An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques
An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster
Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power
Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society
Evaluating the rise of podcasting and the storytelling trends that emerged
How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure
Explores the making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop/streetdance culture
The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society
How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.
One game’s influence on the rise of e-sports and video game strategy
A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature
An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch
An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China
Reimagining the Wandering Jew legend and the curse of immortality in centuries of Jewish and Christian art
Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries
Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism
The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity
How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it
Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative
A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.
An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust
Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import
Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading
Advanced technology for the Bottom Four Billion