Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat…
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential,…
Material Insurgency: Towards a Distributed Environmental Politics Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change…
Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War Being a good citizen under Stalin meant taking an active part in political rituals, such as elections, parades, festive meetings,…
Governing the World’s Biggest Market: The Politics of Derivatives Regulation After the 2008 Crisis In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the regulation of the world’s enormous derivatives markets assumed center stage…
Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are…
The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and…
The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health In the global race to reach the end of AIDS, why is the world slipping off track? The answer has…
Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall…
The Spirit vs. the Souls: Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines…