University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Internet Spaceships Are Serious Business
An EVE Online Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
EVE Online is a socially complex, science-fiction-themed universe simulation and massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) first released in 2003. Notorious for its colossal battles and ruthless player culture, it has hundreds of thousands of players today. In this fascinating book, scholars, players,...
by Vijay Prashad
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
“How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians “How does it feel to be a solution?” In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Since 9/11, Pakistan has loomed large in the geopolitical imagination of the West. A key ally in the global war on terror, it is also the country in which Osama bin Laden was finally found and killed—and the one that has borne the brunt of much of the ongoing conflict’s collateral damage. Despite...
by Rita Raley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and...
by Edward W. Soja
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the...
Reading Autobiography
A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for undergraduate and graduate-level courses,...
The Inconvenient Indian
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories...
Leverage of the Weak
Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?
Despite their apparent resemblance—a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization,...
Games of Empire
Global Capitalism and Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have...
Eating Anxiety
The Perils of Food Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Debates about obesity are really about the meaning of responsibility. The trend toward local foods reflects the changing nature of space due to new communication technologies. Vegetarian theory capitalizes on biotechnology’s challenge to the meaning of species. And food politics, as this book makes...
American by Paper
How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers—the...
The Anti-Black City
Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive...
Otaku
Japan's Database Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture...
Brand Aid
Shopping Well to Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
“Has there ever been a better reason to shop?” asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying “cappuccinos or cashmere” will help to fight AIDS in Africa. Cofounded in 2006 by the rock star Bono, Product RED has been a particularly successful...