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

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

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.

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

Engaging look at Lower East Side writers and artists in the wake of the 1975 New York fiscal crisis.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.