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South Asia is on the move. People, goods, ideas, aesthetic forms, institutional designs, and political dynamics originating in South Asia have been increasingly important across the globe throughout the 20th century. Today, seismic social, economic, and cultural shifts across the region undermine old certainties, unsettle long established social hierarchies and patterns of life, transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of people. While the elite and middle classes across the region clamor for global recognition, their social standing and political dominance are severely challenged by multiple cultural and social minorities, and by the large majorities that are still waiting for the wages of postcolonial freedom and self-determination.

Post•45 publishes groundbreaking work on US culture from the Second World War to the present. Books in this series aim to interrogate rather than reproduce critical orthodoxies—to ask basic questions about how to read and categorize postwar culture. To that end, the series focuses on American literature and culture, but also on work that takes seriously the decreasing specificity of a national literature in the wake of the “American Century.” We welcome submissions on a wide range of cultural forms, including literature, film, drama, music, graphic arts, and new media.

The Stanford Studies in Human Rights series reaches beyond conventional approaches and disciplinary boundaries to publish widely ranging studies in human rights from diverse perspectives. Connecting the scholarly community to human rights practitioners, books in this list include ethnographic studies of human rights in practice, critical reflections on the concept of human rights, new proposals for a more effective international human rights system, and historical accounts of the rise of human rights as a globalized moral discourse.

Books in this series bring together established and emerging voices that creatively examine the key dilemmas in contemporary human rights theory and practice. Committed to the idea that human rights should be a fundamentally interdisciplinary area of human knowledge, political practice, and ethical inquiry, this series features works that provide lasting contributions to the field and that make an important and lasting contribution to the study and understanding of human rights in this new century.