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"Refined Material is a groundbreaking study that situates Venezuela's midcentury art and architecture in light of the modern nation-state's myriad ties to petroleum extraction, processing, and petrodollars."⏤Rachel Price, Princeton University "There is no study in the English language to date that investigates and contextualizes petroculture in midcentury Venezuela, certainly not with the rigorous research and keen analysis of Refined Material. I would venture to say that there is no such book available in any language that so thoroughly contextualizes artistic production in Venezuela within this high-stakes historical moment and global economic interests."⏤Ana María Reyes, author of The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics

"Practicing Asylum is nothing short of groundbreaking. Asylum cases increasingly rest on the quality of country-condition experts' work."--Hayden Rodarte, immigrant rights attorney "It is rare to read a book that has been written with so much heart and so many insights for academics, attorneys, and advocates alike."--S. Deborah Kang, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia "Practicing Asylum is a call to action that comes amid an unfolding humanitarian disaster met by a system cruelly stacked against asylum seekers."--J. T. Way, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Georgia State University

"For anyone interested in the quirks and turns taken by postwar music in the twentieth century, it wasn't so much a big bang/bhang as it was a collective hummmmmm. Was it somehow a reaction to the absolute bleak blankness of the atom bomb? Was it gazing East to find a spiritual purity and stillness? Was the paring away of harmony and motion a reaction to the ever more complex complications of the modern world? Whatever it was, musicians from all sorts of wide-ranging backgrounds, jazz players, contemporary composers, inventors, scientists, tricksters and seekers, men and women (not to mention filmmakers, dancers, painters, writers) were seeking new forms and demanding that new experiences be brought forth from their compositions, seeking a suspension of time, an expanding NOW--like a river, ever changing yet ever the same. They were seeking to quiet the madness of modern life and refocus the thought process, to examine one single flower rather than the field, to strike one single note and understand how it related to the many, to turn off their minds and float downstream. On Minimalism is the story of this music, from its brave beginnings through to underpinning so much of what we listen to today. Turn the pages and witness this revelatory process unfold in a myriad of inventions and directions. Boom went the bomb and hummmmmm came the revolutionary response."--Lee Ranaldo, founding member of Sonic Youth "Kerry O'Brien and William Robin's riveting documentary collection clears away myths of minimalist history without minimizing the significance of the movement. Indeed, minimalism emerges as a wider, deeper, more inclusive, and more radical phenomenon than we had known."--Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker and author of Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music "On Minimalism is a brilliant work of research and most addictive to read. Music is a practical art, so it is a delight to dig into the specific details of how these most influential musicians worked with their materials and with one another--conveyed in their own words, not retrospectively but in the moment. The breadth of perspective and structural clarity with which these rich sources are presented is refreshing, the connections illuminating."--Annea Lockwood, composer "A wild collection of documents formed around a more dimensional and pleasingly meandering conception of 'minimalism' than we'd been told about. There's something in here for anyone with a sensitive ear, anyone seeking creative inspiration and a glimpse into how artists have zoomed-deep-in to their sound sources, producing fruitful collectives of generative energy that radiate from the past to the future, giving rise to ever new ones."--Julia Holter, singer-songwriter and producer "With this wide-ranging collection of original texts by familiar and lesser-known key figures, O'Brien and Robin present a richer, more inclusive view of what we have come to define as 'minimalism' in music of the last century--a deep well of sounds and ideas from which younger generations of musicians and listeners (myself included) continue to draw inspiration."--Tashi Wada, composer and founder of the label Saltern "A tremendous success. O'Brien and Robin bring a freshness and vitality to even the most familiar material, while centering lesser-known figures pushed to the margins of existing scholarship. On Minimalism will delight general readers and scholars alike with fresh perspectives on experimental and mainstream musics of the past sixty years."--Sarah Hill, author of San Francisco and the Long 60s "Outstanding. A major contribution to music studies that will be used and referenced for years to come. Never has there been such an expansive yet incisive collection of texts on this topic."--Benjamin Piekut, author of Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem

"A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in pre-colonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of 'Hindu' was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life."--Christian Lee Novetzke, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washington "Cherian offers a refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how pre-colonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste."--Gopal Guru, Political Theorist and Co-author of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social "This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, ranging from kingship and caste hierarchy to punishments for crimes like abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly significant and innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times. Mandating practices such as vegetarianism, non-violence toward animals, and the regulation of female chastity, increasingly influential Marwari merchants enhanced their status as Hindus by differentiating themselves from Untouchables more so than from Muslims."--Cynthia Talbot, author of The Last Hindu Emperor "Caste is the world's oldest and most resilient form of organized inequality, and the Outcaste represents its extreme expression. Through astute analysis of a unique state archive, Cherian acutely traces the linkages among caste, faith, law, merchant capitalism, and politics in eighteenth-century Marwar (today's Rajasthan). She shows how these lead to a reinforcement of Outcaste oppression, to mandating their quotidian humiliations, even to creating, against their 'specter, ' a new form of 'Hindu' identity. She has produced a punctiliously researched, powerfully argued, and beautifully constructed account of one chapter in a most painful--and ongoing--history of social oppression."--Sheldon Pollock, Raghunathan Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies, Columbia University

"A groundbreaking volume, Incomplete establishes the feminist possibilities of the unfinished film, a capacious category encompassing works that are lost or fragmentary; projects that were unrealized, aborted, or thwarted; and films that are deliberately open-ended or ongoing. Surprisingly generative rather than a mark of failure, incompletion is a powerful site of possibility for feminist film scholarship and filmmaking. By creatively expanding the methodologies and theoretical frameworks of feminist attention to filmic incompletion, this volume expertly demonstrates the rich and varied potentialities of incompletion."--Allyson Nadia Field, author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity "Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon's Incomplete exquisitely resists film studies scholarship's impulse to exalt 'whole' or 'complete' films. Instead, this impressive collection counsels us to recalibrate our understanding of incompleteness and fragmentation, attuning ourselves and the field of cinema and media studies to the radical possibilities of unfinished film projects. A model of feminist film scholarship, Incomplete's ingenious essays offer compelling accounts, deft theoretical pivots, and innovative approaches to women's film production, consumption, circulation, and authorship. An outstanding work, this collection is required reading for scholars of film history."--Samantha N. Sheppard, author of Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen "This fascinating book demonstrates the connection between feminism and film history as necessarily incomplete projects. The editors' brilliant concept is beautifully brought to fruition, if not completion, by the book's contributors, whose insights will set up sparks of continuing inquiry in its readers--which deserve to be many."--Patricia White, author of Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

"Lucidly written, lively, and fun to read, Fractured Tablets offers a new window into the tannaitic mind and the priorities at the foundation of the rabbinic movement from its inception."--Natalie B. Dohrmann, coeditor of Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity

"The authors' understanding and mastery of this topic is on display with this original, excellent work of scholarship."⏤Debbie Collier, Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa "This book is an essential handbook for those invested in gender equality law and policy."⏤Catherine Fisk, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law "An inspirational title to further the advancement of comprehensive gender equality, which goes beyond formal and protective equality to substantive equality that underpins transformative laws, policies, and, above all, results on the ground."--Virginia Bras Gomes, Former Chairperson of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Equality within Our Lifetimes makes a compelling case, based on both quantitative and qualitative data, on how and why gender equality benefits everyone. It demonstrates how a strong commitment to equality at all levels of government, evidenced by gender equal laws and policies with robust enforcement, can bring about behavior change that greatly benefits people and economies. Governments would be wise to heed this lesson and stop using culture as an excuse for lack of gender equal laws."--Yasmeen Hassan, Global Executive Director, Equality Now

"Disrupting the Patrón tells a story of the underrepresented peoples of Paraguay, of their endurance under multiple cycles of dispossession that threaten their existence, and of the various forms that their resistance takes."--Gabriela Valdivia, coauthor of Oil, Revolution, and Indigenous Citizenship in Ecuadorian Amazonia "By focusing on the racial and cultural implications of land and labor in Indigenous struggles in Paraguay, Joel E. Correia expands our focus on environmental concerns to include human rights, cultural rights, and the need for legal and political justice."--Nancy Postero, author of The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia "In the Paraguayan Chaco, missionaries, settlers, and officials turned stolen Indigenous land into ranches where cattle is valued more than Indigenous people. Correia's vivid ethnography of the interstitial strategies and land reoccupations through which Enxet and Sanapaná people carry out a 'dialectics of disruption' makes a crucial and incisive contribution to our understanding of racialized geographies, settler capitalism, and environmental and Indigenous justice."--Gastón R. Gordillo, author of Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction