Western Political Science Association: Political and Social Theory
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MNWPSA23. Code expires June 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THEORY // ENVIRONMENT
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // ECONOMY // ETHNOGRAPHY
GOVERNMENT // PUBLIC POLICY // FOOD // EDUCATION // LAW
GENDER // RACE // HISTORY // GLOBALIZATION // URBAN STUDIES
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS // HUMAN RIGHTS // LABOR
ANIMALS AND SOCIETY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring
- Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
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The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
- Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
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The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
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Statelessness On Almost Not Existing 2022 Fall
- A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness
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Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall
- An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall
- A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
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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
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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
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The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring
- A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall
- What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
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Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille
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Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
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An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall
- An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
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For a New Geography Milton Santos 2021 Fall
- For the first time in English, a key work of critical geography
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Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners
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Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
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Why We Lost the Sex Wars Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era Lorna N. Bracewell 2021 Spring
- Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s—the rivalries and the remarkable alliances
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The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
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Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
- Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
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Cruelty as Citizenship How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy 2020 Fall
- Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives?
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Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring
- The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring
- A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
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Medical Necessity Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making Daniel Skinner 2019 Fall
- How the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care
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Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall
- A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
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Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring
- Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism
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Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring
- All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
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Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
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Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall
- Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
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Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring
- Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life
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Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall
- A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
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Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall
- Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall
- Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
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Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring
- A media theory of markets
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The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring
- Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
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Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall
- A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
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Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
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The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall
- An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
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Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Ian G. R. Shaw 2016 Fall
- How a brave new world of robotic surveillance is reshaping the state, society, and our very humanity
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The Anarchist Roots of Geography Toward Spatial Emancipation Simon Springer 2016 Fall
- A passionate plea for radical geographers to abandon Karl Marx and embrace anarchism
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Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent Joseph J. Fischel 2016 Spring
- Exposing the fault lines underlying our regulation of sex
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Building Dignified Worlds Geographies of Collective Action Gerda Roelvink 2016 Spring
- Long before the Occupy movement, contemporary collectives have been constructing surprising alternative economies
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Unconditional Equality Gandhi's Religion of Resistance Ajay Skaria 2016 Spring
- The first book on Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy to be informed by postcolonialism
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The Intellective Space Thinking beyond Cognition Laurent Dubreuil 2015 Spring
- A daring exploration of the space between language and thought
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Counting Species Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics Rafi Youatt 2015 Spring
- How has the idea of biodiversity reconstructed political realities?