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Empire in an age of robots and drones
BY IAN G. R. SHAW Lecturer in human geography at the University of Glasgow On July 7, 2016, police forces in Dallas attached a small explosive devic ...
The Most Dangerous Book in the World
BY SETH PERLOW Georgetown University One book, written by a computer, could have killed us all. What do you do when you’re the only country in th ...
Jane St. Anthony: What, after all, is normal?
BY JANE ST. ANTHONY In seventh grade, Patrick handed a note to me. It didn’t travel far. Patrick and I sat side by side, our desks aligned. Sandra ...
American xenophobia and the roots of the housing crisis
Harris Fine Block, Broome and Orchard Streets, New York (1898 and 1901). Hornberger & Straub, architects. These facades are typical of many immigrant ...
Mauna Kea: "More than just a list of physical attributes."
Recent events on Hawai’i’s Big Island represent the latest in a nearly decade-long dispute between Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) and settler col ...
The Value of University Presses, Then and Now
Press Director Douglas Armato has been a leader in scholarly publishing long enough that the Association of University Presses has asked him to help d ...
This key point in US history urgently calls for peaceful, art-filled protest.
Teachers strike in Oakland. Photo credit: Brooke Anderson Photography. Published on Common Dreams. Used with permission. T. V. ...
Finding the human and the posthuman in the Anthropocene.
Vanessa Daws, #pluralizetheanthropocene STEVE MENTZ St. John's University A few weeks ago in late July, a tropical rainstorm cascaded onto my h ...
Standing Rock and the eternal fight for decolonization and freedom across the world.
EDITORS' STATEMENT BY NICK ESTES AND JASKIRAN DHILLON Standing Rock marked a turning point for Indigenous resistance on Turtle Island. And although ...
Meet Leah Pennywark, our new humanities editor!
The University of Minnesota Press is delighted to welcome its new humanities editor, Leah Pennywark, to the fold this month. She was selected from mor ...