Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and
nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing …

Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center
stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor …

WINNER: 2004 AESA Critics' Choice Award" With wonderful clarity Maggie MacLure shows
how deconstructionism opens new avenues of critical inquiry and understanding for …

The intersection of public washrooms and gender has become increasingly politicized in
recent years: queer and trans folk have been harassed for allegedly using …

Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to
Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better …

Presents a multidisciplinary study of how Nigerian pentecostals conceive of and engage
with a spirit-filled world, arguing that the character of the movement is defined through an …

In Ghana's planned city of Tema, public toilets and sewerage systems are a formative terrain
of urban political praxis giving tangible form to what Henri Lefebvre calls “the right to the …

Addressing the Victorian obsession with the sordid materiality of modern life, this book
studies dirt in nineteenth-century English literature and the Victorian cultural imagination …

What can postmodernism do for, or to, educational research? The article discusses its
potential for resisting closure and simplification. Developing a 'preposterous', anachronistic …

Can infrastructure provide the basis of urban public life and the foundation for the
commonwealth? And how might this be possible in contexts of modernist failure marked by …