Archive
Smart Homes and Shrunken Visions
WILL STRAW
Davin Heckman. A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day. Duke University Press, 2008.
“Intellectual Craftwork”: Reading Barbara Godard
ERIN WUNKER
Barbara Godard. Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli. NeWest Press, 2008.
Late Postmodernism
DANIEL WORDEN
Phillip E. Wegner. Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. Duke University Press, 2009.
Democracy, Limited
RANDALL K. COHN
John Keane. The Life and Death of Democracy. Norton, 2009.
John Keane. The Life and Death of Democracy. Norton, 2009.Atoning, Reconciling, and Forgiving: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Justice
JILL SCOTT
Linda Radzik. Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Joanna R. Quinn. Reconciliation(s): Transitional Justice in Postconflict Societies. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
Julie McGonegal. Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Forgiveness and Reconciliation. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009.
From Virtuality to Actuality: The Power, Wealth and Ambivalence of Video Games
LISA DUSENBERRY
Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter. Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
A Long Chinese Century?
PETER HITCHCOCK
Giovanni Arrighi. Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. Verso, 2007. 420 pp.
Urban Revolution and the ‘Chinese Century’
LESLIE SKLAIR
Thomas Campanella. The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World. Princeton Architectural Press, 2008.
Xiangming Chen. Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
How to Save the World: A Politics of the People
MATHIAS NILGES
Enrique Dussel. Twenty Theses on Politics. Duke University Press, 2008. 184 pp.
Identifying Universal Particularities
DAVID LAWRIMORE
John Michael. Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 320 pp.
The Language of the Back
LIAM MITCHELL
David Wills. Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 280 pp.
Resistance in the Affirmative
DANA C. MOUNT
David Jefferess. Postcolonial Resistance: Culture, Liberation, and Transformation. University of Toronto Press, 2008. 224 pp.
Queering the Problem
TERRY GOLDIE
Jasbir K. Puar. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2007. 368 pp.
Popular Culture in the Classroom
CHRISTINE BOLD
Susie O'Brien and Imre Szeman. Popular Culture: A User's Guide. 2nd Edition. Thomson Nelson, 2009. 398 pp.
America’s Primitive Turn: Capital and the “War on Terror” in Post-9/11 America
JAAFAR AKSIKAS
Paul Smith. Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy. University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 176 pp.
The Object in Question
JOHANNA SKIBSRUD
Michael Fried. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. Yale University Press, 2008. 410 pp.
Can Melancholia Speak? On Maps for the Modern Subject
RICKY VARGHESE
Jonathan Flatley. Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism. Harvard University Press, 2008. 272 pp.
National Ghosts and Global Literature
FIONA LEE
Vilashini Cooppan. Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing. Stanford University Press, 2009. 322 pp.