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MUSIC
The Last Beach, Pilkey & Cooper 1
Roy Cape, Guilbault & Cape 28
My Tibetan Childhood, Naktsang 2 What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Massumi 3
MEDIA STUDIES
On The Wire, Williams 4
Beautiful Data, Halpern 28
Postcolonial Modernism, Okeke-Agulu 5
Forensic Media, Siegel 29
Other Planes of There, Green 6
Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era, Marcus 29
Speculation, Now, Rao, Krishnamurthy & Kuoni 7 My Father’s House, Dumm 8
AMERICAN STUDIES New World Drama, Dillon 30
Willful Subjects, Ahmed 9
Formations of United States Colonialism, Goldstein 30
Land’s End, Li 10
Orgies of Feeling, Anker 31
The Theater of Operations, Masco 11
Soundtracks of Asian America, Wang 31
The Life of Captain Cipriani, James 12 The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XII, Garvey 13
Staging the Blues, McGinley 32
Dance Floor Democracy, Tucker 14
Fighting for Recognition, Smith 33
Traveling Heavy, Behar 15
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans, Thomas 32
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Adam’s Gift, Creech 15
Wandering, Cervenak 33
A Rock Garden in the South, Lawrence 16
Skin Acts, Stephens 34
Beautiful at All Seasons, Lawrence 16
Black Atlas, Madera 34
ANTHROPOLOGY
I N D I G E N O U S & N AT I V E A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
Entrepreneurial Selves, Freeman 17
A Nation Rising, Goodyear-Ka‘o¯pua, Hussey & Wright 35
Aurality, Ochoa Gautier 17
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America, Woolford, Benvenuto & Hinton 35
Speculative Markets, Peterson 18 Second Chances, Whyte 18 Biomedicine in an Unstable Place, Street 19
L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
How Climate Change Comes to Matter, Callison 19
Portrait of a Young Painter, Vaughan 36
The Multispecies Salon, Kirksey 20
The Great Depression in Latin America, Drinot & Knight 36
Illusions of a Future, Schechter 20
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World, Sanders 37
The Republic Unsettled, Fernando 21
We Are Left without a Father Here, Findlay 37
Rubble, Gordillo 21
The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, Albuquerque Jr. 38
Given to the Goddess, Ramberg 22
Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Gutiérrez Aguilar 38
Cultivating the Nile, Barnes 22 GEOGRAPHY Prostitution and the Ends of Empire, Legg 39
C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S Habeas Viscus, Weheliye 23
HISTORY
Oxford Street, Accra, Quayson 23
German Colonialism in a Global Age, Naranch & Eley 39
Utopias, Featherstone & Miles 24
Body and Nation, Rosenberg & Fitzpatrick 40
Porn Archives, Dean, Ruszczycky & Squires 24
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, Burton & Hofmeyr 40
WOMEN’S STUDIES
POLITICAL SCIENCE
A Taste for Brown Sugar, Miller-Young 25
Developments in Russian Politics 8, White, Sakwa & Hale 41
Street Corner Secrets, Shah 25 G AY & L E S B I A N / Q U E E R / T R A N S G E N D E R S T U D I E S A View from the Bottom, Nguyen 26 On the Visceral, Part I, Holland, Ochoa & Tompkins 26
JOURNALS Miriam Hansen, Bathrick, Huyssen & Rentschler 41 Tikkun, Lerner 42 MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, Weintraub 42
Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary, Aizura, Ochoa, Vidal-Ortiz, Cotton & Balzer/LaGata 27
journals
Queer Theory without Antinormativity, Wiegman & Wilson 27
selected backlist & bestsellers
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www.dukeupress.edu COVER: Fay McKenzie dancing the jitterbug with a serviceman at the Hollywood Canteen, 1943. Courtesy of hollywoodphotographs.com. From Dance Floor Democracy, page 14.
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The Last Beach
orrin h . pilkey & j . andrew g . cooper The Last Beach is an urgent call to save Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper
the world’s beaches while there is still time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and
the last beach
J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in this frank assessment of our current relationship with beaches and the grim future if we do not change the way we understand and treat our irreplaceable shores. Combining case studies and anecdotes from around the world, they argue that many of the world’s developed beaches, including some in Florida and in Spain, are virtually doomed and that we must act immediately to save imperiled beaches.
After explaining beaches as dynamic ecosystems, Pilkey and Cooper assess the harm done by dense oceanfront development, accompanied by the construction of massive seawalls to protect new buildings from a shoreline that encroaches as sea levels rise. They discuss the toll taken by sand mining, trash that washes up on beaches, and pollution, which has contaminated not only the water but also, surprisingly, the sand. Acknowledging the challenge of reconciling our actions with our love of beaches, the geologists offer suggestions for reversing course, insisting that given the space,
Orrin H. Pilkey, deemed “America’s foremost philosopher of the beaches,” by the New York Times, is James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and Founder and Director Emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines, based at Western Carolina University. Pilkey is a coauthor (with Keith C. Pilkey) of Global Climate Change: A Primer, published by Duke University Press, and of twenty books in the Press’s Living with the Shore series, edited by Pilkey and William J. Neal. The Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and Conservation Genetics Center opened at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, North Carolina, in 2013. Pilkey lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
J. Andrew G. Cooper is Professor of Coastal Studies in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Ulster. He and Pilkey are coauthors (with William J. Neal and Joseph T. Kelley) of The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline and coeditors of Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization. Well known for his advocacy of nonintervention on shorelines and his work on beaches and coasts worldwide, Cooper lives in the town of Coleraine in Northern Ireland.
beaches can take care of themselves and provide us with multiple benefits.
“We’re all used to lying on beaches and zoning out—but it turns out that if we want those beaches to be there much longer we better stand up and make our voices heard. This is fascinating new information about one of the planet’s most beloved
also by Orrin H. Pilkey
ecosystems.”—BILL M C KIBBEN , author of Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape “The Last Beach is a must-read for anyone interested in the plight of the world’s beaches. This brave confrontation with coastal engineers, coastal planners, developers, politicians, and beachfront property owners lays bare their adverse impact on the world’s beaches.”—ANDREW SHORT, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
Global Climate Change: A Primer Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey, with Mary Edna Fraser paper, $19.95tr/£12.99 978–0–8223–5109–2 / 2011
ENVIRONMENT
November 272 pages, 69 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5809–1, $19.95tr/£12.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5798–8, $69.95/£46.00
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My Tibetan Childhood When Ice Shattered Stone naktsang nulo Translation edited and abridged by Angus Cargill With a Foreword by Ralph Litzinger and an Introduction by Robert Barnett
Naktsang Nulo (born in 1949) worked as an official in the Chinese government, serving as a primary school teacher, police officer, judge, prison governor, and county leader in Qinghai province, China, before retiring in 1993. Angus Cargill was formerly a Lecturer in the Department of Tibetan Language and Literature at Minzu University of China, Beijing. Ralph A. Litzinger is the author of Other Chinas: The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging. Robert Barnett is the Director of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University and the author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories.
In My Tibetan Childhood, Naktsang Nulo chronicles his life in Tibet’s Amdo region during the 1950s. Recalling events as he experienced them at the age of ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on the grasslands of Tibet’s eastern plateau. He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries, including a 1500-mile horseback expedition his family made to Lhasa. A year or so later, they attempted to flee by the same route as troops of the People’s Liberation Army advanced into their area. Naktsang’s
“Equipped with a superbly comprehensive introduction,
father was killed in the fighting that
this absorbing memoir of nomadic life in the 1950s takes
ensued, part of a little-known wave of
us deep into a Tibetan world neglected by both official Chinese histories and narratives by Tibetans in exile. Few books on Tibet have been as revelatory as this
unrest that took place throughout Amdo in 1958, as Tibetans rose up against the imposition of social and religious
one.”—PANKAJ MISHRA , author of From the Ruins of
reforms by the Chinese forces. During the next year, the author and his brother
Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking
were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children
of Asia
survived. The narrative reveals, through the eyes of a child, the lived experience of the forced and violent incorporation of the Tibetan heartlands into the People’s Republic by Chinese troops in the 1950s. The author’s matter-of-fact accounts cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived to tell his tale. His book was published in 2007 in China, where tens of thousands of unofficial copies are believed to have circulated. It is one of the most reprinted works in modern Tibetan literature. This translation offers rare insight into a fascinating, painful period of modern Tibetan history.
“With little comment or condemnation, [My Tibetan Childhood] records the price paid in lives and lifestyles by the author’s family and community for their incorporation into modern China. . . . In many senses, it is a naive story, the chronicle of a world seen through a child’s eyes. But to readers within Tibet, it was a revelation. It told of epochal events that had rarely if ever been described before in print.”—ROBERT BARNETT, from the introduction
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November 356 pages, 30 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5726–1, $24.95tr/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5712–4, $89.95/£59.00
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What Animals Teach Us about Politics brian massumi In What Animals Teach Us about Politics,
BRIAN MASSUMI
What Animals Teach Us about Politics
Brian Massumi takes up the question of “the animal.” By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics
Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.
of the animal, but an integrally animal politics, freed from connotations of the “primitive” state of nature and the accom-
“This is a truly brilliant book, one of Brian Massumi’s best.
panying presuppositions about instinct
More than anyone else I have read, Massumi makes
permeating modern thought. Massumi
real progress in untangling the relationship between play,
integrates notions marginalized by the dominant currents in evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and philosophy—notions such as play, sympathy, and creativity— into the concept of nature. As he does
so, his inquiry necessarily expands, encompassing not only animal behavior but also animal thought and its distance from, or proximity to, those capacities over which human animals claim a monopoly: language and reflexive
sympathy, politics, and animality. What Animals Teach Us about Politics provides a fascinating and persuasively nonsubject-centered account of sympathy, and it goes a long way toward helping us to see how the practice and theorization of ‘politics’ would be radically refigured within a processontology.”—JANE BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things “In a remarkable work of speculative thought, Brian Massumi reimagines what politics can be when we ramify the
consciousness.
importance of play—its excesses, surpluses, and transforma-
For Massumi, humans and animals exist on a continuum. Understanding that
tive energies—and how it intimately binds human beings to
continuum, while accounting for difference, requires a new logic of “mutual inclusion.” Massumi finds the conceptual resources for this logic in the work of thinkers including Gregory Bateson, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon, and
other forms of life. This is not the ‘animal,’ and the ‘politics,’ you thought you knew.”—CARY WOLFE, author of Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
Raymond Ruyer. This concise book intervenes in Deleuze studies, posthumanism, and animal studies, as well as areas of study as wide-ranging as affect theory, aesthetics, embodied cognition, political theory, process philosophy, the theory of play, and the thought of Alfred North Whitehead.
also by Brian Massumi
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation paper, $24.95/£15.99 978–0–8223–2897–1 / 2002
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September 152 pages
paper, 978–0–8223–5800–8, $21.95/£13.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5772–8, $74.95/£49.00
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On The Wire linda williams Many television critics, legions
Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Screening Sex and Porn Studies, both also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible.” In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
of fans, even the President of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever.
On The Wire
In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay between film, melodrama, and issues of race, suggests what exactly it is that makes The Wire so good. She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration
“I must admit initially being skeptical of Linda Williams’s thesis that The Wire is best understood as melodrama. But after reading her convincing and compelling analy-
of urban dysfunction and institu-
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tional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. The Wire is
sis, I not only came away with new insights into a series that I knew very well, but have fully revised my notions
popular melodrama, not Greek tragedy, as critics and the series creator David
of how serial melodrama applies to contemporary televi-
Simon have claimed. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once,
sion. This vital book is essential reading for scholars
it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore’s people and
and viewers of both The Wire and television drama
institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local gov-
more broadly.”—JASON MITTELL , author of Television and American Culture
ernment and local journalism. The Wire transforms close observation into an unparalleled melodrama by juxtaposing the good and evil of individuals with
“Linda Williams’s kaleidoscopic study compellingly
the good and evil of institutions.
considers The Wire as art, as rhetoric, and as political intervention. Her absorbing argument for the series as ‘institutional melodrama’ upends conventional
SPIN OFFS
discussions not only about this narrative but about
A Series Edited by Lynn Spigel
the broader practice of contemporary television drama. We understand The Wire not as tragedy, not as a novel, not as a piece of journalism; rather, we see and feel the show at the intersection of home and the world,
also by Linda Williams
as the orange couch in the courtyard of the low rises.” —SEAN O’SULLIVAN , author of Mike Leigh
Screening Sex
Porn Studies
paper, $27.95/£17.99
Linda Williams, editor
978–0–8223–4285–4 / 2008
paper, $27.95/£17.99 978–0–8223–3312–8 / 2004
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TELEVISION
August 272 pages, 60 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5717–9, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5706–3, $84.95/£55.00
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Postcolonial Modernism Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria chik a okeke- agulu
p o stco lo n i a l m o d e r n i s m
Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring over 125 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding political independence in 1960, before the outbreak of civil war in 1967. Chika Okeke-Agulu traces the
Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, curator, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Archaeology and the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. He is a coauthor of Photo ©Chika Okeke-Agulu Contemporary African Art since 1980 and coeditor (with Okwui Enwezor and Salah M. Hassan) of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, also published by Duke University Press.
artistic, intellectual, and critical networks in several Nigerian
art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria
Chik a Okeke-agulu
“With this impressive book, Chika Okeke-Agulu has written
cities. Zaria is particularly impor-
an expansive, incisive, and dazzling account of the production
tant, because it was there, at the
of a new spirit of postcolonial artistic modernity in Nigeria
Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, that a group of students formed the Art Society
and inaugurated “postcolonial modernism” in Nigeria. As Okeke-Agulu explains,
at the denouement of colonialism in the 1950s. Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria is perhaps the most important book of its kind to appear in years. In succinct and lucid language, and on lavishly illustrated pages, it offers a vigorous analysis of the
their works show both a deep connection with local artistic traditions and the
artistic forces that lend a new understanding of the complex
stylistic sophistication that we have come to associate with twentieth-century
formations of global art history.”—OKWUI ENWEZOR ,
modernist practices. He explores how these young Nigerian artists were
Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich
inspired by the rhetoric and ideologies of decolonization and nationalism in the early- and mid-twentieth century and, later, by advocates of negritude and pan-Africanism. They translated the experiences of decolonization into a distinctive “postcolonial modernism” that has continued to inform the work of major Nigerian artists. “In this work of prodigious scholarship, Chika Okeke-Agulu draws on a trove of previously unexamined archival resources and he subjects the artistic and literary production of Nigeria’s pioneer modernists to critical analysis. Redirecting our understanding of the modern art movement in Nigeria, his book will interest a broad range of scholars, including those studying comparative modernism, global art, visual culture, history, and literature. This groundbreaking work affirms Okeke-Agulu as a rigorous critical thinker and interdisciplinary scholar.”—SALAH M. HASSAN, Goldwin Smith Professor, Department of History of Art and Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
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January 376 pages, 129 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5746–9, $29.95tr/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5732–2, $99.95/£65.00
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Other Planes of There Selected Writings renée green Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker.
For more than two decades, the artist
Her exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen throughout the world in museums, biennales, and festivals. A selection of her books includes Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Ongoing Becomings, Between and Including, Shadows and Signals, and, as editor, Negotiations in the Contact Zone. Green’s essays and fiction have appeared in magazines and journals such as Transition, October, and Collapse. She is also a Professor at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, School of Architecture and Planning.
Renée Green has created an impressive body of work in which language is an essential element. Green is also a prolific OTH E R PL A N E S OF TH E R E
writer and a major voice in the international art world. Other Planes of There gathers for the first time a substantial collection of the work she wrote between 1981 and 2010. The selected essays initially appeared in publications in different countries and languages, making their availability in this volume a boon to those
“More than a collection of an artist’s writings, Other Planes of There is also a rigorous meditation on the question of why artists are compelled to write. Along the way, almost incidentally as it were, readers are
Selected Writings
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RENÉE GREEN
wanting to follow Green’s artistic and intellectual trajectory. Charting this cosmopolitan artist’s thinking
offered a self-conscious survey of the most advanced
through the decades, Other Planes of There brings essays, film scripts, reviews,
thinking in the artistic practice of an artist who not
and polemics together with reflections on Green’s own artistic practice and
only dares to represent herself but also to put herself forward, in that representation, as representative.” —FRED MOTEN , author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and B Jenkins
seminal artworks. It immerses the reader in three decades of contemporary art showcasing the art and thought, the incisive critiques, and prescient observations of one of our foremost artists and intellectuals. Sound, cinema, literature, time-based media, and the relationship between art forms and other forms of
“Renée Green’s far-reaching social and political interests have led her into taking on the roles of artist-curatorarchivist-historian-exhibition designer—and, perhaps most unusual, adventuress-traveler. As indefatigable
knowledge are just a few of the matters that Green takes up and thinks through. Featuring a new visual essay created by the artist for this volume, Other Planes of There is lavishly illustrated with 290 illustrations (with nearly 250 in color).
explorer of circuits of ideas, objects, geographies, histories, and categories, as challenger of historical and cultural boundaries, she has accrued an extraordinary body of work across at least four continents.
“The publication of Other Planes of There is a major intellectual event. Given Renée Green’s stature and influence, both in the United States and abroad, her writing can
This remarkable selection of essays bears vivid witness
be surprisingly hard to track down. This volume will be an essential reference point
to the range of her ideas, the reach of her curiosity,
for anyone invested in critical practice of the last three decades and the shape of things
and her generosity and acuity of intellect.”—Y VONNE
to come. We need this book.”—HUEY COPELAND , author of Bound to Appear: Art,
RAINER , avant-garde American dancer, choreographer,
Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America
and filmmaker
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ART
October 544 pages, 290 illustrations, including 249 in color paper, 978–0–8223–5703–2, $29.95tr/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5692–9, $99.95/£65.00
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Speculation, Now Essays and Artwork edited by v yjayanthi venuturupalli rao , with prem krishnamurthy & carin kuoni With an Afterword by Arjun Appadurai
Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New School. Prem Krishnamurthy, a designer and curator based in New York, is a founder of the awardwinning design studio Project Projects. Carin Kuoni is Director and Curator of the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, a public research laboratory dedicated to exploring the relationship between political and aesthetic practices. Arjun Appadurai is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University.
“Speculation can only occur in the course of action, in the heat of practice, in the thick of experience. It is immanent Hans Haacke, photograph from !?!?..., created for Speculation, Now, 2014. Courtesy of the Vera List Center.
critique, insofar as it does not seek to distance itself from experience but rather to intervene . . . through a particular
Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates
form of disciplined action. Hannah Arendt famously distin-
unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork
guished action from behavior, by remarking that genuine
is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive
action begins something new in the world. So does specula-
change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether “the
tion, as the many projects, art works, and arguments in this
speculative” can be represented on a map. An ethnographer investigates religious possession in Islam to contemplate states between the divine and the
book so vividly illustrate.”—ARJUN APPADURAI , from the afterword
seemingly human. A financial technologist queries understandings of speculation in financial markets. A multimedia artist and activist considers the relation between social change and assumptions about the conditions to be changed, and an architect posits purposeful neglect as political strategy. The book includes an extensive glossary with more than twenty short entries in which scholars contemplate such speculation-related notions as insurance, hallucination, prophecy, the paradox of beginnings, and states of half-knowledge. The book’s artful, nonlinear design mirrors and reinforces the notion of contingency that animates it. By embracing speculation substantively, stylistically, seriously, and playfully, Speculation, Now reveals its subversive and critical potential. Artists and Essayists include: Arjun Appadurai, William Darity Jr., Filip De Boeck, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Darrick Hamilton, Victoria Hattam, Angie Keefer, Laura Kurgan, Lin + Lam, Gary Lincoff, Lize Mogel, Christina Moon, Trevor Paglen, Stefania Pandolfo, Satya Pemmaraju, Mary Poovey, Walid Raad, Sherene Schostak, Robert Sember, Lucy Skaer, Srdjan Jovanovic´ Weiss PUBLISHED BY DUKE UNIVERSIT Y PRESS AND THE VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS AT THE NEW SCHOOL
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October 272 pages, 60 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5829–9, $29.95tr/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5815–2, $99.95/£65.00
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My Father’s House On Will Barnet’s Paintings thomas dumm
Photo by Judith Piotrkowski
In My Father’s House, the political phi-
Hastie ’25 Professor of Political Ethics at Amherst College. He is the author of Loneliness as a Way of Life, A Politics of the Ordinary, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom, and Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States, and a coeditor of Performances of Violence.
losopher Thomas Dumm explores a series M y Fat h e r’ s h ou s e
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on w ill barnet ’ s pai ntings
dissecting objects, it follows their rhythms, twists, and
American artist Will Barnet. Responding to the physical and mental decline of his sister Eva, who lived alone in the family home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet began work in 1990 on what became a series of nine paintings depicting Eva and other family members as they once were and as they figured in the artist’s
“My Father’s House is a genuine and rare accomplishment. Art criticism is often at its best when, rather than
of stark and melancholy paintings by the
Thomas Dumm
memory. Rendered in Barnet’s signature quiet, abstract style, the paintings, each
turns. Thomas Dumm does just that. One of this book’s
featured in full color, present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twen-
many strengths is the variety of ways that he evocatively
tieth-century American family.
relates the experience of Will Barnet’s paintings. Another
Dumm first became acquainted with Barnet and his paintings in 2008. Given his
is the magnificent introduction, which brings Emerson, Melville, Cavell, and others into conversation with the
scholarly focus on the lives of ordinary people, he was immediately attracted
spirit of Barnet’s work and with Barnet himself.”—TOM
to the artist’s work. When they met, Dumm and Barnet began a friendship and
HUHN , author of Imitation and Society: The Persistence
dialogue that lasted until the painter’s death in 2012, at the age of 101. This
of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant
book reflects the many discussions the two had concerning the series of paint-
“In this beautiful book, Thomas Dumm invents a new genre of writing, neither art criticism nor memoir nor
ings, Barnet’s family, his early life in Beverly, and his eighty-year career as a prominent New York artist. Reading the almost gothic paintings in conversation
philosophy nor psychology but something drawing from
with the writers and thinkers key to both his and Barnet’s thinking—Emerson,
each of those, something that tries to show more than
Spinoza, Dickinson, Benjamin, Cavell, Nietzsche, Melville—Dumm’s haunting
describe how works of art have power, a disseminating,
meditations evoke broader reflections on family, mortality, the uncanny, and
productive power that exceeds any biography. Dumm is
the loss that comes with remembrance.
an extraordinary writer and courageous thinker.”—JANE
BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
“Thomas Dumm’s unique intelligence, perceptual clarity, and philosophical erudition inform this powerful homage to the artist Will Barnet and his series of paintings, My Father’s House. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Benjamin, and Stanley Cavell are among those summoned to assist Dumm as he meditates on questions of place and person, loss and love, past and present, conjured for him by Barnet’s haunting and haunted works. This is a deeply moving account of how an encounter with art might allay the turbulent loneliness of our age.”—ANN LAUTERBACH , author of Under the Sign
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September 144 pages, 10 color illustrations cloth, 978–0–8223–5546–5, $24.95tr/£15.99
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Willful Subjects sara ahmed Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and
In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed
Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed
explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections
Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, all also published by Duke University Press, as well as The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, and Differences That Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.
shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.
“Like Sara Ahmed’s other works, which are known for their originality, sharpness, and reach, Willful Subjects offers here a vibrant, surprising, and philosophically rich analysis of cultural politics, drawing on feminist, queer, and antiracist uses of willingness and willfulness to explain forms of sustained and adamant social disagreement as a constitutive part of any radical ethics and politics worth its name.” —JUDITH BUTLER, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley “Willful Subjects is beautifully conceived and expertly conducted, sentence by sentence, suggestion by suggestion. Paradoxically, Sara Ahmed’s willfulness promises happiness for her readers. Exquisite formulations engage our contemplation and render real intellectual enjoyment. Followers of Ahmed, of whom there are many, will not be disappointed. This new instance of razor-sharp thinking powerfully builds upon The Promise of Happiness to look at something usefully slicing through contentment: the scissoring relations
also by Sara Ahmed
between the will and willfulness. More than cutting-edge, this is cutting thought.”—KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON , author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
The Promise of Happiness paper, $24.95/£15.99
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
paper, $22.95/£14.99
978–0–8223–4725–5 / 2010
paper, $22.95/£14.99
978–0–8223–5236–5 / 2012
978–0–8223–3914–4 / 2006
F E M I N I S T T H E O R Y/C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S/ P H I L O S O P H Y
August 304 pages
paper, 978–0–8223–5783–4, $24.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5767–4, $89.95/£59.00
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Land’s End Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier tania murray li Tania Murray Li is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics, also published by Duke University Press.
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania
LAND’S END
Murray Li offers an intimate account of the tania murray li
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty and isolation, some prospered, while others lost their land and struggled to sustain their
“This is a wonderful book. It may have the biggest general impact of a book centered on Southeast Asian
families. Yet the winners and losers in this
rural social dynamics since James Scott’s seminal
transition were not strangers—they were kin
Weapons of the Weak. With unusual clarity and great
and neighbors. Li’s richly peopled account
persuasiveness, Tania Murray Li explores theoretical and
takes the reader into the highlanders’ world,
methodological issues through vivid depictions of peo-
exploring the dilemmas they faced as sharp
ples’ lives.”—HENRY BERNSTEIN , Professor Emeritus
inequalities emerged among them.
of Development Studies, University of London
The book challenges complacent modernization narratives promoted by development agencies that assume inefficient farmers who lose out in the shift to high-value export crops can find jobs elsewhere. Decades of uneven and often jobless growth in Indonesia meant that for newly landless highlanders, land’s end was a dead end. The book also has implications for social-movement activists, who seldom attend to instances where enclosure is initiated by farmers rather than coerced by the state or agribusiness corporations. Li’s attention to the historical, cultural, and ecological dimensions of this conjuncture demonstrates the power of the ethnographic method and its relevance to theory and practice today.
also by Tania Murray Li
“Tania Murray Li, one of the foremost scholars of the native peoples, economies, and ecologies of Southeast Asia, here tells the subtle and challenging story of the Lauje, a group who defy clichés of indigeneity and whose destructive involvement in commodity production was willingly embraced. Her analysis complicates our understanding of the expansion of global capitalism, and the millions of people who do not fit easily into narratives of modern rural transformation.”—MICHAEL R. DOVE , coeditor of Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics paper, $26.95/£17.99 978–0–8223–4027–0 / 2007
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August 248 pages, 14 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5705–6, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5694–3, $84.95/£55.00
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The Theater of Operations National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror joseph masco How did the most powerful nation on
THE THEATER OF OPERATIONS
earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the presentday U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War’s “balance of terror.” He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual,
JOSEPH MASCO
“What Joseph Masco shows us in The Theater of Operations
and institutional resources established
is an entire affective structure—the management of anxiety,
during the Cold War to enable a new
resilience, steadfastness, sacrifice—that is demanded of every
planetary theater of operations. Tracing NATIONAL SECURITY AFFECT FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR
Joseph Masco is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico, winner of the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research and the Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.
how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state
secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American
citizen. Alert to liquid containers above 2.4 ounces, hypervigilant about abandoned bags, suspicious of loitering, and prepared for the detonation of a thermonuclear weapon— we learn to live our lives aware of tiny and apocalyptic things. With an anthropologist’s eye long attuned to life in the para-
social contract, he draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to
wartime state, Masco is the perfect guide to the theater of
offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and
the security state.”—PETER GALISON , author of Einstein’s
unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts,
Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time
and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined, and emergent.
“Joseph Masco’s brilliance lies in his ability to make visible the complex affective and discursive technologies that emerged from the long history of the Cold War, and to illuminate their effects on our everyday perceptions of security and harm. This much-anticipated book will be read widely in cultural anthropology and cultural studies. It is beautifully written and argued. That one leaves The Theater of Operations a bit paranoid is a tribute to Masco’s rhetorical skill.”—ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI, author of Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism
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The Life of Captain Cipriani An Account of British Government in the West Indies with the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government c . l . r . james With a New Introduction by Bridget Brereton
C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian, political activist, and writer, is the author of The Black Jacobins, an influential study of the Haitian Revolution. His play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History and his now-classic book on sport and culture, Beyond a Boundary, are both published by Duke University Press. Bridget Brereton is Emerita Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.
C. L. R. JAMES THE LIFE OF C A PTA I N C I PR I A N I T H E S TO RY O F T H E
O N LY S U C C E S S F U L S L AV E R E VO LT I N H I S TO RY
A Play in Three Acts
century. It is partly based on James’s interviews with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1876–1945). As
impressed by the service of the black West Indian troops and appalled at their treatment during and
G OV E R N M E N T
are two of C. L. R. James’s most significant contribu-
historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth
during the First World War, Cipriani was greatly OF BRITISH
pamphlet, The Case for West-Indian Self Government,
writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant
a captain with the British West Indies Regiment
A N AC C O U N T
“The Life of Captain Cipriani and the excerpted
The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian
IN THE
after the war. After his return to the West Indies,
WEST INDIES
W I T H T H E PA M P H L E T
The Case for West-Indian Self Government
he became a Trinidadian political leader and advo-
tions to the anticolonial cause. These early works
cate for West Indian self-government. James’s book is as much polemic as
played a crucial part in the development of his career
biography. Written in Trinidad and published in England, it is an early and power-
as a writer and political thinker. They helped articulate
ful statement of West Indian nationalism. An excerpt, The Case for West-Indian
the case for independence for Trinidad and the West
Self Government, was issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in
Indies, and they effectively launched James’s career
1933. This volume includes the biography, the pamphlet, and a new introduction
as a public figure.”—KENT WORCESTER , author of C. L. R. James: A Political Biography
in which Bridget Brereton considers both texts and the young C. L. R. James in relation to Trinidadian and West Indian intellectual and social history. She
“This volume is an indispensable introduction to
discusses how James came to write his biography of Cipriani, how the book was
the dialectical synthesis of biography, sports, race,
received in the West Indies and Trinidad, and how, throughout his career, James
politics, and poetics that the early James brought to
would use biography to explore the dynamics of politics and history.
his encounter with Marxism. It was the later merging of the codes of these two already complex and synthetic discourses that made possible classic works like The Black Jacobins and Beyond A Boundary.”—PAGET
also in the C. L. R. James Archives
HENRY, coeditor of C. L. R. James’s Caribbean
THE C. L. R. JAMES ARCHIVES A Series Edited by Robert A. Hill
C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain
Beyond a Boundary
Toussaint Louverture
C. L. R. James
C. L. R. James
Christian Høgsbjerg
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July 200 pages
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The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Volume XII marcus garvey robert a . hill , editor in chief
Volume XII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers
Robert A. Hill is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is Editor in Chief and Project Director of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project at the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.
a period of twelve months, from the opening of the the
m arcus garvey a nd u ni v ersa l negro improv emen t associ ation pa pers
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Volume XII
robert a. hill Editor in Chief
UNIA’s historic first international convention in New
PR AISE FOR THE M ARCUS G ARVE Y AND UNIVER SAL
York, in August 1920, to Marcus Garvey’s return to
NEG RO IMPROVEMENT A SSOCIATION PAPER S
the United States in July 1921 after an extended tour of Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, and Belize. In many ways the 1920 convention marked the high point of the Garvey movement in the United States,
“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers will take its place among the most important records of the Afro-American experience.”—ERIC FONER , New York Times Book Review
while Garvey’s tour of the Caribbean, in the winter and spring of 1921, registered the greatest outpouring of popular support for the UNIA in its history. The period covered in the present volume was the moment of the movement’s political apotheosis, but also the moment when the finances of Garvey’s Black Star Line went into
“Robert A. Hill and his staff . . . have gathered over 30,000 documents from libraries and other sources in many countries. . . . The Garvey papers will reshape our understanding of the history of black nationalism and perhaps increase our understanding of contemporary black politics.”
free fall.
—CLAYBORNE CARSON , The Nation
Volume XII highlights the centrality of Caribbean people not only to the conven-
“Now is our chance, through these important volumes,
tion, but also to the movement. The reports to the convention discussed the
to finally begin to come to terms with the significance
range of social and economic conditions obtaining in the Caribbean, particularly
of Garvey’s complex, fascinating career and the meaning
their impact on racial conditions. The quality of the discussions and debates
of the movement he built.”—LAWRENCE W. LEVINE ,
were impressive. Contained in these reports are some of the earliest and most
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clearly enunciated statements in defense of social and political freedom in the Caribbean. These documents form an underappreciated and still underutilized record of the political awakening of Caribbean people of African descent.
also available
About The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project A monumental archival undertaking, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project has collected thousands of historical documents related to Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which spread Garvey’s influential message of racial pride, black nationalism, and PanAfricanism around the world. The Papers include letters, pamphlets, intelligence reports, newspaper articles, speeches, legal records, and diplomatic dispatches carefully assem-
For more information about The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920
Association Papers, visit web.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp
cloth, $120.00/£78.00
bled, editorially arranged, and annotated by Robert A. Hill and his research team.
978–0–8223–4690–6 / 2011
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Dance Floor Democracy The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen sherrie tucker Sherrie Tucker is Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s and coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, both also published by Duke University Press.
l oo r Da n c e F
ac y D e m oc r
Open from 1942 until 1945, the Hollywood Canteen was the most famous of the patriotic home-front nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening night, when the crowds were so thick that Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom window to give her welcome speech,
“The publication of Dance Hall Democracy elevates cultural
the storied dance floor where movie stars
studies scholarship to new levels of sophistication and
danced with soldiers has been the subject
significance.”—GEORGE LIPSITZ , author of Midnight
of much U.S. nostalgia about the “Greatest
at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story nT ee n
beautifully written evocation of the Hollywood Canteen. This original and highly creative work is a model of cultural history by a scholar of exemplary insight, intelligence, and sensitivity. Tucker brilliantly reads the dance floor to reveal meanings created, challenged, and negotiated by the dancers.
Generation.” Drawing from oral histories
ca yw oo d e ho ll y aT Th M eM or ph y of ra oG Ge So ci al
“Sherrie Tucker has given us a meticulously researched and
ker ie T u c Sherr
with civilian volunteers and military guests
Th e
who danced at the wartime nightclub,
Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees’ varied experiences and recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some
Dance Floor Democracy insists upon a complex and multi-
recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub’s dance floor and in Los
dimensional portrait of a period and a place too often viewed
Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian
through the lens of nostalgia.”—FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN , author of Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the “Good War” in popular culture narratives. For Tucker, swing dancing’s torque—bodies sharing weight, velocity, and turning power without guaranteed outcomes—is an apt metaphor for the jostling narratives, different perspectives, unsteady memories, and quotidian acts that comprise social history.
also by Sherrie Tucker
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
Swing Shift: “All–Girl” Bands of the 1940s
Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker, editors
978–0–8223–2817–9 / 2001
paper, $26.95tr/£17.99
pape, $27.95/£17.99 978–0–8223–4320–2 / 2008
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AMERICAN STUDIE S
October 416 pages, 36 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5757–5, $26.95/£17.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5742–1, $94.95/£62.00
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N E W I N PA PERB AC K
Traveling Heavy
Adam’s Gift
A Memoir in between Journeys ruth behar
A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays jimmy creech With a New Foreword by Frank Schaefer
“Ruth Behar’s vivid personal vignettes sing of sorrow and joy, disappointment and love. They range from family and “Adam’s Gift is the most engaging
fieldwork to travel and returns to her
Adam ’s Gift
birthplace: Havana, Cuba. They explore her mixedness, Jewish and Latina. She is an ethnographer and a writer. Read
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and join her moving quest for belong-
A MeMoir of A
ing and home.”—RENATO ROSALDO ,
PA stor’s CA llin g to Defy the C hurC h’s
author of The Day of Shelly’s Death:
PerseC ution of
The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
lesbiA ns AnD gAys
and candid autobiography I have come across. The extraordinary journey of the Reverend Jimmy Creech certainly reveals his innermost desire to help allay the suffering that exists on our planet. Viewed within this context, it comes as no surprise that as a young United Methodist minister
“‘Travelers are those who go else-
he became involved in the justice
where because they want to . . . .
issue that would rock the church from
Immigrants are those who go else-
within—the LGBTQ rights movement.
where because they have to.’ Ruth Behar’s own story is one of being both
. . . Sadly, Jimmy’s message of inclu-
the reluctant immigrant and the enthusiastic traveler, and finally, perhaps
jimmy creech With a NeW ForeWord by
to appease both legacies, ‘an anthropologist who specializes in homesick-
FraNk SchaeFer
siveness and acceptance of LGBTQ rights within the Christian community
ness.’ Behar admits Spanish is her mother tongue, and yet she is a master
was ahead of his time and was, therefore, not heard or correctly under-
craftsperson in her father tongue, English. As always, her exquisite stories
stood by the leadership. In 1999, he was defrocked by a U.M. church trial
leave me astonished, amused, exhilarated, illuminated, and forever trans-
court. But that did not stop him from continuing his advocacy and activism
formed.” —SANDRA CISNEROS , author of The House on Mango Street
within the church. . . . Creech’s early witness and activism within the church
“Ruth Behar takes us deep into geographies she has charted, transcending anthropological reportage and finding the poetry that is there not only in the places she has mapped but also in history. She has written an
have provided a foundation for our new understanding of what ministerial integrity means in the LGBTQ movement.”—FRANK SCHAEFER , from the foreword
observant and surprisingly compassionate book, full of warmth. I enjoyed
“Jimmy Creech is a man who puts his life where his Gospel is! His amazing
reading every page; it is full of wisdom and devastating sincerity.”—NILO
journey, as told in his memoir, is the story of a follower of Christ who,
CRUZ , author of Anna in the Tropics, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
like Christ, risked his own life and ministry for the sake of the marginalized and scorned. The LGBT community will forever owe him a debt for his
Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba. She and her family moved to New York City when she was five. In the years since, she has become an internationally acclaimed writer and the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of many books, including An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart, and Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Behar has been honored with many prizes, including a MacArthur “Genius” Award.
sacrifice and his witness to the love of God for ALL of God’s children.” —BISHOP GENE ROBINSON , Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire
Jimmy Creech is a former United Methodist minister, now retired and living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has worked with many social action organizations, including Soulforce, an interfaith movement confronting spiritual violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons; the Methodist Federation for Social Action; the Raleigh Religious Network for Gay and Lesbian Equality; and Faith in America, an organization working to end religion-based bigotry. Frank Schaefer, a United Methodist minister, was put on a church trial for performing his son’s same-sex wedding.
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July 248 pages, 18 photographs
July 362 pages, 17 color photographs
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A Rock Garden in the South
Beautiful at All Seasons
elizabeth lawrence Edited by Nancy Goodwin with Allen Lacy
Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence
PR A I S E FO R E LI Z A B E T H L AW R E N C E
elizabeth lawrence Edited by Ann L. Armstrong and Lindie Wilson
“I have learned more about horticulture, plants, and garden history and literature from Elizabeth Lawrence than from any other one person.” —KATHARINE WHITE, The New Yorker “As in all her gardening books, Elizabeth Lawrence writes from her own experience and personal records and out of relish and delight. . . . She’s written with the intimacy that comes of full knowledge, true and patient love, a grower’s sense of continuity in the natural world, and a lyricist’s lifetime practice of praise.”—EUDORA WELTY
ELIZ AB E TH L AWRENCE
Available in paperback for the first time, this book features the avid gardener and beloved writer Elizabeth Lawrence’s thoughts on rock gardening. She addresses the unique problem of culti-
A Rock Garden in the South EDITED BY NANCY GOODWIN WITH ALLEN L ACY
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In 1957, the revered garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence began a weekly column for the Charlotte Observer. This book presents 132 of the more than 700 pieces that she wrote for the Observer over fourteen years. “A . . . book of garden essays by the incomparable Elizabeth Lawrence is a cause for celebration.”—EMILY HERRING
WILSON , author of No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence
“Lawrence displays the virtues of a dedicated plantswoman: she is generous, patient, watchful and above all curious as she delves into
vating rock gardens in the South, where
the histories of her favorite plants.”—JENNIFER POTTER , The Times
the growing season is prolonged and
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the humidity and heat are not conducive to such planting. Describing her experiences making a rock garden, Lawrence offers excellent advice on placing stones,
constructing steps, selecting plants, and making cuttings. At the same time, A Rock Garden in the South is relevant to all kinds of gardens; the renowned garden writer thoroughly discusses plants she has tried, recommending bulbs and other perennials, annuals, and woody plants. The editors have added an encyclopedia of plants
“All gardeners will welcome this splendidly edited collection of essays by Elizabeth Lawrence. They will delight in her elegant prose and subtle humor and will marvel at her breadth of knowledge of plants and literature. I could hardly put it down.”—NANCY GOODWIN , author of Montrose: Life in a Garden “Reading Lawrence reminds us that gardening is a way to connect to our community, our history and traditions and ultimately to the world around us. This is one for the bedside table.”—DAVID BARE , Winston-Salem Journal
alphabetized by genus and species.
Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985) wrote a popular gardening column
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Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985) wrote a popular gardening column
for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 until 1971. She is the author of A Southern Garden, Gardens in Winter, and Lob’s Wood, as well as Beautiful at All Seasons, Gardening for Love, and The Little Bulbs, which are published by Duke University Press. Nancy Goodwin is the author of Montrose: Life in a Garden, also published by Duke University Press. Allen Lacy, formerly a gardening columnist for the New York Times, is the author of numerous gardening books. Goodwin and Lacy are coauthors of A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy.
for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 until 1971. She is the author of A Southern Garden, Gardens in Winter, and Lob’s Wood, as well as A Rock Garden in the South, Gardening for Love, and The Little Bulbs, which are published by Duke University Press. Ann L. Armstrong is a garden lecturer and writer in Charlotte, North Carolina. She wrote the Wing Haven Garden Journal, a garden planning and maintenance calendar. Lindie Wilson owned Elizabeth Lawrence’s former home in Charlotte, where for more than twenty years she maintained the garden that Lawrence began in 1948.
GARDENING
GARDENING
September 240 pages
September 264 pages, 10 illustrations
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anthropolog y
Entrepreneurial Selves
Aurality
Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class
Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
carla freeman
ana maría ochoa gautier
“Carla Freeman’s scholarship reveals a delicate omnivorousness. She
“Aurality shows how hearing, writing, speech, and song were central to
offers a unique perspective on the affective economies through which
the constitution of modern personhood in the nineteenth century. Using
neoliberal capitalism and its middle-class subjects are made and remade,
Colombia as her case study, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how
demonstrating that neoliberalism is not monolithic or guaranteed. Its
colonial intellectuals, creoles, and indigenous people spoke, sung, and
varied ‘structures of feeling’ are produced, contested, and differentiated.
wrote across difference as they struggled to establish new kinds of politi-
Freeman’s way of making and working with theory is rare; it traverses
cal subjectivity and nationality. Her book offers a vital alternative to
multiple registers, holding in tension the specific, the general, the abstract,
a literature that has too often taken Western Europe and Anglophone
and the concrete.”—CINDI KATZ , author of Growing Up Global: Economic
North America as points of historical departure. Aurality will transform
Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives
our understandings of the human and the animal; nation and citizenship; music and language; speech and writing; and modernity itself.” —JONATHAN STERNE, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodi-
In this audacious book, Ana María
ment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography
Ochoa Gautier explores how listening
on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds
has been central to the production
dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the
of notions of language, music, voice,
rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that
and sound that determine the poli-
the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flex-
tics of life. Drawing primarily from
ibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped
AurAlity
through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by
Listening & Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of ‘reputation-respectability.’
tion) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional
by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her “acoustically tuned” analysis of
This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputa-
nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced
duke
Ana María Ochoa Gautier
a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the nature of the aural.
These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in
economy.
the service of the production of different notions of personhood and
Carla Freeman is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Emory University. She is the author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, also published by Duke University Press, and a coeditor of Global Middle Classes: Theorizing Through Ethnography.
belonging. In Ochoa Gautier’s groundbreaking work, Latin America
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Speculative Markets
Second Chances
Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria
Surviving AIDS in Uganda
kristin peterson
susan reynolds why te ,
“Speculative Markets brings exceptional clarity to a topic of genuine impor-
editor
“Second Chances provides insight of impressive range and depth into the
tance—the relationship between transnational finance capital and phar-
impact of global health programs. It moves medical anthropology’s theoret-
maceutical supply in West Africa. This is a brilliant multisited ethnography
ical agenda along by offering a subtle but sharp critique of contemporary
of a market, advancing new theoretical understandings of contemporary
manifestations of biological/therapeutic citizenship. Yet its greatest innova-
economic life in Nigeria and beyond. Kristin Peterson also makes a vital
tion may be methodological. As a convincing work of collective ethnogra-
contribution to global health and pharmaceutical reasoning by raising
phy, Second Chances reveals the productive potential of ‘team’ or ‘project’
critical questions about drug procurement, distribution, and efficacy.” —JULIE LIVINGSTON , author of Improvising Medicine: An African
anthropology.”—VINH-KIM NGUYEN , author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
During the first decade In this unprecedented account of the
of this millennium, many
dynamics of Nigeria’s pharmaceutical
thousands of people in
markets, Kristin Peterson connects
Uganda who otherwise
multinational drug company policies,
would have died from
oil concerns, Nigerian political and
AIDS
economic transitions, the circulation
at life. A massive global
of pharmaceuticals in the Global
health intervention, the
South, Wall Street machinations,
Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria
KristiN PetersoN
scaling up of antiretroviral
and the needs and aspirations of
Photo by the author.
individual Nigerians. Studying the
and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment.
pharmaceutical market in Lagos,
As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medi-
Nigeria, she places local market
cine and encouraged “positive living.” Because ART is not a cure but a
social norms and credit and pricing
lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society,
practices in the broader context of
families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad
therapy (ART), saved them
regional, transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains
knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection
how a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market
explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances.
collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal economic
Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and
reforms. And she illuminates the relation between that collapse and the
bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is
American turn to speculative capital during the 1980s. In the process,
based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including
she reveals the mutual constitution of financial speculation in the drug
both Western and African scholars.
industry and the structural adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on African nations. Her book is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and “development” as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions of the Lagos pharmaceutical market.
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Biomedicine in an Unstable Place
How Climate Change Comes to Matter
Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital
The Communal Life of Facts candis callison
alice street “A gifted storyteller who brings enormous empathy and nuance to each “This compelling study achieves almost perfect pitch in the way it engages
group she documents, Candis Callison depicts the current discursive strug-
quite different sources of understanding. At once true to the locale of a
gles over climate change, as such diverse players as corporate respon-
hospital in the Pacific and to the world of institutions just round everyone’s
sibility advocates, evangelical Christians, and Inuit tribal leaders, not to
corner, it also conveys the unexpected accommodations that patients and
mention scientists and journalists, seek to reconcile the need for dramatic
staff alike have to make to the predicaments in which they find themselves.
change with their existing sets of professional norms and cultural values.
Closely observed, sympathetic, critical, this is contemporary ethnography
This is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand how
of the first order.”—MARILYN STRATHERN , University of Cambridge
science gets refracted across an increasingly diverse media landscape and for anyone who wants to understand how they might be more effective at changing entrenched beliefs and practices.”—HENRY JENKINS , coauthor
Biomedicine in an
of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Unstable Place is the story of people’s struggle to make
Photo by the author.
During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated
biomedicine work
those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take
in a public hospital
action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison
in Papua New Guinea.
examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they
It is a story encom-
encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She
passing the history of
explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become
hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance,
expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals,
the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global
Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility.
medical research and public health, and people’s encounters with
The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of main-
urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea,
taining fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical
a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial
and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars
infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of insti-
through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the
tutional, medical, and ontological instability.
nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in
In the hospital’s clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe
different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers
resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to
an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin
the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors,
in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink
nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—
emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experi-
to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international
ence, evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.
development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.
Candis Callison is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of
Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are
Journalism at the University of British Columbia.
fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.
Alice Street is a Chancellors Fellow in Social Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
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The Multispecies Salon
Illusions of a Future
eben kirksey,
Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire
editor
k ate schechter “This timely anthology offers a substantial and engaging introduction to the field of multispecies studies, clearly presenting the core concepts of an important and influential area of scholarship, which will become increasingly central to anthropology, science studies, environmental studies, and social theory. At the same time, The Multispecies Salon is in many ways an art book. It features an extraordinary range of remarkable art projects, which are fascinating in their own right and beautifully written up.”—SARAH FRANKLIN , author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship
“Illusions of a Future is not only a careful, fightingly smart account of what happens to middle-American psychoanalysis and its ‘crisis’ under neoliberal conditions of risk and accountability. It is an argument for a rethinking of biopolitics. Kate Schechter uses a rigorous historical and ethnographic account of twentieth-century and contemporary psychoanalysis in Chicago to address and extend both Foucauldian and Derridean readings of analysis and of Freud at the very point where these readings appear to falter or reverse course. She does so through empirical engagement with ‘local catalogs of resistances,’ a project that she terms ‘rethinking biopolitics with renovated psychoanalytic
A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography.
M U LT I S PE C I E S SALON
Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes singular book about natural and
A pioneering ethnography of psychoanal-
cultural history. Anthropologists
ysis, Illusions of a Future explores the
biological scientists to illuminate how diverse organisms are entangled in political, economic, and cultural systems. Contributions from influential writers and scholars, such as EDITOR
The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things
appear alongside humans in this
have collaborated with artists and
E B E N K I R K S E Y,
its reader.”—LAWRENCE COHEN, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s,
ILLUSIONS OF A
The
resources’ and one that makes intense and rewarding demands on
FUTURE
psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire
kate schechter
political economy of private therapeutic labor within industrialized medicine. Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago, a historically important location in the development and institutionalization of psychoanalysis in the United States, Kate
Dorion Sagan, Karen Barad, Donna
Schechter examines the nexus of theory,
Haraway, and Anna Lowenhaupt
practice, and institutional form in the
Tsing, are featured along with essays by emergent artists and cultural
original instituting of psychoanalysis,
anthropologists.
its normalization, and now its “crisis.”
Delectable mushrooms flourishing in the aftermath of ecological
She describes how contemporary ana-
disaster, microbial cultures enlivening the politics and value of food,
lysts struggle to maintain conceptions
and emergent life forms running wild in the age of biotechnology
of themselves as capable of deciding what psychoanalysis is and how
all figure in this curated collection of essays and artifacts. Recipes
to regulate it in order to prevail over market demands for the efficiency
provide instructions on how to cook acorn mush, make cheese out
and standardization of mental health treatments.
of human milk, and enliven forests after they have been clear-cut.
In the process, Schechter shows how deeply imbricated the analyst-patient
The Multispecies Salon investigates messianic dreams, environmental
relationship is in this effort. Since the mid-twentieth century, the “real”
nightmares, and modest sites of biocultural hope.
relationship between analyst and patient is no longer the unremarked
Contributors
background of analysis but its very site. Psychoanalysts seek to validate
Karen Barad, Caitlin Berrigan, Karin Bolender, Maria Brodine, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn,
the centrality of this relationship with theory and, through codified “stan-
David S. Edmunds, Christine Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Stefan Helmreich,
dards,” to claim it as a privileged technique. It has become the means by
Angela James, Lindsay Kelley, Eben Kirksey, Linda Noel, Heather Paxson, Nathan Rich,
which psychoanalysts, in seeking to protect their disciplinary autonomy,
Anna Rodriguez, Dorion Sagan, Craig Schuetze, Nicholas Shapiro, Miriam Simun,
have unwittingly bound themselves to a neoliberal discourse of regulation.
Kim TallBear, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Eben Kirksey is a permanent faculty member in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Global Architecture of Power, also published by Duke University Press.
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The Republic Unsettled
Rubble
Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism
The Afterlife of Destruction
mayanthi l . fernando
gastón r . gordillo
“At the edges of the dreamscapes put forward by the state and capi“The Republic Unsettled is a brilliant book, at once a concrete examination of the experiences of Muslim French and a compelling analysis of the
tal, Gastón R. Gordillo shows us haunted places where phantoms and curses join human bones and broken bricks: rubble. The Argentine Chaco
structural and discursive obstacles they face. A major contribution to both
becomes a magical landscape wrapped in multiple pasts and presents.
ethnography and political theory, this provocative, beautifully written work
Simultaneously erudite and evocative, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction
will appeal to those interested in debates about Muslims in Europe and the
remakes the stories we tell about knowledge and history—and the legacy
possibilities for thinking difference differently.”—JOAN WALLACH SCOTT,
of violent conquest from the Spanish empire to the soy boom.”—ANNA
author of The Fantasy of Feminist History
LOWENHAUPT TSING , coeditor of Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon
In 1989, three Muslim schoolgirls At the foot of the Argentine Andes,
from a Paris suburb refused to Mayanthi L. Fernando
The Republic
unseTTled
remove their Islamic headscarves in
bulldozers are destroying forests
class. The headscarf crisis signaled
and homes to create soy fields in
an Islamic revival among the chil-
an area already strewn with rubble
dren of North African immigrants;
from previous waves of destruction
it also ignited an ongoing debate
and violence. Based on ethno-
about the place of Muslims within
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The Afterlife of Destruction
Muslim French and the contradictions of secularism
graphic research in this region where the mountains give way to
the secular nation-state. Based on ten years of ethnographic research,
the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón
The Republic Unsettled alternates
R. Gordillo shows how geographic
between an analysis of Muslim
space is inseparable from the
French religiosity and the con-
material, historical, and affective
tradictions of French secularism
ruptures embodied in debris.
precipitated by this Muslim identity.
Gastón R. Gordillo
Mayanthi L. Fernando explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic and secular-republican traditions to create novel modes of ethical and
His exploration of the significance of rubble encompasses lost cities,
derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts,
political life, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a new future for
stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the
France. She also examines how the political discourses, institutions,
effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on
and laws that constitute French secularism regulate Islam, transforming
nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for
the Islamic tradition and what it means to be Muslim. Fernando traces
the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist
how long-standing tensions within secularism and republican citizen-
endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the
ship are displaced onto France’s Muslims, who are, as a result, rendered
violence and dislocation that created it.
illegitimate as political citizens and moral subjects. She argues, ulti-
Gastón R. Gordillo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco, also published by Duke University Press.
mately, that the Muslim question is as much about secularism as it is about Islam.
Mayanthi L. Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Given to the Goddess
Cultivating the Nile
South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt jessica barnes
lucinda ramberg “Cultivating the Nile is an impressive account of something we know little “Lucinda Ramberg’s powerful combination of ethnographic observation
about despite its growing urgency: the causes of water scarcity in any
and theoretical reflection connects the study of a particular social group
particular region and the ways that the people affected deal with it.
in South India (devadasis or jogatis) with general issues in anthropology
A significant contribution to the growing literature on water sustainability
and feminist and queer studies. Given to the Goddess will prove relevant
around the world, Cultivating the Nile is likely to be discussed for years
to those, such as myself, who know very little about India but who are
to come.”—STEVEN C. CATON , Harvard University
concerned with related issues in different contexts.”—ÉRIC FASSIN, Université Paris-8
The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling
Gi v en to the Godde ss Lucinda Ramberg
Who and what are marriage and
ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores
sex for? Whose practices and which
the everyday politics of water: a poli-
ways of talking to god can count as
tics anchored in the mundane yet vital
religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers
acts of blocking, releasing, channeling,
these questions based on two years
and diverting water. She examines
of ethnographic research on an ongo-
the quotidian practices of farmers,
ing South Indian practice of dedication
government engineers, and interna-
in which girls, and sometimes boys,
Cultivating the Nile
T h e e v e ry d ay P o l i T i c s o f waT e r i n e g y P T
the waters of the Nile flowing into and
are married to a goddess. Called
through Egypt. Situating these local
devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated become female and male women who SOUTH INDIAN DEVADASIS and the SEXUALITY of RELIGION
tional donors as they interact with
jessica barnes
practices in relation to broader pro-
conduct the rites of the goddess out-
cesses that affect Nile waters, Barnes
side the walls of her main temple and
moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irriga-
transact in sex outside the bounds
tion canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters
of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites
of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in
that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long
and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics,
been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is
social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorpo-
productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues,
rated into understandings of water and its management.
and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or
Jessica Barnes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment and Sustainability Program at the University of South Carolina.
religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of
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cultural studies
Habeas Viscus
Oxford Street, Accra
Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism ato quayson
alex ander g . weheliye “Oxford Street, Accra is an erudite and accomplished book by one of Africa’s “Habeas Viscus is a major contribution to the discourses of race and modern politics. Alexander G. Weheliye intervenes in contemporary engagement with Agamben’s and Foucault’s scholarship on biopolitics by opening new lines of inquiry for thinking through the problem of the human. Weheliye turns to the work of two major scholars and theorists of black studies, Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, revealing their thinking about the material and discursive existence of black bodies as vital analytical rubrics for conceptualizing the human.”—WAHNEEMA
most prominent literary and cultural critics. Ato Quayson is astute in his use of critical theory to illuminate transforming African urban cultures, and he is creative in the aspects of urban space he chooses to analyze. He inventively depicts the tensions of the diverse imaginaries, calculations, and ethical sensibilities that cut across the conventional zones and distinctions of city life, giving rise to new connections near and far.”—ABDOU-
MALIQ SIMONE , author of For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities
LUBIANO , editor of The House That Race Built
HABEAS VISCUS
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of “racializing assemblages,” taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that
OX F ORD S T R E E T, ACCRA
Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital
to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the “bare life and biopolitics discourse” exemplified by the works
its settlement in the mid-seventeenth
including the histories of colonial and
on anchoring political hierarchies
to Weheliye’s argument. Particularly significant are their contributions
He traces the city’s evolution from
tion of space with broader dynamics,
per se, frequently depends
black feminist scholars Hortense
and globalized commercial district.
sounds, interactions, and distribu-
This disciplining, while not biological
ALEXANDER G. WEHELIYE
Street, part of Accra’s most vibrant
bines his impressions of the sights,
not-quite-humans, and nonhumans.
in human flesh. The work of the
capital city through a focus on Oxford
century to the present day. He com-
discipline humanity into full humans,
RACIALIZING ASSEMBLAGES, BIOPOLITICS, AND BLACK FEMINIST THEORIES OF THE HUMAN
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana’s
City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
Ato Quayson
postcolonial town planning and the marks of transnationalism evident in
Accra’s salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF -mandated structural adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated
of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends,
and contradictory metropolis that it is today.
vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race
Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for
in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need
Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, Calibrations: Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation, as well as editor of the two-volume Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, coeditor of A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, and General Editor of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.
to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.
Alexander G. Weheliye is Associate Professor of African-American Studies and English at Northwestern University. He is the author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity, also published by Duke University Press.
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August 320 pages, 20 illustrations
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cultural studies
Utopias
Porn Archives
mark featherstone & malcolm miles ,
tim dean , steven ruszczycky & david squires , editors
special issue editors
a special issue of CULTURAL POLITICS “Everyone working on porn will have to refer to this field-defining collection.
Following the collapse of communist and socialist utopianism in the twentieth century, the global
It is an important book, notable for its compelling argument, stellar roster of contributors, intellectual heft, and broad theoretical scope. It is the most exacting and exciting statement about porn studies to date.” —ROBYN WIEGMAN , author of Object Lessons
economic crisis has
Hut 11, a.k.a. the Bombe Room, a.k.a. “the hell hole.” Photo by Gair Dunlop.
foreclosed the promise of
While sexually explicit writing and
a neoliberal consumerist
art have been around for millennia,
utopia in the twenty-first.
pornography—as an aesthetic, moral,
This special issue of
and juridical category—is a modern inven-
Cultural Politics consid-
tion. The contributors to Porn Archives
ers what happens when
explore how the production and prolifera-
people believe that the system they currently inhabit does not work,
tion of pornography has been intertwined
but they see few viable alternatives, and wide-scale change seems
with the emergence of the archive as a
impossible in any case. Considering history, fiction, art, and economic
conceptual and physical site for preserving,
theory, the contributors think about the ways in which a vital future
cataloguing, and transmitting documents
might emerge from an exhausted culture. Topics include narratives of
and artifacts. By segregating and regulat-
catastrophe and escape in Cold War fiction, the narcotic haze of amuse-
ing access to sexually explicit material,
in contemporary art. The issue also features an interview with autono-
Jess, Untitled “paste-up” (ca. 1950s). © The Jess Collins Trust, used by permission.
mist Paolo Virno on social individualism and imagination. Exploring
porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as
how the current dystopian worldview points toward alternative utopian
the production of pleasure.
ment culture in China, and the meaning of protest and utopian critique
futures, the contributors seize a critical opportunity for new forms of cultural politics to emerge.
archives have helped constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result,
The essays in this collection address the historically and culturally varied interactions between porn and the archive. Topics range from
Contributors
library policies governing access to sexually explicit material to the
Thierry Bardini, John Beck, Mark Chou, Mark Dorrian, Gair Dunlop, Mark Featherstone, Jonathan Harris, Malcolm Miles, Tao Dongfeng, Paolo Virno
growing digital archive of “war porn,” or eroticized combat imagery; and from same-sex amputee porn to gay black comic book superhero
Mark Featherstone is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University. Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of
porn. Together the pieces trace pornography as it crosses borders,
Plymouth School of Architecture, Design and Environment.
notions of what counts as legitimate forms of knowledge. The collection
transforms technologies, consolidates sexual identities, and challenges concludes with a valuable resource for scholars: a list of pornography archives held by institutions around the world.
Contributors Jennifer Burns Bright, Eugenie Brinkema, Joseph Bristow, Robert L. Caserio, Ronan Crowley, Tim Dean, Robert Dewhurst, Lisa Downing, Frances Ferguson, Loren Glass, Harri Kalha, Marcia Klotz, Prabha Manuratne, Mireille Miller-Young, Nguyen Tan Hoang, John Paul Ricco, Steven Ruszczycky, Melissa Schindler, Darieck Scott, Caitlin Shanley, Ramo´n E. Soto-Crespo, David Squires, Linda Williams
Tim Dean is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY at Buffalo, where he is also the Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality. Steven Ruszczycky recently completed a PhD in English at SUNY at Buffalo, where David Squires is a PhD candidate in English.
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w o m e n’ s s t u d i e s
A Taste for Brown Sugar
Street Corner Secrets
Black Women in Pornography
Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
mireille miller -young
svati p. shah
“Finally: scholarship that centers black women’s labor and ideas in both
“I learned a tremendous amount from Street Corner Secrets. Svati P. Shah
academia and the sex industries and gives crucial voice to underrepre-
thoughtfully and passionately lays out the struggles poor women face every
sented workers and feminist thinkers. Accessible to scholars and general
day and their creative attempts to survive and move forward. Her concern
readers alike, this book will enrage you, enlighten you, and make you
about and respect for the women she meets shines through on every page.
rethink everything you know about race and sex.”—TRISTAN TAORMINO,
This is the best of engaged anthropology. It will become a classic on gendered
author of True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn, and Peversion
labor, sexual labor, and the precarity of informal work.”—DENISE BRENNAN , author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on Street Corner Secrets challenges wide-
representations of black women’s sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on
spread notions of sex work in India by
Mireille Miller-Young’s extensive archival
examining solicitation in three spaces
research and her interviews with dozens
ST REET CORNER SECRETS
seldom placed within the same analytic
entertainment industry since the 1980s.
frame—brothels, streets, and public
The women share their thoughts about
day-wage labor markets (nakas), where
desire and eroticism, black women’s sexu-
sexual commerce may be solicited
ality and representation, and ambition
discreetly alongside other income-
and the need to make ends meet. Miller-
generating activities. Focusing on women who migrated to Mumbai from rural, eco-
Young documents their interventions into Jeannie Pepper, Cannes, France 1986. Courtesy of JohnDragon.com.
within the city of Mumbai that are
of women who have worked in the adult
the complicated history of black women’s sexuality, looking at individual choices,
Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai
S VAT I P. S H A H
nomically underdeveloped areas within India, Svati P. Shah argues that selling sexual services is one of a number of
however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised line—as small acts of resistance, of what she calls “illicit eroticism.” Building on the work
ways women working as laborers may earn a living, demonstrating that
of other black feminist theorists, and contributing to the field of sex
sex work, like day labor, is a part of India’s vast informal economy. Here,
work studies, she seeks to expand discussion of black women’s sexual-
various means of earning—legitimized or stigmatized, legal or illegal—
ity to include their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation
overlap or exist in close proximity to one another, shaping a narrow field
and representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young
of livelihood options that women navigate daily. In the course of this rich
wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the decisions
ethnography, Shah discusses policing practices, migrants’ access to hous-
they make, albeit often within material and industrial constraints,
ing and water, the idea of public space, critiques of states and citizenship,
recognized as their own.
and the discursive location of violence within debates on sexual commerce.
Mireille Miller-Young is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the
Throughout, the book analyzes the epistemology of prostitution, and the
University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a coeditor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure.
silences and secrets that constitute the discourse of sexual commerce on Mumbai’s streets.
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gay & lesbian / queer / transgender studies
A View from the Bottom
On the Visceral, Part I
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Race, Sex, and Other Gut Feelings
nguyen tan hoang
sharon holland , marcia ochoa & kyla wazana tompkins , special issue
editors
a special issue of GLQ “Nguyen Tan Hoang’s exciting book is a compelling account of the aesthetic, political, and queer possibilities of racialized forms of ‘bottomhood.’
Using the gut as a starting point,
As someone who has been writing about masochism and passivity in
this special issue of GLQ focuses
relation to queer femininities for a while, I realize that this is the book
on the idea of the visceral as a
I have needed in sorting through the complex forms of personhood, plea-
trope for the carnal and bloody
sure, and power that bottomhood braids into the meanings of race, nation,
logic that organizes life. It brings
and sexuality.”—JACK HALBERSTAM , author of The Queer Art of Failure
together scholars working in food studies, American studies, sexuality and queer studies, and critical
A View from the Bottom offers a
race theory, who are keen not
major critical reassessment of male
only to understand patterns of
effeminacy and its racialization in
bodily production and consump-
visual culture. Examining portrayals
tion but also to propose new
of Asian and Asian American men in
theoretical scaffoldings for our
Hollywood cinema, European art film,
understanding of the intersection
gay pornography, and experimental
of race, food, the human, and
documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang
the animal. These essays high-
explores the cultural meanings that
light the moments, texts, and
accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual “bottom” overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian
Sweetness January 20, 2006. gimmepicture@ dirtysurface.com.
processes that link food, flesh, and the alimentary tract to
systems of pleasure—as well as to historical and political systems of inequality. The contributors seek to unearth structures of feeling, sensing, and embodiment that have been obscured either by colonialist
masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and
historiography or political prejudice.
abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom posi-
Contributors
tion that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of
Leah Devun, Sharon Holland, Rachel Lee, Jennifer C. Nash, Marcia Ochoa, Kyla Wazana
bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond,
Tompkins, Zeb Tortorici
and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.
Nguyen Tan Hoang is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College. He is also a videomaker whose works include look_im_azn, K.I.P., PIRATED! and Forever Bottom! His videos have been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Center, and the Centre Pompidou.
Sharon Holland is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism and Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, both published by Duke University Press. Marcia Ochoa is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela, also published by Duke University Press. Kyla Wazana Tompkins is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College.
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gay & lesbian / queer / transgender studies
Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary
Queer Theory without Antinormativity
aren aizura , marcia ochoa , salvador vidal- ortiz , trystan cotton & carsten B alzer / C arla l a G ata , special issue editors
robyn wiegman & elizabeth a . wilson ,
special issue editors
a special issue of DIFFERENCES a special issue of TSQ: TRANSGENDER STUDIES QUARTERLY
What is at stake in acknowledging transgender studies’ Anglophone roots in the global North and West? What kinds of politics might emerge from challenging the assumption that biological sex—or the categories “man” and “woman”—is stable and self-evident across time, space, and culture? This special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly asks how trans scholarship can decolonize, rather than reproduce, dominant imaginaries of sexuality and gender. The issue highlights roadblocks as well as unexpected openings in the global circulation of trans politics and culture. A First Nations scholar recovers lost tribal knowledge of non-Eurocentric gender. A Thai trans filmmaker negotiates culturally incommensurable categories of self. Two contributors consider what is lost as the term transgender replaces local, vernacular categories of difference in India. A study of genderqueer childhood in Peru disrupts colonial ethnographer-informant roles, while another author critiques the colonialist ethnography on the sarimbavy, gender nonconforming categories of Madagascar. Another essay follows the global commodity chain of synthetic hormones to explore the biopolitics of transgender bodies and race. Finally, a roundtable discussion among transnational activists, culture makers, and scholars offers perspectives ranging from the celebratory to the cynical on decolonizing the transgender imaginary.
The tyrannies of sexual normativity have been widely denounced in queer theory. Heteronormativity, homonormativity, family values, marriage, and monogamy have all been objects of sustained queer critique, most often in purely oppositional form: as antinormativity. The contributors to this special issue of differences ask a seemingly simple question of this critical code: can queer theory proceed without a primary allegiance to antinormativity? These essays offer an affirmative answer either by rethinking normativity or eschewing it altogether
Contributors
in order to redirect the intellectual and political energies of the field.
Aren Aizura, Finn Jackson Ballard, Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata, Karma Chavez,
Contributors
Giancarlo Cornejo, Trystan Cotton, Aniruddha Dutta, Julian Gill-Peterson, Marcia Ochoa, Seth Palmer, Jai Arun Ravine, Lara Rodriguez, Liz Rosenfeld, Raina Roy, T. J. Tallie, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Saylesh Wesley, Cindy Wu
Aren Aizura is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Marcia Ochoa is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Sociology at American University. Trystan Cotton is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata is the senior researcher of Transgender Europe and lead researcher of the Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide project.
Erica Edwards, Annamarie Jagose, Vicki Kirby, Heather Love, Madhavi Menon, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Michael Warner, Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth A. Wilson
Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Object Lessons and editor of Women’s Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both published by Duke University Press. Elizabeth A. Wilson is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, also published by Duke University Press.
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QUE ER THEORY
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October 200 pages
Vol. 1, no. 3
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music
media studies
Roy Cape
Beautiful Data
A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand
A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
jocelyne guilbault & roy cape
orit halpern
“Roy Cape is a true delight. It is an engagingly written portrayal of the
“Beautiful Data is a wonderful book, deeply engaging and full of compel-
interplay of Roy Cape’s musicianship and life, demonstrating how his social
ling insights. Reading across fields, disciplines, borders, and issues, Orit
relations on the bandstand are inextricably connected to the way he lives
Halpern chronicles the emergence of a new way of thinking about the
in the world. I like the way that the book moves from the conventions of
world for the digital moment. It is crucial reading for anyone interested
biography to a lively exchange between Roy and Jocelyne Guilbault, and
in the new directions in which the humanities, the arts, and education are
then becomes increasingly adventurous, only to slow down again before
moving.”—PRISCILLA WALD , author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers,
the poignant afterword.”—RONALD RADANO , author of Lying Up a
and the Outbreak Narrative
Nation: Race and Black Music
Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist joCeLyne guiLBAuLt
roy CApe
active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytell-
A Life on the CALypso
soCA BAndstAnd
ing, it joins Roy’s voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.
Charles and Ray Eames, Glimpses of the USA, Moscow 1959. ©2013 Eames Office, LLC (eamesoffice.com).
The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while dis-
Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and
cussing Roy’s journey as a performer and bandleader. In conversation,
a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the
they began experimenting with voice, with who takes the lead, who
second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of
says what, when, to whom, and why. Their book reflects that dynamic,
attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit
combining first-person narrative, dialogue, and the polyphony of Roy’s
Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves,
bandmates’ voices. Listening to recordings and looking at old photo-
to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of
graphs elicited more recollections, which allowed Roy to expand on
cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human
recurring themes and motifs. This congenial, candid book offers differ-
sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in
ent ways of knowing Roy’s labor of love—his sound and work through
attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed
sound, his reputation and circulation as a renowned musician and band-
attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms
leader in the world.
of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management
Jocelyne Guilbault is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics and Zouk: World Music in the West Indies. Roy Cape (born in Trinidad in 1942) is an internationally renowned calypso and soca musician and bandleader. He has toured widely, played on hundreds of recordings, and released eight albums with his band Roy Cape All Stars.
and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.
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October 328 pages, 57 illustrations
January 384 pages, 108 illustrations
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media studies
Forensic Media
Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era
Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity
sharon marcus ,
greg siegel
special issue editor
a special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE
“An original historical analysis of the intersection of accidents and media, this book resonates with the present climate of terror and risk, bringing a significant historical dimension to our understanding of the contemporary moment. Forensic Media demonstrates how thoroughly the technological accident drives and is driven by parallel developments in modern recording media. By raising crucial questions about the role of the mediated accident in modern debates on causality, evidence, knowledge, and narrative, it makes significant contributions to media archeology and the history of science.”—KAREN BECKMAN, editor of Animating Film Theory
In Forensic Media, Greg Siegel considers how photographic, electronic, and digital media have been used to record and reconstruct accidents, particularly high-speed crashes and catastrophes. Focusing in turn on the birth of the field of forensic engineering, Photograph by and courtesy of Jeffrey Milstein. www.jeffreymilstein.com
Charles Babbage’s invention of a “self-registering
apparatus” for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders (“black boxes”), the science of automobile crash-testing, and various accident-reconstruction techniques and technologies, Siegel shows how “forensic media” work to transmute disruptive chance occurrences
Jay-Z and Marina Abramovic´. Still from Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film, 2013 (director Mark Romanek).
The contributors to Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era ask how new digital media platforms such as search engines, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have qualitatively changed celebrity culture. Drawing on examples ranging from the luxury selfies of microcelebrities including Kane Lim to performance artist Marina Abramovic´’s collaborations with Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, from the karaoke standard in shows such as American Idol to Syrian singer Assala’s media battle with the Assad regime, and from the “emotion economy” of reality TV to the influence of such network entrepreneurs as Tim O’Reilly, the essays in this special issue of Public Culture identify core structural features that contribute to the development of a new theory of celebrity.
into reassuring narratives of causal succession. Through historical
Contributors
and philosophical analyses, he demonstrates that forensic media are
Laura Grindstaff, Marwan M. Kraidy, Christine Larson, Sharon Marcus, Alice E. Marwick,
as much technologies of cultural imagination as they are instruments
Susan Murray, Sharrona Pearl, Dana Polan, Carlo Rotella, Karen Tongson, Fred Turner
of scientific inscription, as imbued with ideological fantasies as they
Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
are compelled by institutional rationales. By rethinking the historical links and cultural relays between accidents and forensics, Siegel sheds new light on the corresponding connections between media, technology, and modernity.
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american studies
New World Drama
Formations of United States Colonialism
The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849
alyosha goldstein ,
elizabeth maddock dillon
editor
“This indispensable anthology makes a significant intervention in multiple fields by bridging what has often been seen as two separate processes,
“Beginning with regicide and ending in riot, New World Drama revisits key sites along the Atlantic rim to show how theatrical audiences, electing their representatives from a ballot of dramatic characters, expanded the ‘public sphere’ of the print world into a dynamic ‘performative commons.’ In this innovative book, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon reframes discussion across literature, history, cultural studies, and performance studies.”—JOSEPH
the consolidation of U.S. control over the continent and the rise of formal overseas interests at the end of the nineteenth century. The collected essays offer rich and substantive directions for future investigations to scholars interested in what American Indian and Indigenous studies bring to American studies and U.S. imperial studies.”—JODI A. BYRD , author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
ROACH , author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous Elizabeth Maddock DILLON
NEW WORLD DRAMA the
PERFORMATIVE COMMONS in the
ATLANTIC WORLD 1 649 – 1 849
scene of theatre in the eighteenthcentury Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of colonialism loomed large. Foremost
among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom. Audiences in London eagerly watched the royal slave, Oroonoko, tortured on stage, while audiences in Charleston and Kingston were forbidden from watching the same scene. Audiences in Kingston and New York City exuberantly participated in the slaying of Richard III on stage, enacting the rise of the “people,” and Native American leaders were enjoined to watch actors in blackface “jump Jim Crow.” Dillon argues that the theater served as a “performative commons,” staging debates over representation in a political world based on popular sover-
settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation of geopolitical entities marked by overlapping and variable practices of colonization. By rethinking the intertwined experiences of Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chamorros, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Samoans, and others subjected to U.S. imperial rule, the contributors consider how the diversity of settler claims, territorial annexations, overseas occupations, and circuits of slavery and labor—along with their attendant forms of jurisprudence, racialization, and militarism—both facilitate and delimit the conditions of colonial dispossession. Drawing on the insights of critical indigenous and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, critical geography, ethnography, and social history, this volume emphasizes the significance of U.S. colonialisms as a vital analytic framework for understanding how and why the United States is what it is today.
Contributors Julian Aguon, Joanne Barker, Berenika Byszewski, Jennifer Denetdale, Augusto Espiritu, Alyosha Goldstein, J. Ke¯haulani Kauanui, Barbara Krauthamer, Lorena Oropeza, Vicente L. Rafael, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Lanny Thompson, Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa, Manu Vimalassery
Alyosha Goldstein is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action during the American Century, also published by Duke University Press.
eignty. Her book is a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is Professor of English at Northeastern University. She is the author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere. NEW AMERIC ANISTS A Series Edited by Donald A. Pease
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american studies
Orgies of Feeling
Soundtracks of Asian America
Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
Navigating Race through Musical Performance
elisabeth r . anker
gr ace wang
“Anyone who thinks that melodrama is inherently politically progressive
“Soundtracks of Asian America is smart and informed, capacious and beauti-
is advised to read this book, the first to systematically apply the role
fully written. Arguing that the racialized imagination works similarly across
of the American melodramatic mode to the politics of American heroic
musical genres, Grace Wang explores senses of Asian and Asian American
sovereignty. Perhaps the boldest part of Elisabeth R. Anker’s thesis is not
belonging across the worlds of classical and popular music. From young
simply the general argument that Americans often cast their politics into
classical musicians’ parents as key sites of ideology formation to the
narratives of victimization and vengeance, but the historical argument that
‘reverse migration’ of young Asian Americans to East Asian popular music
a new kind of melodrama has emerged ‘with a vengeance’ after the end of
markets, her case studies are inspired and telling.”—DEBORAH WONG ,
the Cold War and especially after 9/11. I am in awe at this book’s boldness
author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music
and acuity.”—LINDA WILLIAMS , author of On The Wire
In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian Melodrama is not just a film or literary
orgies of feeling
melodrama and the politics of freedom
elisabeth r. anker
Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and
genre but a powerful political
belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they
discourse that galvanizes national
navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences
sentiment to legitimate state violence.
of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular
Finding virtue in national suffering
music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music). Her study
and heroism in sovereign action,
encompasses the perceptions and motivations of middle-class Chinese
melodramatic political discourses
and Korean immigrant parents intensely involved in their children’s clas-
cast war and surveillance as moral
sical music training, and of Asian and Asian American classical musicians
imperatives for eradicating villainy
whose prominence in their chosen profession is celebrated by some and
and upholding freedom. In Orgies
undermined by others. Wang interviews young Asian American singer-
of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly
songwriters using YouTube to contest the limitations of a racialized U.S.
reframes political theories of sover-
media landscape, and investigates the transnational modes of belonging
eignty, freedom, and power by
forged by Asian American pop stars pursuing recording contracts and
analyzing the work of melodrama
fame in East Asia. Foregrounding musical spaces where Asian Americans
and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates
are particularly visible, Wang examines how race matters and operates
desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic dis-
in the practices and institutions of music making.
courses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric,
Grace Wang is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis.
Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche’s notion of “orgies of feeling,” in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public’s inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.
Elisabeth R. Anker is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Political Science at George Washington University.
A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S/ P O L I T I C A L T H E O R Y
A S I A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S/ M U S I C
August 344 pages, 14 illustrations
January 288 pages, 4 photographs
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american studies
Staging the Blues
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans
From Tent Shows to Tourism
Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory
paige a . m c ginley
lynnell l . thomas
“This beautifully written and engaging account of how blues has been
“This highly original book fills a significant gap in the literature on New
staged will change for good how theater scholars think of musical perfor-
Orleans and on tourism in general by offering a rare look at African American
mance, and how music scholars think of theater. Paige A. McGinley’s obser-
tourism within the dominant (white) tourism narrative. Desire and Disaster
vation that ‘authenticity is produced theatrically, on stage, in the context of
in New Orleans will be vital reading for scholars working on New Orleans
the performance event’ deconstructs the binary between authenticity and
and those examining representations of African Americans in modern
inauthenticity, allowing her to focus on black agency and subjectivity as it
American culture. It is filled with astute analyses based on Lynnell L.
is produced in and through performance.”—GAYLE WALD , author of Shout,
Thomas’s impressive interpretations of sources ranging from websites to
Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta
interviews.”—ANTHONY J. STANONIS , author of Creating the Big Easy:
Tharpe
New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945
St ag in g
Singing was just one element of blues
es lu B e th
FR
OM
TE
PA IG
S OW SH NT UR ISM TO TO
E A. M CG
IN LE
Y
Most of the narratives packaged for
performance in the early twentieth
New Orleans’s many tourists cultivate
century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith,
a desire for black culture—jazz, cuisine,
and other classic blues singers also
dance—while simultaneously targeting
tapped, joked, and flaunted extrava-
black people and their communities
gant costumes on tent show and black
as sources and sites of political, social,
vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as “actresses” long before they achieved worldwide
and natural disaster. In this timely
DESi rE & DiSAS tEr in nEw orLEAnS
book, the Americanist and New Orleans native Lynnell L. Thomas delves into
fame for their musical recordings. In
the relationship between tourism,
Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley
cultural production, and racial politics.
shows that even though folklorists, record producers, and festival promot-
She carefully interprets the racial nartourism, race, and Historical Memory Lynnell L. thomas
ers set the theatricality of early blues
ratives embedded in tourist websites, travel guides, business periodicals,
aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant
and newspapers; the thoughts of tour guides and owners; and the
throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey,
stories told on bus and walking tours as they were conducted both
Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie
before and after Katrina. She describes how, with varying degrees
McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial
of success, African American tour guides, tour owners, and tourism
British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists
industry officials have used their own black heritage tours and tourism-
who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy,
focused businesses to challenge exclusionary tourist representations.
and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial
Taking readers from the Lower Ninth Ward to the White House, Thomas
authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.
highlights the ways that popular culture and public policy converge to
Paige A. McGinley is Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
create a mythology of racial harmony that masks a long history of racial inequality and structural inequity.
Lynnell L. Thomas is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S/A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
September 296 pages, 28 illustrations
August 272 pages, 32 illustrations
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american studies
african american studies
Fighting for Recognition
Wandering
Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling
Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom
r . t yson smith
sarah jane cervenak
“Behind the hypermacho performance of pro wrestling, R. Tyson Smith
“The rigorous turns and supple overturnings in Wandering illuminate and
reveals a backstage where hard aggressive bodies are actually soft and
extend meditative resistance to the racial and sexual pathologization of
yielding, hypersensitive as lovers so that they don’t cripple each other.
the irregular, antiregulative, social, and aesthetic movement animating
It is more akin to ballet than battle, except that all the effort goes into
the history of black thought. Sarah Jane Cervenak’s devoted study of the
giving the opposite impression. This is one of the great ethnographies of
disruption of linearity, from David Walker to Gayl Jones, from Harriet Jacobs
the backstage of occupations, of athletes, of show business, of the bodily
to William Pope.L challenges and allows us to understand that the errand
self—and of social performance itself.”—RANDALL COLLINS , author of
of blackness is a wandering whose origin and end are dislocation, where
Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory
the new thing awaits.”—FRED MOTEN , author of B Jenkins
FIGHTING
FOR
RECOGNITION
IDENTITY, MASCULINITY, AND THE ACT OF VIOLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
R. TYSON SMITH
In Fighting for Recognition, R. Tyson
Combining black feminist theory,
Smith enters the world of indepen-
philosophy, and performance stud-
dent professional wrestling,
ies, Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates
a community-based entertainment
on the significance of physical and
staged in community centers, high-
mental roaming for black freedom.
school gyms, and other modest
She is particularly interested in the
venues. Like the big-name, televised
power of wandering or daydreaming
pro-wrestlers who originally inspired
for those whose mobility has been
them, indie wrestlers engage in cho-
under severe constraint, from the
reographed fights in character. Smith details the experiences, meanings, and motivations of the young men who wrestle as “Lethal” or “Southern Bad Boy,” despite receiving little-to-
no pay and risking the possibility of serious and sometimes permanent
WA N D E R I N G Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom Sarah Jane Cervenak
slave era to the present. Since the Enlightenment, wandering has been considered dangerous and even criminal when associated with people of color. Cervenak engages artist-philos-
ophers who focus on wayward movement and daydreaming, or mental
injury. Exploring intertwined issues of gender, class, violence, and
travel, that transcend state-imposed limitations on physical, geographic
the body, he sheds new light on the changing sources of identity in
movement. From Sojourner Truth’s spiritual and physical roaming to the
a postindustrial society that increasingly features low wages, insecure
rambling protagonist of Gayl Jones’s novel Mosquito, Cervenak high-
employment, and fragmented social support. Smith uncovers the
lights modes of wandering that subvert Enlightenment-based protocols
tensions between strength and vulnerability, pain and solidarity, and
of rationality, composure, and upstanding comportment. Turning to the
homophobia and homoeroticism that play out both backstage and in
artists William Pope.L, Adrian Piper, and Carrie Mae Weems, Cervenak
the ring as the wrestlers seek recognition from fellow performers and
argues that their work produces an otherworldly movement, an errant
devoted fans.
kinesis that exceeds locomotive constraints, resisting the straightening-
R. Tyson Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown
out processes of post-Enlightenment, white-supremacist, capitalist,
University.
sexist, and heteronormative modernity. Their roaming animates another terrain, one where free, black movement is not necessarily connected to that which can be seen, touched, known, and materially valued.
Sarah Jane Cervenak is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
S O C I O L O GY/ S P O R T S/A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S/ P E R F O R M A N C E S T U D I E S
August 240 pages, 27 illustrations
September 232 pages, 10 photographs
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african american studies
Skin Acts
Black Atlas
Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
michelle ann stephens
judith madera
“Michelle Ann Stephens has written a book that anyone interested in race
“In Black Atlas Judith Madera shows how the shifting territory comprising
and psychoanalysis will want to pay attention to, and one that even those
the nation and the even more fluid relation of African Americans to that
who do not consider themselves interested in the topic will have to pay
evolving terrain enabled the writing of such key figures such as Martin
attention to. She has taken the most immediate and seemingly obvious site
Delany, William Wells Brown, and Pauline Hopkins. In so doing, Madera
of racialization, the skin, and given it a revelatory new genealogy. She sets
provides an important contribution to African American literary criticism;
the standard for all future engagements with what Frantz Fanon termed
the expanding corpus of material focused on territoriality, transnational-
‘epidermalization.’ Through arresting readings of modern and contemporary
ism, and empire; and our understanding of the rise of the novel in the
art and performance, Stephens unfolds the racializing and engendering
Americas.”—CAROLINE F. LEVANDER , author of Where is American
of skin within modernity, and makes a powerful argument for reading
Literature?
it through the lens of feminist, antiracist, and haptic visuality.”—TAVIA
NYONG’O , author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century,
In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens michelle ann stephens
Skin Acts
Reconstruction, Pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera
twentieth-century black male per-
argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era’s
formers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson,
black writers, especially in response to legacies of containment and
Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to
territorialization. But she also demonstrates how the possibility for
reveal how racial and sexual difference
new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting
is both marked by and experienced
of space.
in the skin. She situates each figure within his cultural moment, examining his performance in the context of contemporary race relations and race, psychoanalysis,
and the black male performer
a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War,
explores the work of four iconic
visual regimes. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and performance theory, Stephens contends that while
black skin is subject to what Frantz Fanon called the epidermalizing and hardening effects of the gaze, it is in the flesh that other—intersubjective, pre-discursive, and sensuous—forms of knowing take place between artist and audience. Analyzing a wide range of visual, musical, and textual sources, Stephens shows that black subjectivity and performativity are structured by the tension between skin and flesh, sight
In a series of impressive readings, Madera reveals how crucial geography was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan-American expansionism, and hemispheric circuitry. They staged spaces as multimodal, as sites for creative dissent and invention. Black geographies stood in for what was at stake in negotiating a shared world. Black Atlas shows how the rethinking of place and scale can galvanize the study of black literature.
Judith Madera is Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Wake Forest University.
and touch, difference and sameness.
Michelle Ann Stephens is Associate Professor of English and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, also published by Duke University Press.
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A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S/C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIE S
August 304 pages, 55 illustrations
January 320 pages, 12 illustrations
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indigenous & native american studies
A Nation Rising Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty noelani goodyear - k a‘o ¯ pua , ik aik a hussey
& erin k ahunawaik a’ala wright,
editors
Photographs by Edward W. Greevy
“These are the voices of the beating heart of Kanaka Maoli resistance to the usurpation of Hawaiian land and nationhood. Strong words by good minds,
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America andrew woolford , jeff benvenuto
& alex ander laban hinton ,
editors
With a Foreword by Theodore Fontaine
“Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America is one of the best anthologies I have read in the field of American Indian and Indigenous studies. Within North American history, few have seriously tackled the central ques-
a motivating call to action to protect the land and waters and heritage. It
tion of this anthology: to what extent were Indigenous-settler relations
is history, it is culture, it is wisdom, it is art, and it is an invaluable contri-
genocidal? The failure of U.S. and Canadian scholars to address this ques-
bution to the literature of Indigenous resurgence.”—TAIAIAKE ALFRED
tion in a deep and sustained way makes this insightful collection particu-
(Kahnawà:ke Mohawk), Professor of Indigenous Governance, University of
larly timely and important.”—NED BLACKHAWK , author of Violence over
Victoria
the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
A NAtioN RisiNg
the book is at once an honest reflection on the Hawaiian struggle and
A Nation Rising chronicles the political
This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demo-
struggles and grassroots initiatives collec-
graphic, and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass
tively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty
the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.
movement. Scholars, community organiz-
Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy
ers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute
Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts
essays that explore Native Hawaiian
through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destruc-
resistance and resurgence from the 1970s
tive aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North
to the early 2010s. Photographs and
America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems
vignettes about particular activists further HAwAiiAN MoveMeNts for Life, LANd, and soveReigNty Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright, editors Photographs by Edward W. Greevy
bring Hawaiian social movements to life. The stories and analyses of efforts to
imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to “civilize” or “assimilate” Indigenous children. Contributors examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and
protect land and natural resources, resist community dispossession, and
the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the
advance claims for sovereignty and self-determination reveal the diverse
spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced politi-
objectives and strategies, as well as the inevitable tensions of the broad-
cal restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of
tent sovereignty movement. The collection explores the Hawaiian political
these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans
ethic of ea, which both includes and exceeds dominant notions of state-
must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate
based sovereignty. A Nation Rising raises issues that resonate far beyond
Indigenous peoples.
the Hawaiian archipelago, issues such as Indigenous cultural revitalization,
Contributors
environmental justice, and demilitarization.
Contributors Noa Emmett Aluli, Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Kekuni Blaisdell, Joan Conrow, Noelani GoodyearKa‘o¯pua, Edward W. Greevy, Ulla Hasager, Pauahi Ho‘okano, Micky Huihui, Ikaika Hussey,
Jeff Benvenuto, Robbie Ethridge, Theodore Fontaine, Joseph P. Gone, Alexander Laban Hinton, Tasha Hubbard, Kiera L. Ladner, Tricia E. Logan, David B. MacDonald, Benjamin Madley, Jeremy Patzer, Julia Peristerakis, Christopher Powell, Colin Samson, Gray H. Whaley, Andrew Woolford
Manu Ka‘iama, Le‘a Malia Kanehe, J. Ke¯haulani Kauanui, Anne Keala Kelly, Jacqueline
Andrew Woolford is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and
Lasky, Davianna Po¯maika‘i McGregor, Na¯lani Minton, Kalamaoka‘a¯ina Niheu, Katrina-Ann
Social Justice Research Coordinator at the University of Manitoba. Jeff Benvenuto is a Ph.D. student in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark. Alexander Laban Hinton is the Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights; Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs; and the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University, Newark. Theodore Fontaine is the author of Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir.
R. Kapa¯‘anaokala¯okeola Na¯koa Oliveira, Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, Leon No‘eau Peralto, Kekailoa Perry, Puhipau, Noenoe K. Silva, D. Kapua‘ala Sproat, Ty P. Ka¯wika Tengan, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Ku¯hio¯ Vogeler, Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright
Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘o¯pua is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa. Ikaika Hussey is the Founder and Publisher of the award-winning news magazine the Hawai‘i Independent. Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright is the Director of Native Hawaiian Student Services in the Hawai‘inuia¯kea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa. Edward W. Greevy is a freelance photographer whose career spans more than forty years. NARRATING NATIVE HISTORIES A Series Edited by K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos, and Joanne Rappaport I N D I G E N O U S S T U D I E S/A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S/ H AWA I I
I N D I G E N O U S S T U D I E S/ H I S T O R Y
September 416 pages, 83 photographs
October 392 pages, 13 illustrations
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latin american studies
Portrait of a Young Painter
The Great Depression in Latin America
Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City’s Rebel Generation
paulo drinot & alan knight,
editors
mary k ay vaughan “In The Great Depression in Latin America, leading Latin Americanists “Portrait of a Young Painter is one of the most original and engaging books I have read in a long time. It is dazzling in its layers of perception, its textures, and its intimate insights. It is genuinely original in both argument and methodology, a remarkable work and a pleasure to read.”—BARBARA
WEINSTEIN , coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History
address an important and timely topic from new perspectives, paying more attention to the cultural and social repercussions of the Depression in Latin America than have previous studies. A number of the essays take strong revisionist stands that will garner a lot of attention, and Paulo Drinot’s introduction and Alan Knight’s conclusion do a wonderful job of framing and enhancing the already strong essays.”—STEVEN TOPIK , coeditor of From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that culminated in the student protests of 1968. Rendering Zúñiga’s coming José Zúñiga, Self-portrait, 1968. Courtesy of the artist.
of age on the margins of formal politics, Vaughan depicts mid-
century Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse,
United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of workingclass and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different countries, while noting common cross-regional trends, in particular, a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state intervention in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial to the region’s subsequent development. The book also examines how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic
and a vibrant, transnationally informed public life that produced a
crisis.
multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism
Contributors
of convention. In an analysis encompassing the mass media, schools,
Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora,
politics, family, sexuality, neighborhoods, and friendships, she subtly
Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe,
invokes theories of discourse, phenomenology, and affect to examine
Doug Yarrington
the formation of Zúñiga’s persona in the decades leading up to 1968.
Paulo Drinot is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is the author of The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State and editor of Che’s Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press. Alan Knight is Professor of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Mexico: The Colonial Era; Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest; and The Mexican Revolution (two volumes).
By discussing the influences that shaped his worldview, she historicizes the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new perspectives on the events of 1968.
Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–40, winner of both the Conference on Latin American History’s Bolton Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award, and a coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico and The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the
L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
December 328 pages, 52 illustrations
September 376 pages
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latin american studies
The Vanguard of the Atlantic World
We Are Left without a Father Here
Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico
james e . sanders
eileen j . suárez findlay
“The Vanguard of the Atlantic World is a fundamental contribution not
“In this fascinating study, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay reinterprets Puerto
only to our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America, but also
Rican history in the mid-twentieth century by placing labor migration,
to the broader scholarly debate about the origins of modern democratic
populist politics, and gender at the heart of her narrative. Thousands of
republicanism. James E. Sanders argues that in the nineteenth century
Puerto Rican migrant workers, seeking modernity and an escape from
Spanish America was the most democratic region of the world. In so
the harsh colonialism on their home island, journeyed to sugar beet fields
doing, he rejects claims that Latin America has always stood on the
in Michigan. There they found exploitation harsher than they had known.
margins of democratic culture and modernity, and he speaks directly to
Findlay eloquently explores their travels and travails and shows how
current debates about the relationship between capitalism, modernity,
they reshaped both U.S. colonialism and Puerto Rican populism.”—JULIE
and democracy.”—REBECCA EARLE , author of The Return of the Native:
GREENE , author of The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the
Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810–1930
Panama Canal
James e. sanders
Vanguard of the atlantic World The
Cre ating M oder ni t y, n at i o n, a nd d e M o Cr a C y in nineteenth-C e nt u ry L at i n a M e r i C a
In the nineteenth century, Latin
We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working
America was home to the majority
people’s struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism
of the world’s democratic republics.
in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of
Many historians have dismissed
agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government,
these political experiments as
migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state’s sugar beet fields.
corrupt pantomimes of governments
The men expected to earn enough income to finally become successful
of Western Europe and the United
breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, the men encountered
States. Challenging that perspective,
abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan
James E. Sanders contends that Latin
and their wives in Puerto Rico soon exploded in protest. Chronicling
America in this period was a site of
the protests, the surprising alliances that they created, and the Puerto
genuine political innovation and pop-
Rican government’s response, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay explains that
ular debate reflecting Latin Americans’
notions of fatherhood and domesticity were central to Puerto Rican
visions of modernity. Drawing on
populist politics. Patriarchal ideals shaped citizens’ understandings
archival sources in Mexico, Colombia,
of themselves, their relationship to Puerto Rican leaders and the state,
and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and
as well as the meanings they ascribed to U.S. colonialism. Findlay
democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immi-
argues that the motivations and strategies for transnational labor
grants, slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty,
migrations, colonial policies, and worker solidarities are all deeply
democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the
gendered.
region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse
Eileen J. Suárez Findlay is Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at American University. She is the author of Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920, also published by Duke University Press.
constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of political and cultural modernity.
James E. Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Utah State University. He is the author of Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, also published by Duke University Press.
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latin american studies
The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast
Rhythms of the Pachakuti
durval muniz de albuquerque jr . With a Foreword by James N. Green Translated by Jerry Dennis Metz
Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia raquel gutiérrez aguilar With a Foreword by Sinclair Thomson Translated by Stacey Alba D. Skar
“In this modern classic of Brazilian cultural history, Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. provides a richly documented and theoretically illuminating exploration of how the most ‘regional’ of all Brazilian regions has been imagined, indeed ‘invented,’ as a space of alterity, poverty, and authenticity during the past century. In doing so, he reveals the discursive production of regions, the relations of power that produce them, and the stereotypes that make them recognizable to a national audience.” —CHRISTOPHER DUNN , coeditor of Brazilian Popular Music and Citizenship
“This wonderful book is both a detailed historical account of the 2000–2005 uprisings in Bolivia and a significant theoretical intervention into central contemporary questions about political action and revolution. In particular, Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar emphasizes the profound significance of indigenous social organization and worldviews for the contemporary political struggles in Bolivia and elsewhere.”—MICHAEL HARDT, coauthor of Empire, Multitude, Commonwealth, and Declaration
In the indigenous Andean language
Brazil’s Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the coun-
of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the
try’s poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work,
subversion and transformation
the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates
of social relations. Between 2000
why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by
and 2005, Bolivia was radically
inhabitants of other parts of Brazil but also by nordestinos themselves.
transformed by a series of popular
His broader question, though, is how “the Northeast” came into exis-
indigenous uprisings against the coun-
tence. Tracing the history of its invention, he finds that the idea of the Northeast was formed in the early twentieth century when elites around Brazil became preoccupied with building a nation. Diverse phenomena—from drought policies to messianic movements, banditry
try’s neoliberal and antidemocratic RH Y THMS OF THE PACH A K U T I Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
R AQUEL GUTIÉRREZ AGUIL AR with a for ewor d by sincl air thomson
to new regional political blocs—helped to consolidate this novel con-
these mass collective actions, tracing tions to consider how motivation and
nordestinos, played key roles in making the region cohere as a space of
execution incite political change.
common references and concerns. Ultimately, Albuqerque urges historeveal their artifice and abandon static categories in favor of new, more
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents the internal dynamics of such disrup-
cept, the Northeast. Politicians, intellectuals, writers, and artists, often
rians to question received notions, such as regions and regionalism, to
policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti,
“In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the
granular understandings.
twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar’s
Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. is Professor of Brazilian History at the
political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. An award-winning author, he is considered one of Brazil’s leading historians. James N. Green is Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University. He is the author of We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, also published by Duke University Press. Jerry Dennis Metz is translator and independent scholar, has a PhD in Latin American History from the University of Maryland, College Park. LATIN AMERIC A IN TRANSLATION/EN TRADUCCIÓN/EM TRADUÇÃO
nationality, [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense, brilliant activist and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document. . . . Rhythms of the Pachakuti deserves to stand as a key text in the international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new century.”—SINCLAIR THOMSON , from the foreword
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Puebla. Sinclair Thomson is Associate Professor of History at New York University. Stacey Alba D. Skar is Associate Professor of Spanish at Western Connecticut State University. NEW ECOLOGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A Series Edited by Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau LATIN AMERIC A IN TRANSLATION/EN TRADUCCIÓN/EM TRADUÇ ÃO
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August 336 pages
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geography
history
Prostitution and the Ends of Empire
German Colonialism in a Global Age
Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
bradley nar anch & geoff eley,
editors
stephen legg “This landmark collection showcases the latest research in many areas “Prostitution and the Ends of Empire deftly reveals that the attack on the brothel in interwar Delhi was more than just a city-specific act, but rather demonstrated the power of international, imperial, and local networks. Using Foucault’s and Agamben’s work Stephen Legg persuasively shows
of German colonialism. As a state-of-the-art expression of a vibrant field, German Colonialism in a Global Age will set a new benchmark and become a standard reference.”—A. DIRK MOSES , author of German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past
the reimagining of the brothel as a space of danger that required its suppression. Legg’s use of scalar analysis is carefully constructed and brilliantly conclusive. This is an important and original reading of colonial prostitution.”—PHILIPPA LEVINE , author of The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset
This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during
p r o s t i t u t i o n and e n d s of e m p i r e
•
s ca l e , g ov e r n m e n ta l i t i e s, a n d i n t e r wa r i n d i a
stephen legg
•
the
Officially confined to red-light
the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Bradley Naranch and Geoff
districts, brothels in British India were
Eley survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial
tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by
imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then
this time, prostitution reform cam-
examine diverse particular aspects, from science and the colonial state
paigns led by Indian, imperial, and
to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for
international bodies were combin-
German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperial-
ing the social scientific insights of
ism on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial
sexology and hygiene with the moral
imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and
condemnations of sexual slavery and
the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection
human trafficking. These reformers
concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader
identified the brothel as exacerbating
impact of the German imperial experience.
rather than containing “corrupt-
Contributors
ing prostitutes” and the threat of
Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff
venereal diseases, and therefore
Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill,
encouraged the suppression of brothels rather than their urban segre-
Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen,
gation. In this book, Stephen Legg tracks the complex spatial politics
Andrew Zimmerman
surrounding brothels in the interwar period at multiple scales, including
Bradley Naranch is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Montana. Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished
the local, regional, national, imperial, and global. Campaigns and state policies against brothels did not just operate at different scales but made scales themselves, forging new urban, provincial, colonial, and international formations. In so doing, they also remade the boundary between the state and the social, through which the prostitute was, Legg concludes, “civilly abandoned.”
Stephen Legg is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the
University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930–1945, and A Crooked Line: From Cultural History to the History of Society. POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE A Series Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz
University of Nottingham. He is the author of Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities and the editor of Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos.
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HISTORY
September 304 pages, 8 illustrations
January 480 pages, 25 illustrations
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history
Body and Nation
Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire
The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics in the Twentieth Century emily s . rosenberg &
Creating an Imperial Commons
shanon fitzpatrick ,
editors
antoinette burton & isabel hofmeyr ,
editors
“The new critical history of empire and the freshly theorized transnational history of the book are together at last, each enhancing the other in a
“This unusually synthetic and well-conceived volume covers historical and contemporary situations in which the bodies of civilians, combatants, and those defined as outsiders are managed, mobilized, and politically tethered to broad nationalist and imperial projects ‘at home’ and ‘abroad.’ In attending to the details of bodily care and coercion, the contributors ask why, how, and when bodies matter, demonstrating the blur between technolo-
superb collection edited by the leading scholars in studies of the British world. Neither ‘book’ nor ‘empire’ is a straightforward idea. Focusing on ten influential works, the editors and contributors show how readers appropriated ideas as they circulated—often without regard for intellectual property—in periodical, pamphlet and volume forms.”—LESLIE HOWSAM , author of Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950
gies of war and ever more sophisticated forms of peacetime surveillance. Taken together, their essays show that we need to know more about whose bodies count in the changing landscape of national security and imperial governance and in the embattled space between ‘care’ and ‘control.’” —ANN LAURA STOLER, editor of Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Thomas Macaulay’s History of
body and nation The Global Realm of U.S. body PoliTicS in The TwenTieTh cenTURy
Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick, editors
Body and Nation interrogates the connec-
England, Charles Pearson’s National Life and Character, and Robert
tions among the body, the nation, and the
Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. They explore anticolonial texts in
world in twentieth-century U.S. history.
which authors such as C. L. R. James and Mohandas K. Gandhi chipped
The idea that bodies and bodily characteris-
away at the foundations of imperial authority, and they introduce books
tics are heavily freighted with values that
that may be less familiar to students of empire. Taken together, the
are often linked to political and social
essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an “imperial com-
spheres remains underdeveloped in the
mons,” a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire
histories of America’s relations with the
nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize
rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state
the other.
and nonstate actors, the contributors pro-
Contributors
vide historically grounded insights into the
Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Antoinette Burton, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr,
transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the
Aaron Kamugisha, Marilyn Lake, Charlotte Macdonald, Derek Peterson, Mrinalini Sinha,
regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War
Tridip Suhrud, André du Toit
ideals of American feminine beauty, and from “body counts” as metrics of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and hard power.
Contributors Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg,
Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written and edited many books, including The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader and A Primer for Teaching World History: Ten Design Principles, both also published by Duke University Press. Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Visiting Distinguished Global Professor at New York University. Her prize-winning books include Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading and ‘We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told’: Oral Historical Storytelling in a South African Chiefdom.
Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young
Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930, and A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, both also published by Duke University Press. Shanon Fitzpatrick is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of History at McGill University. AMERIC AN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS A Series Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg
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HISTORY
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political science
journals
Developments in Russian Politics 8
Miriam Hansen
stephen white , richard sakwa & henry e . hale , editors
Cinema, Experience, and the Public Sphere david bathrick , andreas huyssen
& eric rentschler ,
special issue editors
In Developments in Russian Politics 8, leading experts provide
a special issue of NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE
a broad-ranging assessment of
8
Putin’s third term in power. All
This special issue of New German
either new or comprehensively
Critique is dedicated to the thought
rewritten for this volume, the
and writing of Miriam Hansen, whose
essays cover topics including
contributions broke ground in film
executive power, parliamentary
history, film theory, and the politics
politics, the electoral process,
of mass culture and the public sphere.
the rule of law, foreign policy,
The collection focuses on the areas in
the economy, and the military.
which she was most influential: early
They also address matters such
cinema, its reception, and the legacy of
as Russia’s media and political
vernacular modernism, including essays
communication in the digital age, society and social divisions, protest and challenge, and future trajectories for Russian politics.
touching on the concept’s impact on Miriam Hansen. Photo by Howard Helsinger. Courtesy of Michael Geyer.
contemporary thinking about Russian and Chinese cinemas. The issue also
features extensive commentary on Hansen’s pioneering Cinema and
Developments in Russian Politics remains the first-choice introduction
Experience, expanding on the book’s inquiry into the continuing legacy
to the politics of the world’s largest nation.
of the Frankfurt School.
Contributors
Contributors
Vladimir Gel’man, Henry E. Hale, Philip Hanson, Kathryn Hendley, Margot Light,
Weihong Bao, David Bathrick, Bill Brown, Susan Buck-Morss, Edward Dimendberg,
Jennifer Mathers, Ian McAllister, Sarah Oates, Thomas F. Remington, Graeme
Mary Anne Doane, Tom Gunning, Sabine Haenni, Andreas Huyssen, Martin Jay,
Robertson, Richard Sakwa, Darrell Slider, Svetlana Stephenson, Stephen White,
Anton Kaes, Gertrud Koch, Katharina Loew, Daniel Morgan, Laura Mulvey, Eric
John P. Willerton
Rentschler, D. N. Rodowick, Simon Rothöhler, Heide Schlüpmann, Yuri Tsivian,
Stephen White is James Bryce Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow, and also Visiting Professor at the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow. Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London. Henry E. Hale is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University.
Pamela Robertson Wojcik
David Bathrick is Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Film and Dance, and German Studies at Cornell University. Andreas Huyssen is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the editor of Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age, also published by Duke University Press. Eric Rentschler is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
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greg grandin is Professor of History at New York University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. deboraH t. levenson is Associate Professor of History at Boston College and the author of Trade Unionists against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954–1985 and Adiós Niño: Political Violence and the Gangs of Guatemala City, forthcoming from Duke University Press. elizabetH oglesby is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona. She previously worked as the editor of Central America Report and the associate editor for NACLA Report on the Americas.
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“The Guatemala Reader is captivating both because Guatemalan history is so compelling, and because the editors have done a fantastic job of choosing the texts and images to include. Their selections offer great variety in terms of vision, perspective, and genre, and their introductions to those pieces are uniformly superb.”—steve striffler , co-editor of The Ecuador Reader: History, Culture, Politics
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tHis reader brings togetHer more than 200 texts and images in a broad introduction to Guatemala’s history, culture, and politics. In choosing the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that cannot be reduced to the contretemps of resistance and repression. It includes not only the opinions of politicians, activists, and scholars, but also poems, songs, plays, jokes, novels, short stories, recipes, art, and photographs that capture the diversity of everyday life in Guatemala. The editors introduce all of the selections, f rom the first piece, an excerpt f rom the Popol vuh, a mid-sixteenth-century text believed to be the single most important source documenting pre-Hispanic Maya culture, through the final selections, which explore contemporary Guatemala in relation to neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and the dynamics of migration to the United States and of immigrant life. Many pieces were originally published in Spanish, and most of those appear in English for the first time.
The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B. Milanich, and Peter Winn, editors 2013 978–0–8223–5360–7 paper, $29.95tr/£19.99
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The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González, editors 2014 978–0–8223–5700–1 paper, $27.95tr/£17.99
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“The Sri Lanka Reader is unprecedented. Never before has there been a book so synoptic in its treatment of Sri Lankan history, politics, and culture. The overall organization, the selections chosen for inclusion, and the introductions to the individual pieces are all of the highest order. This book will be welcomed by specialists in Sri Lankan studies, as well as the more general, educated reader.”—roger r. JaCkson , John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Carleton College “John Holt’s The Sri Lanka Reader gives many insights into contemporary Sri Lanka while providing an in-depth picture of its rich history. Holt effectively weaves together documents, analytical accounts, photographs, and poetic works to produce a balanced work that is consistent in quality and readability despite accommodating many viewpoints. It is a book that you will return to time and again. It will undoubtedly become the standard collection of documents on Sri Lanka and its history.”—Chandra r. de silva , author of Sri Lanka: A History
John Clifford holt is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.
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The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, SECOND EDITION
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John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording David Grubbs 2014 978–0–8223–5590–8 paper, $23.95tr/£15.99
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