Name and Draw: An Exploration of Communicating Traditional Knowledge in the Work of Abel Rodríguez
Indigenous peoples possess a close and complex relationship with their surroundings and have gathered from their traditions and life experiences invaluable and extensive knowledge of a wide range of academic research areas.
What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise
Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.
The Future of Political Theory: Revisiting Its Past and Some Thoughts About Its Future
This short essay revisits answers to a similar question about the future of political theory posed 15 years ago and considers the significance of changes that have occurred since then.
Entanglement and the Future of Religious Studies
Entanglement as a concept is shown to transcend long-established limits and embrace fluidity, allowing more nuanced understandings of the past and the future in multiple areas of the humanities.
The Future of Political Theory: American Political Thought in the Trump Era
This essay discusses how the study of American political thought can help contemporary scholars grapple with the rise of authoritarian populism in the United States.
Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa
This essay details the causes of and status of freshwater scarcity in this region and its broad and alarming economic, social, and political implications, which have a direct bearing on the area’s growth and security.
The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures After Property and Possession
Carter and Cervenak recap the multiple meditations (including providing summaries of talks of invited speakers for the series) carried out throughout the year on what "the black outdoors" means for social thought, even as they also theorize and question that very concept.
Multilingualism as Migration: Remarks on Literature, Philology, and Culture
This essay asks to what extent, and how, literary scholarship can contribute to questions raised by migration.
Neuropsychiatry as Area Studies: Han Tong-se (1930–1973) and the Diagnostics of Gender/Sexual "Deviance" in Cold War South Korea
Part of a larger book project, this short essay illuminates understudied ways in which nonnormative sexuality and gender variance firmly undergirded authoritarian development in Cold War South Korea.
The Future of Political Theory: Political Theory as an Anti-discipline
Political theory may be a strange academic discipline, or even an anti-discipline, but in the end, it doesn’t matter where political theory fits into the academy. What matters is the role it plays, or fails to play, in sustaining a democratic society.
The Future of Political Theory: Using the Canon to Prepare for Tomorrow
Political theory now must come to grips with the practical problems that have arisen from today’s extraordinary technological advances in communication and automation, which in turn have enabled economic globalization, polarization, and the rise of hyperpartisanship.
Trash Matters: Residual Culture in Latin America
This article addresses the concept of trash from both an environmental and biopolitical perspective. It underscores the importance of trash in our daily lives as a key component of modern technology, habits of consumption, and disposability.
