The book explores ways in which ethnography, as practiced by people who have historically been objects of ethnographic study, can yield transformative and liberatory results.

Nemser examines the long history of how Spanish imperial rule depended upon spatial concentration – the gathering of people and things into centralized spaces – to control populations and consolidate power...

"Beyond Alterity" is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that take such an approach to studying indigenous communities and the concept of indigeneity...

In this very personal book with essays and short stories, Ghodsee describes the post-socialist realities of the victims of the greedy neoliberalism that has dismantled their social safety nets and expresses her frustration about the continuing tendency to reduce the twentieth-century East European state socialisms to Stalinism and the Gulags...

Lee demonstrates the importance of South Korea is both an example in comparative cultural policy, and as a fascinating case study in its own right...

Kondo brings together critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis and her critically keen awareness of the politics and potential of theatre production and reception to ask how theatre ‘makes, unmakes and remakes’ race...

The historian Nick Estes traces two centuries of Indigenous-led resistance and anti-colonial struggle...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

While there is a robust scientific consensus that there is no meaningful genetic basis for race, Russell’s analysis of the role of race in ARTs reveals that when it comes to producing kinship, race is still doing a great deal of work.

More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well?

The Mark of Criminality positions the work of key gangsta rap artists--Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur--as well as the controversies their work produced...

Russo explores how solidarity activists contest the practices of the US security state both within its borders and abroad. Russo follows three social movement organizations...

"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...

What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America?

De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...

What options for resistance are left to the author of fiction in a nation structured by totalizing political and economic violence?

John Pat Leary chronicles the rise of a new vocabulary in the twenty-first century...

Kramer outlines the way that a right to personality, combined with an accommodation-focused inquiry, could update and refresh our approach to civil rights...

In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodified and sold under the banner of neoliberal freedom, (how) can art be harnessed for anti-capitalist agendas?

Dai interrogates the truly historic events unfolding in today’s China to ask what these mean for history itself...

Anne A. Cheng illustrates the longstanding relationship between the ‘oriental’ and the ‘ornamental’...

What do management consultants do, and how do they do it?

Does publishing have a diversity problem?

The Bloomsbury Handbook is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...