University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
The Anarchist Roots of Geography
Toward Spatial Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The Anarchist Roots of Geography sets the stage for a radical politics of possibility and freedom through a discussion of the insurrectionary geographies that suffuse our daily experiences. By embracing anarchist geographies as kaleidoscopic spatialities that allow for nonhierarchical connections between...
For the Children?
Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
“Childhood has never been available to all.” In her opening chapter of For the Children?, Erica R. Meiners stakes the claim that childhood is a racial category often unavailable to communities of color. According to Meiners, this is glaringly evident in the U.S. criminal justice system, where the...
Into the Extreme
U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extreme, revealing how outer space contributes to making what counts as the...
Virality
Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects....
Political Matter
Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2010
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining the relationship between scientific and political practices. The contributors assert that without such a theory the profusion...
The Durable Slum
Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie...
Coin-Operated Americans
Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Video gaming: it’s a boy’s world, right? That’s what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an industry’s craving for respectability hooked up with cultural narratives about technology, masculinity,...
Terror and Territory
The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding...
by Jussi Parikka
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental...
The Seeds We Planted
Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of...
Making Other Worlds Possible
Performing Diverse Economies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
There is no doubt that “economy” is a keyword in contemporary life, yet what constitutes economy is increasingly contested terrain. Interested in building “other worlds,” J. K. Gibson-Graham have argued that the economy is not only diverse but also open to experimentations that foreground the...
Carving Out the Commons
Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations...
Globalized Authoritarianism
Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
Over the past thirty years, Morocco’s cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca’s medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco’s monarchy, which...
Renew Orleans?
Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
Like no other American city, New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina offers powerful insight into issues of political economy in urban development and, in particular, how a city’s character...