Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal Compulsory sexuality--where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience--not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research. Through a sharp intersectional lens, Kristina Gupta's Acing Science interrogates a wide range of scientific studies, ......
Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal Compulsory sexuality--where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience--not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research. Through a sharp intersectional lens, Kristina Gupta's Acing Science interrogates a wide range of scientific studies, ......
Digital Initiation Rites is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. Drawing upon testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom it enabled and articulated a political transformation from being 'asleep' to being 'awake', Vita Peacock narrates the process through which digital ......
Digital Initiation Rites is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. Drawing upon testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom it enabled and articulated a political transformation from being 'asleep' to being 'awake', Vita Peacock narrates the process through which digital ......
The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930
The history of the railroad conquest of the West is well known, but the impact of western railroads on Native Americans has largely been ignored. Richard Frost examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley. The arrival of the railroad was a social and cultural tsunami. It destroyed ......
In Autocracy 2.0, Jennifer Lind reveals how China's leaders defied expectations and propelled the country to innovation superpower status-and what that means for the balance of power and global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In 2008, the world watched in awe as 2,008 men pounded fou drums in unison at the Beijing Olympics ......
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full of maxims - pithy statements of received wisdom such as 'necessity is the mother of invention' or 'neither a borrower nor a lender be.' Maxims are ancient rhetorical forms, celebrated by no less an influential ......
Correcting the misunderstood role of maxims at the intersection of early science and literature Eighteenth-century novels are full of maxims - pithy statements of received wisdom such as 'necessity is the mother of invention' or 'neither a borrower nor a lender be.' Maxims are ancient rhetorical forms, celebrated by no less an influential ......
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress." The ......
