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 ... Read morebook 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 Show Less