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On the Inconvenience of Other People

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Lauren Berlant (1957–2021) was George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author and coauthor of many books, including The Queen of America Goes to Washington City; The Female Complaint; Cruel Optimism; Sex, or the Unbearable; and The Hundreds, all also published by Duke University Press. September 2022 256 pages, 18 illustrations Social theory / Cultural studies / Affect theory Rights: World except Italian language rights: Utunul About Duke University Press

Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu Kapil, the Occupy move ment, and resistance to anti-Black state violence, Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life. Collecting strategies for breaking apart a world in need of disturbing, the book’s experiments in thought and writing cement Berlant’s status as one of the most inven tive and influential thinkers of our time.

April 2023 136 pages, 26 color illustrations Trans studies / Pop music / Autofiction Rights: World

RavingMCKENZIE

McKenzie Wark is the author of Capital is Dead, Reverse Cowgirl, and The Beach Beneath the Street, among other books.

WARK What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic and temporal possibil ities for this era of diminishing futures. Raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them. Extending the rave’s sensations, situations, fog, lasers, drugs, and pounding sound systems onto the page, Wark invokes a trans practice of raving as a timely aesthetic for dancing in the ruins of this collapsing capital.

February 2023 112 pages, 3 Fishing / Outdoorsillustrations Rights: World

Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.

Fly-FishingCHRISTOPHER SCHABERG In Fly-Fishing, Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing. From the northern Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish to casting flies in a New Orleans bayou, Schaberg sketches landscapes and fish habitats while show ing how fishing allows him to think about coexisting with other species. Fly-fishing offers Schaberg a much-needed source of humility, social isolation, connection with nature, and a reminder of environmental degradation. Rather than centering fishing on trophies, conquest, and travel, Schaberg advocates for a “small fishing” that values catching the diminutive fish near one’s home. Introspective and personal, Fly-Fishing demonstrates how Schaberg’s obses sion indelibly shapes how he understands and lives in the wider world.

JugglingSTEWARTLAWRENCE SINCLAIR In Juggling

FREEMAN In Running, former ncaa Division I track athlete Lindsey A. Freeman presents the feminist and queer handbook of running that she always wanted but could never find. For Freeman, running is full of joy, desire, and indulgence in the pleasure and weirdness of having a body. It allows for a space of freedom—to move and be moved. Through tender storytelling of a lifetime wearing running shoes, Freeman considers injury and recovery, what it means to run as a visibly queer person, and how the release found in running comes from a desire to touch something that cannot be accessed when still. Running invites us to run through life, legging it out the best we can with heart and style.

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, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the 4,000 year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair—who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking—shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets and, ultimately, finding comfort in juggling during the covid-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to per form in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times. Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a writer and editor whose essays, reportage, and narrative nonfiction has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, The New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at the City College of New York. illustrations 2023 20 illustrations

Lindsey A. Freeman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University.

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Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antago nism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of “the queer,” the order of meaning defends against the sense lessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education’s response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan’s “ab-sens” and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory’s engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.

Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

December 2022 376 pages, 105 color illustrations Queer Theory / Cultural studies / Literary Theory Rights: World

In The Miniaturists

Barbara Browning is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include The Gift, I’m Trying to Reach You, and The Correspondence Artist Education

Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and let ting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-cen tury entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the “mother of forensic science,” who built intricate doll houses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut toy piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift’s and Lewis Car roll’s preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast—even cosmic—realities.

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Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, and coauthor, with Lauren Berlant, of Sex, or the Unbearable, both also pub lished by Duke University Press.

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October 2022 232 pages, 21 illustrations Creative non-fiction Rights: World Bad

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October 2022 240 pages, 15 illustrations Gay history / Memoir Rights: World

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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood Coming of Age in the Sixties JOHN D ’ EMILIO Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is pioneering historian John D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares the personal experiences of his conservative, tight-knit multigenera tional family, how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. Throughout, D’Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his deci sion to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong lgbtq movement. D’Emilio opens a window into how the conformist baby boom decade of the 1950s transformed into the tumultuous years of the 1960s and shares what happens when different cultures and values collide. Intimate and honest, D’Emilio’s story will resonate with anyone who has had to find their own path in a world they did not expect to find.

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CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH In The Terrible We

The We Thinking with Trans Maladjustment Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production. Observ ing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this dis avowal. By tracing the coproduction of the categories of disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliott DeLine, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich sug gests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationships among trans, feminist, and queer. In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and creativity, forms of maladjustment have also been and will continue to be central to their development.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Dispatch and Sympathetic Little Korean Publishers

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John D’Emilio is Emeritus Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of many books, including The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture, also published by Duke University Press.

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Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago is Professor in the Geology, Geophysics, and Marine-Re search Group at the Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia, and a prolific author of coastal science studies. Keith C. Pilkey, an attorney concerned with legal issues of coastal development, is co author of two books about sea level rise. Hannah L. Hayes is a scholar of changing land rights, disaster capitalism, and risk management in Barbuda and Fiji. World Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics

November 2022 288 pages, 96 illustrations, including 32 in color

Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic

December 2022 272 pages, 56 illustrations, including 53 in color NaturalActivism / BeachResources / EnvironmentalMining Rights:

In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is strip ping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.

LISA E. BLOOM In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the ways artists, filmmakers, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic to represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages fem inist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears, artists such as Katja Aglert, Subhankar Banerjee, Joyce Campbell, Judit Hersko, Roni Horn, Isaac Julien, Zacharias Kunuk, Connie Samaras, and activist art collectives take a more complex poetic and political approach. In their films and visual and conceptual art, these artists link climate change to its social roots in colonialism and capitalism while challenging the suppression of information about environmental destruction and critiquing Western art institutions for their complicity. Bloom’s examination and contextualization of new polar aesthetics makes environmental degradation more legible while demonstrating that our own political agency is central to imagining and constructing a better world.

ORRIN H. PILKEY, NORMA J. LONGO, WILLIAM J. NEAL , NELSON G. RANGEL-BUITRAGO, KEITH C. PILKEY, AND HANNAH L. HAYES

Vanishing Sands Losing Beaches to Mining

Orrin H. Pilkey is Emeritus James B. Duke Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University and the author and coauthor of many books. Norma J. Longo, a geologist and photographer, is coauthor with Pilkey of several books on coastal issues. William J. Neal, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University, is an expert on ocean and Great Lakes shoreline evolution and coauthor of many books with Pilkey.

Lisa E. Bloom is Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group in the Department of Gender and Women’s studies, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions. Two of the book’s chapters were written with Elena Glasberg, who is the author of Antarctica as Cultural Critique: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change

Travis S. K. Kong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. 2022 352 pages, 37 Anthropology / Geographyillustrations Rights: World July 2023 224 pages, 10 illustrations Asian studies / lgbtq studies / Sociology Rights: World “Nature Conservation in the City,” brochure, 1984. Photo by the author.

In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they make their lives in the ruins of European nationalism and cap italism. She develops the notion of the ruderal—originally an ecological designation for the unruly life that inhabits inhospitable environments such as rubble, roadsides, train tracks, and sidewalk cracks—to theorize Berlin as a “ruderal city.” Stoetzer explores sites in and around Berlin that have figured in German national imaginaries—gardens, forests, parks, and rubble fields—to show how racial, class, and gender inequalities shape contestations over today’s uses and knowledges of urban nature. Drawing on fieldwork with gardeners, botanists, migrant workers, refugees, public officials, and nature enthusiasts while charting human and more-than-human worlds, Stoetzer offers a wide-ranging ethnographic portrait of Berlin’s postwar ecologies that reveals emergent futures in the margins of European cities. Brimming with stories that break down divides between environmental perspectives and the study of migration and racial politics, Berlin’s ruderal worlds help us rethink the space of nature and culture and the categories through which we make sense of urban life in inhos pitable times.

Sexuality and the Rise of China

7Duke University Press dukeupress.edu Ruderal City Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin BETTINA STOETZER

Bettina Stoetzer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and coeditor of Shock and Awe: War on Words

Sexuality and the Rise of China is sociologist Travis S. K. Kong’s critique of the influence of Western theories of sexuality on non-Western sexualities. In particular, Kong turns to West ern-based sociologies of homosexuality to examine how they fail to take into account and explain queer Asian identities. Using case studies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China, Kong provides a bridge between sociology and queer theory—or what he sees as material vs. discursive analysis—in an effort to better frame and understand Chinese queer identities.

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The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China

TRAVIS S. K. KONG

VIVIAN L. HUANG In Surface Relations

Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), from political to cultural, from collective to individual. This shift reconstituted people as Homo economicus, rights-bearing and rights-claiming individuals, even in social movements. Lee explains this shift in the context of simultaneous historical developments: South Korea’s transition to democracy, the end of the Cold War, and neoliberal reconstruc tion understood as synonymous with democratization. By examining memoirs, biographies, novels, and revisionist conservative historical scholarship, Lee shows how the dominant dis course of a “complete break with the past” erases the critical ethos of previous emancipatory movements foundational to South Korean democracy.

Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability

December 2022 232 pages, 6 illustrations Asian studies / History / Globalization and Neoliberalism Rights: World

Namhee Lee is Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, author of The Making of Minjung: Democracy and the Politics of Representation in South Korea, and coeditor of The South Korean Democratization Movement: A Sourcebook

Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea NAMHEE LEE In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea

Vivian L. Huang is Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at San Francisco State University.

November 2022 240 pages, 24 illustrations Asian American theory / Performancestudies / Queerstudies Rights: World

Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strate gically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and per formance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability—such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness, and withholding— to express Asian American life. Through analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh, Baseera Khan, Emma Sulkowicz, Tseng Kwong Chi), writers (Kim Fu, Kai Cheng Thom, Monique Truong), and video, multimedia, and conceptual artists (Laurel Nakadate, Yoko Ono, Mika Tajima), Huang challenges neoliberal narratives of assimilation that erase Asianness. By using sound, touch, and affect, these artists and writers create new frameworks for affirming Asianness as a source of political and social critique and innovative forms of life and creativity.

Surface Relations

The Williamsburg Avant-Garde Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront CISCO BRADLEY

Miryam Sas is Professor of Film and Media and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imag ined Return and Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism

9Duke University Press dukeupress.edu Feeling Media Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art MIRYAM SAS

In Feeling Media

November 2022 320 pages, 53 illustrations Media studies / Asian studies Rights: World May 2023 384 pages, 50 Music / Avant-gardeillustrationsart / Brooklyn Rights: World

Cisco Bradley is Associate Professor of History at the Pratt Institute, editor of the Jazz Right Now blog, and author of Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker, also published by Duke University Press.

The Williamsburg Avant-Garde traces the Brooklyn underground music scene and the spaces and communities it inhabited from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Drawing from extensive ethnographic interviews, private archive collections, formal and informal music recordings, videos, photos, and other ephemera, Bradley examines how musicians employed space— including backyards, lofts, streets, and empty warehouses—in the production of their music. Withan emphasis on the free jazz and experimental music scenes, Bradley offers a history of diy Brooklyn music and architecture before they were distorted, diluted, stolen, or commod ified by gentrifying social forces.

Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the individual and larger global and historical shifts. She examines intermedia, experimental animation, and Marxist theories of the culture industries of the 1960s and 1970s in the work of artists and thinkers ranging from filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, photographer Nakahira Takuma, and the Three Animators’ Group to art critic Hanada Kiyoteru and landscape theorist Mat suda Masao. She also outlines how twenty-first-century Japanese artists—especially those responding to the Fukushima disaster—adopt and adapt this earlier work to reframe ideas about collectivity, community, and connectivity in the space between the individual and the system.

No Machos or Pop Stars

After punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-mu sicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avant-garde ideas to the record-buying public, they created Situationist antirock and art punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England’s statefunded education policy brought together art students from different social classes to create a fertile ground for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the groups who wanted to dismantle both art world and music industry hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional music scene of lasting international significance.

Ed Cohen is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of A Body Worth Defending, also published by Duke University Press. He also hosts a therapeutic practice for people interested in healing: healingcounsel.com.

On Learning to Heal or, What Medicine Doesn’t Know ED COHEN At thirteen, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for was periods of remission. Unfortunately, they never mentioned healing as a possibility. In On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to con sider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies, it is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing’s role for all those whose lives are touched by illness.

October 2022 312 pages, 118 illustrations Pop music / Art Rights: World January 2023 240 Health / Medicalpagesanthropologyhumanities / Medical Rights: World

When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk GAVIN BUTT

Gavin Butt is Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University, author of Between You and Me: Queer Dis closures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Post-Punk Then and Now

Elizabeth S. Anker is Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell Uni versity, coeditor of Critique and Postcritique, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature

Richard T. Rodríguez is Professor of English and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Califor nia, Riverside, and author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics, also published by Duke University Press. September 2022 264 pages, 28 illustrations Pop music / Latinx studies / lgbtq studies

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In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twen tieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the humanities to its appeal as an incisive tool for exposing and dismantling hierarchies. Tracing the ascent of paradox in the ories of modernity, in rights discourse, in the history of literary criticism and the linguistic turn, and in the transformation of the liberal arts in higher education, Anker suggests that paradox not only generates the very exclusions it critiques but also creates a disempowering haze of indecision. She shows that reasoning through paradox has become deeply problem atic: it engrains a startling homogeneity of thought while undercutting the commitment to social justice that remains a guiding imperative of theory. Rather than calling for a wholesale abandonment of such reasoning, Anker argues for an expanded, diversified theory toolkit that can help theorists escape the seductions and traps of paradox.

Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Meld ing memoir with cultural criticism, Rodríguez spotlights a host of influential bands and performers including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. He recounts these bands’ importance for him and other Latinx kids and discusses their frequent identification with these bands’ glamorous performance of difference. Whether it was Siouxsie Sioux drawing inspiration from Latinx contemporaries and cultural practices or how Soft Cell singer Marc Almond’s lyrics were attuned to the vibrancy of queer Latinidad, Rodríguez shows how Latinx culture helped shape British post-punk. He traces the fandom networks that link these groups across space and time to illuminate how popular music establishes and facilitates intimate relations across the Atlantic. In so doing, he demonstrates how the music and styles that have come to define the 1980s hold significant sway over younger generations equally enthused by their match lessly pleasurable and political reverberations.

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In Uncanny Rest

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Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspen sion of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day to day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical— the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve, and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.

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Uncanny Rest For Antiphilosophy ALBERTO MOREIRAS

He outlines how Bland’s arrest and death reveal the affective resonances of blackness, and he contends that Sterling’s physical movement and speech before he was killed point to black flesh as unruly living matter that exceeds the constraints of the black body. These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness.

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University and author of The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies, also published by Duke University Press, Against Abstraction: Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist, and Infrapolitics: A Handbook. Camila Moreiras is a translator, artist, and filmmaker. 2022 208 pages, 11 illustrations Rights: World Black Life Matter

Blackness, Religion, and the Subject BIKO MANDELA GRAY In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls “sit ting-with”—a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living. He shows that the police who killed Stanley-Jones and Rice reduced them to their bodies in ways that turn black lives into tools that the state uses to justify its violence and existence.

Translated by CAMILA MOREIRAS

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The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook

November 2022 224 Religiouspagesstudies / Political theory Rights: World

AnaLouise Keating is Professor of Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s Uni versity and the author of Transformation Now! Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change and other books. She worked closely with Anzaldúa for more than a decade, editing Interviews/Entrevistas and coediting (with Anzaldúa) this bridge we call home. She has also edited Anzaldúa’s books posthumously, including Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, also published by Duke University Press.

Filipe Maia is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University.

ANALOUISE KEATING In The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investiga tion of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Through archival research and close readings of Anzaldúa’s unpublished and published writings, Keating offers a biographical-intellectual sketch of Anzaldúa, investigates her writing pro cess and theory-making methods, and excavates her archival manuscripts. Keating focuses on the breadth of Anzaldúa’s theoretical oeuvre, including Anzaldúa’s lesser-known con cepts of autohistoria y autohistoria-teoría, nos/otras, geographies of selves, and El Mundo Zurdo. By investigating those dimensions of Anzaldúa’s theories, writings, and methods that have received less critical attention and by exploring the interconnections between these overlooked concepts and her better-known theories, Keating opens additional areas of investigation into Anzaldúa’s work and models new ways to “do” Anzaldúan theory. This book also includes extensive definitions, genealogies, and explorations of eighteen key Anz aldúan theories as well as an annotated bibliography of hundreds of Anzaldúa’s unpublished manuscripts.

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Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism

FILIPE MAIA

The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy, to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what’s possible. Here, people’s hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future, calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theology, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subver sive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control.

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In The Dancer’s Voice

In listening closely to and for the dancer’s voice, she offers a new way to understand the inter sections of body, voice, performance, caste, race, gender, and nation.

Rumya Sree Putcha theorizes how the Indian classical dancer performs the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Putcha argues that the public persona of the Indian dancer has come to represent India in the global imagination—a rep resentation that supports caste hierarchies and Hindu ethnonationalism, as well as white supremacist model minority narratives. Generations of Indian women have been encouraged to embody the archetype of the dancer, popularized through film cultures from the 1930s to the present. Through analyses of films, immigration and marriage laws, histories of caste and race, advertising campaigns, and her own family’s heirlooms, photographs, and memories, Putcha reveals how women’s citizenship is based on separating their voices from their bodies.

Rumya Sree Putcha is Assistant Professor of Music and Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia.

December 2022 208 pages, 33 illustrations South Asian studies / Feminism / Film Rights: World

The Dancer’s Voice Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India RUMYA SREE PUTCHA

Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and author of Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, also published by Duke University Press.

SAMI SCHALK In Black Disability Politics

October 2022 224 pages, 5 illustrations Black studies / Disability studies Rights: World

Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and con tinue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement. Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Health Project alongside interviews with contemporary Black disabled cultural workers, Schalk identifies common qualities of Black disability politics, including the need to ground public health initiatives in the expe rience and expertise of marginalized disabled people so that they can work in antiracist, feminist, and anti-ableist ways. Prioritizing an understanding of disability within the context of white supremacy, Schalk demonstrates that the work of Black disability politics not only exists but is essential to the future of Black liberation movements.

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Jovan Scott Lewis is Associate Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of California, Berke ley, and author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica illustrations American studies / Urban studies Rights: World Colonial Racial Capitalism

SUSAN KOSHY, LISA MARIE CACHO, JODI A. BYRD, and BRIAN JORDAN JEFFERSON, editors

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Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Virginia. Jodi A. Byrd is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Brian Jordan Jefferson is Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

JOVAN SCOTT LEWIS In Violent Utopia

Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa

Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Ter ritory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood—colloquially known as Black Wall Street—curtailed the freedom built there. Rather than framing the massacre as a one-off event, Lewis places it in a larger historical and social context of widespread patterns of anti-Black racism, segregation, and dispossession in Tulsa and beyond. He shows how the processes that led to the massacre, subsequent urban renewal, and intergenerational poverty shored up by nonprofits constitute a form of continuous slow violence. Now, in their attempts to redevelop resources for self-de termination, Black Tulsans must reconcile a double inheritance: the massacre’s violence and the historical freedom and prosperity that Greenwood represented. Their future is tied to their geography, which is the foundation from which they will repair and fulfill Greenwood’s promise.

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The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodifi cation, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of colonized lands across the globe. They demonstrate the co-constitution and entanglement of slavery and colonialism from the conquest of the New World through indus trial capitalism to contemporary financial capitalism. Among other topics, the essays explore the historical suturing of Blackness and Black people to debt, the violence of uranium mining on Indigenous lands in Canada and the Belgian Congo, how municipal property assessment and waste management software encodes and produces racial difference, how Puerto Rican police crackdowns on protestors in 2010 and 2011 drew on decades of policing racially and economically marginalized people, and how historic sites in Los Angeles County narrate the Mexican-American War in ways that occlude the war’s imperialist groundings. The vol ume’s analytic of colonial racial capitalism opens new frameworks for understanding the persistence of violence, precarity, and inequality in modern society.

October 2022 368 pages, 7 illustrations American studies / Black studies / Indigenous and Native studies Rights: World

Dragging Away Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art LEX MORGAN LANCASTER

Lex Morgan Lancaster is Assistant Professor of Art History and Gallery Director at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Stephanie Springgay is Director of the School of the Arts and Associate Professor at McMaster Univer sity, author of Body Knowledge and Curriculum: Pedagogies of Touch in Youth and Visual Culture, and coauthor of Walking Methodologies in a More-Than-Human World: WalkingLab

Feltness Research-Creation, Socially Engaged Art, and Affective Pedagogies

October 2022 208 pages, 35 illustrations, including 16 page color insert Art history / Queer theory Rights: World

STEPHANIE SPRINGGAY

Stephanie Springgay’s concept of feltness—which emerges from affect theory, queer and feminist theory, and feminist conceptions of more-than-human entanglements—is a set of intimate practices of creating art based on touch, affect, relationality, love, and responsibility.

In this book, she explores how feltness is a radical pedagogy that can be practiced with diverse publics, including children, who are often left out of conversations about who can learn in radical ways. Springgay examines the results of a decade-long project in which researchers, artists, students, and teachers participated in events in North American elementary, sec ondary, and postsecondary institutions. In projects that ranged from children learning to be critics and artists to university students experimenting with building “a public” through art, participants blended participatory art creation with academic research to address social justice issues. Springgay shows how feltness can redefine who is imagined to be capable of complex feeling, experiential learning, embodied practice, social engagement, and intimate care. In this way, feltness fosters learning that disrupts and defamiliarizes schools and insti tutions, knowledge systems, values, and the legibility of art and research.

Lex Morgan Lancaster traces the formal and material innovations of con temporary queer and feminist artists, showing how they use abstraction as a queering tactic for social and political ends. Through a process Lancaster theorizes as a drag—dragging past aesthetics into the present and reworking them while pulling their work away from direct representation—these artists reimagine midcentury forms of abstraction and expose the violence of the tendency to reduce abstract form to a bodily sign or biographical symbol ism. Lancaster outlines how the geometric enamel objects, grid paintings, vibrant color, and expansive installations of artists ranging from Ulrike Müller, Nancy Brooks Brody, and Lorna Simpson to Linda Besemer, Sheila Pepe, and Shinique Smith offer direct challenges to repre sentational and categorical legibility. In so doing, Lancaster demonstrates that abstraction is not apolitical, neutral, or universal; it is a form of social praxis that actively contributes to queer, feminist, critical race, trans, and crip politics.

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In Dragging Away

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SOPHIE CHAO, KARIN BOLENDER , and EBEN KIRKSEY, editors

Torin Monahan is Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity, coauthor of SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society, and coeditor of Surveillance Studies: pages, 29 illustrations Surveillance studies / Cultural studies / Art Rights: World

What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography, philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary art answer these ques tions from diverse grounded locations. In America, Indigenous peoples and prisoners are decolonizing multispecies relations in unceded territory and carceral landscapes. Small jus tices are emerging in Tanzanian markets, near banana plantations in the Philippines, and in abandoned buildings of Azerbaijan as people navigate relations with feral dogs, weeds, rats, and pesticides. Conflicts over rights of nature are intensifying in Colombia’s Amazon. Specters of justice are emerging in India, while children in Micronesia memorialize extinct bird species. Engaging with ideas about environmental justice, restorative justice, and other species of justice, The Promise of Multispecies Justice holds open the possibility of flourishing in multispecies worlds, present and to come.

Sophie Chao is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, also pub lished by Duke University Press. Karin Bolender is an artist-researcher at the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.). Eben Kirksey is author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power and Emergent Ecologies, both also published by Duke University Press, and The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

The Promise of Multispecies Justice

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TORIN MONAHAN In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhöfer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank Willis Thomas to Claudia Rankine and Dread Scott, who engage with what he calls crisis vision—the regimes of racializing surveillance that position black and brown bodies as targets for police and state violence. Many artists, Monahan contends, remain invested in frameworks that privilege transparency, universality, and individual responsibility in ways that often occlude racial difference. Other artists, however, disrupt crisis vision by con fronting white supremacy and destabilizing hierarchies through the performance of opacity. Whether fostering a recognition of a shared responsibility and complicity for the violence of crisis vision or critiquing how vulnerable groups are constructed and treated globally, these artists emphasize ethical relations between strangers and ask viewers to question their own place within unjust social orders.

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The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

Harris Solomon is Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India, also pub lished by Duke University Press. Health in Ruins

CÉSAR ERNESTO ABADÍA-BARRERO In Health in Ruins César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colom bia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and noncommodified health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno open, Abadía-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care needs to be embedded in larger political histories.

Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, and families who experience and care for traumatic injuries due to widespread traffic accidents. He traces trauma’s moves after the accident: from scenes of road and railway injuries to ambulance interiors; through emergency triage, surgery, and intensive care; and from the morgue for patients who do not survive into the homes of those who do. These pathways reveal how trauma shifts inequali ties, infrastructures, and institutions through the lives and labors of clinical spaces. Solomon contends that medicine itself must be understood in terms of lifelines: patterns of embodied movement that determine survival. In reflecting on the centrality of traffic to life, Lifelines explores a fundamental question: How does medicine move us?

Lifelines The Traffic of Trauma HARRIS SOLOMON In Lifelines

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César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, author of “I Have AIDS but I Am Happy”: Children’s Subjec tivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil, and coeditor of A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Naomi Angel (1977–2014) completed her PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York Uni versity in 2013. Dylan Robinson is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. Jamie Berthe is Lecturer at New York University.

October 2022 240 pages, 54 illustrations Indigenous studies / Visual culture Rights: World

In Breathing Aesthetics

Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada

In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (trc) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Frag ments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representations of the schools in popular media and literature, and testimonies from trc proceedings, Angel traces how the trc served as a mechanism through which memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many Indigenous communities were able to use the trc process as a way to claim agency over their memories of the schools. Bringing to light the ongoing costs of transforming settler states into modern nations, Angel demonstrates how the trc offers a unique optic through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of Canada’s Indigenous populations.

Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism, and structural racism are embodied and experienced through respiration. They identify responses to the crisis in breathing in aesthetic practices ranging from the film work of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta to the disability diaries of Bob Flanagan, to the Black queer speculative fiction of Renee Gladman. In readings of these and other minoritarian works of experimental film, endurance performance, ecopoetics, and cinema-vérité, Tremblay contends that articula tions of survival now depend on the management and dispersal of respiratory hazards. In so doing, they reveal how an aesthetic attention to breathing generates historically, culturally, and environmentally situated tactics and strategies for living under precarity.

Jean-Thomas Tremblay is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of Hu manities at York University and coeditor of Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s October 2022 248 pages, 17 illustrations Queer theory / Environmental humanities Rights: World Fragments of Truth

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Breathing JEAN-THOMASAestheticsTREMBLAY

Activism and the Production of Space JUAN HERRERA In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street murals to the architecture of restaurants and shops, Herrera shows how Fruitvale’s communities and spaces serve as a palpable, living record of movement politics and achievements. Drawing on oral histories with Chicano activists, ethnography, and archival research, Herrera ana lyzes how activism has shaped Fruitvale. Herrera examines the ongoing nature of activism through nonprofit organizations and urban redevelopment projects like the Fruitvale Transit Village that root movements in place. Revealing that the social justice activism in Fruitvale fights for a space that does not yet exist, Herrera brings to life contentious politics about the nature of Chicanismo, Latinidad, and belonging while foregrounding the lasting social and material legacies of movements so often relegated to the past.

Changing the Subject Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India SRILA ROY

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In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India’s liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development and ngos signaled the co-optation and depoliticization of struggles for women’s rights, even as they amplified the visibility and vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of activ ist and ngo work around issues of gender and sexuality through a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other on rural women’s empowerment. Tracing changes in feminist governmentality that were entangled in transnational neoliberalism, Roy shows how historical and highly local feminist currents shaped contemporary queer and nonqueer neoliberal feminisms. The interplay between historic techniques of activist governance and queer feminist governmen tality’s focus on changing the self offers a new way of knowing feminism—both as always already co-opted and as a transformative force in the world.

October 2022 280 pages, 7 illustrations Women’s studies / South Asian studies Rights: World

Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of Remem bering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement, and editor of New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities

Juan Herrera is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

October 2022 264 pages, 31 Geography / Latinxillustrationsstudies / Ethnic studies Rights: World

Cartographic Memory

September 2022 272 pages, 16 illustrations American studies / Latinx studies / Literary criticism Rights: World

José David Saldívar is Leon Sloss Jr. Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author or coeditor of many books, including Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination and Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico, both also published by Duke University Press.

21Duke University Press dukeupress.edu This Flame Within Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States MANIJEH MORADIAN In This Flame

On the Half-Life of Love

Manijeh Moradian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. pages, 16 illustrations American studies / Middle East studies / Gender studies World Junot Díaz

Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Associ ation, Moradian traces what she calls “revolutionary affects”—the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistance—from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes “affects of solidarity” that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifesta tions of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association’s legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.

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JOSÉ DAVID SALDÍVAR In Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love, José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Díaz’s imaginative work and the diasporic and immigrant world he inhabits, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his writing—especially his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—radically changed the course of US Latinx literature and created a new way of viewing the decolonial world. Saldívar examines several aspects of Díaz’s career, from his vexed relationship to the literary aesthetics of Whiteness that dominated his mfa experience and his critiques of the colonialities of power, race, and gender in culture and societies of the Dominican Republic, United States, and the Américas to his use of the science-fiction imag inary to explore the capitalist zombification of our planet. Throughout, Saldívar shows how Díaz’s works exemplify the literary currents of the early twenty-first century.

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In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balen ciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the source of the bags’ design. In Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the way social media users monitor the fashion market for the appearance of knockoff fashion, design theft, and plagiarism. Tracing the history of fashion antipiracy efforts back to the 1930s, she foregrounds the work of policing that has been tacitly outsourced to social media. Despite the social media concern for ethical fashion and consumption and the good intentions behind design policing, Pham shows that it has ironically deepened forms of social and market inequality, as it relies on and reinforces racist and colonial norms and ideas about what constitutes copying and what counts as creativity. These struggles over ethical fashion and intellectual property, Pham demonstrates, constitute deeper struggles over the colonial legacies of cultural property in digital and global economies.

Minh-Ha T. Pham is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, also published by Duke University Press.

September 2022 176 pages, 15 Fashion / Socialillustrationsmedia / Legal studies Rights: World

Kemi Adeyemi presents an ethnography of how black queer women in Chicago use dance to assert their physical and affective rights to the city. Adeyemi stages the book in queer dance parties in gentrifying neighborhoods, where good feelings are good business. But feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills. Adeyemi documents how black queer women respond to these conditions: how they destroy DJ booths, argue with one another, dance slowly, and stop partying altogether. Their practices complicate our expectations that life at night, on the queer dance floor, or among black queer community simply feels good. Adeyemi’s framework of “feeling right” instead offers a closer, kinesthetic look at how black queer women adroitly manage feeling itself as a complex right they should be afforded in cities that violently structure their movements and energies. What emerges in Feels Right is a sensorial portrait of the critical, black queer geographies and collectivities that emerge in social dance settings and in the broader neoliberal city.

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Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago

Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington and coeditor of Queer Nightlife

KEMI ADEYEMI In Feels Right

MINH-HA T. PHAM

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Feels Right

Lorgia García Peña is Mellon Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University and author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction, also published by Duke University Press, and Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color September 2022 336 pages, 23 illustrations, including 2 in color Black studies / Latinx studies / Gender and sexuality Rights: World Time of One’s Own Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art

Translating Blackness Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective LORGIA GARCÍA PEÑA

In Translating Blackness

CATHERINE GRANT

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Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Doug lass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora, such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities. In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén—or, coming and going—at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to under stand human lived experiences.

In A Time of One’s Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art and activism in the 1990s. Exploring artworks from 2002 to 2017 by art ists including Sharon Hayes, Mary Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, Lubaina Himid, Pauline Boudry, and Renate Lorenz, Grant maps a revival of feminism that takes up the creative and political implications of forging feminist communities across time and space. Grant characterizes these artists’ engagement with feminism as a fannish, autodidactic, and collective form of learning from history. This fandom of feminism allows artists to build relationships with previous feminist ideas, artworks, and communities that reject a genera tional model and embrace aspects of feminism that might be seen as embarrassing, queer, or anachronistic.

Catherine Grant is Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and coeditor of Fandom as Methodology and Creative Writing and Art History

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Accounting for the growing interest in feminist art, politics, and ideas across generations, Grant demonstrates that for many contemporary feminist artists, the present moment can only be understood through an embodied engagement with history in which feminist pasts are reinhabited and reimagined.

Kaysha Corinealdi is Assistant Professor of World History at Emerson College.

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James R. Martel is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and the author of The Misinterpellated Subject, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead World Panama in Black Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

September 2022 280 pages, 18 illustrations African Diaspora / Latin American and Caribbean studies / History Rights: World

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KAYSHA CORINEALDI In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Carib bean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like Colón, Kingston, Panamá City, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic worldview of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Cori nealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest-running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Carib bean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black liberation. By showing how Afro-Ca ribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and dias pora formation.

Anarchist Prophets Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight

In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism—a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions—dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s prom ises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts to regain the authority for the community that archism has stolen. The goal of anarchist prophets is to render themselves obsolete and to cede power back to the collective so as to not become archist themselves. Martel locates anarchist prophets in a range of philosophical, literary, and historical examples, from Hobbes and Nietzsche to Mary Shelley and Octavia Butler to Kurdish resistance in Syria and the Spanish Revolution. In so doing, Martel highlights how anarchist forms of collective vision and action can provide the means to overthrow archist authority.

XOCHITL MARSILLI-VARGAS

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Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas and coauthor of The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and com municating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on where, how, and to whom they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a “psychoanalytic ear” that emerges during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations of the hidden meaning the words carry. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoana lytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interaction.

Genres of Listening An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires

KATHERINE SOBERING In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unem ployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires’s iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing longtime hospitality workers out of their jobs. Rather than leaving the luxury hotel vacant, a group of former employees occupied the property and kept it open. In The People’s Hotel, Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, detailing its transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally. Combining ethno graphic and archival research with her own experiences as a volunteer worker at the hotel, Sobering examines how the Bauen Cooperative grew and, against all odds, successfully kept the hotel open for nearly two decades. Highlighting successes and innovations alongside the many challenges that these workers faced, Sobering presents a vivid portrait of efforts to address inequality and reorganize work in a capitalist economy.

September 2022 272 pages, 31 illustrations Latin American studies / Sociology Rights: World

The People’s Hotel Working for Justice in Argentina

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Staple Security Bread and Wheat in Egypt

World Markets of Civilization Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, show ing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what Davis terms “a racial regime of religion” that subjected Algerian Muslims to discriminatory political and economic structures. These experts believed that introducing a market economy would mod ernize society and discourage anticolonial nationalism. Planners, politicians, and economists implemented reforms that both sought to transform Algerians into modern economic sub jects and drew on racial assumptions despite the formally color-blind policies of the French state. Following independence, convictions about the inherent link between religious beliefs and economic behavior continued to influence development policies. Algerian president Ahmed Ben Bella embraced a specifically Algerian socialism founded on Islamic principles, while French technocrats saw Algeria as a testing ground for development projects elsewhere in the Global South. Highlighting the entanglements of race and religion, Davis demon strates that economic orthodoxies helped fashion understandings of national identity on both sides of the Mediterranean during decolonization.

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Jessica Barnes is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She is author of Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Climate Cultures: An thropological Perspectives on Climate Change.

September 2022 288 pages, 12 illustrations African and Middle East history / Postcolonial studies Rights: World

Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many rely ing on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail, she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain, and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to secure their consistent availability and quality.

Muriam Haleh Davis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions, and Culture

Mejdulene Bernard Shomali is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Piro Rexhepi is Lecturer at Southern New Hampshire University.

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Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route

White Enclosures

Between Banat Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives

In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from One Thousand and One Nights and the Golden Era of Egyptian cinema to contemporary novels, autobiographical writing, and prints and graphic novels that imagine queer Arab futures, Shomali uses what she calls queer Arab critique to locate queer desire amidst heter onormative imperatives. Showing how systems of heteropatriarchy and Arab nationalisms foreclose queer Arab women’s futures, she draws on the transliterated term “banat”—the Arabic word for girls—to refer to women, femmes, and nonbinary people who disrupt stereo typical and Orientalist representations of the “Arab woman.” By attending to Arab women’s narration of desire and identity, queer Arab critique substantiates queer Arab histories while challenging Orientalist and Arab national paradigms that erase queer subjects. In this way, Shomali frames queerness and Arabness as relational and transnational subject forma tions and contends that prioritizing transnational collectivity over politics of authenticity, respectability, and inclusion can help lead toward queer freedom.

PIRO REXHEPI For all its history of intersecting empires, the Balkans has been rarely framed as a global site of race and coloniality. This, as Piro Rexhepi argues in White Enclosures is not surprising, given the perception of the Balkans as colorblind and raceless, a project that spans post-Ottoman racial formations, transverses Socialist modernity, and is negotiated anew in the process of postsocialist Euro-Atlantic integration. Connecting severed colonial histories from the van tage point of body politic, Rexhepi turns to the borderland zones of the Balkans to trace past and present geopolitical attempts of walling whiteness. From efforts to straighten the sexual ities of post-Ottoman Muslim subjects, to Yugoslav nonaligned solidarities between Muslims of the second and third world, to Roma displacement and contemporary refugee carceral along the Balkan Route, Rexhepi points not only to the epistemic erasures that maintain the fantasy of whiteness, but also to the disruption emanating from the solidarities between queer- and transpeople that fold the Balkans back into global efforts to resist the politics of racial capitalism.

February 2023 200 pages, 15 illustrations Race and racism / Migration / Decoloniality Rights: World February 2023 224 pages, 9 illustrations Middle East studies / lgbtq studies / Arab American studies Rights: World Queer Arab Critique & Transnational Arab Archives Mejdulene Bernard Shomali

Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

RUPAL OZA In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body, but a language through which a range of issues—including caste and gender hierarchies, control over land and labor, and the shape of justice—are contested. Rather than focus on the laws governing rape, Oza closely exam ines rape charges to show how the victims and survivors of rape reclaim their autonomy by refusing to see themselves as defined entirely by the act of violation. Oza also shows how rape cases become arenas where bureaucrats, village council members, caste communities, and the police debate women’s sexual subjectivities and how those varied understandings impact the status and reputations of individuals and groups. In this way, rape gains meaning beyond the level of the survivor and victim to create a social category. By tracing the shifting meanings of sexual violence and justice, Oza offers insights into the social significance of rape in India and beyond.

Pheng Cheah is Professor of Rhetoric and Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of What Is a World? On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature, also published by Duke Univer sity Press. Caroline S. Hau is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, and author of Interpreting Rizal December 2022 344 Semiotics of Rape

The contributors to Siting Postcoloniality reevaluate the notion of the postcolonial by focusing on the Sinosphere—the region of East and Southeast Asia that has been significantly shaped by relations with China throughout history. Pointing out that the history of imperialism in China and Southeast Asia is longer and more complex than Euro-American imperialism, the contributors complicate the traditional postcolonial binaries of center/periphery, col onizer/colonized, and developed/developing. Among other topics, they examine socialist China’s attempts to break with Soviet cultural hegemony, the postcoloniality of Taiwan as it negotiates the legacy of Japanese colonial rule, Southeast Asian and South Asian diasporic experiences of colonialism, and Hong Kong’s complex colonial experiences under the British, the Japanese, and mainland China. The contributors show how postcolonial theory’s central concepts cannot adequately explain colonialism in the Sinosphere. Challenging fundamen tal axioms of postcolonial studies, the volume forcefully suggests that postcolonial theory needs to be rethought.

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Rupal Oza is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization

Siting Postcoloniality Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere PHENG CHEAH and CAROLINE S. HAU, editors

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Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani

Hobart is Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University and editor of The Foodways of Hawaiʻi: Past and Present

Naveeda Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan, also published by Duke University Press, and In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Climate from the Global South, and editor of Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan

29Duke University Press dukeupress.edu Cooling the Tropics Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment HI ‘ ILEI JULIA KAWEHIPUAAKAHAOPULANI HOBART

Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as “essential” for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refriger ation technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawaiʻi to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawaiʻi’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can—and must—be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawaiʻi and beyond.

December 2022 256 pages, 10 illustrations Native and Indigenous studies / Food studies Rights: World River Life and the Upspring of Nature

February 2023 264 pages, 27 Anthropology / SouthillustrationsAsianstudies / Environmental studies Rights: World

NAVEEDA KHAN In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence, as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows, where land is here today and gone tomorrow, and where the quality of life itself is intertwined with this mutability. Given this centrality of nature to chaura life, Khan con tends that we must think of nature as not simply the physical landscape and the plants and animals that live within it, but as that which exists within the social and at the level of cogni tion, the unconscious, intuition, memory, embodiment, and symbolization. By showing how the alluvial flood plains configure chaura life, Khan shows how nature can both give rise to and inhabit social, political, and spiritual forms of life.

THE SPECTER OF MATERIALISM Queer Theory and MarxisM in The age of The Beijing Consensus

In Death’s Futurity

Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil’ Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual history of the 1960s and 1970s Black Power era. She shows how Black radicals used these murders to engage in political action that imagined Black futurity from the position of death. Photographs of Hutton that appeared on flyers and posters called attention to the condition of his death while the 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton enabled the consideration of Hampton’s afterlife through visual meditations of his murder. Printmaking and political posters surrounding Jackson’s murder marked the transition from Black Power to the prison abolition movement in ways that foreground the relationship between surveillance, policing, incarceration, and antiblack violence. By fore grounding the photographed, collaged, filmed, and drawn black body, Aranke demonstrates that corporeality and corpses are crucial to the efforts to shape visions of a Black future free from white supremacy.

Petrus Liu is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.World Petrus Liu

Sampada Aranke is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Specter of Materialism Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

PETRUS LIU In The Specter of Materialism Petrus Liu offers a new theory of the political economy of sexuality by highlighting the confrontations between queer theory and Marxism. Rather than limit ing Marxism to the analysis of economics, Liu uses Marxism to understand the production of race and gender in capitalism. He does so by analyzing how China’s rise as an economic power has led to contradictory developments in global capitalism. In close readings of early queer theory, the work of Judith Butler, Lun Xun’s queer modernism, and the erasure of sexuality from Chinese public discourse, he shows how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession. Liu demonstrates that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he challenges key assumptions of queer theory and Maxism while developing a new framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.

February 2023 232 pages, 41 color illustrations Art history and visual culture / Black power Rights: World February 2023 248 Queerpagestheory / Marxism / Asian studies Rights:

Death’s Futurity The Visual Life of Black Power SAMPADA ARANKE

The social model of disability proposes that the built environment itself is what disables people: if we add curb cuts, corrective lenses, ramps, elevators, and asl interpretation, access improves and people are no longer disabled. Yet this model is at odds with the experiences of those living with chronic diseases like chronic pain, depression, fatigue, and cancer, who experience what Arseli Dokumaci calls “shrinkage”: a narrowing relation of body and environment that results in constraints, failures, and losses. Activist Affordances rethinks disability as the constriction of an existing set of affordances, or action possibilities, for a given body or bodies. Dokumaci shows us the kinds of world-making that can emerge in the face of such shrinkage. Conducting visual ethnography with people living with a variety of impairments—predominantly chronic pain but also depression, cancer, thyroid disease, and blindness—Dokumaci asks her interlocutors to show her their tricks: how they impro vise and compensate even when the field of possibilities are small. The book is full of visual sequences documenting these activist affordances: buttoning a shirt, peeling a potato, or prostrating for Namaz. Dokumaci argues that these improvised spaces of performance can enable survival in the least likely of circumstances by allowing their creators to make do with what they have. At a time when the livability of the planet itself is diminishing—the environment’s offerings narrowing due to imperialism, extractivism, environmental racism, and destruction of habitat that enables the transmission of deadly pathogens from wildlife to humans—more activist affordances may need to emerge, and Dokumaci’s work reveals the relevance of disability studies to environmental studies more broadly.

CORI HAYDEN In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin Amer ica. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a post-pat ent world. In the early 2000s, González Torres, aka “Dr. Simi,” capitalized on the creation of new markets for generic medicines, selling cheaper copies of leading-brand drugs across Latin America. But Dr. Simi has not simply competed with the transnationals; his enterprise has also come to compete with the Mexican state, reorganizing the provision of medicine and basic health care for millions of people. Hayden juxtaposes this story with Dr. Simi’s less successful efforts in Argentina, where he confronted a radically different configuration of pharmaceutical politics. Building from these diverging trajectories, Hayden illuminates the politics of generic substitution as a question that goes beyond substituting one drug for another. Generic politics can radically reshape the relations among consumers, states, and pharmaceutical markets, even as they have yet to resolve the problems of cost and access.

Arseli Dokumaci is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University. Disability studies / Anthropology / Environment

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Cori Hayden is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

March 2023 336 pages, 107 illustrations

Activist Affordances

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How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds

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Capitalist Humanitarianism

DANIEL RUIZ-SERNA When Forests Run Amok is a multispecies ethnography that highlights how warfare and eco logical ruination on the Pacific Coast of Colombia (particularly in the Bajo Atrato region of the Chocó department) have affected Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities. In each of the body chapters, Daniel Ruiz-Serna focuses specifically on how war transforms the relations Indigenous people cultivate with their forests and rivers as well as with a range of specific non-human species. Ruiz-Serna aims to shift understandings of violence, suffering, and justice out of the frameworks of human rights and of dualisms (i.e. humans and the envi ronment, subjects and objects); and instead, he seeks to highlight the broader webs of human and other-than-human relations that make up what we can understand as “living territories.”

War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

Lucia Hulsether is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College.

This book will be of interest to anthropologists working on violence, place and space, onto logical ethnography, post-humanist theory, multi-species ethnography, and political ecology.

In addition, it will be of interest to those specializing in Afro-Colombian populations, the armed conflict in Colombia, and environmental conflict and ecological ruination in South America. Daniel Ruiz-Serna is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Brit ish Columbia.

When Forests Run Amok

March 2023 288 pages, 52 Anthropology / LatinillustrationsAmericanstudies / Environmentstudies Rights: World

LUCIA HULSETHER The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades, to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to Left critiques—but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-determination. Fairtrade brands narrate consumption as an act of feminist solidarity with women artisans in the global South. In Capitalist Humanitarianism Lucia Hulsether examines these projects and the contexts of their emergence. Blending historical and ethnographic styles, and traversing intimate and global scales, Hulsether tracks how neoliberal self-critique creates new insti tutional hegemonies that, in turn, reproduce racial and neocolonial dispossession. From the archives of Christian fair traders to luxury social entrepreneurship conferences, from US finance offices to Guatemalan towns flooded with their loan products, from service econ omy desperation to the internal contradictions of social movements, Hulsether argues that capitalist humanitarian projects are fueled as much by profit motive as by a hope that racial capitalism can redeem the losses that accumulate in its wake.

March 2023 272 pages, 9 illustrations American studies / Religion / Cultural studies Rights: World

In Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism, gendering, heteropatriarchy and the continual dispossession of bodies, land, knowl edge, and life, while revealing practices that contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through stories, narrations, personal letters, conversations, lived accounts, and weaving together the thought of many—including ancestors, artists, students, activists, fem inists, collectives, and Indigenous and Africana peoples—in the Americas, the Global South, and beyond, Walsh takes readers on a journey of decolonial praxis. Here, Walsh outlines individual and collective paths that cry out and crack, ask and walk, deschool, undo nationstate, and break down boundaries of gender, race, and nature. Rising Up, Living On is a book that sows re-existences, nurtures relationality, and cultivates the sense, hope, and possibility of life otherwise in these desperate times.

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February 2023 344 pages, 8 illustrations Social Theory / Global studies / DecolonialFeministstudies Rights: World February 2023 256 pages, 4 Anthropology / MiddleillustrationsEast studies / Religion Rights: World

Catherine E. Walsh is Professor Emerita at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar in Ecuador and the author and editor of numerous books, including, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (with Walter D. Mignolo), also published by Duke University Press. Unknowing and the Everyday Sufism and Knowledge in Iran SEEMA GOLESTANEH

Seema Golestaneh is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.

In Unknowing and the Everyday Seema Golestaneh examines how Sufi mystical experience in Iran shapes contemporary life. Central to this process is ma’rifat, or “unknowing”—the idea that, as it is ultimately impossible to fully understand the divine, humanity must operate from an engaged awareness that we know nothing. Golestaneh shows that rather than con sidering ma’rifat as an obstacle to intellectual engagement, Sufis embrace that there will always be that which they do not know. From this position, they affirm both the limits of human knowledge and the mysteries of the profane world. Through ethnographic case stud ies, Golestaneh traces the affective and sensory dimensions of ma’rifat in contexts such as the creation of collective Sufi spaces, the interpretation of Persian poetry, formulations of selfhood and non-selfhood, and the navigation of the socio-material realm. By outlining the relationship between ma’rifat and religious, aesthetic, and social life in Iran, Golestaneh demonstrates that for Sufis, the outer bounds of human thought are the beginning rather than the limit.

Re-Existences, Sowings, and Decolonial Cracks

CATHERINE E. WALSH

CAROL VERNALLIS In The Media Swirl, longtime music video scholar Carol Vernallis widens her analysis to con sider a whole range of audiovisual media, from heightened film segments, movie trailers, and TV commercials to Instagram and TikTok videos. The book offers techniques for reading digital media and audiovisual relations, with close readings of movies like The Great Gatsby (2013) and Transformers 4 (2014), music videos by Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Janelle Monáe, and Tik Tok and Youtube videos. Throughout the book Vernallis argues for the importance of spectacle and its utopic possibilities, refusing to allow spectacle to be claimed by negative attachments.

Carol Vernallis is Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Music at Stanford University.

Eating beside Ourselves gathers essays that consider how acts of eating partake in the making and unmaking of ontologies, taxonomies, and judgments. The volume is organized around the analytic of the “threshold,” which the contributors mobilize to think about how food serves as a threshold for human and inhuman relations. In addition to the single-authored chapters, the volume contains five conversational exchanges, which offers contributors the opportunity to discuss their work and the themes of the volume.

Heather Paxson is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Anthropology at Massachusettes Institute of Technology. The Media Swirl Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics

HEATHER PAXSON, editor

February 2023 248 pages, 13 Anthropology / Foodillustrationsstudies / Science studies Rights: World May 2023 464 pages, 114 illustrations Media studies / Film and video Rights: World

Eating beside Ourselves Thresholds of Foods and Bodies

Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Bar bara, author Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of The Routledge Media

and Risk April 2023 296 pages, 15 illustrations Gender studies / Middle East studies Rights: World June 2023 304 pages, 56 illustrations, including 22 in color Media studies / Science and technology Rights:

Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

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Zeynep K. Korkman’s Gendered Fortunes presents Turkey’s fortune-telling cafes as affective spaces where gender and sexual minorities can navigate the precarities of neoliberalization. These cafes have become commonplace in postsecular 21st-century Turkey. In them, secular Muslim women and lgbtq individuals on both sides of the divination table perform affec tive labors while sheltered from the gender conservativism of the public sphere. Thus, these divinations are a lens through which to view the shifting landscape of Islamist postsecular Turkey and the gendered vulnerability that these individuals face. The book also shows how these women and other gender and sexual minorities are drawn to divination not despite their secular Muslim identities, but as a way to claim them. The book will be of interest to scholars in Middle East studies, affect theory, women and gender studies, and political theory.

The Virus Touch Theorizing Epidemic Media

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BISHNUPRIYA GHOSH In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to how viruses and humans’ symbiotic relation to other forms of life are made comprehensible. Ghosh shows how epidemics are mediated in images and numbers through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Writing in shadow of the hiv/aids and covid -19 global pandemics, Ghosh offers a theory of “epidemic media”—the scientific, artistic, and activist practices that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable. Epidemic media rejects anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recasts global public health crises as ecological catastrophes, pushing us towards a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral muta tions. As Ghosh demonstrates, studying how epidemic media inscribe, store, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the vulnerabilities of diseases that arise from structural socioeconomic inequities and willful biopolitical neglect.

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Zeynep K. Korkman is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s–2020s

March 2023 224 pages, 3 illustrations Disability studies / Asian-American studies Rights: World

Sony Coráñez Bolton is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Latinx and Latin American Studies at Amherst College.

Claudia Calirman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at John Jay Col lege of Criminal Justice and author of Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles, also published by Duke University Press.

May 2023 264 pages, 98 color illustrations Art history / Latin American studies / Women’s studies Rights: World

CLAUDIA CALIRMAN In Dissident Practices, Claudia Calirman examines sixty years of visual art by prominent and emerging Brazilian women artists from the 1960s to the present, covering the period from the military dictatorship to the return to democracy in the mid-1980s, the social changes of the 2000s, the rise of the Right in the late-2010s, and the recent development of an overtly feminist art practice. Though they were lauded as key figures in Brazilian art, these artists still faced adversity and constraints because of their gender. Although many of them in the 1960s and 1970s disavowed the term feminism, Calirman gives a nuanced account of how they responded to authoritarianism, engaged with trauma in the aftermath of the military dictatorship, interrogated social gender norms, and fought against women’s objectification. By battling social inequalities, structures of power, and state violence, these artists create political agency in a society where women remain targets of brutality and discrimination.

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SONY CORÁÑEZ BOLTON In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton brings disability studies together with studies of US imperialism, Filipinx studies, and queer of color critique. Coráñez Bolton reads across lan guage archives and overlapping Spanish and US imperialisms, drawing on colonial records, visual culture, poetry, presidential speeches, travel narratives, and political essays, in addition to the famous Spanish-language Filipino novel Noli Me Tangere. Through these texts shows how these imperial and racial regimes were also regimes of ability. Expanding traditional engagements with mestizaje, he examines the ways that Filipinx mestizaje became a eugenic framework which identified native Filipino subjects as inherently disabled, in need of reform and rehabilitation, and mixed-race Filipinos as able to offer a form of “benevolent rehabil itation” which would prepare these deficient natives for assimilation into the US empire. Through this crip critique of coloniality, Coráñez Bolton shows how mestizaje allowed for “superior” mixed-race subjects to govern the archipelago in collusion with imperial processes of dispossession and debilitation. This book will appeal to readerships in disability studies and studies of colonialism and post-colonialism, as well as in American and Asian American studies, which have long been homes for Filipinx studies. It is also a major retheorization of how the idea of mestizaje is understood across fields and so will be of interest to readers in Latinx studies, Latin American studies, and studies of global indigeneity and race and racialization more broadly.

Crip Colony Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines

A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941

MendingsMEGANSWEENEY

Finally, what can clothing lovers, fiber artists, historians, and evolutionary biologists teach us about piecing together a meaningful life? Through the process of sewing and mending cloth ing, the author learned daily, material practices that transformed broken and tattered pieces of her life into a quilt-like whole. In addition to featuring artwork by Nina Katchadourian, Elena Herzog, Celia Pym, Merrill Goldstein, Gali Cnaani and others, Mendings includes pho tographs of childhood letters, family artifacts, journal entries, and paintings and sketches by the author and her family.

Megan Sweeney is Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

May 2023 184 pages, 81 color illustrations Memoir / Women’s studies / Fashion and textile studies Rights: World

GENEVIEVE CLUTARIO Genevieve Clutario’s Beauty Regimes considers how beauty functions as a structuring force in the Philippines that forms individual practices, cultural practices, trans/national politics, and policy formation. In thinking about beauty as a regime, Clutario tracks the emotional, physical, and financial investments in Filipina beauty production. She makes visible how Filipina women have been involved in the making of the transimperial nation of the Philip pines and how this has set the stage of contemporary representations of Filipino labor, and more broadly, labor in the global South. Over the course of five chapters, Clutario zooms in and out of the beauty regime on varying scales: from the micro interactions between white American women and elite Filipinas, to the labor of women who worked in embroidery; from the carnivals and pageants that made queens and marketed beauty at home and abroad, to the import-export laws that regulated the trade of fashion in the early twentieth century.

Genevieve Clutario is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College. April 2023 336 pages, 13 illustrations Philippine history / Fashion / American studies Rights: World

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In Mendings, Megan Sweeney reflects on clothing as a life-line and tool for mending various kinds of brokenness, including her own. She weaves together a wide range of materials and themes, from clothing, her personal memories and childhood memorabilia, to questions of selfhood and embodiment, in order to offer a narrative about family, brokenness, grief, and healing. Through five linked essays that blend memoir, creative non-fiction, and academic analysis—“Selvedge,” “Salvage,” “Redress,” “Threads,” and “Mending”—Sweeney meditates on the love and loss lodged in garments, on her complex relationships with her parents, and on her long-term attachment to the clothes that have mended her as she mends them, help ing constitute and sustain her. The essays open up an array of questions: What distinguishes mending from fixing? How can the never-ending practice of mending change our relation ships with ourselves and others, living and deceased? How do we make sense of fragments that will never add up to a whole? How can clothing function as language, talisman, and life preserver, as a tool for self-invention, as boundary and buffer, as witness to the past, as envoy to self and others, or as the source of bone-deep joy? When do individual efforts to mend compete with or complement collective forms of mending from violence, injustice, and loss?

Moyukh Chatterjee is a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Middlebury College.

The Briny South Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World NIENKE BOER In The Briny South Nienke Boer examines the legal and literary narratives of enslaved, inden tured, and imprisoned individuals crossing the Indian Ocean to analyze the formation of racialized identities in the imperial world. Drawing on court records, ledgers, pamphlets, censors’ reports, newsletters, folk songs, memoirs by Boer war prisoners, and South African and South Asian works of fiction and autobiography, Boer theorizes the role of sentiment and the depiction of emotions to the construction of identities of displaced peoples across the Indian Ocean. From the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to early apartheid South Africa, Boer shows how colonial powers and settler states mediated and manipulated subaltern expressions of emotion as a way to silence racialized subjects and deny their humanity. In this way, sentiment operated in favor of the powerful rather than as an oppositional weapon of the subaltern. By tracing the entwinement of dis placement, race, and sentiment, Boer frames the Indian Ocean as a site of subjectification with a long history of transnational connection—and exploitation.

Composing Violence begins with a question: “What work is possible when violence is not repressed, not located at the margins of the state, and not even disguised by the partici pants?” It is both a theory of the place of spectacular violence in liberal democracy and a search for how to resist violence against minorities when exposure is foreclosed as a strategy because the violence is plainly announced and circulated, with nothing to expose. Moyukh Chatterjee explores the productive life of violence, its role in the rule of law and the con struction of majorities and minorities. Violence thus composes new scenes and connections and is an intrinsic part of liberal democracy, which must hold minority subjects as integral participants in nation building while also containing the threat they pose to national ideals grounded in majority identities. Focusing on anti-Muslim violence perpetrated by the Hindu majority in India, Chatterjee uses “minor” concepts—repetition, aggregation, exaggeration, distribution, and circulation—to trace the composition of anti-minority violence and the legal structures that transform political violence into the making of minorities and majori ties. The book will be of interest to scholars in South Asian studies, as well as those interested in global neoliberalism, political theory and theories of violence.

Composing Violence The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities MOYUKH CHATTERJEE

Nienke Boer is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College.

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Trafficking in Antiblackness

Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice

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Michael M. J. Fischer is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Trafficking in Antiblackness is a multidisciplinary media ethnography that analyzes the racial logics of campaigns to end human trafficking. The book argues that the anti-trafficking apparatus uses ‘modern day slavery’ rhetoric and imagery to circumvent Western historical responsibility for slavery. Beutin reads key sites of humanist and social science study—policy, official speech, ngos, data, museums, social media artifacts, history texts—through the after lives of slavery literature, and she reveals anti-trafficking to be a white memory project that redeploys the racist tropes used to justify black enslavement in the past in pursuit of ending slavery today. Beutin claims that white fear of black liberation, of black mobility, of black movements, then, is also an afterlife of slavery. Beutin looks beyond the United States and considers how the memory of slavery operates on a global scale.

MICHAEL M. J. FISCHER Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life explores how artworks (installations, exhibitions, novels, painting, dance, video and film) provide para-ethnographic access tochanging worlds, anticipating changes as much as registering them, and often doing so as much through their tactics and strategies of composition as their content. Fischer approaches viewing and inter acting with art as an anthropological experience, and the chapters within this volume ask how meaning arises in artistic practices that attempt to grasp our emergent technological lives while remaining attuned to changing notions of common sense in different parts of the world. While Fischer’s ethnographic theories have wide-ranging applications, his focus in this volume is on art from Southeast Asia, with discussions on the work of Jan Mzarek, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and more.

Lyndsey P. Beutin is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University.

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The essays collected in Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life critically investigate and reimagine the matrix of power constituted by the bio- and geopolitical practices of settler colonial states and the violence they visit upon Native bodies and land. By reading these two theoretical frameworks through one another, editors René Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf seek to unmask the ways that settler logics of racialization, dispossession, and control produce a surplus of violence toward Native populations and yet avoid inciting an ethical crisis in the settler imaginary through their alignment with the status quo of the state. Mishuana Goeman’s essay, for example, analyzes the persistence of violence against Native women, arguing that the systemic causes of such violence are veiled behind a biopolitical rhetoric that links these gendered killings to biological traits and casts them in terms of an “epidemic.” In a chap ter examining shared Black and Indigenous strategies for liberation in the US, Mark Rifkin shows that the former struggle is cast in terms of the fungibility of the flesh and the latter in terms of land dispossession. And David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile’s essay asks “Are Hawaiians Indians?” in order to connect an analysis of racializing settler colonial biopolitics to a critique of liberal state recognition. Taken together, the essays in Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life construct an Indigenous-centered vision of the world by emphasizing the political and conceptual ter rain of struggle inhabited by Indigenous activists, scholars, and artists.

The Force of Witness Contra Feminicide ROSA-LINDA FREGOSO

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The Force of Witness works to bear witness to the suffering and terror enacted by feminicide in Mexico. Fregoso brings together interviews, art, documentaries, and her own personal experiences to demonstrate the micro and macro scales of misogyny, especially highlighting the pattern of state complicity with perpetrators of gender violence. The book builds on Fregoso’s many years of activism and scholarship around feminicide and disappearance on the US-Mexico border. Fregoso makes a case for the need to ground acts of witnessing in intersectional feminist approaches, creating a reminder of the centrality of Black feminist theory and struggles as broadly applicable to the globalized border world of US/Mexico.

Rosa-Linda Fregoso is Professor Emeritus of Latin American & Latino Studies at University of Califor nia, Santa Cruz. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life Settler States and Indigenous Presence

Yanna Yannakakis is Associate Professor of History at Emory University.

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João Biehl is Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Since Time Immemorial traces the invention, translation, and deployment of Native custom as a legal category and strategy of empire in colonial Mexico. Yanna Yannakakis demonstrates how custom represented the primary framework through which Mexico’s Native communi ties governed themselves and interfaced with authorities outside the community from the first decades following the Spanish conquest until Independence from Spain. Through anal ysis of laws and legislation, missionary sources, Inquisition records, Native pictorial histories, royal surveys, and Spanish and native-language court and notarial records, Yannakakis shows how the European category of custom was given local meaning, how it became part of the fabric of Native communal life and a potent claim in Spanish courts, and how its purview changed and narrowed over time. Yannakakis argues that in the hands of Native litigants, claims to custom, which on the surface aimed to conserve the past, ultimately provided a means with which to contend with change in the present and the production of new rights for the future.

April 2023 280 pages, 37 illustrations Latin American history / Indigenous studies Rights: World Arc of Interference Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge JOÃO BIEHL and VINCANNE ADAMS, editors With a Foreword by PAUL FARMER Arc of Interference is a stock-taking account of contemporary medical anthropology and its influence on contemporary ethical debates and social theory. The volume is conceived as a return to the work of medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman, with each essay modeling anthropology as a mode of “interfering” with ideas of naturalness and common sense. The volume is organized around four parts, with each part corresponding to a central theme in Kleinman’s work. Contributors include Lawrence Cohen, Marcia Inhorn, Arthur Kleinman, and the late Paul Farmer.

Hailing the State Indian Democracy between Elections LISA MITCHELL

ANNE ALLISON Being Dead Otherwise draws on seven years of fieldwork studying modern funeral practices in Japan across a variety of social considerations. Allison argues that responding to death remains both social and ritualistic in Japan, though these practices and the conditions informing them have changed profoundly. Allison examines the emergences of contemporary solutions that target individuals who fall outside of or are marginalized by the conventional family system. The book draws out the potential of these solutions to radically re-orient sociality in Japan. Over the course of nine short chapters, Allison takes a close look at how these solutions come to bear on how we think about death, identity, tradition, and culture in Japan and beyond.

Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.

Lisa Mitchell tracks changing perspectives that have pushed popular collective assembly out of much of the theory and historical accounts of global democracy (but not out of its practice). Collective movements try to revise officials’ understandings of “hailing the state” so that authorities recognize that call as a political act, instead of criminal or invisible. These political practices can enable marginalized individuals to gain audiences with powerful actors within state networks; they can also re-shape a state’s practices and Inideologies.addition to focusing on print, audio, cinematic, and social media channels, the author shows how the occupation and blockage of road and railway networks have served as pow erful forms of collective assembly in India and in contemporary Indian politics. (Sometimes the entire length of a national highway has been blocked by a protest.) Collecting people in urban public space is a fundamental feature of democracy, but cities worldwide have increas ingly limited access to that space. Mitchell also considers a range of other demonstrations, including sit-ins, general and hunger strikes, rallies, and pilgrimages to sites of power. She argues that theories of democracy must pay more attention to what happens between elec tions and that collective assemblies in India revise understandings of what is possible in contexts across the world.

Lisa Mitchell is Associate Professor in South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Being Dead Otherwise

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In 2011 over a million people—from lawyers and teachers to coal miners, rickshaw unions, and government employees—gathered for a 42-day strike in India. The strike had a clearer long-term impact than the Occupy Movement or the Arab Spring. Such collective action has been a tried-and-true way, in colonial and postcolonial India, for marginalized individuals to get officials’ attention and hold them to pledged commitments. This book is about collective assembly, democracy, and representation, showing how mass gatherings have been used in India to gain access to authorities, gauge public support for political agendas, and shape pol icies and state action.

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A Vital Frontier Water Insurgencies in Europe ANDREA MUEHLEBACH In A Vital Frontier

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In Don’t Look Away art historian Brianne Cohen considers the role of video and performance in developing public commitment to ending structural violence. The artists at the center of her study share the goal of making the European Union a pluralistic space, but approach that in a different way than many of their predecessors. Cohen focuses on what she calls “recursive” artistic creation, or an art activism that recognizes the slow violence that affect precarious peoples in inequitably distributed ways, leading to differentially injured futures. Drawing on the work of three artists and art collectives—Harun Farocki, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Henry VIII’s Wives—Cohen argues that recursive art practices, rather than those premised on immediate rupture, offer a more sustained counter to the violence undergirding the public sphere and methods for violence prevention.

Andrea Muehlebach is a Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of Bremen and author of The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy

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Andrea Muehlebach examines the work of activists across Europe as they organize to preserve water as a commons and public good in the face of privatization. Travers ing social, political, legal, and hydrological terrains, Muehlebach situates water as a political fault line at the frontiers of financialization, showing how the seemingly relentless expansion of capital into public utilities is being challenged by an equally relentless and often successful insurgence of political organizing. Drawing on ethnographic research, Muehlbach presents water protests as a vital politics that comprises popular referenda, barricades in the streets, huge demonstrations, the burning of utility bills, and legal disputes over transparency and contracts. As Muehlbach documents, in the face of this financialization and commodifica tion, Europe’s water activists articulate their own values of democracy and just price, raising far-reaching political questions about private versus public financing, liberal democracy, sov ereignty, legality, and collective fiscal and infrastructural responsibility. Muehlebach shows that water-rights activists can successfully resist financial markets by exposing the commod ification of water as the theft of life itself.

Don’t Look Away Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe

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Brianne Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History and Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 45 illustrations, including 22 color Art

Veit Erlmann is Professor and Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas, author of Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality and Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West, and editor of Hearing Cultures: Essays on Sound, Listening, and Modernity

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Abundance Sexuality’s History ANJALI ARONDEKAR

In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellec tual property system. In Lion’s Share Veit Erlmann traces the role of copyright law in this process and its impact on the South African music industry. Although the South African government tied the reform to its post-apartheid agenda of redistributive justice and a turn to a post-industrial knowledge economy, Erlmann shows how the persistence of structural racism and Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright threaten the viability of the reform project. In case studies ranging from anti-piracy police raids and the crafting of legislation to protect indigenous expressive practices to the landmark lawsuit against Disney for its appropriation of Solomon Linda’s song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” for The Lion King, Erlmann follows the intricacies of musical copyright through the criminal justice system, parliamen tary committees, and the offices of a music licensing and royalty organization. Throughout, he demonstrates how copyright law is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, post colonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society.

Anjali Arondekar’s Abundance asks what would happen if we shift the structuring narrative of the history of sexuality from that of archival loss and a paucity of evidence to one of abundance—“we have all the evidence we need,” as one of the author’s archivists remarks. Arondekar employs this approach in an historical account of a group of former Goan Deva dasi, an “Other Backward Castes” community. Arondekar starts with this sense of abundance and then raises a set of connected historiographical issues to show what histories might tell if we constructed them differently. Her focus on a subaltern group that moves back and forth between Portuguese and English domination in South Asia, opens to larger questions about histories of sexualities as parts of area, colonial, and decolonial histories.

Anjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Lion’s Share Remaking South African Copyright VEIT ERLMANN

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Over a casual conversation between Chancellor William Tolley and Thomas Watson, the Press was established to publish what would be its first title, IBM’s Precision Mea surement in the Metal Working Industry in 1943. Since that time, Syracuse University Press has published groundbreaking works such as Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ernst Bacon’s Words on Music, Jay Dolmage’s Disability Rhetoric (2015 prose award–winner), Siao-Yu’s Mao Tse-tung and I Were Beggars, and Barry Chevannes’s Rastafari: Roots and Ide ology, which was first published in 1991 and remains one of our best-selling books. As we enter our eighth decade of academic publishing, the Press continues to be commit ted to serving New York State—as well as the region, nation, and globe—by publishing vital scholarship, sharing ideas, and giving voice to important stories that may not have otherwise been told.

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Hadiya Hussein is an award-winning Iraqi writer. She has published several short story collections and novels, including the 2012 novel Beyond Love Barbara Romaine is an academic and literary translator. She is the translator of several novels, including A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore

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Waiting for the Past A Novel HADIYA HUSSEIN

Translated from the Arabic by BARBARA ROMAINE

Hadiya Hussein’s powerful 2017 novel plunges both characters and readers into despair and perilous darkness. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein’s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she loves. Yusef, suspected by the regime of being a dissident, has disappeared-presumably either imprisoned or Onexecuted.herjourney, Narjis receives shelter from a Kurdish family who welcome her into their home. There she meets Umm Hani, an older woman who is searching for her long-lost son. Together they form a bond, and Narjis comes to understand the depth of loss and grief of those around her. At the same time, she is introduced to the warm hospitality of the Kurds, settling into their everyday lives, and embracing their customs. Barbara Romaine’s transla tion skillfully renders this complex, layered story, giving readers a stark yet beautiful portrait of contemporary Iraq.

Sammy Zeyad Badran is assistant professor of international studies at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

September 2022 224 pages, 3 History / PoliticalillustrationScience Rights: World

While most Muslim countries and some Western states still do not espouse welfare-oriented measures, Iran has established several harm-reduction centers nationwide for those who use substances. In doing so, Iran moved from labeling drug users as criminals to patients. Nahid Anarki moves beyond these labels to explore the lived experience of those who use substances and the challenges they face as a result of the state’s shifting policies.

Killing Contention

Demobilization in Morocco during the Arab Spring

Gaining remarkable access to a community that has largely been ignored by researchers, Anarki chronicles the lives of drug users in prisons, treatment centers, and ngos. In each setting, individuals are criminalized, medicalized, and marginalized as the system attempts to “normalize” them without addressing the root cause of the problem. Drawing upon firsthand accounts, Anarki’s groundbreaking ethnography takes an essential step in humanizing drug users in Iran.

Like other countries in the Middle East and North African, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. However, unlike other countries, Moroccans did not call for the overthrow of the king or the regime. Instead, Moroccan protesters initially demanded reforms to the constitution, and, specifically, a transition from an executive monarchy to a democratic parliamentary monarchy.

Drawing upon narratives from the primary activists involved in the protest, Badran examines the Moroccan movement to understand why it failed to escalate in the same way that others in the region did. He finds that the state’s strategy of offering a series of reforms along with limited repression eventually ended the protest movement. Based on nine months of field work, Killing Contention deepens our understanding of modern political movements and the complicated factors that lead to their demise.

Life on Drugs in Iran Between Prison and Rehab NAHID RAHIMIPOUR ANARAKI

When their war on drugs began in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world’s harshest drug penalties. As mass incarceration failed to stem the growth of drug use, Iran shifted its policies 1990 to introduce treatment regimens that focus on rehabilitation.

SAMMY ZEYAD BEDRAN

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Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki is postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Lab rador, Canada. She has published several articles in the areas of sociology, criminology, and health sciences.

November 2022 168 Fiction / Militarypages Rights: World An Ethnography of Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine LIVIA WICK Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to issues of survival and resistance that are part of daily life for Palestinians. Although much has been written about the politics, leaders, and history of Palestine, less is known about how everyday working-class Palestin ians exist day to day, negotiating military occupation and shifting social infrastructure. Livia Wick’s powerful ethnography opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians exploring specif ically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and midwives in villages and refugee camps. Wick maps the ways in which individuals narrate andexperience birth, calling attention to the genre and form of these stories.

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Surrender Stories BRIAN O ’ HARE

Brian O’Hare is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and former US Marine Corps officer. Currently, he’s an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in War, Literature and the Arts; Santa Fe Writers Project; and Hobart, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. He was recently named a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Livia Wick is associate professor of anthropology in the Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies department at the American University of Beirut.

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In the tradition of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Brian O’Hare’s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering and the welcome home parades are over? Guilt, fear, and brutality collide with love and acceptance as a diverse tribe of characters struggle to reconcile mythology with reality, and to find meaning in a uniquely American chaos. Winner of the 2021 Veterans Writing Award.

Kurds in Dark Times

New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey

With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. Since the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923, the history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well-known and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much scholarly attention, little has been written from the vantage point of the Kurds themselves. resists marginalization, exclusion, and violence. Contributors look beyond the politics of state actors to examine the role of civil society and the significant role women play in the negotiation of power. This book opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds in Turkey, generating meaningful insights not only into the political interactions with the Turkish state and society, but also the informal ways in which they negotiate within society that will be crucial in developing peace and reconciliation.

AYÇA ALEMDAROGLU and FATMA MÜGE GÖÇEK , editors

Ayça Alemdaroglu is a research scholar and associate director of the Program on Turkey at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Fatma Müge Göçek is profes sor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Michigan.

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TADEUSZ KUGLER Power to the Population investigates the dynamic relationship between political choices and changing populations. It explores how government policies seemingly focused on localized power and economic development profoundly shape the demographic makeup on local and global scales. In short, this book aims to illuminate the history of demographic shifts in a way that will help readers understand the future consequences of such shifts. Indeed, the book will act as a comprehensive guide to predict and evaluate different possible futures for humanity. Security and International Affairs Rights: World

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The Political Consequences and Causes of Demographic Changes

Since its founding in 1938, the primary mission of the University of Georgia Press has been to support and enhance the University’s place as a major research institution by publishing outstanding works of scholarship and literature by scholars and writers throughout the world.

The University of Georgia Press is the oldest and largest book publisher in the state. We currently publish 60–70 new books a year and have a long history of publishing sig nificant scholarship (in fields such as Atlantic World and American history, American literature, African American studies, American studies, Southern studies, environmen tal studies, geography, urban studies, international affairs, and security studies), creative and literary works in conjunction with major literary competitions and series, and books about the state and the region for general readers.

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Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People provides a conceptual framework for reading debt as an apparatus for regulating life in Barcelona post 2008 global financial crisis. The book combines political economic analysis with everyday life perspectives to show how the process driving mortgage indebtedness is lived, experienced, and contested by people.

Melissa García-Lamarca is a postdoctoral researcher at the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environ mental Justice and Sustainability, based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

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Famine in Cambodia Geopolitics, Biopolitics, Necropolitics

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Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain

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Garcfa-Lamarca lays out a Marxist analysis of the financialization of housing, Foucault’s bio politics, and Jacques Ranciere’s political subjectivation to deepen theorization around the human consequences of the destruction of home and the potential for political resistance to these housing injustices.

Cambodia experienced three consecutive famines set against the backdrop of four distinct governments: Kingdomof Cambodia (1953–1970), the US-supported Khmer Republic (1970–1975), the communist Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979), and the Vietnamese controlled People’s Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989). The book draws on an array of theorists, including Michel Foucault,Giorgio Agamben,and Achille Mbembe. Theconceptual framing brings together geopolitics, biopolitics,and necropolitics in an effort to expand our under standing of state-induced famines. State-induced famine constitutes a form of sovereign violence—a form of power that both takes life and disallows life. The book documents how state-induced famine constitutes a form of sovereign violence and operates against the back drop of sweeping historical transformations of Cambodian society.

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James A. Tyner is a professor of geography at Kent State University and fellow of the American Asso ciation of Geographers. He is the author of eighteen books, including The Nature of Revolution: Art and Politics under the Khmer Rouge and War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count, which received the aag Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography. Tyner is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and his other honors include the aag Glenda Laws Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues.

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Grace Liu’s remarkable story is told as much as possible in her own words. She wrote letters describing her privileged life in the semi-colonial concessions, articles for English language publications during the early years of Mao’s revolution, and memoir writings later in life with memory and reflection.

With deep roots in the South, Eleanor Cooper is drawn to stories that have been hidden or forgotten.

When she first heard about her father’s cousin, Grace Liu, who had married “a Chinaman” and gone to China, she was determined to find her. China was closed to the West then, but when Nixon and Mao opened the doors, Grace returned to the US. Eleanor lived with her the last year of Grace’s life helping her write her memoirs. She worked with William Liu, Grace’s son, to tell this story.

Grace in China An American Woman Beyond the Great Wall; 1934–1974

Grace in China documents the experiences of an American woman inside China both before and after the Communist era, including her survival during the Japanese occupation of WWII, her witnessing the Red Army marching into North China, the early years of trans formation after Mao took over, the famine and disaster of the Great Leap Forward, and being arrested by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Married to a chinese man, her expereince was very different than an outsider’s.

Eleanor McCallie Cooper first heard about her cousin Grace Liu when she was 21 and on her way to teach English in Japan. China was closed at that time, but Eleanor determined one day to find her cousin and tell her story. She lived with Grace the last year of her life and spent years conducting interviews and collecting Grace’s letters, articles, photos, and documents.

Award-winning author of Dragonfly Dreams, historical fiction for young readers set in China during WWII, based on the true story of the Liu family, winner of 2022 Gold Prize Benjamin Franklin Award for Young Readers Fiction presented by IBPA, NIEA Award, the Feathered Quill, Pinnacle and the Royal Dragonfly Award for young readers.

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ELEANOR COOPER

Eleanor lived in Japan for two years and has traveled in Korea, China, India, and parts of the Middle East and Europe. She earned a doctorate in education with a focus on community learning and leadership. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and family.

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Laura Rademaker is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission Jakelin Troy is the director of Indigenous research at the University of Sydney. She is editor in chief of ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures

Edited by ANN MCGRATH , LAURA RADEMAKER , and JAKELIN TROY Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. Everywhen brings Indigenous knowledges to bear on the study and meaning of the past and of history itself. It seeks to draw attention to every when, arguing that Native time concepts and practices are vital to understanding Native histories and, further, that they may offer a new framework for history as practiced in the Western academy.

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Everywhen Australia and the Language of Deep History

Ann McGrath is the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and a Distin guished Professor at Australian National University. She is coeditor of Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History

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At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an expected social commonplace, James detested the necessity of replenishing his supply or of distributing his autographed image to well-wishing friends or imploring readers. Yet for a man who set the highest pre mium on personal privacy, James seems to have had few reservations about serving as a model for artists in other media and sat for his portrait a remarkable number of twenty-four times. Surprisingly few James scholars have brought into primary focus those occasions when the author was not writing about art but instead became art himself, through the creative expres sion of another’s talent. To better understand the twenty-four occasions he sat for others to represent him, Michael Anesko reconstructs the specific contexts for these works’ coming into being, assesses James’s relationships with his artists and patrons, documents his judg ments concerning the objects produced, and, insofar as possible, traces the later provenance of each of them.

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Karin Lin-Greenberg is the author of the story collection Faulty Predictions, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have appeared in publications including the Antioch Review, the Southern Review, Story, and the Chicago Tribune. She is the author of the forthcoming novel, You Are Here September 2022 202 Fictionpages Rights: World Henry James Framed Material Representations of the Master MICHAEL ANESKO

Michael Anesko is a professor of English and American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Henry James and Queer Filiation: Hardened Bachelors of the Edwardian Era and Generous Mis takes: Incidents of Error in Henry James, among others.

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the sto ries of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her cowork ers Uinto her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past. Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.

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Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family 1400–1600

Wheels on Ice reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature.

Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos’s diverse group of stories covers cycling both past and present. From riders commuting in every kind of weather to those seeking long-distance adventure in remote regions, these stories will inspire cyclists to ride into their own stories in Alaska and beyond. Cycling in Alaska has never been more popular than it is now. Today, mountain bikers, fat bikers, bmx, and plain old road bikers are traveling around Alaska with their own tales to tell.

GRACE E. COOLIDGE

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Edited by JESSICA CHERRY and FRANK SOOS

Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. Frank Soos, a native of Virginia, is the author of Unified Field Theory, which won the 1997 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. A touring cyclist since the 1970s, Soos liked nothing more than loading up his panniers and heading out on the road. Tragically, Soos died in a cycling acci dent in 2021.

Wheels on Ice Stories of Cycling in Alaska

Grace E. Coolidge is a professor of history at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of Guard ianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain and editor of The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain

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Grace E. Coolidge looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and ana lyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality in order to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children.

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RYAN POLL

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Elizabeth Cooperman is co-editor (with David Shields) of the anthology Life Is Short—Art is Shorter September 2022 192 pages, 9 Art / History / Generalillustrations Rights: World Aquaman and the War against Oceans Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene

When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists—particularly twenti eth-century women artists—who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts; bearing a child. Woman Pissing is composed of roughly one hundred short prose “paintings” that con verge around questions of creativity and fecundity. As the book unfolds it builds a larger metaphor about creativity, and the concerns of artistry and motherhood begin to entwine. The author comes to terms with self-doubt, inefficiency, frustration, and a nonlinear, circuitous process and proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for chart ing environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination. Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the ter restrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demon strates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.

Ryan Poll is an associate professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization

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On July 16, 1945 the US detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon, a plutonium-based device, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Trinity, as the test was known, was successful. Three weeks later, a second successful detonation took place—over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Janet Farrell Brodie is a professor emerita of history at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America

The First Atomic Bomb

Janet Farrell Brodie explores the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed—the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test—as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation.

Noted historian Tyler Stovall considers how the history of France interacts with both the broader history of the world and the local histories of French communities, examining the impacts of Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Gauguin, and Josephine Baker alongside the rise of haute couture and the contemporary role of hip hop. Taking this transnational approach to the history of modern France, Stovall shows how the theme of universalism, so central to modern French culture, has manifested itself in different ways over the last few centuries. Moreover, it emphasizes the importance of narrative to French history, that historians tell the story of a nation and a people by bringing together a multitude of stories and tales that often go well beyond its boundaries. In telling these stories From Near and Far gives the reader a vision of France both global and local at the same time.

Tyler Stovall (1954–2021) was the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham Univer sity. He was the author or editor of a number of books, including White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea and coeditor of The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony

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From Near and Far A Transnational History of France

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JANET FARRELL BRODIE

Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of artifacts that continue to be witnesses to Europe’s colonial past in ethno graphic museums. Narratives focusing entirely on stolen loot or salvaging global heritage ignore the diverse uses and abuses of indigenous artifacts in colonial settings and encounters.

Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea (one of the most ethnographically collected geo graphical entities) over fifty years (ca. 1870–1920). He examines the historical contexts that yielded this massive ethnographic trove by reversing the typical trajectories that place eth nographic museums at the center of the analysis and concluding that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts. Bus chmann sensibly employs oral traditions, reads colonial sources along and against the grain, and incorporates the careful study of artifacts collected during colonial times. Thus, the work closely examines what these artifacts meant for colonial residents—colonial officials, merchants, missionaries, and ship personnel—and the impact on the indigenous popula tions producing the desired objects. By centering on an area of collection rather than an institution, Buschmann opens new areas of investigation that include non-professional eth nographic collectors and a sustained rather than superficial analysis of indigenous peoples as producers behind the material culture. Hoarding New Guinea answers the call for a more significant historical focus on colonial ethnographic collections in European museums.

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Jennifer J. Davis is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Defining Culinary Authority: The Transformation of Cooking in France, 1650–1830 May 2023 SocialStudiesScience / Anthropology / Indigenous Rights: World May 2023 History/Criminal Justice/Social Science Rights: World

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JENNIFER J. DAVIS Bad Subjects examines the social and cultural milieu of the early modern French empire through an analysis of the quasi-criminal category of libertinage in the French Atlantic. Gen erally translated as “debauchery” or “licentiousness” in English, libertinage was a polysemous term in early modern Europe and the Atlantic World. Jennifer J. Davis investigates hundreds of cases of libertinage drawn from the police and judicial archives of seventeenth- and eigh teenth-century France and its Atlantic colonies, alongside the literature obliquely associated with or directly inspired by these proceedings. Davis argues that elite libertine literature had important and surprising consequences for the many people who found themselves accused of libertinage. The accused, whether rich, middling or poor, exhibited a dizzying array of reli gious, sexual, or lifestyle preferences, and these cases demonstrate infinitely more diversity than the practices detailed in elitist libertine literature.

New Guinea Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Post-Colonial Futures RAINER F. BUSCHMANN

Rainer F. Buschmann is a professor of history at California State University Channel Islands. He is the author of several books including Anthropology’s Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea (1870–1935) and Defending the Spanish Lake: Iberian Visions and the Exploration of the Pacific Ocean Bad Subjects Libertine Lives in the French Atlantic, 1619–1814

The Beauty Hunters offers a rare insight into Sudanese Bedouin poetry, its evolution, aes thetics, and impact. Through an in-depth profile of al-Hārdallo, the doyen of this art form, Adil Babikir explores the attributes that established him as a poet of international stature.

The Beauty Hunters

Sudanese Bedouin Poetry, Evolution and Impact ADIL BABIKIR

Bedross Der Matossian is an associate professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century and Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

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Al-Hārdallo life was a series of journeys in pursuit of beauty. From wandering across the Butāna wilderness to his adventures with women, he documented the ups and downs of his life using superb verse. Apart from its aesthetic value, al-Hārdallo poetry offers rich material for Sudanese studies as it carries glimpses of the sociopolitical developments in Sudan during his lifetime, having lived through three distinct eras: the Turco-Egyptian rule (1820–85), the Mahdist rule (1885–98), and part of the Anglo-Egyptian era (1898–1956). By reading Bedouin poetry in a hybrid context, The Beauty Hunters makes an invaluable addition to the far from settled discourse on Sudan’s cultural identity.

Adil Babikir is a translator and an Arabic content manager at Mubadala Investment Company in Abu Dhabi. He has translated and edited several works, including Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from across various disciplines to add to the body of genocide scholarship that is increasingly challenged by denialist literature. By concentrating on factors like the role of communications and news media, global and national social networks, the weaponization of information by authoritar ian regimes and political parties, court cases in the US and Europe, freedom of speech, and Post-modernist thought, this volume aims to discuss how genocide denial is increasingly a fact of twenty-first century daily life.

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MICHAEL J. DEVINE Michael J. Devine centers on the memories of war held in the United States and other nations whose leadership expended blood and resources in the violent Korean conflict of 1950–1953. While over sixty nations were involved in the Korean War in some manner, the two Koreas, China, and the United States paid the highest price and maintain the most vivid public memories. These states have each advanced radically differing public histories of the ongoing conflict and its results, and each has employed the memories of the war to advance social and political agendas. In addition, because the war remains unfinished business, public memories of the warfare and its aftermath will continue to evolve to align with changing international realities. Michael J. Devine is currently an adjunct professor of history at the University of Wyoming. Previously, Devine was a professor of history at Wyoming and director of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library before his retirement in 2014. He is the author of John W. Foster: Politics and Diplomacy in the Imperial Era, 1873–1917.

Séverine Genieys-Kirk is a lecturer of French and Francophone studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex and Power in Popular Culture, edited by Janice North, Karl C. Alvestad, and Elena Woodacre, and Mary Hays's 'Female Biogra phy': Collective Biography as Enlightenment Feminism, as well as the journal Women's

Edited by SÉVERINE GENIEYS-KIRK Recovering Women's Past is a collection of essays that focus on how women born before the nineteenth century have claimed a place in history and how they have been represented in the collective memory from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Scrutinizing the reception of the works of these politically-minded women—such as Virginia Woolf, Catherine de Medici, Helen Maria Williams, and Queen Isabella of Castile—the volume’s contributors reflect on how our “histories” of women (in philosophy, literature, history, the visual and performative arts) have been shaped by the discourses of their representation, and on how these discourses have been challenged, and the need for reassessment both within and beyond the confines of academia.

The Korean War Remembered Contested Memories of an Unended Conflict

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CHACHI D. HAUSER

Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitute

Foreword by DON MITCHELL

Chachi D. Hauser didn’t have a stereotypical childhood. She grew up Disney, literally Disney. Her great-grandfather, Roy Disney, was cofounder of the Walt Disney Company. Because of this family legacy, Hauser came of age questioning not only the way she views gender identity, but also artistic vision, love and relationships, and American history and inequity.

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know combines cultural criticism, memoir, and poetic modes to examine gender identity and the author's relationship to Walt Disney and the Disney company. Chachi D. Hauser is a filmmaker and writer. Her essays have appeared in Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, Crazyhorse, The Writer’s Chronicle, among others. Chachi’s writing and filmmaking explore topics of gender, environment, identity, family, and the imagination (personal and collective) with a passion for exploring the wild // fluid // in-between places.

The Begging Question

It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know

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Erik Hansson is a postdoctoral researcher of geography at Norwegian University of Science and Tech nology. His work has been published in Social & Cultural Geography and European Journal of Homelessness

Between 2014 and 2016, the “begging question” peaked in Sweden. Poor people without shel ter were forced to use public spaces as their private space, disturbing aesthetic and normative orders, which created anxiety and provoked aggression among Swedish subjects, resulting in hate crimes and everyday racism. In The Swedish Begging Question, Erik Hansson argues that the material configurations of capitalism and class society are not only racialized, but also unconsciously invested with collective anxieties and desires. By focusing upon Swedish society’s response to the begging and homeless individuals’ presence and social practices, Hansson aims to provide further empirical and theoretical insights into the dialectics of racism.

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PAMELA CARTER JOERN Toby Jenkins, a widowed grandmother and oldest surviving family member, has opened a summer resort in the Nebraska Sandhills on the Bluestem Ranch for the wounded and broken, misfits and dreamers. Besides her guests—a minister on sabbatical who collects crosses and a woman recovering from a cancer treatment—Toby is joined by Anita and Luís, her hired help; Anita’s brother Gabe; and one other Toby least expected, her adopted daughter Nola Jean. Nola Jean arrives at the ranch to tell Toby she's been searching for (and found) her birth mother while Toby reckons with the ramifications of old age. Meanwhile, the woman Nola Jean believes to be her birth mother struggles with long-kept secrets and a thorny relation ship with her own mother. Mother-daughter conflicts, age-old prejudices and mistrust, and generational divides challenge the members of this temporary community as they bump up against each other seeking identity, acceptance, and healing. This disparate cast of characters sets up parallel conflicts against the backdrop of a changing rural landscape, where history clashes with evolving mores and family-owned land is no longer practical.

Edited by NINA KUSHNER and ANDREW ISRAEL ROSS Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship has shown that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender identity, marriage, and sexual citizen ship. These studies have broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone has caught on, especially in French history. Covering the early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the past, and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader discipline of history. The topics range from early empire building, religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the modern self, medicine, urbanization, decolonization, the social world of post-war France, and the rise of modern and social media.

Toby's Last Resort

Histories of French Sexuality From the Enlightenment to the Present

Pamela Carter Joern is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, playwright, and teacher of writ ing. She is the author of In Reach, The Plain Sense of Things, and The Floor of the Sky

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Nina Kushner is an associate professor of history and chair of the history department at Clark University. She is author of Erotic Exchanges: Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, and co-editor, with Daryl Hafter, of Women and Work in Eighteenth-Century France, and co-editor, with Andrew Ross, of Histories of French Sexuality: From the Enlightenment to the Present Andrew Israel Ross is an assistant professor of history and Nina Bell Suggs Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. His work has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology,the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and French Historical Studies

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The Making and Unmaking of Arab-Ottomans in São Paulo, Brazil, 1850–1940 JOSÉ D. NAJAR

The Road to the Land of the Mother of God

A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru

José D. Najar analyzes how national and transnational processes of migration and return, community conflicts, and social adaption shaped the gendered, racial, and ethnic identity politics surrounding Ottoman subjects and their descendants in Brazil. Upon arrival to the Brazilian Empire, Ottoman subjects were referred to as turcos, producing an all-encompassing ethnic identity among the Arab speaking Brazilian mahjar, who renegotiated their identities in order to secure the possibility of upward mobility and national belonging. By exploring the relationship between race and gender in negotiating international politics and law, national identity, and religion, Najar advances understanding of the local and global forces shaping the lives of Ottoman/Middle Eastern immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, and their reciprocity to state structure.

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José D. Najar is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His work has been published in Al-Raida, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, and Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies

Transimperial Anxieties

STEPHEN G. PERZ and JORGE LUIS CASTILLO HURTADO

Stephen Perz is a professor of sociology at the University of Florida. He is the editor of Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science: Experiences Around the World and author of Crossing Boundaries for Collaboration: Conservation and Development Projects in the Amazon Jorge Castillo Hurtado is a professor at Madre de Dios National University in Peru.

The Interoceanic Highway is many things to many people: an emblematic project in a period of world history focused on integration, a dream realized for an isolated region, a symbol of the profound fragility of state institutions and the cause of political corruption, and a major driver of ecological and cultural devastation. This highway links the Andean highlands with the Amazonian lowlands in southern Peru, offering an outlet for Brazil’s emergent economy to major markets in the Asian Pacific rim. On the other hand, it became a key focus of the Lava Jato corruption scandal as it spread from Brazil to Peru and beyond, making it a major controversy, and it is associated with the end of isolation in Madre de Dios and other parts of the southwestern Amazon, the efflorescence of all manner of criminal business in the region. But the Interoceanic Highway has a much deeper history, and that history needs to be appreciated in order to fully understand why it was built and why it bears the impacts it has generated. In The Road to the Land of the Mother of God, Stephen G. Perz and Jorge Luis Castillo Hurtado explore over five hundred years of the history of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru, showing how roads that link regions change over time, how the purposes and por trayals and importance of roads change fundamentally among historical periods, and thus why roads bring many more changes than generally anticipated by both their advocates and their critics. By taking a deeper historical look and atypical approach to regional history, Perz and Castillo Hurtado view infrastructure as an integrative optic for understanding local livelihoods, regional culture, and social conflicts in Latin America.

Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement and coeditor of Keorapetse Kgositsile: Collected Poems, 1969–2018. Her work has appeared in English Studies in Africa, Scrutiny2, Safundi, Journal of African Literature Associ ation, Research in African Literature, and Interventions.

A Different "Trek" Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine

DAVID K. SEITZ

David K. Seitz is an assistant professor of cultural geography at Harvey Mudd College. He is the author of A House of Prayer for All People: Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church among a number of peerreviewed articles.

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David K. Seitz offers readers the first full-length treatment of Star Trek’s rich ethical and political worldbuilding in A Different "Trek." His work builds on previous studies of race and geopolitics in Star Trek but argues forcefully against the tidy bracketing of “domestic” strug gles for racial justice and colonial suppression of indigenous resistance in “international” conflicts. A Different "Trek" argues for the series’ prescience in reflecting back to Americans their own contradictions on contemporary political matters, and thus the book principally contributes to geography’s rich and proliferating engagement with critical ethnic studies and robust countertopographies that link “domestic” and “international” struggles against racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and American empire.

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UHURU PORTIA PHALAFALA Mine Mine Mine is a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala and her family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using geopoetics to map geopolitics, Mine Mine Mine follows the death of Phalafala's grandfather during a historic juncture in 2018 when a silicosis class action lawsuit against the mining industry in South Africa was settled in favor of the miners. Gold mining in Johan nesburg—which had a catastrophic effect on the miners and the environment—is pivotal to understanding the role of South Africa’s calamitous modernity and its ties to a global market economy in the destruction of Black lives, the institution of the Black family, and Black sociality. The epic poem uses these developments to address racial capitalism—where the history of capitalism is essentially the history of racism—which brings together histories of the trans-Atlantic and trans-Indian slave trades, of plantation economies, and of mining and prison industrial complexes. Phalafala places the mining industry squarely in the same political framework as slavery, underpinned by Black captivity and enclosure, and enforced productivity. As inheritor of the migrant labor lineage, she uses her experience to explore how Black women carry intergenerational trauma of racial capitalism in their bodies and intersects the personal and national, continental and diasporic narration of this history within a critical race framework.

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Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975

Giusi Russo is an assistant professor of history at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsyl vania. Her work has been published in Gender & History and The International History Review.

GIUSI RUSSO Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 examines the organization’s gendered politics of colonialism and decolonization from its foundation until the mid-1970s to explore how the category of empire, with its multiple variations, was central to the UN’s advocacy for women’s rights. Giusi Russo focuses on the UN Commission on the Status of Women (csw) and its interactions with other UN agencies, non-governmental organiza tions, and states. The csw defined and redefined discrimination against women through transnational dialogues and a close observation of the status of women in both de-facto col onies and territories under trusteeship administration. Russo shows how “empire” meant many things within the UN setting and how with the legal separation of the colonial world into Trust Territories and non-self-governing territories came a sanitation of colonial lan guage in narratives. Because of the promotion of international provisions for money in the colonial world, however, a hybrid dynamic emerged wherein “empire” was simultaneously condoned and condemned. Through the history of the tensions, alliances, and conceptual variations of the gendered politics of empire at the UN, Russo outlines a complex scenario of women’s activism, one that flourished despite Cold War rivalries, decolonization, and the politics of development. Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 argues that in the early stages of identifying discriminating agents in women’s lives, commis sioners overlooked the nation-state and went through a process of fighting discrimination without identifying the discriminator. Focusing on empire, however, reveals how gender constructs were instrumental to state politics and the exclusion of women. Commissioners’ emphasis on colonial practice also generated attention toward politics of the body and rad ically changed the commission’s politics from a scope on formal equality to a gender-based equilibrium of rights that prioritized practice rather than laws.

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We Who Walk the Seven Ways A Memoir TERRA TREVOR We Who Walk the Seven Ways is Terra Trevor’s memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) through the seven cycles of life in the indigenous ways. Over three decades, these women lifted her from grief, instructed her in living, and showed her how to age from youth into beauty. With tender honesty, Trevor explores how the end is always a beginning. Her reflections on the deep power of female friendship, on losing a child, reconciling complicated roots, and finding richness in living every stage of life shows that being Terra Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, German) is a professional writer with 40 years of experience. She is a contributor to 15 books and numerous essays and articles. Her first memoir was Pushing Up the Sky: A Mother's Story

GARY C. ANDERSON Edited by MARK C. CARNES , with a new afterword by the author In this newly revised biography, Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Horn and its aftermath, and details the events and life experiences that ultimately led Sitting Bull into battle. Incorporating the latest scholarship, Anderson profiles this military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people, a man who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death. In particular Anderson explores the complexities and evolution of Lakota society and political culture within Sitting Bull’s lifetime as they endured wave after wave of massive military and civilian intrusion into their lands. For a people not accustomed to living under a centralized authority, the Lakota found themselves needing a centralized authority to galva nize resistance against a relentless and rapidly expanding nation. Despite tactical success on a number of battlefields, Sitting Bull and the Lakota lacked the military and political might to form an unyielding consensus on how to deal with the United States’ aggressive land sei zures and military attacks. Ultimately, in the blood-soaked ground at Wound Knee, amid the slaughter of non-combatants and aging warriors, the Lakota would see their independence broken and the end to Sitting Bull’s vision of a Lakota nation free of US influence.

The Shinnery A Novel KATE ANGER

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Kate Anger is a playwright and lecturer at the University of California–Riverside. 2022 268 pages, 1 map Fiction Rights: World Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood

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Gary C. Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History, Gabriel Renville: From the Dakota War to the Creation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation, 1825–1892, and many others. Mark Carnes is a professor of History at Barnard College of Columbia University and specializes in American history and pedagogy. He is Executive Director of Reacting Consortium, which directs the Reacting to the Past pedagogical initiative. His the author of Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College and general co-editor (with John Garraty) of the 24-volume American National Biography

Seventeen-year-old Jessa Campbell thrives on the Shinnery, her family’s homestead in 1890s Texas, bordered by acres of shin oaks on the rolling plains. Without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt. A better judge of cattle than of men, Jessa becomes entangled with a bad one. Everything unravels after she puts her trust in Will Keyes. When Jessa returns home to the Shinnery, pregnant and alone, her father goes on a mission of fron tier justice, with devastating consequences. In the aftermath Jessa fights for her claim to the family farm and for a life of independence for herself and her sisters. A story of coming-ofage, betrayal, and revenge, The Shinnery is inspired by the author’s family history and a trial that shook the region.

Derek Stonorov is the owner of Alaska Bear Quest, a wildlife viewing and education company. He has over fifty years' experience observing Alaska's brown bears and educating hundreds of photographers, filmmakers, scientists, and tourists, as well as teaching brown bear biology and conservation at the University of Alaska. He has written articles for Natural History magazine; produced booklets for Alaska Fish and Game, the Nature Conservancy, Alaska Audubon, the National Park Service and others; and written and directed several films, including the award-winning Way of the Bear. Stonorov is still in volved with filming bears for television with companies such as bbc and pbs

Venetia Hobson Lewis worked at several stock brokerages and attended a semester of law school at SMU before moving to Los Angeles, where her stage play, The Poet of Woburn Place, was produced at one of LA’s little theatres. She also worked for nearly eighteen years as Corporate Paralegal, Director of Legal Affairs, for a major motion picture studio. She also sang for two years with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, which is associated with the LA Philharmonic. She is a member of Women Writing the West and the Historical Novel Society. Watch the Bear A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska

Derek Stonorov has spent the better part of fifty years watching bears, as a research scientist and guide, in some of Alaska’s most beautiful wild places. A dyslexic kid who was more inter ested in hunting and cars than in academics, he managed to collect objective data as well as make observations and insights about what he learned to call “the community of bears.” The book takes the reader from the 1960s, when salmon were plentiful, his hair was long, and he could spend an entire summer watching hundreds of bears without seeing another human, to today, when bear guiding companies are ubiquitous and solitude in bear country is a whole lot harder to find. Through good science made accessible with stories, the reader takes an engaging and breath-taking journey into the world of a legendary but often misunderstood species.

Changing Woman A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre VENETIA HOBSON LEWIS

In this historical novel set in Arizona Territory in 1871, Valeria Obregón, along with her ambi tious husband, Raúl, arrives in Tucson hoping to find prosperity in this raw, frontier town. In the mountains, Nest Feather, a small Aravaipa Apache girl, is welcomed into womanhood by Changing Woman, an Apache spirit that represents the natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The Apaches, having been pushed from their lands, carry out raids against Mexican and Anglo settlers, who, angered by the failure of the US govern ment and the military to protect them, conduct a murderous raid on an Apache encampment under the protection of the US military at Camp Grant. While Valeria finds fulfillment in her work as a seamstress, Raúl struggles to hide his role in the bloody attack from her. Even though Raúl is not among those indicted for the crime, his guilty behavior and her suspicions challenge the very foundation of their marriage. Nest Feather, kidnapped along with other small Apache children and adopted by a Mexican couple in Tucson, struggles to hold on to her Apache heritage in a culture that rejects her very being. Against the backdrop of the trial, Valeria and Nest Feather’s lives intersect in the church, where Valeria is seeking spir itual guidance for the decision she must make and where Nest Feather’s Christian baptism is about to take place. Here, Nest Feather’s spirit animal, a common brown mouse, provides the sign Valeria needs while Nest Feather takes a different path.

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Fredric Brandfon was chairmanof the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Stockton University in New Jersey and founded the Religion Department atthe College of Charleston in South Carolina. He has published multiple articles on Roman and Italian Jewish history.

A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome

FREDRIC BRANDFON

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Telling engaging stories illuminating the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome—the oldest Jewish community in Europe, with the longest continuous history— Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual and paradoxical relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed uninterruptedly, from 139 bce to the present, in the Eternal City. Innovatively, Fredric Brandfon frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of “family” has shaped both Roman Jews’ and Catholics’ self-understanding. The familial relations are lopsided, the powerful family member often persecuting the weaker one, yet respect and support abide as well.

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Biblical Women Speak Hearing Their Voices through New and Ancient Midrash

RABBI MARLA J. FELDMAN

Biblical Women Speak employs midrash (interpretative techniques) to discover ten biblical women’s stories from a female point of view and provide insights beyond how ancient male scholars viewed them. Each chapter brings alive a different biblical woman, including non-Is raelite characters and others who are neglected in classical rabbinic texts, such as Keturah (Abraham’s last wife), Bat Shuah (Judah’s wife), Shelomith (the infamous blasphemer’s mother), and Noah (one of Zelophehad’s brave daughters who demanded inheritance rights). After each featured text we hear a creative retelling of the woman’s story in her own voice, followed by traditional midrash and medieval commentaries, and then the author’s reflec tions on how these tales and interpretations are relevant for today.

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Marla J. Feldman is the Executive Director of Women of Reform Judaism. She is the author of the social action manuals Speak Truth to Power, K’hilat Tzedek: Creating Communities of Justice, and From Tzedek to Tzedakah: Social and Economic Issues of Concern for Women and Children

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Open Judaism is at once an invitation to the spiritually seeking Jew, a clarion call for a pluralis tic and inclusive Judaism, and a dynamic exploration and comparison of the remarkably wide array of thought within Judaism today. The author presents traditional, secular-humanistic, and liberal Jewish views on nine major topics—God, soul, Torah, halakhah, Jewish identity, inclusion, Israel, ethics, and prayer—while filtering them through a unique tri-partite lens of how Jewish believers, atheists, and agnostics understand these issues, embellished by teach ings from many of Judaism’s greatest thinkers.

Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz is director and editor-in-chief emeritus of The Jewish Publication Society and the spiritual leader of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, New Jersey. He is the author of books for adults, teens and children, including Path of the Prophets: The Ethics-Driven Life, Judaism's Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl, and Jewish Heroes, Jewish Values: Living Mitzvot in Today's World

Open Judaism A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics

KATYA CENGEL

With a new chapter, preface, and afterword

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In the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the late twentieth century was a time of unprece dented hope for democracy and freedom in Eastern Europe. The collapse of the Soviet Union left in its wake a number of independent countries where the Scorpions’ 1990 pop ballad “Wind of Change” became a rallying cry. Communist propaganda was finally being displaced by Western ideals of a free press. Less than two decades ago, young writers, journalists, and adventurers such as Katya Cengel flocked from the West eastward to cities like Prague and Budapest, seeking out terra nova. Despite the region’s appeal, neither Kyiv in the Ukraine nor Riga in Latvia was the type of place you would expect to find a twenty-two-year-old Cal ifornian just out of college. Kyiv was too close to Moscow. Riga was too small to matter—and too cold. But Cengel ended up living and working in both. This book is her remarkable story. Cengel first took a job at the Baltic Times just seven years after Latvia regained its indepen dence. The idea of a free press in the Eastern Bloc was still so promising that she ultimately moved to the Ukraine. From there Cengel made several trips to Chernobyl, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. It was at Chernobyl that she met her fiancé, but as she fell in love, the Ukraine collapsed into what would become the Orange Revolution, bringing it to the brink of political disintegration and civil war. Ultimately, this fall of idealism in the East under scores Cengel’s own loss of innocence. From Chernobyl with Love is an indelible portrait of this historical epoch and a memoir of the highest order. Katya Cengel is a freelance writer and author based in California. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post other publications.

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The Untold Story

Many myths have grown up around President Truman and his decision to use nuclear weap ons against Imperial Japan. Myth: Truman didn't know of the atom bomb's development before he became president. Fact: Truman's knowledge of the bomb is revealed in his own carefully worded letters to a Senate colleague. Myth: Dropping the atom bombs was racially motivated and there was never any intention of using them against the Germans. Fact: Prop agated by a misreading of the Manhattan project documents and a lack of understanding about the development of the war and the bomb, this myth is actually opposite of the truth. D. M. Giangreco sets out to bust these myths and many more using never before published material

D. M. Giangreco is a retired Military Review editor at the US Army Command and General Staff Col lege in fort Leavenworth, KS. Giangreco has lectured widely on national security matters and is an award-winning author of 14 books on military and sociopolitical subjects. He is the author of Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945–1947, United States Army: The Definitive Illustrated History, and The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, among others. July 2023 Military History Rights: World

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Foreword by THOMAS A. BROOKS Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines concentrates on the efforts of the Soviet Union/Russia and the U.S. Several other navies and “government agencies” have operated intelligence collection ships, generally in “ones” and “twos” except for China and Norway. China has become a major maritime power in the 21st Century, with special interests in the South China Sea, and with increasing hostility toward the United States. Norway, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, has occupied a critical location on the Soviet Union’s western maritime border. Thus, both China and Norway have operated noteworthy intelligence ship programs that are addressed herein.

Thomas A. Brooks retired from the U.S. Navy as a Rear Admiral. Brooks was a career intelligence officer, serving in assignments afloat and ashore, including in Vietnam. He served as Director of Naval Intelligence from 1988 to 1991.

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One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines NORMAN POLMAR and LEE J. MATHERS

Norman Polmar is an analyst, consultant, and author, specializing in naval, aviation, and technology subjects. He has been a consultant or advisor on naval issues to three Senators, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and three Secretaries of the Navy as well as to the director of the Los Alamos national laboratory, and to the leadership of the U.S., Australian, Chinese, and Israeli Navies. He is the author of numerous books. Lee J. Mathers was on active duty with the Navy from 1967 to 1978, during which time he served two tours in Vietnam. He later was a researcher for the documentary film Azo rian: The Raising of the K-129, and the book Project Azorian. He is coauthor with Mr. Polmar of The Deepest Pioneer: The Bathyscaph Trieste and the Deep Ocean

About University of New Mexico Press Established in 1929 by the Regents of the University of New Mexico, the University of New Mexico Press ranks within the top third of publishing houses in the Associa tion of University Presses and is the fourth largest university press west of the Rocky Mountains in publishing new titles. With over 1,200 titles currently in print and as a distributor for local and regional publishers, the Press has been an important element in enhancing the scholarly reputation and worldwide visibility of the university.

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ROBERT DEMOTT In Steinbeck’s Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and some times neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s writing. DeMott positions Steinbeck as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s as the essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck’s artistic career that deserve closer attention. He writes about the determining scientific influences, such as quantum physics and ecology, in Cannery Row and considers Steinbeck’s addiction to writing through the lens of the extensive, obsessive full-length journals that he kept while writing three of his best-known novels—The Grapes of Wrath, The Wayward Bus, and East of Eden. DeMott insists that these monumental works of fiction all comprise important statements on his creative process and his theory of fiction writing. DeMott further blends his personal experience as a lifelong angler with a reading of several neglected fishing episodes in Steinbeck’s work. Collectively, the chapters illuminate John Steinbeck as a fully conscious, self-aware, literate, experimental novelist whose talents will continue to warrant study and admiration for years to come.

Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio University in Athens. He was a founding member of the original Steinbeck Quarterly and has been a long-standing member on the editorial boards of The Steinbeck Newsletter and Steinbeck Review

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Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

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Agosín’s A Cross and a Star is a moving testament to endurance and to the power of memory and of words. Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her works include I Lived on Butterfly Hill, The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill, Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez Late Work

JOAN FRANK Curious, ruminative, and wry, this literary autobiography tours what Rachel Kushner called “the strange remove that is the life of the writer.” Frank’s essays cover a vast spectrum—from handling dismissive advice, facing the dilemma of thwarted ambition, and copying the gener osity that inspires us, to the miraculous catharsis of letter-writing and some of the books that pull us through. Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist’s thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith. Like a lively conversation with a close, outspoken friend, each piece tells its experience from the trenches.

Joan Frank is the award-winning author of twelve books of literary fiction and essays including Because You Have To: A Writing Life and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place. She lives with her husband, play wright Bob Duxbury, in the North Bay Area of California.

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A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

In this classic memoir which explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era. Woven into the narrative are the stories of Frida’s father, who had to leave Vienna in 1920 because he fell in love with a Christian cabaret dancer; of her paternal grandmother, who arrived in Chile later with a number tattooed on her arm; and of her great-grandmother from Odessa, who loved the Spanish language so much that she repeated its harmonious sounds even in her sleep.

A Cross and a Star Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile MARJORIE AGOSÍN

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Marjorie Becker is an associate professor of history and English at the University of Southern California. She is also the author of Body Bach; Setting the Virgin on Fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán Peasants, and the Redemption of the Mexican Revolution; Piano Glass / Glass Piano; and The Macon Sex School: Songs of Tenderness and Resistance.

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin Amer ican history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz’s signature poem, “Sun Stone”—allowing a new gendered history to emerge. Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican women’s gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives.

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Garrick Bailey is professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. Among his earlier books are The Osage and the Invisible World and the coauthored study Art of the Osage

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The work further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Becker’s multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacán females, experiences that culminate in their complex revo lutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language.

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The forty-nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have never before been assembled in one book. What makes these stories especially important is that they were collected in their origi nal language, Osage, by a scholar who was a native speaker of a mutually intelligible language, Omaha, and who was also highly educated and articulate in English. As contextualized in Garrick Bailey’s introduction, these stories offer insights into Osage culture and society that are not available elsewhere. Bailey divides the stories into sacred teachings, folk stories, and animal stories. To the Osage, the sacred included not only religious but also what we would consider social and political institutions. Unlike the sacred teachings, which were known only to priests, folk tales were public property. Sacred teachings were always educational, whereas folk stories served a variety of purposes. Some were entertaining, some humorous, some frightening, but all were also designed to instill the proper social norms and values of the Osage. The animal stories, intended for children, also illustrate Osage values, as well as conveying information about the animals themselves.

Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

This beautifully illustrated children’s book illuminates the facts about the “strange and won drous things” we call ufos with awe, clarity, and childhood imagination, highlighting the simple, eye-opening truth about one of the greatest mysteries of our time: What do we usu ally see when we look in the sky? Planes. Birds, the sun, clouds, the moon, and stars. Even a comet. All the things that belong in the sky. But some people see fiery pin dots of flickering lights, like blobs or fireballs, or other things—with windows—zigzagging across the sky this way and that, faster than jets, faster than even shooting stars.

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The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life. While contesta tion and seditious ideas had always been present in the region, never before had local regimes been forced to consider radical dissension as an unavoidable dimension of politics. Dissent not only challenged imperial powers and political elites; it generated a new, pluralistic and profane political landscape. Focusing on urban Chile between the first anticolonial conspir acy of 1780 and the consolidation of an authoritarian regime in 1833, the book argues that this revolution was caused by how people practiced communication and framed its power.

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UFOhs! Mysteries in the Sky DEBORAH BLUMENTHAL and RALPH BLUMENTHAL

The Age of Dissent Revolution and the Power of Communication in Chile, 1780–1833 MARTÍN BOWEN

Deborah Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of fifteen picture books for chil dren, including Saving Stella: A Dog’s Dramatic Escape from War and The Blue House Dog. She is also the author of numerous YA novels and four adult novels. Ralph Blumenthal was an award-winning re porter for the New York Times. He is the author of several books, including Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America’s Most Dangerous Prisoners and The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. A distinguished lecturer at Baruch College, he lives in New York City. Adam Gustavson is the illustrator of over thirty children’s books and the author and illustrator of The Froggies Do NOT Want to Sleep World

Martín Bowen is an assistant professor of history at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author of Experimentar el cuerpo y escribir los pecados: la confesión general de José Ignacio Eyzaguirre (1799–1804)

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Matthew Butler is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico’s Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–29 May 2023 Latin America / History / Religion Rights: World

The world-famous Chile Pepper Institute is the only organization devoted to the study, culti vation, and enjoyment of the world’s favorite fiery fruit, and The Official Cookbook of the Chile Pepper Institute is your guide to cooking with and enjoying chile peppers in all their magnif icent, flavorful varieties. With over eighty recipes celebrating the world’s diversity of chiles and more than a hundred photos of chiles in the field, at the market, and on your plate, The Official Cookbook is like a tour through the Institute’s famous Teaching Garden—a unique environment created to present the diversity of chile peppers in a garden setting. The Official Cookbook is the only book organized to include almost every chile variety worldwide. Each varietal includes a description of its history, where it originated and where it is grown now, and its flavor profile, heat index, and common uses.

Mexico’s Spiritual Reconquest

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Paul W. Bosland is the Regents Professor of Horticulture emeritus, a Distinguished Achievement Pro fessor, and the former director of the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, where he led the chile breeding and genetics research program, and is recognized internationally as the fore most expert on chile peppers. Bosland has published more than 150 scientific papers and coauthored five books, including Peppers of the World: An Identification Guide with Dave DeWitt. Wendy V. Hamil ton is a professor emeritus at New Mexico State University and the former department head for the New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service’s Program Development and Accountability Department. Carolyn Graham has worked for more than twenty-five years in the publishing industry, most recently as the CEO of New Mexico Magazine. She is the author of New Mexico Food Trails: A Road Tripper’s Guide to Hot Chile, Cold Brews, and Classic Dishes from the Land of Enchantment

Indigenous Catholics and Father Pérez’s Revolutionary Church

This book brings to life a classically misunderstood pícaro: liberal soldier turned Catholic priest and revolutionary antipope, “Patriarch” Joaquín Pérez. Yet the book weaves Pérez’s controversial life story into a larger narrative about the relationship between religion, the state, and indigeneity in twentieth-century Mexico. Mexico’s Spiritual Reconquest is at once the history of an indigenous reformation and a deeply researched, beautifully written explo ration of what can happen when revolutions try to assimilate powerful religious institutions and groups. The book is also a challenge to historians to take indigenous religiosity and pol itics seriously. Doing so, Butler suggests, means reshaping baseline historical assumptions about modern Mexico in order to see a revolutionary state that was deeply vested in religion and a cristero war that was, in reality, a culture clash between Catholics.

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Joni B. Cole teaches creative writing at her own Writer’s Center in Vermont and as an independent workshop facilitator at Dartmouth College. She is a frequent teacher and speaker at academic pro grams, conferences, and social-service organizations across the country. Cole is the author of six books and a contributor to The Writer as well as the host of the podcast Author, Can I Ask You?

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Toxic Feedback Helping Writers Survive and Thrive—Revised and Expanded Edition

ALIX CHRISTIE

The Shining Mountains A Novel

The year is 1838. A young Scotsman forced out of his homeland arrives on the frozen lip of Hudson’s Bay. Angus McDonald is twenty-one, contracted to British masters to trade for fur. But the world he discovers is beyond even a Highlander’s wildest imaginings: raging rivers, buffalo hunts, and the powerful daughter of an ancient and magnificent people. In Catherine Baptiste, kin to Nez Perce chiefs, Angus recognizes a kindred spirit. The Rocky Mountain West in which they meet will soon be torn apart by competing claims: between British fur traders, American settlers, and the Native peoples who have lived for millennia in the valleys and plateaus of the Shining Mountains’ western slopes. In this epic family saga, the real history of the American West is revealed in all its terror, beauty, and complexity. The Shining Mountains brilliantly limns a world now long forgotten: of blended cultures seeking allies, trading furs for guns and steel, and a way of life in collision with westward colonial expansion.

Alix Christie is the direct descendant of Angus McDonald’s brother Duncan. Her debut novel, Guten berg’s Apprentice, was published by Harper Books in 2014. For the past thirty years she has reported for newspapers in California and from Europe as a foreign correspondent, including for the Washington Post, the Guardian of London, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Salon.com. She currently reviews books and arts for The Economist. She lives in San Francisco, California.

JONI B. COLE From veteran teacher and acclaimed author Joni B. Cole comes a revised and expanded edi tion of her popular writing guide Toxic Feedback. Successful writers know that feedback is often the difference between writing and not writing, and between writing and writing well. But feedback mismanaged is more likely to leave the writer confused, intimidated, or even deflated. This book not only detoxifies the feedback process with humor, but it also shows writers and feedback providers how to make the most of this powerful resource at every stage of the writing and publishing process. This new edition includes a second preface, four new chapters, updates throughout the original material, and several additional exercises. Cole also includes new and previous interviews with authors such as Khaled Hosseini, Gregory Maguire, Juan Morales, Grace Paley, Jodi Picoult, Matthew Salesses, and Crystal Wilkinson, all of whom share their experiences with feedback (good, bad, or positively weird). Full of Cole’s trademark wit and warmth, Toxic Feedback remains essential reading for all writers, critique groups, mfa programs, and teachers of writing at every level.

The Art of Brevity Crafting the Very Short Story

Grant Faulkner is the executive director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co founder of 100 Word Story. His work has been widely anthologized in flash-fiction collections, and he is the author of several other books, including All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, Fissures, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story

There is magic to be found in writing a story within tight boundaries. With increased compression, every word, every sentence matters more. A writer must learn how to form narratives around caesuras and crevices, to move a story through the symbolic weight of images, to master the power of suggestion. In The Art of Brevity Grant Faulkner illuminates the style, the aesthetic, and the discipline of brevity. With elegant prose, deep readings of other writers, and scaffolded writing exercises, The Art of Brevity takes the reader on a lyrical exploration of compact storytelling, guiding readers to heighten their awareness of not only what appears on the page but also what doesn’t.

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KIRK ELLIS Ride Lonesome, the fifth film in director Budd Boetticher and actor Randolph Scott’s “Ranown Cycle,” is both the best of the group and representative of the whole cycle, which has been called “the most remarkable convergence of artistic achievement in the history of low-budget moviemaking.” Boetticher captures the alienation and loneliness of an America confront ing the onset of the Cold War and the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. Shot in a mere seventeen days for under a half-million dollars, Ride Lonesome is a masterpiece of cinematic minimalism, at once epic and austere in its rituals of reenactment and revenge. Veteran writer and screenwriter Kirk Ellis brilliantly unpacks the themes, narrative, visual language, and editing in this seminal film. In Ride Lonesome he not only shows how this one film embod ies a turning point in the development of the Western, but he also explores the unique vision and contributions of director Boetticher and his writing partner Burt Kennedy. Kirk Ellis is a two-time Emmy Award and two-time Humanitas Prize–winning writer/producer who wrote and produced the acclaimed event series John Adams. Among his many other credits are the Emmy-nominated Into the West and the Emmy Award–winning Anne Frank: The Whole Story. Formerly cogovernor of the writers’ branch of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and past president of the Western Writers of America, Ellis splits his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Palm Springs, California.

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At the Heart of the Borderlands

At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people of African descent have formed part of most borderlands’ histories, this study recognizes and explains their critical contribution to the formation of frontier spaces. Lack of imperial control coupled with Spain’s desperation for settlers and soldiers in frontier areas facilitated the social mobility of Afro-descendants, allowing them to become not just members of borderland societies but leaders of it as well.

Nathanial Gardner is a tenured academic in Spanish and Latin American studies at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of several books, including Como agua para chocolate: The Novel and Film Version and Through Their Eyes: Marginality in the Works of Elena Poniatowska, Silvia Molina, and Rosa Nissán

Africans and Afro-Descendants on the Edges of Colonial Spanish America

Africans and Afro-descendants built, opposed, and shaped Spanish hegemony in the border lands, taking on roles that would have been impossible or difficult in colonial centers due to the socio-racial hierarchy of imperial policies and practices. Africans and Afro-descendants created a space, not just physically, but economically, socially, and politically, that helped to define the contours of Spanish America. They were indeed very much “at the heart of the borderlands.”

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The Study of Photography in Latin America Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches NATHANIAL GARDNER

The Study of Photography in Latin America provides an insider’s perspective on the titular sub ject: Gardner begins by providing readers with a carefully structured introduction that lays out his unique methodology for this book, which features over eighty photographs and the insights from sixteen prominent Latin American photography scholars and historians, including Boris Kossoy, John Marz, and Ana Mauad. The work reflects the advances and developments of the study of photography throughout Latin America with certain emphasis on Brazil and Mexico. The Study of Photography in Latin America is critical to all who want to expand their current knowledge of the subject and engage more robustly with its experts.

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CAMERON D. JONES and JAY T. HARRISON

Cameron D. Jones is an award-winning author whose publications include In Service of Two Masters: The Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru and an article in The Americas, “The Evolution of Spanish Governance during the Early Bourbon Period in Peru: The Juan Santos Atahualpa Rebellion and the Missionaries of Ocopa,” which received the 2017 Antonine Tibesar Award from the Conference on Latin American History. He teaches at California Polytechnic State Uni versity in San Luis Obispo, California.

Blood on the Moon

March 2023

Of the movies categorized as “Noir Westerns” by writers and historians, none is more cel ebrated than 1948’s Blood on the Moon. The comingling of the Western genre and the noir style crystalized in this extraordinary film, which in turn influenced the development of the Western in the 1950s as the genre darkened and became more psychological. Produced during the height of the post–World War II film noir movement, the picture transplanted the dark urban environs of the city into the western iconography. Blood on the Moon is a classic Western immersed in the film noir netherworld of double crosses, government corruption, shabby barrooms, gun-toting goons, and romantic betrayals. With this volume, biographer and noir expert Alan K. Rode brings the film to life for a new generation of readers and film lovers. Alan K. Rode is a charter director and the treasurer of the Film Noir Foundation, spearheading the preservation and restoration of America’s noir heritage. A documentarian and producer, he is also the author of Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film and Charles McGraw: Film Noir Tough Guy Film / Pop Culture Rights: World Truth or Consequences

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DANIEL ASA ROSE At sixty, Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Book World, Esquire, and other publications, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years announced she wanted out. Before he let himself slip into the cocktail of depression, doubt, and self-loathing that he mixed for himself, Dan’s lifelong friend Tony came to the rescue with an irresistible prop osition: What if the two of them went back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college-kid road trip had come to a crashing halt when they were T-boned by a woman in, of all places, the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico? Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of what actually hap pened at that fateful moment. He’s certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with the life choices he has made since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the course of the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the high plains of the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.

Improbable Adventures, a Near-Death Experience, and Unexpected Redemption in the New Mexico Desert

ALAN K. RODE

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Daniel Asa Rose won an O. Henry Prize and two pen Fiction Awards for the stories in his first collection, Small Family with Rooster. His most recent book, Larry’s Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black-Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant—and Save His Life, was named one of the “Top Books of the Year” by Publishers Weekly

CYNTHIA J. SYLVESTER

Cynthia J. Sylvester is an enrolled member of the Diné, born into the Kiyaa’áanii Clan for the Bilagáana Clan. She is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her flash fiction and short stories have appeared in ABQ in Print, Leon Literary Review, Lunch Ticket, As Us Journal, and Bosque—The Magazine, among others.

April 2023 Fiction / Literature Rights: World

This powerful debut collection explores lives lived between worlds. Sylvester masterfully weaves together fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to give readers a poignant though fractured view of her characters’ lives, their loves, and their struggles. Told from the perspective of an urban Native, the work details a journey led by the nomadic band, the Covers. It is an experience meant to heal generational trauma and bring back into the light people who may otherwise be forgotten. At its heart, The Half-White Album is a healing ceremony of the author’s own creation, a process grounded in music that celebrates what it is to be human and imperfect and to love imperfectly.

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MAHNAZ AFKHAMI When a phone rings in the early hours of a November 1978 New York hotel room, Mahnaz Afkhami, the first Minister of Women’s Affairs for Iran, learns she can never go home again: her country has fallen to Ayatollah Khomeini. A member of the Shah’s government, Mahnaz struggles to rebuild her life in the United States even as she faces exile and a death warrant from the Islamic revolution. Refusing to remain silent, she reemerges as an architect of the women’s movement in the global South—only to encounter familial, cultural, political, and organizational hurdles that threaten to derail her quest to empower women and change the structure of human relations. A skilled storyteller who has spent a lifetime living in two worlds, Mahnaz shares with humor, honesty, and compassion her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women’s rights in Iran.

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Born in Kerman, Iran, Mahnaz Afkhami is the founder and president of Women’s Learning Partnership, executive director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies, and former minister for women’s affairs in Iran. She lives and works in Bethesda, Maryland. October 2022 320 pages, 26 halftones, 1 map Memoir Rights: World

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A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement

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Accidental Kindness A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy MICHAEL STEIN

We will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctors kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. We look for safety and for giveness. But we forget that doctors, too, are often in need of forgiveness—from their patients and from themselves. No doctor enters the medical profession expecting to be unkind or to make mistakes, but because of the complexity of our current medical system and because doctors are human, they often find themselves acting much less kindly than they would like to. Drawing on his work as a primary care physician and a behavioral scientist, Michael Stein artfully examines the often conflicting goals of patients and their doctors. In those differences, Stein recognizes that kindness should not be a patient’s forbidden or unrealistic expectation. This book leaves us with new knowledge of and insights into what we might hope for, and what might go wrong, or right, in the most intimate clinical moments.

The Struggle for Iran Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954

Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. The nationalization challenged Great Britain’s preeminence in the Middle East and threatened Western oil con cessions everywhere. Fearing the loss of Iran and possibly the entire Middle East and its oil to communist control, the United States and Great Britain played a key role in the ouster of Mosaddeq, a constitutional nationalist opposed to communism and Western imperialism. US intervention helped entrench monarchical power, and the reversal of Iran’s national ization confirmed the dominance of Western corporations over the resources of the Global South for the next twenty years.Drawing on years of research in American, British, and Ira nian sources, David S. Painter and Gregory Brew provide a concise and accessible account of Cold War competition, Anglo-American imperialism, covert intervention, the political economy of global oil, and Iran’s struggle against autocratic government. The Struggle for Iran dispels myths and misconceptions that have hindered understanding this pivotal chapter in the history of the post–World War II world.

January 2023 324 pages, 13 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables History / Iran / Cold War Rights: World

Michael Stein, M.D., is award-winning author of six novels and four books of nonfiction, most recently Broke: Patients Talk About Money with Their Doctor. He is professor of health policy at the Boston Univer sity School of Public Health and executive editor of PublicHealthPost.org

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David S. Painter is associate professor emeritus of international history at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Cold War: An International History and Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of US Foreign Oil Policy, 1941–1954 Gregory Brew is a Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow at International Security Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.

Seth Garfield is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is In Search of the Amazon

The Vietnam War in the Pacific World

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Edited by BRIAN CUDDY and FREDRIK LOGEVALL

Brian Cuddy is Lecturer in security studies at Macquarie University and historian of twentieth century international politics and US foreign relations. Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer professor of international affairs and professor of history at Harvard University.

December 2022 336 pages, 17 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table History / Brazil Rights: World

In this sweeping chronicle of guaraná—a glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caf feine than any other plant—Seth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself. The story begins with guaraná as the pre-Columbian cultivar of the Sateré-Mawé people in the Lower Amazon region, where it figured centrally in the Indigenous nation’s origin stories, dietary regimes, and communal ceremonies. During subsequent centuries of Portuguese colonialism and Brazilian rule, guaraná was reformulated by settlers, scientists, folklorists, food technologists, and marketers. Whether in search of pleasure, profits, profes sional distinction, or patriotic markers, promoters imparted new meanings to guaraná and found new uses for it. Today, it is the namesake ingredient of a multibillion-dollar soft drink industry and a beloved national symbol. Guaraná’s journey elucidates human impacts on Amazonian ecosystems; the circulation of knowledge, goods, and power; and the promise of modernity in Latin America’s largest nation. For Garfield, the beverage’s history reveals not only the structuring of inequalities in Brazil but also the mythmaking and ordering of social practices that constitute so-called traditional and modern societies.

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Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, the war’s mark on the Pacific world remains. The essays gathered here offer an essential, postcolonial interpretation of a struggle rooted not only in Indochinese history but also in the wider Asia Pacific region. Extending the Vietnam War’s historiography away from a singular focus on American policies and experiences and toward fundamental regional dynamics, the book reveals a truly global struggle that made the Pacific world what it is today.

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small goldand silver-mining district in Mexico. Chronicling Cerro de San Pedro’s operations from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert transcends standard narratives of boom and bust to envision a multicentury series of mining cycles, first oper ated under Spanish rule, then by North American industry, and today in the post-nafta world of transnational capitalism. The depletion of a mine did not mark the end of its life, it turns out. Evolving technology accelerated the flow of matter and energy moving through the extractive systems of exhausted mines and revived profitability over and over again in Mexico’s mining districts. Studnicki-Gizbert demonstrates how this serial reanimation of a non-renewable resource was catalyzed by capital and supported by state policy and ideology and how each new cycle imposed ever more harmful consequences on both laborers and natural ecologies. At the same time, however, miners and their communities pursued a con tending vision—a moral ecology—that defended the healthy reproduction of life and land. This book’s breathtakingly long view brings important perspective to environmental justice conflicts around extraction in Latin America today.

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert is associate professor of history at McGill University and author of A Nation upon the Ocean Sea

May 2023 Environmental Studies Rights: World

Making the Green Revolution

The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town DAVIKEN STUDNICKI-GIZBERT

December 2022 324 pages, 6 halftones, 4 maps History / Mexico Rights: World

Timothy Lorek is associate professor of history the College of St. Scholastica.

In November 2017, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (ciat) celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at its headquarters outside Palmira, Colombia. As a renowned research center in the Green Revolution in agricultural science and technologies, ciat is usually praised for its contribution to sustainability, food security, gender equity, inclusive markets, and resilient, climate-smart agriculture. Yet these terms hardly describe the Cauca Valley where ciat is physically located, which has been transformed into an industrial monocrop of sugarcane, operated by thirteen Colombian corporations that now control the vast majority of this valley’s famously fertile soil. This exemplifies the paradox Timothy Lorek describes in Making the Green Revolution: an international research center emphasizing small-scale and sustainable agricultural systems sited conspicuously on a landscape otherwise dominated by a large-scale corporate sugarcane industry. Utilizing archives in Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States, Lorek tracks the paradoxical but intertwined twentieth-century processes of global agricultural research and technology and industrial-scale corporate sugarcane pro duction in the Cauca Valley. He traces the ways Colombians played a vital role in the growth and dissemination of Green Revolution technologies, serving as a springboard and a model for replicable programs across Latin America and in India and Africa. The Cauca Valley’s history thus reveals how the agencies and philanthropies behind the Green Revolution even tually displaced local orientations and erased regional histories and actors as they celebrated their own Cold War narrative of technological triumph in feeding the global tropics.

TIMOTHY LOREK

Democracy in Crisis

Vodou En Vogue is a transnational religious ethnography that tells the story of a Vodou practi tioner, Manbo Maude, and her inventive fashion practices designing and creating the ritual clothing that Vodou practitioners need. Author Eziaku Nwokocha spent eight years as a participant-observer of Manbo Maude’s practices. Nwokocha’s analysis centers on the ritual purposes of the clothing used in Manbo Maude’s ceremonies, and in Vodou more broadly. Clothing and adornment are powerful mediums that create connections between devotees and the spirits, as well as between members of devotional communities. Nwokocha analyzes the complex communal process of creating and giving meaning to this fashion. In so doing, she challenges stereotypical characterizations of Vodou as an exotic example of Africana religions’ unintelligibility. Rather, Nwokocha presents Vodou as a cosmopolitan religion that extends from Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas. In so doing, she situates Voudou alongside other global religions and subtly dismantles colonial and racist imaginaries that have viewed the religion as a dangerous practice.

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Vodou En Vogue

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ROBERT GOODRICH Democracy in Crisis explores how a democracy, grounded in fair elections, parliamentary institutions, and a liberal constitution, nonetheless can fall prey to extreme partisanship, ideological radicalism, procedural manipulation, and external pressures. Arguably the great est failure of this democratic challenge came in Germany in the early twentieth century—a failure that led to the Third Reich. Here, all of the great ideologies of the modern West collided as roughly equal and viable contenders during the so-called Weimer Republic, 1919–1933. For over a decade since World War I, liberalism, nationalism, conservatism, social democracy, Christian democracy, communism, fascism, and every variant of these movements strug gled for power. Although the constitutional framework boldly enshrined liberal democratic values, the political spectrum was so broad and fully represented that a stable parliamentary majority required constant compromises—compromises that alienated citizens embittered by national humiliation in the war and ensuing treaty, struggling to survive in economic turmoil, and confused by rapidly changing cultural norms. As positions hardened, the door was opened to radical alternatives. In the game, players, as delegates of the Reichstag , must contend with intense parliamentary wrangling, constant and uncontrollable world events, street fights, assassinations, and even insurrections. Our game begins in late 1929, just after the US Stock Market Crash as the Reichstag deliberates the Young Plan (a revision to the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I). The players belong to various political parties and must debate these matters and more as the combination of economic stress, political gridlock, and foreign pressure turn Germany into a volcano on the verge of eruption.

EZIAKU NWOKOCHA

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Robert Goodrich is professor of history at North Michigan University.

Eziaku Nwokocha is Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the department of religion at Princ eton University.

Margaret Power is professor of history at Illinois Institute of Technology.

PASCAL LUPIEN

Pascal Lupien is assistant professor of political science at Brock University.

Solidarity across the Americas

April 2023 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Rights: World

MARGARET POWER The struggle waged by Puerto Rican nationalists against US imperialism is a long one, start ing with opposition to the 1898 invasion and subsequent 3-year military occupation of the island. More recently, activists in both Puerto Rico and the United States protested the lat ter’s military exercises on Vieques and decried insufficient aid and recovery efforts to the island following Hurricanes Maria and Irma. Given this fraught relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, the general narrative of Puerto Rican nationalism tends to be framed by the perspectives from only Puerto Rico and the US. Margaret Power, a historian of Latin American and US foreign relations, has delved deep into the archives throughout the Americas to document how the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (pnpr) built a much broader movement with active networks in virtually all of Latin America, much of the Caribbean, and in New York City. This hemispheric history introduces us to a sprawling transnational network nurtured by the pnpr from its founding in 1922 through its dissolution in 1965 that included individuals, parties, organizations, and governments throughout the Americas.

Over the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive neoliberal reforms. Such changes, political scientist Pascal Lupien argues, have pressured and stimu lated significant populations of Indigenous political activists in their long, ongoing struggles for equal citizenship rights and the economic and political power from which they have historically been shut out. Bolstering findings that Indigenous activists in Latin America draw on both civic and uncivic, or disruptive, forms of collective action, Lupien argues that now, in fact, Indigenous people’s collective actions, long viewed as social movements, have come to more closely resemble what is known as civil society. But this is only the beginning of what Lupien’s rich, descriptive work contributes to understanding Indigenous peoples’ contemporary struggles. Drawing on four years of immersive fieldwork with more than ninety Indigenous organizations and groups within and across the three countries, and building on theories of resource mobilization, Lupien shows how Indigenous organizations today are newly pursuing, adapting, and sustaining local activism in a globalized world. The book contributes not only to new media and technology studies, which have not given much attention to the Latin American Indigenous experience, but also to the growing awareness and internationalization of Indigenous political and cultural rights as set out in the 2007 U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America

The handling of an epidemic is difficult under any conditions, let alone during a full-blown national revolution. In this first comprehensive study of tuberculosis in modern Cuba, Kelly Urban analyzes the medical, social, and governmental responses to the highly contagious dis ease, particularly as the island was heading into and emerging from the 1959 revolution. But Urban does more: in her book, tuberculosis—one of the top three causes of death in Cuba at the beginning of the twentieth century—provides a window onto broad questions of citizens’ rights, biomedicine and public health, and political change. Drawing on a diverse range of sources revealing the perspectives of those at the center of power as well as those on the mar gins, Urban finds that the Cuban republic intervened heavily to confront the tuberculosis epidemic but only after coming under intense pressure by a loose coalition of slum dwellers, Black public intellectuals, radical thinkers, and some physicians.

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Kelly Urban is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama. Things

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Mason Allred is assistant professor of communication, media, and culture at Brigham Young University—Hawaii.

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In this work of cultural history and media analysis, Mason Kamana Allred draws on theories of media in order to unearth the ways Mormons employed technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences and the growth of their religious system of meaning. By analyzing technologies intimately commingled with Mormonism’s historical development, the book offers a provocative reevaluation of a religion whose doc trinal focus on materiality and embodiment is ripe for such an analysis. While Mormon uses of television and the internet are recent examples of the tradition’s use of technology, Allred also attends to older technologies that Mormons used for negotiating the spirit, such as typewriters, panorama displays, and magic lantern shows. He resurrects these dead media, arguing that these technologies were essential to Mormons’ feelings of communion with God and fellow humans. Offering a fresh and extended engagement with the “doors of perception” that many religious traditions deal with, Allred envisions media as channels, operations, and procedures. On a broader level, Allred’s methodological lens reveals just how central media and technology have been to the doctrine and lived experience of religion. Allred shows how rather than transcending bodies, language, and machines, religion thrives in them.

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Making Moral Citizens

April 2023 Religious Studies Rights: World

Jack Delehanty is assistant professor of sociology at Clark University.

JACK DELEHANTY In Making Moral Citizens, Jack Delehanty analyzes faith-based community organizing and how it can give rise to persons and groups who sustain democratic vision, multiracial com mitments, and political work for structural change in society. Through a case study of elijah, one of the largest faith-based community organizations in the United States, Dele hanty argues that faith-based community organizing hinges on a complex cultural project: making social justice action into a means of personal moral fulfillment for people of different race, class, and faith backgrounds. In a time when media and the public—and many social scientists—continue to cast politics and culture as a battleground between a “religious right” and a “secular left,” Delehanty finds that leaders in activist spaces may marshal faith practices to construct and enact an ambitious vision of equity and justice that has roots in religious traditions but resonates far outside the boundaries of religious affiliation and commitment.

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RANI-HENRIK ANDERSSON and DAVID C. POSTHUMUS

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An Indigenous History

The Lakhˇóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book tells the full story of Lakhˇóta culture and society, from their origins to the twenty-first century, drawing on Lakhˇóta voices and perspectives. In Lakhˇóta culture, “listening” is a cardinal virtue, connoting respect, and here authors Rani-Henrik Andersson and David C. Posthumus listen to the Lakhˇóta, both past and present. The history of Lakhˇóta culture unfolds in this narrative as the people lived it. Rani-Henrik Andersson is Associate Professor of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 and A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance David C. Posthumus holds a PhD in Anthropology and is the author of All My Relatives: Exploring Lakota Ontology, Belief, and Ritual and the novel The Legend of the Dogman. He is Senior Market Analyst at The Martec Group.

Old World Tales of Doom in a New World Setting

The Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the Final Judgment: the Apoca lypse is central to Christianity and has evolved throughout Christianity’s long history. Thus, when ecclesiastics brought the Apocalypse to Indigenous audiences in the Americas, both groups adapted it further, reflecting new political and social circumstances. The religious texts in Aztec and Maya Apocalypses, many translated for the first time, provide an intriguing picture of this process—revealing the influence of European, Aztec, and Maya worldviews on portrayals of Doomsday by Spanish priests and Indigenous authors alike.

MARK Z. CHRISTENSEN

Peter B. Villella is Associate Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy. Pablo García Loaeza is Professor of Spanish at West Virginia University. Aztec and Maya Apocalypses

The Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally con sequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed. In essays spanning five centuries and three continents, The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions explores how politicians, writers, artists, activists, and others have strategically reimagined the Conquest to influence and manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those touching on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and multiculturalism. Writing from a range of perspectives and disciplines, the authors demonstrate that the Conquest of Mexico, whose significance has ever been marked by fun damental ambiguity, has consistently influenced how people across the modern Atlantic world conceptualize themselves and their societies.

July 2022 332 pages, 12 illustrations Latin America Rights: World

PETER B. VILLELLA and PABLO GARCÍA LOAEZA

Mark Z. Christensen is Professor of History at Brigham Young University and the author of Translated Christianities: Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts and The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatan

July 2022 252 pages, 28 illustrations, 5 tables Native American / Latin American Rights: World

The Conquest of Mexico 500 Years of Reinvention

The Lion at Dawn opens a critical new perspective on the emergence of modern Britain and its empire and on its early effort to create a stable and peaceful international system, an ideal debated to this day.

France thus initiated nearly a quarter century of armed conflict with Britain. During this fraught and still-contested period, historian Nathaniel Jarrett suggests, Pitt and his ministers forged a diplomatic policy and military strategy that envisioned an international system antic ipating the Vienna settlement of 1815. Examining Pitt’s foreign policy from 1783 to 1797—the years before and during the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France— Jarrett considers a question that has long vexed historians: Did Pitt adhere to the “blue water” school, imagining a globe-trotting navy, or did he favor engagement nearer to shore and on the European Continent? And was this approach grounded in precedent, or was it some thing new?

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Amid the wreckage of the high hopes that accompanied the end of the Cold War, and as faith in a rules-based international order wanes, Friot’s work provides a historical, cultural, and political framework for understanding the geopolitics of the moment and, arguably, for navigating a way forward.

Born in Troy, New York, Stephen P. Friot received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Okla homa in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1972.

Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783–1797

NATHANIEL JARRETT

In February 1793, in the wake of the War of American Independence and one year after British prime minister William Pitt the Younger had predicted fifteen years of peace, the National Convention of Revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain and the Netherlands.

The Lion at Dawn

Nathaniel Jarrett holds a PhD in European history from the University of North Texas and teaches at Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point, North Carolina.

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How Cold War History Explains US-Russia Relations

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A Promise Kept

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma MILLER/ETHRIDGE

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A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over 100 years. Combining legal analysis and his torical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. Indigenous Borderlands Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas

Hemispheric in its scope, unique in its approach, this work significantly recasts our understanding of the important roles played by Native agents in constructing indigenous borderlands in the era of European imperialism.

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Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City

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Ben Gerlofs is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong.

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Transdisciplinary by design, Monstrous Politics first moves historically through Mexico City’s turbulent twentieth century, driven centrally by the contentious imbrication of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (pri) and its capital city. Participant observation, expert interviews, and archival materials demonstrate the shifting strategies and alliances of recent decades, provide the reader with a sense of the texture of contemporary political life in the city during a time of unprecedented change, and locate these dynamics within the history and geography of twentieth century urbanization and political revolution. Drawing on theories of social revolution that embrace complexity, and espousing a methodology that foregrounds the everyday nature of politics, Monstrous Politics develops an understanding of revolutionary urban politics at once contextually nuanced and conceptually expansive, and thus better able to address the realities of politics in the “urban age” even beyond Mexico City.

Journey without End Migration from the Global South through the Americas

ANDREW NELSON and ROB CURRAN

IGNACIO LÓPEZ-CALVO

Ignacio López-Calvo is a professor and UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities at UC Merced.

November 2022 308 LiterarypagesCriticism / Caribbean & Latin American Rights: World

Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how statelevel immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants. The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster–riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darién Gap—the gateway from South to Central America. Journey without End follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality as mercu rial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito’s tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama’s Darién Gap, and a Mexican border town— into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with race, gender, and class exploitation.

This book, a continuation of the author’s previous research on cultural production by Latin American authors of Asian ancestry, focuses mostly on texts, films, and artworks produced by Asian Mexicans, rather than on the Japanese or Chinese as mere objects of study. How ever, it will also be contrasted with the representation of Asians by Mexican authors with no Asian ancestry. With this interdisciplinary study, the author hopes to bring to the fore this silenced community’s voice and agency to historicize their own experience.In spite of the unquestionable influence of the Nikkei communities in Mexico’s history and culture, and the numerous historical studies recently published on these two communities, the study of their cultural production and, therefore, their self-definition and how they conceive them selves has been, for the most part, overlooked.

Forward by EMMA NAKATANI

October 2022 282 SocialpagesScience / Emigration & Immigration Rights: World

Andrew Nelson is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. Rob Curran is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal

The Mexican Transpacific Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance

December 2022 304 History / Europe / Spainpages & Portugal Rights: World Goya and the Mystery of Reading

Nicholas Wolters is an assistant professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University.

Based on years of archival research in Madrid and Barcelona, this interdisciplinary study offers a fresh approach to understanding how men visualized themselves and their place in a nation that struggled to modernize after nearly a century of civil war, colonial entanglement, and imperial loss. Masculine Figures is the first study to provide a comprehensive overview of competing models of masculinity in nineteenth-century Spain, and is particularly novel in its treatment of Catalan texts and previously unstudied evidence (e.g., department store catalogs, commercial advertisements, fashion plates, and men’s tailoring journals). Through specific and recurring figures like the student, the priest, the businessman, and the heir, male novelists represent an increasingly middle-class world at odds with the values and virtues it inherited from an imperial Spanish past, and those it imported from more industrialized nations like England and France. The visual culture of the time and place marks the material turn in middle-class masculinity and sets the stage for discussions of race and sexuality.

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Fashioning Men and the Novel

Masculine Figures

NICHOLAS WOLTERS

Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828) was fascinated by reading, and Goya’s attention to the act and consequences of literacy—apparent in some of his most ambitious, ground breaking creations—is related to the reading revolution in which he participated. It was an unprecedented growth both in the number of readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available, accompanied by a profound shift in the way they were consumed and, for the artist, represented. Goya and the Mystery of Reading studies the way Goya’s work heralds the emergence of a new kind of viewer, one who he assumes can and does read, and whose com portment as a skilled interpreter of signs alters the sense of his art, multiplying its potential for meaning. While the reading revolution resulted from and contributed to the momentous social transformations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goya and the Mystery of Reading explains how this transition can be tracked in the work of Goya, an artist who aimed not to copy the world around him, but to read it.

LUIS MARTÍN-ESTUDILLO

in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Luis Martín-Estudillo is a professor of Spanish and Collegiate Scholar at the University of Iowa.

February 2023 288 pages, 79 color illustrations History / Social History Rights: World

Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón is an assistant professor in the department of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College.

Amy Wright is an associate professor of Hispanic studies at Saint Louis University Mexico, Interrupted Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence

By focusing on work and its opposites in the period between, Mexico, Interrupted reconstructs the period’s “economic imaginaries of independence”: the repertoire of political and cultural discourses that structured the understandings, beliefs, and fantasies about the relationships between “the economy” and the life of an independent polity. All told, by bringing together intellectual history, critical theory, and cultural studies, this project offers a new account of the Mexican nineteenth century and complicates existing histories of the spread of the “spirit of capitalism” through the Americas.

Serial Mexico Storytelling Across Media, From Nationhood to Now AMY E. WRIGHT

June 2023 296 History / Latinpages America / Mexico Rights: World

SERGIO GUTIÉRREZ NEGRÓN Mexican independence was, in a sense, an economic event. It was so on two counts. First, it was in the realm of the economic that elites managed to create a common ground with nonelites in their demands against foreign domination. Second, it was an economic event in that, throughout the 19th century, independence was imagined by the lettered men of Mexico as a feat that nationalized, or that could have nationalized, a rich and productive economic appa ratus. Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence investigates the fate of these economic hopes during the difficult decades between the year of the coun try’s definite separation from Spain and the year of the defeat of the French occupation and the restoration of the Republic, which many took to be the second and final independence of the territory. Drawing on the writings of politicians, journalists, intellectuals, industrialists, and novelists, this book studies the Mexican intelligentsia’s obsessive engagement with the labor and idleness of the citizenry in their attempts to create a wealthy, independent nation.

Serial Mexico responds to a continued need to historicize and contextualize seriality, particu larly as it exists outside of dominant US/European contexts. In Mexico, serialization has been an important feature of narrative since the birth of the nation. Amy Wright’s exploration begins with a study of novels serialized in pamphlets and newspapers by key Mexican authors of the nineteenth century, showing that serialization was essential to the development of both the novel and national identities—to Mexican popular culture—during its foundational period. In the twentieth century, a technological explosion after the Mexican Revolution (1910–20) set Mexico’s transmedial wheels into motion, as a variety of media recycled and repurposed earlier serialized tales, themselves drawn from a repertoire of oral traditions to national nostalgic effect. Along the way, Serial Mexico responds to the following series of ques tions: How has serialized storytelling functioned in Mexico? How can we better understand the relationship of seriality to transmediality through this historical case study? Which sto ries (characters, themes, storylines, and storyworlds) have circulated repeatedly over time? How have those stories defined Mexico? The goal of this book is to begin to understand some of the possible answers to these questions through five case studies, which highlight five key artifacts, in five different media, at five different historical points spanning nearly two hun dred years of Mexico’s history. Serial Mexico offers important insights into not only the topic of serialized storytelling, but to larger notions of how national identities are created through narrative, with crucial cultural and sometimes political implications.

June 2023 296 pages, 68 illustrations Social Science / Media Studies Rights: World

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Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina HAGIMOTO

The Argentine vision of “transpacific modernity” was in part informed by historical imagin ings of Japan in the early twentieth century. Intellectuals such as Eduardo Wilde and Manuel Domecq García celebrated Japanese customs and traditions as important values that can be integrated into Argentine society. But a new generation of Nikkei or Japanese Argentines is rewriting this conventional narrative in the twenty-first century. Nikkei writers such as Maximiliano Matayoshi and Anna Kazumi Stahl are challenging the earlier, unapologetic view of Japan based on their own immigrant experiences. Compared to the experience of political persecution against Japanese immigrants in Brazil and Peru, the Japanese in Argen tina generally lived under a more agreeable sociopolitical climate. In order to understand the “positive” perception of Japan in Argentine history and literature, Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho turns to the current debate on race in Argentina, particularly as it relates to the discourse of whiteness. One of the central arguments is that Argentina’s century-old interest in Japan represents a disguised method of (re)claiming its white, Western identity. Through close readings of diverse genres (travel writing, essay, novel, short story, and film) Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho yields a multi-layered analysis in order to underline the role Japan has played in both defining and defying Argentine modernity from the twenty century to the present. Koichi Hagimoto is an associate professor of Spanish at Wellesley College.

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