How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity…

Although students and scholars of social problems have often acknowledged the role of religion, no thorough examinations of the relation between the two have emerged.…

Immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States has grown significantly in the last few decades. While Asian and Latin American immigrations have been central…

From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement…

Postmarxism’s broad project since its beginning has been about rescuing Marxism from the global collapse of Marxist praxis by re-thinking the fundamentalism and determinism that…

This book explores contemporary club and dance cultures as a manifestation of aesthetic and prosthetic forms of life. Rief addresses the questions of how practices…

The twentieth century saw innovations in musical form unlike any other. Often referred to as ‘contemporary’ or ‘new’ music, the innovations of composers such as…

Informal work – family care, voluntary work, and undeclared or unregulated work – is a critical form of labor in today’s economy, yet remains underanalyzed…