We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate change? This question is particularly poignant along the Ring of Fire, a tectonic belt in the Pacific region that routinely faces some of the most ......
We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate change? This question is particularly poignant along the Ring of Fire, a tectonic belt in the Pacific region that routinely faces some of the most ......
Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance - of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence - preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor ......
Lisu Worldmaking Against Chinese Settler Colonialism
What does it mean to live through a world coming undone? How do people carry on amid rupture, loss, and grief? Decolonial Endurance explores these questions through the turbulent lives of Indigenous Lisu subsistence farmers in China's Eastern Himalayas, bordering Myanmar and Tibet. Like many of China's Indigenous borderlands, this mountainous ......
The Kabbalistic literature, with its enigmatic secrets, vivid mythical depictions, and profound mystical content, along with its exhortations and admonitions to study its contents with great caution, is acknowledged as a cornerstone of the medieval Jewish intellectual tradition. The sudden appearance of this unique body of literature at the outset ......
Islam and Security in the Postcolonial Muslim State
There is a fundamental paradox in counter-terrorism: while Muslim state elites insist that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, the way Muslim states deal with terrorism has everything to do with Islam. In countries like Morocco and Tunisia, terrorism is treated by governments as if it is a religious problem. Elsewhere, in Malaysia, Islamic ......
Calls to include a wider range of art, literature, and ideas in the world's classrooms, libraries, and museums are loud and clear. If so many agree that reforms are needed, why is change so slow? The answer is the inequality pipeline - the multiple obstacles that ideas and art needs to overcome to circulate globally. Most strategies to disrupt ......
Calls to include a wider range of art, literature, and ideas in the world's classrooms, libraries, and museums are loud and clear. If so many agree that reforms are needed, why is change so slow? The answer is the inequality pipeline - the multiple obstacles that ideas and art needs to overcome to circulate globally. Most strategies to disrupt ......
Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics
Reproductive politics have become acutely urgent as we witness increased sexual and reproductive repression around the world. This reproductive repression is unfolding alongside widespread economic precarity, untenable costs of living, and demands for higher productivity. What feels like the emergence of a novel reproductive and economic dystopia, ......
