University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
by Thierry Bardini
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Are we made of junk? Thierry Bardini believes we are. Examining an array of cybernetic structures from genetic codes to communication networks, he explores the idea that most of culture and nature, including humans, is composed primarily of useless, but always potentially recyclable, material otherwise...
The Tropics Bite Back
Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013
The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing—from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises—signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response...
Graziella
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
**In its first modern translation, a novel-cum-memoir of a Frenchman’s erotic awakening in Italy by a preeminent writer of the Romantic period **
In 1812 Alphonse de Lamartine, a young man of means, traveled through southern Italy, where, during a sojourn in Naples, he fell in love with...
Building Zion
The Material World of Mormon Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
For Mormons, the second coming of Christ and the subsequent millennium will arrive only when the earth has been perfected through the building of a model world called Zion. Throughout the nineteenth century the Latter-day Saints followed this vision, creating a material world—first in Missouri and...
Radiance from Halcyon
A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In May 1904, the residents of Halcyon—a small utopian community on California’s central coast—invited their neighbors to attend the grand opening of the Halcyon Hotel and Sanatorium. As part of the entertainment, guests were encouraged to have their hands X-rayed. For the founders and members of...
Slaves of the State
Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed in 1865, has long been viewed as a definitive break with the nation’s past by abolishing slavery and ushering in an inexorable march toward black freedom. Slaves of the State presents a stunning counterhistory to this linear narrative...
Players and Their Pets
Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women, entered a world that did not build on common fantasy or science-fiction tropes. There was no evil to defeat...
Microfinance and Its Discontents
Women in Debt in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphoria...
Brown Threat
Identification in the Security State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What is “brown” in—and beyond—the context of American identity politics? How has the concept changed since 9/11? In the most sustained examination of these questions to date, Kumarini Silva argues that “brown” is no longer conceived of solely as a cultural, ethnic, or political identity....
The Denial of Antiblackness
Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
Thanks to movements like Black Lives Matter, Western society’s chronic discrimination against black individuals has become front-page news. Yet, there is little...
Bodies of Information
Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
In recent years, the digital humanities has been shaken by important debates about inclusivity and scope—but what change will these conversations ultimately bring about? Can the digital...
Thought in the Act
Passages in the Ecology of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the...
Building Dignified Worlds
Geographies of Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with revolutionary politics. Instead of assembling large groups of workers around labor issues, these new collectives creatively...
DIY Detroit
Making Do in a City without Services
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought him an outpouring of attention and support. But what of Robertson’s Detroit neighbors, likewise stuck in a blighted city without services as basic as a...