Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press

Walleye A Beautiful Fish of the Dark Paul J. Radomski 2022 Spring

Walleye, the holy grail of game fish: on catching them, understanding their biology and history, and ensuring their survival

This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2022 Spring

One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii

The Breeding Birds of Minnesota History, Ecology, and Conservation Lee A. Pfannmuller, Gerald J. Niemi and Janet C. Green 2022 Spring

A comprehensive, detailed, illustrated history of Minnesota’s breeding birds—the first in nearly a century

Architecture and Objects Graham Harman 2022 Spring

Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function

Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring

An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era

On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring

A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France

The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring

Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police

Finding Turtle Farm My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture Angela Tedesco 2022 Spring

The story of starting and running an organic farm—told by the woman who owned one of the first Community Supported Agriculture operations in the Upper Midwest

On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring

Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself

Sensory Futures Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner 2022 Spring

Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets

Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring

How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state

Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring

Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals

Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring

Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences

Seven Aunts Staci Lola Drouillard 2022 Spring

Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century

Red and Black A Chronicle of 1830 Stendhal 2022 Spring

A masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature in a fresh translation that fully captures the language, psychology, and social reach of Stendhal’s original

Strike! Twenty Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law William D. Green 2022 Spring

The complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics

Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring

A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll

Game Animals, Videogames, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring

A playful reflection on animals and videogames, and what each can teach us about the other

Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring

How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants

Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring

An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging

Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring

How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles

My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring

From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom

The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring

A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain

Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring

A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities

Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring

Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive

Nothing Has to Make Sense Upholding White Supremacy through Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene H. Razack 2022 Spring

How Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world

Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring

A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy

The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring

Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond

Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring

A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy

What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring

An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter

Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2022 Spring

The ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder

The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring

A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain

Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring

How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing

On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring

A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work

Bim, Bam, Bop . . . and Oona Jacqueline Briggs Martin 2022 Spring

An irresistible read-aloud picture book, in which a little odd-duck-out discovers her unique strengths

Ahab Unbound Melville and the Materialist Turn Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Editors 2022 Spring

Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear—and our compassion

Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring

Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter

The Dylan Tapes Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin’ Early Bob Dylan Anthony Scaduto 2022 Spring

The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto’s iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era

Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring

A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities

Cinema Illuminating Reality Media Philosophy through Buddhism Victor Fan 2022 Spring

A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse

Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring

The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media

A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring

A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it

The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever Beatrice Ojakangas 2022 Spring

500 casseroles for every occasion—sweet and savory, hearty and light, homey and festive—from beloved James Beard Cookbook Hall of Famer Beatrice Ojakangas

Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring

Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment

The Alienated Subject On the Capacity to Hurt James A. Tyner 2022 Spring

A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy

Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring

How media shapes our actions and feelings about race

Tsuchi Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art Bert Winther-Tamaki 2022 Spring

An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history

Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring

The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism

Hudson Bay Bound Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic Natalie Warren 2022 Spring

The remarkable eighty-five-day journey of the first two women to canoe the 2,000-mile route from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay

Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2022 Spring

More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands

The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2022 Spring

An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life

Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring

An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence

Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring

A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices

Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring

Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures

Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring

Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization

The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring

A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets

Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring

A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world

Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring

How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States

The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring

Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations

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