Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Counting Species
Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Three decades of biodiversity governance has largely failed to stop the ongoing environmental crisis of global species loss. Yet that governance has resulted in undeniably important political outcomes. In Counting Species, Rafi Youatt argues that the understanding of global biodiversity has produced...
Inhuman Citizenship
Traumatic Enjoyment and Asian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America’s relationship to its national fantasies and to the “jouissance”—a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of the self—that both...
Consoling Ghosts
Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In conversation with emigrants from Laos and Cambodia, Jean M. Langford repeatedly met with spirits: the wandering souls of the seriously ill, dangerous ghosts of those who died by violence, restless ancestors displaced from their homes. For these emigrants, the dead not only appear in memories, safely...
Mandela's Dark Years
A Political Theory of Dreaming
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking....
Invention Of Women
Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology...
Humanesis
Sound and Technological Posthumanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human–technology coupling is explained. Specifically, it interrogates three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto’s investigations reveal...
Solitary Confinement
Social Death and Its Afterlives
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons—even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce life to a living death. In this profoundly important...
Humanitarian Violence
The U.S. Deployment of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different...
Desis Divided
The Political Lives of South Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and political ground has generally been considered an exercise in ethnic and racial solidarity. The experience of South Asian Americans, one of the fastest-growing immigrant...
Subprime Health
Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
From race-based pharmaceutical prescriptions and marketing, to race-targeted medical “hot spotting” and the Affordable Care Act, to stem-cell trial recruitment discourse, Subprime Health is a timely examination of race-based medicine as it intersects with the concept of debt. The contributors to...
Philosophy after Friendship
Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert’s Philosophy after Friendship introduces us to the key social personae that have populated modern political philosophy. Drawing on the philosophies of Deleuze and Derrida,...
by Michael Haworth
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A bold philosophical investigation into technology and the limits of the human
A daring, original work of philosophical speculation, Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude mounts a sustained investigation into the possibility that human beings may technologically overcome the transcendental...
Creaturely Love
How Desire Makes Us More and Less Than Human
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
To our modern ears the word “creature” has wild, musky, even monstrous, connotations. And yet the terms “creaturely” and “love,” taken together, have traditionally been associated with theological debates around the enigmatic affection between God and His key creation, Man. In Creaturely...
Inanimation
Theories of Inorganic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Inanimation is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In Prosthesis, Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity within the body itself. In Dorsality, he explored how technology is understood to function behind or before the human....