Cultural Studies
Native Foodways
Explores the interplay of religion and food in Native American cultures.
Racialized Visions
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.
Capitán Latinoamérica
Analyzes contemporary superhero-themed cinema, television, and web series in Latin America.
Recovering the Liberal Spirit
Develops a theory of spiritual freedom and explores its relationship to problems of liberal political regimes.
The World of Agha Shahid Ali
Critical essays on the transnational Kashmiri-American poet.
Identities in Flux
Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Against the Despotism of Fact
First comprehensive account of the figure of the Irish Celt in modern British and Irish literature.
Enduring Critical Poses
A celebration of Anishinaabe intellectual tradition.
Giallo!
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.
From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond
Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.
Open Borders
Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
Beyond Gold and Diamonds
The first book to examine and establish characteristics of the British South African novel.
Globalizing Organic
Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.
Higher Education for Democracy
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.
Self-Direction
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.
Édouard Glissant, Philosopher
Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.
Civilization and Barbarism
Challenges the established corrections paradigm and argues for replacing mass incarceration with a viable and more humane alternative.
Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education
A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.
Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
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.
Miraculous Realism
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.
The Aesthetics of Senescence
Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience.
Cosmopolitan Civility
Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.
Postcolonial Lack
Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.
Capital in the Mirror
Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.