Offers a distinctive interpretation of The Godfather as a novel and film sequence.

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.

Considers how and why taste persists in the analysis of Mexican film and television by looking at key figures and their impact on the curation of violence.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Offers a new approach to Theosophy that takes into account its global dimensions and its interaction with highly diverse cultural contexts.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Traces the giallo mystery/horror genre from its genesis in Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s to its contemporary place in the global cult-film canon.

Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

Develops a theory of spiritual freedom and explores its relationship to problems of liberal political regimes.

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Across a variety of genres, shows how mental disorders are depicted in cinema.

Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.

Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.

The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.

Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.

Investigates how the Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong adapts Buddhist concepts of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary.

The first volume in English to explore the cultural impact of Haiti on the surrounding Spanish-speaking nations of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.

Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Explores the possibilities and challenges of Asian immigrant Christian leadership in the United States.

Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.

Critically evaluates the rapid changes that have happened in women’s lives in the contemporary Middle East due to globalization and the increasing popularity of modern technology and social media use.

Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.

An authoritative study of this postsecular film movement from the French-Belgian border region that rose to prominence at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.

Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

Argues that the descriptions of buildings frequently encountered in Victorian novels offer more than evocative settings for characters and plot; instead, such descriptions signal these novels' self-reflexive consideration of the structure itself.

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Combines powerful first-person accounts with incisive scholarly analysis to understand the phenomenon of ultra-Orthodox Jews who leave their insular communities and venture into the wider world.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Examines Hegel's insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life, identity, and experience.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.

A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.

Analyzes the breadth of representations of the mythic figure of Māra in Buddhism to reveal how closely tied such narratives are to the social and historical concerns of Buddhist communities.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

Comprehensive examination of how Indigenous peoples have been represented in Argentine film.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.

Assesses how cinematic biographies of key figures reflect and shape what it means to be British.

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.

Offers an innovative reading of Plato, analyzing his metaphysical, ethical, and political commitments in connection with feminist critiques.

Investigates how Argentine cinema has represented rural spaces and urban margins from the 1910s to the present.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Focuses on Black women’s experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women’s stories, and cultural histories.

Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.

Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

The first book-length study of Trecartin’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.