Cazdyn

• Paperback | Engels | South Atlantic Quarterly | nr. 106
• The past few years have seen numerous natural disasters, from the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Many believe... Lees meer

Shimmering Images

Eliza Steinbock

• Paperback | Engels
• In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of chang... Lees meer

Deviations

Gayle S Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexu... Lees meer

Cuban Music from A to Z

Helio Orovio

• Paperback | Engels
• Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world's richest and most influential musical c... Lees meer

The Virus Touch

Bishnupriya Ghosh

• Paperback | Engels | Experimental Futures
• In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Wri... Lees meer

Old Town Road

Chris Molanphy

• Paperback | Engels | Singles
• In Old Town Road , Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X's debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. "Old Town Road" was mo... Lees meer

The Indonesia Reader

• Paperback | Engels | World Readers
• Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago, encompassing nearly eighteen thousand islands. The fourth-most populous nation in the world, it has a la... Lees meer

Archive of Tongues

Moon Charania

• Paperback | Engels
• In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. Drawing on ... Lees meer

Hound Dog

Eric Weisbard

• Paperback | Engels | Singles
• Many listeners first heard "Hound Dog" when Elvis Presley's single topped the pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956. But some fans already knew the son... Lees meer

Settler Garrison

Jodi Kim

• Paperback | Engels
• In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through ... Lees meer

No Tea, No Shade

• Hardcover | Engels
• The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies , the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generat... Lees meer

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

• Paperback | Engels
• Consuelo Jimenez Underwood's artwork is marked by her compassionate and urgent engagement with a range of pressing contemporary issues, from immigrati... Lees meer

Coral Empire

Ann Elias

• Paperback | Engels
• From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life the... Lees meer

Wild Blue Media

Melody Jue

• Paperback | Engels | Elements
• In Wild Blue Media , Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our perception of the world by considering the ocean itse... Lees meer

Selfie Aesthetics

Nicole Erin Morse

• Paperback | Engels
• In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, ... Lees meer

Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan

• Paperback | Engels
• Much of the scholarly debate around the "Afropolitan"--the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-... Lees meer

Since Time Immemorial

Yanna Yannakakis

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Since Time Immemorial Yanna Yannakakis traces the invention of Native custom, a legal category that Indigenous litigants used in disputes over marr... Lees meer

The Economization of Life

M Murphy

• Paperback | Engels
• What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The ... Lees meer

C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain

Christian Høgsbjerg

• Hardcover | Engels | C. L. R. James Archives
• C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain chronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C. L. R. James during his first extended st... Lees meer

From a Nation Torn

Hannah Feldman

• Paperback | Engels | Objects/Histories
• From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its pr... Lees meer

Out in Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Series Q
• Out in Culture charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as t... Lees meer

Petrochemical Planet

Alice Mah

• Paperback | Engels
• In Petrochemical Planet Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and... Lees meer

The Government of Beans

Kregg Hetherington

• Paperback | Engels
• The Government of Beans is about the rough edges of environmental regulation, where tenuous state power and blunt governmental instruments encounter e... Lees meer

Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke

Michael Berry

• Paperback | Engels | Sinotheory
• Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker. Drawing fro... Lees meer