University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Blood Sugar
Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist explanations for racial inequalities in metabolic health have circulated in medical journals for decades. Blood Sugar analyzes and...
Testing Fate
Tay-Sachs Disease and the Right to Be Responsible
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In today’s world, responsible biocitizenship has become a new way of belonging in society. Individuals are expected to make “responsible” medical choices, including the decision to be screened for genetic disease. Paradoxically, we have even come to see ourselves as having the right to be responsible...
Bauhaus Weaving Theory
From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Bauhaus school in Germany has long been understood through the writings of its founding director, Walter Gropius, and well-known artists who taught there such as Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Far less recognized are texts by women in the school’s weaving workshop. In Bauhaus Weaving...
Health Rights Are Civil Rights
Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women’s movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems...
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.
As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies...
A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans
with A Theory of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject?” With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within...
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture....
by Catherine M. Soussloff
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect of his thought is largely neglected within the disciplines of art history and aesthetic theory. In Foucault on Painting, Catherine M. Soussloff argues that Foucault’s sustained...
Off the Network
Disrupting the Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The digital world profoundly shapes how we work and consume and also how we play, socialize, create identities, and engage in politics and civic life. Indeed, we are so enmeshed in digital networks—from social media to cell phones—that it is hard to conceive of them from the outside or to imagine...
Cosmic Apprentice
Dispatches from the Edges of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In the pursuit of knowledge, Dorion Sagan argues in this dazzlingly eclectic, rigorously crafted, and deliciously witty collection of essays, scientific authoritarianism and philosophical obscurantism are equally formidable obstacles to discovery. As science has become more specialized and more costly,...
The Great Lakes at Ten Miles an Hour
One Cyclist's Journey along the Shores of the Inland Seas
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The Great Lakes are a remarkable repository of millions of years of complex geological transformations and of a considerably shorter, crowded span of human history. Over the course of four summers, Thomas Shevory rode a bicycle along their shores, taking in the stories the lakes tell—of nature’s...
Fallout Shelter
Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to...
Life, Emergent
The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How does an inquiry into life as it lives (or dies) amid mass violence look like from the perspective of the “social”? Taking us from Sierra Leone to India to Lebanon, Life, Emergent challenges conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of life through the lens of life, not death. Arguing...
The Disciplinary Frame
Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph...