University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Living for Change
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping...
Already Doing It
Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Why is the sexuality of people with intellectual disabilities often deemed “risky” or “inappropriate” by teachers, parents, support staff, medical professionals, judges, and the media? Should sexual citizenship depend on IQ? Confronting such questions head-on, Already Doing It exposes the “sexual...
Bargaining for Women's Rights
Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion,...
No Speed Limit
Three Essays on Accelerationism
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through: to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy,...
by Byron J. Nordstrom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Though marked by certain geographical, linguistic, and cultural differences, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands are united by a common bond and a shared history. This history comes richly to life in this up-to-date and thorough account of modern Scandinavia.Structuring his...
Quotational Practices
Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Literature and art have always depended on imitation, and in the past few decades quotation and appropriation have become dominant aesthetic practices. But critical methods have not kept pace with this development. Patrick Greaney reopens the debate about quotation and appropriation, shifting away...
by Grant Farred
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
In Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, “Would you like...
The River Is in Us
Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in upstate New York that is downwind and downstream from three Superfund sites. For years she witnessed elevated rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and cancer in her town, ultimately drawing connections between environmental...
HIV Exceptionalism
Development through Disease in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A selection of Norwegian folktales chosen by Sigrid Undset, True and Untrue and Other Norse Tales is based on the classic folklore collected by Pieter Christian Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. These wonderful stories tell of worlds similar to our own, worlds with love and hate, sorrow and joy, humor and...
The Exploit
A Theory of Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The network has become the core organizational structure for postmodern politics, culture, and life, replacing the modern era’s hierarchical systems. From peer-to-peer file sharing and massive multiplayer online games to contagion vectors of digital or biological viruses and global affiliations...
Conversations in Maine
A New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
After the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, James and Grace Lee Boggs decided they should rethink what activism looks like. Pairing with trusted veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, they ruminated on central questions emerging...
The User Unconscious
On Affect, Media, and Measure
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily life. The stimulating essays and experimental...
Gay, Inc.
The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
What if the very structure on which social movements rely, the nonprofit system, is reinforcing the inequalities activists seek to eliminate? That is the question at the heart of...