Minnesota Press Research Articles

Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes by Amber Benezra-Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes by Amber Benezra-Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

Petroturfing: Refining Canadian oil through social media ByJordan B.Kinder,Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.2024.288 pages. $41.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781517914332

Petroturfing: Refining Canadian oil through social media ByJordan B.Kinder,Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.2024.288 pages. $41.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781517914332

Unsettling choice: Race, rights, and the partitioning of public education By UjjuAggarwal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 179 pp.

Unsettling choice: Race, rights, and the partitioning of public education By UjjuAggarwal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 179 pp.

The flesh of animation: Bodily sensations in film and digital media By SandraAnnett. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 288. $29.00 (pbk)

The flesh of animation: Bodily sensations in film and digital media By SandraAnnett. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2024. pp. 288. $29.00 (pbk)

Knowing silence: How children talk about immigration status in school By ArianaMangual Figueroa, Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Knowing silence: How children talk about immigration status in school By ArianaMangual Figueroa, Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Review of Milton Santos [1978] 2021: For a New Geography. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Translated by Archie Davies.

Review of Milton Santos [1978] 2021: For a New Geography. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Translated by Archie Davies.

Nietzsche's Posthumanism By EdgarLandgraf, University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 260. $112 (hardback), $28 (paperback)

Nietzsche's Posthumanism By EdgarLandgraf, University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 260. $112 (hardback), $28 (paperback)

Book Review | Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes, by Amber Benezra (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)

Book Review | Gut Anthro: An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes, by Amber Benezra (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)

Care without pathology: How trans‐ health activists are changing medicine By ChristophHanssmann, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 393 pp.

Care without pathology: How trans‐ health activists are changing medicine By ChristophHanssmann, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 393 pp.

Recentring the Animal in Multispecies Ethnography

Review of: John Hartigan, Jr., Shaving the Beasts: Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. ix + 304 pp. 54 b&w photos. $24.95 (pb).

Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.

Meaningless citizenship: Iraqi refugees and the welfare state By Sally WesleyBonet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022. 256 pp.

Star Wars after Lucas: A critical guide to the future of the galaxy By DanGolding, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2019.

Star Wars after Lucas: A critical guide to the future of the galaxy By DanGolding, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2019.

SALLY WESLEY BONET, Meaningless Citizenship: Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022)

SALLY WESLEY BONET, Meaningless Citizenship: Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022)

From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and returning Sámi craft and culture By BarbaraSjoholm, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023

From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and returning Sámi craft and culture By BarbaraSjoholm, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023

The affect lab: The history and limits of measuring emotion By GrantBollmer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 279. $28 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1546‐9

The affect lab: The history and limits of measuring emotion By GrantBollmer, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. pp. 279. $28 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1546‐9

The Frankfurt School in Exile By ThomasWheatland, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023

The Frankfurt School in Exile By ThomasWheatland, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2023

The needle and the lens: pop goes to the movies from rock ‘n’ roll to synthwave By NatePatrin, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 264 pp. $19.95 paper

The needle and the lens: pop goes to the movies from rock ‘n’ roll to synthwave By NatePatrin, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 2023. 264 pp. $19.95 paper

The Camp: Designed Artifact

A review of Irit Katz, The Common Camp: Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel-Palestine, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 368 pages, 99 b&w photos, six maps. ISBN: 978-1-5179-0717-4. The Common Camp provides a careful account of the role of camps in the materialization of settlement ideology in Israel–Palestine over several historical periods. The book employs architectural history methods in the study of numerous aspects of the camps, identifying them as designed cultural-political artifacts used by diverse actors for controlling and well as resisting control, thus contributing to the literature on camps in political geography and related fields.

A careful approach to artificial intelligence: the struggles with epistemic responsibility of healthcare professionals

ABSTRACT Machine learning approaches are being developed to contribute to the treatment of patients and the organisation of care. These new approaches are created in complex environments that include data and computational models as well as new practices, roles and competencies. In such settings, individualised conceptions of agents bearing responsibility need rethinking. In response, we elaborate on the concept of epistemic responsibility based on De la Bellacasa’s work on care (Bellacasa, M.P. de la. (2017). Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. University of Minnesota Press). To better understand these complex environments and the dynamics of responsibility, we use an ethnographic approach and followed Dutch healthcare professionals who learned the basics of (supervised) machine learning, while they pursued a project in their organisations during a four-month-long course. The professionals struggled with different interdependencies and this brought responsibility-in-the-making into relief. Rather than seeing (growing) relations and impure entanglements as standing in the way of responsibility, we show how connections are worthy of inquiry. We argue that connections are essential to knowledge and that producing epistemic responsibility means considering these embedded relations. In contrast to calls for control and clarification of machine learning techniques, and warnings that they create irresponsible black boxes, our care approach shows how responsibility-in-the-making reveals opportunities for ethical reflection and action. Our approach attends to how humans and non-humans are engaged in caring, reveals patterns around kinds of responsibility, and points to opportunities for avoiding neglect and irresponsibility.

“The Best Little Boy in the World”: Disidentification in the Production of Black Gay Male Subjectivity1

This article examines how Black gay men produce identities in correspondence with cultural scripts of Black manhood. I illustrate how these scripts organize a subjectivity shaped by white supremacy and signify racial consciousness, respectability, and commitment to Black antiracism. The script intentionally excludes queer men. Instead, Black queer men are “faggots,” a subjectivity signifying weakness, wasted manhood, and capitulation to whiteness. Utilizing Muñoz's (1999, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis) concept of disidentification, I track how participants engage in a reimagining of the conventional script of heteronormative Black masculinity to embody a subjectivity I call Super Black Man. This hybrid subjectivity responds to interlocking systems of race, sexuality, and gender in their lives by locating space in conventional Black male subjectivities for Black gay men. As Super Black Men, participants accomplished identities that did not compromise their self‐expression or affiliation with Black communities. I discuss how disidentification adds analytic complexity to this empirical investigation of Black gay men's identity work. What results is a more robust understanding of how race shapes the motives, trajectory, and outcomes of racialized sexual identities.