A Quadrant Book
The University of Minnesota Press in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch Quadrant, a program that promotes interdisciplinary research and publication. Quadrant marks the beginning of a new model for publisher–university collaboration: designed to bring scholars in the humanities and social sciences into dialogue with those in the sciences and professional schools, this joint initiative enhances academic relationships across campus and effectively addresses current concerns about the distance of university presses from the goals and priorities of their parent institutions. Quadrant’s four groups focus on emerging areas of groundbreaking interdisciplinary scholarship: Design, Architecture, and Culture; Environment, Culture, and Sustainability; Global Cultures; and Health and Society. For more information, visit the Quadrant website at http://quadrant.umn.edu.
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Books in this Series
Improper Names
The first comprehensive analysis of the shared pseudonym, a collective strategy to build symbolic power that challenges established forms of political and aesthetic representation
Bamako Sounds
A rich ethnography of contemporary urban life in Mali and its world-renowned yet little understood popular music culture
Swamplife
Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades
Last Project Standing
How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
Made to Hear
The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
Seizing Jerusalem
Reveals the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city
Life, Emergent
Understanding biopolitics anew, through life and not death, in the aftermath of mass violence
The Folklore of the Freeway
How urban minority communities devastated by the construction of the interstate highway reclaimed their place through cultural expression
HIV Exceptionalism
Have HIV/AIDS-focused development programs ignored wider health crises in Africa?
Landscape of Discontent
Understanding the interplay of urban green politics and neighborhood activism
Building a House in Heaven
The merging of religion, capitalism, and politics in Islamic charities in Egypt
The Interface
How a cast of superstars at IBM altered the face of corporate culture and design in America
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Between Green Paris and Immigrant Paris: The Politics of the Jardins d’Éole
Through research with residents, activists, and urban planners, Andrew Newman weaves together a detailed ethnography of grassroots mobilization with a structural analysis of neoliberal urbanism.
H-War: On Mexico's 1968 Olympics
Review of Luis Castañeda's Spectacular Mexico.