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Rather than questioningwhether there is-or should be-contemporary art history, Jane Blocker arguesthat we should be asking how. Setting the idea of temporality decisively in therealm of art, Becoming Past is crucial for artists, art historians,curators, and scholars interested in the role of history in the practice ofart.

What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community's and a state's identity for decades.In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock w

Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an "epidemic." An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer's work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on--and ending it."The Beginning an

Drawing on extensive participant observation atconferences for exgays, reorientation therapists, mainstream psychologists, andsurvivors of exgay therapy, The Straight Line traces reorientationdebates in the United States from the 1950s to the present.

In a media ecologyinundated by unauthorized materials, David S. Roh suggests that extralegalworks such as fan fiction are critical to a system that spurs the evolution ofculture. Illegal Literature argues that the proliferation ofunsanctioned texts may actually benefit literary and cultural development.

Grace Kyungwon Hongutilizes "difference" as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze worksof cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote tothe erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. Death beyond Disavowal findsthe memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt toerase.

How is it that self-identified environmental progressives in America can oppose liberalizing immigration policies? Environmentalism is generally assumed to be a commitment of the political left and restrictionism a commitment of the right. As John Hultgren shows, the reality is significantly more complicated. American environmentalists have support

After World War II, America's religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvig

Kurt Schock is associate professor of sociology and global affairs at Rutgers University.Contributors: Sean Chabot, Eastern Washington U; Véronique Dudouet, Berghof Foundation, Germany; Dustin Ells Howes, Louisiana State U; Brian Martin, U of Wollongong, Australia; Sharon Erickson Nepstad, U of New Mexico; Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham U; Julie M. Norman, Queen's U, Belfast; Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Thammasat U, Thailand; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Thammasat U, Thailand; Stellan Vinthagen, U West and U of¿Göteborg, Sweden

Bridging gaps among thehistory of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, andhacking, Improper Names examines the contentious politics and thestruggles for the control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth centuryto the age of networks.

Vered Maimon shows thatthe perception of the photographic image in early nineteenth-century Englandwas symptomatic of a crisis in the epistemological framework that had informedphilosophical, scientific, and aesthetic thought for two centuries.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Virginia, 2013).

By examining theassociation between photography and embalming-both as aesthetics and asmourning practices-Margaret Schwartz theorizes the connections between the bodyand the image and outlines a new politics of representation.

Focusing on the South African city of Durban, "Security in the Bubble" looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a "posi

It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness," however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will--or ultimately won't--be done about it.Through a history of

Simultaneous Worlds challenges the notion that science fiction cinema is largely aWestern genre by focusing on cinemas and cultures from Cuba to North Korea thatare not traditionally associated with science fiction. This is the first volumeto bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science fiction cinema.

De-centering the human,the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide importantcorrectives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewedintimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamicenvironmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

De-centering the human,the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide importantcorrectives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewedintimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamicenvironmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

In a provocative culturalhistory of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency'srepresentative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise ofAmerican power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.

Providing a solid analytic framework forunderstanding conflict over women's rights policies without stereotypingMuslims, Bargaining for Women's Rights demonstrates that, contrary toconventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on theprospects of such legislation.

The first study of itskind, Tongzhi Living offers insights into the community ofsame-sex-attracted men in northeast China and shows that their attempts topractice both conformity and rebellion paradoxically undercut the goals theyaspire to reach.

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, and youth at the video arcade.From the dawn of t

Hope at Sea explores how literary writers evoke hope inengaging with environmental upheavals that are reshaping life in the PacificOcean. Teresa Shewry provides a new perspective on art and imagination in theface of enormous environmental change.

Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown calls College Preparatory Academy. It was their job to convince wealthy attendants that College Prep, with its largely minority and disadvantaged student body and its unusually high rate of graduation and college acceptance, was a wo

Leverage of the Weak enhances knowledge of movement emergence and offers the firstsystematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia. Hwa-Jen Liu argues that examining material factors versus ideational factors iscrucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.