Books published by University of Minnesota Press

Focusing on the South African city of Durban, "Security in the Bubble" looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a "posi

De-centering the human,the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide importantcorrectives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewedintimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamicenvironmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

Providing a solid analytic framework forunderstanding conflict over women's rights policies without stereotypingMuslims, Bargaining for Women's Rights demonstrates that, contrary toconventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on theprospects of such legislation.

Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves