University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Curating Community
Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
In Curating Community: Museums, Constitutionalism, and the Taming of the Political, Stacy Douglas challenges the centrality of sovereignty in our political and juridical imaginations. Creatively bringing together constitutional, political, and aesthetic theory, Douglas argues that museums and constitutions...
Entrepreneurial Seoulite
Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Entrepreneurial Seoulite might be read as a memoir on Hongdae based on the author’s observations as a member of South Korea’s Generation X. During the 1990’s, Hongdae became widely known as a cool place associated with discourses on alternative music, independent labels, and club culture. Today,...
Body Parts of Empire
Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new...
Archiving Sovereignty
Law, History, Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the fabulous tales that provide an alibi for archaic sovereign acts that persist in the present. The United Kingdom's...
The Media Players
Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
*The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News *builds a case for the central, formative function of Shakespeare’s theater in the news culture of early modern England. In an analysis that combines historical research with recent developments in public sphere theory, Dr....
The Primary Rules
Parties, Voters, and Presidential Nominations
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Reflecting on 2016, it might seem that the national parties have little control over how the presidential nominations unfold and who becomes their presidential candidate. Yet the parties wield more influence than voters in determining who prevails at the National Conventions. Although the reforms...
Party Mandates and Democracy
Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which...
Hallowed Stewards
Solon and the Sacred Treasurers of Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Students of ancient Athenian politics, governance, and religion have long stumbled over the rich evidence of inscriptions and literary texts that document the Athenians’ stewardship of the wealth of the gods. Likewise, Athens was well known for devoting public energy and funds to all matters of...
The Poverty Law Canon
Exploring the Major Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The Poverty Law Canon takes readers into the lives of the clients and lawyers who brought critical poverty law cases in the United States. These cases involved attempts to establish the right to basic necessities, as well as efforts to ensure dignified treatment of welfare recipients and to halt administrative...
by Ty Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Why are some discourses more politically efficacious than others? Seeking answers to this question, Ty Solomon develops a new theoretical approach to the study of affect, identity, and discourse—core phenomena whose mutual interweaving have yet to be fully analyzed in International Relations. Drawing...
On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers,...
The Whips
Building Party Coalitions in Congress
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
The party whips are essential components of the U.S. legislative system, responsible for marshalling party votes and keeping House and Senate party members in line. In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans offers a comprehensive exploration of coalition building and legislative strategy in the U.S. House and...
Refining Child Pornography Law
Crime, Language, and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The legal definition of child pornography is, at best, unclear. In part because of this ambiguity and in part because of the nature of the crime itself, the prosecution and sentencing of perpetrators, the protection of and restitution for victims, and the means for preventing repeat offenses are deeply...
African Print Cultures
Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The essays collected in African Print Cultures claim African newspapers as subjects of historical and literary study. Newspapers were not only vehicles for anticolonial nationalism. They were also incubators of literary experimentation and networks by which new solidarities came into being. By focusing...