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Tinkering with the Future: Everyday Experiments Under Startup Capitalism
Nov 05 2024
In their insistence on reworking what labor means and how it is experienced, women workers in Bengaluru offer significant insights into the time, space, and meaning of work under startup capitalism.
New from Pacific Historical Review: JFK's patrol torpedo boat, Japanese internment, Silicon Valley toxins, US-Thai relations, and Gabe Masao translations
Oct 14 2024
A preview of the new issue of Pacific Historical Review, which features articles in U.S. and Pacific history.
An interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"
Oct 01 2024
The "Ben Cao Gang Mu" brings together ancient medicine, wisdom, and culture. German scholar and translator Paul U. Unschuld explains why it remains a crucial text — revealing the culture that underlies Chinese health care and politics.
Q&A with David Gilbert, author of Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land
May 23 2024
Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
The urban resource frontiers that sustain city life
Apr 11 2024
By Kristian Karlo Saguin, author of Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource FrontierCities around the world are learning to live with the challenges of increasing urban ecological precarity. In watery Manila, the metropolitan population of around 25 million is constantly expose
Q&A with Andre Schmid, author of North Korea’s Mundane Revolution
Mar 28 2024
When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in
Bombay Horror, through its Errors and Failures
Mar 08 2024
By Kartik Nair, author of Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay HorrorWhat makes a vampire burn in the light? We don’t quite know. But in her stylish short film, Suicide by Sunlight (2018), the filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu gives us a vampire who isn’t afraid of the day. With her protagonist,
How Singapore Transformed its Cultural Image to Become “Global Asia”
Mar 06 2024
By Cheryl Narumi Naruse, author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in SingaporeBecoming Global Asia is part of the UC Press Transpacific SeriesThough once widely regarded as a punitive, culturally sterile island-nation, or what William Gibson deemed “Disn
Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of Merchants of Virtue
Nov 17 2023
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century wes
Q&A with Ryo Morimoto, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar
Nov 10 2023
In one of the first in-depth ethnographic accounts of coastal Fukushima written in English, Nuclear Ghost tells the stories of a diverse group of residents who aspire to live and die well in their now irradiated homes. Their determination to recover their land, cultures, and histories for future gen