PRIMITIVE AMERICA: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy
Paul Smith
University of Minnesota Press | 176 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-2826- 1 | hardcover | $54.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-2827- 8 | paperback | $17.95
An urgent examination of the deep cultural roots of America's response to 9/11.
For cultural critic Paul Smith, the tension between progressive and primitive is a constitutive condition of American history and culture. In Primitive America, Smith contemplates this primary contradiction as it has played out in the years since 9/11. An urgent and important engagement with current American policies and practices, Primitive America is, at the same time, an incisive critique of the ideology that fuels the ethos of America's capitalist culture.
"Primitive (as in accumulation) America (as in underlying political-economic contradictions that have always structured the republic): a land of fundamentalisms only accelerated by 9/11. Paul Smith is the ideal reader of this conjuncture—mordant, biting, refreshingly savage." —Eric Lott
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INVESTED INTERESTS: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank
Bret Benjamin
University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4872- 6 | hardcover | $67.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-4873- 3 | paperback | $22.50
Exposes the global cultural impact of the World Bank.
In Invested Interests, Bret Benjamin contends that the World Bank has, from its inception, trafficked in culture. From the political context in which the Bank was chartered to its evolution into an interventionist development agency with vast, unchecked powers, Benjamin explores the Bank's central role in the global dissemination of Fordist-Keynesianis m, its conflicted support for nationalism and
the nation-state, and its emerging awareness of the relationships between economics and culture
"Bret Benjamin shows us how important it is to break down the traditional academic barriers between economics and culture. By taking economics and economic institutions seriously he opens up new, exciting avenues for literary and cultural studies." —Michael Hardt
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
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MONEY AND LIBERATION: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements
Peter North
University of Minnesota Press | 240 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4962- 4 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4963- 1 | paperback | $25.00
A firsthand view of local currencies that are providing alternatives to global capital.
Money and Liberation examines the experiences of groups who have tried to build a more equitable world by inventing new forms of money. Presenting profiles of the trading networks that have been constructed, including Local Exchange Trading Schemes (England), and Green Dollars (New Zealand), Peter North shows how the use of currency has been redefined as part of political action.
"An invaluable, fair-minded guide to alternative currency movements by an acknowledged expert in the field. Forward to different and more expansive notions of what constitutes the economy and the economic!"
—Nigel Thrift
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AMERICA TOWN: Building the Outposts of Empire
Mark L. Gillem
University of Minnesota Press | 392 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4952- 5 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4953- 2 | paperback | $24.95
How the United States has exported the suburban way of life through the design of its military bases.
Mark L. Gillem reveals modern military outposts as key symbols of not just American power but also consumer consumption. Through case studies of several U.S. military facilities Gillem exposes these military installations as suburban culture replicated in the form of vast green lawns, three-car garages, and big-box stores and questions the impact of this practice on the rest of the world.
"America Town illuminates an overlooked effect of U.S. arrogance. Through his perspective as a former service-member and an architect, his accessible writing, and pictorial evidence of spatial disparities, Gillem offers a disturbing depiction of how policies devised in Washington harm the lives of innocent people the world over." —In These Times
"When an architect and land use specialist takes a look at the huge American military bases abroad, the results are spectacular. From the small-town American housing to the bars and brothels next door to the main gates, Mark Gillem gives us new insights into the ecological dimensions of American imperialism. This is a truly original and important analysis." —Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback, The
Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis
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STUPENDOUS, MISERABLE CITY: Pasolini's Rome
John David Rhodes
University of Minnesota Press | 240 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4929- 7 | hardcover | $60.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4930- 3 | paperback | $20.00
An Italian film radical shown in rich context for the first time.
John David Rhodes places the city of Rome at the center of this in-depth examination of the work of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini—but it's not the classical Rome you imagine. Discussing films such as Accattone, Mamma Roma, and The Hawks and the Sparrows, Rhodes shows how Pasolini used the public housing on the periphery of the
city to draw attention to the contemptuous treatment of Rome's poor.
"In this remarkable book, John David Rhodes makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship on cinema and the city. Analyzing Pier Paolo Pasolini's Rome films and his political and emotional engagement with the city, Rhodes has provided a fascinating and moving background to this period of Pasolini's life, vision, and politics." —Laura Mulvey
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
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SHIMMERING SCREENS: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
Jennifer Deger
University of Minnesota Press | 256 pages | 2006
ISBN 978-0-8166-4921- 1 | hardcover | $67.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-4922- 8 | paperback | $22.50
Visible Evidence Series, volume 19
Reconsiders the interplay between aboriginal communities and media.
A rich ethnographic study, Shimmering Screens examines the productive, and sometimes problematic, conjunctions of technology, culture, and imagination in contemporary Yolngu life. Jennifer Deger offers a new perspective to ongoing debates regarding "media imperialism. " Reconsidering assumptions about the links between representation, power, and "the gaze," she proposes the possibility of a more mutual
relationship between subject, image, and viewer.
"Organized as a spiral-shaped flow, Jennifer Deger's ethnography explores the way in which the small community of Gapuwiyak engages with photography, video and audio recordings in the context of the Broadcasting in Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme (BRACS) program. It also describes, with profound sentiment and methodological
sophistication, the dialogue, and frequent misunderstandings, of Western Yolngu knowledge systems, epitomized by Deger and Bangana Wunungmurra' s collaboration and friendship. A remarkable aspect of Shimmering Screens is the way in which Deger not only discusses but meditates Yolngu mimesis. This is achieved by means of a narrative
that weaves theory and fieldwork descriptions, personal insights and ethnographic observations. If at times this shimmering effect is dazzling, it nevertheless facilitates the understanding of Yolngu ontological and phenomenological systems." —Media International Australia
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F Is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing
Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Lerner, editors
University of Minnesota Press | 244 pages | 2006
ISBN 978-0-8166-4250- 2 | hardcover | $60.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4251- 9 | paperback | $20.00
Visible Evidence Series, volume 17
The first sustained critique of the mockumentary.
The essays in F Is for Phony discuss a broad scope of works and explore issues raised by "fake docs" such as the fiction/documentary divide, the ethics of reality-based manipulation, and whether documentariness derives from form or reception. Defining the borderline between fact and fiction, the contributors reveal what fake
documentaries imply and usually make explicit: that many documentaries lie to tell the truth, and that the truth is relative.
Contributors: Steve Anderson, Catherine L. Benamou, Mitchell W. Block,
Luis Buñuel, Marlon Fuentes, Craig Hight, Charlie Keil, Alisa Lebow,
Eve Oishi, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Gregorio C. Rocha, Jane Roscoe,
Catherine Russell, Nizan Shaked, Elisabeth Subrin.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
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RETHINKING GLOBAL SISTERHOOD: Western Feminism and Iran
Nima Naghibi
University of Minnesota Press | 232 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4759- 0 | hardcover | $67.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-4760- 6 | paperback | $22.50
The first analysis of how Western and Iranian feminism both converge and conflict.
Nima Naghibi makes powerful connections among feminism, imperialism, and the discourses of global sisterhood. Naghibi investigates topics including the state-sponsored Women's Organization of Iran and the involvement of feminists such as Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the Iranian feminism movement. She also examines the veiled woman in the films of Tahmineh Milani, Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kim Longinotto, and Mahnaz Afzali.
"Rethinking Global Sisterhood is a book that not only tears apart stereotypes and assumptions about the significance of Muslim women's dress, but levels harsh critique against those feminist who invoke `global sisterhood' as their cause while perpetuating colonial attitudes of superiority toward their veiled `sisters'." —In These Times
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