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I am honored to announce the Spring 2026 Columbia catalog, the final one in my time as director of the press. It is a bittersweet moment, but also an inspiring one: Throughout this catalog are books that exemplify everything that has made Columbia University Press such a vital institution.
This catalog puts our greatest strengths on display, from our core subject areas to our dedication to publishing scholarship that connects to readers’ lives. There are outstanding works of food history: The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese (p. 1), which uncovers the surprising stories that made a beloved dish what it is today, and Recipes for the Melting Pot (p. 8), which sheds light on food’s connection to culture through a classic Jewish American cookbook. There is New York City history: From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower (p. 2), about a 1905 photo album of Broadway that shows us a vanished yet somehow recognizable city. Our commitment to popular science that demystifies contentious topics is shown by the launch of the What Science Says series (p. 5). Asian literature in translation has long been one of our most important areas, here exemplified by The Traitor (p. 10), a lesser-known yet major novel by the essential Japanese writer Abe Kōbō.
I am also heartened to see so many accomplished authors returning to Columbia. George G. Szpiro tackles what we don’t know in Ignorance (p. 3), Thomas Doherty spotlights early documentaries in How Film Became History (p. 6), and Victor D. Cha continues expert analysis of international affairs in China’s Weaponization of Trade (p. 21)
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The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese
From Ancient Rome to Modern America
KARIMA MOYER-NOCCHI
Foreword by Paula J. Johnson
DIGGING INTO THE SURPRISING HISTORY OF AN EVERPOPULAR DISH
Today, macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, a staple of weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and Soul Food restaurants. Yet its history is filled with surprising twists and turns. Renaissance cardinals and popes dined on elaborate pasta-and-cheese concoctions laced with costly spices. In the eighteenth century, wealthy young Englishmen made macaroni a symbol of continental sophistication. Black women, whose contribution has long been overshadowed, played a crucial role in establishing the dish as an American tradition. This book is a delectable history of macaroni and cheese, tracing an extraordinary journey of cultural exchange and social change. Karima Moyer-Nocchi reveals the religious, political, and industrial forces that shaped its evolution alongside stories of the unsung figures who crafted the dish as we know it today: enslaved cooks who preserved and adapted traditions, immigrant chefs who introduced new variations, and practical homemakers looking to nourish their families with an affordable meal. Deeply researched and rich with enticing details, this book uncovers the creativity and resilience that brought a beloved food to our tables. It also shares centuries of recipes—from ancient Roman authors to celebrity chefs—that provide a hands-on way to experience the evolution of this iconic dish.
KARIMA MOYER-NOCCHI is a culinary historian specializing in Italian food who teaches at the University of Siena. She is the author of Chewing the Fat: An Oral History of Italian Foodways from Fascism to Dolce Vita (2015) and The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome (2019).
PAULA J. JOHNSON is curator of food history at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
“Brilliant, indulgent, and impeccably researched. Moyer-Nocchi has crafted the definitive cultural biography of macaroni and cheese, tracing its journey across continents and through centuries with the precision of a historian and the warmth of a devoted cook. As a food scientist who’s never outgrown my love for this dish, I savored every insight into how something so simple became so culturally profound. Whether your interest is scholarly or purely gastronomic, every page in this book immensely satisfies.”
—Kantha Shelke, author of Pasta and Noodles: A Global History
$28.95t / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-21531-2
FEBRUARY 368 pages / 6" x 9" / 34 b&w images; 8-page color insert
FOOD / HISTORY
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower
C. G. Hine’s 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway
NICK YABLON
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS OF BROADWAY THAT REVEAL A CHANGING CITY
“Deeply scholarly but highly readable, From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower is an in-depth exploration of a unique and personal historical artifact, offering new insights into the urban history of New York City.”
—Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, author of Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago
Throughout 1905, an amateur photographer dedicated himself to capturing Broadway, from the bottom of Manhattan to the top. In sun, rain, and snow, at dawn and late at night, C. G. Hine depicted buildings that were threatened by rapid development: outmoded stores, hotels, and theaters, as well as workshops and shanties. His survey also foregrounded the street’s other holdouts against change, such as sex workers, pushcart vendors, horses, and the trees and wildflowers of upper Manhattan. Hine ultimately assembled more than three hundred photographs, along with numerous newspaper clippings and a typed essay, into a three-volume album, titled “From the Sky Scraper to the Wild Flower.”
Presenting striking images from Hine’s album, this book offers a rare glimpse into the transformation of New York’s built environment at the turn of the twentieth century. Nick Yablon explores Hine’s connections to—and divergences from—movements and trends of the time, such as historic preservation, Pictorialist photography, botany, and bicycling. He curates a selection of Hine’s photographs and investigates how they reveal deeper conflicts and tensions about urban development. From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower guides readers up Broadway block by block, casting light on New York’s changing landscape, where signs of the modern clashed with vestiges of earlier eras.
$50.00* / £42.00 paper 978-0-231-20353-1
$200.00 / £167.00 cloth 978-0-231-20352-4
APRIL 320 pages / 7" x 10" / 150 color photographs, 6 color maps
HISTORY / NEW YORK
All Rights: Columbia University Press
NICK YABLON is professor of history and American studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Untimely Ruins: An Archaeology of American Urban Modernity, 1819–1919 (2009) and Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule (2019).
Ignorance
What We Do Not Know, Cannot Know, Must Not Know, and Refuse to Know
GEORGE G. SZPIRO
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
Does the lack of evidence mean that aliens don’t exist? Why does an unproven mathematical hypothesis have profound consequences? Are humans capable of grasping the nature of divinity? Is it ethical to give a patient a placebo? Why do people persist in demonstrably false beliefs like flat earth theory? Should someone want to know when they will die?
George G. Szpiro examines these questions and many others, offering an engaging and witty tour of what we can learn from ignorance. In a series of fast-paced chapters, he unravels problems ranging across science, mathematics, law, economics, politics, religion, psychology, and philosophy—some esoteric, others drawn from everyday life. Ignorance comes in many forms, Szpiro shows. Some questions are only temporarily unsolved; others are inherently unanswerable. Sometimes authorities keep answers from us, for good or ill. Often our assumptions and biases keep us from overcoming our ignorance, and occasionally we choose to remain ignorant—for surprisingly rational reasons.
Ultimately, Szpiro argues, ignorance is not purely negative. It can motivate the pursuit of learning and wisdom—as long as we acknowledge it. Presenting sophisticated topics in an accessible way, this book shows how ignorance sheds light on the nature of knowledge.
GEORGE G. SZPIRO is an author and journalist who was a longtime correspondent for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung. His previous Columbia University Press books are Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty: Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making (2020) and Perplexing Paradoxes: Unraveling Enigmas in the World Around Us (2024). Szpiro was on the faculty at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
“Szpiro returns with a witty, thoughtprovoking exploration of life, history, and the meaning of our existence.
Fun to read yet deeply educational, this lively journey through ideas reminds us why books still matter.”
—William
Eimicke, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
$28.00* / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-22165-8
MARCH 344 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 56 b&w figures
SCIENCE / PHILOSOPHY
All Rights Except German and Hebrew-language Rights: Columbia University Press; German and Hebrew-language Rights: The Author
“Cold-Blooded Murder is a beautifully written series of accounts about the rarest and most fascinating reptiles and amphibians on the planet, written by a well-known authority on the world’s turtles and tortoises.
I highly recommend it as a great natural history read.”
—Russell
A Mittermeier, chief conservation officer, Re:wild
Cold-Blooded Murder
Reptiles
and Amphibians on
the Brink of Extinction
CRAIG STANFORD
THE STORIES OF SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST THREATENED REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS
Around the world, many reptile and amphibian species—from the iconic Komodo dragon to the unglamorous Telfair’s skink—are facing grave threats. For many, like the Belalanda chameleon of Madagascar and Mexico’s beloved axolotls, habitat destruction due to logging, agriculture, and development poses the greatest peril. Some, such as Galápagos giant tortoises, have been slaughtered wholesale by humans. Others, like Caribbean rock iguanas, have been driven to the brink of extinction by the introduction of new species to their island homes. Commercial exploitation is another risk to animals like the ploughshare tortoise, in high demand in the global black market pet trade. Still more, like Yosemite toads, face new threats as climate change accelerates.
Craig Stanford tells the captivating stories of dozens of endangered reptiles and amphibians, depicting the ecological roles and unique characteristics of each species. He takes readers on a globe-spanning journey, revealing the diversity and beauty of the creatures with whom we share our world. Stanford also highlights conservation projects that are protecting critically endangered animals, sharing inspiring success stories while acknowledging the difficulty of saving species. This gripping and poignant book shows why we should be fascinated by reptiles and amphibians—and strive to prevent their extinction.
$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22312-6
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-22311-9
APRIL 208 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 9 b&w figures
SCIENCE All Rights: Columbia University Press
CRAIG STANFORD is professor of biological sciences at the University of Southern California. He is chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and has conducted field studies of tortoises, turtles, and primates in South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, China, and Mexico. Stanford is the author of nineteen books, including Planet Without Apes (2014) and The Last Tortoise: A Tale of Extinction in Our Lifetime (2010).
What Science Says is a collection of short books about subjects that are rife with misinformation and apparent controversy in public discourse but have a clear scientific consensus. Written by recognized experts in each field, these works are aimed at interested general readers. The books reveal the cultural and historical context in which disputed claims emerged, how they were scientifically tested, and what the results were.
What Science Says About Astrology
CARLOS ORSI
UNDERSTANDING THE APPEAL OF THE WORLD’S
OLDEST SUPERSTITION
For thousands of years, people have believed that the configuration of stars and planets in the sky influences earthly events. Today, astrology is a lucrative global market, with newspaper columns, mobile apps, and professional counselors weighing in on everything from love life to health to the stock market. Yet scientific evidence shows indisputably that it is simply superstition. Why does astrology appeal to so many people? What makes its prognostications seem persuasive? Is there any harm to believing in astrology anyway?
This book aims a scientific lens at astrology, from its colorful history to experimental tests of its predictions through the social and psychological factors that explain its enduring popularity. Carlos Orsi explores the importance of astrology to the history of science and the reasons it has been categorized as a pseudoscience. He investigates its tenets, recounting how scientists debunked common claims. With both empathy and skepticism, Orsi illuminates the psychological, rhetorical, and emotional mechanisms that cause people to find astrological predictions convincing. He also addresses the dangers of irrational beliefs and the risks of applying astrology to serious decisions. Wide-ranging and entertaining, this book offers a critical look at the modern appeal of an ancient superstition.
CARLOS ORSI is an award-winning journalist with more than thirty years of experience in science writing.
“In this concise yet thoroughly authoritative volume, Carlos Orsi presents everything you need to know about the science of astrology.
An entertaining and well-written account ranging from its ancient beginnings to its modern forms.”
—Stuart
Vyse, author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22139-9
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-22138-2
MAY 240 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
SCIENCE
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“A richly detailed excavation of the forgotten documentaries of the 1930s—films that shaped culture, politics, and history in ways still felt today. Thomas Doherty once again proves himself a master historian of American cinema.”
—Chris Yogerst, author, columnist, and media historian
How Film Became History
The Rise
of the
Archival Documentary in 1930s America
THOMAS DOHERTY
THE EARLY DOCUMENTARIES THAT RESHAPED OUR PERCEPTION OF WHAT FILM CAN DO
By the 1930s, filmmakers had access to a backlog of footage from around thirty years of motion pictures, allowing them to create a new kind of film stitched together from the raw material of older films. At the same time, the transition to synchronous sound added a transformative new element to the grammar of cinema: the voiceover narration. Together, the film inventory and offscreen commentary gave rise to the archival documentary, the motion picture genre that preserves and rewinds history.
Thomas Doherty tells the story of the archival documentary, spotlighting the first films that set out deliberately to preserve history on screen. He shows how newsreels and documentaries challenged the era’s restrictive censorship and how film began to engage with the great political issues of the day. Doherty considers a range of films—some well-known, others obscure—including J. Stuart Blackton’s The Film Parade (1933), Laurence Stallings and Truman Talley’s The First World War (1934), Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.’s Hitler’s Reign of Terror (1934), Max Eastman and Herbert Axelbank’s Tsar to Lenin (1937), and the March of Time screen magazine. Tracing the creation of the archival documentary, How Film Became History illuminates how motion pictures have come to shape our vision of the past.
THOMAS DOHERTY is professor of American studies at Brandeis University. His previous Columbia University Press books include Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939 (2013); Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (2018); and Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: How the Media Covered the Crime of the Century (2020).
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22258-7
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-22257-0
APRIL 264 pages / 6" x 9" / 33 b&w images
FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
FILM AND CULTURE SERIES
All Rights: Columbia University Press
I Hear Freedom
The Great Migration, Free Jazz, and Black Power
CISCO BRADLEY
Foreword by Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ROOTS OF FREE JAZZ
Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland and Detroit. Disenchanted with the strictures of bebop, musicians forged a new style—free jazz—that took inspiration from a vast range of sources, including figures such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and John Coltrane; African and Middle Eastern music; avantgarde modernism; and the politics and aesthetics of Black Power. How did this radical movement come about, and what explains its creativity and vitality?
Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience. Cisco Bradley demonstrates that free jazz is deeply rooted in the musical traditions and aesthetics that the Great Migration brought from the South. As postwar urban renewal projects fractured Black communities, musicians drew on this heritage to create new forms of expression. Figures such as Albert Ayler, Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Frank Wright, Bobby Few, Charles Moore, and Faruq Z. Bey developed distinct artistic visions, often influenced by their involvement in Black liberation movements. I Hear Freedom chronicles the Cleveland and Detroit free jazz scenes, and it follows musicians to New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and beyond. A revelatory oral history, this book shows that free jazz is a uniquely Black style shaped by mobility, community, and the struggle for freedom.
CISCO BRADLEY is professor of history at the Pratt Institute. His books include The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (2023) and Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (2021). He is also the director of the documentary Take Me to Fendika (2024).
GABRIEL JERMAINE VANLANDINGHAM-DUNN is a music historian, writer, researcher, and DJ who heads cow: Music and is the creative consultant at Astral Spirits Records.
“Cisco Bradley guides readers through an alternative, ethnographic model of jazz—and thus American music—history. Other jazz scholars posit linear genealogies, with musicians/composers evolving out of past styles and artists; Bradley instead situates Black improvising musicians/composers within their familial, community, and professional networks. With extensive and unprecedented archival research, Bradley reveals how migratory movement drove free jazz’s experimentalist praxis and how encounters made along the journey culminated in art.”
—Kwami Coleman, author of Change: The New Thing and Modern Jazz
$32.00* / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-22157-3
$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-22156-6
MARCH 480 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 30 b&w illustrations
MUSIC / BLACK STUDIES
BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“For someone obsessed with ‘The Settlement’ since childhood, Rubel’s book is a dream come true, answering my every question about the life of Lizzie Black Kander, the juxtaposition of kosher and treyf, the provenance of the recipes, and the community and society in which the book came forth and flourished.”
—Bonnie Slotnick, owner of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks
“In this well-written and thoroughly researched book, Rubel provides a new perspective on American Jewish life through the lens of a widely used yet rarely studied volume: The Settlement Cook Book.”
—Rebecca Alpert, professor of religion emerita, Temple University
Recipes for the Melting Pot
The Lives of The Settlement Cook Book
NORA L. RUBEL
AMERICAN JEWISH WOMEN'S LIVES AS REFLECTED THROUGH A PERENNIALLY POPULAR COOKBOOK
In 1901, Lizzie Black Kander put together a cookbook based on the classes she taught at the Milwaukee Jewish Mission. “I was trying to teach a group of young foreign girls in a crowded neighborhood how to cook simple and nutritious food, yet have it attractive and inexpensive as we prepare it in America,” she recalled. The Settlement Cook Book would go on to be the most successful charitable cookbook in American history, remaining a bestseller into the 1970s. Despite including nonkosher recipes, it became a mainstay in Jewish kitchens and an enduring touchstone of Jewish American culture. Recipes for the Melting Pot tells the remarkable story of The Settlement Cook Book, demonstrating how it shaped Jewish American identity—and was in turn shaped by generations of Jewish women. Nora L. Rubel traces the cookbook’s evolution across forty editions over several decades, through waves of immigration, shifting gender roles, upward mobility, suburbanization, and rapid changes in Jewish life. She argues that the book celebrates pluralism, allowing it to serve at once as a tool for Americanization, a repository of tradition, and a platform for culinary innovation. Ultimately, The Settlement Cook Book is a record of American Jewish women’s history, told through the food they made and the lives they led. A cultural biography of an iconic cookbook, this lively and inviting book shares an inclusive vision of American cuisine.
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22434-5
$110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-16394-1
JUNE 240 pages / 6" x 9" / 11 b&w illustrations
FOOD HISTORY / JEWISH STUDIES
All Rights: Columbia University Press
NORA L. RUBEL is the Elizabeth Denio Professor in Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Doubting the Devout: The Ultra-Orthodox in the Jewish American Imagination (Columbia, 2009), as well as coeditor of Religion, Food, and Eating in North America (Columbia, 2014) and Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family (2024).
On Taste
In Humans and Other Animals
DAVIDE RISSO AND GABRIELLA MORINI
Translated by Elettra Pauletto
AN ENGAGING EXAMINATION OF TASTE AND FLAVOR BY TWO EXPERT SCIENTISTS
Are there only five tastes, sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami? Why are some so appealing while others are what we call acquired tastes? Do other animals perceive tastes in the same way humans do? How did the sense of taste evolve? Should the hotness of chili peppers, the coolness of mint, and the pungency of garlic be considered tastes? What can taste teach us about our health and our environment?
In this book, two leading researchers take readers on a lively journey through the science of taste. Davide Risso and Gabriella Morini trace its evolution across millions of years, ranging from microbes to octopuses through birds and finally humans. They explain how taste receptors allow us to decode the chemical composition of food and distinguish between edible and toxic items. Evolution has given varied species different capabilities, so pandas lack the ability to taste umami and cats do not perceive sweetness. On Taste also reveals how mosquitoes choose their prey—and why they like some people more than others. Rigorous and accessible, this book shows how taste unlocks the connections between science and culture, letting us understand our foods and our world more richly.
DAVIDE RISSO is a molecular biologist who specializes in taste and nutrition science. He received a PhD from the University of Bologna, and he has held research roles for major international food companies.
GABRIELLA MORINI is assistant professor of taste and food sciences at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy, and scientific director of the Pollenzo Food Lab. She is also a visiting scientist in the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen.
“A fascinating and beautifully detailed study, On Taste combines scientific rigor with genuine curiosity. Risso and Morini reveal the intricate ways our senses connect us to the world, offering insights that will intrigue food lovers and science enthusiasts alike.”
—Demet Güzey, author of Mustard: A Global History
$22.00* / £17.99 cloth 978-0-231-22129-0
APRIL 112 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
FOOD SCIENCE
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Topic S.r.l.
“Abe Kōbō’s novels were prescient . . . and they still are. What could be more timely for us than this prescient historical novel in a masterful translation!”
—Roger
Pulvers, author of My Japan: A Cultural Memoir
The Traitor A Novel
ABE KŌBŌ
Translated by Mark Gibeau
A NOVEL ABOUT THE PITFALLS OF LOYALTY BY AN ICONIC
JAPANESE WRITER
In postwar Japan, a writer meets a small-town innkeeper who is obsessed with a tale from the nineteenth century. He relates the saga of Enomoto Takeaki, an admiral in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate who regained authority under the Meiji government. A former member of imperial Japan’s military police, the innkeeper dwells on the question of loyalty even as he struggles with his responsibility for the arrest and murder of his brother-in-law during the war. Later, he sends the writer a mysterious manuscript purporting to be the account of a peddler turned samurai whom Enomoto betrayed.
Part historical fiction, part detective story, The Traitor is a remarkable novel about navigating changing political landscapes by one of the most significant modern Japanese writers. In his only historical novel, Abe Kōbō turns to a pivotal moment in Japan’s past to explore profound questions about the nature of loyalty and the choices that people must make when they encounter forces beyond their control or understanding. Published in 1964, when a new generation had begun asking their parents about the war, Abe’s tale of betrayal sparked controversy across the political spectrum. The great writer’s most important previously untranslated novel, The Traitor displays Abe’s literary mastery from a new angle.
ABE KŌBŌ (1924–1993) was one of Japan’s greatest postwar writers, acclaimed for his imaginative fiction and plays of the absurd. Among his best-known novels are The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another, and The Box Man
$26.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21295-3
$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-21294-6
MARCH 384 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 4 b&w illustrations
FICTION IN TRANSLATION
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Estate of Abe Kōbō
MARK GIBEAU has translated the novel A Shameful Life by Dazai Osamu (2018), as well as works by Kawabata Yasunari, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, and Miyamoto Yuriko, among others.
Eyes of the Sky
SYAMAN RAPONGAN
Translated by Kyle Shernuk
A VIVIDLY WRITTEN MULTIGENERATIONAL ECOLOGICAL INDIGENOUS NOVEL
Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the island of Taiwan. In Eyes of the Sky, he invites readers to learn the ways of this oceanic world—and to learn to see their own worlds anew through a Tao lens.
Employing oral storytelling conventions, Eyes of the Sky opens by recounting the history of the Tao, from their mythic origins to the present day. Its first chapter is narrated by a giant trevally, a fish common to the waters around Orchid Island. It then tells the stories of three generations of a single family—father, son, and grandson—exploring the transformation of Tao society through their encounters with Han-Taiwanese modernity.
Syaman Rapongan paints a vivid picture of his homeland—its mountains and seas, flora and fauna, climate and ecology—as well as local culture and customs. In describing fishing practices, canoe building, and conversations with friends from his village, he illustrates the Tao’s ecological worldview, lived experience, and struggle to preserve their culture.
Written in conversational prose with evocative detail, this book is a powerful testament to how Indigenous people and stories persevere.
SYAMAN RAPONGAN is an acclaimed Tao writer who lives on Pongso no Tao or Orchid Island. He is the author of many books, including Eyes of the Ocean, published in English translation by Columbia University Press. Syaman Rapongan is a tireless advocate for Tao culture, an expert diver, and a master canoe carver.
KYLE SHERNUK is assistant professor of modern Chinese literature and culture at Georgetown University.
“The translation of Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Sky at last allows Anglophone readers to see one of the most important Indigenous works of literature from the western Pacific. This is a universal tale of devotions and regrets, songs and stories, about multispecies interdependence, generational continuities, Indigenous-settler relations, and the wondrous moments where flying fish scales shimmer like stars that are the eyes of the sky.”
—Shu-mei Shih, coeditor of Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond
$25.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21171-0
$100.00 / £82.00 cloth 978-0-231-21170-3
MARCH 224 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 8 b&w figures
LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: National Museum of Taiwan Literature
“Letting Grief Speak is a gentle, careful, solid guide for anyone approaching the work of writing loss. Zinna collects stories, her own and others, and provides writing portals to help people communicate their grief. She pushes back against the idea that we are isolated in our sorrow, teaching us how to make our stories both personal and universal.”
—Eiren Caffall, author of The Mourner’s Bestiary
Letting Grief Speak Writing
Portals for Life After Loss
DIANE ZINNA
A PROMPT-BASED GUIDE TO WRITING ABOUT LOSS
Society doesn’t always make it easy to tell stories about loss. Grief can make us feel that we have crossed over to another side, where people can’t reach us and we can’t reach others. We’re encouraged to move quickly through the often-misunderstood “stages of grief”; we fear that we are burdening others with our pain. But pain can feel more manageable when we find ways to describe it—and writing about grief can help us connect with others who have felt pain of their own.
Letting Grief Speak is a creative writing craft book on the art of telling our hardest stories. Based on a class called Grief Writing Sundays that Diane Zinna has led for several years, it provides ninety writing prompts with accompanying craft techniques to help people find language for their grief. By turns gentle, unexpected, rebellious, and wonderfully strange, these prompts open portals: entryways into spaces where difficult emotions can become meaningful narratives. Warm, sensitive, and honest, Letting Grief Speak is a memoir of the craft, interwoven with stories from the author’s own life. It also includes pieces from acclaimed writers and more than forty of her Grief Writing students, inviting readers to find their own ways to tell vulnerable stories. A tool for writers and a companion for grievers, this book meets writers of all levels where they are, no matter what kind of grief they hold.
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21269-4
$110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-21268-7
JUNE 408 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
CREATIVE WRITING
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Curtis Brown Ltd.
DIANE ZINNA is the author of The All-Night Sun (2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her work has appeared in Brevity, the Bellevue Literary Review, and CutBank. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has taught creative writing for more than twenty years.
Interracial Marriage
How Diverse Couples Navigate Relationships in a Divided Time
GEOFFREY L. GREIF, VICTORIA D. STUBBS, AND MICHAEL E. WOOLLEY
A LARGE-SCALE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARY
INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
The rate of interracial marriage in the United States has steadily increased: One in six new marriages now crosses racial or ethnic lines. Yet these partnerships are not always embraced or even accepted by families, friends, and society. Within families, issues ranging from food and holiday traditions to parenting approaches and beliefs about gender roles sometimes must be negotiated between cultures. In a time of national division, questions of race and identity have become deeply fraught. This book—based on interviews with and surveys of hundreds of people and informed by the authors’ many decades of experience as therapists and researchers—explores how intermarried couples build lives together. People of varied backgrounds describe how they navigate a world where others wonder about their relationship, question the parentage of their children, and treat them differently from their partner based on their appearance. They speak candidly about the joys and challenges of raising mixed-race children. Many of these couples have strengthened their relationships by learning to communicate across cultural barriers, and they share strategies for overcoming misunderstandings.
At once large-scale and intimate, this book offers practical advice and timely insight into the triumphs and struggles of love across lines of difference.
GEOFFREY L. GREIF is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and a licensed clinical social worker.
VICTORIA D. STUBBS is the founder of Inner Truth Psychotherapy and Wellness and was previously a full-time clinical instructor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.
MICHAEL E. WOOLLEY is a retired professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. He is coauthor, with Greif, of Adult Sibling Relationships (Columbia, 2016).
“This book’s key strength is its big heart. Interracial Marriage is a compassionate exploration of a topic that many might wish to ignore or gloss over. Drawing on therapeutic expertise and lived experience, the authors offer strategies that will benefit readers dealing with differences in close relationships as well as readers interested in race and ethnic relationships in American society.”
—Pam Sheff, Johns Hopkins University
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MAY 280 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
SOCIAL WORK / PSYCHOLOGY
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“Socially Wired reimagines neurological processes as a deeply cultural experience, blending science and imagination to reveal how our understanding of the brain is shaped by the societies we live in—and how culture itself can transform the way we think about our minds.”
—Daniel Yon, Birkbeck, University of London
Socially
Wired How Culture Shapes Our Brains
MATTHEW W. SCHELKE
WHAT NEUROLOGY REVEALS ABOUT CULTURAL
EXPERIENCE
From birth, our brains are shaped by other people— in our families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, countries, and cultures. These social worlds make us who we are, but how this process works remains mysterious on a neural level.
In Socially Wired, Matthew W. Schelke uses the stories of patients with neurological illness to show how social and cultural environments transform the brain. In the neurology clinic, the experiences of patients with the same illness can vary tremendously depending on their backgrounds, providing a window onto the complex interactions between brain and culture. Through cases ranging from an amateur chef who suddenly stopped cooking to an art lover who was removed from a gallery for touching the art, Schelke explores what neurological injury can reveal about social and cultural behavior. He demonstrates how specific practices—shared emotion, apprenticeship learning, imagination, language, art, and collective memory—shape neural networks, the experiences of patients, and ultimately our encultured minds.
Going beyond neuroscience, Socially Wired integrates insights from anthropology to philosophy to ecological psychology. Highlighting patient stories, this book illuminates how the brain wires us to participate in culture and how, in turn, culture rewires the brain.
MATTHEW W. SCHELKE is a general neurologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Neurological Institute of New York, where he sees patients with a wide range of neurological illnesses. He has published articles on the connections between neurology, neuroscience, and social and cultural life.
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22227-3
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JUNE 288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 3 b&w figures
SCIENCE
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The World Inside Your Head
How Perceptions Build Society
CHARLES MAURER AND DAPHNE MAURER
UNDERSTANDING THE NEURAL MECHANISMS THAT SHAPE PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIETY
To socialize, your brain needs to see and hear other people, yet it is sealed inside a bony box: your skull. How does an internal mass of tissue comprehend the world outside? How does it form social relationships? This groundbreaking book answers those questions and reveals the perceptual underpinnings of society.
Charles and Daphne Maurer provide a clear explanation of how the brain interprets sensory inputs, showing how rudimentary sensations evolve into social interactions at every scale from nursery to nation. Their novel approach shows how sights, sounds, and smells build social and political worlds. They offer fresh insights into broad swaths of the social sciences.
The World Inside Your Head brings science to life, interweaving cutting-edge research with eyeopening examples across cultures and eras. Its style is lively and free of jargon, yet its argument is rigorous and scholarly. It is an accessible and iconoclastic rethinking of conventional psychology.
CHARLES MAURER is a science writer whose work includes two other groundbreaking books with Daphne Maurer about perception, The World of the Newborn (1988), which received the Book Award of the American Psychological Association, and Pretty Ugly: Why We Like Some Songs, Faces, Foods, Plays, Pictures, Poems, Etc., and Dislike Others (2019).
DAPHNE MAURER is a Distinguished University Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour.
“This engaging and accessible book explores how complex human behaviors emerge from simple neural and social processes. Using neuroscience, psychology, and quantum theory, the authors reveal how perception, adaptation, and context shape learning, bias, and social norms to rethink the roots of individuality, conformity, and collective behavior.”
—Emmanuel Pothos, City St George’s, University of London
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JUNE 200 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 8 b&w figures, 2 tables SCIENCE
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Connection
How Technology Can Make Us Better Humans
DAN TURELLO
“Thrilling and fun. From Aristotle and Dante to Bono and adrienne maree brown, Dan Turello takes us to a wonderland where technology meets ideas.”
—Azar Nafisi, New York Times best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Dan Turello offers a philosophical and literary meditation on what technology is and can be, arguing that it provides surprising ways to strengthen and deepen what makes us human. Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture, this book traces the roots of our fascination with—and aversion to—technology. Turello shows how the moments that shaped Western views of technology offer perspective on our current predicaments.
DAN TURELLO is a writer, cultural historian, and photographer. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Psyche, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others.
Marginality
Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change
JIN Y. PARK
“A compassionately incisive meditation on the cries and creativity of the marginalized. As personal as it is philosophical, Marginality weaves real and fictional life stories and experiences into a compelling call to action.”
—Peter D Hershock, author of Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis
This groundbreaking book reimagines marginality as a transformative force, interweaving personal narratives with cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis to reveal how perspectives from the margins can catalyze social change. Drawing on her own experiences as an Asian American female philosopher specializing in non-Western thought, Jin Y. Park argues that personal stories are essential to philosophical inquiry.
JIN Y. PARK is William Fraser McDowell Chair Professor of Philosophy and Religion at American University. She has served as president of the American Academy of Religion, the North American Korean Philosophy Association, and the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy.
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MARCH 248 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 2 b&w photographs
PHILOSOPHY
NO LIMITS
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PHILOSOPHY
NO LIMITS
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Nietzsche
Anti-Philosophy 1
ALAIN BADIOU
Translated by Bruno Bosteels with Susan Spitzer
Introduction by Bruno Bosteels
ALAIN BADIOU’S HIGHLY ORIGINAL READING OF NIETZSCHE
For Alain Badiou, Friedrich Nietzsche is the “prince” of anti-philosophy. French leftist thinkers celebrated Nietzsche in the second half of the twentieth century, but when a backlash emerged in the 1990s, Badiou refused to join the attack. Instead, Badiou devoted his 1992–1993 seminar to an astonishingly original reading of Nietzsche—to whom he had previously shown indifference or scorn—in which he appears almost enamored with the author of The Anti-Christ and Ecce Homo.
This book presents Badiou’s seminar on Nietzsche’s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: antiphilosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy. For Badiou, Nietzsche is the key modern anti-philosopher, his antagonist—and occasional ally—in the battle to redefine the work of philosophy. Badiou takes for granted Nietzsche’s declaration that “God is dead,” yet he rejects Nietzsche’s assertion that philosophy too is past its expiration date. Badiou engages a century-long tradition of grappling with Nietzsche’s paradoxes, considering thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze, and Derrida. Examining Nietzsche’s impassioned writings on Wagner, he reflects on the nature of art and aesthetics. Provocative and profound, this seminar shows Badiou’s ongoing project of reasserting the value of philosophy from a new angle.
ALAIN BADIOU is one of the most important philosophers of our time. He is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. His seminars published by Columbia University Press include Images of the Present Time (2023) and Parmenides (2025).
BRUNO BOSTEELS is dean of humanities and Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
SUSAN SPITZER is a frequent translator of Badiou’s works.
“This book supplies a completely novel interpretation of the importance of Nietzsche’s philosophy for the contemporary world. In Badiou’s examination of his late writings, Nietzsche ceases to be just a worthy antagonist for Badiou’s thought and becomes instead a valuable ally in his philosophical project. What emerges here is a breathtaking exploration of Nietzsche that departs from all the received wisdom.”
—Todd McGowan, author of Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity
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MAY 376 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
PHILOSOPHY
THE SEMINARS OF ALAIN BADIOU
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“Gianni Vattimo’s thought continues to inform some of the most important discussions of contemporary philosophy and religion. With this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Farmer provides not only a comprehensive overview of Vattimo’s life and work but also an insightful interpretive analysis. You can’t really know Vattimo unless you read it.”
—Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas and Global Centre for Advanced Studies
THE FIRST INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF ITALIAN PHILOSOPHER OF RELIGION GIANNI VATTIMO
Gianni Vattimo (1936–2023) was among the most significant Italian philosophers of the last fifty years. A controversial figure both at home and abroad, he sometimes described himself paradoxically as a “nihilist” and as a “communist Catholic.” Despite his provocations—and unusually for an academic philosopher—he served two terms in the European Parliament. For decades, Vattimo was at the forefront of developments in continental philosophy, spanning hermeneutics, postmodernity, and the “return to religion.” Drawing on the work of figures such as Heidegger, Marx, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Rorty, and Kuhn, Vattimo constructed his signature concept of “weak thought,” a way of approaching the persistent problems of ideology, violence, and social division after the so-called end of metaphysics. In this book, Thomas Jared Farmer provides a groundbreaking examination of Vattimo’s life and work. He considers the distinctive contributions that Vattimo made to postmodern thought as well as to recent debates in political philosophy and religion. This book provides an accessible introduction to Vattimo’s overall philosophical project while also contextualizing it through discussions of important intellectual figures, key events in Italian history, and details about his personal trajectory. Authoritative and comprehensive, it is an indispensable companion to the works of one of the most original thinkers to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century.
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THOMAS JARED FARMER is the McDonald Scholar in Residence at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law.
Jürgen Habermas
Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist
PETER J. VEROVŠEK
UNDERSTANDING JÜRGEN HABERMAS THROUGH HIS WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC
Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the concept of the public sphere, which forms the basis of his communicative understanding of democratic politics. Habermas has not only theorized the public sphere—he has also taken part in it through frequent commentary on current social, political, and cultural issues. Yet since Habermas’s extensive public-facing writings have been overlooked, his philosophy has often been criticized as apolitical.
This book transforms our understanding of Habermas by focusing on his work as a public intellectual, showing how he has shaped debates far beyond the ivory tower. Peter J. Verovšek argues that while Habermas maintains a strict separation between his academic and his public-facing writings, these two aspects of his work are part of a consistent whole. The book highlights the development of Habermas’s views over time and the changing nature of his interventions. Verovšek sheds light on the interrelationship between Habermas’s participation in the public sphere and his theoretical work, demonstrating that his political engagement is crucial to understanding his philosophy. In a moment when public debate is under threat, this book offers timely new insight into Habermas’s lifelong project of defending the public sphere—both in theory and in practice.
PETER J. VEROVŠEK is senior assistant professor in history and theory of European integration at the University of Groningen. He is the author of Memory and the Future of Europe: Rupture and Integration in the Wake of Total War (2020).
“This book is an extraordinary accomplishment, bringing together nearly seven decades of Habermas’s journalistic writings with his theoretical work to cast new light on both. Drawing on Habermas’s newly collected archives, Verovšek illuminates Habermas’s unique understanding of the public intellectual as a democratic citizen who is at once an irritant to public discourse and a synthesizer of inchoate cultural and social trends.”
—Seyla Benhabib, professor emerita, Yale University, and senior research scholar, Columbia Law School
$40.00* / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-21303-5
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MARCH 448 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"
PHILOSOPHY
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
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“When is a joke just a joke, and when might it signal the next attack? Combining the rigors of anthropology and data analysis with a steely eye on multiple unfolding terrorist threats, Julia Ebner breaks new ground in separating the signal from the noise. Essential reading for threat analysts everywhere.”
—John Horgan, author of Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right
“A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the roots of violent extremism.”
—Harvey Whitehouse, author of Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
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JULY 304 pages / 6" x 9" / 6 b&w illustrations
SECURITY STUDIES
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE
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The Language of Terrorists
Distinguishing Trolls from Violent Extremists
JULIA EBNER
WHEN DOES ONLINE HATE SPEECH LEAD TO REALWORLD VIOLENCE?
If someone posts a death threat or a violent manifesto online, will they cross over from words to deeds? Explicit threats, intimidation campaigns, and incitements to violence are no rarity among white nationalists, incels, and other racist and misogynist extremists. Yet it is often difficult to determine whether they pose genuine risks, since the boundaries between trolling and true violent intent can be blurry. How can we tell the difference between online bluster and terrorist threats?
Julia Ebner—an internationally acclaimed expert on online radicalization—offers a fresh approach, showing how language patterns reveal the potential for political violence. She investigates the psychological underpinnings of texts by terrorists such as Anders Breivik, Dylann Roof, Elliot Rodger, and Brenton Tarrant, offering statistical and qualitative contrasts with nonviolent political writing. Ebner finds striking similarities among their manifestos, including the fusion of personal identity with the group, visceral othering of outgroups, narratives of existential conflict, and the glorification of violence. Following these trails, she demonstrates that perpetrators of extremist violence inadvertently give away their intentions in what they say. Featuring vivid writing and actionable conclusions, The Language of Terrorists presents a new model of violent threat detection that can address pressing challenges faced by the international security and intelligence communities.
JULIA EBNER is the leader of the Violent Extremism Lab at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion and co–executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. She regularly advises governments, intelligence agencies, tech firms, and international organizations. Her books include Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists (2019) and Going Mainstream: How Extremists Are Taking Over (2023).
China’s Weaponization of Trade Resistance Through Collective Resilience
VICTOR D. CHA, ELLEN KIM, AND ANDY LIM
HOW COUNTRIES CAN RESIST ECONOMIC COERCION
In recent years, China and the United States have each turned economic interdependence into an instrument of coercion, using their dominant positions in international trade to push states and firms to comply with their political goals. What is distinctive about this form of economic pressure, and how can other countries fight back?
This groundbreaking book explores the weaponization of economic interdependence and its implications for the international order through a wealth of new and original data on China’s economic statecraft. Victor D. Cha, Ellen Kim, and Andy Lim examine how and in what ways the United States and China have deployed economic coercion, focusing on China’s extensive use of this tactic over the past three decades. They analyze a vast data set that includes more than 600 cases of China’s economic bullying of states, companies, and individuals in North America, Asia, and Europe. Cha, Kim, and Lim propose a multilateral strategy of “collective resilience” to counter intimidation, showing how targeted states can band together, leverage trading relationships, and threaten retaliation.
Synthesizing new insights from unique trade data with international security expertise, this timely book sheds new light on how China exercises economic power—and it provides a playbook to deter bullies and rebalance the global order.
VICTOR D. CHA is Distinguished University Professor and D. S. Song-KF Endowed Chair in Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University as well as president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a former director for Asian affairs on the White House National Security Council.
ELLEN KIM is director of academic affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America.
ANDY LIM is deputy director and fellow with the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“Cha, Kim, and Lim have provided a fascinating account of how China has used its vast and intertwined trade networks to advance its own interests—and use these same commercial ties to undermine the industries and businesses of its global rivals. They also offer essential recommendations about how likeminded nations can band together to create collective resilience in the face of China’s sustained challenge.”
—Kurt M Campbell, former US deputy secretary of state and Indo-Pacific coordinator at the National Security Council (2021–25)
$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-22240-2
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JANUARY 408 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 5 b&w illustrations POLITICS
CONTEMPORARY ASIA IN THE WORLD
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“This book is a testament to Price’s encyclopedic knowledge of Song Jiaoren: the man, his family, and the intellectual and political milieux to which he belonged.”
—Brian Tsui, author of China’s Conservative Revolution: The Quest for a New Order, 1927–1949
Song Jiaoren
A Republican Revolutionary and the Fate of Democracy in China
DON C. PRICE
THE LIFE, WORK, AND TRAGIC DEATH OF A LITTLEKNOWN CHINESE LEADER
Song Jiaoren (1882–1913) was early-twentiethcentury China’s greatest champion of constitutional democracy. Fleeing the police after a failed plot in 1904, the young revolutionary found refuge in Japan, where his eyes were opened to new political possibilities. Along with Sun Yatsen, he was one of the founders of the Nationalist Party, turning an underground organization into a nationwide force. After the 1911 revolution, Song campaigned for a truly democratic constitution guaranteeing a representative government. Following parliamentary elections in 1913, on the verge of becoming prime minister, he was struck down by an assassin’s bullet on a Shanghai railway platform, and China began its descent into chaos and authoritarianism.
Don C. Price provides the definitive biography of Song Jiaoren, recounting his remarkable career and illuminating a period of epochal change. Drawing on a wide variety of sources—especially his revealing diary—this book chronicles Song’s life and times, interweaving his personal relationships with his revolutionary activities and intellectual development. From his early life in a rural interior province to his Japanese exile through his meteoric ascent and tragic death, it explores how Song became an unwavering advocate for democracy—and why antidemocratic forces sought to eliminate him. By detailing Song’s legacy, this book sheds light on the roots of democratic aspirations in China and on the path not taken in the country’s tumultuous history.
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JUNE 512 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 24 b&w illustrations
HISTORY
DON C. PRICE is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896–1911 (1974) and a coeditor of Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity (2008), among other publications on Chinese history.
Black Arts, Black Muslims Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle
ELLEN M c LARNEY
THE FOUNDATIONAL ROLE OF ISLAM IN THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prominent figures in the Black Arts Movement (BAM) converted to Islam and took new names. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Marvin X incorporated Islamic words and expressions, references to the Qur’an, and Arabic script, as well as symbols like the crescent star and depictions of Islamic architecture and clothing. They connected places like Harlem, Chicago, Newark, and Oakland to locales in the Muslim world such as Timbuktu, Songhai, and Mecca. These artists also played a pivotal role in developing Black studies and creating alternatives to the Eurocentrism of the American educational system.
Ellen McLarney explores how BAM writers identified with Islam as integral to the African American cultural, spiritual, and intellectual heritage. Examining poetry, visual art, music, drama, and mixed-media collaborations, she traces the emergence of a new kind of Islamic art rooted in the African American experience. Their works protested scientific racism, police brutality, colonial domination, and economic oppression while resurrecting a suppressed Islamic past and sharing spiritual visions of a new kind of future. Based on interviews, fieldwork, archival research, and close analysis of key works, this book reveals how BAM redefined Black art, Islamic poetics, and Black Muslim aesthetics in the struggle for racial justice.
ELLEN M c LARNEY is associate professor of Middle East, Arabic, and African and African American studies at Duke University. She led a project on Muslim American poets and musicians of African descent with the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art as well as an initiative on Islam and racial justice in the American South. She has also published in Souls, The Black Scholar, and Black Perspectives
“McLarney uniquely and adeptly places multiple versions and interpretations of Islam, and selfidentified Muslims, at the core of the Black Arts Movement and related movements. All future scholarship on not just the Black Arts Movement but also Black studies and Black Power will have to contend with Black Arts, Black Muslims.”
—Michael O West, coeditor of From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International SInce the Age of Revolution
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MARCH 384 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 13 illustrations
BLACK STUDIES
BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
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“Through its unique excavations of the Black radical tradition’s critiques of US freedom, The Lowest Freedom provides a radical rethinking of Black freedom and racial capitalism in the nineteenth-century United States.”
—Zach Sell, author of Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital
The Lowest Freedom
Racial Capitalism and Black Thought in the Nineteenth Century
JUSTIN LEROY
HOW THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION EXPLORED THE LIMITS OF FREEDOM UNDER CAPITALISM
Throughout the nineteenth century, Black thinkers grappled with the material limits of freedom. They insisted that emancipation without economic selfdetermination would reproduce the inequalities of slavery, arguing that true freedom required not only civil rights and suffrage but also defending the rights of workers and curbing the power of capital. They concluded that free Black life could not flourish in conditions of labor exploitation and economic deprivation.
The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow. Justin Leroy argues that figures such as Frederick Douglass, T. Thomas Fortune, Maria Stewart, David Walker, and Ida B. Wells developed a critique of racial capitalism that remains underappreciated. Their theories spanned the eras of slavery and freedom, connecting the North and the South, by illuminating the political economy of racial domination and the interwoven relationship between race and capitalism. By situating their work within broader debates about land, labor, and capital, Leroy provides a new framework for understanding how freedom was theorized, contested, and ultimately constrained in the aftermath of slavery. Bridging Black studies, intellectual history, and the history of capitalism, The Lowest Freedom offers a reinterpretation of African American political thought that places the struggle for economic justice at its core.
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APRIL 264 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" HISTORY
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U S CAPITALISM
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JUSTIN LEROY is assistant professor of history at Duke University. He is coeditor of Histories of Racial Capitalism (Columbia, 2021).
Coding Capitalism
Computers and the Remaking
of the Postwar US
Economy
DEVIN KENNEDY
THE
COMPUTER’S
ROLE IN US CAPITALISM
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After World War II, military officials and their partners in industry looked to the newly invented electronic computer as they sought to cut costs, speed up labor, manage supply chains, and—they hoped—bring stability to the postwar economy. Their efforts would shape early computer science and the first applications of computer technology in manufacturing and business, with profound consequences for workers and managers alike. By the 1960s, practices originally developed to improve industrial efficiency were being used by Wall Street. Digital technology became central to finance, tying together far-flung trading floors and automating decision making—with alarming consequences, including the 1987 Black Monday crash. Devin Kennedy offers a new history of the digital economy, showing how the computer emerged from—and transformed—capitalism in the United States. He traces how computer science and technology were made by industry, which molded computation to manage factories, financial markets, and entire firms. Drawing on the archives of businesses, computer researchers, regulators, and financial institutions, Coding Capitalism retells the story of the postwar economy and the computer, revealing how midcentury business laid the foundations of the digital world. Bridging business and economic history with the history of science and technology, this book uncovers the prehistory of big tech and demonstrates how capitalism has shaped computing since its invention.
DEVIN KENNEDY is assistant professor of history and the Evelyn and Herbert Howe Bascom Professor of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“Coding Capitalism is a remarkable achievement: an impressive, synthetic overview of forty years of computational practices in industry, management science, and finance. For historians of computing, business, and finance, this book will connect many dots.”
—Paul N Edwards, author of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
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HISTORY
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U S CAPITALISM
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“How shall we best live with viruses? This fascinating book tells the story of bacteriophages, therapeutically promising viruses that kill—or reenergize—bacteria. Emerging only in the relation, they challenge regulatory boards even as they open mysteries at the borders between life and nonlife. Brives draws us into both challenge and mystery.”
—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coauthor of Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
Our Viral Futures
A Political Ecology of Microbes
CHARLOTTE BRIVES
Foreword by Bruno Latour
A NEW COURSE FOR HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE MICROBIOLOGICAL WORLD
Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of today’s greatest threats to public health. Yet a possible solution has emerged from a surprising source. Phage therapy deploys viruses called bacteriophages, “bacteria eaters,” to treat infections. What concerns—both biological and social—arise from using viruses in this way? What does phage therapy reveal about the links between humans and microbes?
In Our Viral Futures, Charlotte Brives examines the development and implications of this therapy, providing new ways to understand our interconnections with the microbial world. Considering patients seeking treatment for chronic infections, the establishment of new regulatory frameworks, and the processes of laboratory research and clinical trials, she highlights the complexity and variety of the relationships among humans, phages, and bacteria. Brives places phage therapy in the context of the widespread use of antibiotics under industrial capitalism, which has enabled ecologically devastating forms of mass production and consumption. She argues that the connections between human societies and microbial communities defy the usual categories through which science and medicine understand the world, giving rise to new moral and political questions. Interdisciplinary and nuanced, Our Viral Futures poses a provocative challenge: Instead of continuing to assert that we can control and master microbes, we must learn to coexist with them.
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FEBRUARY 280 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 17 b&w illustrations
SOCIOLOGY
SCIENCE NOW
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CHARLOTTE BRIVES is an anthropologist of science and biomedicine. She is director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).
BRUNO LATOUR (1947–2022) was among the most important figures in science and technology studies.
Intertwined Creatures
The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other
ANTHONY CHEMERO
WHY THE SELF IS FUNDAMENTALLY SOCIAL
In one common view, the mind is immaterial, internal, and invisible. From this perspective, the mind is inherently individual and isolated: It is unknowable from the outside, separated from the world and from other minds. Anthony Chemero—both a philosopher and a cognitive scientist—offers a powerful challenge to this theory of mind. Bringing together philosophical insight and empirical data, he develops a new understanding of the mind that centers embodiment and social interaction.
According to Chemero, the mind is intertwined with the world: It depends on the body, the surrounding environment, and the people with whom an individual interacts. He shows that cutting-edge research in cognitive science provides striking experimental evidence for this concept of the intertwined self. Chemero explores the philosophical, moral, and political implications of the claim that the self is necessarily interwoven with the world and with others, drawing connections to phenomenology, critical theory, and feminist political theory. Deeply interdisciplinary and engagingly written, Intertwined Creatures makes an urgent case for seeing the self as social—especially in the age of AI—with radical consequences for ethics and politics.
ANTHONY CHEMERO is University Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Radical Embodied Cognitive Science (2009) and coauthor of Phenomenology: An Introduction (second edition, 2021).
“In an age where AI is the zeitgeist, the individual brain is a computer, and thinking is computation, Anthony Chemero provides a compelling rebuttal—backed by empirical research and dynamical systems modeling—that favors what he calls the intertwined self. Chemero leads an impressive group of philosophers and scientists who conceive of a mind centered on embodiment, environment, and other members of the human species. Those seeking an antidote to AI, or at least a complement of it, should take a dose of Intertwined Creatures as soon as possible. They won’t regret it.”
—Scott Kelso, author of Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior
$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-22319-5
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19538-6
MARCH 256 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 10 b&w illustrations
PHILOSOPHY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“Caputo has produced something truly novel in the modern history of philosophy and religious studies, demonstrating that attention to the method of phenomenology leads not merely to more philosophy or theology but to a theopoetics, and thus to the possibilities of a God beyond God. A Radical God rewards readers willing to stay with Caputo’s invitation to join him in an intellectual and philosophical exploration.”
—Scott Holland, Bethany Theological Seminary
A Radical God
Theopoetics, Phenomenology,
and the Future of Religion
JOHN D. CAPUTO
WHY GOD EMERGES FROM THE POETIC IMAGINATION
Religion is making itself unbelievable— scandal-ridden, antiscientific, authoritarian, and reactionary. Can religion be saved? Is it even worth trying to save religion, not just from its critics but from itself?
John D. Caputo proposes a radical alternative— what he calls “religion’s last stand”—by turning to theopoetics. In the traditional account, theopoetics calls for approaching God poetically because God transcends human language. Caputo contests this view, arguing that in the radical account, God does not precede but is generated by the poetic imagination. Theopoetics is not adorning an already constituted God; it is constituting the very idea of God. A radical God, untethered from theological orthodoxy and confessional rivalries, is neither a real being nor an unreal illusion, neither the object of supernatural belief nor the reject of skeptical disbelief. By adopting a phenomenological suspension of both belief and disbelief, both theism and atheism, both the religious and the secular, Caputo demystifies the distinction between the natural and the supernatural and replaces it with the distinction between the prosaic and the poetic. A daring undertaking in radical theology, this lively and provocative book proposes a startlingly different future for religion.
$35.00* / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-22364-5
$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-22363-8
JUNE 488 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" RELIGION
JOHN D. CAPUTO is the Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion and Humanities at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His most recent books are What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology (Columbia, 2023) and Specters of God: An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination (2022).
Kaleidoscope
Pluralism, White Supremacy, and American Religious History
CATHERINE L. ALBANESE
THE CLASH OF WHITE SUPREMACY AND RELIGIOUS MULTICULTURALISM ACROSS AMERICAN HISTORY
There is an abiding tension in American religious history—and in how that history is told—between the pervasive ideology of white supremacy and the reality of a multicultural, multireligious North American landscape. Visiting this tension from the colonial era to the present, Catherine L. Albanese explores collisions between a white Protestant majority and the diversity of faiths flourishing beside it, offering timely insights into transformations in American religion.
Beginning with how Indigenous peoples felt the heavy hand of settler violence, Kaleidoscope examines coexistence and conflict across American history in a series of essays. Albanese considers a number of moments and movements in Anglo-American Protestant religiosity even as she looks to Native, Black, and Latinx spiritual traditions. She highlights the uncertain status of Catholics and Jews, following their quest for whiteness and acceptance, and shows how Mormons too asserted their place within the United States by extolling their whiteness.
Filled with rich detail and a varied cast of characters, Kaleidoscope offers a new lens on diversity within American religious history. Elegantly written and powerfully argued, this book calls for overturning frameworks that place whiteness at the center and for finding new ways to tell the story of American religions.
CATHERINE L. ALBANESE is the J. F. Rowny
Distinguished Professor Emerita in Comparative Religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former president of the American Academy of Religion, she is the author of numerous books, including A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion (2007) and The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness (2023).
“Albanese’s bracing book envisions America as a kaleidoscope that has failed many times and is failing today in this present of white supremacist politics. But Albanese dreams of a better future. The kaleidoscope turns again, and the present anti-Black, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic hatreds become possible breaking points, ways to wake up from the nightmare we are in. Not every American future is a dystopia. Neither is this one.”
—Jeffrey J Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else
$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-22354-6
$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-22353-9
JULY 248 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
RELIGION
LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“Moeller’s Daoist approach enriches contemporary debates regarding narratives about gender.”
—Ellen Zhang, professor of comparative philosophy, University of Macau
“Through luminous insight and powerful clarity, Moeller opens a new horizon—gender ease, a Daoist way of being that flows beyond fixed categories and hardened identities.”
—Robin R Wang, author of Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture
The Enigma of Gender
Why Identity Is Neither Individual Nor Essential
HANS-GEORG MOELLER
WHY DAOIST PHILOSOPHY OFFERS UNEXPECTED RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING GENDER
Current debates about gender identity are fraught with contradictions. Even as we increasingly recognize gender as an assigned category or social convention, we still see it as inherent to who we are, fundamental to our sense of self. But the quest to find one’s true self is unfulfillable. How can we find alternatives to the focus on getting our identity “right”?
This book offers a cultural critique of gender narratives, spanning traditional conformity to gender roles, the modern quest for individual authenticity beyond gender, and the recent social media–fueled concern with curating gendered profiles. HansGeorg Moeller puts Daoist philosophy into conversation with present-day thinkers, showing why it helps us rethink common notions about identity. Discussing a wide range of cases, from Chinese foot binding to the politics around transgender issues today, he argues that we can defuse our anxieties by recognizing that gender—like all identities—is social, not individual, and changes at different times and in different places. Accessibly written and empathetic, The Enigma of Gender calls on us to be at ease with whoever we happen to be.
HANS-GEORG MOELLER is professor of philosophy at the University of Macau. His Columbia University Press books include You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity (2021) and Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi (2017), both with Paul J. D’Ambrosio.
$27.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22128-3
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-22127-6
FEBRUARY 232 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" PHILOSOPHY
Rights: Columbia University Press
The Coffee Can Investor
A Stock-Picker’s Journey to Build Generational Wealth
NEERAJ KHEMLANI
A GUIDE TO PICKING QUALITY STOCKS FOR THE VERY LONG HAUL
What would happen if you bought a handful of stocks and then left them alone for some time, like stashing valuables in a coffee can? If you picked the right ones, you might wake up one day with lifechanging wealth.
Neeraj Khemlani introduces readers to this investing philosophy through the eye-opening story of a portfolio manager who has put it into practice. Matt Ankrum researched 100-baggers—stocks that have multiplied in value a hundred times over multiple decades—looking for what they have in common. Drawing on these clues, he hunts down and buys shares in what he thinks are tomorrow’s breakout companies, planning to gift his children a coffee can portfolio that could someday be worth half a billion dollars.
The Coffee Can Investor shares Ankrum’s process for identifying companies that can stand the test of time, as well as his stock picks. It explores the principles of long-term investing, emphasizing the power of compounding and why it pays to be patient. This book details the qualitative and quantitative aspects of 100-baggers, revealing that a surprising share are business-to-business companies, not just the business-to-consumer companies that typically grab headlines. Khemlani also recounts his own decision to make a coffee can of investments for his kids.
Engaging and fast-paced, this book is for anyone who wants to invest in enduring companies for the long term.
NEERAJ KHEMLANI is a veteran media executive and the former president and cohead of CBS News and Stations. He has also served in senior roles at Hearst and Yahoo! News and Finance, and has produced award-winning stories for 60 Minutes and ABC News.
“The Coffee Can Investor is a gem of a book that combines good journalism with strong storytelling. It’s an incredible story of two fathers’ love for their children and their desire to leave them a future as big and bright as the Texas sky.”
—Dan Rather, journalist and former national news anchor
$27.95t / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-22106-1
MARCH 280 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 77 figures, 3 tables
BUSINESS / INVESTING
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“A must-read for all leaders engaged in developing and nurturing new ideas into products and looking to make innovation a way of working and a lever for driving sustained growth.”
—Nitesh Bansal, CEO, R-Systems; former president, Infosys
“Marchand shows us how to drive innovation into our way of working and thinking, helping us achieve sustained growth.”
—David Valenzuela, national business director, Novartis Oncology, Rare Disease
No Fear, No Failure
Five Principles for Sustaining Growth Through Innovation
LORRAINE H. MARCHAND WITH JOHN HANC
A GUIDE TO CREATING A BUSINESS CULTURE THAT WELCOMES INNOVATION AS A CORE VALUE
Many companies claim to prize innovation but struggle to support it in practice. CEOs call innovation their number-one priority in surveys, yet their employees say they are frequently frustrated in their efforts to create change. The biggest reason for this disconnect? Playing it safe. Leaders and organizations want to implement new ideas, but too often they are held back by the fear of failure, even though setbacks are intrinsic to the innovation process.
Lorraine H. Marchand shows readers how to overcome the status quo that stifles creative thinking and to create a culture that encourages innovation. She provides a framework for sustained growth built on the “5 Cs”: Customer First, Culture, Collaboration, Change, and Chance. Drawing on more than 120 interviews with leaders across industries, real-world case studies, and firsthand experience, Marchand demonstrates how to spark lasting transformation. She shares field-tested strategies, tactics, and tools that practitioners can use to embed creativity within organizational cultures, leverage innovation to ensure better results, and future-proof a company for the long haul. Practical and inspiring, No Fear, No Failure is a step-by-step guide for organizations of every type and size to drive growth by fostering a culture of innovation.
LORRAINE H. MARCHAND is an acclaimed consultant, author, and educator on innovation with extensive experience in new product development. She has cofounded several start-ups; held leadership positions at companies including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Covance/LabCorp, and IBM; and served as advisor to Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett Packard. Marchand is the author of The Innovation Mindset: Eight Essential Steps to Transform Any Industry (Columbia, 2022). She teaches at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Yeshiva University.
$29.95t / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-21920-4
FEBRUARY 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 5 b&w figures
BUSINESS / INNOVATION
All Rights: Columbia University Press
JOHN HANC is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, as well as a longtime contributing writer to Newsday, the New York Times, and Smithsonian
Massively Better Healthcare
The Innovator’s Guide to Tackling Healthcare’s Biggest Challenges
HALLE TECCO
FIXING HEALTHCARE BY INNOVATING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Healthcare is broken—but we can fix it. Our current system is plagued by staggering costs, inadequate outcomes, and pervasive inequities. How can we deliver long-overdue change and make this system work for everyone?
In this groundbreaking book, Halle Tecco provides an insider’s guide to transforming our healthcare system through innovation. Drawing from her extensive experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and professor, she delivers a practical roadmap for addressing the most pressing challenges. Combining personal narratives, compelling case studies, and actionable frameworks, Tecco explores how to identify opportunities for meaningful change and build sustainable, scalable solutions that align profit with purpose. She acknowledges the difficulties—such as regulatory hurdles, misaligned incentives, and resistance to change—but shows how entrepreneurs can turn obstacles into their competitive advantage. Bridging the gap between Silicon Valley dynamism and healthcare’s evidence-based approach, Massively Better Healthcare offers a realistic yet optimistic view of what’s possible. Written for everyone from seasoned professionals to aspiring innovators, this book shares an inspiring and attainable vision of a better healthcare system and equips readers with the essential tools to succeed.
HALLE TECCO is the founder of the venture fund
Rock Health and an investor in more than fifty digital health companies. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and a course director at Harvard Medical School. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from Johns Hopkins University.
“This book is a masterful exploration of how we can reimagine the delivery of healthcare. With real-world insights and compelling storytelling, Tecco doesn’t just diagnose the problems: She provides a blueprint for meaningful, systemic change.”
—Megan L Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health
“Tecco’s roadmap equips the next generation of innovators with the insight they need to drive meaningful change.”
—Aneesh Chopra, former chief technology officer of the United States
$32.00* / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-22236-5
JANUARY 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 20 figures, 6 tables
HEALTH / INNOVATION
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“What separates a good investor from a great one isn’t genius—it’s clarity of thought and a framework that withstands uncertainty. This book will arm curious MBA students and professional investors with quantitative tools and mental models to accomplish an analyst’s most essential task: determining the gap between price and value. If you want to develop your own framework for security valuation, start here.”
—Bob Robotti, president and chief investment officer, Robotti & Company
$30.00* / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-21787-3
JANUARY 360 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 52 b&w figures, 89 tables
BUSINESS / INVESTING
HEILBRUNN CENTER FOR GRAHAM & DODD INVESTING SERIES
All Rights: Columbia University Press
Finding Value in Numbers
The Essential Investing Toolkit to Win on Wall Street
EHSAN EHSANI
Foreword by Mario Gabelli
AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL SKILLS AND QUANTITATIVE TOOLS FOR INVESTORS
To be successful as an investor, one needs a framework. And no investing framework works without numbers. Although quantitative methods can be intimidating, they provide a major boost to the quality of analysis. Written for readers without a technical background, Finding Value in Numbers is an engaging and practical guide to how thoughtful investors can use numbers—not just for the sake of crunching data but for making better decisions. Using a value investing perspective, Ehsan Ehsani shows how to deploy quantitative tools to identify and analyze investment prospects, demystifying the math that points to overlooked opportunities in the stock market, other securities, and beyond. Numbers help us grasp what a company is worth and why: the quality of a business, the durability of its competitive edge, and the reasonableness of its price. Combining practical frameworks with real-world examples, Ehsani walks readers through key concepts that enable robust analysis while explaining how to spot red flags. Along the way, he reveals how a disciplined, numbers-based approach can support both conviction and patience—two traits every successful investor needs. Blending quantitative insight with timeless investing wisdom, Finding Value in Numbers is an essential book for aspiring and professional investors looking to hone their skills as well as curious readers drawn to the inner workings of markets.
EHSAN EHSANI is an adjunct professor in the finance division at Columbia Business School and an investor at an activist and value-oriented firm in New York. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, along with master’s degrees from the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
MARIO GABELLI is the chairman and chief executive officer of GAMCO Investors, Inc.
The Virtual Universe
Unlocking the Possibilities of the Metaverse
ANDREAS KAPLAN
A BUSINESS OVERVIEW OF THE PROSPECTS FOR THE METAVERSE
Will we one day inhabit virtual worlds? From the buzz around Second Life in the early 2000s to Mark Zuckerberg’s much-hyped quest for the metaverse, there seems to be a clear pattern. After being touted as revolutionary, virtual worlds fail to meet expectations and fade into obscurity. Yet the dream of an immersive, independent, and interconnected virtual social universe still has the potential to transform the economy, reshape society, and profoundly affect the future of humanity.
This book contends that despite shifting trends, the virtual universe remains crucial to the technology of tomorrow—and might arrive sooner than we think. Through vivid examples and detailed case studies, Andreas Kaplan, a pioneering researcher of virtual worlds since the early 2000s, provides a comprehensive examination of the metaverse and its far-reaching implications. He delves into key technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and extended reality and discusses ethical issues around privacy, identity, and governance. Kaplan examines business models, digital ownership, and corporate strategies alongside applications spanning marketing, research and development, human resources, and supply chain management. The book concludes by contrasting potential futures, from utopian promise to dystopian peril and everything in between. Written in an engaging, reader-friendly style, The Virtual Universe goes beyond the hype— and the doubting—to uncover the true potential of the metaverse.
ANDREAS KAPLAN is professor of digital transformation and president of Kühne Logistics University and former dean of ESCP Business School, Sorbonne Alliance. An expert in AI, social media, and virtual reality, he has taught at Harvard University, Sciences Po Paris, and Tsinghua University. His books include Artificial Intelligence, Business, and Civilization: Our Fate Made in Machines (2022).
“The Virtual Universe offers a comprehensive overview of virtual reality, virtual worlds, and the future metaverse. Through an examination of the advantages and potential downsides, Kaplan presents a wellrounded and holistic perspective on the metaverse—an environment he aptly describes as a ‘land of endless possibilities.’ ”
—Michael Haenlein, ESCP Business School and University of Liverpool Management School
$30.00* / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-21768-2
MAY 248 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 6 figures, 6 tables
BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
“Sustainability metrics are an essential part of any business transformation. The authors offer an insightful summary of the challenges of integrating sustainability into management practices for managers and emerging leaders alike. A wonderful book on an important topic.”
HOW TO APPROACH THE BUSINESS IMPACTS OF SUSTAINABILITY
In recent years, increasingly sophisticated metrics have been created to measure sustainability. First devised to address environmental concerns such as greenhouse gas emissions, they now also assess organizational governance, community benefits, and hiring practices, among others. The field of sustainability management uses these metrics to track and advance progress on environmental, social, and business goals. How can an organization incorporate sustainability metrics into performance measurement and decision making? Which metrics should different organizations adopt, and why? What should sustainability management do to adapt in the face of political hostility, economic volatility, and technological change?
This is a comprehensive guide to sustainability metrics and management, introducing readers to key concepts and techniques. The authors show how to integrate sustainability into the core of organizational management and make it a routine part of administration. Written for practitioners, students, and managers of organizations of all sizes, this book gives readers the tools and understanding they need to lead the journey toward sustainability.
STEVEN COHEN is senior vice dean of the School of Professional Studies, professor of practice in the School of International and Public Affairs, and director of the Earth Institute’s Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management as well as two other masters’ programs at Columbia University.
WILLIAM B. EIMICKE is professor of practice and founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was previously New York City’s deputy fire commissioner and New York State’s housing “czar.”
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22067-5
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-22066-8
APRIL 232 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 2 b&w figures
MANAGEMENT / SUSTAINABILITY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
GUO DONG is professor of practice in sustainability management and associate director of the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management at Columbia University.
Making Organizational Culture Great
Moving Beyond Popular Beliefs
JENNIFER A. CHATMAN AND GLENN R. CARROLL
A GUIDE TO LEVERAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE FOR STRATEGIC SUCCESS
Leaders remain skeptical about the power of organizational culture even though extensive research shows that it is crucial to business success. Can a manager really influence an organization’s culture, or do executives just try to impose a culture on their employees? Is the concept of culture too vague to measure objectively? What happens to valuable employees who feel left out? Even if culture makes team members happy, does it actually affect the bottom line?
This essential book answers the biggest questions about organizational culture, offering researchbacked insights for leaders on shaping and managing an environment that spurs achievement. The management experts Jennifer A. Chatman and Glenn R. Carroll—a psychologist and a sociologist—draw on social-scientific findings to evaluate and debunk common misconceptions. They show how research on culture empowers managers to identify what really matters and deploy it productively.
Making Organizational Culture Great features compelling examples from companies and nonprofits including Apple, Genentech, Disney, Ford, Netflix, Maersk, Google, Cisco, Southwest Airlines, and many others. A practical guide for current and aspiring leaders, this book reveals how to manage culture consistently, comprehensively, and coherently.
JENNIFER A. CHATMAN is Bank of America Dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and codirector of the Berkeley Haas Center for Workplace Culture and Innovation. She is cohost of the podcast The Culture Kit with Jenny and Sameer
GLENN R. CARROLL is Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and professor (by courtesy) of sociology at Stanford University. He is coauthor of Making Great Strategy: Arguing for Organizational Advantage (Columbia, 2021).
“Chatman and Carroll provide leaders with pragmatic and robust practices for aligning culture and strategy. This is the book for managers interested in lifting their organization to new heights!”
—Kristin Sverchek, former president, Lyft
“This book busts some of the biggest myths about organizational culture. With rigorous evidence and vivid cases, two experts illuminate how to understand and improve systems of values, norms, and behaviors.”
—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential and Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking
$24.95t / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-22136-8
$100.00 / £84.00 cloth 978-0-231-22137-5
APRIL 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 41 b&w figures, 5 tables
BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT
All Rights: Columbia University Press
Julia Kristeva is among the world’s most acclaimed and accomplished thinkers. Born in Bulgaria in 1941, she has lived and worked in France since 1966, becoming one of the country’s most important public intellectuals. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, that have been influential worldwide. Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. She was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.”
Columbia University Press is proud to have been the publisher of Kristeva’s books in English translation for more than four decades, helping her vital body of work reach a global readership. This season, we continue the Kristeva Library, reissuing her works with a bold new look and a unified format, with striking new covers and updated interior design to ensure that these essential books continue to inspire and provoke readers around the world for years to come. Last season, we brought you Teresa, My Love ; Murder in Byzantium ; The Enchanted Clock ; Dostoyevsky, or the Flood of Language ; and Proust and the Sense of Time and this catalog features three more of her major works.
“Traces [Arendt’s life and thought] rigorously and with strong interpretive opinions.”
Publishers Weekly
$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-22393-5
JUNE 320 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 4 images
PHILOSOPHY
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Librairie Arthème Fayard
Hannah Arendt
JULIA KRISTEVA
Translated by Ross Guberman
We are still coming to terms with the controversial figure of Hannah Arendt (1906–1975). Interlacing her life and work, this book is an elegant, sophisticated biography brimming with historical and philosophical insight. Focusing on the theme of female genius, Julia Kristeva emphasizes three features of the philosopher’s work. Exploring Arendt’s critique of Saint Augustine and her biographical essay on Rahel Varnhagen, Kristeva accentuates Arendt’s commitment to recounting lives. Second, she reflects on Arendt’s perspective on Judaism, anti-Semitism, and the “banality of evil.” Finally, Kristeva assesses Arendt’s intellectual journey, placing her enthusiasm for observing both social phenomena and political events in the context of her personal life. Drawing on fragments of Arendt’s correspondence with her longtime lover Martin Heidegger and her husband Heinrich Blucher, excerpts from her mother’s diary, and passages from Arendt’s philosophical writings, this book presents a luminous account of an essential thinker.
ROSS GUBERMAN translated several works by Julia Kristeva, including New Maladies of the Soul and Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature
Melanie Klein
JULIA KRISTEVA
Translated by Ross Guberman
“Kristeva, a formidable cultural historian and critic, brings a rich mix of data and ideas.”
Library Journal
Melanie Klein (1882–1960) pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and introduced a new approach to the theory of the unconscious. In her first biography of a fellow psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva tells the remarkable story of Klein’s life: an unhappy wife and mother who underwent analysis and—without a medical or other advanced degree—became an analyst herself at the age of forty. In Kristeva’s account, Klein was the first person to see the mother as the source of not only creativity but also thought as well as the first to consider the place of matricide in psychic development—making her a crucial figure in the evolution of the provocative ideas about motherhood and the psyche for which Kristeva is renowned.
ROSS GUBERMAN translated several works by Julia Kristeva, including New Maladies of the Soul and Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature
Colette
JULIA KRISTEVA
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
“Persuasive and entertaining. . . . Kristeva and Colette are a brilliant coupling.”
The Times (UK)
The final volume of Julia Kristeva’s trilogy on “female genius,” Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of the notorious French author who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. Colette (1873–1954) was a prolific novelist who celebrated sexual pleasure at a time when women writers were inhibited about dealing with the topic. She also published in pro-Vichy, anti-Semitic journals during the Nazi occupation, even as she fought to keep her Jewish third husband from deportation. Kristeva offers an elegant and sophisticated critique of Colette’s psychological conflicts, opening Colette’s oeuvre to psychoanalytic interpretation.
JANE MARIE TODD (1957–2021) translated more than ninety books for university presses and art museums.
$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-22392-8
JUNE 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
PHILOSOPHY / PSYCHOLOGY
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Librairie Arthème Fayard
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-22391-1
JUNE 448 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 10 images
PHILOSOPHY / LITERARY STUDIES
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Librairie Arthème Fayard
“In this remarkable recap of his postprize career, Kandel’s intellect and passion are present on every page.
Readers will be awed by the depth and breadth of Kandel’s work.”
Publishers Weekly
“A short, cheerful memoir from an energetic Nobel laureate.”
Kirkus
There Is Life After the Nobel Prize
ERIC R. KANDEL
One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed him that he had been awarded a key grant. Also, the officer said, he and his colleagues thought Kandel would win the Nobel Prize. “I hope not soon,” Kandel’s wife, Denise, said when she heard this. Sociologists had found that Nobel Prize winners often did not contribute much more to science, she explained. In this book, Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000—or his experience of proving to his wife that he was not yet “completely dead intellectually.” He takes readers through his lab’s scientific advances, including research into how long-term memory is stored in the brain, the nature of age-related memory loss, and the neuroscience of drug addiction and schizophrenia. Kandel relates how the Nobel Prize gave him the opportunity to reach a far larger audience, which in turn allowed him to discover and pursue new directions. He describes his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art into conversation with each other. Kandel also discusses his return to Austria, which he had fled as a child, and observes Austria’s coming to terms with the Nazi period. Showcasing Kandel’s accomplishments, erudition, and wit, There Is Life After the Nobel Prize is a candid account of the working life of an acclaimed scientist.
$17.00* / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-22420-8
JUNE 120 pages / 5.06" x 7.81" / 11 figures
SCIENCE
CLOTH EDITION 2021 978-0-231-20014-1
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ERIC R. KANDEL is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is founding codirector of Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute, founding director of Columbia’s Kavli Institute for Brain Science, and Sagol Professor Emeritus of Brain Science at the Zuckerman Institute. In 2000 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of learning and memory. He is the author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (2006); The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present (2012); Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (Columbia, 2016); The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves (2018); and Essays on Art and Science (Columbia, 2024).
After Christianity
GIANNI
VATTIMO
Translated by Luca D’Isanto
“In this remarkable book, Vattimo engages in an unyielding analysis of the state of life in the West after Christianity.”
Journal of Religion
What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche’s famous announcement of the “death of God”? Gianni Vattimo offers a brilliant examination of Christianity in an age of deep uncertainty—and a personal account of how he himself recovered his faith through Nietzsche and Heidegger.
GIANNI VATTIMO (1936–2023) was emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Turin and a former member of the European Parliament. His Columbia University Press books include Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy (2016) and A Farewell to Truth (2011).
LUCA D’ISANTO has translated works including Vattimo’s Art’s Claim to Truth (Columbia, 2008).
Spinoza for Our Time Politics and Postmodernity
ANTONIO NEGRI
Translated by William McCuaig
With a foreword by Rocco Gangle
“Piercingly insightful.”
The Comparatist
Antonio Negri offers a profound understanding of Baruch Spinoza and his legacy, demonstrating the thinker’s ongoing relevance. By positioning Spinoza as a revolutionary intellectual, Negri advances his philosophy of the multitude, immanence, and political action.
ANTONIO NEGRI (1933–2023) was a world-renowned theorist who taught political philosophy at the University of Padua, the University of Vincennes, and College Internationale de Philosophie. His books include Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin (Columbia, 2014). With Michael Hardt, he coauthored the best-selling trilogy, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth
WILLIAM M c CUAIG is the translator of many books by Gianni Vattimo, including A Farewell to Truth (Columbia, 2011).
ROCCO GANGLE is associate professor of philosophy at Endicott College.
$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-22419-2
$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-22387-4
JANUARY 128 pages / 5.1" x 9.1"
PHILOSOPHY
CLOTH EDITION 2002 978-0-231-10628-3
ITALIAN ACADEMY LECTURES
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JANUARY 152 pages / 5.5" x 7"
PHILOSOPHY
CLOTH EDITION 2013 978-0-231-16046-9
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
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Love, Joe
The
Selected Letters of Joe Brainard
JOE BRAINARD
Edited by Daniel Kane
“In these letters, you feel the force of a person fully met.”
New York Times Book Review
Love, Joe presents a selection of Joe Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life. Brainard’s letters to his partner, Kenward Elmslie, and others also open a window onto the transformations of queer life during this period.
“Offers glimpses of [Brainard’s] constant play and productivity.”
New Yorker
JOE BRAINARD (1942–1994) was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York City in 1960. His I Remember has been translated into fifteen languages, and his artworks are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and many others. He died from AIDS-related pneumonia.
DANIEL KANE is a professor of American literature at Uppsala University. His books include “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City (Columbia, 2017).
Black Intellectuals and Black Society
MARTIN L. KILSON
Foreword by Cornel West
“Kilson was the consummate teacher, and in this posthumous work of wide-ranging thought and scholarship, he brilliantly explores the pivotal yet often obscured legacy of giants of the twentiethcentury African American intelligentsia.”
—Henry Louis Gates, Jr , Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century. Kilson argues that the trajectory of twentieth-century Black intellectuals was determined by the interplay between formal ideas and Black egalitarian struggle.
MARTIN L. KILSON (1931–2019) was Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus at Harvard University. He wrote and edited several books, including Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012 (2014) and A Black Intellectual’s Odyssey: From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League (2021). He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a longtime member of the editorial board of Dissent
CORNEL WEST is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.
$27.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22388-1
MAY 408 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 33 b&w scans of letters/sketches
POETRY / ART / LETTERS
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$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22390-4
JANUARY 296 pages / 6" x 9"
HISTORY / BLACK STUDIES
CLOTH EDITION 2024 978-0-231-21565-7
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Putin’s Revenge Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
LUCIAN KIM
“Kim draws on his decades of pioneering and revelatory reporting to guide us through the twists and turns leading to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. This is the book for anyone who wants to understand exactly why and how Putin launched Europe’s largest land war since WWII.”
—Fiona Hill, The Brookings Institution
Lucian Kim offers a gripping, definitive account of Russia’s path to war, from Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Maidan uprising right up to the fullscale invasion. He examines the Kremlin’s motives, tracing Putin’s transformation from a seemingly pragmatic leader into an embittered tyrant who saw it as his historical mission to reconquer Ukraine. This book tells the story of the lead-up to the invasion with revelatory detail and fresh analysis, shedding new light on a conflict that has roiled the post–Cold War order.
LUCIAN KIM has reported on Ukraine and Russia since Vladimir Putin’s first term in office. Based in Moscow and Berlin for more than twenty years, he covered central and eastern Europe as a correspondent for National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, and the Christian Science Monitor
$23.00* / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-22389-8
FEBRUARY 344 pages / 6" x 9" / 6 b&w maps
POLITICS
CLOTH EDITION 2024 978-0-231-21402-5
WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES
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Defeating Dengue A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving
R. EDWARD FREEMAN AND ANDREW SELL
FINALIST, 2025 SIM OUTSTANDING BOOK
AWARD, SOCIAL ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT
DIVISION, ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT
This book tells the remarkable story of how a multistakeholder partnership in Indonesia fought dengue fever and explores the implications for social enterprises seeking to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. It is at once an insightful case study of the power of multistakeholder partnerships and a gripping story of scientific and social achievement.
R. EDWARD FREEMAN is University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and academic director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is the author of the influential Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (2010, originally published in 1984) and coauthor of The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs (Columbia, 2020), among other books.
ANDREW SELL is a senior research associate with the Virginia Department of Social Services. He was previously senior associate director of research at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
$22.00 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-22418-5
APRIL 224 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 15 images
BUSINESS
CLOTH EDITION 2024 978-0-231-21556-5
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Macroevolutionaries
Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
BRUCE S. LIEBERMAN AND NILES ELDREDGE
“[An] impressive book by impressive people. At once thought-provoking and entertaining.”
—Jodi Summers, Southern California Paleontology Society
One of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gould’s acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields to which they have devoted their careers.
BRUCE S. LIEBERMAN is Dean’s Professor of Evolutionary Biology and senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas, where he also directs the Paleontological Institute and is editor in chief of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
NILES ELDREDGE is an invertebrate paleontologist, an evolutionary biologist, and an emeritus curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History. He discovered punctuated equilibria with Stephen Jay Gould and played a leading role in developing the field of macroevolution.
The Clock in the Sun
How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star
PIERRE SOKOLSKY
“Provides a unique look at world history as seen through the lens of solar astronomy.”
Wall Street Journal
Pierre Sokolsky offers a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle. He ranges widely across cultures and throughout history, from the earliest recorded observations of sunspots in Chinese annals to satellites orbiting the Sun today. Considering how various thinkers sought to solve the puzzle of sunspots, Sokolsky sheds new light on key discoveries and the people who made them, as well as their historical and cultural contexts.
PIERRE SOKOLSKY is distinguished professor of physics and astronomy emeritus at the University of Utah, where he was also dean of the College of Science. Sokolsky is a recipient of the American Physical Society’s Panofsky Prize in High Energy Physics and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Yodh Prize.
“Interested readers of all levels will have something to learn and enjoy.”
Eric S. Haag explores the two-billion-year history of sex, from the first organisms on Earth to contemporary humans. He delves into the deep history of sexual reproduction, from its origins as a fix for a mutational crisis to an essential feature of all complex life. Haag traces sexual differentiation from its earliest forms in microbes to its elaboration in animals, showing why sex differences in cells and organisms help species adapt, persist, and evolve. Bringing the story up to the present, Haag argues that the evolutionary history of human sexuality helps us better understand contemporary society.
ERIC S. HAAG is professor of biology and director of the Biological Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has conducted research on the evolution of sex and reproduction in animals such as sea urchins, roundworms, and hermaphroditic fish for three decades.
The Beauty of Choice On Women, Art, and Freedom
WENDY STEINER
“A wildly inventive mix of erudition and insight, research and storytelling, a gorgeous and impassioned call to arms written in prose as clear as an alpine lake. Read this book and marvel.”
—Andrea Barnet, author of Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values. This deeply original book gives taste, beauty, and pleasure central roles in a passionate defense of women’s freedom.
WENDY STEINER is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an opera librettist and multimedia artist. Her many acclaimed books include The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (1995) and Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001).
$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22415-4
MARCH 304 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 42 figures
SCIENCE
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$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22400-0
MAY 288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 55 b&w illustrations; 8 color images
PHILOSOPHY
CLOTH EDITION 2024 978-0-231-21526-8
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Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World
2014–2024
VISHAKHA N. DESAI, EDITOR
“A vital collection that reveals how art and museums around the world are reckoning with some of the most urgent issues of our time—race, gender, class, and colonialism. Desai has curated an expansive conversation that is both global and profoundly grounded in lived institutional experience.”
—Carol Becker, professor and dean emerita, Columbia University School of the Arts
Bringing together artists, scholars, activists, and museum professionals from varied fields and backgrounds, this book explores the intersections between visual art and social movements during the last tumultuous decade. Spanning themes of protest art, museum ethics, restitution, and institutional transformation, the collection considers how visual arts have both responded to and shaped politics and society.
VISHAKHA N. DESAI is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, and museum leader. She has been a senior advisor to President Lee C. Bollinger and chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and she is the past president and CEO of Asia Society. Her books include World as Family: A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings (Columbia, 2021).
$45.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-21562-6
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MAY 560 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 133 b&w images and 15 color images
ART
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Dogs Save
Stories of Canine Redemption in US Culture
KATHARINE MERSHON
“An urgent, necessary read for those seeking to understand our enduring intimacy with animals—a sacred bond that Mershon fearlessly examines.”
—Colin Dayan, author of With Dogs at the Edge of Life
Stories about people and dogs saving one another are everywhere in US culture—on TV, in Hollywood movies, on social media, and even on bumper stickers. Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted cultural assumptions about who can be saved and how redemption ought to occur. Dogs Save considers examples including the Michael Vick dogfighting case; Samuel Fuller’s controversial B-movie White Dog; the TV show The Dog Whisperer; Laurie Anderson’s film Heart of a Dog; and Eileen Myles’s Afterglow (a dog memoir).
KATHARINE MERSHON is assistant professor of philosophy and religion at Western Carolina University.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20697-6
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APRIL 240 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 9 b&w film stills
RELIGION / ANIMAL STUDIES
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ANIMALS: THEORY, CULTURE, SCIENCE, AND LAW
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Making a King
The Political Theology of Joan of Arc
WINNIFRED FALLERS SULLIVAN
“This book is political theology at its very best.”
—Vincent W Lloyd, coauthor of What Is Political Theology?
There is an enduring fascination with Joan of Arc, yet she is almost always seen alone, as a victim or martyr. Focusing on her life rather than her death, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan offers an interpretation of Joan as a political thinker and actor who sought, during her meteoric presence in fifteenthcentury France, to legitimate a king, channel God’s word, convene a coronation, and speak for the people in an alternative legal order. Making a King illuminates Joan’s extraordinary life and vision—her conception of sovereignty from below, her form of female masculinity, and her power as kingmaker—and shows why she can help us find a deeper understanding of religion and politics today.
WINNIFRED FALLERS SULLIVAN is Provost Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Bloomington, where she was the founding director of the Center for Religion and the Human. Her books include The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (2005) and Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law (2020).
$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-22282-2
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JUNE 296 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 11 b&w illustrations
RELIGION
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Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future
Forms of Knowledge in the AfroBrazilian Diaspora
ISIS BARRA COSTA
“Beautiful and necessary.”
—Zeca Ligiéro, artist and dean of the Center for Letters and Arts, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Imagining the Past, Remembering the Future investigates the interlinked art, history, religion, philosophy, and cosmology of oral traditions across the Afro-Brazilian diaspora. Through case studies of sacred and secular performances, Isis Barra Costa shows how Afro-Brazilian concepts and practices preserve and renew an ever-changing diasporic philosophy. Ranging across parades of Black royal courts, Carnaval performing groups, oracular literature, “spirit-dictated” novels, and many other forms, she illuminates the survival and transformation of African cosmologies, epistemologies, and poetics in the Americas.
ISIS BARRA COSTA is assistant professor of contemporary Brazilian cultural and literary studies at the Ohio State University.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21263-2
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FEBRUARY 424 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"
RELIGION
BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
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Local Gods
A Philosophy of Spiritual Diversity
LEAH KALMANSON
“A magnificent book, staggering in scope and humbling in depth. It’s been a while since I’ve been so excited about the philosophy of religion.”
—Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters
In many places around the world, spiritual matters and practices are local and contextual. Yet philosophy of religion often takes universalizing monotheism as the norm and overlooks other traditions, which it categorizes with oversimplified terms such as polytheism and animism. Leah Kalmanson offers a new approach to understanding the world’s varied religious traditions: a philosophy of spiritual diversity. Local Gods foregrounds the numinous, subtle, and supernormal factors that pervade many aspects of everyday life but slip through the cracks of philosophical discourse on religion.
LEAH KALMANSON is an associate professor and the Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought (2020) and coauthor of A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing (2021).
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21543-5
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MARCH 216 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
RELIGION
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Ecologies of Ecstasy Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life
SIMONE KOTVA
“Kotva does not just trace a deep, startlingly earthy theological history of vegetal contemplation but grows a vibrant green hybrid of Christian mysticism and the plant life of our planet.”
—Catherine Keller, author of No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility
What might religious practice learn from plants? Ecologies of Ecstasy recasts religious contemplation as a form of vegetal being, arguing that spiritual practice is rooted in the generation of life on earth. Simone Kotva explores the role of vegetal life in the history of Christian mysticism and the practice of contemplation, demonstrating its significance to the concept of mystical union, which rests on the loss of distinction between self and world.
SIMONE KOTVA is a senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (2020).
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-21397-4
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FEBRUARY 288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 1 b&w illustration
RELIGION
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A Taiwanese Ecoliterature Reader
IAN
ROWEN,
TI-HAN CHANG, AND DARRYL STERK, EDITORS
“A welcoming and authoritative introduction to one of the world’s richest traditions of environmental storytelling.”
—Scott Slovic, Oregon Research Institute, coeditor of Ecocriticism in Taiwan
This anthology showcases cutting-edge works on ecological themes by essential and emerging Taiwanese authors, revealing the vitality of their engagements with environmental crises. Works included span Indigenous eco-writing, oceanic hybrid narratives, ecological sci-fi, and speculative Indigenous fiction.
IAN ROWEN is an associate professor in the Institute for Advanced Study at Kyushu University.
TI-HAN CHANG is a senior teaching fellow and the deputy director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London.
DARRYL STERK is an associate professor of translation at Lingnan University.
The Confucius Chronicles
A Guide to the Texts That Made the Legend
WAI-YEE LI, EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR
“Confucius is among the most admired—and most debated—figures in Chinese history. Li introduces this polyphony through annotated translations of a variety of stories, from Confucius’s biography to a recent internet song. Students and scholars alike will enjoy this book immensely.”
—Yuri Pines, author of Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography
This book explores enduring narratives about Confucius, shedding light on his role as a symbol of cultural ideals and a fulcrum of ideological debates across eras. Wai-yee Li translates and provides commentary on a wide range of key texts, examining how Confucius’s legacy was interpreted in different historical moments. Suitable for a range of courses, this book offers new ways to understand Chinese cultural and intellectual history through Confucius and his transformations.
WAI-YEE LI is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Her recent books include Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature (2024).
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LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
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JANUARY 368 pages / 6" x 9" / 9 b&w figures
ASIAN STUDIES
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The Textual Townsman
Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan
THOMAS GAUBATZ
“The Textual Townsman heralds a bright new age for the study of early modern Japanese literature. Gaubatz harnesses a deep knowledge of Edo’s urban history to his exemplary skills as a critic and translator to bring key texts and the city they represented to rich, complex life.”
—David L Howell, author of Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan
In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Thomas Gaubatz offers a fresh approach to understanding the literature of the Tokugawa townspeople. Ranging across history, literature, and print culture, he shows that popular fiction made sense of the urban world by modeling how individuals could refashion themselves through the performance of shared norms. Through this vision of textual self-fashioning, The Textual Townsman develops a radically new account of the politics of popular fiction in Tokugawa status society.
THOMAS GAUBATZ is assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at Northwestern University.
Death Without End
Korea and the Thanatographics of War
THEODORE HUGHES
“An instant classic that brilliantly unpacks the thanatographic imagination sustaining limitless war in the militarized transpacific.”
—Youngju Ryu, author of Writers of the Winter Republic: Literature and Resistance in Park Chung Hee’s Korea
Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death—what he calls the thanatographic imagination—in North Korea, the United States, and South Korea energize ideas about history, the present, and the future. He shows how literary texts, films, nonfiction, and other forms of cultural production from the late 1940s to the 1960s address the incommensurate loss of life, violence, destruction, and suffering of the war. Bridging Korean studies, American studies, and the cultural turn in international relations, this book offers new ways to understand the unending Korean War and the global implications of its logic of limitlessness.
THEODORE HUGHES is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom’s Frontier (Columbia, 2012).
$37.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-22131-3
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ASIAN STUDIES
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$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18607-0
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FEBRUARY 312 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 59 b&w images
ASIAN STUDIES
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The Unraveling Heart
Women’s Oral Poetics and Literary Vernacularization in Marathi
MADHURI DESHMUKH
“Deshmukh sheds a brilliant light on the lives and songs of women enslaved, marginalized, and forgotten over centuries. The Unraveling Heart is a major literary achievement.”
—Manan Ahmed Asif, author of The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
Women’s songs of the grind mill are among the oldest oral traditions in South Asia.
Madhuri Deshmukh shows that these songs played a foundational role in the vernacular turn to making literature in Marathi between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. She calls for understanding these artfully crafted compositions as oral poetry in a lyric mode, underscoring that women describe their songs as an “unraveling of the heart” while they compare written poetry to weaving. The Unraveling Heart offers new insight into the importance of labor and gender to aesthetics and develops a novel approach to the concept of the literary.
MADHURI DESHMUKH is professor of English at Oakton College.
An Alan ˙ kāra Reader
Classical Indian Poetics
TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY YIGAL BRONNER
“A pioneering work that will change the study of premodern South Asian intellectual history.”
—David Shulman, author of Tamil: A Biography
Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of alankāras, or “ornaments”— literary figures of speech. Sanskrit writers developed and elaborated an account of literary embellishment that is perhaps the world’s most complex and long-standing theory of figuration. An Alankāra Reader is a groundbreaking panoramic overview of this tradition, presenting extensive and accessible translations of key works that span its history, from the sixth century CE to the eighteenth. It is an essential resource for the study of classical Indian thought and the intellectual history of South Asia.
YIGAL BRONNER is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches Sanskrit and South Asian intellectual history. His books include A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters (2023).
$37.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21792-7
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LITERARY STUDIES
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$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-22426-0
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APRIL 432 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"
PHILOSOPHY / LITERARY STUDIES
HISTORICAL SOURCEBOOKS IN CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT
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Staging Nuremberg
How the United States and the Soviet Union Fought Over the Portrayal of Nazi Crimes
SYLVIE LINDEPERG
Translated by Claudia Gorbman
“An essential work on the role of documentary in writing contemporary history.”
—Ivone Margulies, author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
Sylvie Lindeperg offers a pioneering account of the cinematic stagecraft, storytelling, and imagery of the Nuremberg trials, revealing how film was used both as legal evidence and as a propaganda tool. She interweaves in-depth reconstruction of the filming of the trial with portraits of the colorful characters who played leading or supporting roles.
SYLVIE LINDEPERG is a historian, emeritus member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne. She is the author of many books in French, and her books in English translation include “Night and Fog”: A Film in History (2014).
CLAUDIA GORBMAN is professor emerita of film studies at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and has translated several books by Michel Chion.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21199-4
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JULY 408 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 132 b&w images
FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
INVESTIGATING VISIBLE EVIDENCE: NEW CHALLENGES FOR DOCUMENTARY
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Film Diplomacy
A Media History of Turkey-US Relations
AYŞEHAN JÜLİDE ETEM
“This book is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand Cold War cultural politics beyond the simplistic framework of ‘propaganda.’ ”
—Perin Gürel, author of Türkiye, Iran, and the Politics of Comparison: America’s Wife, America’s Concubine
Beginning in 1930 and crystallizing during the Cold War, the United States and Turkey forged an alliance through film: American and Turkish institutions used educational films—short documentaries shown in schools, villages, theaters, and public spaces—not just to inform but to persuade. Ayşehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how both countries used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests. Moving beyond conventional accounts of propaganda and soft power, this book sheds new light on media’s role in global politics.
AYŞEHAN JÜLİDE ETEM is assistant professor of media studies and director of the film studies concentration at the University of Virginia.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-22000-2
$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21999-0
MAY 296 pages / 6" x 9" / 36 b&w illustrations
FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
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The Cinema of Jonathan Demme Champion of the Soul
LOUIS BLACK AND STEVE FORE
Jonathan Demme was one of the most accomplished American film directors of his era, yet he remains underappreciated. This book offers an in-depth look at Demme’s four decades of filmmaking, tracing the core elements that unite the disparate strands of his work. Louis Black and Steve Fore argue that Demme’s films share a compassionate, emotionally generous perspective on humanity’s flaws and foibles. Ranging from low-budget productions to the pinnacle of Hollywood success, this book highlights the humanist sensibility, artistic ambitions, keen social criticism, and wry humor that are hallmarks of Demme’s work.
LOUIS BLACK was the longtime editor of the Austin Chronicle and a cofounder of South by Southwest. A film critic and historian, he has participated in the restoration and rerelease of classic Texas independent films, including Eagle Pennell’s The Whole Shootin’ Match
STEVE FORE is retired from the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. He previously taught at the University of North Texas, Ohio University, and the University of Texas.
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JUNE 368 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 57 film stills
FILM STUDIES
DIRECTORS' CUTS
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The Melville Effect
A Literary Afterlife Across the Arts
JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE
“An impressive achievement and a masterly act of literary devotion, The Melville Effect charts and analyzes the remarkable recent acceleration in multimedia and mixed-media responses to Melville’s prose.”
—Samuel Otter, author of Melville’s Anatomies
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers new insights into the author, his works, and his many legacies. He argues that contemporary artists are drawn to Melville’s patchwork aesthetics, especially his mingling of genres and media and his prolific borrowings from popular and high culture. Boone’s cases range from artists drawing on the use of whalebone in nineteenth-century fashion to critique gender roles to those obsessed, like Melville, with size and monumentality in ever-proliferating artworks.
JOSEPH ALLEN BOONE is professor emeritus of English at the University of Southern California. His recent books include The Homoerotics of Orientalism (Columbia, 2014), the novel Furnace Creek (2022), and the story collection Conditions of Precarity (2024).
$45.00* / £38.00 paper 978-0-231-22220-4
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MARCH 336 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 96 b&w illustrations
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American Literature’s War on Crime
Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration
THEODORE MARTIN
“With breathtaking scope, American Literature’s War on Crime argues convincingly that detective novels, vigilante narratives, and serial killer stories were instrumental to changes in policing and public policy. A remarkable book.”
—Justin Gifford, author of Revolution or Death: The Story of Eldridge Cleaver
While the United States was building the world’s largest prison system, Americans were reading crime novels. Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in the age of mass incarceration. He analyzes dozens of novels—from best-sellers to cult classics and forgotten mass-market paperbacks—by authors including James Ellroy, Ralph Ellison, Sue Grafton, Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, Stephen King, and Walter Mosley.
THEODORE MARTIN is associate professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present (Columbia, 2017).
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MARCH 320 pages / 6" x 9"
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LITERATURE NOW
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Lyric Logic
How Modern American Poetry Reasons
JOHANNA WINANT
“Lyric Logic is a pleasure to think with.”
—Oren Izenberg, author of Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new. Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of induction, Lyric Logic argues that poems use logical form as literary form. Johanna Winant recasts the poetics of central figures as modeling and defending inductive reasoning: Walt Whitman makes lists, Emily Dickinson constructs analogies, Gertrude Stein presents facts, Marianne Moore investigates predictions, Elizabeth Bishop draws inferences, and Gwendolyn Brooks tests the limits of deduction.
JOHANNA WINANT is associate professor of English and humanities at Reed College. She is coeditor, with Dan Sinykin, of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (2025).
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The Souths in Her Black Women Writers and Choreographers and the Poetics of Transmutation
NICOLE
M. MORRIS JOHNSON
“Beautifully written . . . An outstanding and exciting achievement in Southern studies.”
—Riché Richardson, author of Emancipation’s Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body
In The Souths in Her—a phrase borrowed from Ntozake Shange—Nicole M. Morris Johnson shows how key Black women artists transformed the enclosing narrative frames imposed on them, developing new forms of creative expression informed by the lived experiences and submerged histories of women across the Africana southern world. She analyzes the intertwined relationship between movement and writing in the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Dianne McIntyre, Maryse Condé, and Shange, among others. For these writers and choreographers, unexpected encounters with unfamiliar traditions and creative visions of multiple Souths catalyzed formal experimentation and movements for liberation.
NICOLE M. MORRIS JOHNSON is assistant professor of English at the University at Buffalo.
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JANUARY 272 pages / 6" x 9" / 10 b&w illustrations
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BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
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Forest Imaginaries
How African Novels Think
AINEHI EDORO
“Avoiding the parochial and the polemical, Ainehi Edoro has found a new way to write about the African novel through the paradigm of forests. This is an important contribution to the critical discourse of one of the most significant literatures of our times.”
—Ben Okri, author of The Last Gift of the Master Artists:
A Novel
Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings, symbols, or remnants of a premodern past. Yet many African novelists have turned to the forest to experiment with worldbuilding and to imagine new futures. This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel’s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities. Ainehi Edoro argues that instead of treating the forest as a backdrop, these writers imagine it as a living structure: a space where politics, history, myth, violence, technology, and magic animate fictional worlds.
AINEHI EDORO is a Mellon-Morgridge Assistant Professor of English and African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the founding editor of Brittle Paper, a leading platform for African literary culture.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-22075-0
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JANUARY 304 pages / 6" x 9"
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Saving Apartheid
White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War
AUGUSTA DELL’OMO
This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South Africa—and forged enduring links between global conservatism and white power. By mapping an international network of white supremacist organizations, Augusta Dell’Omo reveals a fundamental shift in far-right organizing in response to changing geopolitical realities. Saving Apartheid ranges from Reagan’s Oval Office to South Africa’s bantustans and from white women’s grassroots organizing to evangelical broadcasting, illuminating how an unlikely coalition reimagined white supremacy. Uncovering the surprising influence of apartheid’s defenders, this book offers a prehistory of the present.
AUGUSTA DELL’OMO is a historian of global conservatism and the far right. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
Agrarian Superpower
Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States
SAMANTHA IYER
“A landmark work of global political economy. Iyer’s commanding ambitious sweep is matched by an empirically meticulous mapping of the geographies of power that remade agrarian capitalism across the United States, Egypt, and India. A tour de force!”
—Manu Goswami, coeditor of Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India
The United States superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. During the 1950s, an era of decolonization and rising Cold War competition, the United States became the dominant exporter of food staples to industrializing nations in the Third World through its massive food aid program. Through the lens of food and agriculture, this book offers new ways to understand the roots of the postwar global order and the US position in it.
SAMANTHA IYER is associate professor of history at Fordham University.
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MARCH 384 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 b&w map
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GLOBAL AMERICA
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MARCH 368 pages / 6" x 9" / 17 b&w illustrations
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GLOBAL AMERICA
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The Lavender Bans
A Century of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies in the US Military
DORIAN RHEA DEBUSSY
“This book confronts the ever-shifting rationales for banning LGBTQ+ military service—often contradicted by the government’s own data—with rigor and clarity.”
—Bree Fram, Col (Ret ), US Space Force
This book is a comprehensive account of the evolution of anti-LGBTQ+ policies from World War I to the present. Dorian Rhea Debussy examines six distinct periods of exclusion over the course of a century, tracing continuities and changes alongside the growth of the national security state. Meticulously researched and rich in detail, The Lavender Bans sheds light on a long and troubling history—with deep contemporary relevance. It is an engaging, important, and timely book for a range of readers, including scholars, students, policy makers, military personnel, and people affected by antiLGBTQ+ discrimination.
DORIAN RHEA DEBUSSY is the director of external affairs at Equitas Health. A nationally recognized expert in LGBTQ+ politics, she specializes in healthcare and defense policy. Debussy is a lecturer in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the Ohio State University.
$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20575-7
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MARCH 240 pages / 6" x 9"
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Jimmy Carter and China
Multilateral Competition in the Global Cold War
SHENG PENG
This book is an international history of the Carter administration’s intricate relations with the two competing Chinese regimes, emphasizing the geopolitical significance and lasting implications of this crucial moment. Drawing extensively from previously untapped archives in several countries and languages, Sheng Peng uncovers the internal governmental debates across world capitals that affected Carter’s China policy. He demonstrates that technological competition was as crucial as strategic and ideological competition to the course of the Cold War, and together they profoundly shaped US-China relations and the world today.
SHENG PENG is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna and an associate fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21195-6
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MARCH 328 pages / 6" x 9" / 20 b&w illustrations
HISTORY
A NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER AND WARREN I COHEN BOOK ON AMERICAN–EAST ASIAN RELATIONS
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The Race for Universal Monarchy
Apocalypticism and the Ottoman–Habsburg Rivalry in the SixteenthCentury Mediterranean
EBRU TURAN
“This impressive book recasts the sixteenth-century confrontation between Suleyman the Magnificent and Charles V against the background of a much wider political theater and a much longer history of apocalyptic and millenarian thought. Both specialists and general readers will learn a great deal from this book’s balanced yet intricate narrative.”
—Giancarlo Casale, professor of early modern history of the Mediterranean, European University Institute
The early sixteenth century saw the rise of two Mediterranean empires—the Christian Habsburgs and the Muslim Ottomans— with strikingly similar ambitions to usher in an age of peace, unity, and justice. Drawing on a wide range of Ottoman and European sources, Ebru Turan explores the emergence of these empires and the early phase of their rivalry within the broader Mediterranean world.
EBRU TURAN is assistant professor of history at Fordham University.
Progress from the Margins
Human Rights and Disability
Internationalism Since the 1960s
PAUL VAN TRIGT
“This excellent study goes far beyond merely placing the struggle for disability rights in the broader story of human rights. The two transformed each other, Progress from the Margins shows.”
—Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
This book is an international history of the struggle for recognition of disability rights at the global level. Paul van Trigt chronicles how people with disabilities and their allies developed their own understanding of human rights, from the emergence of disability activism in the late 1960s through the negotiation of the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A groundbreaking account of disability internationalism, Progress from the Margins also reflects on the prospects for a world that embraces disability.
PAUL VAN TRIGT is assistant professor of social history at Leiden University. He is a coeditor of Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State: Whose Welfare? (2020).
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APRIL 400 pages / 6" x 9" / 36 b&w illustrations HISTORY
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
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AVAILABLE NOW 224 pages / 6" x 9" / 3 b&w illustrations HISTORY
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
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Melancholy Borders Mobility, Migration, and Exclusion in Global History
ANDREW B. LIU, OWEN MILLER, AND MEHA PRIYADARSHINI, EDITORS
“Melancholy Borders points to the many corners of the world where a modern tension between mobility and restriction illustrates contestations over power, freedom, and human autonomy not often captured in national treatments of immigration.”
—Donna R Gabaccia, general editor of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations
Showcasing the latest research in the burgeoning field of global migration history, this book explores the historical clash between transnational networks of migrant mobility with state attempts to control them. Melancholy Borders illuminates the crucial role played by migration and migration regulation in the creation of the modern world.
ANDREW B. LIU is associate professor of history at Villanova University.
OWEN MILLER is assistant professor of history at Bilkent University.
MEHA PRIYADARSHINI is senior lecturer in history at the University of Edinburgh.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20719-5
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MAY 376 pages / 6" x 9" / 2 b&w illustrations
HISTORY
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL HISTORY
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Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan Punjabi Language Movements After Independence
JULIEN COLUMEAU
“Columeau shows us the complexity of the various movements that emerged in support of Punjabi in Pakistan in the two decades after Partition/ Independence, providing a rich account of not only key figures in these movements but also the writings, ideologies, and activities associated with them.”
—Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
Soon after independence, the Pakistani government adopted a language policy that promoted the use of Urdu. In Punjab, intellectuals launched three separate movements for the defense and promotion of Punjabi, divided along the lines of their political and literary affiliations: Marxists, conservatives, and modernists. Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan examines these three movements, taking an interdisciplinary perspective that combines sociological, historical, political, and literary approaches.
JULIEN COLUMEAU holds a PhD in history from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and is currently affiliated with the Centre d’études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes. He has published five books of fiction in Urdu, and his short story “Derrida in Lahore” received the Susannah Hunnewell Prize from the Paris Review
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MARCH 288 pages / 6" x 9"
HISTORY
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The Politics of Names
Attitudes, Identity, and the Naming of Children in American History
R. URBATSCH
“A masterpiece of innovative, nontraditional social science research. Creative, insightful, and entertaining throughout, this engaging book convincingly establishes why names are an important measure for understanding political development across time.”
—Adam Chamberlain, Coastal Carolina University
R. Urbatsch explores the politics of naming across American history, revealing the surprising ways parents’ choices shed light on public opinion past and present. He argues that naming is a weathervane for political attitudes: Names touch on every sort of identity, from race and gender to nationalism and religion. By analyzing when politics-tinged names gained or lost popularity, this book offers an unconventional and illuminating new perspective on identity, public sentiment, and political behavior in the United States.
R. URBATSCH is professor of political science at Iowa State University. He is the author of Families’ Values: How Parents, Siblings, and Children Affect Political Attitudes (2014).
Treachery and Diplomacy
The Shadow Politics of US-Africa Relations
SOBUKWE ODINGA
The African allies of the United States are often depicted as mere pawns or clients seeking aid. Yet African leaders have deftly capitalized on security partnerships with the United States in ways that have been widely overlooked. Treachery and Diplomacy shines a light on US-Africa security partnerships, revealing their simmering internal tensions, hidden racial politics, and consequences for peace and democracy. Sobukwe Odinga explores the contentious relations between the United States and key African allies—Liberia, Ethiopia, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and Uganda—from the Cold War to the War on Terror. He brings to life the diplomatic gambits of leaders such as William Tubman, Mobutu Sese Seko, and Yoweri Museveni, documenting how they prodded Washington to back them in regional conflicts, increase aid, and temper criticisms of their domestic policies.
SOBUKWE ODINGA is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-22169-6
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JANUARY 272 pages / 6" x 9" / 53 b&w illustrations
POLITICS
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$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20269-5
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MARCH 312 pages / 6" x 9"
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Moscow’s Mercenaries
The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group
CHRISTOPHER M. FAULKNER, RAPHAEL PARENS, AND COLIN P. CLARKE
“A chilling and imperative account of how irregular warfare serves as a primary and expanding instrument of authoritarian power.”
—Jason Warner, US Army Foreign Military Studies Office
The Wagner Group emerged from Russia’s criminal underworld in 2014 and soon became one of the world’s most infamous private military companies. This book traces the Wagner Group’s violent ascent and descent, exposing how a shadow army built an empire until it turned on its masters.
CHRISTOPHER M. FAULKNER is an assistant professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College and a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program.
RAPHAEL PARENS is a fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia and Africa Programs and a senior fellow at the Delphi Global Research Center.
COLIN P. CLARKE is the executive director of the Soufan Center and a nonresident senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Betrayal of the Homeland Disloyal Subjects in Wartime Syria
SAMER ABBOUD
“Abboud offers a groundbreaking analysis of how the Assad regime transformed warfare into statecraft in Syria. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in how modern authoritarian regimes sustain illiberal peace through violence.”
—Marwa Daoudy, Georgetown University
Samer Abboud argues that the Syrian regime sought to entrench its rule during wartime through bifurcating society into “loyal” and “disloyal” subjects—and punishing those it deemed treacherous. It established new laws, courts, and legal categories that targeted “betrayal,” which could include anything from military desertion to absenteeism to critical social media posts. Betrayal of the Homeland offers a panoramic view of the politics of punishment during the final decade of the Assad regime, with broader implications for understanding how authoritarian states manage conflicts.
SAMER ABBOUD is associate professor of global interdisciplinary studies and director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of Syria (second edition, 2018).
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JULY 368 pages / 6" x 9" / 4 b&w illustrations
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WARFARE
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MARCH 256 pages / 6" x 9"
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COLUMBIA STUDIES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
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Adversary and Ally
How China Shapes the Frontier Politics of India and Pakistan
HARRISON
AKINS
Connecting international politics with domestic security, Harrison Akins shows how India and Pakistan’s engagement with China has shaped the two governments’ policies toward their strategic frontiers over the past seventy years. He demonstrates that China’s presence spurred the Indian and Pakistani governments to assert their sovereignty over key border regions, exacerbating conditions that led to the outbreak of antistate violence. Featuring comprehensive research and keen analysis, Adversary and Ally offers new insights into the pressures confronting South Asian governments and the limits of China’s reach.
HARRISON AKINS is a political scientist and writer who holds a PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. For more than a decade, he has been researching, writing, and advising on South Asian politics and US foreign policy in both academia and government. His books include The Terrorism Trap: How the War on Terror Escalates Violence in America’s Partner States (Columbia, 2023).
Make China Great Again
Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism
RONGBIN HAN
“A pathbreaking study of digital pop culture as everyday ideology and politics.”
—Guobin Yang, author of The Wuhan Lockdown
On the Chinese internet, alternate history is booming. Millions of writers and readers fantasize about going back in time and changing their country’s fate. Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight into how authoritarian rule gains popular consent. Combining in-depth digital ethnography with analysis of dozens of alt-history novels, he explores how state intervention, market forces, and consumer preferences interact.
RONGBIN HAN is professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience (Columbia, 2018), coauthor of Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online (2023), and coeditor of The Xi Jinping Effect (2024).
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-22182-5
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FEBRUARY 312 pages / 6" x 9" / 2 b&w illustrations
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MARCH 240 pages / 6" x 9" / 5 b&w illustrations
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Climate Justice Now Crossing Disciplines to Combat Our Planetary Crisis
REBECCA MARWEGE, NIKHAR GAIKWAD, AND
JOERG SCHAEFER, EDITORS
“This groundbreaking book bridges knowledge silos to confront climate injustice both within and beyond academia.”
—Jennifer Hadden, author of Networks in Contention: The Divisive Politics of Climate Change
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, illuminating how scholarship on climate change can become a call to action.
REBECCA MARWEGE is an assistant professor of environmental politics at the American University of Paris.
NIKHAR GAIKWAD is an assistant professor of political science and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
JOERG SCHAEFER is a Lamont Research Professor in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and an adjunct professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University.
GAIKWAD and SCHAEFER are senior founding codirectors and MARWEGE is former junior director of the Columbia Climate School Earth Network on Decarbonization, Climate Resilience, and Climate Justice.
Theorizing Fallism
Rhodes Must Fall and the Global Movement to Decolonize the University
A. KAYUM AHMED
“Rich in primary source material, including the voices of student and worker activists, Theorizing Fallism serves as an invaluable archival resource on the evolution of the Rhodes Must Fall movements at University of Cape Town and Oxford.”
—Anye-Nkwenti Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town
In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town ignited a movement that would reverberate across the globe by demanding the removal of a statue of the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. A. Kayum Ahmed tells the powerful story of Rhodes Must Fall, tracing the emergence of a new decolonial framework, Fallism, and its trajectory from Africa to empire. Both a history of a movement and a theoretical intervention, Theorizing Fallism illuminates the enduring influence of students to challenge entrenched structures of knowledge and power.
A. KAYUM AHMED is a South African activist-scholar who has taught at Columbia University and held visiting scholar roles at Birzeit University and Harvard University. He previously served as CEO of the South African Human Rights Commission.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-21273-1
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MARCH 392 pages / 6" x 9" / 10 b&w illustrations
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BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE
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Word and Plan
JOHN MACFARLANE
“Many observers outside of philosophy are puzzled by the fact that problems about vagueness have been such a preoccupation in the philosophy of language, but Word and Plan explains precisely why these issues are so important. MacFarlane’s arguments, both constructive and critical, are incisive and convincing.”
—Robert
Stalnaker, author of Propositions: Ontology and Logic
We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert “Sam is tall” without having any definite intention about how tall one must be to count as “tall,” and Bertha can understand his assertion without grasping such an intention. What exactly has been communicated in such a case? John MacFarlane argues that standard models of meaning and communication cannot answer this question. To answer it, he proposes, we need to see vague talk as not purely factual but in part expressive of linguistic plans. In this book, he gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
JOHN MACFARLANE is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and Its Applications (2014) and Philosophical Logic: A Contemporary Introduction (2021).
Ambivalent Recognition
The Harmful Social Consequences of an Ethical Good
KRISTINA LEPOLD
Translated by Ciaran Cronin
Foreword by Martin Saar
“A masterful study.”
—Axel Honneth, coauthor of Redistribution or Recognition? A Political–Philosophical Exchange
In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive. Showing how recognition can implicate us in oppressive arrangements, Lepold engages with different approaches—including Axel Honneth’s influential theory, as well as arguments made by Louis Althusser, Pierre Bourdieu, and Judith Butler.
KRISTINA LEPOLD is a junior professor of social philosophy and critical theory at Humboldt University Berlin and an associated member of the Center for Social Critique.
CIARAN CRONIN has translated numerous works of political philosophy and social theory by prominent authors including Jürgen Habermas and Rainer Forst.
MARTIN SAAR is professor of social philosophy at GoetheUniversität Frankfurt am Main.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-21730-9
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
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Bulldozed
Homeless Encampments and the Politics of Demolition
JESSIE SPEER
“Speer’s book offers an important intervention into the possibilities of dignity and autonomy in the lives of unhoused people.”
—Vincent Lyon-Callo, author of Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry
Jessie Speer interweaves an ethnographic account of the lives of unhoused people in Fresno, California, with an investigation of why cities across the United States have turned to what she calls the “bulldozer approach” to homelessness. She tells the powerful stories of people on the margins, painting a complex and detailed portrait of everyday life in the camps. Combining national data with more than a decade of on-the-ground research, Bulldozed exposes the violence of US housing politics and offers a vision of a more equal city.
JESSIE SPEER is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Social Science. She previously practiced law in California, working at legal aid clinics assisting people experiencing domestic violence and eviction.
Side Effects
The Social Ecology of Adverse Drug Reactions
JASON
SCHNITTKER AND DUY DO
“A deeply researched sociological appreciation of contemporary society’s attempt to perceive and manage side effects.”
—Stefan Timmermans, coauthor of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
Side effects are common, but their origins and consequences remain unclear. This book uncovers the social origins of side effects and their consequences for patients, physicians, and the health care system. Jason Schnittker and Duy Do argue that side effects emerge from the interaction of cultural, institutional, and psychological factors.
JASON SCHNITTKER is a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled (2017) and Unnerved: Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health (2021).
DUY DO is a senior research advisor at Evernorth Research Institute. He holds a PhD in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-21077-5
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-21076-8
JUNE 320 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 7 b&w illustrations
SOCIOLOGY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-21780-4
$130.00 / £109.00 cloth 978-0-231-21779-8
MAY 360 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 3 b&w illustrations, 18 tables
SOCIOLOGY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
Cultural Mavericks
The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China
ZHENG LIU
“A cutting-edge work of cultural sociology and a major contribution to understanding the social organization and development of one of the largest book markets in the world.”
—John B Thompson, author of Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
In recent decades, self-proclaimed “independent bookstores” have arisen across China. In the West, such retailers represent an alternative to corporations and chains. In China, by contrast, they differentiate themselves from not only the state-owned Xinhua Bookstore but also other privately owned shops through an emphasis on intellectual independence and the free exchange of ideas. Cultural Mavericks takes readers inside the world of independent bookselling in China, showing how a wide range of figures navigate the challenges of book retailing in the digital age amid rapidly shifting social, political, and economic dynamics.
ZHENG LIU is a lecturer in innovation management at the University of Bristol Business School.
Performing Public Confessions
Avowal and Disavowal
of State Violence in Turkey
YEŞIM YAPRAK YILDIZ
“Timely and beautifully written, this book is a mustread for anyone interested in the Turkish state and society and those concerned about the systematic undermining of public accountability everywhere.”
—Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan
It is widely thought that confessions from perpetrators of state violence promote accountability, reconciliation, and justice. Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız offers a challenge to this view through a critical examination of perpetrators’ narratives, analyzing them as performances that shape public perceptions of state violence and responsibility. With a focus on Turkey, this book develops new insights into the performative aspects of confessions and what they reveal about the dominant social, moral, and political order.
YEŞIM YAPRAK YILDIZ is a lecturer in sociology and program convener for the MA in human rights, culture, and social justice at Goldsmiths, University of London. She previously worked for many years with local and international human rights NGOs, and she is coeditor in chief of the Journal of Perpetrator Research
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-22231-0
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20013-4
$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20012-7
JANUARY 264 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 23 b&w illustrations
SOCIOLOGY
All Rights: Columbia University Press
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-22230-3
APRIL 288 pages / 6" x 9"
SOCIOLOGY
All Rights Except Turkish-language Rights: Columbia University Press; Turkish-language Rights: The Author
Cities in Action
Organizations, Institutions, and Urban Climate Strategies
CHRISTOF BRANDTNER
“This path-breaking book shows what scholars can learn if we conceive of the city as an actor, not just a stage. One of the most exciting works of urban studies I’ve read in years.”
—Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences, New York University
As national governments and global institutions fail to address climate change, an increasing number of cities have committed to major sustainability and climate strategies. Why do some cities take bold action while others remain on the sidelines? Drawing on comparative research spanning thousands of cities around the world, Christof Brandtner uncovers the structural conditions that enable and inhibit meaningful climate action, revealing why it varies so widely. This book offers a new perspective for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners seeking not just to explain but also to empower city action.
CHRISTOF BRANDTNER is associate professor of social innovation at EM Lyon Business School, a CIFAR Fellow, and cofounder of the Civic Life of Cities Lab.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20239-8
$140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20238-1
FEBRUARY 336 pages / 6" x 9" / 28 b&w illustrations
SOCIOLOGY / URBAN STUDIES
SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
All Rights: Columbia University Press
Reform as Process Implementing Change in Public Bureaucracies
MARTIN J. WILLIAMS
“In this smart and approachable book, an emerging star explains why administrative reforms succeed and fail. This book has changed the way I think about durably improving public sector performance.”
—David Lewis, author of The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance
This book takes a fresh perspective on building an effective civil service by documenting and analyzing the implementation of more than one hundred reforms initiated by six African countries over the last thirty years. Martin J. Williams develops a new theory of how systemic reforms can lead to meaningful change—not by trying to force it through top-down interventions but by catalyzing an ongoing and decentralized process of continuous improvement.
MARTIN J. WILLIAMS is associate professor of organizational studies and (by courtesy) political science at the University of Michigan, as well as associate faculty at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-21577-0
$160.00 / £134.00 cloth 978-0-231-21576-3
FEBRUARY 400 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 17 b&w illustrations
POLITICS
All Rights Except French-language Rights: Columbia University Press; French-language Rights: The Author
Does Trust Matter?
Why Journalists Need to Rethink the Relationship with Their Audience
EFRAT NECHUSHTAI
“Lucid, thoughtful, and pathbreaking.”
—Michael
Schudson, author of Journalism: Why It Matters
Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly one hundred journalists, Efrat Nechushtai shows how the desire to increase trust in the news can be weaponized to increase favorable coverage of illiberal movements. She documents how the quest for public approval has led journalists to legitimize antiscience claims in the United States, racialize crime reporting in Germany, and produce “patriotic” stories in Hungary and Israel, among other cases. Valuable for scholars and practitioners alike, this book presents practical strategies that reporters, editors, and publishers can use to navigate today’s challenging environment.
EFRAT NECHUSHTAI is an assistant professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University.
Solidarity in Journalism
How Ethical Reporting Fights for Social Justice
ANITA VARMA
“This book provides a road map for how journalists can better understand and share the lived experiences of marginalized people.”
—Brian Ekdale, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa
Anita Varma offers a bold defense of reporting for social justice, showing what journalistic solidarity looks like in principle and in practice. She argues that solidarity is a longstanding yet unacknowledged journalistic norm that fosters truthful reporting when people’s basic dignity is at stake. Varma illustrates ethical journalistic practices through case studies of local and national reporting on homelessness, housing instability, and the cost of living. Amid intense debate over the role of the media, this book makes an urgent case for solidarity in journalism as crucial for representing and addressing social division.
ANITA VARMA is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. She also leads the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement, where she is a senior faculty research associate.
$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-22109-2
$130.00 / £109.00 cloth 978-0-231-22108-5
MAY 248 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 1 b&w illustration
JOURNALISM
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SERIES
All Rights: Columbia University Press
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-21547-3
$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-21546-6
APRIL 256 pages / 6" x 9" / 3 tables
JOURNALISM
All Rights: Columbia University Press
The Tech-Media Hybrid Google’s News Ambition
QUN WANG
“A brilliant multimethod account of two decades of Google’s technology-inspired attraction to news and its simultaneous struggles with journalism.”
—Susan Keith, professor and associate dean, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
Qun Wang examines Google’s engagement with news across more than two decades, tracing the company’s complicated relationship with the news industry. She shows how what the company calls the “Google way” of experiencing news has exerted a profound influence on traditional media, and how Google’s news ambitions, in turn, have been shaped by the global news industry’s actions and reactions at every step. Shedding new light on the vast transformations of the past quarter century, this multimethod interdisciplinary book also offers insight into how the news environment might evolve in the era of AI.
QUN WANG, a former TV anchor, journalist, and news director, is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.
Making Statistics Work
Information Theory and Bayesian Inference
DUNCAN K. FOLEY AND ELLIS SCHARFENAKER
Conventional “frequentist” methods that dominate the field of statistics are generally inconsistent and liable to catastrophic failure in some contexts. Making Statistics Work presents a synthesis of information theory and Bayesian inference that addresses these fundamental problems. It provides a consistent, powerful, and flexible framework for data inference based on rigorous logic derived from first principles, allowing for new approaches to many of the unresolved questions of statistics.
DUNCAN K. FOLEY is the Leo Model Professor Emeritus of Economics at the New School for Social Research and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Understanding Capital: Marx’s Economic Theory (1986) and Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology (2006) and coauthor of Growth and Distribution (second edition, 2019), among other books.
ELLIS SCHARFENAKER is an associate professor of economics at the University of Utah. His research integrates Bayesian inference, information theory, and political economy to study industrial dynamics and income distribution.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20727-0
$140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20726-3
AVAILABLE NOW 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 12 b&w images
JOURNALISM
All Rights: Columbia University Press
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-22204-4
$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-22203-7
JULY 328 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 71 figures, 7 tables
STATISTICS / ECONOMICS
All Rights: Columbia University Press
The Future of Work in Developing Countries
ARJUN JAYADEV, AKBAR NOMAN, AND JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, EDITORS
“This excellent set of studies provides a clear, compelling set of analyses to help us understand what is clearly one of the ‘wicked problems’ of our times and a mapping of possible pathways to solve it.”
—Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bringing together leading international scholars, this book examines the employment challenge in low- and middle-income countries from multiple perspectives. It demonstrates that employment creation is not an automatic byproduct of growth but a political and institutional project.
ARJUN JAYADEV is professor of economics and director of the Centre for the Study of the Indian Economy at Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
AKBAR NOMAN is senior fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue and adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ , a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is University Professor and founding president of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University.
From Equity to Growth Social Discontent in Developing Countries
JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO, JONATHAN MALAGÓN, AND ANDRÉS NARVÁEZ
Foreword by Michelle Bachelet Jeria
“Timely and insightful.”
—Mariana Mazzucato, University College London
This book presents specific policy choices that can reconcile social demands with macroeconomic stability, providing a road map to escape the middle-income trap without sacrificing fairness.
JOSÉ ANTONIO OCAMPO is a professor of professional practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He previously served as United Nations undersecretary general for economic and social affairs and minister of finance of Colombia.
JONATHAN MALAGÓN is the president and CEO of the Colombian Banking and Financial Institutions Association (Asobancaria) and an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
ANDRÉS NARVÁEZ is the director of economics at PRIME Business School in Bogotá and a professor of microeconomics at the National University of Colombia.
MICHELLE BACHELET JERIA is the former president of Chile and former United Nations high commissioner for human rights.
$75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-22033-0
MARCH 480 pages / 6" x 9" / 189 b&w figures, 26 tables
ECONOMICS
INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
All Rights: Columbia University Press
$50.00 / £42.00 cloth 978-0-231-22291-4
JUNE 248 pages / 6" x 9" / 81 b&w figures, 4 tables
ECONOMICS
INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
All Rights: Columbia University Press
Climate Change Science A Primer for Sustainable Development
Second edition
JOHN C. MUTTER
This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and climate prediction, now updated to reflect the latest research. John C. Mutter gives a just-thefacts overview of how the climate system functions and what we know about why changes occur. This second edition incorporates updates including the most recent IPCC Assessment Report, adding discussion of attribution science—the ability to determine the extent to which extreme weather was the result of climate change—and a new chapter on geoengineering.
JOHN C. MUTTER is a professor at Columbia University with appointments in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and in the School of International and Public Affairs as well as a faculty member of the Columbia Earth Institute. He is the author of The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer (2015) and coauthor of Disasters and Development: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer (Columbia, 2025).
Well-Being at the End of Life Reimagining Palliative Care
JULIAN ABEL AND ALLAN KELLEHEAR, EDITORS
“Well-written, accessible, and inspiring. This book will be of immense value to palliative care professionals and to others who work with aged populations.”
—Ellen L Idler, editor of Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health
This state-of-the-field book argues that palliative care has drifted away from its transformative goals—and shows what to do about it. Bringing together leading international scholars and practitioners, Well-Being at the End of Life calls for a paradigm shift in the values and priorities of palliative care to emphasize the importance of community to personal well-being.
JULIAN ABEL is a palliative care physician and visiting professor at Northumbria University.
ALLAN KELLEHEAR is professor of end-of-life care at Northumbria University.
ABEL and KELLEHEAR are cofounders of Compassionate Communities UK and coeditors of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care (2022).
$20.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-22047-7
$80.00 / £68.00 cloth 978-0-231-22046-0
MAY 240 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 95 figures
SCIENCE / CLIMATE CHANGE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY EARTH INSTITUTE SUSTAINABILITY
PRIMERS
All Rights: Columbia University Press
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-21628-9
$130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-21627-2
MAY 240 pages / 6" x 9" / 6 b&w illustrations
SOCIAL WORK
END-OF-LIFE CARE: A SERIES
All Rights: Columbia University Press
States of Emergency
A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum
LÉOPOLD LAMBERT
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Foreword by Zoé Samudzi
States of Emergency navigates the temporal and spatial dimensions of France’s states of emergency across three colonial space-times: the Algerian Revolution (1954–1962), the Kanak Insurrection (1984–1988), and the French banlieues riots (2005) and their fallout (2015–). In recounting the mechanics of this counterrevolutionary legal framework across multiple geographies—extending and fortifying key anticolonial solidarities past, present, and future—this book reads the state of emergency not as an exception but as a heightened form of everyday colonial state violence.
Contrasting the architecture of sites like “regroupement” camps in Algeria, the white settler city of Nouméa, and the police stations of Paris’s suburbs with that of Algiers’s Casbah, Kanaky’s tribes, and Paris’s banlieues, States of Emergency narrates the bureaucracies and protocols that continue to enable and underwrite the far-reaching violence of this legal measure as well as the anticolonial and antiracist resistance brought against it. The book offers a guide and a method for making the colonial continuum legible across contexts and for spatializing the many actors, agents, immigrants, and revolutionaries working both for and against the shared project of liberation.
LÉOPOLD LAMBERT is editor in chief of The Funambulist. He is a trained architect as well as the author of four books that examine the inherent violence of architecture on bodies and its political instrumentalization at various scales and in various geographical contexts, in particular Palestine.
LARA VERGNAUD has translated more than twenty books, including novels by Fatima Daas, Mohamed Leftah, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, and Zahia Rahmani.
$23.00* / £18.99 paper 978-1-941332-87-0
FEBRUARY 368 pages / 5.5" x 8" / 45 b&w photos and 10 maps
ARCHITECTURE
ZOÉ SAMUDZI is a postdoctoral scholar in African American and Africana studies at the Ohio State University.
Tribute in Algiers memorializing the October 17, 1961 Paris massacre. Photograph taken July 2018. Courtesy of the author.
Material Variance
LOLA BEN-ALON, EDITOR
Raw building materials are inherently variable. This variability shapes global supply chains, labor relations, infrastructure, and trade networks. Yet within the context of building design, materials are often treated as static commodities. Material Variance resists this perception, unfolding instead a framework for designing through and with living matter that is uncertain, messy, and dynamic. The book insists on materials not as passive inputs but as unruly agents, shaped by and shaping the political, ecological, and cultural processes around them.
Convening material researchers, building scientists, architects, and artists, Material Variance aims to collectively expand architecture and design’s material lexicon and unsettle its disciplinary boundaries. The book interrogates the assumptions of refinement, standardization, and technocratic control to advance alternative fabrication practices, alchemical processes, and methods for working with indeterminate matter. From poetic field recordings to scientific analyses, the book opens up a space for thinking across theory and practice, across geological particles and living species, and across various scales, forms, and practices.
Material Variance features three distinct covers, each one printed with a unique matrix, ink, paper stock, and tip-in, extending the notion of variance to the production of the object itself.
LOLA BEN-ALON is a material designer, engineer, and scholar of architectural technology. She is assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she directs the Natural Materials Lab and the Building Technology curriculum. Her research examines raw earth- and plant-based materials through design experimentation, fabrication, and environmental life cycle studies.
ANDRÉS JAQUE is dean and professor of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation and founder of the New York– and Madrid-based architecture practice Office for Political Innovation.
CONTRIBUTORS:
David Benjamin • Ethan Bourdeau • Olga Beatrice Carcassi • Caitlin Charlet • Felecia Davis • Andrés Jaque • Leslie Lok • Mae-ling Lokko • Claudia Mareis • Adam Marcus • V. Mitch McEwen • Ruth Morrow • Jorge Otero-Pailos • Ronald Rael • Jonsara Ruth • Laia Mogas-Soldevila
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-1-941332-86-3
FEBRUARY 300 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 157 color images and 30 figures
ARCHITECTURE
Building Postcarbon Futures
Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions
BILLY FLEMING
What would a postcarbon future look like? How would a more just, decarbonized world require us to change the way we live? What would it take to build this world? These questions lie at the heart of Building Postcarbon Futures
“A vigorous challenge to the stultified imagination of contemporary climate policy and design.”
—Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania state senator and contributing editor of n+1
“A horizon of hope and a tour de force that is a must-read for urban studies and social justice scholars and practitioners.”
—Ananya Roy, Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles
“This book puts the earth, the land, and the spaces we all share at the center of the climate crisis, precisely where they belong.”
—Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of We Survived the Night and director of Sugarcane
$45.00 / £38.00 paper 978-1-55844-456-0
APRIL 550 pages / 8" x 10" / Color photos, maps, and figures throughout CLIMATE CHANGE / SOCIAL JUSTICE
This book offers a comprehensive account of the myriad ways in which people are transforming their social, ecological, and economic systems to create more just, beautiful places in response to the climate crisis. With contributions from more than a dozen leading scholars, Building Postcarbon Futures takes readers through thirty exemplary works of climate justice spanning forty-three countries and six continents. Together, these illustrated case studies foreground the overlooked tactics, strategies, and modes of practice being employed, often by marginalized peoples, to build a more just, decarbonized world—from Cuba to Kiribati.
Building Postcarbon Futures is both a celebration of action underway and a challenge to those tasked with bringing new works of climate justice into the built and natural environments—the planners, designers, policy makers, and activists pushing this planet toward a future of collective flourishing.
BILLY FLEMING is cofounder and strategic codirector of the Climate and Community Institute and assistant professor of landscape architecture at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Fleming is coeditor of Design with Nature Now (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2019) and A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation: Uniting Design, Economics, and Policy (2021).
CONTRIBUTORS:
Catherine de Almeida • Gianpaolo Baiocchi • Eliza Breder • Holly Jean Buck • Daniel Aldana Cohen • Keller Easterling • Kian Goh • Rob Holmes • Leah Kahler • Reinhold Martin • Danielle Rivera • Douglas Robb • Akira Drake Rodriguez • Matthew Seibert • Aaryaman “Sunny” Singhal • Abby Spinak • Charles Waldheim
Planning in a Polycrisis
Equitable Urban Strategies for a Changing Climate
EMILIA OSCILOWICZ, JAMES J. T. CONNOLLY, AND ISABELLE ANGUELOVSKI
The intersecting challenges of climate change, housing affordability, and economic inequality are creating fierce competition for resources, attention, time, and capacity as communities respond to a mounting polycrisis. This report outlines strategies for addressing these vexing issues, drawing on research including interviews with planners and policy makers in five North American cities: Boston, Denver, Portland, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. It offers actionable insights to help cities move from fragmented planning efforts toward long-term, justice-centered urban transformation, proposing an equitable climate urbanism framework that emphasizes cross-sector collaboration, resilient housing, place-based adaptation, and inclusive community engagement. By marrying climate action with housing initiatives and economic development, this framework can yield more climate-friendly, affordable homes while cultivating the agency, participation, and engagement of historically marginalized communities. Planning in a Polycrisis shows the way toward more resilient, affordable, and inclusive communities.
EMILIA OSCILOWICZ is a doctoral student at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Colorado Denver.
JAMES J. T. CONNOLLY is an associate professor of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia.
ISABELLE ANGUELOVSKI is an ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
All authors are affiliated with the Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology within the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
“I think we need to get more sophisticated and move beyond the idea of green gentrification and say, ‘What are the solutions here?’ ”
—municipal climate action planner, Denver
$20.00 / £16.99 paper 978-1-55844-476-8
MARCH 80 pages / 8" x 10" / Color photos and figures throughout LAND USE AND PLANNING / SOCIAL JUSTICE POLICY FOCUS REPORTS
Hitchcock Annual
SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, EDITOR
The Hitchcock Annual seeks to publish the best in critical and scholarly essays in Hitchcock studies. We welcome articles from a wide variety of theoretical, critical, and historical perspectives on the life, work, and influence of Alfred Hitchcock.
All back issues of the Hitchcock Annual are available through Columbia University Press, as is The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10–15, edited by Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Allen (2009, $26.00 paper 978-1-905673-95-4 / $80.00 cloth 978-1-905673-96-1).
Hitchcock Annual Volume 28
SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, EDITOR
Hitchcock Annual volume 28 contains essays on Hitchcock’s Catholicism, the reception of I Confess in France, Murder! and Mary, Rebecca and the Gothic, O in North by Northwest, and Annie Hayworth in The Birds. Detailed review essays cover recent books on selected shots in Hitchcock, Hitchcock and noir, and his use of storyboards.
SIDNEY GOTTLIEB is professor of communication and media arts at Sacred Heart University.
Hitchcock Annual Volume 29
SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, EDITOR
Hitchcock Annual volume 29 is due out in summer 2026. Planned contents include essays on I Confess, Catholic contexts for Hitchcock’s visuality, and Hitchcock as an entertainer, as well as reviews of recent critical books on Hitchcock.
SIDNEY GOTTLIEB is professor of communication and media arts at Sacred Heart University.
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22068-2
AVAILABLE NOW 225 pages / 5.5” x 8.5” / illustrations throughout FILM STUDIES
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22386-7
AUGUST 160 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / illustrations throughout FILM STUDIES
ERIS DIALOGUES SERIES
The ERIS Dialogues series gathers real and imagined conversations between writers, artists, and philosophers whose exchanges illuminate the life of the mind. Each volume stages an encounter in which ideas are tested, voices collide, and thought takes dramatic form.
The Stories We Bring Back
Margaret Atwood on Myth, Mortality, and the Art of Writing
MARGARET ATWOOD AND HARIS VLAVIANOS
In this wide-ranging and characteristically fearless exchange, Margaret Atwood sits down in Athens with the poet and philosopher Haris Vlavianos to reflect on myth, politics, mortality, and the creative imagination. From Homer to The Handmaid’s Tale, from Tiresias to Trump, their conversation traces the long arc between ancient story and present crisis. With sardonic humor and precision, Atwood revisits her own work through the eyes of myth: Penelope and her maids, sirens and shapeshifters, prophets and tyrants. Each theme circles the archetypal journey into darkness and return—the descent that art demands and the question it leaves us with: What stories survive, and what do we bring back from the descent?
As the dialogue unfolds, Atwood speaks with unusual intimacy about the practice of writing— its rituals and terrors, its moral weight, its comic absurdities. The result is both public conversation and private meditation, a spirited encounter between two minds steeped in literature and alive to the political urgencies of our time. At once erudite and mischievous, The Stories We Bring Back reveals Atwood at her most lucid and unguarded.
MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, including The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, and Burning Questions. She has received the Booker Prize, the PEN Pinter Prize, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
HARIS VLAVIANOS is professor of history, political theory, and history of ideas at the American College of Greece and editor of the literary journal Poetics. He is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and essays and has translated T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Anne Carson, and William Blake into Greek.
“Writers descend to the underworld and what they bring back is a story. It’s darkness and then illumination. And no matter how gloomy the content, every act of writing is an act of optimism.”
—from The Stories We Bring Back
$19.99* / £16.99 paper 978-1-967751-78-5
JANUARY 72 pages / 4.25” x 7.67”
LITERARY STUDIES
Art International Anthology of Postwar Art Writing
MICHAEL PEPPIATT AND JILL LLOYD, EDITORS
For more than three decades, Art International was the beating heart of the postwar art world—a magazine where artists and critics met as equals, ideas crossed oceans, and modern art found its global voice. Founded in Zurich in 1959 by the maverick American James Fitzsimmons, it became the essential forum for the era’s sharpest minds: Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Michael Fried, John Berger, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. Here the great debates of modernism and its aftermath played out, from abstract expressionism to pop, minimalism to conceptualism, with artists such as Bacon, Judd, Motherwell, and Kiefer speaking directly from its pages.
This definitive anthology, edited by Art International ’s final editors, Michael Peppiatt and Jill Lloyd, gathers the magazine’s most original and influential writing—along with artists’ manifestos, correspondence, and rare critical texts unseen for decades. Lavishly illustrated with archival material, covers, and artworks, it offers a vivid panorama of art’s most transformative period and the critics who made sense of it.
MICHAEL PEPPIATT was the arts editor at Réalités and Le Monde in Paris. In 1985 he bought Art International. Peppiatt is the author of a dozen books, including the acclaimed memoir Francis Bacon in Your Blood and Only Too Much Is Enough: Francis Bacon in His Own Words (2021).
JILL LLOYD is an art historian and curator. She is the author of German Expressionism: Primitivism and Modernity and The Undiscovered Expressionist: A Life of Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky. She has curated major exhibitions and currently serves as a trustee at the Neue Galerie New York.
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MAY 440 pages / 8” x 10” / 75 color illustrations
ART
Collected Writings
Essays, Poems, Interviews
Volume I: The Antitheatrical Imperative and Other Essays
Volume II: The Edge of the Table: Prose Poems
Volume III: Exit Interviews
MICHAEL FRIED
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by the renowned writer and thinker
Michael Fried. In studies of painters as varied as Caravaggio, Fragonard, and Matisse, Fried has transformed how we understand artistic form and technique, and his insightful literary-critical work has been enriched by his practice as a highly accomplished poet. Imbued with the distinctive combination of perceptiveness, imagination, and analytical rigor that he has displayed throughout his career, Collected Writings also serves as a personal record of Fried’s intellectual and critical formation.
The first volume, The Antitheatrical Imperative and Other Essays, ranges in topic from Manet to Pollock. The second volume, The Edge of the Table, is a collection of exquisitely constructed prose poems accompanied by photographs by James Welling. The third volume, Exit Interviews, is an autobiographical text that retraces the development of the arguments and ideas that informed Fried’s groundbreaking works while paying close attention to both the personal and institutional contexts of intellectual labor.
MICHAEL FRIED is professor emeritus of the humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous scholarly works—most recently What Was Literary Impressionism?; Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo; and French Suite: A Book of Essays—and four volumes of poetry.
“Fried is a poet of the utmost integrity.”
—J M Coetzee
“No one sees paintings better than Michael Fried or thinks as persistently or with such philosophical depth about such seeing, about the very possibility of pictorial meaning.”
—Robert B Pippin
$60.00* / £50.00 paper 978-1-91680976-5
FEBRUARY 1250 pages / 4.33” x 6.9” / 53 color illustrations
ART / LITERATURE / ESSAYS
VOLUME 1:
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FEBRUARY 548 pages / 4.33” x 6.9” / 53 color illustrations
VOLUME II:
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FEBRUARY 384 pages / 4.33” x 6.9” / 10 b&w illustrations
VOLUME III:
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13. PLATO
The Republic
That cave is fitted with all mod cons It even has television!
58. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Twilight of the Idols
My work has driven me mad—hammering away at false idols
93. BERNARD WILLIAMS
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
You’ve wasted a lot of time in theorizing
Get yourself a life
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MAY 126 pages / 4.25” x 6.87”
POETRY / PHILOSOPHY
The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku
HARIS VLAVIANOS
Translated by Peter Mackridge
In this audacious pocket history, the poet Haris Vlavianos compresses Western philosophy from Thales to Nussbaum into 100 razor-sharp haikus. Plato gets a cave with “all mod cons.” Kant boots up a “laptop mind.” Wittgenstein tries to coax a fly from its bottle. It’s Russell meets Bashō, Socrates with a punchline—and beneath the wit, real argument and insight. Rendered into live, witty English by Peter Mackridge, The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku is for anyone who likes big ideas distilled to their brightest essence.
HARIS VLAVIANOS is professor of history, political theory, and history of ideas at the American College of Greece and editor of the literary journal Poetics. He is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry and essays and has translated T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Anne Carson, and William Blake into Greek.
PETER MACKRIDGE is emeritus professor of modern Greek at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor at King’s College London.
Etymologies And Other Rites
EFTHIMIS FILIPPOU
Translated by Kyriacos Karseras
In Etymologies and Other Rites, language, family, and fate are laid bare on the slab. Efthimis Filippou—acclaimed screenwriter of Dogtooth, The Lobster, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer—moves between lecture, cabaret, and liturgy with a poker face that leaves space for awe. His stage world is one of rituals disguised as bureaucracies, where saints and civil servants coexist, where grief becomes procedure, and humor, a form of prayer. Songs flare, knives appear, miracles are audited like minutes from a meeting. Taken together, these four works, Etymologies (a play), Big and Small Ships (a ritual performance), Eau de Cologne (a choral device), and George (a narrative), form a darkly luminous cycle about belief and substitution—of tongues, bodies, and meanings—played out between the sacred and the absurd.
EFTHIMIS FILIPPOU is a Greek writer, playwright, and screenwriter. He has gained broad international recognition through his collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos, cowriting the scripts for Dogtooth, Alps, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Kinds of Kindness
Homes of Hades
Photographs by Kleopatra Haritou
KLEOPATRA HARITOU
Homes of Hades is Kleopatra Haritou’s haunting dialogue between the living and the dead—between Athens above and Athens below. Through her subversive lens, the marble thresholds of postwar apartment buildings become twin gates to the city’s cemeteries; the entrances of the living echo the exits of the departed. The book presents 190 color photographs, each laid out in diptych spreads where one image depicts an Athenian apartment entrance and its facing pair a tombstone, shrine, or grave. What begins as an existential exploration unfolds as an unexpected portrait of modern Greece—from the ruins of antiquity to the neon glow of the Western present. In Homes of Hades (copublished with the Onassis Foundation), every ending is the next beginning.
KLEOPATRA HARITOU has exhibited widely in Greece and internationally, including the landmark solo show Prosfygika at the Benaki Museum and the public installation series Acrobats. She has received awards from Pentax, Leica, and Kodak.
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MARCH 176 pages / 5" x 8"
LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
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FEBRUARY 208 pages / 9" x 11" / 190 color photographs
PHOTOGRAPHY
ERIS CRITICAL CENTURY SERIES
Critical Century gathers some of the most urgent and enduring works of the twentieth century—a time of fracture, experimentation, and radical thinking. These are texts from the edges of literature, philosophy, politics, and art, where form meets force and thinking becomes resistance. Essays, manifestos, notebooks, film scripts, city portraits—each one sharp, unsettling, and still very much alive: a library of modernism at its most combustible.
Laughter
An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
New edition
HENRI BERGSON
Introduction by Simon Critchley
Afterword by Wyndham Lewis
In this classic 1900 essay, the philosopher Henri Bergson anatomizes the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit. With a rejoinder essay by Wyndham Lewis and a new introduction by Simon Critchley, Laughter emerges as both a foundational text in aesthetics and a startlingly modern theory of humor—anticipating Freud, Chaplin, and memes alike.
HENRI BERGSON was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1927). SIMON CRITCHLEY is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include Mysticism and I Want to Die, I Hate My Life (ERIS, 2025). WYNDHAM LEWIS was a British novelist, painter, and polemicist.
I Killed and I Bled
New edition
BLAISE CENDRARS
Blaise Cendrars enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1914 and in 1915 lost the lower half of his right arm—his writing hand. I Killed (1918) is Cendrars’s first published account from the trenches. His shocking prose refuses theatrics. It anatomizes dehumanization—the drift from “we” to “I,” the reduction of persons to numbers and parts, the obscene efficiency of industrial slaughter. I Bled (1938) looks back through hospitals and aftermaths. Framed here with a concise preface and notes, I Killed and I Bled is war writing that neither flatters nor absolves—language held against extinction.
BLAISE CENDRARS (1887–1961) was a Swiss French poet, novelist, editor, and tireless modernist. A volunteer in the French Foreign Legion during the First World War, he lost his right hand and taught himself to write left-handed. His books—La prose du transsibérien, Moravagine, La main coupée—made him one of the twentieth century’s most intrepid and original voices.
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PHILOSOPHY
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LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
ERIS GEMS
ERIS gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and nonfiction.
On the Fragility of Life
NICK CAVE
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MUSIC
From Protest to Politics
BAYARD RUSTIN
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POLITICS
The Usefulness of Crime
KARL MARX
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PHILOSOPHY
Face to Face
CARL JUNG
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PSYCHOLOGY
The Glow of the Dim
JUN'ICHIRŌ TANIZAKI
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LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
The Signal-Man
CHARLES DICKENS
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LITERATURE
What Is Fear?
GIORGIO AGAMBEN
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PHILOSOPHY
Just a Little One
DOROTHY PARKER
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LITERATURE
Individualism and Conformism in the United States
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
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JANUARY 32 pages / 4.3" x 7.6"
PHILOSOPHY
Palestine
The Struggle for Freedom
JOHN CHERIAN
This book explores the events leading to the current genocide in Gaza and far-right Jewish settler onslaught in the occupied West Bank. Beginning with the historical background to the establishment of Israel as a settler-colonial state, it examines key historical events since 1948, including the 1967 war, the Oslo Accords, the rise of Hamas, and internal Palestinian divisions in the 1990s. The book also critiques the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable for war crimes and highlights the role of US administrations in obstructing a two-state solution.
JOHN CHERIAN is a former international affairs correspondent for the magazine Frontline He focused on issues relating to the Global South and covered the West Asian region extensively for more than three decades.
Finance and Development
Essays Presented to C.P. Chandrasekhar
ROHIT AZAD, SURAJIT MAZUMDAR AND PARTHAPRATIM PAL, EDITORS
This edited volume celebrates the work of C. P. Chandrasekar, a leading economist from the Global South. True to his varied expertise, interests, and research, the essays here cover a wide array of issues, such as money and finance, industrial policy, climate finance, financialization, imperialism, and social reproduction. They also provide a roadmap beyond neoliberalism for the world in general and the Global South in particular. This volume should interest all who believe in a political and economic alternative to the current orthodox approach to economic theory and policy.
ROHIT AZAD is assistant professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
SURAJIT MAZUMDAR is professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
PARTHAPRATIM PAL is professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
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POLITICS
CONTEMPORARY THEMES #2
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JUNE 208 pages / 6.25" x 9.5"
ECONOMICS
Subarnarekha
Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Quartet
The Screenplays, volume 4
IRA BHASKAR, EDITOR
Translated by Shampa Banerjee
The concluding volume of the Partition Quartet Screenplays of Ritwik Ghatak, Subarnarekha is a devastating critique of the fallout of the partition. Set in postpartition Bengal, it chronicles the journey of refugee families as they attempt to settle down in a new land after surviving the worst bloodbath witnessed in the history of the subcontinent and the mass migration that followed. Ghatak’s cinematic narrative, in the “critical melodramatic” form, acquires tremendous resonance through the use of music, myth, archetypes, and allegory to articulate a critique of modern civilization’s destructive potential.
IRA BHASKAR retired as professor of cinema studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is coeditor of Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories (2022).
SHAMPA BANERJEE is a literature scholar with a deep interest in cinema. She has worked on postproduction reconstructions and translations of film scripts, including Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy
Before My Memories Fade
P. Bhaskaran—Rebel, Poet, Lyricist, Filmmaker
P. BHASKARAN
Translated by Jyothi Unniraman
Between the covers of this book lie mnemonic snapshots of a towering figure in Malayalam poetry, song, and cinema, P. Bhaskaran. These recollections, translated from the Malayalam in his birth centenary year, trace his journey from boyhood through a revolutionary youth to his emergence as a luminous poetic voice. Woven through all his work is a profound humanism. He gave voice to the emotions of ordinary people in a language unmistakably their own, even as his vision helped shape the modern, democratic identity of the Malayali.
An initial translation was done by Jyoti Unniraman. This is a further translation, including some verse, by Sashi Kumar.
P. BHASKARAN (1924–2007) was a renowned poet, lyricist, and filmmaker of Kerala. He penned more than 3,000 songs for about 250 Malayalam films. He directed forty-four feature films and three documentaries, produced six feature films, and acted in several movies.
JYOTHI UNNIRAMAN retired as deputy director from the All India Management Association. She has published several translations and articles in Malayalam in popular magazines.
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JUNE 128 pages / 6.25" x 9.5" / 50 b&w illustrations
FILM STUDIES
RITWIK GHATAK’S PARTITION QUARTET:THE SCREENPLAYS
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JUNE 200 pages / 6.25" x 9.5" / 20 b&w illustrations
MEMOIR
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Jacek Mydla, Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech: Introduction
Karol Samsel: The Legacy of Polish Dark Romanticism in Joseph Conrad’s Works
Jan B. Gordon: The Trope of “Partitioned Sovereignties’’: Shadows of Poland in Conrad Laurence Davies: Concealment and Revelation in “The Warrior’s Soul” and “Prince Roman”
Wiesław Krajka: Making Magic as Cross-Cultural Encounter: The Case of “Karain: A Memory”
Karol Samsel: “The Malay Forefathers’ Eve” - “Karain: A Memory” as Joseph Conrad’s Hauntological Coming to Terms with the Mythology of Polish Romanticism
Cedric Watts: The Problem of the Author’s Note to The Shadow-Line
Ellen Burton Harrington: The Haunting Ideal in “Freya of the Seven Isles” and Nostromo
Rémy Arab-Fuentes: The Visor Effect in Lord Jim
Jacek Mydla: Lord Jim as a Haunted Narrative
Nic Panagopoulos: Shadow Play in Plato’s Cave and Lord Jim
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech: Conrad as Spectre
$80.00 / £68.00 e-book 978-83-227-9931-4
DECEMBER 275 pages
LITERARY STUDIES
CONRAD: EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES
Spectral Conrad
AGNIESZKA ADAMOWICZ-PO Ś PIECH, EDITOR
This groundbreaking collection redefines Joseph Conrad’s fiction through the innovative lens of spectrality studies, offering fresh perspectives that challenge and expand contemporary scholarly discourse. Spectral Conrad unites an array of international voices to dissect the haunting motifs, ghostly presences, and existential uncertainties woven into Conrad’s iconic works. Through meticulous analysis of texts such as “Heart of Darkness,” Lord Jim, The Shadow-Line, Under Western Eyes, Victory, “Prince Roman,” “Freya of the Seven Isles,” Nostromo, “Karain: A Memory,” and “The Warrior’s Soul,” the volume illuminates Conrad’s fascination with the spectral—from lingering traumas of colonialism to the ethical shadows of human ambition.
Drawing on frameworks as diverse as Plato’s dialogues, Derrida’s hauntology, Shakespearean tragedy, and cross-cultural literary traditions, the contributors—from universities in Greece, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Poland—forge a dynamic, globally informed critique. Their interdisciplinary approach reveals how spectrality shapes Conrad’s narratives, transforming his fiction into a mirror for modern anxieties about identity, memory, and the unresolved legacies of history. Rich in theoretical rigor yet accessible in style, Spectral Conrad bridges academic depth with engaging analysis, making it an indispensable resource for students and scholars of modernism, postcolonial studies, and Gothic literature. This volume not only revitalizes Conrad’s oeuvre but also reimagines spectrality as a vital critical tool.
The book is volume 34 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka.
AGNIESZKA ADAMOWICZ-POŚPIECH is professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and president of the Joseph Conrad Society, Poland. She is the author of Adaptations of Joseph Conrad’s Life and Works in Contemporary Culture (2022) and Travels with Conrad (2016) and editor of The Resonance of Joseph Conrad in Contemporary Culture (2025), among others. She is on the editorial boards of The Conradian, Conradiana, and the Yearbook of Conrad Studies. She is also a trustee of the Joseph Conrad Society of America.
Zoroastrian Women in the United States of America
Practicing
Lived Zoroastrianism in a Diaspora
PAULINA NIECHCIAŁ
This book examines how ancient Zoroastrianism is practiced in the United States diaspora and how it has evolved, moving beyond the dominant male perspective to focus on women. Zoroastrianism in their everyday experiences is more than a religion: it is a spiritual path, an ethnic tradition, and a cultural identity. Richly illustrated with the narratives of generations of Iranian and Parsi immigrants as well as photos, this book gives a sense of the diversity of Zoroastrian life across the United States. It not only broadens the picture of the ethnoreligious landscape of the country but also highlights the role of social practice theory in the study of religion, demonstrating how it applies to qualitative field research.
PAULINA NIECHCIAŁ is an assistant professor at the Center for Comparative Civilization Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She is the author of Zoroastrian Minority in Modern Tehran: On Collective Identity in the Context of Shi’a Domination (2013).
Johannes Balle’s Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Wordlist
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JOSÉ ANDRÉS ALONSO DE LA FUENTE
This book examines the Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) wordlist gathered by Johannes Balle (1889–1965) some time in the first half of the twentieth century. This little-known vocabulary, which includes equivalents in Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) and translations into Danish, offers valuable data from a time when information on Greenlandic dialects was scarce and difficult to obtain. The book describes the historical context of Johannes Balle’s life and the peculiarities of the linguistic data as presented in the wordlist. The main part of the study is the Tunumiisut wordlist rearranged according to English keywords for historical and comparative purposes. Extensive indexes arranged in the more traditional alphabetical order allow the reader to navigate easily through Tunumiisut, Kalaallisut, Proto-Inuit-Yupik, and Proto-Inuit reconstructions, all of them cross-referenced with the English keywords.
JOSÉ ANDRÉS ALONSO DE LA FUENTE is associate professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Translation Studies, and Hungarian Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
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AUGUST 378 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 color & 1 b&w map, 1 b&w chart, 52 color photos, 1 b&w figure
RELIGION
THE VASTNESS OF CULTURE
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-83-233-5483-3
NOVEMBER 220 pages / 6.69" x 9.61" / 1 b&w map, 1 b&w photo, 6 b&w figures
LINGUISTICS
CONTRIBUTORS:
Missy Dunn-Mahan • Julia Mageˇau Gray
• Donita Vatuinaruku Hulme • Dion Kaszas
• Yasbelle Kerkow • Terje Koloamatangi
• Mel Lefebvre • Nolan Malbeuf
• Jerrid Lee Miller • Jacqueline Merritt
• Sheri Osden Nault • Julie Paama-Pengelly
• Natalia Roxas • Nathalie Standingcloud
• Gordon Sparks • Anne Spice • Dulcie Stewart
• Nakkita Trimble • Nahaan
Truly Tribal Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing
DION KASZAS, EDITOR
After generations of colonial suppression, Indigenous tattooing practices have experienced a resurgence led by artists and informed by community stories, protocols, and Elders. In Truly Tribal, nineteen Indigenous ancestral skin markers from fifteen Nations and cultures around the world come together to discuss their reclamation of tattoos as tangible reminders of their communities’ enduring rights, relationships, and responsibilities.
Alongside stunning photos of their work, practitioners discuss restoring a tradition that has survived colonial erasure, including the revival of ancestral tattoo designs, symbols, and motifs; the reenvisioning of meaning and protocols; and the refashioning of ancestral application methods, such as the use of bone tools and pigments alongside contemporary tools and inks. Their expert analysis and heartfelt storytelling respond to a global awakening of cultural mark-making practices, offering teachings that can be shared while acknowledging that some ancestral inheritances are not for public consumption. This beautiful anthology embodies the phrase “about us, from us, for us.”
DION KASZAS is a Nlaka'pamux ancestral skin marker and born-again Coyote. He has been at the forefront of Indigenous tattooing in Canada since 2012, training and mentoring the next wave of revivalists. He has curated two major exhibitions highlighting Indigenous ancestral skin markers and their ancestral practices. In 2024, he launched the Transformative Marks podcast, which journeys through the world of Indigenous tattooing.
$70.00 paper 978-1-77363-809-6
LEFT: Toonasa Jordana Luggi, 2023. Used with permission from Toonasa Jordana Luggi. In the fall of 2022 Nlaka’pamux community member Ecko Aleck and tattoo artist Dion Kaszas worked through the final sessions on her Nlaka’pamux Blackwork bodysuit. This bodysuit is a testament to the strength, power, and resilience of Ecko. Dion Kaszas is honored to have been able to collaborate on the first female Nlaka’pamux Blackwork bodysuit. Photo taken in Vancouver, British Columbia, 2018. RIGHT: Otakwan, 2024. Used with permission from Otakwan.
Revolutionary Science
The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas
BRUCE H. JENNINGS
In the 1940s, a US-backed campaign spread industrial agriculture across the Americas, dismantling traditional farming systems that had sustained campesino communities for generations. The result was ecological damage, cultural loss, and deepened inequality.
Amid this devastation, a group of Latin American scientists chose another path. Working alongside farmers, Indigenous communities, and social movements, they helped shape a new vision: agroecology, a science grounded in ecology, cultural respect, and political commitment to those most marginalized. This book tells their story and asks a vital question: Can agroecology thrive as both a science and a movement strong enough to defend millions of campesinos and their communities across the Americas?
BRUCE H. JENNINGS is a political scientist and former senior environmental policy advisor with the California Legislature. As cochief of the California Senate Committee on Environmental Quality and chief of the Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials, he helped shape legislation addressing environmental health, chemical regulation, and farmworker protections.
RECENT TITLES IN THE CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES SERIES:
$29.00 paper 978-1-77363-806-5
MARCH 156 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 map
POLITICS
CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT
“Crosby and Monaghan skillfully document the role of police as violence workers in defense of a capitalist and settlercolonial order. By employing this countermovement lens, the book encourages us to think more deeply about police complicity in ongoing injustices and the challenges involved in overcoming them.”
—Elizabeth Comack, distinguished professor emerita, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Thin Blue Rage
The Police Countermovement
ANDREW CROSBY AND JEFFREY MONAGHAN
Policing agencies continue to face criticism over their outsized use of violence in response to encampments of unhoused people, protests against police brutality, and sites of environmental activism and Indigenous land defense. Feeling victimized and misunderstood, police officers increasingly sport “thin blue line” symbology depicting their role as guardians of civilization against disorder—with poor, racialized, and progressive people squarely on the wrong side.
With meticulous historical, theoretical, and empirical detail, this deeply researched book recasts the police as a social movement in power rather than a neutral public institution. It explores key debates in policing literature alongside contemporary examples of policing’s ideological dimensions, including communications practices, membership structures, and political campaigning. Linking police identity with far-right perceptions of victimhood and alienation, Thin Blue Rage analyzes the police’s defensive anger toward a public they see as not understanding or supporting how they function.
ANDREW CROSBY is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. He is the author of Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing (2023) and Policing Indigenous Movements: Dissent and the Security State (2018, with Jeffrey Monaghan).
JEFFREY MONAGHAN is an associate professor of criminology and sociology at Carleton University. His recent books include Security Aid: Canada and the Development Regime of Security (2017) and the edited volume Disability (In)Justice: Confronting Criminalization in Canada (2022, with Kelly Fritsch and Emily van der Meulen).
$29.00 paper 978-1-77363-808-9
MAY 208 pages / 6" x 9"
POLITICS
Social Perspectives on Death and Dying
Fourth edition
JEANETTE A. AUGER AND KERSTIN ROGER
“This book offers a much-needed applied and accessible approach to a sensitive and socially important topic.”
—Linda Caissie, St Thomas University
How do we understand death, and what does it mean for the way we live? What can confronting death teach us about life, meaning, and our shared humanity? This fourth edition of Social Perspectives on Death and Dying invites readers to confront these questions directly. Jeanette A. Auger, joined by Kerstin Roger and four new contributors, presents the latest research on issues such as cremation, suicide, medical assistance in dying, Indigenous perspectives, and the role of media. This book challenges readers to face their own feelings about mortality while examining how society navigates both traditional practices and emerging, often controversial choices.
JEANETTE A. AUGER is a professor emeritus of sociology at Acadia University.
KERSTIN ROGER is a professor at the College of Community and Global Health, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
$44.00 paper 978-1-77363-807-2
MARCH 296 pages / 6" x 9"
SOCIOLOGY
No More Fridays
LESLEY CHOYCE
“Choyce has a feeling for the young and dispossessed, for the terrible angst of adolescence and the rituals of rebellion.”
Globe and Mail
During Elliott’s last year of high school, his mother dies of ALS. Now his whole family is adrift and floundering. Elliott’s only friend, the uber-intellectual and socially maladaptive Riley, tries to help but needs to set boundaries so she can deal with her own family stuff. Then, some technically impossible but inescapably real events start to change everything. No More Fridays is about a young person’s struggle to cope with alienation and grief through philosophy, science, nature, and relationships. It reminds readers: a mind open enough can accept that the death of a loved one is never the end of the story.
LESLEY CHOYCE is the author of more than one hundred books and has been teaching English and creative writing for over forty years. He was the founding member of the poetry-rock band The SurfPoets. In 2022 he was awarded the Atlantic Legacy Award for his “lasting contribution to the development of the literary arts in Atlantic Canada.” He surfs year-round in the North Atlantic.
“Stunning originality and lyrical brilliance.”
Vancouver Sun
$24.00 paper 978-1-77363-804-1
APRIL 126 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"
FICTION
The Long Sixties
Stories from the New Left
JIM HARDING, EDITOR
The sixties were not just “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” Social movements aimed at overcoming patriarchy, colonialism, and corporate capitalism were equally part of the sixties revolution. In The Long Sixties, seven veteran political activists, all still engaged in campaigns and organizations, tell their stories of transformational activism. They also critically reflect on their victories and defeats, their personal and political challenges, what they learned, and how their perspectives deepened and changed along the way. These weathered voices open an intergenerational conversation about social solidarity and transformation to address the grave crises we face globally.
JIM HARDING is past director of the School of Human Justice at the University of Regina. He served as inner-city representative on Regina City Council and as mayor of the Village of Fort San. Harding was involved in the formation of the Student Union for Peace Action, the early NDP, and the Combined University Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He has authored several books and has written widely in newspapers, journals, and magazines.
Not Your Cash Cow, Not Your Scapegoat
Student Migration and Canadian Universities
THE RACIALIZATION OF ASIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS COLLECTIVE
International students have long been seen as cash cows by Western universities, a revenue stream of high tuition fees for the same education received by lower-paying domestic students. This book places the international student within the larger context of edugration, or student migration, to examine the everyday vulnerabilities arising from this immigration status. It gathers insights about racialization from over 120 interviews with student migrants from Asia, revealing how student migrants cope with prejudice, create networks, and manage their own integration. Collectively written by postsecondary educators, researchers, and students, including student migrants, this book features evidence-based, critical, and antiracist recommendations toward holistically supporting student migrants from Asia.
THE RACIALIZATION OF ASIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS COLLECTIVE is a team of racialized and nonracialized postsecondary educators, researchers, and students, including student migrants from Asia, all located in Canada.
$29.00 paper 978-1-77363-803-4
MARCH 256 pages / 6" x 9"
HISTORY / ACTIVISM
$28.00 paper 978-1-77363-805-8
MAY 156 pages / 6" x 9"
EDUCATION
The Letters Institutional Lives and EDI
NISHA NATH, RITA KAUR DHAMOON, ANITA GIRVAN, AND DAVINA BHANDAR
“Incisive and nourishing. Read it.”
—Gulzar R Charania, University of Ottawa
This book examines how equity, diversity, and inclusion–related letters are used by the university to claim to be progressive while simultaneously warding off criticism.
NISHA NATH is an associate professor of equity studies at Athabasca University.
RITA KAUR DHAMOON is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Victoria.
ANITA GIRVAN is an associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Victoria.
DAVINA BHANDAR researches the migration and relocation of diaspora communities from Punjab to Canada.
The Transformative Power of Adult Education
JIM SILVER
Despite many impressive and important benefits, adult basic education is largely unknown and seriously underfunded. This book makes the case that it should be a central part of a radical reimagining of education, in which adult basic education is on par with K-12 and postsecondary education.
JIM SILVER is a professor emeritus at the University of Winnipeg and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba. He has published extensively on poverty and poverty-related issues, including social housing, street gangs, and community development.
The Bylaw State Encampment Evictions and the Struggle for Public Space
ALEXANDRA FLYNN AND JOE HERMER
Foreword by Terry Teegee
This book shows how antiencampment bylaws have quietly emerged as a method of governing homelessness. It explains how municipalities create an exclusionary ideal of public space through evictions and banishment, and it makes a powerful case for a more inclusive approach that protects people, not just spaces.
ALEXANDRA FLYNN is an associate professor at UBC’s Allard School of Law and the director of the Housing Research Collaborative.
JOE HERMER is an associate professor in and chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
TERRY TEEGEE is the elected regional chief of the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations.
$29.00 paper 978-1-77363-810-2
APRIL 192 pages / 6" x 9"
EDUCATION
$28.00 paper 978-1-77363-812-6
APRIL 156 pages / 6" x 9"
EDUCATION
$25.00 paper 978-1-77363-802-7
APRIL 126 pages / 6" x 9"
POLITICS / LAW
Growth, Democracy or Climate Action?
The New Political Trilemma of Advanced Capitalism
AIDAN REGAN, HANNA SCHWANDER, CYRIL BENOÎT, AND TIM VLANDAS
Governments face a conflicted choice among economic growth, democracy, and tackling the climate crisis. They cannot achieve all three objectives simultaneously, and the growing tensions among them are being played out in countries across the world. It is the new trilemma of advanced capitalist democracy.
Growth, Democracy or Climate Action? uses this trilemma as a fresh analytic framework to conceptualize these trade-offs and tensions in the study of capitalist democracies. In a compelling analysis, the authors argue that the type of democratic politics that is required to generate growth and prosperity within the ecological limits of the planet has not been taken seriously in the study of comparative political economy and needs to be located at the heart of future research. Given the unprecedented scale of structural reform that governments need to implement to tackle the climate crisis effectively, the authors question whether the transition to carbon neutrality can be achieved within the liberal rulebook that has governed the politics of advanced capitalism for the past hundred years.
AIDAN REGAN is professor of political economy at University College Dublin.
HANNA SCHWANDER is professor of political sociology and social policy at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
CYRIL BENOÎT is a CNRS researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po, Paris.
TIM VLANDAS is professor of comparative political economy and social policy at the University of Oxford.
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-889-4
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-888-7
MAY 192 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
POLITICS
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY
The AI Matrix Profits, Power, Politics
DANIEL MÜGGE, REGINE PAUL, AND VALI STAN
“A much needed, well-researched guide to help us cut through hype and hysteria and understand the high-stakes gambles around AI.”
—Marietje Schaake, columnist, Financial Times
Artificial intelligence is heralded as a revolutionary force in the global economy. But the transformation it brings is not simply about new technology. It is about who owns it, what they want to do with it, who can pay for it, and how other economic actors around the world must adjust. This book explores AI systems as products of unequal power relations. It exposes grand AI narratives as rhetorical ammunition in political fights over technological futures and socioeconomic distribution. The AI Matrix is an essential guide to the real-world economic dynamics that AI unleashes.
DANIEL MÜGGE is professor of political arithmetic at the University of Amsterdam.
REGINE PAUL is professor of political science at the University of Bergen.
VALI STAN is a political economy research assistant at the University of Amsterdam.
The Disorderly Society
Rethinking Global Governance in an Age of Anarchy
BOBO LO
“This is essential reading for policy makers focused on revitalizing internationalism and those considering new mechanisms for collective problem solving.”
—Fiona Hill, senior fellow, Brookings Institution
The liberal, “rules-based” order faces its greatest crisis since the end of the Cold War. Yet there is little sign of a new, postliberal order. Instead, there is a growing void in global governance—a new world disorder. Bobo Lo argues that there is no future in a return to dominant US leadership, great power competition, or the post–Cold War chimera of a geopolitics-free world. The way forward lies in a more inclusive and flexible order, driven by a common purpose in meeting universal challenges such as climate change, pandemic disease, and global poverty.
BOBO LO is an independent international relations analyst. He is a nonresident fellow with the Lowry Institute, Sydney. He was formerly head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and deputy head of mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow.
$40.00 paper 978-1-78821-859-7
FEBRUARY 176 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
POLITICS
COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-844-3
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-465-0
JANUARY 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Stupid Rules
Reducing Red Tape and Making
Organizations More Effective and Accountable
NATASHA HAMILTON-HART
Our lives are imbued with rules and regulations. Some of these are vital and sensible, but others are simply stupid. Time-wasting processes of compliance don’t improve anyone’s lives or well-being and burden companies and organizations with productivity-sapping paperwork. In these instances, we would be better off resorting to the exercise of authority: a more efficient and transparent option for getting things done. Natasha Hamilton-Hart navigates the maze of rules that have proliferated in response to crisis and failure in recent decades, challenging us to consider just how ineffective stupid rules are in holding power to account, improving service delivery, and even managing the office dress code. This book is a must-read for anyone frustrated by the bureaucratic overload regulations create and for those needing to rethink their approach to management.
NATASHA HAMILTON-HART is a professor in the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland.
Working for Each Other
A Philosophical Account of the Need for Work
DERYN THOMAS
The increasingly influential antiwork view argues—persuasively so—that humanity would be better off in a world without work. Working for Each Other challenges the antiwork narrative by proposing an alternative view: that work is not an individual necessity but a social one. As individuals, people have certain needs that allow them to live and thrive in the world: things like food, shelter, and resources. In the same way, communities and societies have requirements, like infrastructure and essential services. Work is one of these fundamental collective needs: even if one does not work, someone else must. Recognizing the role that work plays in how we communicate with one another about our contributions to our communities and societies can allow us to reimagine the promise of work to be part of a good life—in particular, a life shared with others.
DERYN THOMAS teaches philosophy at Montgomery College, Maryland. She has a PhD in philosophy from the University of St Andrews.
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-877-1
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-876-4
MARCH 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" MANAGEMENT
$30.00 paper 978-1-78821-881-8
$95.00 cloth 978-1-78821-880-1
APRIL 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5" PHILOSOPHY
Crime, Space and Place
New Geographical Perspectives
TIM HALL AND RICHARD YARWOOD
This book is a critical introduction to the geographies of crime, highlighting the specific value that a geographical perspective adds to the study of crime. Tim Hall and Richard Yarwood examine crime through the lenses of space and place. They also explore the interdisciplinary nature of the geography of crime, examining its overlaps with criminology, sociology, economics, psychology, urban and rural studies, cartography and GIS, and policing. The authors look to the future by exploring forms of offending that have received little attention to date—such as corruption, transnational organized crime, and ecocide—and consider the contributions of theoretical perspectives from beyond geography. This book is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in human and social geography, particularly the geographies of crime, as well as a range of criminology courses.
TIM HALL is professor of interdisciplinary social studies at the University of Winchester.
RICHARD YARWOOD is professor of human geography and the director of the Doctoral College, University of Plymouth.
Coronations and Defenestrations
Choosing (and Losing) Tory Leaders
LEE DAVID EVANS
The Conservative Party and its leaders have shaped modern Britain. How do Tory leaders get to the top of their party? Historically, leaders were expected to emerge through unknown and unknowable processes, typically involving the monarch and party grandees. But as postwar Britain embraced all things modern and meritocratic, the Tory party’s traditional ways of working appeared out of touch. Tory MPs now decide which two candidates are to be put to a members’ vote. In this lively telling of Conservative Party history, Lee David Evans asks whether the leadership election rules are the source of the party’s current decline and considers what a more effective process might look like for choosing and deposing the leader while in opposition or in office.
LEE DAVID EVANS is John Ramsden Fellow at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London. He also hosts the history podcast Since Attlee & Churchill with Richard Johnson.
$40.00 paper 978-1-78821-885-6
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-884-9
APRIL 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" / 10 b&w figures
SOCIAL SCIENCE
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-900-6
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-899-3
JUNE 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" POLITICS
Whose Sovereignty?
Democracy and the People in the European Union
CÉLINE SPECTOR
In the face of Russian aggression and America’s apparent retreat from its protective role, strengthening European integration has become essential, and federalization appears increasingly necessary. In this carefully argued case for a federal Europe, Céline Spector proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social, and environmental inequities transcend borders. The concept of the sovereign people has become symbolic within nation-states but is devoid of substantive political force. Rather than lamenting the decline of direct democracy, Spector advocates for a democratized European Union that could redefine popular sovereignty and protect human rights. She shows how it could facilitate new forms of political community at the European level and enable a reconceptualization of popular sovereignty beyond the nation-state.
CÉLINE SPECTOR is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université Paris-Sorbonne.
The Hobbled State Fractured Politics in Contemporary Germany
MARK I. VAIL
“A compelling critique of Germany’s malaise by attributing it to the dominance of administrative traditions, which have hobbled the country in dealing with its fiscal policy, energy strategy, and defense posture. The book is a clarion call for a return to a more active developmental state to recapture the transformative dynamism needed for overcoming the current stagnation.”
—Konrad Jarausch, professor emeritus of history, University of North Carolina
Germany’s postwar power has been bounded by the rules and requirements of international institutions and its own constitution. Economic prosperity quickly became a proxy for the conventional exercise of power. Yet recent crises have made the country’s ambivalence toward power difficult to sustain. In this timely book, Mark I. Vail traces Germany’s reluctant embrace of power from its current reconsideration of national identity and international responsibility.
MARK I. VAIL is Worrell Chair of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University.
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-892-4
MAY 240 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
POLITICS
UNDERSTANDING EUROPE: THE COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN
STUDIES BOOK SERIES
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-852-8
JANUARY 192 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
POLITICS
UNDERSTANDING EUROPE: THE COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES BOOK SERIES
Postcolonial Urban Studies
Édouard Glissant and the Whole-World of Cities
GARTH MYERS
Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies, Garth Myers develops a new framework for reimagining global urban studies. This framework is developed in dialogue with the work of the Martinican poet and thinker Édouard Glissant, in particular his collection of essays Treatise on the Whole-World, which deploys analogy and juxtaposition to elucidate relationality between places. Each chapter is based around a pair of cities: Fort de France, Martinique, with Zanzibar, Tanzania; the Zambian Copperbelt with Scranton, USA; Kingston, Jamaica, with Hartford, USA; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with Los Angeles, USA. This book addresses some of the key concerns of canonical literature in Global North urban studies and considers what an alternative Glissantian cultural approach might offer.
GARTH A. MYERS is Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College.
Constructing Female Terrorism
Gender, Political Violence and National Identity in Britain and France Since 1952
ARIANE BOGAIN AND LEONIE B. JACKSON
News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naïve, and exploited; acting from personal rather than political motivations; anomalous intruders in a masculine realm; and defeminized monsters. In diminishing the agency of politically violent women, the challenge that female terrorists pose to the gender order is contained. Using five comparative case studies spanning more than seventy years, this book demonstrates how politically violent women in terrorist campaigns targeting the UK and France have been represented to contain challenges to nationally specific gender orders. Discourses of belonging via race, ethnicity, religion, geography, and class are intimately tied to these representations, and specific ideas of femininity emerge depending on the threat that particular ideological terrorist campaigns are believed to pose.
ARIANE BOGAIN is senior lecturer in French and politics at Northumbria University.
LEONIE B. JACKSON is senior lecturer in international relations at Northumbria University.
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-840-5
FEBRUARY 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" / 17 b&w figures
URBAN STUDIES
URBAN WORLDS
$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-896-2
JUNE 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
POLITICS
Pension Saving in a Gendered Lifecourse
HAYLEY JAMES
“This compelling book challenges the idea that women are simply ‘poor men’ in pension systems. Hayley James shows with clarity and originality how gendered lifecourses shape saving and why pensions must be reimagined to reflect the realities of diverse lives.”
—Debora Price, professor of gerontology, University of Manchester
Despite automatic enrollment in workpension schemes, private saving for pensions in the UK is low, with most people being relatively underpensioned in later life and reliant on the state pension. There is also a clear gender gap with women living longer and saving much less for old age than men. In this incisive book, Hayley James challenges the heteropatriarchal assumptions in pension systems. She demonstrates how pension saving, as an everyday practice of finance, is shaped by gender and how this evolves over the life course. She argues that to resolve gendered inequalities in pensions, we need to change systems to suit the realities of lived experience.
HAYLEY JAMES is senior research fellow in the Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing at Aston Business School.
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-849-8
JANUARY 160 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
ECONOMICS
THE GENDERED ECONOMY
A Political Economy of Women’s Entrepreneurship
MELISSA E. LANGWORTHY
The promotion of women’s entrepreneurship has traveled globally in recent years and has been regarded as a relatively unquestioned good, applied to women in various political, economic, and social contexts. It has been adopted as a tool for governments, policy makers, and development professionals who see women’s enterprise promotion as a signifier of modern and cosmopolitan economies. This book argues that the distinctive experiences of women entrepreneurs are indicative of the need for a political economy of entrepreneurship, especially at the level of the household. Drawing from countryspecific research, Melissa E. Langworthy highlights the gaps between rhetoric and practice by policy makers and program designers promoting women’s entrepreneurship. This book establishes a foundation from which to build entrepreneurship theory and to strengthen enterprise programs and policies.
MELISSA E. LANGWORTHY is a senior researcher at Ladysmith Ventures. She has a PhD in international development from Tulane University.
$95.00 cloth 978-1-78821-595-4
MAY 240 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"
ECONOMICS / GENDER STUDIES
WOMEN‘S WORK
The Life of Tu Fu Bilingual edition
ELIOT WEINBERGER
Translated by Dong Li
Foreword by Xi Chuan
“This is a book concerned with mortality, friendship, and regret. . . . The Life of Tu Fu sometimes feels like a poetic biography of my own life, or maybe yours.”
—Forrest Gander, Pulitzer Prize winner, 2019
Eliot Weinberger has deftly composed a montage of fifty-eight poems derived and adapted from the lines, images, and feelings in Tu Fu’s poetry. These poems weave a tapestry of Tu Fu’s turbulent life and times, allowing readers to appreciate the profound solitude and desolation in his poetry, which still resonates across the span of a millennium. More than an homage to the life of Tu Fu, this work is a meditation on the self, suffering, and our transient beings.
ELIOT WEINBERGER is a celebrated author, translator, and editor, described by the New York Times as “one of the world’s great essayists.” His books include Karmic Traces, An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, and Angels & Saints, as well as Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. Weinberger’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
DONG LI translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. He is the author of the poetry collection The Orange Tree (2023).
Hong Kong Art Deco Architecture
Unveiling the Hidden Heritage
PRUDENCE LEUNG KWOK LAU AND VANESSA WINGHEI YEUNG
The art deco movement is often neglected at the peripheries of architectural history of Asia and Hong Kong. This book relates art deco architecture in the city with local socioeconomic and political contexts, examining how they framed practices of everyday life. It narrates how art deco became part of the modern Hong Kong ethos via architectural typologies such as public and institutional sites; residential properties; and commercial, industrial, and utility buildings. Surviving art deco buildings are hidden treasures and portals to the little-known history of interwar Hong Kong.
PRUDENCE LEUNG KWOK LAU is associate professor at the Education University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in architecture from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and her teaching and research cover cultural heritage and architectural history.
VANESSA WINGHEI YEUNG works at Historic Environment Scotland. She holds an MSc in conservation from the University of Hong Kong and has experience in international relations and heritage outreach.
$18.00 cloth 978-988-237-380-8
NOVEMBER 140 pages / 4.96" x 8.28" POETRY
$50.00 cloth 978-988-237-409-6
MARCH 224 pages / 6.5" x 9.25" / 121 color illustrations, 45 b&w illustrations, 1 table ARCHITECTURE
Liturgy of the Most High for Daily Recitations
LAI CHI TIM, TRANSLATOR
The Daoist Liturgy of the Most High for Daily Recitations (Taishang xuanmen gongke jing) is performed in Daoist temples every morning and evening. The ritual aims at a perfected state for self-cultivation and serves as a prayer for universal salvation from suffering. The liturgical text includes recitations from a broad spectrum of Daoist traditions, including scriptures, chants, divine proclamations, litany of repentance, incantations, and hymns. This complete, meticulous English translation is accompanied by annotations and an introduction that situates the liturgical text in its historical context and examines how the spiritual practices and ritual performances are described. Together, they provide the religious, textual, and historical depth for readers to understand the rich and indigenous religion of Daoism in China and ritual traditions in contemporary Chinese communities.
LAI CHI TIM is professor of Daoist studies in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is also the founding director of the Centre for Studies of Daoist Culture and the executive associate director of the Institute of Chinese Studies.
The Late Wanderings of Du Fu
DANIEL HSIEH
History remembers Du Fu (712–770) as a Confucian poet-sage, but why would he abandon his official post to wander the remote fringes of the Tang empire? This exploration of Du Fu’s late wanderings reveals the restless spiritual and intellectual journey that mirrored his seemingly directionless, perplexing physical travels. Moving beyond traditional portrayals, it uncovers a complex figure torn between north and south, service and retreat, and the truths of the Three Teachings. A close reading of the poems from his last, prolific decade follows Du Fu as he confronts the brilliance and collapse of his dynasty, transforming all he experienced into poetry that became both his autobiography and his apology. Through his verse, a man who refused to settle for a single answer emerges, one whose constant wavering was a part of his greatness and ultimately redefined the possibilities of Chinese poetry.
DANIEL HSIEH is associate professor of Chinese emeritus at Purdue University. He is the author of The Evolution of Jueju Verse and Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction
$43.00 cloth 978-988-237-378-5
MAY 250 pages / 5.8" x 8.25" / 70 b&w illustrations
RELIGION
$39.00 cloth 978-988-237-392-1
JANUARY 292 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 b&w map, 1 table
POETRY / LITERATURE
Grotto Art of China
A Sourcebook
WU HUNG AND KATHERINE RENHE TSIANG, EDITORS
Grotto Art of China traces the origins of this unique art form from the Indian subcontinent to its monumental flowering in China, offering a comprehensive look at the artistic, religious, and historical narratives of these sacred sites. This volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars, providing systematic studies of major cave complexes—such as Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes, Yungang, Longmen, and Xiangtangshan—alongside lesser-known regional sites. Rigorously researched and thoughtfully curated, Grotto Art of China serves as an indispensable reference for researchers, students, and travelers. It offers new insights into the spiritual, historical, and artistic dimensions of a tradition that bridged cultures, faiths, and empires.
WU HUNG is director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.
KATHERINE RENHE TSIANG is senior consultant of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.
Translation and the History of Knowledge
A Festschrift for Lawrence Wang-chi Wong
JAMES ST.
ANDRÉ
AND BARBARA JIAWEI LI, EDITORS
“A valuable contribution to our understanding of how knowledge traverses linguistic and cultural boundaries.”
—Li Dechao, Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
This anthology honors Professor Lawrence Wang-chi Wong’s contributions to translation studies and Chinese translation history. It includes fourteen articles by leading scholars from diverse disciplines that examine the multifaceted role of translation in knowledge production and transmission. Spanning from the Jesuits’ cross-cultural communication in the seventeenth century to sinologists and missionaries in the twentieth, these articles highlight not only the cultural mediation by Western and Chinese scholars but also the pivotal role of translation in shaping cultural ideas.
JAMES ST. ANDRÉ is chair and professor of the Department of Translation and director of the Centre for Translation Technology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
BARBARA JIAWEI LI is lecturer in the Department of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
$35.00 paper 978-988-237-381-5
JANUARY 480 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 color map, 70 b&w illustrations
ART
$55.00 cloth 978-988-237-405-8
MAY 500 pages / 6" x 9"
ASIAN STUDIES
Joy, Reflections, Resistance— LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa
Scholarly and Activist Perspectives
MARIEL REISS AND AYODELE SOGUNRO, EDITORS
This book brings together activist and scholarly perspectives from different African countries on the multifaceted lived realities of LGBTIQ+ people, exploring their experiences of violence and their resistance strategies. It examines the impact of colonial legacies, the solidarity across LGBTIQ+ communities, and the ways in which scholars and activists can connect and foster practices of solidarity.
MARIEL REISS is a senior research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg.
AYODELE SOGUNRO is a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria.
International Perspectives on the History of Early Childhood Education
Institution—Family—Profession
DAGMAR KASÜSCHKE, DIANA FRANKEMEYER, AND RITA BRACHES-CHYREK, EDITORS
How does the interplay among family, institution, and profession characterize early childhood education worldwide? In this volume, the contributors analyze the historical and theoretical developments in early childhood education from an international perspective. They show how different national educational approaches and state interventions influence the relationship between the family and the education system amid globalization. This book offers an in-depth look at the challenges and opportunities arising from local and global educational practices.
DAGMAR KASÜSCHKE is professor of elementary education and its didactics at the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd.
DIANA FRANKE-MEYER is professor of educational science specializing in elementary education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Bochum Rita.
RITA BRACHES-CHYREK is professor of social pedagogy at the University of Bamberg.
$75.00 cloth 978-3-8474-3153-4
$60.00 paper 978-3-8474-3151-0
MAY 150 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
LGBTIQ+ STUDIES
NOVEMBER 177 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
EDUCATION
HISTORY OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice
What About the Children?
HANS BERTRAM
Without sustainability and intergenerational justice, today’s children will no longer have the opportunity to shape their lives in the same way as their parents. Educational equity, poverty reduction, children’s health and safety, gender equality, and climate protection are crucial components of sustainable and intergenerational justice policies. This book demonstrates that the needs of today’s generation of children are not being taken into account in these policy areas, with the result that existing inequalities and injustices will increase.
HANS BERTRAM is professor emeritus of sociology at HU Berlin.
Growing Up in Diaspora—Education and Family of East African Refugees in Germany
MIAOJUN SHE
This book centers on the life experiences of young East African refugees in Germany, examining how they cope with challenges related to educational and occupational participation and maintain transnational family amid institutionalized discrimination. Miaojun She portrays different ways of coping with transition imperatives, showing how young refugees shape their biographical trajectories with the sociocultural resources they have.
MIAOJUN SHE is a researcher at the Institute for Applied Family, Childhood, and Youth Research, University of Potsdam.
Meritocratic Beliefs and the Persistence of Educational Inequality
A Study of Applicants to Medical School in Germany
REBECCA WETTER
Educational success remains strongly linked to social background. However, concern about this remains limited, which could be explained by meritocratic beliefs that success primarily depends on individual effort and talent. Rebecca Wetter examines how such beliefs are shaped by experiences and what consequences they have for the reproduction of educational inequality.
REBECCA WETTER is currently a research fellow at the University of Potsdam at the Chair of School Development.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8474-3409-2
FEBRUARY 220 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
SOCIOLOGY
$55.00 paper 978-3-8474-3065-0
OCTOBER 264 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
SOCIOLOGY
DOING TRANSITIONS
$45.00 paper 978-3-96665-106-6
NOVEMBER 224 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
EDUCATION
BARBARA BUDRICH ACADEMIC PRESS
Confronting Catastrophes
The Art of Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
ANASTASIA SIMFEROVSKA, EDITOR
“A red-and-black stake of furious anger and devastating scorn with which the artist pierces all the world’s inhumanity.”
—Leonid Hrabovsky, Ukrainian composer of the Kyiv avant-garde school, New York
This exhibition catalog presents a collaborative work by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, a scholar and artist, with key Ukrainian and Jewish writers, art scholars, politicians, educators, journalists, and poets who unravel the visual mysteries of his artwork on display at the Ukrainian Institute of America in the fall of 2025. Together they address the catastrophic events of today, including ideological brainwashing, imperial aggression, political hypocrisy, cultural genocide, and the immensity of human suffering.
YOHANAN PETROVSKY-SHTERN is the Crown Family Chair of Jewish Studies and a professor of Jewish history at Northwestern University. He has published seven books and seven edited volumes including The Golden-Age Shtetl (2015) and Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Coexistence (2018).
ANASTASIA SIMFEROVSKA holds a PhD in art history from Lviv National Academy of Arts and is a PhD candidate in Slavic studies. She is a Kurt and Thea Sonnenmark Memorial Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Occupation and Migration in Eastern Europe
How Citizens Are Forced Into Exile and Shaped by New Realities—Reports, Essays, Articles, 2014-25
KATERINA SERGATSKOVA
Foreword by Christopher Miller
This collection of reporting and essays by the journalist Katerina Sergatskova explores the nature of the military occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces and their proxies in Crimea, Donbas, and southern regions of Ukraine from the first days of the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 through the full-scale invasion that began in 2022. Featuring conversations with those driven into hiding or exile, the book provides insights into the experience of forced migration as a result of the occupation and political conflicts.
KATERINA SERGATSKOVA is an award-winning journalist, author, entrepreneur, and security trainer specializing in high-risk environments. She has extensively reported on the war in Ukraine, the Russian invasion, human rights violations in Eastern Europe, and the war against the Islamic State in the Middle East.
CHRISTOPHER MILLER is the author of The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine (2023).
$45.00 paper 978-3-8382-2163-2
NOVEMBER 108 pages / 8.27" x 11.02" / 25 color Illustrations
ART
UKRAINIAN VOICES
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-2060-4
JUNE 200 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
UKRAINIAN VOICES
Memeing War
The Digital Folklore Memetic Mirror of Contemporary Ukrainian Culture and Society
MICHEL BOUCHARD AND DARIA ANTSYBOR
Foreword by Anton Liagusha
Memeing War analyzes tens of thousands of memes to better understand the struggle everyday Ukrainians endure and how memes helped the citizenry carry on through bombings and needless death. The book chronicles the emergence of revolutionary memes and how this tradition of memeing detonated and mushroomed following Russia’s revanchist invasion to undo the legacy of Ukraine’s push toward democracy and European integration. The memes are a mirror of contemporary Ukrainian culture and society, a body of digital folklore. At times dark and calling upon gallows humor, they provide Ukrainians both hope and comic relief.
MICHEL BOUCHARD is professor of anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia.
DARIA ANTSYBOR is a research fellow at the State Scientific Center of Cultural Heritage Protection from Technogenic Catastrophes in Kyiv.
Dress Rehearsal
How Transnistria Became Russia’s Roadmap for Hybrid Wars in Ukraine and Beyond
LARISA KALIK
Translated by Kate Tsurkan
Foreword by Francis Farrell
In the shadow of Europe’s borders lies Transnistria—an unrecognized sliver of land wedged between Moldova and Ukraine. For over three decades, it has existed in political limbo: cut off from the world, sustained by Moscow, and ruled by an authoritarian elite. It is one of the longest-running “frozen conflicts” in the post-Soviet space—and a blueprint for Russia’s future wars. Blending personal memoir, firsthand interviews, and investigative reporting, Larisa Kalik pulls back the curtain on daily life inside this enigmatic pseudo-state.
LARISA KALIK is a journalist who was born and raised in Transnistria. After publishing a book based on interviews with Transnistrian army conscripts, she was forced to flee the region because of safety concerns and relocated to Ukraine.
KATE TSURKAN is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent, author of the newsletter Explaining Ukraine, and cotranslator of Oleh Sentsov’s Diary of a Hunger Striker (2024).
FRANCIS FARRELL is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent and coauthor of the newsletter War Notes
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2040-6
JUNE 250 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
CULTURAL STUDIES
UKRAINIAN VOICES
$40.00 paper 978-3-8382-2074-1
JUNE 250 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
UKRAINIAN VOICES
SALE
What Did Russia’s Occupation of Crimea Mean?
Twelve Women Report How They Experienced the Start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014
OLENA BOGATYRENKO, EDITOR
Foreword
by Olena
Bogatyrenko
This book is a collection of documentary accounts from twelve women from Ukraine who were forced to leave Crimea when Russia started occupying the peninsula in 2014. Some moved earlier and couldn’t see their loved ones or live in their own homes anymore. Kyiv took them all in. Sharing powerful accounts of exile, this book underscores that documenting the crimes committed by the Russian army in 2014 is necessary to preserve the true history of Crimea. The world must know the truth and not forget about Crimea.
OLENA BOGATYRENKO studied psychology at the State Pedagogical Drahomanov University of Kyiv and marketing at the National Economic Hetman University of Kyiv. From 2001 to 2021, she worked in the fields of marketing, advertising, and public relations. Since 2007, she has been writing articles and stories. Her books include Ne moia Miia (2020) and Kyiv-Krym: 10 rokiv okupatsii (2025).
The Age of Revisionism
International Relations in Times of War, Uncertainty, and Insecurity
SERGIY KORSUNSKY
Political revisionism is a common historical trend that often defines the nature of international relations in a certain historical period. But today, widespread uncertainty and rapid political shifts combine to form a picture that is difficult to comprehend. This book revisits, discusses, and uncovers the novel meaning of many basic concepts used in theorizing about international relations. Some familiar concepts are merely getting outdated; others have proven to be wrong; and still others need to be revised to properly understand modern reality. The book draws lessons from the author’s experience of practical diplomacy during thirty years as a senior Ukrainian diplomat with assignments in Tel Aviv, Washington, Ankara, and Tokyo.
SERGIY KORSUNSKY served as a Ukrainian diplomat from 1994 to 2025 as, among others, ambassador to Turkey and Japan as well as head of Ukraine’s Diplomatic Academy. He is a visiting professor at Kobe Gakuin University in Japan and honorary professor at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University. Korsunsky is a distinguished global fellow at the Temple University Japan and senior adviser at the Nihon Cyber Defence Company.
$25.00 paper 978-3-8382-2092-5
FEBRUARY 120 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
UKRAINIAN VOICES
$25.00 paper 978-3-8382-2023-9
JANUARY 160 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
UKRAINIAN VOICES
A Village in Revolutionary Ukraine
How
Bolshevik Rule
Changed
a
People: The Diary of a Common Man, 1918-1928
STEPHEN VELYCHENKO
Foreword by Yaroslav Hrytsak
“A history from below par excellence. . . . A unique insight into the history of Ukraine and Europe.”
—Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history, Harvard University
This book examines the diary of Kostiantyn Sambursky, who recorded his experiences daily for almost thirty years. Entries provide details about his education, his work, his neighbors, and life in surrounding settlements, together with asides on the history of nearby villages. The diary describes the comings and goings of rival armies, confiscations, requisitions, the activities of local officials, the role of the church in local affairs, personal rivalries, and land reallocation, providing invaluable insight into the human element of rural revolutionary Ukraine.
STEPHEN VELYCHENKO is senior research fellow at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine (2022).
YAROSLAV HRYTSAK is professor of history at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-2065-9
JANUARY 190 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
HISTORY
UKRAINIAN VOICES
Freedom Shock
A Different History of East Germany from 1989 to Today
ILKO-SASCHA KOWALCZUK
Why is the right-wing extremist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) particularly successful in East Germany? Why are so many East Germans friendly toward Putin’s regime and hostile to Ukraine’s struggle for independence? Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk tells the story of East Germany since the breakup of the Soviet bloc as an unfinished struggle for freedom, the outcome of which will determine the future of the entire German nation. He calls for a realistic, nonnostalgic view of East Germany as unequivocally a dictatorship and casts German reunification as a success story of liberation. Freedom Shock is a defense against current antiliberal tendencies by one of the most prominent East German intellectuals today.
ILKO-SASCHA KOWALCZUK is a Berlin historian who has published groundbreaking works on the history of the GDR, communism, and German reunification including, in English, End Game: The Revolution in East Germany, 1989–2024 (2022) as well as a two-volume biography of Walter Ulbricht.
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2069-7
JANUARY 260 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
HISTORY
UKRAINIAN VOICES
Annihilation by Intent
Russia’s Occupation Policy in Ukraine
Since 2022
ANDREAS HEINEMANN-GRÜDER
With Dmitry Durnev, Julia Friedrich, and Sergey Savchenko
Foreword by Jan-Philipp Wölbern
What kind of regime has Russia established in the Ukrainian territory it has occupied and annexed? What does the occupation mean for those affected? This book shows that the ultimate aim of Russia’s occupation policy since 2022 is the destruction of Ukraine’s distinctive political, social, linguistic, and religious identity. Occupation means forced displacement, theft of property, systematic repression, regular human rights abuses, denigration, the imposition of Russia’s imperial war narrative, control of the public sphere, and Russification.
ANDREAS HEINEMANN-GRÜDER is professor of political science at the University of Bonn.
DMITRY DURNEV is an independent journalist in Ukraine.
JULIA FRIEDRICH is a research fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute.
SERGEY SAVCHENKO is lieutenant general of the armed forces of Ukraine and head of the Kyiv-based Analytical Center for the Study of Hybrid Threats.
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-2091-8
MARCH 150 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
How Ukraine’s Elites Work
Power, Habitus, and Politics from Yanukovych to Zelensky
OLEKSANDRA IWANIUK
Foreword by Georges Mink
“A vital and revealing contribution to our understanding of post-Soviet politics and the lived realities of elite power.”
—Tomasz Zarycki, University of Warsaw
This sociological study explores how Ukrainian political elites think, act, and adapt in moments of profound transformation—from the authoritarian drift of the Yanukovych era to the national redefinition under Zelensky during the full-scale war. Moving beyond debates about corruption or democratization, the book paints a more nuanced picture of Ukraine’s political field as a space of symbolic struggles shaped by history, class, and postcolonial legacies. It offers new insight into how elites operate in not just Ukraine but also transitional democracies facing external war and internal transformation more generally.
OLEKSANDRA IWANIUK is assistant professor at the faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw. Her recent books include Lessons in Philosophy (2025).
GEORGES MINK is permanent professor at the College of Europe in Natolin.
$58.00 paper 978-3-8382-2076-5
JANUARY 400 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Ukraine’s NATO Accession Discourse
Representations of National Identity in Ukrainian Debates about Euro-Atlantic Integration, 1997–2018
IRYNA ZHYRUN
Foreword by Andreas Heinemann-Grüder
“Essential reading for students and scholars of international security, foreign policy, and discourse analysis.”
—Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Sabanci University
Iryna Zhyrun analyzes the evolving conceptualization of Ukrainian national identity in relation to Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration among the ruling political elites. Examining the politics of Ukraine-NATO relations during the Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych, and Poroshenko presidencies, she argues that there was a constitutive link between changes in the definition of national identity and choice of distinct policy directions: Foreign affairs became identity politics.
IRYNA ZHYRUN has held visiting positions at the University of the North in Barranquilla, Colombia, and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy.
ANDREAS HEINEMANN-GRÜDER is professor of political science at the University of Bonn.
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-2062-8
JANUARY 336 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
The Making of a Media Nation
Television and Popular Culture in Soviet Ukraine during the 1950s–1980s
BOHDAN SHUMYLOVYCH
“Indispensable reading for those who wish to understand how the Soviet-era decay turned into a glorious rebirth of the Ukrainian nation.”
—Alexander Etkind, Central European University
Using extensive archival research and oral history interviews with former media practitioners and viewers, this book reveals how regional and republican television interacted with state-sponsored popular culture to produce a distinct Soviet Ukrainian mediascape. Examining the formation of socialist media culture at the convergence of radio, television, and popular music, Bohdan Shumylovych highlights the ideological dimensions and politicization of the cultural output of this time. Ultimately, the book contributes to understanding how Soviet media not only reflected state priorities but also played a central role in shaping national imaginaries that anticipated Ukraine’s post-Soviet nationhood.
BOHDAN SHUMYLOVYCH is associate professor of cultural studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He coedited Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: Imprints and Dreamscapes (2023).
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-2068-0
JUNE 300 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
HISTORY
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Replaying the Second World War
Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25
OLEKSA DRACHEWYCH
“An excellent antidote to propaganda, both old and new.”
—Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history, Harvard University
Oleksa Drachewych argues that Russia’s instrumentalization of its memory of WWII has played a significant role in leading Russian forces to commit similar atrocities in its war against Ukraine. He shows that Russia’s misuse of history is more than propaganda and it has violent consequences. Replaying the Second World War details the many connections between the Soviet past and the Russian present, shedding light on why Russian forces have committed extensive atrocities against Ukrainians and why the Russian government has instituted brutal policies during the war.
OLEKSA DRACHEWYCH is an assistant professor of history at Western University and a lecturer in the Department of History at King’s University College, both in London, Ontario. He is the author of The Communist International, AntiImperialism, and Racial Equality in British Dominions (2018).
The Political System of Post-Soviet Ukraine
Constitutional Ramifications, Key Institutions, and Political Practices of the Independent Ukrainian State, 1991–2023
GALYNA ZELENKO, EDITOR
Foreword by Oleg Rafalskiy
“An important contribution to understanding the institutional challenges Ukraine faces.”
—Oleg Kalakura, principal research fellow, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies
This collection offers a comprehensive analysis of Ukraine’s political system—its constitutional framework, institutional architecture, and actual political functioning. Exploring the tension between formal institutions and informal mechanisms that define governance in Ukraine, the study pays particular attention to the country’s semipresidential model as well as the functioning of its parliament, government, judiciary, political parties, and electoral institutions.
GALYNA ZELENKO is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and deputy director of research at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies.
OLEG RAFALSKIY is director of the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2079-6
FEBRUARY 256 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
$38.00 paper 978-3-8382-2097-0
MARCH 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Fortius Quo Fidelius?
Hierarchy and Bargaining in Russia’s Relations with Transnistria and Abkhazia since 1991
MAXIMILIAN OHLE
Foreword by Andrey Makarychev
This book investigates how and to what extent the de facto regimes of the unrecognized “republics” of Transnistria in Moldova and Abkhazia in Georgia can challenge the Kremlin’s political authority. Though rare, this has occurred when the republics were dissatisfied with existing security, economic, and cultural arrangements with Russia and mobilized sufficient bargaining power to address them.
MAXIMILIAN OHLE has held visiting fellowships at Nankai University and the Catholic Institute of Vendee.
ANDREY MAKARYCHEV is professor of regional political studies at the University of Tartu.
$37.00 paper 978-3-8382-2089-5
MAY 250 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
The Battle for Georgia
Defense Reform, NATO Doctrine, and Military Effectiveness: A Critical Assessment of the 2008 War
FREDERIC LABARRE
Foreword by Ambassador Armando Marques Guedes
This book traces the history of defense reform in Georgia to account for the performance of the armed forces in the 2008 war. It critiques the process of defense reform under NATO guidance and serves as a case study for future conflicts.
FREDERIC LABARRE is lecturer in political science and economics at the Royal Military College of Canada. Previously, he was NATO defense education enhancement program manager at the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes in GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany.
ARMANDO MARQUES GUEDES is a political scientist, anthropologist, and former Portuguese diplomat.
Regionalization as EU Foreign Policy
The European Union as a Regionalizing Actor in the Post-Soviet South Caucasus
TATIA DOLIDZE
Foreword by Steven Blockmans
“A must-read for scholars of European integration, foreign policy, and regionalism.”
—Heidrun Maurer, University for Continuing Education Krems
This book examines the European Union’s engagement with the post-Soviet South Caucasus, offering insights into its wider foreign policy practices.
TATIA DOLIDZE is associate professor and head of the international relations program at European University, Georgia, where she leads a Jean Monnet Action on EU enlargement.
STEVEN BLOCKMANS is a senior fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies and the International Centre for Defence and Security.
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-2061-1
APRIL 320 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2106-9
JUNE 230 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
EUROPEAN STUDIES IN THE CAUCASUS
SALE
The Treblinka Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance: Feodor Fedorenko on Trial
CHRIS WEBB
This book examines the Treblinka death camp, which operated as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder of Polish Jewry during the years 1942 and 1943. This edition adds a focus on the former Ukrainian guard Feodor Fedorenko, who, after an appeal, was stripped of his American citizenship, extradited to Russia, and, after a short trial, found guilty of war crimes and executed in 1986, as well as covering the postwar trials in great depth.
CHRIS WEBB has been studying the Holocaust for more than forty years and is the author of several books on the subject.
The Hungarian-Soviet Cultural Society
1945–1949
ADAM FARKAS
Adam Farkas presents the history of the Hungarian–Soviet Cultural Society, founded in 1945 to promote Soviet-Russian culture in Hungary. He recasts the society’s role in Soviet-Hungarian relations, portraying it not merely as a propaganda source but as an institution with its own distinct political agenda. Drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, Farkas explores a range of challenges faced by the organization.
ADAM FARKAS is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto.
Annexation, Secession, Occupation— Confusion
Backgrounds and Solutions to Territorial Conflicts World-Wide
ULRICH HAMMERSCHMIDT
“Theoretically sophisticated, conceptually exact, and empirically rich.”
—Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University–Newark
Starting with definitions of the terms “people,” “nation,” and “state,” this book describes and develops the legal and philosophical foundations that can be used to objectively assess and resolve territorial conflicts. These rules are then applied to specific examples, ranging from South Tyrol to Palestine, Catalonia, Kosovo, California, Eastern Ukraine, Kashmir, and East Timor.
ULRICH HAMMERSCHMIDT is a lawyer who has been dealing with historical and security policy questions for decades.
$92.00 paper 978-3-8382-2052-9
JANUARY 896 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
HISTORY
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-1923-3
JANUARY 240 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
HISTORY
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-2180-9
MAY 180 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
POLITICS
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Symbols and Narratives of Ukrainian Resistance
Part II
Vol. 11, No. 1 (2025)
YULIYA YURCHUK, EDITOR
This special issue searches for the deeper roots of Ukrainian resistance as they are expressed in culture and folklore. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, who address topics such as gender, humor, literature, visual representations, and memes.
YULIYA YURCHUK is associate professor of history of ideas at Södertörn University.
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
The Politics of World War II Memories in the North Vol. 11, No. 2 (2025)
KARI AGA MYKLEBOST, HAVARD BAEKKEN, AND STIAN BONES, EDITORS
This special issue explores the Kremlin-driven politics of memories of the Great Patriotic War as they unfold in the northernmost parts of Norway and European Russia, two regions that share not only a border but also a long history of interaction.
JULIE FEDOR is senior lecturer in modern European history at the University of Melbourne.
ANDREAS UMLAND is a senior expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv and research fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Provision for Surviving Dependants in Social Security
A New Architecture for the 21st
Century?
STAMATIA DEVETZI AND HANS-JOACHIM REINARD, EDITORS
This book argues that survivors’ benefits are rooted in the outdated male breadwinner model. The contributors analyze how social security systems must grapple with societal shifts such as rising female employment, widespread divorce, and the prevalence of informal partnerships.
STAMATIA DEVETZI is professor of social security law at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany.
HANS-JOACHIM REINHARD is dean of the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda, Germany.
$39.00 paper 978-3-8382-2054-3
JANUARY 126 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" /
8 photos
HISTORY
JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
$39.00 paper 978-3-8382-2055-0
OCTOBER 342 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
HISTORY
JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2036-9
JULY 212 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
LAW
CINTEUS—INTERDISCIPLINARY SERIES OF THE CENTER FOR INTERCULTURAL AND EUROPEAN STUDIES
The Man Who Would Be Man Enough for Betty Velasquez
ROBERT RADIN
Johnny Tricorn, an anxious movie critic in L.A., is in love with Betty Velasquez, but his life takes a turn when he interviews the princess of Angora and encounters his abusive ex, Carolina. Over two intense days, Johnny must confront his past to secure his future with Betty. This book is a poignant, hilarious portrait of a man’s struggle to come to terms with his past and embrace his future.
ROBERT RADIN is the author of Teaching English to Refugees and Noche Triste: A Memoir of Anorexia. His work has been recognized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Essays
Exploring Fields of the Ineffable in Literary Anthropology
On Vincent Crapanzano
MAJA NAZARUK
Edited by Anatoly Orlovsky
“Connects scientific knowledge and poetry, anticipating a revitalized literary anthropology.”
—James Clifford, anthropologist and author
Maja Nazaruk offers a panoramic view of Vincent Crapanzano’s anthropologically poetic thinking about the ineffable aspects of life, such as otherness, the outer limits of the body, and chthonic pain, providing a contemplation of the undefined nature of human existence.
MAJA NAZARUK defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Montreal.
Postmodern Bengali Theatre
A Critical Assessment, with Reference to Select Playwrights’ Works
This volume explores postmodern Bengali theater and its global significance through essays by scholars and practitioners.
DEBNARAYAN BANDYOPADHYAY is the chief executive director of Swami Vivekananda University.
DEBASISH ROY is the engineer in chief of W.B.H.I.D.Co. Limited.
ARNAB SAHA is the head of the Department of Bengali, Seth Anandram Jaipuria College.
MAINAK BANERJEE is the chief operating officer of a Kolkata-based IT company.
PINAKI ROY is professor of English at Raiganj University.
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-2101-4
$23.00 paper 978-3-8382-1380-4
MARCH 180 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
FICTION
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-2050-5
FEBRUARY 206 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
ANTHROPOLOGY
JUNE 350 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
LITERARY STUDIES
STUDIES IN COMMONWEALTH WRITINGS
The Analytic Couch and Power
Between Tradition and Method: Examining Power Asymmetries in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice
ALEXANDER MATTISSECK
Foreword by Gabriele Cassullo
“A fresh perspective on psychoanalysis.”
—Marco Bofinger, psychologist
The couch is one of the most well-known and symbolic elements of psychoanalysis, yet its role in the therapeutic process is not without controversy. This book subjects its function to critical examination and explores a possible connection to problematic therapeutic dynamics.
ALEXANDER MATTISSECK is a partner in a well-established psychological practice in Berlin.
GABRIELE CASSULLO is a member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-2057-4
JUNE 180 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
PSYCHOLOGY
Law
From Concept to Reality
DARIJUS BEINORAVIČIUS
This book addresses the gap in legal scholarship regarding the concept of law. It critiques traditional views that equated law with government mandates, exploring the effect of value shifts on human rights and the necessity of redefining law to ensure it aligns with constitutional principles.
DARIJUS BEINORAVIČIUS is head of the Legal Philosophy and History Department at the Faculty of Law of Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius. His previous work includes Lithuanian Constitutional Law (2017).
An Ontological Solution to the MindBody Problem
Consciousness and Recursion
JAMES RICHARD MENSCH
James Richard Mensch argues that the classic statements of the mindbody problem are based on an artificial separation of consciousness and its embodiment. This separation is reflected in the view that associates consciousness with temporal relations and the material world with spatial relationships. Mensch undercuts this view to show that time and space—and, hence, consciousness and its embodiment—are mutually implicated.
JAMES RICHARD MENSCH is professor emeritus of philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He is the author of fifteen books, the most recent being Husserl’s Phenomenology
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2067-3
FEBRUARY 226 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
LAW
$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-2135-9
JANUARY 214 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"
PHILOSOPHY
BODY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
SALE
The Myths That Made America
An Introduction to American Studies
Revised and expanded edition
HEIKE PAUL
Praise for the first edition:
“[Offers] fascinating impressions of mentalities and ideals, prejudices, and practices of cultural distinction present in US-American society.”
—Peter Andreas, Historische Zeitschrift
This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths on which the nation is based. These include the myth of “discovery,” the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The book provides extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and everyday life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this revised and expanded edition illuminates the essential role of myths in the process of nation building.
HEIKE PAUL is chair of American studies and speaker of the DFG Research Training Group 2726 "The Sentimental in Literature, Culture and Politics" at Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-7764-5
MAY 450 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 43 illustrations
AMERICAN STUDIES
AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES
Anti-Asian Racism in Transatlantic Perspectives
History, Theory, Cultural Representations and Social Movements
KIEN NGHI HA, EDITOR
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sinophobia and anti-Asian hate made media headlines. The contributors to this volume discuss how anti-Asian projections and colonial-racist narratives have shaped modernity and Western immigrant nations, employing a transatlantic perspective in addressing different core dimensions of pervasive anti-Asian racism. Featuring an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together historians, social scientists, cultural anthropologists, media scholars, educational researchers, and communitybased activists. Together they offer a diverse array of insights, ranging from historical contexts and theoretical frameworks to contemporary case studies.
KIEN NGHI HA is a postdoctoral researcher on postcolonial Asian German studies at Universität Tübingen. He previously held research positions at universities in New York, Heidelberg, and Bayreuth and curated projects at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Hebbel am Ufer Theater, and Sinema Transtopia in Berlin. His research, writing, and curatorial work focus on postcolonial criticism, racism, migration, and Asian diaspora studies.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-7442-2
AUGUST 400 pages / 6.1" x 9.45"
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
The Sorting of Humanity Schemata and Practices of Human Differentiation
KLAUS BEHNAM SHAD
Human differentiation encompasses human classification and categorization processes that we encounter on a daily basis. Klaus Behnam Shad offers a new framework of human differentiation that emphasizes social complexity and intersectionality. Uniquely integrating systems theory with political, psychological, and biological anthropology, this systemic-anthropological approach firmly rejects culturalizing, moralizing, and ideologizing stances that claim a supposed superiority. This provides valuable insights into group-based differentiation processes that would otherwise remain inscrutable.
KLAUS BEHNAM SHAD is a scholar of social and cultural anthropology who teaches and conducts research at the University of Luxembourg.
The Human and the Meat Animal Domination in Capitalist Societies
CHIARA STEFANONI
“This book announces Stefanoni as a significant voice in contemporary critical (animal) theory.”
—Richard Twine, Edge Hill University
More than 85 billion animals are killed in slaughterhouses yearly to sustain a profitdriven meat production system, devastating animals, workers, and the environment. Elaborating a novel materialist and intersectional framework, Chiara Stefanoni conceptualizes the social form of humananimal relations and its centrality within the interconnected structure of domination in capitalist societies, especially in relation to gender and class. Through a historical analysis of industrial slaughterhouses, the study reveals how the human/animal divide and meat-based diet are not timeless facts, but concrete social solutions crucial for the reproduction of capitalist society.
CHIARA STEFANONI works as a visiting researcher and lecturer in philosophy at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7613-6
MARCH 366 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CULTURE & THEORY
$49.00 paper 978-3-8376-7957-1
DECEMBER 222 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 3 illustrations
ANIMAL STUDIES
HUMAN-ANIMAL STUDIES
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Black British Music Video
Grime Culture, the Ends, and the Neoliberal City
JULIAN WACKER
Since the early 2000s, creatives in UK grime music and attendant genres have voiced and displayed dissent toward neoliberal politics and violent inner-city planning through the medium of music videos. Julian Wacker shows that music videos produced for artists like Dizzee Rascal, Jorja Smith, Kano, Kojey Radical, and Scarlxrd reframe politically disenfranchised and culturally stigmatized council-housing estates as unruly and malleable spaces on the move, ultimately disrupting the exclusionary patterns stratified across the neoliberal city. Reading these music videos also provides insights into how they intervene in stereotyping narratives surrounding Black British urban culture in the United Kingdom.
JULIAN WACKER is a scholar in Anglophone literary and cultural studies with a distinct focus on Black British cultural production at Universität Münster. He works as a teacher in secondary education.
Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine
NATASHA KLIMENKO, MIGLĖ BAREIKYTĖ, AND VIKTORYIA SEREDA, EDITORS
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has destroyed lives, communities, and cities. From the start, images of this war spread across various media platforms. Paintings, photographs, drone footage, TikToks, and Instagram posts shape how the war is experienced, represented, and archived. In this multidisciplinary volume, artists, scholars, and writers explore how art, media, infrastructures, and material culture respond to and contest the Russo-Ukrainian War.
NATASHA KLIMENKO is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History held at Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
MIGLĖ BAREIKYTĖ is an assistant professor of digital studies at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt.
VIKTORIYA SEREDA is head coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study, senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and a professor of sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7935-9
APRIL 300 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 20 illustrations, 40 color illustrations
MEDIA STUDIES
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7940-3
NOVEMBER 380 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 8 illustrations, 60 color illustrations
MEDIA STUDIES / ART
FORUM TRANSREGIONALE STUDIEN—DOSSIERS
Troubling Archives
History and Memory in Namibian
Literature
and Art
JULIA RENSING
Namibia’s colonial history casts a long shadow over the country’s present. Contemporary authors and artists confront the legacies of German and South African colonial rule and engage creatively with the persistent remnants of the past. In their works, the archive remains both an invaluable and a fraught resource for accessing obscured histories. Julia Rensing examines how writers and artists from Namibia and South Africa navigate archival silences, omissions, and power structures to renegotiate historical narratives and address intergenerational trauma. Their creative practices challenge conventional understandings of archives and forms of commemoration, highlighting the diverse experiences that shape Namibian society and memory cultures.
JULIA RENSING is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Basel.
Trust, Responsibility, and Digital Governance
Regulation of AI and Blockchain Technology from a Capacity-Based Perspective
ANDREAS KAMINSKI, MICHAEL LEYER, SEBASTIAN BÜCKER, AND MARCUS DÜWELL, EDITORS
Individuals and organizations often lack the capacities to assess digital systems in terms of justice, reliability, and other normative standards. The contributors to this volume propose a new approach to digital governance that enhances the capacity to evaluate and shape digital systems, with particular relevance to both legal and ethical debates surrounding AI.
ANDREAS KAMINSKI is a professor of philosophy of science and technology at Technische Universität Darmstadt and a senior scientist at the High-Performance Computing Center of the Universität Stuttgart.
MICHAEL LEYER is a professor of business administration and chair of digitalization and process management at Universität Marburg. He is also an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology.
SEBASTIAN BÜCKER works as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
MARCUS DÜWELL is a professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7760-7
NOVEMBER 332 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 16 illustrations, 57 color illustrations
LITERARY STUDIES / ART
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7802-4
JANUARY 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 10 color illustrations
PHILOSOPHY
DIGITAL SOCIETY
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The Rediscovery of Bioethics
Lessons Learned and Future Directions
DIRK LANZERATH AND AURÉLIE HALSBAND, EDITORS
As disruptive biotechnologies such as genome editing and ecological crises reshape our world, normative guidance is more vital than ever. The contributors to this collection explore how bioethics, as a philosophically informed and interdisciplinary practice, can respond to ethical challenges in medicine, agriculture, and beyond. With contributions from leading scholars, it charts future directions for bioethics. This volume marks twenty-five years since the founding of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences.
DIRK LANZERATH is a professor of philosophy at Universität Bonn, where he leads the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences. He also serves as a secretary general of the European Network of Research Ethics Committees. As an expert in medical ethics, he is deputy chairman of the Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association.
AURÉLIE HALSBAND is head of the Scientific Department of the German Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences at Universität Bonn. Her research addresses ethical implications of emerging biotechnologies and artificial intelligence, as well as the normative foundations of intergenerational justice and sustainability.
Understanding Social Struggles Relating Recognition Theories and Epistemic Injustice
HILKJE C. HÄNEL AND FABIAN SCHUPPERT, EDITORS
Recently, both liberal philosophy of recognition and theories of epistemic injustice have come under attack for failing to reconstruct how marginalized groups find sources of recognition and agency. To understand social struggles, we need to focus on how those within the struggle act toward emancipatory change instead of focusing on the (re)actions of those in power. This volume brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of epistemic injustice theories and recognition theories, setting out to apply insights from this relation to contemporary phenomena and backlashes in the formation and acts of socially struggling emancipators. Contributors also consider ideology critique, epistemology of ignorance, standpoint theory, and theories of consciousness-raising.
HILKJE C. HÄNEL teaches and researches in political and social epistemology, feminist philosophy, political theory, and applied ethics at Universität Potsdam.
FABIAN SCHUPPERT teaches and researches political theory and philosophy at Universität Potsdam.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7892-5
DECEMBER 222 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
PHILOSOPHY
BIOETHICS / MEDICAL ETHICS
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-5217-8
DECEMBER 216 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY - ENLIGHTENMENT - CRITIQUE
Plato, Aristotle and the Transcendence Theory of Art
New Approaches and Philosophical Unorthodoxies
CHRISTINE STEFANIE KUNKLER
Based on a provocative reading of Plato and Aristotle, the “transcendence theory of art” challenges traditional notions concerning the autonomy of art, essentialism, and art as such. As a methodological model, it bridges theoretical analysis and art practice, offering a fresh approach to key areas in philosophy. Christine Stefanie Kunkler shows how a philosophical reflection on texts and images can deepen our understanding of meaning, interpretation, and misinformation in contemporary culture.
CHRISTINE STEFANIE KUNKLER is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Universität Potsdam.
The Epistemic Violence of Mathematics
Decolonial-Feminist Re-Writings of the “Rational” and the “Human”
CARA-JULIE KATHER
“This book is a stunning literary and philosophical exploration of how wild ways of knowing and being help us understand and imagine the world differently and together.”
—Stephanie
Deig, Universität Luzern
What does it mean to know something? What does it mean to prove something? And how are the two connected? Cara-Julie Kather explores mathematics as a way of thinking and being in the world. She investigates mathematics in its conceptual relation to Western understandings of the “rational” and the “human,” proposing possibilities of subverting Western mathematics and forming different mathematical practices. To engage in decolonial-feminist rewritings of the rational and the human requires rewriting mathematical practice too. This book seeks to inspire practices of rewriting thinking and being—in the realm of the mathematical and beyond.
CARA-JULIE KATHER is a feminist theorist and writer.
$72.00 paper 978-3-8376-7714-0
JANUARY 270 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 5 illustrations, 12 color illustrations
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY - ENLIGHTENMENT - CRITIQUE
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7982-3
APRIL 220 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY – ENLIGHTENMENT – CRITIQUE
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Spaces of Appearance
Aesthetics and Politics After Analogy
MARTIN RENZ AND JULIUS SCHWARZWÄLDER, EDITORS
“Scintillating.”
—Martin Jay, Ehrman Professor of European History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Spaces of appearance come in many guises: a car crash in Vienna, a discussion forum in Dresden, a baker’s queue in Paris, an art festival in Shiraz, an unbuilt house in Istanbul, a law court in Berlin, a photograph from Arkansas. Taking their cue from Hannah Arendt’s influential concept, the case studies in this volume, written in close collaboration, examine how the perceptive standards of a given political situation can subtly change or consolidate. Supported by a wealth of images, this book demonstrates how the concept can be activated for innovative research—especially in cases where an understanding of aesthetics and politics needs to go beyond their analogization.
MARTIN RENZ is a PhD candidate in American studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
JULIUS SCHWARZWÄLDER is a PhD candidate at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Stereotypically Autistic?
Autism
Portrayals in Young Adult Fiction
EVA CHARLOTTE HESSE
Fictional representations of autism hold immense power over social perception, yet such portrayals often remain stereotypical and one-dimensional. Drawing on discourse theory, Eva Charlotte Hesse explores the origins of autism stereotypes with regard to ideas of normality and deviance, their impact on the lives of autistic individuals, and the controversy surrounding definitions of autism. She offers criteria for the evaluation of autism portrayals while also pointing out prejudices and underlying power structures in the light of new medical findings, providing a critical perspective on current developments.
EVA CHARLOTTE HESSE studied English, history, and philosophy at Universität Kassel. In 2024 she completed her doctoral thesis on autism stereotypes in young adult fiction, which was awarded the Alfred Röver-Dissertationspreis.
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7761-4
JANUARY 282 pages / 6.69" x 9.45" / 42 illustrations, 43 color illustrations
PHILOSOPHY
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7891-8
SEPTEMBER 288 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 1 illustration
LITERARY STUDIES
MEDICAL HUMANITIES
Practicing and Placing Imaginaries
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies
GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ HERNANDEZ AND ULLA STACKMANN, EDITORS
The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies), complementing practice and theoretical approaches with interdisciplinary insights into the entanglements of doings and imaginations. They build a bridge between sociological research and cultural studies, challenging perspectives that characterize imagining as an individual and solitary activity. Instead, imagining is situated and shaped by its placement in specific contexts and communities.
GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ HERNANDEZ is a PhD candidate focused on Caribbean literatures at the DFG Research Training Group at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
ULLA STACKMANN completed her PhD in American studies at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She is a translator and has published on postwar poetry, spoken word labels, and artistic communities after World War II.
Anthropocene Affordances
Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature
LENA PFEIFER
The current historical moment, often referred to as the Anthropocene, is defined by profound human influence on the planetary system. Lena Pfeifer examines how contemporary US-American literature negotiates the scalar and formal challenges posed by the Anthropocene. Connecting new formalist approaches with scale critique, she develops the concept of “Anthropocene affordances” as a new methodological framework for analyzing narrative responses to the ecological crisis. Through theoretical discussion and close readings, this book shows how contemporary writers reconfigure conventional forms and narrative strategies to critically discuss the role of the human as a geological force.
LENA PFEIFER received her doctorate in American studies/ environmental humanities at Universität Würzburg, where she has been working as a research assistant since 2021. Her research focuses on how literature and culture respond to the ecological crisis.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7585-6
JUNE 216 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 1 color illustration
LITERARY STUDIES
LETTRE
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7933-5
DECEMBER 310 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 4 illustrations, 3 color illustrations
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
LITERARY ECOLOGIES
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Hydropoetics
An Ecocritical Perspective on HumanWater Relationships in Eastern European Arts
JANA ROGOFF AND SUSANNE FRANK, EDITORS
Water is our most precious resource and an element of culture historically charged with diverse meanings and values. Through the symbolic realms of literature, film, and visual arts, the contributors to this volume explore how the humanities can contribute to a critical understanding of human-water-power relationships and transform the debates on water dominated by natural sciences and techno-economic concerns. Examining the underrepresented cultural arenas in the socialist spaces of Eastern Europe, they focus on a variety of media and artistic practices. The late socialist era manifests as formative for the environmental discourses tied into local political and social contexts.
JANA ROGOFF is an assistant professor at the Department of Film Studies at the Charles University in Prague.
SUSANNE FRANK holds the chair of East Slavic literatures and cultures at the Institute for Slavic Studies at HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin.
Aquatic Environments
Literary Hydropolitics in Latin America
BIEKE WILLEM AND REBECCA SEEWALD, EDITORS
Since pre-Columbian times, human interventions in aquatic environments have shaped the geopolitics of Latin America. The contributors to this volume examine the relationship between water and politics in Latin America via readings of fiction and poetry by both renowned and upcoming writers. Through close literary analysis, they demonstrate how water functions as a medium for narrating submerged histories and for unsettling (post)colonial assumptions. The book reveals literary strategies that make it possible to share knowledge about other ways of organizing life in aquatic environments.
BIEKE WILLEM is an assistant professor of Romance literature at the University of Cologne.
REBECCA SEEWALD is a research assistant of Romance literature at the University of Cologne.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7357-9
JANUARY 300 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 30 illustrations, 20 color illustrations
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
LITERARY ECOLOGIES
$49.00 paper 978-3-8376-7507-8
NOVEMBER 240 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 5 color illustrations
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES
LITERARY ECOLOGIES
Woman, African, Other
Black Feminism and Intersectionality in the Contemporary Works of African Diasporic Women
OLUWADUNNI O. TALABI
In their literary works, African diasporic women articulate how the lived experience and subjugated status of women of African descent within local and global contexts are shaped by colonial and patriarchal networks of power. Using Black feminism as the overarching theory, Woman, African, Other unpacks how interlocking (lethal) structures of white supremacy, slavery, colonialism, cultural patriarchy, and misogynoir, as well as modified structures of neocolonialism, neoliberalism, racialized capitalism, Western humanitarianism, and postcolonial nationstate laws and narratives, affect the gendered experiences of women of African heritage and permit their continued humiliation in the global sphere.
OLUWADUNNI O. TALABI is a postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bremen.
Spectres of Masculinity
Manhood in Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, 1860-1914
ANNA S. BERGER
“A meticulous piece of Gothic literary criticism and an extremely insightful deep dive into the ways in which popular ghost stories challenge Victorian gender roles.”
—Anya Heise-von der Lippe, University of Tübingen
Anna S. Berger explores how Victorian and Edwardian supernatural fiction reflects anxieties around imperial decline, compulsory heterosexuality, domestic instability, and shifting gender roles. From haunted houses to colonial outposts, male protagonists face spectral challenges to the imperial masculine ideal, paternal authority, and male rational control. By drawing on works by authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Arthur Conan Doyle, this study reveals the ghost story as a site where normative masculinity falters—and alternative visions of male identity emerge.
ANNA S. BERGER is a postdoctoral researcher in English didactics at Universität Augsburg and works as a journalist for the Schwäbische Zeitung
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7815-4
JANUARY 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
LITERARY STUDIES / BLACK STUDIES
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7956-4
DECEMBER 276 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
LITERARY STUDIES
GENDERSCRIPTS: LITERARY AND GENDER STUDIES
The Order of People
Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications
TINO PLÜMECKE, NILS ELLEBRECHT, ISABELLE BARTRAM, VERONIKA LIPPHARDT, JENNY REARDON, AND ANDREA ZUR NIEDEN, EDITORS
This book critically examines bioscientific concepts of human diversity as they are applied within different life science disciplines, including genetics, medicine, forensics, anthropology, epidemiology, and microbiome research.
TINO PLÜMECKE is a sociologist at Universität Freiburg.
NILS ELLEBRECHT works as a sociologist at Universität Freiburg and Universitätsklinikum Freiburg.
ISABELLE BARTRAM is a molecular biologist and works at the Institute of Sociology at Universität Freiburg.
VERONIKA LIPPHARDT is a professor of science and technology studies at the University College Freiburg.
JENNY REARDON is a professor of sociology and the founding director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
ANDREA ZUR NIEDEN is a sociologist at Universität Freiburg.
The Last Invasion
The War in Ukraine—A Sociological Account, Based on Kant’s Theory of Peace
MAX HALLER
“Written in a lively and informative way, this book takes a deep dive into the most turbulent and tragic conflict confronting our times.”
—Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen
Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022 was called a watershed in postwar European history. The West sees Putin’s Russia as attempting to restore the former Soviet Union. But Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance was also a reaction to Western politics. The real possibility of a new security and peace order in Europe in the 1990s was not pursued. Instead, NATO was enlarged to the east. Now, a massive arms buildup is on the way. Using historical sources, international news media, representative surveys, and personal interviews with people in Ukraine, Max Haller shows that this war was not predetermined and—following Kant—peace initiatives are possible even now.
MAX HALLER works at Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. He was professor of sociology at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and founder of the European Sociological Association.
$121.00 cloth 978-3-8376-7936-6
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7237-4
DECEMBER 348 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SCIENCE STUDIES
DECEMBER 326 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 12 illustrations, 7 color illustrations
POLITICS
X-TEXTS ON CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Staying with the Planet
The University That Tried to Reckon with Ecological Reality, Challenged Excessive Data Infrastructures, and Nurtured a Few Alternatives Not Planned For
LEMAN
ÇELIK, STEFAN LASER, ESTRID SØRENSEN, AND SANDRA ABELS
Hidden from view, data centers process and store scientific data while requiring extensive energy and metal extraction. How can science become sustainable, as it depends heavily on these data infrastructures? This book is a witty and thought-provoking engagement with the practical everyday challenges of enabling a university to respond to climate change.
LEMAN ÇELIK is a doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
STEFAN LASER is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds at RuhrUniversität Bochum.
ESTRID SØRENSEN is a professor of cultural psychology and anthropology of knowledge at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
SANDRA ABELS studies social sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and is a research student at the Collaborative Research Centre Virtual Lifeworlds.
Fair Fashion?
Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Context of Social, Ecological, Economic and Cultural Sustainability
PHILIPP
KENEL,
PHYLLIS C. SAWALL, LINA PFEIFER, UWE BETTIG, AND JOHANNA MICHEL, EDITORS
As the fashion industry grapples with sustainability challenges, alternative models offer pathways to ethical and environmental transformation. Fair Fashion? critically examines the role of “fair trade” alongside concepts such as “social fashion,” “circular economy,” and “regenerative fashion,” highlighting their potential and limitations.
PHILIPP KENEL is a researcher and lecturer at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.
PHYLLIS C. SAWALL is a sustainability researcher and professional with a focus on the sustainable fashion and textiles industry and a background in management.
LINA PFEIFER worked several years in textile certification before she joined the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin.
UWE BETTIG is a professor of management at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Health and Education.
JOHANNA MICHEL is a professor of fashion design at the Hochschule Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, University of Applied Sciences.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7666-2
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7819-2
MARCH 90 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 30 illustrations, 10 color illustrations
EDUCATION
VIRTUAL LIFEWORLDS
JANUARY 240 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 14 illustrations, 8 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
NEW ECONOMIES
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Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents
Literary and Historiographical Approaches
ÉVA KOVÁCS, GERALD LAMPRECHT, OLAF TERPITZ, AND MARIANNE WINDSPERGER, EDITORS
From the very beginning, writing about the Holocaust has been shaped by considerations of form, the limits of language, and the (im)possibilities of conveying knowledge to future generations. In recent years, scholars with a focus on agency, experience, and factuality have drawn attention to ego documents. The contributors to this volume bring together literary and historical perspectives on ego documents to discuss their relevance for Holocaust studies.
ÉVA KOVÁCS is deputy director of academic affairs at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and a research professor at the Centre for Social Sciences/Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence in Budapest.
GERALD LAMPRECHT is head of the Center for Jewish Studies at Universität Graz and a professor of Jewish history and contemporary history.
OLAF TERPITZ teaches Jewish literatures at the Center for Jewish Studies at Universität Graz, where he also serves as deputy director.
MARIANNE WINDSPERGER works as a research coordinator at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies.
Academia and the People
Universities, Knowledge Communities, and Dissent in Central and Eastern Europe, ca. 1900-2025
FRIEDRICH CAIN AND DINA GUSEJNOVA, EDITORS
For the societies of Central and Eastern Europe, the century since the Balkan Wars has been a time of profound ruptures. This book examines how academic communities lived through different transitions, such as the collapse of empires, the two world wars, the Yugoslav and the post-Soviet wars. How did academic institutions relate to informal or underground social movements? What is the place of refugee scholars in the current moment of Russian expansionism? As they rethink the history of Europe’s universities, the contributors offer a new understanding of how knowledge communities have shaped and been shaped by upheaval, bridging the gap between histories of knowledge and political histories of the region.
FRIEDRICH CAIN is a postdoctoral assistant at the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical Cultural Studies at Universität Wien.
DINA GUSEJNOVA is an associate professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7799-7
$49.00 paper 978-3-8376-7884-0
MARCH 250 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
LITERARY STUDIES / HISTORY
HISTOIRE
FEBRUARY 330 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 20 illustrations, 10 color illustrations
HISTORY
NEW EUROPES
Coca and the Victorians
From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912
KIM EMBREY
The South American coca plant was established in nineteenth-century Britain as a medical product before it became a globally restricted drug. Drawing on botanical, economic, pharmaceutical, social, and political perspectives, Kim Embrey analyzes how the use and perception of coca changed as it was transferred to Europe. In a process of “cultural dissimilation,” coca was not simply adopted but embedded into new medical, social, and scientific contexts. The study shows how a plant from the Andes was repositioned in British modernity.
KIM EMBREY is a secondary school teacher of English, bilingual geography, and ethics in southern Germany. As a historian, she holds a doctorate from Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. She is the secretary of the German Association for British Studies and an active member of several international academic societies, including the Royal Historical Society, the Britain and the World Society, and the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.
Countering the Far Right in Europe and Beyond
Activist, Academic, and Artistic Resistance and Intervention
MARIO FAUST-SCALISI AND SUSAN ARNDT, EDITORS
The far right and fascism are on the rise—again. The contributors to this volume bring together activist, scholarly, artistic, and journalistic expertise on populism and propaganda, governance and media communication, far-right violence and terrorism. They share resistance strategies for academia and activism as well as NGOs and civil rights movements. Contributors deconstruct far-right strategies of governance and communication, providing strategies for communication as well as political and civic education, emphasizing empathy and solidarity as modes of intervention.
MARIO FAUST-SCALISI is a postdoctoral researcher at the Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies at Universität Bayreuth focusing on comic studies, civil society activism, and intersectionality, especially intersectional experiences and activism in Central America and Jamaica.
SUSAN ARNDT is a professor for English literatures and spokesperson of the Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies at Universität Bayreuth. They have worked on the history of racism as white supremacy as well as sexism as heteronormative patriarchal supremacy.
$61.00 paper 978-3-8376-7861-1
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7977-9
JANUARY 228 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 7 illustrations
HISTORY
HISTOIRE
JANUARY 270 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 1 illustrations, 6 color illustrations
POLITICS
RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM AND POPULISM
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Crafting Power
The Situatedness of Artistic Handicraft and Civic
Engagement in Contemporary Uganda
ANNA-LISA KLAGES
Anna-Lisa Klages examines artistic handicrafts through the lens of civic engagement. She reconstructs the negotiated meanings of handicrafts by showing how the actors and organizations involved shape its conceptualizations, which often renders the perspectives of artisans invisible. This study is an important read for those interested in international cooperation and power relations in the postcolonial era.
ANNA-LISA KLAGES is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research and Transfer Center for Sustainability Studies at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt.
The Making of Scientific Knowledge
Sensory and Bodily Practices in Field Biology
JANA THIERFELDER
“This book is an eye-opening exploration of the hidden realities behind scientific work in the wild.”
—Miya Warrington, Oxford Brookes University and Luondu Boreal Research Station
Jana Thierfelder reveals the hidden life of field science through the thirty-year archive of the biologist Michael Griesser’s work with Siberian jays in Sweden. Blending design, anthropology, and science studies, this book uncovers the sketches, notes, tools, and sensory practices behind scientific knowledge.
JANA THIERFELDER is a designer and anthropologist whose work bridges the arts and sciences.
Contested Home
Asylum-seeking in Switzerland and the Politics of Belonging, Place, and Religion
KATHERINE KUNZ
Through ethnographic research with asylum seekers at a church-based refugee program in Basel, Switzerland, Katherine Kunz explores the role of government, church, volunteers, and refugees in defining belonging. By examining asylum systems, the role of place and agency, and religious motivations, she reveals home as shaped by systems that often obscure its essential vulnerability and multiplicity.
KATHERINE KUNZ is a visiting scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7878-9
DECEMBER 334 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 8 illustrations, 21 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
GLOBAL STUDIES
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7931-1
DECEMBER 302 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 4 illustrations, 120 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SCIENCE STUDIES
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6923-7
DECEMBER 294 pages / 5.83” x 8.86”
RELIGION
RELIGION IN MOTION
Civic Refugee Support
The Shifting Landscape of Pro-Refugee Communities in Germany After 2015
CLARA
VAN DEN BERG
What became of the upsurge in civic action that saw millions of volunteers rally in support of migrants during the 2015–2016 refugee reception crisis in Germany?
Clara van den Berg examines the aftermath of this mobilization, exploring how pro-refugee communities evolved. She provides fresh insights into how mobilization periods affect the local structure of civil society and its networks and offers a new perspective on the role of solidarity with refugees and migrants today.
CLARA VAN DEN BERG is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin and a permanent guest researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
The Construction of Social Health Systems History and Self-Reference of Medicine and Public Health
JOÃO COSTA
João Costa offers new insight into health systems by emphasizing their social nature. He traces health systems back to their origins in ancient Greece and investigates their development throughout history, focusing on the notion of systems’ self-reference, a constitutive feature of social systems.
JOÃO COSTA is a public health specialist and health economist. He is an independent consultant and associate researcher of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.
Contingencies in Urban Future-Making Pitfalls, Potentialities, and Transformative Practices
JOACHIM THIEL, MONIKA GRUBBAUER, AND LUCAS POHL, EDITORS
How can cities be built for futures that defy prediction? This book reveals how unexpected events and unpredictable factors unsettle established urban conditions but also spark new ideas and possibilities for rethinking and reshaping the city.
JOACHIM THIEL is a senior lecturer at the research group of Urban and Regional Economics at HafenCity Universität Hamburg.
MONIKA GRUBBAUER is a professor in history and theory of the city at HafenCity Universität Hamburg.
LUCAS POHL is a professor of human geography at Universität Innsbruck.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7697-6
DECEMBER 240 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" /
20 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL MOVEMENT AND PROTEST
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7954-0
SEPTEMBER 324 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
SOCIAL SCIENCE
HEALTH, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY
$49.00 paper 978-3-8376-7900-7
JANUARY 350 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
URBAN STUDIES
URBAN FUTURE-MAKING
SALE
Venice, an Archipelago of Art and Ecologies
CHRISTINA HAINZL, CRISTINA BALDACCI, AND ADRIAN PRASCHLBICHLER, EDITORS
This book brings together scholars, artists, museum professionals, and curators to show how Venice is a laboratory for addressing the challenges of the future and how the arts can contribute to an ecological transition and cultural regeneration.
CHRISTINA HAINZL is head of the transdisciplinary Society in Transition Research Lab at the University for Continuing Education Krems and an affiliated researcher in art ecologies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
CRISTINA BALDACCI is an associate professor of the history of contemporary art at Ca’Foscari University of Venice.
ADRIAN PRASCHL-BICHLER is a senior scientist at the Platform for Sustainable Development of the University for Continuing Education Krems.
$43.00 paper 978-3-8376-7440-8
JANUARY 228 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 16 illustraions, 35 color illustrations
URBAN STUDIES
BEYOND THE PRESENT—REFLECTING
FUTURE ORDERS AND DISORDERS
Urban Contact Zones
Reflecting on International Urbanism
ASTRID LEY AND JOSEFINE FOKDAL, EDITORS
The contributors to this volume explore the spaces of encounters between agents of diverse perspectives and across different scales and boundaries. Through the lens of urban contact zones, they reflect on diverse urban challenges, taking account of the past ten years and deliberating on what is next in international urbanism.
ASTRID LEY heads the Department of International Urbanism and Design and the Institute for Urban Planning and Design at Universität Stuttgart.
JOSEFINE FOKDAL is an architect and the founder of BLEIB, which addresses housing sufficiency in Berlin by designing and optimizing interior spaces.
Worlding and Storying
Forced Displacement
Contemporary Art and Refugee Experience in Denmark
ANNE RING PETERSEN
Anne Ring Petersen examines contemporary artistic representations of forced displacement, arguing that artistic and curatorial practices can help foster cultural citizenship among refugees and asylum seekers as well as deepening the understanding of refugeedom in host countries. Focusing on Denmark and including a chapter on Palestine, this study adds new perspectives to postmigration studies and a pioneering exploration of understudied material to art history.
ANNE RING PETERSEN is a professor in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7632-7
JANUARY 210 pages / 8.27" x 9.84"
URBAN STUDIES
HABITAT-INTERNATIONAL: SERIES ON INTERNATIONAL URBANISM
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7923-6
JANUARY 300 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 20 illustrations, 8 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
POSTMIGRATION STUDIES
Volunteer Tourism
Encounters
Perspectives from an Indigenous Host Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon
STEFANIE SCHIEN
Volunteer tourism is a global trend in which travelers engage in voluntary work, often in social, environmental, or charitable projects. Stefanie Schien explores the lived experiences of a Shuar community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that hosts volunteer tourists. She challenges the view of locals as passive aid recipients and highlights how they actively navigate, negotiate, and leverage tourism to pursue their own strategies and motives.
STEFANIE SCHIEN is the curator of the South American collections at Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin.
Communication
Beyond the Human
Conversing with Animals, the Dead and Deities among the Yukpa in Colombia
ANNE GOLETZ
The Yukpa of Sokorhpa in northwestern Colombia converse with animals, the dead, and deities. Anne Goletz examines a range of distinct communicative strategies, situations, and narratives, providing insights into present-day social dynamics. This ethnography offers an insightful conceptual perspective on communication beyond the human.
ANNE GOLETZ is a social and cultural anthropologist at Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Nationalist and Popular Culture Practices on Social Media
A Digital Ethnography of Chinese Online Fandom Nationalists
CHENYANG SONG
Chenyang Song investigates how Chinese online fandom nationalists entangle online political, nationalist, and pop-cultural practices, facilitated by social media. This study shows how they mobilize and conduct cross-platform trolling and reporting campaigns under the banner of an idolized Chinese nation and politicians to spread their political messages.
CHENYANG SONG works as a lecturer at the institute of Foreign Languages at Fujian Normal University.
$72.00 paper 978-3-8376-7792-8
SEPTEMBER 318 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7779-9
JANUARY 340 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 11 illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7926-7
SEPTEMBER 240 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 47 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
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Moving Lives— Cultivating with Climate Change in Vanuatu
DESIRÉE HETZEL
In Vanuatu, cultivators navigate crop growth and community life within the context of shifting environments, storm events, and innovations in climate projects. Desirée Hetzel offers new insights into the encounters and dynamics of climate change in this unique island nation by showing the routes around and roads toward gardening as both an environmental and a social practice.
DESIRÉE HETZEL works with ni-Vanuatu climate activists and political representatives in the village communities of Dixon Reef on Malekula and Siviri on Efate.
Women and Partisan Art
Aesthetics and Practices of Resistance in Yugoslavia and Carinthia
ELENA MESSNER, CRISTINA BERETTA, GORAN LAZIČIĆ, AND MARKUS GÖNITZER,
EDITORS
This book explores cultural production by and about women partisans, ranging from avant-garde aesthetics to traditional folk art.
ELENA MESSNER is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies at Universität Wien and a lecturer in Slavic literatures at Universität Klagenfurt.
CRISTINA BERETTA is an associate professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at Universität Klagenfurt.
GORAN LAZIČIĆ is a lecturer in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literatures and cultures at Universität Graz and Universität Klagenfurt.
MARKUS GÖNITZER is chairman of the association responsible for the curation of the Peramanhof Museum.
Women in Science Experiences of Academics in Switzerland
ANNALISA DE CIA, SARA HELLMÜLLER, AND ELIZABETH MESOK, EDITORS
“Powerful and deeply honest.” —Ursula Keller, professor of physics, ETH Zurich
Women in science face structural inequalities, highly competitive work environments, and at times toxic cultures. This collection shares the experiences of female scientists in Switzerland, emphasizing the joys that can be found in an academic career and the passion and perseverance of those pursuing it.
ANNALISA DE CIA is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory.
SARA HELLMÜLLER is a research professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-7766-9
MAY 234 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 3 illustrations, 4 color illustrations
SOCIAL SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7728-7
JANUARY 396 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 33 illustrations
ART / LITERARY STUDIES
GENDER STUDIES
ELIZABETH MESOK leads the Gender, War, and Security Research Group at Universität Basel.
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7750-8
JANUARY 126 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"
EDUCATION / GENDER STUDIES
Delinking and Global Reparations
Alternative Perspectives on the Socio-Ecological
Crisis
NDONGO SAMBA SYLLA AND
KAI KODDENBROCK, EDITORS
The concept of delinking has been newly articulated with a fresh focus on international monetary reform and global reparations. Authors from various theoretical traditions make the case for alternative epistemic, political, and activist approaches premised on anti-imperialism and global justice.
NDONGO SAMBA SYLLA is the Africa research and policy director of the International Development Economics Associates.
KAI KODDENBROCK is a professor of political economy at Bard College Berlin.
Colonial Memories and Post-Colonial Silences
The Herero and Nama Genocide in German and Namibian Journalism
CHRISTINA HARITOS
Christina Haritos sheds light on postcolonial power dynamics by analyzing German and Namibian journalistic coverage of the Herero and Nama genocide, with a focus on the German-Namibian genocide negotiations between 2015 and 2021. She offers muchneeded perspective on how journalism evokes colonial memories to maintain or challenge colonial power relations.
CHRISTINA HARITOS completed her doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin.
Explorations in Digital Interculturality
Language, Culture, and Postdigital Practices
MILENE OLIVEIRA AND LUISA CONTI, EDITORS
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of “digital interculturality,” examining how digital technologies such as social media platforms, translation apps, and artificial intelligence mediate intercultural encounters, identities, and meaning-making processes. Together, these perspectives advance our understanding of the entanglement of intercultural communication with digital technologies.
MILENE OLIVEIRA is a lecturer in applied linguistics at Newcastle University.
LUISA CONTI is a researcher based at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7665-5
JUNE 228 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 1 color
illustration
SOCIAL SCIENCE
GLOBAL STUDIES
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7836-9
JANUARY 320 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 4 illustrations, 3 color illustrations
MEDIA STUDIES
CRITICAL STUDIES IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7629-7
OCTOBER 264 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 5 color
illustrations
MEDIA STUDIES
STUDIES IN DIGITAL INTERCULTURALITY
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Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
An Inquiry into Agrobiodiversity
Conservation Through the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
FRANZISKA VON VERSCHUER
How has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and the growing threat of food insecurity? Franziska von Verschuer considers the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, showing that the future is more open than the popular story of the “doomsday vault” suggests.
FRANZISKA VON VERSCHUER is a sociologist in the Biotechnology, Nature and Society Research Group at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Doughnut Economics for Regenerative Business Design
Case
Studies and
Critical Reflections
ANNEKATRIN MEI ß NER, SULEIKA BORT, AND ERINCH SAHAN
This book presents bestpractice case studies of organizations that pursue sustainability as an external goal and in their internal organizational structure, implementing innovative and sustainable business designs in governance, networks, ownership, and finance.
ANNEKATRIN MEI ß NER is a postdoctoral researcher and managing director of the Institute of Applied Ethics in Business and Education at Universität Passau.
SULEIKA BORT holds the chair of international management and social entrepreneurship at Universität Passau.
ERINCH SAHAN teaches at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
The Violence of Financial Inclusion
Chronic Indebtedness as Class Oppression in
Modern India
ANIL
SHAH
Ostensibly, providing poor households with access to credit and other financial services contributes to sustainable development and poverty alleviation. Anil Shah reveals the colonial roots of microfinance and how these paved the way for its rise in the present. Drawing on empirical field research, he demonstrates that financial inclusion is the latest incarnation of a classbased mode of dominating and exploiting subaltern classes on the Indian subcontinent through gendered and racialized indebtedness.
ANIL SHAH is a lecturer in global political economy at Universität Kassel.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7811-6
DECEMBER 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 10 illustrations, 2 color illustrations
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
SCIENCE STUDIES
$43.00 paper 978-3-8376-7652-5
JANUARY 242 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 64 color illustrations
ECONOMICS
NEW ECONOMIES
$67.00 paper 978-3-8376-8064-5
AUGUST 354 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 15 illustrations, 5 color illustrations POLITICS
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Temporality and Aesthetic Regimes in the Black Atlantic 1
African Presence: Philosophies of Time and Concepts of Image
GABRIELE GENGE
The concept of the Black Atlantic has been used to look at Black culture on all sides of the Atlantic in the context of migration, diaspora, and hybridity. This two-volume publication explores philosophical notions and aesthetic forms of temporality in the Black Atlantic.
In the first volume, Gabriele Genge provides insights into the artistic interest in debating and transcending modern ideas about time.
GABRIELE GENGE is chairholder for modern and contemporary art history and art theory at Universität DuisburgEssen.
Temporality and Aesthetic Regimes in the Black Atlantic 2
Blackness in Conflict: Pictorality and the Making of a Shared Present and Future
ANGELA STERCKEN
In the second volume, Angela Stercken shows how temporality and Blackness have become catalysts of a political and aesthetic repositioning in the United States in the context of Négritude and global debates since the 1940s and 1950s.
ANGELA STERCKEN is a senior researcher, curator, and author. While at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Munich, and Duisburg-Essen, she completed the research project, The Anachronic and the Present: Aesthetic Perception and Artistic Concepts of Temporality in the Black Atlantic
Assemblages of Belonging
Murals, Beadwork, and Ndebele Identity in South Africa
CRANIV
BOYD
Ndebele material culture in South Africa was appropriated and commodified during the apartheid era. Craniv Boyd traces Ndebele art back to its origins and examines its creation as enduring practices of identity construction and cultural articulation, placing particular emphasis on mural painting and beadwork. He traces the historical trajectories of these art forms and considers their ongoing transformation in contemporary contexts.
CRANIV BOYD received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7132-2
FEBRUARY 350 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 10 illustrations, 50 color illustrations
ART / BLACK STUDIES
IMAGE
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7133-9
FEBRUARY 350 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 10 illustrations, 50 color illustrations
ART / BLACK STUDIES
IMAGE
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-8010-2
DECEMBER 244 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 9 illustrations, 168 color illustrations
ART
IMAGE
SALE
Documentary Theatre in India
Assembling Publics, Performing Politics
ANUJA GHOSALKAR AND
KAI TUCHMANN, EDITORS
“A must-read for all practitioners, scholars, and pedagogues of documentary theater.”
—Nina Tecklenburg, founding member of Interrobang, professor of theater and performance at Bard College Berlin
This book explores practices and histories of documentary theater in India. Essays, conversations, and creative contributions by renowned scholars and artists from India and beyond are complemented with practical exercises.
ANUJA GHOSALKAR is a theater practitioner and the founder of Drama Queen, a documentary theater company in India.
KAI TUCHMANN is a dramaturge, director, and academic.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7711-9
AUGUST 228 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 15 illustrations, 14 color illustrations
THEATER
THEATER STUDIES
Platform Jazz Algorithmic Music Culture on TikTok
BENJAMIN BURKHART
Although it may seem unusual at first, many jazz musicians have large followings on TikTok. Benjamin Burkhart examines how popular jazz musicians use TikTok and how jazz is represented on the platform. Through interviews with popular content creators, the study shows that the socio-technical interaction between musicians and the platform leads to a very specific representation of jazz on TikTok.
BENJAMIN BURKHART is a musicologist at Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover.
Methods of Exhibition Analysis
LUISE REITSTÄTTER AND CARLA-MARINKA SCHORR, EDITORS
The contributions to this volume present methods of exhibition analysis from the perspective of cultural analysis, perception studies, and practice-oriented work. They show how critically examining the effects and uses of exhibitions as public places allows us to change them as a result.
LUISE REITSTÄTTER is co–principal investigator of the FWF/DFG research project “The Museum Gaze ”
CARLA-MARINKA SCHORR works at Universität Würzburg as a researcher and project manager in the AHRC DFG research project “Cultural Dynamics: Museums and Democracy in Motion.”
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7913-7
DECEMBER 276 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" MUSIC
POPULAR MUSIC
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7856-7
JANUARY 270 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 20 illustrations, 50 color illustrations
ART
EDITION MUSEUM
Music and Motion
Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and Beyond
STEPHANIE SCHROEDTER, EDITOR
How are music/sound and dance/movement interwoven in artistic processes? The contributors to this volume map a wide range of performances from different genres and styles, including those that transcend the stage, discussing relationships among music, its physicality, and moving bodies in artistic practice.
STEPHANIE SCHROEDTER is a professor of theories of rhythmics/music and movement at mdw - the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Turning Social
The Social-Transformative Potential of Music Mediation
AXEL PETRI-PREIS AND
ANNETTE ZIEGENMEYER, EDITORS
“Excellent and timely. . . . Original, inspiring, and highly relevant.”
—Sean Gregory, Guildhall School of Music and Drama London
Bringing together perspectives from research and practice, this volume explores how music mediation as a distinct artistic educational practice can foster social cohesion, enable dialogue, and create new forms of engagement.
AXEL PETRI-PREIS is a professor of music mediation and community music at mdw - the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
ANNETTE ZIEGENMEYER is a professor of music education at the University of Music Lübeck, where she also serves as head of the Center for Teacher Education
Online Museum
Collections and Social Media
Modes of Knowing About, With, and Through Digital Image Curation
KATHARINA GEIS
Museums increasingly digitize collections to expand public access and foster engagement beyond institutional spaces. Katharina Geis explores how digital museum images are used, shared, and curated across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. Drawing on ethnographic research, including participant observation and interviews, she examines how digital infrastructures and social contexts shape curation practices.
KATHARINA GEIS is a cultural anthropologist and museologist specializing in digital museum practices who holds a doctorate from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-5914-6
$81.00 paper 978-3-8376-5611-4
DECEMBER 650 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 150 illustrations
DANCE
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7877-2
DECEMBER 304 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 3 illustrations, 4 color illustrations
MUSIC
AUGUST 278 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 36 color illustrations ART
EDITION MUSEUM
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Architectural Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
ANDRI GERBER, OYA ATALAY FRANCK, AND MICHAEL MIESKES, EDITORS
How will AI transform architecture? How can we conceptualize AI in the context of architecture? The contributors to this volume discuss different positions to understand the fundamental shift provoked by AI and to contextualize this shift in forms of operational theories and performative uses of the medium. The volume includes essays by practicing architects who explain how AI is used in their work, philosophers who reflect on the influence of AI on our way of thinking and conceptualizing the world, and scientists who explain the foundations and the potential of AI for architecture.
ANDRI GERBER is cohead of the Institute of Constructive Design at the School of Architecture, Design, and Civil Engineering at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
OYA ATALAY FRANCK is dean of the School of Architecture, Design, and Civil Engineering at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
MICHAEL MIESKES is a lecturer in the School of Architecture, Design, and Civil Engineering at Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Shrines of Wisdom
Learning, Knowledge, and the Architecture of Libraries
MICHAEL HEINRICH, CHRISTIAN ILLIES, NICHOLAS RAY, AND MAXIMILIAN STERNBERG, EDITORS
In a time of change, concepts of human education that promise sustainability and a corresponding architecture of learning are needed. Based on the typology of the library, the contributors show how to develop an architecture for a comprehensive concept of education and how this built environment can support the transformation of knowledge into wisdom through experience.
MICHAEL HEINRICH is a professor at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Coburg and codirector of the Institute for Human Aesthetics, a joint institute of the Universities of Bamberg and Coburg.
CHRISTIAN ILLIES is the chair of philosophy at OttoFriedrich-Universität Bamberg. He also serves as codirector of the Institute for Human Aesthetics in Bamberg and Coburg.
NICHOLAS RAY is reader emeritus in architecture and an emeritus fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, as well as a visiting professor in architectural theory at the University of Liverpool.
MAXIMILIAN STERNBERG is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7905-2
DECEMBER 258 pages / 5.83” x 8.86” / 7 illustrations, 40 color
illustrations
ARCHITECTURE / TECHNOLOGY
ARCHITECTURE
$49.00 paper 978-3-8376-7222-0
FEBRUARY 305 pages / 5.83” x 8.86” / 40 illustrations, 20 color
illustrations
ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN
DIMENSIONS. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE
Changing
Spatial Practices: Alliances, Activism, and Networks
Volume 4, No. 8 (2024)
KADAMBARI BAXI, ISABEL GLOGAR, GABU HEINDL, BERNADETTE KREJS, AND TATJANA SCHNEIDER, EDITORS
This issue discusses how multidimensional forms of thinking, designing, and building disrupt and challenge existing paradigms in the field of architecture. It features reflections on collaborative practices, research, and diverse forms of knowledge.
KADAMBARI BAXI is a professor of practice at Barnard College.
ISABEL GLOGAR works with the Ofhaus (Office for Housing and Urban Studies).
GABU HEINDL is head of the Department Architecture Cities Economies at Universität Kassel.
BERNADETTE KREJS is an architect and researcher at Technische Universität Wien.
TATJANA SCHNEIDER is a researcher and educator.
DIGITAL CULTURE & SOCIETY (DCS)
Ruins and the Contemporary
Volume 11, Issue 1 (2025)
DANIEL VELLA AND MATHIAS FUCHS, EDITORS
This issue addresses the thematic field of ruination and decay in contemporary culture.
DANIEL VELLA teaches game studies at the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta.
MATHIAS FUCHS is an artist, musician, and media scholar. He is the director of the Gamification Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.
$37.00 paper 978-3-8376-7320-3
DECEMBER 222 pages / 6.1” x 9.45” / 17 illustrations
MEDIA STUDIES
Towards
Popular Techno-Futures: A Global Policy Perspective Volume 11, Issue 2 (2025)
JASCHA BAREIS, ANYA HEISE-VON DER LIPPE, AND FELIX SPREMBERG, EDITORS
This issue brings together articles exploring popular techno-futures from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.
JASCHA BAREIS is a senior researcher at Universität Freiburg.
ANYA HEISE-VON DER LIPPE is an assistant lecturer in the English Department at Universität Tübingen.
FELIX SPREMBERG is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University.
$48.00 paper 978-3-8376-7349-4
NOVEMBER 404 pages / 5.98” x 9.02” / 15 illustrations, 75 color illustrations
ARCHITECTURE
$37.00 paper 978-3-8376-7321-0
APRIL 200 pages / 6.1” x 9.45”
MEDIA STUDIES
Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism
JONATHAN JUDAKEN
Winner, 2025 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in Jewish Diaspora History, American Historical Association
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21293-9
2024 RELIGION
Prophetic Maharaja
RAJBIR SINGH JUDGE
Winner, 2025 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Finalist, 2025 Book Award in AnalyticalDescriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21449-0
2024 RELIGION
The Rise of Pacific Literature
MAEBH LONG AND MATTHEW HAYWARD
Winner, 2025 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21745-3
2024 LITERARY STUDIES
Smugglers and States
MAX GALLIEN
Winner, 2025 Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, International Political Science Association / American Political Science Association
Winner, 2025 L. Carl Brown Book Prize, American Institute for Maghrib Studies
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21289-2
2024 GLOBAL POLITICS
Mayors in the Middle
DIANA B. GREENWALD
Winner, 2025 Best Book Award, Middle East and North Africa Section, American Political Science Association
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21315-8
2024 GLOBAL POLITICS
Writing Backwards
ALEXANDER MANSHEL
Winner, 2026 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize, International Society for the Study of Narrative
Finalist, 2025 SHARP Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21127-7
2023 LITERARY STUDIES
The
Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
MATTHEW H. SOMMER
Winner, 2025 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association
Winner, 2025 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-21413-1
2024 HISTORY
What Walks This Way
SHARMAN APT RUSSELL
Illustrations and photos by Kim A. Cabrera
Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Awards in the category of Nature / Environment / Animals / Pets
$24.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21599-2
2024 SCIENCE
Distancing the Past
CHANA TEEGER
Winner, 2025 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Sociology of Human Rights Section, American Sociological Association
Winner, 2025 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section, American Sociological Association
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2024 SOCIOLOGY
Democracy and Beauty
ROBERT GOODINGWILLIAMS
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2025 PHILOSOPHY
Shadow Work
EMILY HODGSON ANDERSON
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2025 LITERARY STUDIES
The Backstreets
PERHAT TURSUN
Translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous
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2022 FICTION IN TRANSLATION
The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar
JAMES MILLER
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2025 FILM STUDIES / PHILOSOPHY
The Met JONATHAN CONLIN
Cooperation
BERNARD E. HARCOURT
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2023 PHILOSOPHY
People’s Choice Literature
TOM COMITTA
$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21928-0
2025 LITERATURE
Table for One
YUN KO-EUN
Translated by Lizzie Buehler
The Dark Delight of Being Strange
JAMES B. HAILE III
$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21630-2
2024 PHILOSOPHY / LITERATURE
The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway
EDWARD MENDELSON
$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-22171-9
2025 LITERARY STUDIES
$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-19203-3
2024 FICTION IN TRANSLATION
The Sisterhood COURTNEY THORSSON
$19.00* / £15.99 paper 978-0-231-21874-0
2023 LITERARY STUDIES
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21871-9
2024 ART / NEW YORK HISTORY
Before Central Park
SARA CEDAR MILLER
$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18194-5
2022 NEW YORK HISTORY
Eyes of the Ocean SYAMAN RAPONGAN
Translated by Darryl Sterk
$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21979-2
2025 FICTION IN TRANSLATION
Big Fiction
DAN SINYKIN
$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19295-8
2023 LITERARY STUDIES
Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939
THOMAS DOHERTY
$22.95t / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-16393-4
2013 FILM STUDIES / HISTORY
Vaccines and Your Family
PAUL A. OFFIT, MD, AND CHARLOTTE A. MOSER, MS
Essays on Art and Science
ERIC R. KANDEL
$19.95t / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-21339-4
2024 HEALTH / SCIENCE
An Education
DIANE RAVITCH
$24.95t / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-22029-3
2025 EDUCATION / MEMOIR
Every Brain Needs Music
LARRY S. SHERMAN AND DENNIS PLIES
$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21911-2
2023 SCIENCE / MUSIC
Women in Science Now
LISA M. P. MUNOZ
$19.95t / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-22084-2
2023 SCIENCE
Perplexing Paradoxes
GEORGE G. SZPIRO
$19.95t / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-22085-9 2025 ART / SCIENCE
What We Eat
EDITED BY PIERRE SINGARAVÉLOU AND SYLVAIN VENAYRE
Translated by Stephen W. Sawyer
$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-22147-4 2025 FOOD STUDIES
China’s Weaponization of Trade 21 Choyce, Lesley 91
Cinema of Jonathan Demme, The 53 Cities in Action 67 Civic Refugee Support 133 Clarke, Colin P. 61 Climate Change Science 71 Climate Justice Now 63 Clock in the Sun, The 44
Columeau, Julien
Comitta, Tom
Fortius Quo Fidelius? 113
Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China, The 144
Growing Up in Diaspora—Education and Family of East African Refugees in Germany 105
Growth, Democracy or Climate Action? 94
Grubbauer, Monika 133
Guberman, Ross 38, 39
Guo Dong 36
Gusejnova, Dina 130
Ha, Kien Nghi 118
Haag, Eric S. 45
Haile, James B., III 145
Hainzl, Christina 134 Hall, Tim 97
Haller, Max 128
Halsband, Aurélie 122
Hamilton-Hart, Natasha 96
Hammerschmidt, Ulrich 114
Han, Rongbin 62
Hanc, John 32
Hänel, Hilkje C. 122
Hannah Arendt 38
Harcourt, Bernard E. 145
Harding, Jim 92
Haritos, Christina 137
Haritou, Kleopatra 81
Hayward, Matthew 144
Heindl, Gabu 143
Heinemann-Grüder, Andreas 110
Heinrich, Michael 142
Heise-von der Lippe, Anya 143
Hellmüller, Sara 136
Hermer, Joe 93
Hernandez, Gustavo Gutierrez 125
Hesse, Eva Charlotte 124
Hetzel, Desirée 136 History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku, The 80 Hitchcock Annual 76 Hobbled State, The 98 Hoffman, Bruce 146 Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 145 Holocaust Literature and Ego Documents 130 Homes of Hades 81 Hong Kong Art Deco Architecture 101 How Film Became History 6 How Ukraine’s Elites Work 110 Hsieh, Daniel 102 Hughes, Theodore 50 Human and the Meat, The 119 Hungarian-Soviet Cultural Society, The 114 Hydropoetics 126 Ignorance 3 I Have No Enemies 146 I Hear Freedom 7 Illies, Christian 142 Images and Objects of Russia’s War against Ukraine 120 Imagining the Past 47 Individualism and Conformism in the United States 83
Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway, The 145 International Perspectives on the History of Early Childhood Education 104 Interracial Marriage 13 Intertwined Creatures 27 Iwaniuk, Oleksandra 110
Iyer, Samantha 56 Jackson, Leonie B. 99 James, Hayley 100 Jayadev, Arjun 70 Jennings, Bruce H. 89 Jimmy Carter and China 57 Johannes Balle’s Tunumiisut (East Greenlandic) Wordlist 87 Johnson, Nicole M. Morris 55 Johnson, Paula J. 1 Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 115 Joy, Reflections, Resistance—LGBTIQ+ Lived Realities in Africa 104 Judaken, Jonathan 144 Judge, Rajbir Singh 144 Jung, Carl 83
Jürgen Habermas
Little One
Kalik, Larisa
Eric R.
Material Variance 73
Mattisseck, Alexander ........................ 117
Passion of Pedro Almodóvar, The 145 Paul, Heike 118
Paul, Regine 95 Peng, Sheng 57
Pension Saving in a Gendered Lifecourse 100
Peppiatt, Michael 78
Performing Public Confessions 66
Perplexing Paradoxes 146 Petersen, Anne Ring 134
Petri-Preis, Axel 141
Pfeifer, Lena 125
Pfeifer, Lina 129
Planning in a Polycrisis 75 Platform Jazz 140
Plato, Aristotle and the Transcendence Theory of Art 123
Plies, Dennis 146
Plümecke, Tino 128
Pohl, Lucas 133 Political Economy of Women’s Entrepreneurship, A 100 Political System of Post-Soviet Ukraine, The 112 Politics of Names, The 60 Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World 46
Postcolonial Urban Studies 99
Postmodern Bengali Theatre 116
Practicing and Placing Imaginaries 125
Praschl-Bichler, Adrian 134 Price, Don C. 22
Priyadarshini, Meha 59
Progress from the Margins 58
Prophetic Maharaja 144
Provision for Surviving Dependants in Social Security 115
Putin’s Revenge 43
Race for Universal Monarchy, The 58
Racialization of Asian International Students Collective, The 92 Radical God, A 28 Radin, Robert 116 Rajunov, Micah 146 Rapongan, Syaman 11 , 145 Ravitch, Diane 146 Ray, Nicholas 142 Reardon, Jenny 128 Recipes for the Melting Pot 8 Rediscovery of Bioethics, The 122 Reform as Process
Regan, Aidan 94 Regionalization as EU Foreign Policy 113 Reinard, Hans-Joachim
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