Cultural Studies in the Interregnum

The editors and contributors to Cultural Studies in the Interregnum mobilize transnational cultural studies as a tool for politically engaged intellectual critique. Alongside the work of emerging and established scholars and activists, they think through massive cultural shifts and explore the possibilities of the in-between. Covering queer and feminist studies, critical disability studies, and critical race and ethnic studies, the essays in Cultural Studies in the Interregnum reflect on our shared political pasts and futures. Using examples ranging from media and literature to sex work, policing, and university systems, this exciting volume probes what cultural studies means in moments of social transformation. Contributors include: Sean Johnson Andrews, C.M. Kaliko Baker, Mary Tuti Baker, James Bliss, Jorge E. CuÉllar, John R. Decker, Brian Dolber, Candace Fujikane, Evyn LÊ Espiritu Gandhi, Chris Hall, Rachel Lim, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anna Karthika, Manu Karuka, Najwa Mayer, Kyle Mays, Andrew Ó Baoill, Yumi Pak, TherÍ A. Pickens, Sami Schalk, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tia Trafford, and the editors

About the Author :
Robert F. Carley is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M University, College Station and author of The Cultural Production of Social Movements, Cultural Studies Methodology and Political Strategy, and Culture and Tactics. Anne Donlon is an independent scholar. Beenash Jafri is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis and author of Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film. SAJ is an independent scholar and Associate Editor at punctum books. Laura J. Kwak is Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at York University. Eero Laine is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York and co-author of Mourning the Ends: Collaborative Writing and Performance. Chris Alen Sula is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.

Review :
"This book must be read! Cultural Studies in the Interregnum gathers as a proposal and an experiment in thinking 'the moment'--there where the not-yet and the no-longer linger, which is also from where all im/possibilities derive. Thinking in such situations, in which lines cannot be drawn between what was and what is or between here and there, is the task awaiting those with the impetus to halt the social and ecological devastations proliferating in the global present. The essays collected here give invaluable examples of how."--Denise Ferreira da Silva, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities at New York University, and author of Unpayable Debt