By Thomas W. Pearson, author of An Ordinary Future: Margaret Mead, the Problem of Disability, and a Child Born Different In 1944, Margaret Mead helped banish a disabled child to a dismal …
By Phaedra C. Pezzullo, author of Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care This month, international leaders and representatives are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty, which …
Through a rigorous ethnographic inquiry into the material foundations of sexual identity, The Struggle to Be Gay—in Mexico, for Example makes a compelling argument for the centrality of social class in gay …
by Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan, co-authors of White Power and American Neoliberal Culture We didn’t set out to write a catalogue of horror—instead we stumbled upon these sadistic texts of …
Many readers may not think of the American West as a particularly religious place. What do we gain by paying attention to the role of religion in its history? It is true …
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a distinct set of formations. Novel Palestine: Nation through the …
By Kerry O’Brien and William Robin, co-authors of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement “Thursday evening was a major moment for musical Minimalism,” the New York Times declared last month. The Chicago …
By Hamid Dabashi, author of The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West So often we hear allusion to this idea of “Islam and the West.” A product of colonialism, this …