Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
Distant Wars Visible
The Ambivalence of Witnessing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In our wired world, visual images of military conflict and political strife are ubiquitous. Far less obvious, far more elusive, is how we see such images, how witnessing military violence and suffering affects us. Distant Wars Visible brings a new perspective to such enduring questions about conflict...
The Undocumented Everyday
Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, social service...
The Intellective Space
Thinking beyond Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The Intellective Space explores the nature and limits of thought. It celebrates the poetic virtues of language and the creative imperfections of our animal minds while pleading for a renewal of the humanities that is grounded in a study of the sciences.
According to Laurent Dubreuil, we humans...
by Laurent Dubreuil, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2018
A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
Humanness is typically defined by our capacity for language and abstract thinking. Yet decades of research led by the primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has shown that chimpanzees and bonobos can acquire...
Bad Film Histories
Ethnography and the Early Archive
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
**A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives **
Bad Film Histories is a vital work that unsettles the authority of the archive. Katherine Groo daringly takes readers to...
Wastelanding
Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inhabit them come to be targeted for disproportionate exposure to environmental harm. Uranium mines and mills on the Navajo Nation land have long supplied U.S....
Sexuality in School
The Limits of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth and battles over sex education to the regulation of sexual activity and the affirmation of queer youth identity, sexuality saturates the school day. Rather than understand these conflicts as an interruption to the work of education, Jen Gilbert explores...
Biology in the Grid
Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
As one of the most visual sciences, biology has an aesthetic dimension that lends force and persuasion to scientific arguments: how things are arranged on a page, how texts are interspersed with images, and how images are...
The King of Skid Row
John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue...
Insistence of the Material
Literature in the Age of Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Insistence of the Material engages with recent theories of materiality and biopolitics to provide a radical reinterpretation of experimental fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. In contrast to readings that emphasize the metafictional qualities of these works, Christopher Breu examines...
Speaking of Indigenous Politics
Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
“A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
Many people learn about Indigenous politics only through the most controversial and confrontational news: the Standing Rock Sioux...
Genetic Geographies
The Trouble with Ancestry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
What might be wrong with genetic accounts of personal or shared ancestry and origins? Genetic studies are often presented as valuable ways of understanding where we come from and how people are related. In Genetic Geographies, Catherine Nash pursues their troubling implications for our perception of...
The Poitier Effect
Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The civil rights struggle was convulsing the nation, its violence broadcast into every living room. Against this fraught background, Sidney Poitier emerged as an image of dignity, discipline, and moral authority. Here was the picture-perfect black man, helping German nuns build a chapel in The Lilies...
Glissant and the Middle Passage
Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
While philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe’s traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention...