Books in the 21st Century Studies series

Contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place

Contributors introduce the concept of spatial ethnography, a new methodological approach that incorporates both material and abstract perspectives in the study of people and place

In this compelling study, Damani J. Partridge explores citizenship and exclusion in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That event seemed to usher in a new era of universal freedom, but post-reunification transformations of German society have in fact produced noncitizens: non-white and "e;foreign"e; Germans who are simultaneously portrayed as part of the nation and excluded from full citizenship. Partridge considers the situation of Vietnamese guest workers "e;left behind"e; in the former East Germany; images of hypersexualized black bodies reproduced in popular culture and intimate relationships; and debates about the use of the headscarf by Muslim students and teachers. In these and other cases, which regularly provoke violence against those perceived to be different, he shows that German national and European projects are complicit in the production of distinctly European noncitizens.

Gender as a category of analysis in the 21st century

A collection of essays that explores the different ways in which sovereign political forms have been defined and have defined themselves, placing recent debates about nations and national identity within a broader history of sovereignty, territory, and legality.

Considers how to rethink diasporas and the geographies of difference

Richard Grusin is director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of several books, including Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11.

A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory

Explores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives

Explores the wide-ranging impact of 1968 and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations

Explores the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives

Explores the wide-ranging impact of 1968 and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations