Undoing the Ties that Bind and Finding New Bonds
By Lily Cho
David L. Eng. The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy. Duke University Press, 2010. 268 pp.
Short-Circuiting the Virtuous Circle
By ERIC VÁZQUEZ
Fernando Ignacio Leiva. Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 312pp.
Ruin Gazing with History’s Angels
By Carrie Smith-Prei
Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle, eds. Ruins of Modernity. Duke University Press, 2010. 528 pp.
Reassembling Democracy in the Parliament of Things
By Jaime Yard
Bruce Braun and Sarah J. Whatmore, eds. Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy and Public Life. University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 328 pp.
Making Students’ Movements
By Nicholas Jon Crane
Fabio Lanza. Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing. Columbia University Press, 2010. 320 pp.
The Art of Seeing Without Being Seen
By Susan Cahill
Sandra S. Phillips, ed. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870. San Francisco and New Haven: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yale University Press, 2010. 256 pp.
Broaching the Subject of War: Toward an Ethics of Vulnerability
By Jeffrey Barbeau
Rosalyn Deutsche. Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies in Art and War. Columbia University Press, 2010. 88 pp.
Stringing a Quartet Together: A Methodology for World Literature?
By CÓILÍN PARSONS
Peter Hitchcock. The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form. Stanford University Press, 2010. 295 pp.
Eat and Be Eaten: The Gastropolitics of the (Post) Colony
By Julietta Singh
Parama Roy. Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial. Duke University Press, 2010. 277 pp.
Branding in Everyday Life
By Mehita Iqani
Melissa Aronczyk and Devon Powers, eds. Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture. Peter Lang, 2010. 339 pp.
The Politics of Culture in The Late Age of Print
By Sean Johnson Andrews
Ted Striphas. The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. Columbia University Press, 2009. 272 pp.
The Politics and Erotics of Time
By Amber Jamilla Musser
Elizabeth Freeman. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Duke University Press, 2010. 256 pp.
The Trials of Translation: Psychoanalysis and Islam
By Alessandra Capperdoni
Fethi Benslama. Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam. Trans. Robert Bononno. University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 272 pp.
On the Loss of Feminism
By Michelle Meagher
Angela McRobbie. The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change. Sage, 2009. 192 pp.
“Erring on the Side of Democracy”: Nations, Modernities and Disputations
By Hugh Charles O’Connell
Partha Chatterjee. Empire and Nation: Selected Essays. Columbia University Press, 2010. 384 pp.