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Rethinking ideas about identity politics and critical thought

How activists changed the trajectory of the new agricultural biotechnologies.

How Burma's pro-democracy movement transcends its borders.

"Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." This work explores this semantic duality. It offers a critical understanding of transnational culture. It examines "alienhood" and the impact it has on the daily experiences of migrants, legal or illegal.

Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Maori and Pacific peoples

Looking beyond the closet at the lives and works of renowned queer public figures

Considers how public collections on display form powerful ideas of nationalism

A new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identity

The complex, special power of the Quay Brothers' puppet animation poetics.

Power and counterpower in the space of silence

The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization

Explores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano music

Asks and answers hard questions about the consequences of local government programs for democracy

How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post-World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action

Untangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime

From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement's fight against anti-gay ballot measures

How a preoccupation with charismatic leadership in African American culture has influenced literature from World War I to the present

How Native Hawaiians' experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions

A study of Filipino intellectuals that reevaluates the political uses of colonial Orientalism and anthropology

How temporary migration programs haunt the lives of families long after they have reunited

The first sustained analysis of the Japanese women's liberation movement of the '70s, with its lessons for contemporary politics

A bold rethinking of urban political ecology

Reveals how Spanish film musicals, long dismissed as unworthy of critical scrutiny, illuminate Spain's relationship to modernity

Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work

How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide.

Does following the money create security or undermine it?

"Portions of chapter 4 were previously published in slightly different form in "So bad she's good: the masochist's heroine in Japan, Abe Sada," in Bad girls of Japan, edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 141-67"--T.p. verso.