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P FKN R
How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance VANESSA DÍAZ AND PETRA R. RIVERA-RIDEAU
“Aquí mataron gente por sacar la bandera / Por eso es que ahora yo la llevo donde quiera." (Here they killed people for taking out the flag / that's why I bring it anywhere I want now.)—LA MuDANZA
Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises—blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others—that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in an historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau—creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus”—demonstrate Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing joy and protest into music and honor the many, evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.
Vanessa Díaz is Associate Professor at Loyola Marymount University and the author of Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood. Petra R. Rivera-Rideau is Associate Professor at Wellesley College and the author of Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico and Fitness Fiesta!: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba
February 2026
320 pages
Music/Latinx studies
Rights: World
April 2026
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign
The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince DAPHNE A. BROOKS, EDITOR
Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign is the first critical anthology dedicated to exploring the legacies of two pop music icons who died within months of one another in 2016: David Bowie and Prince. Daphne A. Brooks brings together an extraordinary array of writers, artists and scholars including Greg Tate, Jack Halberstam, Kara Keeling, Eric Lott, and Ann Powers to offer fresh insight into how Bowie and Prince each fundamentally changed pop culture as two musicians who emerged at the intersections of modern movements surrounding race, gender, sexuality, and art. Featured alongside these pieces are interviews with trusted collaborators of Bowie and Prince such as D.A. Pennebaker, Sheila E., and Marie France, giving vital insider context to the impact both artists had on pop culture and the complexities of their repertoires, politics, and private lives. This work is essential reading for any fan of two of the most formidable and eminent figures in pop culture history.
Daphne A. Brooks is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Black Studies, American Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Liner Notes for the Revolution and Jeff Buckley’s Grace, as well as Bodies in Dissent, published by Duke University Press.
October 2025
232 pages
Art/LGBTQ studies
Rights: World English
Mavericks of Style
The Seventies in Color
URI MCMILLAN
In Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City’s downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan focuses on model and musician Grace Jones, fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, fashion designer Stephen Burrows, and their orbit of friends, showing how they restlessly moved across genres and disciplines, transgressing boundaries between the commercial and the avant-garde. Bypassing the exclusive art world and cultivating uniquely personal styles, these artists thrived on friendship and collaboration in their experimental use of bold color, gold lamé, and Instamatic photography. McMillan transports readers to the spaces Jones, Lopez, and Burrows frequented and worked, from hair salons, nondescript artist studios, and buzzy boutiques to funky discos and high fashion runways. By foregrounding their impact on the decade’s aesthetics, McMillan complicates and expands the understanding of these artists, offering a new vision of New York’s art world in sultry, bombastic color.
Uri McMillan is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance
Insurgent Visions
Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
CHANDRA TALPADE MOHANTY
In a current era marked by carceral logics, authoritarianism, and white supremacy, there has never been a greater need for the tools and inspiration that radical feminism provides. In Insurgent Visions, Chandra Talpade Mohanty explores methods of anticapitalist resistance to radically transform everyday life. She presents insurgent feminism—a theory and praxis with which to contest and replace the practices of violence grounded in racialized gender relations. Insurgent feminism unsettles existing power structures in order to enact new relationships and forge new subjectivities, epistemologies, and communities. Drawing on organizing efforts in the US-Mexico borderlands, Palestine/Israel, and Kashmir, as well as on abolitionist and Dalit feminisms, Mohanty contends that the knowledge that emerges from the experiences of marginalized groups who are struggling for economic, racial, and social justice is key for imagining feminist futures. She also turns to the neoliberal landscape of higher education in the United States and the difficulties of instituting transformative antiracist and anti-imperialist feminist knowledge building. Mapping new challenges for radical praxis, Mohanty reconfigures feminist studies while offering a model for decolonial cross-border organizing and solidarity.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Chair and Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University and author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, also published by Duke University Press.
The New Politics of Online Feminism
AKANE KANAI
In The New Politics of Online Feminism, Akane Kanai argues that for young feminists, online feminist culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Kanai attends to the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life on- and offline become inseparable. Kanai suggests that while it has seemingly never been more important to avoid complicity with patriarchy, racism, and other oppressions, the self has remained the central site of agency and transformation—casting politics in terms of individual scrupulousness, diligence, and improvement. Under these circumstances, a feminist lens becomes about benchmarking, comparing, and anxiously avoiding the public mistakes that others make in online life. Kanai foregrounds the importance of moving beyond the polarities of correct and incorrect feeling to enable the everyday practices of listening to and learning about experience and difference.
Akane Kanai is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick and author of Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture: Managing Affect, Intimacy and Value
September 2025
272 pages
Feminism
Rights: World, excluding Japan
February 2026
208 pages
Gender studies
Rights: World
September 2025
168 pages
Poetry/Disability studies/Activism Rights: World
February 2026
224 pages
Nature Rights: World
Unfurl
Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming
ELI CLARE
A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family’s legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors—earthquakes, jackhammers, quaking aspens. Unfurl reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human, sentient and nonsentient. At every juncture, these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately, Unfurl is an invitation to rebellion and joy.
Poet, essayist, activist, and community-based social justice educator, Eli Clare is the author of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure and Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, both published by Duke University Press, and The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion
The Sound of Feathers
Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves KATHRYN GILLESPIE
From the rustle of a crow’s wings to the cool touch of moss on a stone wall, to the quiet determination of a worm crossing a sidewalk, The Sound of Feathers invites readers to notice the small wonders of life all around them. These fleeting details hold surprising truths about humanity’s connection to nature, the complex relationships of care and harm in which we are entangled, our responsibilities to other species, and what it means to be fully present in the world. Through vivid storytelling and deeply personal reflections, Kathryn Gillespie invites us to slow down, pay attention, and think differently about our everyday lives so that we might imagine shared futures of flourishing. She urges us to confront the forces that separate us from the natural world and find more compassionate ways of living in harmony with it. Gillespie reminds us that the quiet, often overlooked moments in life are where the most profound insights and connections begin.
Kathryn Gillespie is Associate Director of the Center for Food Systems Transformation at the University of San Diego and author of The Cow with Ear Tag #1389
Protein
The Making of a Nutritional Superstar SAMANTHA KING AND GAVIN WEEDON
Protein is everywhere—praised as a muscle builder, a weight-loss miracle, an anti-aging elixir, and the catch-all solution for everything from exercise recovery to global malnutrition. In Protein, Samantha King and Gavin Weedon argue that protein’s rise to nutritional superstardom has less to do with human dietary needs and more to do with how its indeterminate, adhesive qualities are marshalled towards commerce, scientific, and social imperatives. Tracing its path from nineteenth-century biochemistry to the status it enjoys today, they expose how protein has been marketed as a cure for global hunger, repackaged as an eco-friendly meat alternative, and wielded as a symbol of masculinity in the fitness industry. From whey waste in industrial farming to longevity drugs for aging bodies, Protein unpacks the myths behind the macronutrient and challenges what we think we know about food, health, and the forces that shape our diets.
Samantha King is Professor in the School of Kinesiology & Health Studies at Queen’s University and the author of Messy Eating and Pink Ribbons, Inc. Gavin Weedon is Associate Professor of Sociology of Sport, Health and the Body at Nottingham Trent University.
March 2026
224 pages
Science studies/Nutrition
Rights: World
Atomic Bombshells
How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies ISABELLE HELD
Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells, Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives of how war technologies enter domestic use by following plastics on their journey into women’s bodies. Held explores the effects of military-industrial science and the emergence of nylon, silicone, and plastic foams on embodied and expressive configurations of gender, sexuality, and race. She focuses on the United States between the late 1930s with the launch of nylon—whose potential was widely celebrated as the world’s first fully synthetic fiber and the ideal replacement for silk stockings—and the late 1970s, when policies began addressing the dangerous health consequences of implantable plastics. Held untangles the complex relationships between chemical companies, the US military, the Federal Drug Administration, plastic surgeons, advertising agencies, the Hollywood star system, go-go dancers, drag queens, and fashion and industrial designers. Using feminist, queer, and trans lenses, she shows that there was never just one bombshell identity. In so doing, Held complicates typical understandings of the shaping and reshaping of gender.
Isabelle Held is the Mellon Foundation Gender and LGBTQ+ History Postdoctoral Fellow at The Center for Women’s History at the New York Historical.
February 2026
376 pages
Fashion/Gender studies
Rights: World
February 2026
160 pages
Astrology/Memoir
Rights: World
May 2026
160 pages
Sports
Rights: World
Star Charting BESS
MATASSA
Astrology is the language in which all of existence speaks, says astrologist and taroist Bess Matassa. In Star Charting, she leads readers on a vivid journey through the twelve signs of the zodiac as a poetic practice and transformative framework for befriending both the familiar and the strange. Matassa blends personal narrative, sensory immersion, inquiry exercises, and communal calls to action to reframe this ancient art as a modern manifesto for healing division by exalting the astounding complexity within this wild world. In contrast to more technical manuals on birth chart interpretation, this is magic-making as an exploratory treasure hunt, forging radical pathways to personal and collective evolution. Twelve modes of bearing witness to life and moving with its currents. Twelve styles of championing creative change. And twelve ways of never, ever losing heart.
Bess Matassa is a New York-based astrologer and tarot reader who has authored books and decks that include The Tarot Almanac and NYC Tarot
Kicking
JULES BOYKOFF
As a poet, public-facing scholar of sports politics, and former professional soccer player, having represented the United States on the men’s U23 national soccer team, Jules Boykoff draws on his lifetime of athletic experience to reflect on the practice of kicking. With short vignettes blending the personal, the reflective, the historical, and the analytical, Kicking is uniquely positioned to reflect on the most popular sport in the world. From the act of kicking a soccer ball, Boykoff looks outward to his own family history, including his mother’s struggle with polio, which fed her insistence on his athleticism; to broader trends like greenwashing and sportwashing; and to reflections on sport’s toxic masculinity, the poetics of on-field revenge, and the power-politics of both the men’s and women’s World Cups. Kicking is a must-read for all those who love the beautiful game.
Jules Boykoff is the author of What Are the Olympics For?, The 1936 Berlin Olympics, and NOlympians
Doing Nothing
JAMES CURRIE
Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie pursues these themes across a wide terrain of experiences, materials, and examples from the personal, local, and anecdotal, through to the existential, cosmological, and apocalyptic—reflecting, among other things, on the COVID pandemic, the lives of teenagers, Lars Van Trier’s 2011 film Melancholia, work, play, and politics. Doing Nothing offers a lived-in embrace of queer states of being that stand against liveliness and the mournful feelings of entrapment and shame that exist alongside the unexpected opportunities such situations afford.
James Currie is a multi-arts practitioner and Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Buffalo. He is the author of Music and the Politics of Negation
February 2026
104 pages
Memoir
Rights:World
Taking Leave
DEBORAH KAPCHAN
Deborah Kapchan’s Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish lineage, and the release she found in Islam, Kapchan examines the extent to which we can take leave of who we are to live between categories. She meditates on absence, presence, and the sublime to weave an existential tale that honors the three traditions that made her, ultimately desiring to take leave of them all. Taking Leave is an urgent plea for anti-tribalism and a timely treatise for compassionate coexistence in the spaces in-between.
Deborah Kapchan is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University.
September 2025
136 pages
Memoir/Spirituality/Travelogue
Rights: World
September 2025
240 pages
Memoir/Disability studies
Rights: World
Beautiful Mystery
Living in a Wordless World
DANILYN RUTHERFORD
One day, Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact. Concerned that something was wrong, they took her to her pediatrician and then an optometrist, who then referred them to a neurologist and a team of physical and occupational therapists. Despite being unable to diagnose her condition, it was clear that Millie’s brain was not developing at the rate that it should. At nine months, she had the cognitive ability and motor skills of a three-month-old.
Today, Millie is in her early twenties and has never been able to communicate verbally or through signs. In Beautiful Mystery, Rutherford delves into the puzzle of Millie’s inaccessible mind. She tells the enlightening story of Millie’s journey from disabled child to disabled young woman, demonstrating the challenges of caring for a loved one while attempting to find ways to communicate. Even though Millie cannot communicate, she has a rich social world that is rooted in the people and things her companions and family can see, hear, smell, and feel. She is someone with more to in her world than is immediately evident.
Throughout this heartfelt and moving book, Rutherford shows that to live with Millie is to find personhood and humanity in a space between what we can and cannot know of one another. As Rutherford explores Millie’s cognitive mystery, she begins to wonder if she has ever truly understood any of the people she has loved. Ultimately, Rutherford shows that one does not have to understand someone to love them—a lesson that if we all learned might allow us to live together in a fractured world.
Danilyn Rutherford is President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. An award-winning anthropologist, she has previously taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua, and Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier. Rutherford lives in Santa Cruz, California.
My Father, the Messiah
A Memoir
GIL Z. HOCHBERG
In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades—from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg’s father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After building a career as a statistician in the US, Yossi returns to Israel and becomes an avid Zionist, while having several psychotic episodes. Hochberg reconstructs her relationship with her father through an archive of letters between the two, as well as her father’s personal writings, painting a tender portrait of the non-normative family life within which Hochberg’s queer identity unfolds and a heart-rending account of her father’s mental decline. Hochberg crafts a powerful story of intimacy and loss that dovetails with sea changes in Israel’s religious and political environment since the 1990s.
Gil Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University. She is author of Visual Occupations: Vision and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination
February 2026
200 pages
Memoir/Jewish studies/Queer Studies
Rights: World
Moving Stones
About the Art of Edmonia Lewis JENNIFER DEVERE BRODY
Moving Stones explores the extraordinary life and work of Edmonia Lewis, the Black and Ojibwe sculptor who rose to international fame in the nineteenth century. Blending biography, history, and theory, Jennifer DeVere Brody approaches Lewis’s legacy through a Black feminist and queer lens, illuminating how her sculptures and self-fashioning challenged constraints of her time. Living much of her life in Rome as a free Afro-Native woman, Lewis used neoclassical forms to carve out a life in art. Brody considers how Lewis’s works were viewed historically and how they resonate with postmodern artists, engaging themes of race, materiality, sexuality, and embodiment. Rethinking one of the most important sculptors of her era, Moving Stones shows how Lewis’s art continues to inspire contemporary artists and scholars today.
Jennifer DeVere Brody is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies as well as African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author of Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play and Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity and Victorian Culture and the co-editor of James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man, all of which were published by Duke University Press.
June 2026
264 pages
Art/American studies
Rights: World
August 2025
240 pages
Technology/Disability studies/Media studies
Rights: World
April 2026
224 pages
Technology/Feminism
Rights: World
Interface Frictions
How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies NETA ALEXANDER
In Interface Frictions, Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. She shows that while features such as refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and night mode are convenient, they can lead to “digital debility”—the slow and often invisible ways that technologies may harm human bodies. These features all assume an able-bodied user and at the same time push users to ignore their bodily limitations like the need for rest, nourishment, or movement. Building on the lived experiences of people with disabilities, Alexander explores alternative design solutions that arise from a multisensorial approach to communication. She demonstrates what can be gained from centering the nonaverage user, such as blind people who pioneered ways to control the playback speed of media, and Netflix subscribers with invisible disabilities like PTSD who successfully pushed the company to redesign its previews autoplay feature. Drawing on artworks, video games, and creative hacking by users with disabilities, Alexander challenges our understanding of media consumption, the attention economy, and the digital interface.
Neta Alexander is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at Yale University and coauthor of Failure
Insufferable Tools
Feminism Against Big Tech
SARAH SHARMA
In a world seemingly run by the whims and power plays of Musks and Zucks, Insufferable Tools cuts to the core of modern technology’s gendered politics. Sarah Sharma challenges the idea that the Big Tech broligarchs are neutral utilitarians who view technology as mere tools. She shows instead how these tech giants have turned the internet, and, increasingly, “real life” into a set of environments which they cultivate and manipulate to wield the real tools: us, the users. Sharma offers a system of inclusion she calls “Big Tech Feminism” that incorporates those who refuse to be used: people of color, queer people, and others who are seen as broken machines in the current gendered power structures. Deconstructing Big Tech’s patriarchal deployment of media theory to gain and maintain power, Sharma proposes a feminist techno-politics that can forge new futures free from the grip of the truly insufferable tools.
Sarah Sharma is Professor of Media Theory and Director of the Institute for Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics and co-editor of Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan, both published by Duke University Press.
Inventing Nadar
A History of Photographic Firsts
EMILY DOUCET
Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar, Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the nineteenth-century Parisian photographer’s famous and numerous photographic firsts. Focusing on these oft-labeled groundbreaking elements of his career, she deconstructs Nadar’s legacy as a prime protagonist in the history of photography by interrogating the media techniques used to construct his invention narratives. Doucet highlights this highly mediated process as one that canonized novel applications of photography as discrete techniques with single authors and inventors. Looking to this process of mediation through the institutions and individuals that shaped Nadar’s archives, Doucet unpacks assumptions of Nadar as a master of early photography and shows how the medium is enmeshed in larger histories of media, science, and technology. The result is both a new account of Nadar’s place in photographic history and a critical study of how stories of innovation take shape.
Emily Doucet is a historian of photography and visual culture. She publishes widely in both scholarly and popular venues.
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy
DAISUKE MIYAO
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy re-examines cinema studies through the work of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu, repositioning Ozu within contemporary discussions to explore cinema’s relationship to the world and the formation of film studies as a discipline. Centering a small selection of Ozu films in each chapter, Daisuke Miyao highlights how the director’s unique filmmaking methodologies make him a site of negotiation between the fields of cinema studies and ethics. Analyzing Ozu’s use of cinematography, narrative, and color, Miyao theorizes the indeterminate in film—the seen and unseen, human and nonhuman, domestic and international—to initiate a multi-directional dialogue on the study of cinema that reaches beyond auteurism and culturalism to establish a new basis for disciplinary conversations.
Daisuke Miyao is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author and editor of several books, including Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema, and Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom, published by Duke University Press.
April 2026
240 pages
History of photography
Rights: World
March 2026
304 pages
Film studies
Rights: World
January 2026
352 pages
Film/Queer theory
Rights: World
February 2026
304 pages
Film/Queer theory
Rights: World
Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression
JACOB ENGELBERG
In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinematic figures who resist categorization within the gay-straight binary. Engelberg’s engagement with bisexual transgression on film illuminates the mutability and instability of sexuality, and of sociocultural structures more broadly by resisting the censure of images as politically harmful as well as the celebration of transgression as inherently subversive. Instead, Engelberg understands bisexual transgression as a process whereby sociocultural rules are made knowable by being contested. From 1970s vampire films to 1990s erotic thrillers, from lesbian imaginings of female bisexuality to European art cinema’s reckonings with HIV/AIDS, bisexual figures on film embody anxieties around the precarity of binary sexuality while revealing the contingencies of sexuality’s cinematic signification. Revivifying the underexploited contributions of bisexual theory, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression proposes a new mode of film theorization and analysis that examines the rich space between and beyond dominant categories of sexual organization, where sexual unpredictability, the allure of the forbidden, and the precarity of sexual signification are illuminated.
Jacob Engelberg is Assistant Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Curating Deviance
Programming the Queer Film Canon
MARC FRANCIS
In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Russ Meyer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a bevy of others in major cities across the United States, forming intertextual constellations in their repertory calendars. These programs allied a dizzying range of sexual and gendered outlaws, including stigmatized practices often overlooked by LGBT-focused queer theory. Curating Deviance reveals how repertory and art cinemas built a coalition of outcasts stigmatized for their taboo desires or identities, rekindling queer utopian imaginaries.
Marc Francis is Manager of Film Programming in Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University and has worked at HBO, Warner Bros, and Paramount.
Melodrama as Provocateur
LINDA WILLIAMS
EDITED BY CHRISTINE GLEDHILL, LAURA HORAK, AND ELISABETH R. ANKER
As one of the most influential contemporary film scholars, Linda Williams brought her critical feminist lens to some of society’s most maligned and underappreciated film genres and showed their undeniable impact on the evolution of cinema. Melodrama as Provocateur brings what was to be Williams’s last project—a comparative investigation of French and American attitudes to theatrical and film melodrama—together with a diverse group of scholars who respond to her provocations, rethinking melodrama’s history and potential futures. Their contributions explore melodrama’s transnational and transmedia histories, examine how melodrama became the default mode of contemporary media, and question why it plays an increasingly powerful role in political discourse today.
Linda Williams (1946–2025) was Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. She authored and edited several books, including Screening Sex and Playing the Race Card She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Academy of Motion Pictures. Christine Gledhill is Visiting Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Leeds. Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Elisabeth R. Anker is Professor of American Studies and Political Science and Director of Film Studies at The George Washington University.
Fernando
A Song by
ABBA
KAY DICKINSON
Since its release in 1976, ABBA’s song “Fernando” has been loved by fans around the globe both for its sing-along chorus and its revolutionary spirit. In Fernando, Kay Dickinson takes readers from Sweden and Chile to Australia and Poland, tracing the complicated ways the song could express support with anticapitalist and Third World liberation struggles while remaining an unrepentant commodity. A song about freedom fighters was unlikely to become a pop mega-hit, yet as Dickinson demonstrates, ABBA’s lucrative, longstanding appeal rests on their ability to bridge contradictions within everyday life. Five decades later, “Fernando’s” rousing calls for freedom continue to resonate with gay liberation movements and other social struggles, demonstrating how a song can be both revolutionary and an envoy for global capital.
Kay Dickinson is Programme Convenor for Creative Arts and Industries at the University of Glasgow and author of Supply Chain Cinema: Producing Global Film Workers
April 2026
336 pages
Film studies/Cultural studies
Rights: World
September 2025
160 pages
Music Rights: World
February 2026
272 pages
Music/Literary Studies Rights: World
Clowns in the Burying Ground
The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy
CHRISTOPHER K. COFFMAN
In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band’s lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged with the literary tradition. Through an analysis of their music, lyrics, and biographies, Coffman shows how the group and its individual members drew on the canons of European and American literature to shape both the form and content of their creative work. Coffman draws on the language of the “literary fragment,” as conceived by German Romantic philosophers and their intellectual heirs, to identify how the Grateful Dead’s lyricists employed intertextuality, allusion, and other strategies to explore how meaning takes shape at the boundary between poetry and philosophy. From Shakespeare to “Shakedown Street,” Clowns in the Burying Ground demonstrates the Dead’s literary depth and how their most successful lyrics and performances walk the line between creation and chaos.
Christopher K. Coffman is Master Lecturer of Humanities at Boston University. He is the author of Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature and an editor of After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction and William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
Sex Isn't Real
February 2026
312 pages
Trans studies/History of science Rights: World
The Invention of an Incoherent Binary BEANS VELOCCI
In Sex Isn’t Real, Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Drawing on lab notes, family genealogies, medical case studies, and more, Velocci follows scientists and clinicians from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century and across five disciplines—zoology, eugenics, gynecology, statistical sexology, and transsexual medicine—as their ideas and practices created a definitional tangle. They demonstrate how the sorting of bodies into male and female persists not despite but because of sex’s incoherence: the defining features of these categories shift to contain various understandings of anatomy and physiology, theories of race, developments in research and medical methodologies, and bodies that cannot be accounted for in a binary framework. Exposing the endless work required to produce a world in which most people have a binary gender identity that neatly fits their binarily sexed body, Velocci demonstrates that it is not cis people who fit the categories; it’s the categories that flex to make them fit.
Beans Velocci is Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Co-Motion
Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances
PAOLA BACCHETTA
In Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing what she calls ‘theory-assemblages’ to describe how diverse theoretical and political approaches inspire movements and produce different kinds of alliances, Bacchetta engages the inseparability of power relations—such as colonialism, capitalism, racism, caste, misogyny, and speciesism—and how their combinations, operability, and the analyses required, shift in different contexts and lives of subjects. Focusing on France, India, Italy, and the US from the 1970s to the present, Co-Motion addresses a wide activist, artivist, and social movement archive— group statements, banners, pamphlets, graffiti, posters, poetry, sit-ins, films, art exhibits—to think and feel with the many ways that people, historically and today, come together to act. Through her expansive engagement with varied bodies of scholarship, sites of analysis, and kinds of reading, Bacchetta offers new approaches for analyzing, confronting and transforming power, and enacting freedom.
Paola Bacchetta is Professor and Chair in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is author or co-editor of multiple books, including Gender in the Hindu Nation and Fatima Mernissi For Our Times, Global Raciality, Right-Wing Women
Close Writing
Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces
ALICE BUTLER
In Close Writing, Alice Butler reflects on the diaries, letters, publications, performances, lives, and afterlives of her most beloved queer feminist writers: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller. While the transgressive avant-garde writer Kathy Acker has developed a cult following in the decades since her death in the late-90s, the actress and writer Cookie Mueller has remained relatively obscure. In this creative-critical study, Butler participates and responds to the lives and writings of her shared "beloved", reimagining the scene of the archive as a scene of triangulated and bittersweet love that traverses the boundaries of life and death. She draws on the autofictional strategies that Acker and Mueller pioneered in their own experimental writings and performances, encountering the women in intimate theoretical spaces of sensuality, sexuality, and sickness that slip between life and text. By encountering Acker and Mueller as transgressors and innovators, but also as beloved figures in her writing life whom she addresses in love letters, Butler brings readers to new, reparative textures of understanding, embodiment, and affection through close writing.
Alice Butler is Tutor (Research) in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art and co-editor of Gestures: A body of work
January 2026
304 pages
Feminist theory Rights: World
April 2026
288 pages
Literature/Feminist studies
Rights: World
Anthropology/Social theory Rights: World
October 2025
472 pages
Black studies/Sociology
Rights: World English, excluding Canada
Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being
GHASSAN HAGE
In Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist’s work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on Bourdieu’s concern with social being and what constitutes a worthwhile and fulfilling life. Such a life is not something that one either has or does not have; rather, society distributes and assigns values to ways of living. These values are structured by relations of power and domination and are subject to the outcome of political conflicts. Hage elucidates this political economy of being by reworking Bourdieu’s key concepts of habitus, illusio, symbolic capital, and field. In this political economy, people enjoy a worthwhile life to the degree that they are able to orient and deploy themselves practically in the world that surrounds them, have a sense of purpose, and achieve a level of social recognition. For Hage, the project of theorizing and understanding how people struggle to define, legitimize, and live a viable life in the face of symbolic domination permeates all of Bourdieu’s work.
Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne and the author of several books, including The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism and The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World
Policing Black Lives
State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present Revised and Expanded Edition
ROBYN MAYNARD
Robyn Maynard’s bestselling Policing Black Lives offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and punishment of Black lives in Canada. In this revised and expanded edition, Maynard exposes Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance to document how half a century of police reforms have expanded the scope and scale of policing and undermined Black freedom struggles in the wake of global Black uprisings in 2020. She traces the afterlives of slavery across multiple institutions and illuminates the state’s role in perpetuating colonial dispossession, racial profiling, police killings, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labor practices, and the school-to-prison pipeline. At the same time, Maynard foregrounds the ubiquity of Black resistance while offering new insights on how to build liveable futures without policing. Advancing a compelling vision for making policing obsolete and building new forms of safety, Policing Black Lives is an essential text that will guide and inspire activists, students, scholars, and all those working toward Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement.
Robyn Maynard is Assistant Professor of Black Feminisms in Canada at the University of Toronto and coauthor of Rehearsals for Living
Living On After Failure
Affective Structures of Modern Life
IRVING GOH
In Living On After Failure, Irving Goh dwells with failure and all of its negative affects. Goh does not seek a theorization of failure as something to overcome or turn into a recuperative philosophy or progress narrative. Rather, he engages with the ontological condition of failure as a process of staying with the impasse that failure brings. Drawing on the thought of Berlant, Derrida, Foucault, and Nancy, Goh examines works by contemporary writers like Ottessa Moshfegh, Rachel Cusk, Édouard Levé, Yiyun Li, and Kate Zambreno. He guides readers through stages of reckoning with failure as an immersive impasse: flopping, drifting itself, a dark care of the self, melodrama, and post-scripting. By unsettling the failure/success binary, Goh provides those who cannot shake off their sense of failure or who refuse the narratives of progress or success and their ideologies of grit and resilience, with discursive and affective spaces to attend to their desire to be attached to their failures.
Irving Goh is Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University and Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore, coauthor of The Deconstruction of Sex, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
September 2025
224 pages
Literary studies/Affect theory/Philosophy
Rights: World
Knowing as Moving
Perception, Memory, and Place
SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER
In Knowing as Moving, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect. Starting from the assertion that knowing takes place through bodily movement, Foster moves away from the Western philosophical traditions of dance, critiquing the Cartesian mind-body duality and its colonizing politics. She draws on Native and Indigenous studies, ecological cognitive science, disability studies, phenomenology, and new materialism to explore how knowledge is neither static nor storable. Thinking is a physical action and the product of an entire neuromuscular system with its mobile postural and gestural configurations, perceptual systems, and brain activity. Foster outlines how reading, examining, talking, and remembering are all forms of moving and contends that any process of knowing establishes one’s identity and relationality. By focusing on the centrality of bodily movement to thought and self, she contributes a decolonial critique of the study of knowledge and being. In so doing, Foster replaces the Cartesian-colonial “I think, therefore I am” with a decolonial “I move, and therefore I know.”
Susan Leigh Foster is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/ Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author, most recently, of Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion
August 2025
168 pages
Dance
Rights: World
May 2026
336 pages
Feminist studies / Philosophy / Latin American & Latinx Studies
Rights: World
Strange Tastes
Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms
MONIQUE ROELOFS
Strange Tastes is a philosophical excursion into aesthetic experience and the public through the works of contemporary Latin American and Latinx women writers and artists. In a careful study of this revelatory archive, Monique Roelofs shows how life lived aesthetically can embrace public space instead of surrendering it to the constrictive forces of gendering and racial capital. Joining notions of sensibility grounded in Enlightenment aesthetics with the creative capabilities of a decolonial aesthetics, Roelofs looks to practices that animate the public through intimate, social, and political registers, particularly by engaging the historical and critical potentialities of disinterested play and what she calls “strange tastes,” or the unusual, uncanny, and nonnormative desires and sensations of marginalized individuals. Through sustained attention to materiality and lived experience, Roelofs offers a feminist philosophy of aesthetics that takes seriously the role of the public, where strange tastes turn aesthetic imaginaries into powerful possibilities to remake self, city, nation, and world.
Monique Roelofs is Professor and Chair of Philosophy of Art & Culture and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Arts of Address and The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic and co-editor of Black Art and Aesthetics
The Invention of Order
On the Coloniality of Space
DON THOMAS DEERE
In The Invention of Order, Don Thomas Deere retraces the colonial origins of spatial organization in the Americas and the Caribbean and its lasting impact on modern structures of knowledge, power, race, gender as well as understandings of global modernity. The coloniality of space dispossessed Indigenous, African, and mixed populations as it constructed new systems of control and movement. Deere demonstrates how these developments manifested, among other forms, in urban grid patterns imposed during the development of Spanish colonial cities as well as totalizing trade routes crisscrossing the Atlantic. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Enrique Dussel, Édouard Glissant, and Sylvia Wynter, Deere reveals how movement—who travels, who settles, and who is excluded—becomes an essential component of control under colonial rule. Against the violence of spatial reordering, Deere outlines how novel forms of resistance and insurgency geographies still take hold, particularly in the Caribbean, where landscapes remain excessive, eruptive, and uncaptured by the order of modernity.
Don Thomas Deere is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University.
Matterphorics
On the Laws of Theory
DANIELA GANDORFER
In Matterphorics, Daniela Gandorfer questions modernist legal theory’s dualism between concepts and matter, arguing for forms of theorizing that transcend abstraction and therefore respect living beings in their “thingly” materiality. She contends that legal theory must short circuit and dismantle representational thinking to build a mode of thinking more finely attuned to matter and the sensible. Such a “matterphorics” offers a method for thinking and creating legal concepts that are responsive to indeterminacy, material entanglement, and ontological complexity. She examines a range of recent case studies that test the boundaries of modernist legal theory’s spatial categorizations from outer space exploration and Red Bull’s high altitude freefalls to seabed mining and the patenting and copyrighting of life forms, revealing the material limitations of theorizing that abstracts life down to a category. In so doing, Gandorfer formulates legal theory as a creative and situated response to planetary and technological transformation.
Daniela Gandorfer is Lecturer of Law at the University of Westminster and coeditor of Research Handbook on Law and Literature
Hidden Empire of Finance
How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality
MICHAEL GOLDMAN
Hidden Empire of Finance follows the rise of new global cities, tracing their roots back to the 1970s global proliferation of neoliberalism and following their fate in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. As India, China, and other nations sought to develop urban infrastructures that could compete with western hubs like New York, Paris, and London, large-scale flows of capital intruded into national economies to speculate on the growing real estate market. A web of opaque financial products, such as collateralized debt and real estate investment trusts, became alternative vehicles for the speculators’ investments, resulting in vast networks of public goods and services that are now owned and controlled by major financial firms located oceans away. Michael Goldman shows that speculative urbanism relies on dispossession and the racialization of institutional practices to fuel finance's insatiable appetite for capital, determining the ways cities across the global South and North are governed.
Michael Goldman is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He is the author of Imperial Nature and the co-editor of The Social Lives of Land and Chronicles of a Global City, among others.
March 2026
320 pages
Law/Political Theory Rights: World
January 2026
312 pages
Sociology/Finance Rights: World
Humanity's Ruins
Ethics, Feminism, and Genocidal Humanitarianism
DANIELLE BOUCHARD
In Humanity’s Ruins, Danielle Bouchard examines how genocidal aspirations animate contemporary Western humanitarian projects and discourses. Drawing on anticolonial and antiracist feminist critique, Bouchard argues that humanitarianism has functioned in the Cold War and post-Cold War eras to perpetuate longer-lived, fundamentally racist conceptualizations of humanity’s defining characteristics. She examines the aesthetics of humanitarian texts, which are filled with figures of the wounded, dead, and disappeared—the atomic bomb victim whose only remainder is a shadow imprinted on concrete, the grievously injured Muslim woman, the vanished members of Amazonian “uncontacted” tribes, the dying African—to elucidate how the appearance of these figures reaffirms a genocidal view of humanity that aligns with the continuation of Western imperial warfare. Humanitarian discourses conceive of humanity as a community which, by definition, is under existential threat from some humans who are explicitly or implicitly understood as needing to be eliminated. Bouchard invokes “humanity’s ruins” to expose the genocidal fantasy of a human world in which such threat has been eliminated in the interest of supposedly ensuring humanity’s survival.
Danielle Bouchard is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the University
August 2025
272 pages
Anthropology/Food studies/Asian studies
Rights:World
Land of Famished Beings
West Papuan Theories of Hunger
SOPHIE CHAO
In Land of Famished Beings, Sophie Chao examines how Indigenous Marind communities understand and theorize hunger in lowland West Papua, a place where industrial plantation expansion and settler-colonial violence are radically reconfiguring ecologies, socialities, and identities. Instead of seeing hunger as an individual, biophysical state defined purely in nutritional, quantitative, or human terms, Chao investigates how hunger traverses variably situated humans, animals, plants, institutions, infrastructures, spirits, and sorcerers. When approached through the lens of Indigenous Marind philosophies, practices, and protocols, hunger reveals itself a multiple, more-than-human, and morally imbued modality of being—one whose effects are no less culturally crafted or contested than food and eating. In centering Indigenous feminist theories of hunger, Chao offers new ways of thinking about the relationship between the environment, food, and nourishment in an age of self-consuming capitalist growth. She also considers how Indigenous theories invite anthropologists to reimagine the ethics and politics of ethnographic writing and the responsibilities, hesitations, and compromises that shape anthropological commitments in and beyond the field.
Sophie Chao is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, and coeditor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice, both also published by Duke University Press.
Precarious Accumulation
Fast
Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou
NELLIE CHU
In Precarious Accumulation, Nellie Chu tells the story of the migrant entrepreneurs at the heart of Guangzhou’s fast fashion industry—one of the world’s most dynamic hubs of transnational commodity production. Chu shows how rural Chinese migrants, West African traders, and South Korean jobbers navigate the high-speed, low-margin world of just-intime garment production that fuels the constant accumulation of wealth via global supply chains. Drawing on fieldwork in Guangzhou’s urban villages and household workshops, Chu outlines how these entrepreneurs’ dreams of economic freedom clash with the reality of precarity and the exclusions of emigre status. Migrant bosses operate within a highly competitive, informal economy where they are both agents and target of exploitation, as they must evade rent collectors, endure racialized policing, and mitigate extortion from security officers and competitors. Chu crucially demonstrates how their efforts generate novel forms of migratory labor, commodity production, and cross-cultural exchange in postsocialist China.
The Goddess in the Mirror
An Anthropology of Beauty TULASI SRINIVAS
In The Goddess in the Mirror, Tulasi Srinivas offers a pathbreaking ethnography of contemporary Indian beauty parlors in Bangalore. Exploring the gendered world of beauty in the intimate spaces of the salon, whose popularity has exploded amid an urban tech revolution, Srinivas invites readers to consider what beauty is and what it does. Visiting diverse salons that cater to various classes, castes, and queer sexualities, she tracks the relationships between clients and workers, revealing the beauty industry’s painful political, religious, and economic stakes. Embodiment, religion, and narrative intersect as clients and beauticians tell well-known stories of beautiful Hindu goddesses, heroines, queens, and apsaras, thereby weaving their own ethical subjectivities every day. Following the goddess’s allure, radiance, woundedness, fluidity, and fertility, Srinivas situates ideas of beauty within a larger moral and political context where beauty is both a fleeting pursuit and a rich resource for navigating a patriarchal present.
Tulasi Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology at Emerson College and author of The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder, also published by Duke University Press.
February 2026
280 pages
Anthropology/Asian studies/Labor Rights: World
November 2025
304 pages
Anthropology/Gender studies/South Asian studies
Rights: World
Nellie Chu is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke Kunshan University.
July 2025
312 pages
Anthropology/Asian studies
Rights: World
October 2025
328 pages
Asian studies/Anthropology/Fashion
Rights: World
When the Bones Speak
The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa
CHRISTOPHER T. NELSON
Haunted by the past, ordinary Okinawans struggle to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism. They are caught up in a web of people and practices—living and dead, visible and immaterial—that exert powerful forces often beyond their control. In When the Bones Speak, Christopher T. Nelson examines the myriad ways contemporary Okinawans experience, remember, and contest sacrifice. He attends to the voices of those who find their vocation in service to others, from shamans, fortune tellers, laborers, and artists to dead soldiers, war survivors, antiwar activists, and Christian missionaries. Nelson shows how the memories of past sacrifices, atrocities, and exploitation as well as residual trauma shape modern life in Okinawa and the possibility and hope for creative action grounded in the everyday. Offering new understandings of colonial transformation, wartime violence, and military occupation, Nelson writes from the intersection of temporalities and possibilities, where the hard finality of the past may be broken open to reveal a “not yet” that has always remained just beyond reach.
Christopher T. Nelson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa, also published by Duke University Press.
Dyeing with the Earth
Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan
CHARLOTTE LINTON
In Dyeing with the Earth, Charlotte Linton explores the intersection of small-scale traditional craft production with contemporary sustainability practices. Focusing on natural textile dyeing on the southern Japanese island of Amami Ōshima, Linton details the complex relationship between preservation practices, resource extraction, and land access in the production of Oshima tsumugi kimono cloth, which uses the indigenous technique of dorozome (or mud-dyeing). As global interest in sustainable fashion grows, textile manufacturers on Amami have expanded from kimono production to dyeing garments and textiles for high-profile designers. While traditional craft may appear at odds with the large-scale global textile industry, Linton reveals how Amamian producers face similar social, economic, and environmental pressures. Ethical production in fashion, Linton contends, should focus on understanding local, everyday practices that sustain direct relationships between people, place, and the environment rather than relying on short term solutions via new processes or materials. Weaving ethnography, photography, and drawing, Linton underscores the continued relevance of traditional craft and material cultures amid ongoing climate change and biodiversity loss.
Charlotte Linton is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Everyday Erotics
Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire DENISE TSE-SHANG TANG
Everyday Erotics is an interdisciplinary ethnography that explores the lives of older women with same-sex desires in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. Denise Tse-Shang Tang combines fieldwork interviewing women born from the late 1930s to the 1960s with cultural analysis of inter-Asian gender mediations to unpack the social, cultural, and historical meanings of same-sex attraction among women. Tang draws upon current debates across fields like Asian studies, cultural studies, and queer theory to depict the Chinese woman with same-sex desires as an embodied site of inter-Asian modernities where coloniality, culture, religion, and history collide. Through these tales of love, intimacy, family obligations, and personal respectability, she presents narrative accounts and analysis that aim to complicate cultural notions of romance and desire at the intersections of gender roles, social class, and history. Everyday Erotics builds an archive of queer women’s lives to fill a research gap that has long deserved to be addressed.
Denise Tse-Shang Tang is Associate Professor and Department Head of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University and is author of Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life
In the Mood for Texture
The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City ARNIKA FUHRMANN
n the Mood for Texture considers the aesthetics of Chinese colonial modernity in contemporary Southeast Asian cultural production, both virtual and material. By analyzing how twentieth-century Shanghai and Hong Kong have been revived in modern Bangkok’s architecture, design, fashion, and nightlife, Arnika Fuhrmann shows how the colonial past is redeployed in contemporary film, literature, and hospitality venues to shape present visions of Asia. At the heart of this inquiry stand Shanghai and Hong Kong’s anomalous colonial temporalities and Thailand’s semi-colonial temporality of the “never” and “yet still” of colonization. Attending to the textures of built environments and agentive female subjects, Fuhrmann reconceptualizes the revival of a Chinese colonial aesthetic and demonstrates how Southeast Asian imaginations can challenge both domestic and diasporic narratives of identity and collectivity beyond China.
Arnika Fuhrmann is Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong as well as Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema, which was published by Duke University Press.
March 2026
200 pages
Gender and sexuality/Asian studies
Rights: World
January 2026
224 pages
Asian studies/Cultural studies
Rights: World
September 2025
296 pages
History/Architecture/Colonial and postcolonial studies
Rights: World
April 2026
440 pages
Art History
Rights: World
Concrete Colonialism
Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines
DIANA JEAN S. MARTINEZ
During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. In Concrete Colonialism, Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the motivations for and lasting effects of this forgotten colonial policy. Arguing that the pervasive use of reinforced concrete technologies revolutionized techniques of imperial conquest, Martinez shows how concrete reshaped colonialism as a project that sought durable change through the reformation of environments, colonial society, and racialized biologies. Martinez locates the origins of this material revolution in the development of Chicago, highlighting how building this urban center atop exceptionally challenging geology made it possible to transform diverse global ecologies. She details how the material’s stability, plasticity, strength, and other qualities served the shifting imperatives of the US colonial regime, playing a central role in defending territory, controlling disease, and the construction of monuments to nation and empire. By describing a world irreversibly remade, Martinez urges readers to consider how colonialism persists—in concrete forms—despite claims of its conclusion.
Diana
Jean S. Martinez is Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University.
The Minjung Art Movement
Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea
SOHL C. LEE
In this examination of South Korean minjung (people’s) art, Sohl C. Lee traces the history and legacy of the Minjung Art Movement, which emerged from the prodemocracy movements of the 1970s and 1980s. During this time, hundreds of South Korean artists questioned the underlying assumptions of liberal democracies and the art-making practices of the global Cold War. Their decolonial critiques of international modernism reimagined democracy and its relationship to art. Showing how these artists shaped the protest aesthetics that helped usher in parliamentary democracy in 1987, Lee demonstrates that it not possible to understand South Korea’s globalization in the 1990s and rise as a global soft power in the new millennium without understanding how the Minjung Art Movement was both political and popular. In so doing, she recuperates the performance-oriented, activist-generated practices that are often left out of the existing accounts of art from that period.
Sohl C. Lee is Associate Professor of Art at Stony Brook University.
Brutal Fantasies
Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War
CHRISTINE KIM
In Brutal Fantasies, Christine Kim examines how Western cultural representations of North Korea depend on fantasies of the inhuman. Drawing on films, fiction, and defectors’ life writings from the last two decades, Kim analyzes how these representations construct North Korea as a site of brutality and inhumanity. She recasts these stories through Asian American and global Asian frameworks that move beyond common Cold War binaries to critique how US imperialism persists in global understandings of North Korea. Kim shows how human rights discourses simultaneously instrumentalize and dehumanize North Korea while demonstrating that North Korea is a site of contradiction that complicates Western interpretive constraints. She also explores the Korean diaspora’s complex relationship with North Korea and highlights the vulnerability and marginalization of diasporic subjects. In so doing, Kim pulls back the veil on prevailing cultural myths enshrouding North Korea, offering alternative ways of understanding its role in global and regional imaginaries.
Christine Kim is Professor of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia and author of The Minor Intimacies of Race: Asian Publics in North America
September 2025
176 pages
Asian American studies/Asian studies
Rights: World
Spoiled
Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair
SUMMER KIM LEE
In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee examines how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work should repair the wounds of racial trauma. Kim Lee turns to the “spoiled”—the racialized, gendered body and all that it consumes, wrecks, and inflicts in its desire and excess—in visual culture, performance, music, and literature. Reading works by Cato Ouyang, Patty Chang, Wu Tsang, TJ Shin, Jes Fan, and others, Kim Lee highlights moments of hostility and deformation that spoil idealizations of Asian Americanness and incite modes of feeling and relating that relinquish fantasies of wholeness, power, and control. She observes the latent aggressive behaviors and negative affects in Asian American aesthetic practice: the embarrassment of asociality, the imposition of speaking as someone else, and the indulgence of ravenous appetites. In so doing, Kim Lee questions the political desires for repair expressed in “feeling Asian” and stays with the damage that spoilage creates as integral to the kinds of repair that Asian Americans seek.
Summer Kim Lee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
October 2025
256 pages
Asian American studies/Performance studies/ Literary studies
Rights: World
February 2026
152 pages
Asian American studies/ Gender studies
Rights: World
April 2026
176 pages
Asian American studies/Memoir Rights: World
The Violence of Protection
Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women
LEE ANN S. WANG
Celebrated as a feminist victory upon its passage as part of the Clinton Crime Bill, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a landmark piece of legislation that provides protections for survivors of gender and sexual violence. However, as Lee Ann S. Wang shows in The Violence of Protection, VAWA primarily funds law enforcement efforts to rescue women, and in doing so, creates conditions of racial violence against survivors from communities who are already policed, surveilled, and face immigration enforcement. Through ethnographic fieldwork with legal and social advocates serving Asian American survivors of gender and sexual violence in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wang shows how these activists grapple with laws which require survivors to cooperate with policing in order to receive protection. Engaging in methodologies of feminist refusal, theories of racial assemblage, and abolition feminisms, The Violence of Protection theorizes the victim as a legal subject and exposes the racial violence enacted when State-provided legal safeguards are leveraged to expand punishment against survivors, their communities, and others.
Lee Ann S. Wang is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun
An Elegy
CRYSTAL MUN-HYE BAIK
In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik offers an intimate cultural history of war, illness, banishment, and estrangement through the experiential lens of her family. Beginning with her father's death and mother's psychiatric hold in 2022, Baik situates her parents’ lives within the enmeshed narratives of Japanese colonialism, war, and transoceanic migration, examining Korean diasporic grief as a felt form of thinking and writing, rather than an object of study. In doing so, she reckons with diasporic genealogies of precarity that have configured the everyday lives of her parents and ancestral communities. Blending different genres from narrative prose to visual essay, epistles to ancestral mourning rites, Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun is a meditation on the personal and ethical entanglements scholars must confront when they are implicated in the histories of violence they study.
Crystal Mun-hye Baik is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Riverside and is the author of Reencounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory
Transpacific Nonencounters
Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico
ANDREA MENDOZA
In Transpacific Nonencounters, Andrea Mendoza works across Asian and Latin American studies, literary and cultural studies, and comparative critical race studies to think about how to address legacies of race and racism across, between, and against formations of modern nationalism in Japan and Mexico. Examining resonances in discursive, cultural, and political formations between Japan and Mexico, Mendoza analyzes the strategic epistemic de-linking of Asia and Latin America. She uses the concept of nonencounters to demonstrate how structures and legacies of racial and colonial dispossession are embedded in the disconnects that formed global modernity. Hermeneutically investigating nonencounter, Mendoza contests how these formations have been siloed in the process of knowledge production, encouraging reading outside traditional registers of nation and area-based models.
Andrea Mendoz is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego.
Promises Beyond Memory
Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America
VIKKI BELL
In Promises Beyond Memory, Vikki Bell shows how archives of contemporary political violence in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia challenge the idea that simply sheltering the documentation of violence is sufficient to fulfill the obligations of attending to the past. Beyond mere preservation, these archives, museums, and sites of memory invite exploratory modes of enlivening the past through aesthetic practices like photography, installation, film, and performance. These practices foster the “survivance” of memory where populations still grapple with legacies of violence and often state-sponsored mass disappearance and torture. Rather than produce a definitive account of the past, such survivance facilitates polyvocal articulations that open deeply political and ethical questions around contested histories. They may even create moments for what Bell terms “tender forgetting”—the ability to remember without reawakening trauma. Integrating theory, extensive archival work, and interviews with artists, archivists, museum workers, and survivors of state violence, Bell analyses the creative ways that archives pass on stories of violence as they seek to defend against attempts to rewrite the past.
Vikki Bell is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina
April 2026
208 pages
Asian studies/Latin American studies/Cultural studies
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February 2026
288 pages
Latin America/Cultural Studies
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Geographies of the Ear
The Cultural Politics of Sound in Contemporary Barcelona
TANIA GENTIC
In Geographies of the Ear, Tania Gentic examines the language and soundscape of postFranco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. She theorizes “echoic memory” to understand how sound circulates from the past to the present—and from neighborhood to nation to globe—to trace how sonic practices produce and contest modernity, community identity, and democracy. Focusing on migrant and tourist accents, free radio stations, punk music, drag performances, and antigentrification protests, Gentic shows how the underground sounds in Barcelona complicate a modernizing aural imaginary of place. By thinking through the auralities present in literature, fanzines, comic books, documentary films, television and print media, popular music, public protests, and even everyday conversation, Gentic outlines the difficulties of considering the contemporary city as either the product of a monolingual national identity or a lived space easily circumscribed by geographical categories such as North, South, East, or West.
Tania Gentic is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University and author of The Everyday Atlantic: Time, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Twentieth-Century Iberian and Latin American Newspaper Chronicle
September 2025
360 pages
Latin American History/American studies/ Global Activism
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A Wide Net of Solidarity
Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe
ANNE GARLAND MAHLER
In A Wide Net of Solidarity, Anne Garland Mahler traces the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League of the Americas (LADLA, Liga Antimperialista de las Américas) on racial justice and anti-extractive struggles from the early twentieth century to the present. Founded in 1925 in Mexico City by a group of multinational activists, LADLA brought together trade unions, agrarian organizations, and artist groups across fourteen chapters in the Americas, with highest activity in the Greater Caribbean and United States. Within two years, LADLA activists joined the League Against Imperialism, formed at the 1927 Brussels Congress, where they met with US Black activists and anticolonial leaders from Africa and Asia. Drawing on extensive archival research, Mahler uncovers LADLA’s role in fostering Black, Indigenous, and immigrant-led resistance movements while positioning these struggles within a broader hemispheric and global struggle against the racialized accumulation of capital. By unearthing LADLA’s multiracial analysis of capitalist exploitation as well as its emphasis on mutual solidarity across difference, Mahler shows us how the organization provides vital insight for social movements fighting racial and economic injustice today.
Anne Garland Mahler is Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, author of From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters
Fueling Development
How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago ZOPHIA EDWARDS
Despite Trinidad and Tobago’s economic dependence on oil and gas production and its history of colonial exploitation of labor and resources, it enjoys relatively high democratic and redistributive development compared to other nations in the global South. In Fueling Development, Zophia Edwards draws on archival data, historical analysis, and Black radical political economic thought to trace Trinidad and Tobago’s success to a specific form of working-class mobilization she calls “liberation unionism.” A Black radical labor tradition, liberation unionism was multiracial, multisectoral, and gender inclusive; and Pan-African, anti-imperial, anticolonial, and diasporic; it advocated not only for workplace issues, but for economic, political, and social transformation. Emerging during the colonial period, liberation unionism forced the colonial state to increase its institutional capacity to promote equitable development. The movement persisted into the post-independence period and further compelled the independent state to channel oil windfalls toward increasing its ability to better serve the needs of the people. By uncovering liberation unionism’s power to create robust social and economic change, Edwards expands understandings of the relationship between development, race, labor, and political economy.
Zophia Edwards is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of Race, Capitalism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Borders of Responsibility
Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea
KIRI SANTER
While migrants face many dangers in attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea—from drowning to dying of dehydration—they also confront an elaborate legal system that is designed to return them to their countries of origin. In The Borders of Responsibility, Kiri Santer outlines the architecture of these legal systems and how they help Europe evade legal responsibility for rescuing migrants. Focusing on legal agreements between Italy and Libya that have resulted in the systematic interception of migrants, Santer shows how Europe’s liberal identity is belied by legal agreements that let migrants die at sea or that send them back to dangerous, exploitative situations in post-Gaddafi Libya or their home countries. Through ethnographic fieldwork with migrants, lawyers, and humanitarian workers, Santer shows how the law is too often used as an instrument of violence against migrants, who fall outside of conventional structures of legal rights.
Kiri Santer is Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institution of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern.
September 2025
336 pages
Sociology/Labor and Economics
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May 2026
288 pages
Anthropology/Legal studies
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April 2026
200 pages
Anthropology/Environmental studies
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March 2026
256 pages
Anthropology Rights: World
Floating Power
Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations
GÖKÇE
GÜNEL
Floating Power considers the role of energy production on an international scale, challenging the idea that the introduction of new infrastructures wholly replace older sources of energy. Shifting the discussion from energy transition to energy accumulation, Gökçe Günel engages with a range of energy producers including hydroelectric, heavy fuel oil, natural gas, and solar power plants, noting their intersections as societies work to expand their energy production at large rather than focus on one type of source. Günel uses the Ayşegül Sultan, a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana, as a prime example and vehicle to explore how state and corporate intervention impacts energy technologies as every nation strives toward the universal goal of growing energy infrastructure. Floating Power challenges the linear thinking and substitutive logic of mainstream energy discourse, instead showing how various power sources often expand and grow symbiotically.
Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. She is the author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi, published by Duke University Press, and co-author of Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide
Shelter for the Night
On Afghanistan, Language, and Detours
FATIMA
MOJADDEDI
Shelter for the Night is an ethnographic meditation on language and psychic life in 2010s Afghanistan, where militarized violence has collapsed social worlds. Across Kabul and the countryside, in poetic and probing style, the book unpacks the precarious relationship between language, violence, and the self. As social and political worlds fracture through militarized violence, economic speculation, interpersonal sabotage, and ruptures in shared understanding, people are set on unexpected detours to discontinuity. Encounters in political life, love, and translation become fragmented, difficult to parse, and entangled in symbolic violence. Yet amid the harsh realities of contemporary life in Kabul, Mojaddedi finds moments of wonder and rich inner lives of reflexivity, understanding, and social connection. From narratives of modernist ambition and political violence to tragic romance and urbanite translators and their rural interlocutors, Shelter for the Night looks at the challenges of articulating the unspeakable to make a bold claim for the importance of thinking about the contemporary world starting from Afghanistan.
Fatima Mojaddedi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.
Bear With Me
A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America
DANIEL HOROWITZ
From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are ubiquitous, appearing in advertisements, as logos for sports teams, and as central characters in children’s books, cartoons, movies, and video games. In Bear With Me, Daniel Horowitz presents a vibrant history of the pedestrian and celebrity bears who have captured our imaginations and infiltrated our everyday lives. He shows that bears’ ability to represent and evoke both terror and comfort makes them well-suited for their omnipresence. Today, cultural depictions of bears largely encompass examples of human-bear relationships, reciprocity, and emotional engagement. Reminders that climate change threatens the lives of polar bears engender feelings of empathy, while news of bear attacks drives us to fascinated fear. Whether examining the subculture of gay bears or the deadly consequences of anthropomorphizing animals, Horowitz charts the complexities and depth of American culture’s unique and enduring relationship with bears.
Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies, Emeritus, at Smith College and the author of many books, most recently, American Dreams, American Nightmares: Culture and Crisis in Residential Real Estate from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Connector
Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics
ALEXANDRA MIDDLETON
In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines the social and embodied underpinnings of frontier science through an ethnographic inquiry into the creation of and daily life with neuromusculoskeletal prostheses. For two years, Middleton chronicled clinical trials in Sweden developing these prostheses, participating as a lab member as well as visiting and living with the first patient-subjects of these trials in their homes. In this process, the patients’ sensory experiences and domestic worlds become key spaces of scientific emergence with unrecognized importance. Through storytelling that centers the embodied knowledge and labor of these first subjects, along with the scientists who work closely with them, Middleton depicts how “connection” entails inhabiting the liminal space between ideation and materialization, a space punctuated not only by breakthroughs and breakdowns, but the slow work of the everyday. The Connector is a critical revisitation of where biomedical innovation, scientific discovery, and the “cutting edge” come from, to include the subjects, bodies, and homes of experimental science.
Alexandra Middleton is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
August 2025
288 pages US history Rights: World
May 2026
288 pages
Anthropology/Science studies
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Backlist Highlights
Raving
MCKENZIE WARK
Raving takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving queer rave scene, showing how raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them.
March 2023
Trans Studies/Music
13,300 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Italian, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Czech, Danish, Korean
Marx for Cats
A Radical Bestiary
LEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE
Marx for Cats revises the medieval form of the bestiary to meet Marxist critique to show how cats have been central to the consolidation of capitalism and inspirations for some of its fiercest critics.
November 2023
Marxism/Social Theory
7,000 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Spanish, Thai, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (s), Korean
Pollution Is Colonialism
MAX LIBOIRON
Pollution is Colonialism models an anticolonial scientific practice aligned with Indigenous concepts of land, ethics, and relations to outline the entanglements of capitalism, colonialism, and environmental science.
May 2021
Native and Indigenous Studies/Science and Technology Studies/Environmental Studies
13,200 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in French
Designs for the Pluriverse
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
ARTURO ESCOBAR
Designs for the Pluriverse presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what Escobar calls “autonomous design”—a design practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.
March 2018
Social Theory/Latin American Studies/Design Theory
11,500 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Japanese, Chinese, Estonian
*Spanish and Portuguese rights are unavailable
Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro
Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality
GLORIA E. ANZALDÚA
EDITED BY ANALOUISE KEATING
Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.
October 2015
Feminist Theory/Chicana Studies/Cultural Studies
11,700 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Turkish
Complaint!
SARA AHMED
Complaint! examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about its abuses by institutions.
September 2021
Feminism/Activism/Cultural Studies
13,900 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, English (South Asia)
The Queer Art of Failure
JACK HALBERSTAM
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.
September 2011
Queer Theory/Cultural Studies
29,400 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Italian, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Greek, French
The Problem with Work
Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
KATHI WEEKS
The Problem with Work develops a Marxist feminist critique of the structures and ethics of work, as well as a perspective for imagining a life no longer subordinated to them.
September 2011
Marxist Theory/Feminist Theory/Social Theory
10,000 lifetime paperback sales
Licensed in Chinese (s), Spanish, Turkish
