Emerging as multifaceted cultural activism, the minjung (people's) art movement defined the aesthetics of the pro-democracy movements in the 1970s and 1980s in South Korea. Tracing minjung art's history and legacy, Sohl Lee explores how artists associated with the movement mobilized images, print, and performance to build movement publics and ......
In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than a chance variation, less than a volition, it requires rethinking common assumptions about human ......
Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
In the spring of 2013, televisions across Venezuela announced the death of then-president Hugo ChAvez, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and key political actor in Latin America's "turn to the left." ChAvez's death, however, was not the end of ChAvez's life. In The Necromantic State, Irina R. Troconis examines how ChAvez, as a "specter," has ......
Spectral Remains in the Afterglow of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution
In the spring of 2013, televisions across Venezuela announced the death of then-president Hugo ChAvez, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and key political actor in Latin America's "turn to the left." ChAvez's death, however, was not the end of ChAvez's life. In The Necromantic State, Irina R. Troconis examines how ChAvez, as a "specter," has ......
The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire
The New Kingdom of Granada tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire in the diverse and decentralized Indigenous landscapes of the Northern Andes. Santiago MuNoz-ArbelAez examines the intricate and disputed processes that reshaped the peoples and landscapes of present-day Colombia into a kingdom within the global Spanish monarchy. ......
The Making and Unmaking of Spain's Atlantic Empire
The New Kingdom of Granada tells the history of the making and unmaking of empire in the diverse and decentralized Indigenous landscapes of the Northern Andes. Santiago MuNoz-ArbelAez examines the intricate and disputed processes that reshaped the peoples and landscapes of present-day Colombia into a kingdom within the global Spanish monarchy. ......
In The New Politics of Online Feminism, Akane Kanai argues that for young feminists, online feminist culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Kanai attends to the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life on- and offline ......
In The New Politics of Online Feminism, Akane Kanai argues that for young feminists, online feminist culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Kanai attends to the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life on- and offline ......
For generations, the Ga community in Accra, Ghana, has enforced an annual citywide ban on noisemaking during an important religious festival. In the 1990s and 2000s, this "ban on drumming" became a point of conflict between the Ga people and the newly popular Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, which refused to subdue their loud worship during the ......
