Political Science

A Voice but No Power Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis David Forrest 2022 Fall

Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession

Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring

Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions

Batman Saves the Congo How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey 2021 Spring

How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space

The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall

Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed

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

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?

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

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

Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring

The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump

The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches 2019 Spring

How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?

Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring

Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification

Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall

Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities

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

Dreaming in Dark Times Six Exercises in Political Thought Sharon Sliwinski 2017 Spring

A political theory of dream-life

Holidays in the Danger Zone Entanglements of War and Tourism Debbie Lisle 2016 Fall

A timely and uniquely historical look at how war turns soldiers, and all of us, into tourists

University of Minnesota Press

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