What happens when a qualitative/theoretical scholar of gender/sexuality and cultural studies and a quantitative behavioral scientist step outside the boundaries of our respective disciplines, risking disruptions to our normal procedures and cherished political and theoretical commitments? Our...

Review of: Graeber, D. (2011) Debt: The First 5000 years. Melville House Publishing: New York. (HB, pp.534, US$22.00, ISBN 9781933633862).David Graeber's 2011 book, Debt: The first 5000 years, has received a great deal of attention in academic, activist, and popular media venues (see Hann, 2012;...

Response to 2013 American Studies Association Presidential Address by Curtis Marez.In his presidential address, Curtis Marez articulates an ambitious double project for himself and for the field: to “center collective dissent to student debt in American studies” and “to outline an American...

A number of social theorists have argued that debt is now the determining economic and thus social relation, superseding relations of production or consumption as the socially formative economic dynamic. And debt plays a hegemonizing function. Credit and debt have been written into what I have...

As an intervention in the cruelty of financialized entrepreneurial capitalism, a number of scholars, most prominently Lauren Berlant and Randy Martin, have suggested a turn to what they each call the "lateral." Against the future-oriented aspirations of the entrepreneur and the regimes of...

This paper draws on the author's experience as Chair of the University of Arizona Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee. Through readings of university strategic plans and other bureaucratic documents, she explores the changing meaning and role of "interdisciplinarity" and the complex...