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Author:   David Trend
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138654440

ISBN 10:   1138654442
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   09 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Belonging Where? Introduction Part I: Belonging There: People Like Us Makers and Takers: When More is Not Enough The Wealth of Nations Other People’s Money The Virtues of Selfishness Cultures of Unreason 2. True Believers: Spiritual Life in a Secular Age Surprised by Sin True Believers? Selective Memories A History of Religious Outsiders 3. Ordinary People: The Normal and the Pathological Inventing Normal Laws of Averages Standard Deviations Common Denominators 4. Homeland Insecurities: Expecting the Worst A Dangerous World? Barbarians at the Gate Privacy Rights and Wrongs Something to Hide Organized Hate Part II: Belonging Somewhere: Blurred Boundaries 5. Reality is Broken: Neoliberalism and the Virtual Economy Neoliberalism Revisited Citizenship, Inc. The Politics of Culture Aesthetic Contradictions Virtual Rebels 6. Mistaken Identities: From Color Blindness to Gender Bending Welcome to ""Post-Identity"" America The Race for Race Pictures at an Exhibition Bending Sex and Gender Varieties of Gazing 7. No Body is Perfect: Disability in a Posthuman Age No Body is Perfect Constructions of Ableism The Dismodern Condition The Posthuman Body 8. On the Spectrum: America’s Mental Health Disorder Stigma and Discrimination On Invisibility and Passing The Shame Game The Affective Turn Political Feelings Part III: Belonging Elsewhere: The Subject of Utopia 9. Gaming the System: Competition and its Discontents No Contest Doing God’s Business Capitalism and Schizophrenia The Power of Giving Game Over 10. To Affinity and Beyond: The Cyborg and the Cosmopolitan A Cyborg Manifesto Third Person Plural Queering Heterosexuality Crip Analogies Realms of Mattering 11. Medicating the Problem: The New American Pharmakon The Narcotic Tower of Babel Models of Addiction Writing on Drugs Recovery Big Pharma 12. The One and the Many: The Ethics of Uncertainty Be Here Now Possession and Dispossession The One and the Many"

Reviews

This is a terrific book--smart, provocative, engaging, and clearly written. It offers a memorable set of readings for students and scholars alike. Each chapter is a gem of organization, integration, and argument. Trend's essays lead the reader through a maze of countervailing theories and positions leaving them with a much stronger sense of the complexity of our present time. Trend's book is less about critique (though the critique is powerful) and more about a kind of hope that is restrained yet feasible. Richard A. Quantz, Professor, Miami University Trend is a lucid writer able to unmask the internal contractions of the neoliberal order with theoretical and conceptual clarity, as he writes with urgency to make sense of a fractured America in a changing world economy. Rodolfo D. Torres, Professor, University of California, Irvine, and former Adam Smith Fellow, University of Glasgow Elsewhere in America offers a prescient, non-dialectical approach to alterity, deftly revealing the hidden paradoxes inherent to so-called positions of center and margin within current media-driven polemics. Skirting binary logic, Trend offers a series of daring new formulations for hybrid positionalities - neither utopian nor dystopian - that afford theory to be transposed effectively into practice. Elsewhere in America will sit on my bookshelf along side Chantal Mouffe and Henry A. Giroux as an invaluable go-to source for artists and writers rethinking democracy in this age of political extremism. Juli Carson, Professor, Univesity of California, Irvine

Author Information

David Trend is Chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a PhD in Curriculum Theory and an MFA in Visual Studies. His books include Worlding: Identity, Media, and Imagination in a Digital Age (2013), The End of Reading (2010), A Culture Divided (2009), Everyday Culture (2008),  and The Myth of Media Violence (2007), among others. Honored as a Getty Scholar, Trend is the author of over 200 essays and a former editor of the journals  Afterimage and Socialist Review. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

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