International Rights Catalog Spring 2022

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Syracuse University Press

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University of Georgia Press

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University of Nebraska Press

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University of New Mexico Press

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University of North Carolina Press

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Vanderbilt University Press

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Duke University Press Complaint!

SARA AHMED

In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what does happen. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed upon those who complain. To open these doors, to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive, Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives.

The book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary.

September 2021 376 pages, 27 illustrations Feminism/Activism Rights: World excluding Spanish

Sara Ahmed is an independent scholar and author of What’s the Use?, Living a Feminist Life, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

Philosophy for Spiders

On the Low Theory of Kathy Acker

MCKENZIE WARK It’s time to recognize Kathy Acker as one of the great postwar American writers. Over the decades readers have found a punk Acker, a feminist Acker, a queer Acker, a kink Acker, and an avant-garde Acker. In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark adds a trans Acker.

Wark recounts her memories of Acker (with whom she had a passionate affair) and gives a comprehensive reading of her published and archived works. Wark finds not just an inventive writer of fiction who pressed against the boundaries of gender, but a theorist whose comprehensive philosophy of life brings a conceptual intelligence to the everyday life of those usually excluded from philosophy’s purview. As Wark shows, Acker’s engagement with topics such as masturbation, sadism, body-building, and penetrative sex are central to her distinct phenomenology of the body that theorizes the body’s relation to others, the city, and technology.

September 2021 216 pages Queer theory/Trans studies/Literature Rights: World

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McKenzie Wark is Professor of Media and Culture at Eugene Lang College at The New School and author of several books, including Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century, Reverse Cowgirl, and Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? Her correspondence with Kathy Acker was published as I’m Very Into You.

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Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

PENNY M. VON ESCHEN June 2022 344 pages, 37 illustrations History/Popular Culture Rights: World

In Paradoxes of Nostalgia Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war’s afterlife and the lingering shadows it casts over geopolitics, journalism, and popular culture. She shows how myriad forms of nostalgia across the globe—from those that posit a mythic national past to those critical of neoliberalism that remember a time when people believed in the possibility of a collective good—indelibly shape the post-cold war era. When western triumphalism moved into global south and former eastern bloc spaces, many articulated a powerful sense of loss and a longing for stability. Innovatively bringing together diplomatic archives, museums, films, and video games, Von Eschen shows that as the United States continuously sought new enemies for its unipolar world, cold war triumphalism fueled the ascendancy of xenophobic right-wing nationalism and the embrace of authoritarian sensibilities in the United States and beyond. Ultimately, she demonstrates that triumphalist claims that capitalism and military might won the cold war distort the past and disfigure the present, undermining democratic values and institutions.

Penny M. Von Eschen is William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of American Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957.

Black Trans Feminism MARQUIS BEY

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, Venus Di’Khadija Selenite, and Dane Figueroa Edidi, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismantling of the world we have been given.

January 2022 304 pages Trans studies/African American studies/ Feminist theory Rights: World

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Marquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern Uni­ versity and author of The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender, Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism, and Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism.

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Capturing Finance

Arbitrage and Social Domination

CAROLYN HARDIN

August 2021 176 pages, 7 illustrations Cultural studies Rights: World

Arbitrage—the trading practice that involves buying assets in one market at a cheap price and immediately selling them in another market for a profit—is fundamental to the practice of financial trading and economic understandings of how financial markets function.

Because traders complete transactions quickly and use other people’s money, arbitrage is considered to be riskless. Yet, despite the rhetoric of riskless trading, the arbitrage in mortgage-backed securities led to the 2008 financial crisis. In Capturing Finance Carolyn Hardin offers a new way of understanding arbitrage as a means for capturing value in financial capitalism. She shows how arbitrage relies on a system of abstract domination built around risk. The commonsense beliefs that taking on debt is necessary for affording everyday life and that investing is necessary to secure retirement income compel individuals to assume risk while financial institutions amass profits. Hardin insists that mitigating financial capitalism’s worst consequences, such as perpetuating class and racial inequities, requires challenging the narratives that naturalize risk as a necessary element of financial capitalism as well as social life writ large.

Carolyn Hardin is Assistant Professor of Media and Culture and American Studies at Miami University.

There’s a Disco Ball Between Us A Theory of Black Gay Life

JAFARI S. ALLEN

January 2022 448 pages, 8 illustrations Black Queer studies/Black Feminism/ Anthropology Rights: World

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In There’s A Disco Ball Between Us, Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what he calls “Black gay habits of mind.” In conversational and lyrical language, Allen locates this sensibility as it emerged from radical Black lesbian activism and writing during the long 1980s. He traverses multiple temporalities and locations, drawing on research and fieldwork conducted across the globe, from Nairobi, London, and Paris to Toronto, Miami, and Trinidad and Tobago. In these locations and archives, Allen traces the genealogies of Black gay politics and cultures in the visual art, poetry, film, Black feminist theory, historiography, and activism of thinkers and artists such as Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, Essex Hemphill, Colin Robinson, Marlon Riggs, Pat Parker, and Joseph Beam. Throughout, Allen renarrates Black queer history while cultivating a Black gay method of thinking and writing. In so doing, he speaks to the urgent contemporary struggles for social justice while calling on Black studies to pursue scholarship, art, and policy derived from the lived experience and fantasies of Black people throughout the world.

Jafari S. Allen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami and author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba, also published by Duke University Press.

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Atlantis, an Autoanthropology NATHANIEL TARN

Foreword by JOSEPH DONAHUE

Over the course of his long career, Nathaniel Tarn has been a poet, anthropologist, and book editor, while his travels have taken him into every continent. Born in France, raised in England, and earning a PhD from the University of Chicago, he knew André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Margot Fonteyn, Charles Olson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and many other of the twentieth century’s major artists and intellectuals. In Atlantis, an Autoanthropology he writes that he “has never yet been able to experience the sensation of being only one person.” Throughout this literary memoir and autoethnography, Tarn captures this multiplicity and reaches for the uncertainties of a life lived in a dizzying array of times, cultures, and environments. Drawing on his practice as an anthropologist, he takes himself as a subject of study, examining the shape of a life devoted to the study of the whole of human culture. Atlantis, an Autoanthropology prompts us to consider our own multiple selves and the mysteries contained within.

March 2022 344 pages, 33 illustrations Poetry/Memoir Rights: World

Nathaniel Tarn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at Rutgers University and the author of over three dozen works of poetry, criticism, and scholarship, including The Hölderliniae, Gondwana and Other Poems, and The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology. He has lived north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the past forty years.

Discovering Fiction YAN LIANKE

Translated and with an Introduction by CARLOS ROJAS

Over the past twenty years, Chinese novelist Yan Lianke has emerged as one of the most important writers in the world. In Discovering Fiction, Yan offers insights into his views on literature and realism, the major works that inspired him, and his theories of writing.

He juxtaposes discussions of the high realism of Leo Tolstoy and Lu Xun against Franz Kafka’s modernism and Gabriel García Márquez’s magical realism, charting the relationship between causality, truth, and modes of realism. He also discusses his approach to realism, which he terms “mythorealism”—a way of capturing the world’s underlying truth by relying on the allegories, myths, legends, and dreamscapes that emerge from daily life.

Revealing and instructive, Discovering Fiction gives readers an unprecedented look into the mind and art of a literary giant.

June 2022 160 pages Literature/Asian studies Rights: World English

Yan Lianke is the author of Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, The Explosion Chronicles, The Four Books, and many other novels and story collections. Winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and a two-time finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, Yan teaches at Renmin University in Beijing and the Hong Kong University of Science Technology. Carlos Rojas is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He has translated several of Yan’s novels, including Hard Like Water, The Day the Sun Died, and The Explosion Chronicles.

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Planetary Longings MARY LOUISE PRATT

May 2022 336 pages, 26 illustrations Indigenous studies/Cultural studies Rights: World

In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism’s devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living.

Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity as both a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world- making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and Olive H. Palmore Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship and author of Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.

Between Gaia and Ground

Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism

ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI

September 2021 200 pages, 5 illustrations Anthropology/Social theory Rights: World

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In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral catastrophe through which that Indigenous and colonized peoples have been suffering for centuries. In this way, the violence and philosophies the West relies on now threaten the West itself. Engaging with the work of Glissant, Deleuze and Guattari, Césaire, and Arendt, Povinelli highlights four axioms of existence—the entanglement of existence, the unequal distribution of power, the collapse of the event as essential to political thought, and the legacies of racial and colonial histories. She traces these axioms’ inspiration in anticolonial struggles against the dispossession and extraction that have ruined the lived conditions for many on the planet. By examining the dynamic and unfolding forms of late liberal violence, Povinelli attends to a vital set of questions about changing environmental conditions, the legacies of violence, and the limits of inherited Western social theory. Between Gaia and Ground also includes a glossary of the keywords and concepts that Povinelli has developed throughout her work.

Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia Uni­ versity and founding member of the Karrabing Film Collective. Her most recent book is The Inheritance, also published by Duke University Press.

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Hegemonic Mimicry

Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century

KYUNG HYUN KIM

November 2021 328 pages, 36 illustrations Asian studies/Cultural studies/Film and Media studies Rights: World

In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu’s adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Korean popular culture has upended the familiar dynamic of major-to-minor cultural influence, enabling hallyu to become a dominant global cultural phenomenon. At the same time, its worldwide popularity has rendered its Koreanness opaque. Kim argues that Korean cultural subjectivity over the past two decades is one steeped in ethnic rather than national identity. Explaining how South Korea leaped over the linguistic and cultural walls surrounding a supposedly “minor” culture to achieve global ascendance, Kim positions K-pop, Korean cinema and television serials, and even electronics as transformative acts of reappropriation that have created a hegemonic global ethnic identity.

Kyung Hyun Kim is Professor in East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine, author of Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era and The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema, and coeditor of The Korean Popular Culture Reader, all also published by Duke University Press.

Racist Love

Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy

LESLIE BOW In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asian-ness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asian-ness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America.

March 2022 272 pages, 41 illustrations Asian American studies/American studies/ Affect Theory Rights: World

Leslie Bow is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South and Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women’s Literature.

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Intimate Eating

Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures

ANITA MANNUR Still from The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra, 2013.

March 2022 192 pages, 13 illustrations Food studies/American studies/Critical ethnic studies Rights: World

In Intimate Eating Anita Mannur examines how notions of the culinary can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging. Drawing on critical ethnic studies and queer studies, Mannur traces the ways in which people of color, queer people, and other marginalized subjects create and sustain this belonging through the formation of “intimate eating publics.” These spaces—whether taking place in online communities or eating alone in a restaurant—blur the line between public and private. In analyses of Julie Powell’s Julie and Julia, Nani Power’s Ginger and Ganesh, Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox, Michael Rakowitz’s performance art installation “Enemy Kitchen,” and the Great British Bakeoff, Mannur focuses on how racialized South Asian and Arab brown bodies become visible in various intimate eating publics. In this way, the culinary becomes central to discourses of race and other social categories of difference. By illuminating how cooking, eating, and distributing food shapes and sustains social worlds, Mannur reconfigures how we think about networks of intimacy beyond the family, heteronormativity, and nation.

Anita Mannur is Associate Professor of English at Miami University, author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture, and coeditor of Eating Asian America: A Reader.

Dreams of Flight

The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

FRAN MARTIN In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.

January 2022 368 pages, 44 illustrations Gender studies/Education/Asian studies Rights: World

Fran Martin is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, author of Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary, and coauthor of Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, both also published by Duke University Press.

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The End of Pax Americana

The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism

NAOKI SAKAI

February 2022 376 pages, 3 illustrations Asian studies Rights: World

In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on the long history of US hegemony in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality.

Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori (or “reclusive withdrawal”)—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named from the phenomenon of the nation’s young people reclusing themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post-World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East but rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan, Britain, and the United States.

Naoki Sakai is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Asian Studies at Cornell University and the author of several books, including Translation and Subjectivity: On Japan and Cultural Nationalism.

The Sovereign Trickster

Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte

VICENTE L. RAFAEL

January 2022 192 pages, 15 illustrations Southeast Asian studies/Critical theory Rights: World excluding The Philippines

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In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extra-judicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is less concerned with defining Duterte as a fascist, populist, war lord, and traditional politician than he is with examining what Duterte does: how he rules, the rhetoric of his humor, his use of obscenity to stoke fear, and his projection of masculinity and misogyny. Locating his rise within the context of counterinsurgency, neoliberalism, and the history of electoral violence, while drawing on Foucault’s biopower and Mbembe’s necropolitics, Rafael outlines how Duterte weaponizes death to control life. By diagnosing the symptoms of the authoritarian imaginary as it circulates in the Philippines, Rafael provides a complex account of Duterte’s regime and the social conditions that allow him to enjoy continued support.

Vicente L. Rafael is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington and author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation, The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, and Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule, all also published by Duke University Press.

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China in the World

Culture, Politics, and World Vision

BAN WANG

April 2022 224 pages, 3 illustrations Asian studies Rights: World

In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning “all under heaven,” has constantly been updated into modern outlooks that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as key to overcoming interstate conflict, social fragmentation, and ethnic divides. Instead of geopolitical dominance, China’s worldviews stem as much from the age-old desire for world unity as from absorbing the Western ideas of the Enlightenment, humanism, and socialism. Examining political writings, literature, and film, Wang presents a narrative of the country’s pursuits of decolonization, national independence, notions of national form, socialist internationalism, alternative development, and solidarity with Third World nations. Rather than national exceptionalism, Chinese worldviews aspire to a shared, integrated, and equal world.

Ban Wang is William Haas Professor of Chinese Studies at Stanford University, editor of Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.

Dreadful Desires

The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China

CHARLIE YI ZHANG

April 2022 280 pages, 9 illustrations Asian studies/Gender studies/Affect theory Rights: World

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In Dreadful Desires Charlie Yi Zhang examines how the Chinese state deploys affective notions of love to regulate the population and secure China’s place in the global economy.

Zhang shows how the state frames love as a set of desires that encompass heteronormative intimacy, familial and communal attachment, upward mobility, and private property ownership. These desires—as circulated in the performance in the nationalistic ceremony, the wildly popular reality television dating show If You Are the One, same-sex romantic fanfiction, and the cult of patriarchal personality around Xi Jinping—are explicitly based in oppressive systems of gender, class, and sexuality. Zhang contends that such desires connect love to economic survival and gender normativity in ways that underwrite Chinese neoliberalism at the expense of individual flourishing. By outlining how state-framed forms of love create desires they cannot fulfill, Zhang places China at the forefront of using affective attachments to nation, leader, and family in the global shifts toward exploitation and authoritarianism.

Charlie Yi Zhang is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky.

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Climatic Media

CL IM AT IC

Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

TRANSPACIFIC

YURIKO FURUHATA

EXPERIMENTS IN

Yuriko Furuhata

MEDIA

ATMOSPHERIC CONTROL

April 2022 256 pages, 15 illustrations Media and technology/Environmental studies/ Asian studies Rights: World

In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan’s empire-building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically “condition” the Earth’s atmosphere and socially “condition” the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko’s fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who sought to design climate-controlled capsule housing and domed cities. Furuhata’s transpacific analysis offers a novel take on the elemental conditions of media and climate change.

Yuriko Furuhata is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University and author of Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

Couplets

Travels in Speculative Pragmatism

BRIAN MASSUMI In Couplets, Brian Massumi presents twenty-four essays that represent the full spectrum of his work during the past thirty years. Conceived as a companion volume to Parables for the Virtual, Couplets addresses the key concepts of Parables from different angles and contextualizes them, allowing their stakes to be more fully felt. Rather than organizing the essays chronologically or by topic, Massumi pairs them into couplets to encourage readers to make connections across conventional subject matter categories, to encounter disjunctions, and to link different phases in the evolution of his work. In his analyses of topics ranging from art, affect, and architecture to media theory, political theory, and the philosophy of experience, Massumi charts a field on which a family of conceptual problems plays out in ways that bear on the potentials for acting and perceiving the world. As an essential guide to Massumi’s oeuvre, Couplets is both a primer for his new readers and a supplemental resource for those already engaged with his thought.

October 2021 504 pages, 18 illustrations Philosophy Rights: World

Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and, until recently, Professor of Commu­ nication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also published by Duke University Press.

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Parables for the Virtual Movement, Affect, Sensation

BRIAN MASSUMI

Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface

October 2021 408 pages Philosophy Rights: World

Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi’s pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James’s radical empiricism and Henri Bergson’s philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan’s acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multifaceted argument. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts.

It also includes two short texts, “Keywords for Affect” and “Missed Conceptions about Affect,” in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book’s political and philosophical stakes.

Brian Massumi is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist, and until recently, was Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author of many books, including Couplets, Ontopower, The Power at the End of the Economy, and What Animals Teach Us about Politics, all also pub­ lished by Duke University Press.

Plastic Matter HEATHER DAVIS

April 2022 192 pages, 12 illustrations Environmental studies/Queer theory/Visual culture Rights: World

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic’s materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by tracing the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic’s saturation.

Heather Davis is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School, editor of Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, and coeditor of Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies.

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Media Hot and Cold NICOLE STAROSIELSKI

In Media Hot and Cold Nicole Starosielski examines the cultural dimensions of temperature to theorize the ways heat and cold can be used as a means of communication, subjugation, and control. Diving into the history of thermal media, from infrared cameras to thermo­ stats to torture sweatboxes, Starosielski explores the many meanings and messages of temperature. During the twentieth century, heat and cold were broadcast through mass thermal media. Today, digital thermal media such as bodily air conditioners offer personalized forms of thermal communication and comfort. Although these new media promise to help mitigate the uneven effects of climate change, Starosielski shows how they can operate as a form of biopower by determining who has the ability to control their own thermal environment. In this way, thermal media can enact thermal violence in ways that reinforce racialized, colonial, gendered, and sexualized hierarchies. By outlining how the control of temperature reveals power relations, Starosielski offers a framework to better understand the dramatic transformations of hot and cold media in the twenty-first century.

December 2021 296 pages, 32 illustrations Media and technology studies/Environment Rights: World

Nicole Starosielski is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York Uni­ versity, author of The Undersea Network, and coeditor of Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media, both also published by Duke University Press.

Remaindered Life

NEFERTI X. M. TADIAR

In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.

July 2022 432 pages, 26 illustrations Critical Race studies/Global studies/Feminist Social Theory Rights: World

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press, and Fantasy Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order.

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Life-Destroying Diagrams EUGENIE BRINKEMA

February 2022 488 pages, 60 illustrations, including 17 in color Film/Philosophy/Critical theory Rights: World

In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to formal logics of torture and cruelty, violence and finitude, friendship and eros, debt and care. Beginning with a wholesale rethinking of the affect of horror, orienting it away from entrenched models of feeling toward impersonal schemes and structures, Brinkema moves outward to consider the relation between objects and affects, humiliation and metaphysics, genre and the general, bodily destruction and aesthetic generation, geometry and scenography, hatred and value, love and measurement, and, ultimately, the tensions, hazards, and speculative promise of formalism itself. Replete with etymological meditations, performative typography, and lyrical digressions, LifeDestroying Diagrams is at once a model of reading without guarantee and a series of gener­ ative experiments in the writing of aesthetic theory.

Eugenie Brinkema is Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at the Massachu­ setts Institute of Technology and author of The Forms of the Affects, also published by Duke University Press.

Indirect Subjects

Nollywood’s Local Address

MATTHEW H. BROWN

November 2021 328 pages, 42 illustrations African studies/Media studies/Postcolonial theory Rights: World

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In Indirect Subjects, Matthew H. Brown analyzes the content of the prolific Nigerian film industry’s mostly direct-to-video movies alongside local practices of production and circulation to show how screen media play spatial roles in global power relations. Scrutinizing the deep structural and aesthetic relationship between Nollywood, as the industry is known, and Nigerian state television, Brown tracks how several Nollywood films, in ways similar to both state television programs and colonial cinema productions, invite local spectators to experience liberal capitalism not only as a form of exploitation but as a set of expectations about the future. This mode of address, which Brown refers to as “periliberalism,” sustains global power imbalances by locating viewers within liberalism but distancing them from its processes and benefits. Locating the wellspring of this hypocrisy in the British Empire’s practice of indirect rule, Brown contends that culture industries like Nollywood can sustain capitalism by isolating ordinary African people, whose labor and consumption fuel it, from its exclusive privileges.

Matthew H. Brown is Assistant Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin– Madison.

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Terror Capitalism

Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City

DARREN BYLER

January 2022 296 pages, 15 illustrations China/Surveillance/Anthropology Rights: World

In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the regional capital Ürümchi, Byler shows how media infrastructures, the state’s enforcement of “Chinese” cultural values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men—who are the primary target of state violence—and how they develop masculinities and homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered, ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a colonial relation of domination.

Darren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Newborn Socialist Things Materiality in Maoist China

LAURENCE CODERRE

July 2021 264 pages, 25 illustrations Cultural studies/Asian studies Rights: World

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Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. In Newborn Socialist Things, Laurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for commodification in contemporary China. Examining objects ranging from retail counters and porcelain statuettes to textbooks and vanity mirrors, she shows how the project of building socialism in China has always been intimately bound up with consumption. By focusing on these objects—or “newborn socialist things”— along with the Cultural Revolution’s media environment, discourses of materiality, and political economy, Coderre reconfigures understandings of the origins of present-day China.

Laurence Coderre is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University.

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The Deconstruction of Sex

JEAN-LUC NANCY and IRVING GOH

With an Afterword by CLAIRE COLEBROOK

In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their conversation, Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from relation, penetration, and subjection to touch, erotics, and jouissance. They show how despite its entrenchment in social norms and centrality to our being-in-the-world, sex lacks a clearly defined essence.

At the same time, they point to the potentiality of literature to inscribe the senses of sex.

In so doing, Nancy and Goh prompt us to reconsider our relations with ourselves and others through sex in more sensitive, respectful, and humble ways without bracketing the troubling aspects of sex.

November 2021 120 pages Philosophy/Sex and sexuality Rights: World

Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021) was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg and the author of numerous books, most recently Sexistence. Irving Goh is President's Assistant Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore and author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject and L’Existence Prépositionnelle. Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Moving Home

Gender, Place, and Travel Writing in the Early Black Atlantic

SANDRA GUNNING

October 2021 280 pages, 10 illustrations Caribbean studies/American studies/Black diaspora Rights: World

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In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned Anglican bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther played a role in the Christianization of colonial Nigeria. Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a formerly enslaved girl “gifted” to Queen Victoria, traveled the African colonies as the wife of a prominent colonial figure and under the protection of her benefactress. Alongside Nancy Gardiner Prince, Martin R. Delany, Robert Campbell, and others, these writers used their mobility as African diasporic and colonial subjects to explore the Atlantic world and beyond while they negotiated the complex intersections between nation and empire.

Rather than categorizing them as merely precursors of Pan-Africanist traditions, Gunning traces their successes and frustrations to capture a sense of the historical and geographical specificities that shaped their careers.

Sandra Gunning is Professor of American Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies at the Uni­ versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, author of Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890–1912, and coeditor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas.

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Decay

GHASSAN HAGE , editor

In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe.

They examine decay in its myriad manifestations—biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume’s topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison.

By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and tempo­ ralities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment.

November 2021 192 pages, 1 illustration Anthropology Rights: World

Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne and author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World, Is Racism an Environmental Threat?, and other books.

Subversive Archaism

Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage

MICHAEL HERZFELD In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and past polities to claim legitimacy for their defiance of bureaucratic authority.

Although vilified by government authorities as remote, primitive, or dangerous—often as preemptive justification for violent repression—these groups are not revolutionaries and do not reject national identity, but they do question the equation of state and nation. Herzfeld explores the political strengths and vulnerabilities of their deployment of heritage and the weaknesses they expose in the bureaucratic and ethnonational state in an era of accelerated globalization.

December 2021 256 pages, 14 illustrations Anthropology/Critical Heritage studies Rights: World excluding Greece

Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok and Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome.

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Becoming Palestine

Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future

GIL Z. HOCHBERG In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically imagine Palestine’s future. She shows how artists such as Jumana Manna, Kamal Aljafari, Larissa Sansour, Farah Saleh, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme reimagine the archive, approaching it not through the desire to unearth hidden knowledge, but to sever the identification of the archive with the past. In their use of archaeology, musical traditions, and archival film and cinematic footage, these artists imagine a Palestinian future unbounded from colonial space and time. By urging readers to think about archives as a break from history rather than as history’s repository, Hochberg presents a fundamental reconceptualization of the archive’s liberatory potential.

December 2021 208 pages, 30 illustrations Middle East studies/Art and visual culture Rights: World

Gil Z. Hochberg is Ransford Professor of Hebrew and Visual Studies, Comparative Literature, and Middle East Studies at Columbia University and author of Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, also published by Duke University Press, and In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination.

Assembly Codes The Logistics of Media

MATTHEW HOCKENBERRY, NICOLE STAROSIELSKI, and SUSAN ZIEGER , editors With a Foreword by JOHN DURHAM PETERS

September 2021 264 pages, 23 illustrations Media studies/Science and technology studies Rights: World

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The contributors to Assembly Codes examine how media and logistics set the conditions for the circulation of information and culture. They document how logistics—the techniques of organizing and coordinating the movement of materials, bodies, and information—has substantially impacted the production, distribution, and consumption of media. At the same time, physical media, such as paperwork, along with media technologies ranging from phone systems to software are central to the operations of logistics. The contributors interrogate topics ranging from the logistics of film production and the construction of internet infrastructure to the environmental impact of the creation, distribution, and sale of vinyl records. They also reveal how logistical technologies have generated new aesthetic and performative practices. In charting the specific points of contact, dependence, and friction between media and logistics, Assembly Codes demonstrates that media and logistics are co-constitutive and that one cannot be understood apart from the other.

Matthew Hockenberry is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham Uni­ versity. Nicole Starosielski is Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Susan Zieger is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. John Durham Peters is Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.

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Art as Information Ecology

Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics

JASON A. HOELSCHER

October 2021 288 pages, 24 illustrations Art Theory/Contemporary Art/Philosophy Rights: World

In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference.

These irresolvable differences, Hoelscher demonstrates, fuel the richness of aesthetic experience by which viewers glean new information and insight from each encounter with an artwork. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing. Considering the works of Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, the Drop City commune, Eva Hesse, and others, Hoelscher finds that art exists within an information ecology of complex feedback between artwork and artworld that is driven by the unfolding of difference. By charting how information in its aesthetic mode can exist beyond today’s strictly quantifiable and monetizable forms, Hoelscher reconceives our understanding of how artworks work and how information operates.

Jason A. Hoelscher is Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Georgia Southern University.

Listening in the Afterlife of Data Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication

DAVID CECCHETTO In Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. He shows how in a time he calls the afterlife of data—the cultural context in which data’s hegemony persists even in the absence of any belief in its validity— data is repositioned as the latest in a long line of concepts that are at once constitutive of communication and suggestive of its limit. Cecchetto points to the failures and excesses of communication by focusing on the power of listening—whether through wearable technology, internet-based artworks, or the ways in which computers process sound—to pragmatically comprehend the representational excesses that data produces. Writing at a cultural moment in which data has never been more ubiquitous or less convincing, Cecchetto elucidates the paradoxes that are constitutive of computation and communication more broadly, demonstrating that data is never quite what it seems.

March 2022 184 pages, 3 illustrations Sound studies/Media studies Rights: World

David Cecchetto is Associate Professor of Critical Digital Theory in the Department of Humanities at York University, author of Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism, and coauthor of Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture.

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Saturation

An Elemental Politics

MELODY JUE and RAFICO RUIZ , editors

October 2021 344 pages, 41 illustrations Media/Environment Rights: World

Bringing together media studies and environmental humanities, the contributors to Saturation develop saturation as a heuristic to analyze phenomena in which the elements involved are difficult or impossible to separate. In ordinary language, saturation describes the condition of being thoroughly soaked, while in chemistry it is the threshold at which something can be maximally dissolved or absorbed in a solution. Contributors to this collection expand notions of saturation beyond water to consider saturation in sound, infrastructure, media, Big Data, capitalism, and visual culture. Essays include analyses of the thresholds of hiv detectability in bloodwork, militarism’s saturation of oceans, and the deleterious effects of the saturation of cellphone and wi-fi signals into the human body. By channeling saturation to explore the relationship between media, the environment, technology, capital, and the legacies of settler colonialism, Saturation illuminates how elements, the natural world, and anthropogenic infrastructures, politics, and processes exist in and through each other.

Melody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking through Seawater, also published by Duke University Press. Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier, also pub­ lished by Duke University Press.

The Work of Rape RANA M. JALEEL

In The Work of Rape Rana M. Jaleel argues that the redefinition of sexual violence within international law as a war crime, crime against humanity, and genocide owes a disturbing and unacknowledged debt to power and knowledge achieved from racial, imperial, and settler colonial domination. Prioritizing critiques of racial capitalism from women of color, Indigenous, queer, trans, and Global South perspectives, Jaleel reorients how violence is socially defined and distributed through legal definitions of rape. From Cold War conflicts in Latin America, the 1990s ethnic wars in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and the War on Terror to ongoing debates about sexual assault on college campuses, Jaleel considers how legal and social iterations of rape and the terms that define it—consent, force, coercion—are unstable indexes and abstractions of social difference that mediate racial and colonial positionalities.

Jaleel traces how post-Cold War orders of global security and governance simultaneously transform the meaning of sexualized violence, extend US empire, and disavow legacies of enslavement, Indigenous dispossession, and racialized violence within the United States.

October 2021 280 pages Gender studies/Critical ethnic studies/ American studies Rights: World

Rana M. Jaleel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of California, Davis. As a member of Writers for the 99%, she coauthored Occupying Wall Street.

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Reimagining Social Medicine from the South ABIGAIL H. NEELY

In Reimagining Social Medicine from the South, Abigail H. Neely explores social medicine’s possibilities and limitations at one of its most important origin sites: the Pholela Community Health Centre (pchc) in South Africa. The pchc’s focus on medical and social factors of health yielded remarkable success. And yet South Africa’s systemic racial inequality hindered health center work, and witchcraft illnesses challenged a program rooted in the sciences. To understand Pholela’s successes and failures, Neely interrogates the “social” in social medicine. She makes clear that the social sciences the pchc used failed to account for the roles that Pholela’s residents and their environment played in the development and success of its program. At the same time, the pchc’s reliance on biomedicine prevented it from recognizing the impact on health of witchcraft illnesses and the social relationships from which they emerged. By rewriting the story of social medicine from Pholela, Neely challenges global health practitioners to recognize the multiple worlds and actors that shape health and healing in Africa and beyond.

August 2021 192 pages, 12 illustrations Geography/Medical Anthropology/African studies Rights: World

Abigail H. Neely is Assistant Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.

The Small Matter of Suing Chevron SUZANA SAWYER

July 2022 416 pages, 63 illustrations Anthropology/Latin American studies/ Environmental studies Rights: World

The Small Matter of Suing Chevron examines an environmental lawsuit against the Chevron Corporation and its subsequent tumultuous aftermath. It surfaces the complex relations that compelled an Ecuadorian court in 2011 to render a $9 billion oil-contamination liability against Chevron, and, compelled the US district court in 2016 and an international tribunal in 2018 to render that ruling illegitimate and unenforceable. Chevron’s counter-suits have succeeded in making “fraud” the frame through which to view the Ecuador lawsuit—a legal truth that makes the Ecuador litigation irrelevant and obscures its far-reaching significance for transnational environmental accountability. The book shifts the frame. Distilling events over a quarter century, it delves into the central arguments shaping the Ecuador litigation only to reveal the failings of the US and international court.

Chemistry holds a crucial place in this story—both in configuring the composition of legal truths in this legal trilogy and in inspiring an analytic grammar through with to think these complex relations.

Suzana Sawyer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

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The Lettered Barriada

Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

JORELL A. MELÉNDEZ-BADILLO

November 2021 280 pages, 16 illustrations Latin American history/Labor studies Rights: World

In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico’s world of letters and navigated the colonial polity that emerged out of the 1898 US occupation. They did so by asserting themselves as citizens, producers of their own historical narratives, and learned minds. Disregarded by most of Puerto Rico’s intellectual elite, these workers engaged in dialogue with international peers and imagined themselves as part of a global community. They also entered the world of politics through the creation of the Socialist Party, which became an electoral force in the first half of the twentieth century. Meléndez-Badillo shows how these workers produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico’s national mythology. By following these ragtag intellectuals as they became politicians and statesmen, Meléndez-Badillo also demonstrates how they engaged in racial and gender silencing, epistemic violence, and historical erasures in the fringes of society. Ultimately, The Lettered Barriada is about the politics of knowledge production and the tensions between working-class intellectuals and the state.

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College, author of Voces libertarias: Los orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico, and coeditor of Without Borders or Limits: An Inter­ disciplinary Approach to Anarchist Studies.

Soundscapes of Liberation

African American Music in Postwar France

CELESTE DAY MOORE

October 2021 312 pages, 40 illustrations Music/Black studies/History Rights: World

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In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military’s wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry’s catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music’s centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.

Celeste Day Moore is Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College.

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Earworm and Event

Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains

ELDRITCH PRIEST April 2022 200 pages Music and sound studies/Philosophy Rights: World

In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads.

Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tête-bêche—two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where “Earworm” theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, “Event” performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight not only into the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expression of our contemporary social environments and more-than-human milieus. Unconventional and ambitious, Earworm and Event offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.

Eldritch Priest is Assistant Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser Univer­ sity, author of Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure, and coauthor of Ludic Dreaming: Listening Away from Contemporary Technoculture.

Loss and Wonder at the World’s End LAURA A. OGDEN

In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong—to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of nonnative species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss—including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself—as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; and experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism’s shadow, a darkness cast over the earth in the wake of other losses.

November 2021 200 pages, 56 illustrations, including 1 in color Anthropology/Environmental studies Rights: World

Laura A. Ogden is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades, coauthor of Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers, and coeditor of The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape.

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Unintended Lessons of Revolution

Student Teachers and Political Radicalism in Twentieth-Century Mexico

TANALÍS PADILLA

December 2021 376 pages, 22 illustrations Latin American studies/History/Education Rights: World

In the 1920s, Mexico established rural normales—boarding schools that trained teachers in a new nation-building project. Drawn from campesino ranks and meant to cultivate state allegiance, their graduates would facilitate land distribution, organize civic festivals, and promote hygiene campaigns. In Unintended Lessons of Revolution, Tanalís Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics. As Padilla demonstrates, the popular longings that drove the Mexican Revolution permeated these schools. By the 1930s, ideas about land reform, education for the poor, community leadership, and socialism shaped their institutional logic. Over the coming decades, the tensions between state consolidation and revolutionary justice produced a telling contradiction: the very schools meant to constitute a loyal citizenry became hubs of radicalization against a government that increasingly abandoned its commitment to social justice. Crafting a story of struggle and state repression, Padilla illuminates education’s radical possibilities and the nature of political consciousness for youths whose changing identity—from campesinos, to students, to teachers—speaks to Mexico’s twentieth-century transformations.

Tanalís Padilla is Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of the Pax-Priísta, 1940–1962, also published by Duke University Press.

Reactivating Elements Chemistry, Ecology, Practice

DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS, MARÍA PUIG DE LA BELLACASA , and NATASHA MYERS, editors

February 2022 304 pages, 30 illustrations Science and Technology studies/ Environmental Humanities/Political Ecology Rights: World

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The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth’s troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought across fields—chemistry, the biosciences, engineering, physics, science and technology studies, the environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and cultural studies—the contributors examine the relationship between chemistry and ecology, probe the logics that render wind as energy, excavate affective histories of ubiquitous substances such as plastics and radioactive elements, and chart the damage wrought by petrochemical industrialization. Throughout, the volume illuminates how elements become entangled with power and control, coloniality, racism, and extractive productivism while exploring alternative paths to environmental destruction. In so doing, it rethinks the relationship between the elements and the elemental, human and more-than-human worlds, today’s damaged ecosystems and other ecologies to come.

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Notting­ ham. María Puig de la Bellacasa is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Natasha Myers is Associate Professor at York University.

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Warring Visions

Photography and Vietnam

THY PHU

December 2021 248 pages, 70 illustrations, including 16 in color Photography/Vietnam Rights: World

In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography, Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese themselves, capturing a range of subjects, occasions, and perspectives. Phu’s concept of warring visions refers to contrasts in the use of war photos in North Vietnam, which highlighted national liberation and aligned itself with an international audience, and those in South Vietnam, which focused on family and everyday survival. Phu also uses warring visions to enlarge the category of war photography, a genre that usually consists of images illustrating the immediacy of combat and the spectacle of violence, pain, and wounded bodies. She pushes this genre beyond such definitions by analyzing pictures of family life, weddings, and other quotidian scenes of life during the war.

Phu thus expands our understanding of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.

Thy Phu is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of Feeling Photography, also published by Duke University Press, and Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada. She is also author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.

Interplay of Things

Religion, Art, and Presence Together

ANTHONY B. PINN

November 2021 280 pages, 10 illustrations Religious studies/African American studies/Art Rights: World

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In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in terms of institutions, doctrines, and creeds, Pinn shows how religion exposes the openness and porousness of all things and how they are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay. Pinn examines work by Nella Larsen and Richard Wright that illustrates an openness between things, and he traces how pop art and readymades point to the multidirectional nature of influence. He also shows how Ron Athey’s and Clifford Owens’s performance art draws out inherent interconnectedness to various cultural codes in ways that reveal the symbiotic relationship between art and religion as a technology. Theorizing that antiblack racism and gender- and class-based hostility constitute efforts to close off the porous nature of certain bodies, Pinn shows how many artists have rebelled against these attempts to counter openness. His analyses offer a means by which to understand the porous, unbounded, and open nature of humans and things.

Anthony B. Pinn is Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice Uni­ versity and the author of many books, including Humanism: Essays on Race, Religion, and Popular Culture, Introducing African American Religion, and The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology. He is coeditor of Creating Ourselves: African Americans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression, also published by Duke University Press.

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Healing at the Periphery

Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India

LAURENT PORDIÉ and STEPHAN KLOOS, editors

January 2022 224 pages, 1 illustration Medical anthropology/Tibetan medicine Rights: World

India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development.

However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume examines the crucial moment of crisis and transformation that occurred in the early 2000s to offer insights into the beginnings of Tibetan medicine's professionalization, industrialization, and official recognition in India and elsewhere. Based on fine-grained ethnographic studies in Ladakh, Zangskar, Sikkim, and the Darjeeling Hills, Healing at the Periphery asks how the dynamics of capitalism, social change, and the encounter with biomedicine affect small communities on the fringes of modern India, and, conversely, what local transformations of Tibetan medicine tell us about contemporary society and health care in the Himalayas and the Tibetan world.

Laurent Pordié is Senior Researcher, Research Unit on Science, Medicine, Health, and Society at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Stephan Kloos is the Acting Director of the In­ stitute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke MICHAEL BERRY

Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker. Drawing from extensive interviews and public talks, this volume offers a portrait of Jia’s life, art, and approach to filmmaking.

Jia and Berry’s conversations range from Jia’s childhood and formative years to extensive discussions of his major narrative films, including such classics as Xiao Wu, Platform, The World, Still Life, and A Touch of Sin. Jia gives a first-hand account of his influences, analyzes the Chinese film industry, and offers his thoughts on everything from film music and working with actors to cinematography and screenwriting. From industry and economics to art and politics, Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke represents the single most comprehensive document of the director’s candid thoughts on the art and challenges of filmmaking.

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Michael Berry is Director of the Center for Chinese Studies and Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author, editor, and translator of several books, including Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film, and Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers.

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Reframing Todd Haynes Feminism’s Indelible Mark

THERESA L. GELLER and JULIA LEYDA , editors April 2022 368 pages, 49 illustrations Film and Television studies/Gay and Lesbian studies/Feminist Theory Rights: World

For three decades award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider perspective. Today, Haynes is widely known for bringing women’s stories to the screen. Analyzing Haynes’s films such as Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far from Heaven (2002), and Carol (2015), the television miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), and his unauthorized Karen Carpenter biopic Superstar (1989), the contributors to Reframing Todd Haynes reassess his work in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional career as a director of women’s films. They present multiple perspectives on Haynes’s film and television work and on his role as an artist-activist who draws on academic theorizations of gender and cinema. The volume illustrates the influence of feminist theory on Haynes’s aesthetic vision, most evident in his persistent interest in the political and formal possibilities afforded by the genre of the woman’s film. The contributors contend that no consideration of Haynes’s work can afford to ignore the crucial place of feminism within it.

Theresa L. Geller is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Brain Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley and author of The X-Files. Julia Leyda is Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of Todd Haynes: Interviews.

Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity RAMYAR D. ROSSOUKH and STEVEN C. CATON, editors

From Bangladesh and Hong Kong to Iran and South Africa, film industries around the world are rapidly growing at a time when new digital technologies are fundamentally changing how films are made and viewed. Larger film industries like Bollywood and Nollywood aim to attain Hollywood’s audience and profitability, while smaller, less commercial, and often state-funded enterprises support various cultural and political projects. The contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an ethnographic and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries. They outline how modularity—the specialized filmmaking tasks that collectively produce a film—operates as a key feature in every film industry, independent of local context. Whether they are examining the process of dubbing Hollywood films into Hindi, virtual reality filmmaking in South Africa, or on-location shooting in Yemen, the contributors’ anthropological methodology brings into relief the universal practices and the local contingencies and deeper cultural realities of film production.

November 2021 288 pages, 12 illustrations Anthropology/Film studies/Cultural studies Rights: World

Ramyar D. Rossoukh is Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program at Princeton University. Steven C. Caton is Khalid bin Abdullah bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies at Harvard University.

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Living Worth

Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets

STEFAN ECKS April 2022 288 pages, 9 illustrations Medical anthropology/South Asian studies Rights: World

In Living Worth Stefan Ecks draws on ethnographic research on depression and antide­ pressant usage in India to develop a new theory of value. Framing depressive disorder as a problem of value, Ecks traces the myriad ways antidepressants come to have value, from their ability to help make one’s life worth living to the wealth they generate in the multi­ billion-dollar global pharmaceutical market. Through case studies that include analyses of the different valuation of generic and brand name drugs, the origins of rising worldwide depression rates, and the marketing, prescription, and circulation of antidepressants, Ecks theorizes value as a process of biocommensuration. Biocommensurations—transactions that aim or claim to make life better—are those forms of social, medical, and corporate actions that allow value to be measured, exchanged, substituted, and redistributed. Ecks’s theory expands value beyond both a Marxist labor of theory of value and a free-market subjective theory, thereby offering new insights into how the value of lives and things become entangled under neoliberal capitalism.

Stefan Ecks is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India.

Making Women Pay Microfinance in Urban India

SMITHA RADHAKRISHNAN In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India’s microfinance industry, which in the last two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women in the name of state-led efforts to promote financial inclusion and women’s empowerment. Despite this favorable language, she argues, microfinance in India does not provide a market-oriented development intervention, even though it may appear to help women borrowers. Rather, this commercial industry seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers through exploitative relationships that benefit especially class-privileged men. Through ethnography, interviews, and historical analysis, Radhakrishnan demonstrates how the unpaid and underpaid labor of marginalized women borrowers ensures both profitability and symbolic legitimacy for microfinance institutions, their employees, and their leaders. In doing so, she centralizes gender in the study of microfinance, reveals why most microfinance programs target women, and explores the exploitative implications of this targeting.

January 2022 272 pages, 11 illustrations Sociology/Gender studies/South Asian studies Rights: World

Smitha Radhakrishnan is Professor of Sociology and Luella LaMer Slaner Professor of Women's Stud­ ies at Wellesley College and author of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class, also published by Duke University Press.

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Speaking for the People

Native Writing and the Question of Political Form

MARK RIFKIN

September 2021 320 pages Native and Indigenous studies/Literary studies Rights: World

In Speaking for the People Mark Rifkin examines nineteenth-century Native writings to reframe contemporary debates around Indigenous recognition, refusal, and resurgence. Rifkin shows how works by Native authors (William Apess, Elias Boudinot, Sarah Winnemucca, and Zitkala-Ša) illustrate the intellectual labor involved in representing modes of Indigenous political identity and placemaking. These writers highlight the complex processes involved in negotiating the character, contours, and scope of Indigenous sovereignties under ongoing colonial occupation. Rifkin argues that attending to these writers’ engagements with non-native publics helps provide further analytical tools for addressing the complexities of Indigenous governance on the ground—both then and now.

Thinking about Native peoplehood and politics as a matter of form opens possibilities for addressing the difficult work involved in navigating among varied possibilities for conceptualizing and enacting peoplehood in the context of continuing settler intervention. As Rifkin demonstrates, attending to writings by these Indigenous intellectuals provides ways of understanding Native governance as a matter of deliberation, discussion, and debate, emphasizing the open-ended unfinishedness of self-determination.

Mark Rifkin is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author of several books, including Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation and Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, both also published by Duke University Press.

How Do We Look?

Resisting Visual Biopolitics

FATIMAH TOBING RONY

January 2022 248 pages, 45 illustrations Film and visual culture/Gender studies/ Southeast Asian studies Rights: World

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In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic and documentary films. In each instance, the figure of the Indonesian woman is inextricably tied to discourses of primitivism, savagery, colonialism, exoticism, and genocide. Rony also focuses on acts of resistance to visual biopolitics in film, writing, and photography. These works, such as Rachmi Diyah Larasati’s The Dance that Makes You Vanish, Vincent Monnikendam’s Mother Dao (1995), and the collaborative films of Nia Dinata, challenge the naturalized methods of seeing that justify exploitation, dehumanization, and early death of people of color. By theorizing the mechanisms of visual biopolitics, Rony elucidates both its violence and its vulnerability.

Fatimah Tobing Rony is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle, also published by Duke University Press.

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Radiation Sounds

Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences

JESSICA A. SCHWARTZ On March 1, 1954, the US military detonated “Castle Bravo,” its most powerful nuclear bomb, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Two days later, the US military evacuated the Marshallese to a nearby atoll where they became part of a classified study, without their consent, on the effects of radiation on humans. In Radiation Sounds Jessica A. Schwartz examines the seventy-five years of Marshallese music developed in response to US nuclear militarism on their homeland. Schwartz shows how Marshallese singing draws on religious, cultural, and political practices to make heard the deleterious effects of US nuclear violence. Schwartz also points to the literal silencing of Marshallese voices and throats compromised by radiation as well as the United States’ silencing of information about the human radiation study. By foregrounding the centrality of the aural and sensorial in understanding nuclear testing’s long-term effects, Schwartz offers new modes of understanding the relationships between the voice, sound, militarism, indigeneity, and geopolitics.

October 2021 312 pages, 21 illustrations Music/Pacific Islander studies/American studies Rights: World

Jessica A. Schwartz is Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Atmospheres of Violence

Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

ERIC A. STANLEY Advances in lgbtq rights in the recent past—marriage equality, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation—have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States.

Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, aids activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. In calling for trans/queer organizing and worldmaking beyond these forms, Stanley points to abolitionist ways of life that might offer livable futures.

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Eric A. Stanley is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility and Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex.

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Diminished Faculties

A Political Phenomenology of Impairment

JONATHAN STERNE

January 2022 304 pages, 60 illustrations Disability studies/Sound studies Rights: World

In Diminished Faculties Jonathan Sterne offers a sweeping cultural study and theorization of impairment. Drawing on his personal history with thyroid cancer and a paralyzed vocal cord, Sterne undertakes a political phenomenology of impairment in which experience is understood from the standpoint of a subject that is not fully able to account for itself. He conceives of impairment as a fundamental dimension of human experience, examining it as both political and physical. While some impairments are enshrined as normal in international standards, others are treated as causes or effects of illness or disability. Alongside his fractured account of experience, Sterne provides a tour of alternative vocal technologies and practices; a study of “normal” hearing loss as a cultural practice rather than a medical problem; and an intertwined history and phenomenology of fatigue that follows the concept as it careens from people to materials science to industrial management to spoons. Sterne demonstrates how impairment is a problem, opportunity, and occasion for approaching larger questions about disability, subjectivity, power, technology, and experience in new ways. Diminished Faculties ends with a practical user’s guide to impairment theory.

Jonathan Sterne is James McGill Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, and author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format and The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, both also published by Duke University Press, and is editor of The Sound Studies Reader. He also makes music and other audio works. Visit his website at https://sterneworks.org.

The Ruse of Repair

US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique

PATRICIA STUELKE

September 2021 328 pages, 9 illustrations American studies Rights: World

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Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn’s hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements’ visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn’s complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism’s efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices.

Patricia Stuelke is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

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Multisituated

Ethnography as Diasporic Praxis

KAUSHIK SUNDER RAJAN In Multisituated Kaushik Sunder Rajan evaluates the promises and potentials of multisited ethnography with regard to contemporary debates around decolonizing anthropology and the university. He observes that at the current moment, anthropology is increasingly peopled by diasporic students and researchers, all of whom are accountable to multiple communities beyond the discipline. In this light, Sunder Rajan draws on his pedagogical experience and dialogues to reconceptualize ethnography as a multisituated practice of knowledge production, ethical interlocution, and political intervention. Such a multisituated ethnography responds to contemporary anthropology’s myriad commitments as it privileges attention to questions of scale, comparison, and the politics of ethnographic encounters. Foregrounding the conditions of possibility and difficulty for those doing and teaching ethnography in the twenty-first-century, Sunder Rajan gestures toward an ethos and praxis of ethnography that would open new forms of engagement and research.

November 2021 272 pages, 4 illustrations Anthropology Rights: World

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is author of Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine and Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life and editor of Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, all also published

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Transnational Feminist Itineraries Situating Theory and Activist Practice

ASHWINI TAMBE and MILLIE THAYER , editors Transnational Feminist Itineraries brings together scholars and activists from multiple continents to demonstrate the ongoing importance of transnational feminist theory in challenging neoliberal globalization and the rise of authoritarian nationalisms around the world. The contributors illuminate transnational feminism’s unique constellation of elements: its specific mode of thinking across scales, its historical understanding of identity categories, and its expansive imagining of solidarity based on difference rather than similarity. Contesting the idea that transnational feminism works in opposition to other approaches—especially intersectional and decolonial feminisms—this volume instead argues for their complementarity. Throughout, the contributors call for reaching across social, ideological, and geographical boundaries to better confront the growing reach of nationalism, authoritarianism, and religious and economic fundamentalism.

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Ashwini Tambe is Professor and Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Wash­ ington University, and author of Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws. Millie Thayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author of Making Transnational Feminism: Rural Women, NGO Activists, and Northern Donors in Brazil.

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At the Limits of Cure

BHARAT JAYRAM VENKAT

Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat examines what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone. At the Limits of Cure tells a story that stretches from the colonial period—a time of sanatoria, travel cures, and gold therapy—into a postcolonial present marked by antibiotic miracles and their failures. Venkat juxtaposes the unraveling of cure across a variety of sites: in idyllic hill stations and crowded prisons, aboard ships and on the battlefield, and through research trials and clinical encounters. If cure is frequently taken as an ending (of illness, treatment, and suffering more generally), Venkat provides a foundation for imagining cure otherwise in a world of fading antibiotic efficacy.

November 2021 304 pages, 17 illustrations Anthropology/History of Medicine/South Asian studies Rights: World

Bharat Jayram Venkat is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics and in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Viapolitics

Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion

WILLIAM WALTERS, CHARLES HELLER , and LORENZO PEZZANI, editors

December 2022 320 pages, 32 illustrations Geography/Anthropology/Politics Rights: World

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Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states’ attempts to govern them. This volume’s contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics of migration and bordering across a range of sites. They show how these elements constitute a key site of knowledge and struggle in migratory processes and offer a privileged vantage point from which to interrogate practices of mobility and systems of control in their deeper histories and wider geographic connections. This transdisciplinary group of scholars explores a set of empirically rich and diverse cases: from the Spanish and European authorities’ attempts to control migrants’ entire trajectories to infrastructures of escort of Indonesian labor migrants; from deportation train cars in the 1920s United States to contemporary stowaways at sea; from illegalized migrants walking across treacherous Alpine mountain passes to aerial geographies of deportation. Throughout, Viapolitics interrogates anew the phenomenon called “migration,” questioning how different forms of contentious mobility are experienced, policed, and contested.

William Walters is Professor of Political Sociology at Carleton University. Charles Heller is Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Graduate Institute, Geneva.

Lorenzo Pezzani is Lecturer in Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Collective Biologies

Healing Social Ills through Sexual Health Research in Mexico

EMILY A. WENTZELL

January 2022 240 pages Medical anthropology/Latin American studies/ Gender studies Rights: World

In Collective Biologies, Emily A. Wentzell uses sexual health research participation as a case study for investigating the use of individual health behaviors to aid groups facing crisis and change. Wentzell analyzes couples’ experiences of a longitudinal study of hpv occurrence in men in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She observes how their experiences reflected Mexican cultural understandings of group belonging through categories like family and race. For instance, partners drew on collective rather than individualistic understandings of biology to hope that men’s performance of “modern” masculinities, marriage, and healthcare via hpv research would aid groups ranging from church congregations to the Mexican populace. Thus, Wentzell challenges the common regulatory view of medical research participation as an individual pursuit. Instead, she demonstrates that medical research is a daily life arena that people might use for fixing embodied societal problems. By identifying forms of group interconnectedness as “collective biologies,” Wentzell investigates how people can use their own actions to enhance collective health and well-being in ways that neoliberal emphasis on individuality obscures.

Emily A. Wentzell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa, author of Maturing Masculinities: Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico, and coeditor of Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Histories, Activisms, and Futures, both also published by Duke University Press.

The Surrounds

Urban Life within and beyond Capture

ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE June 2022 184 pages, 12 illustrations Black studies/Urban studies/Geography Rights: World

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be rather than what people are creating now, Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.

AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield and author of For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, also published by Duke Univer­ sity Press, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South, and Jakarta: Drawing the City Near.

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Passionate Work

Endurance after the Good Life

RENYI HONG

Still from “What Is a Badge?,” MacArthur Foundation.

June 2022 248 pages, 10 illustrations Cultural studies/Marxist theory Rights: World

In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our experiences of work. Tracking the rise of passion in nineteenthcentury management to trends like gamification, coworking, and unemployment insurance, Hong demonstrates how passion can emerge in instances that would not typically be understood as passionate. Gamification numbs crippling boredom by keeping call center workers in an unthinking, suspensive state, pursuing even the most banal tasks in hope of career advancement. Coworking spaces marketed toward freelancers combat loneliness and disconnection at the precise moment when middle-class sureties are profoundly threatened. Ultimately, Hong argues, the ideal of passionate work sustains a condition of cruel optimism, where passion is offered as the solution for the injustices of contemporary capitalism.

Renyi Hong is Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore.

Ugly Freedoms

ELISABETH R. ANKER

January 2022 256 pages, 16 illustrations Political theory/American studies Rights: World

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In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate destruction, economic exploitation, and patriarchy. These “ugly freedoms” legitimate the right to exploit and subjugate others. At the same time, Anker locates an unexpected second type of ugly freedom in practices and situations often dismissed as demeaning, offensive, gross, and ineffectual but that provide sources of emancipatory potential. She analyzes both types of ugly freedom at work in a number of texts and locations, from political theory, art, and film to food, toxic dumps, and multispecies interactions. Whether examining how Kara Walker’s sugar sculpture A Subtlety, Or the Marvelous Sugar Baby reveals the importance of sugar plantations to liberal thought or how the impoverished neighborhoods in The Wire blunt neoliberalism’s violence, Anker shifts our perspective of freedom by contesting its idealized expressions and expanding the visions for what freedom can look like, who can exercise it, and how to build a world free from domination.

Elisabeth R. Anker is Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at George Wash­ ington University and author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom, also published

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Re-Understanding Media

Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan

SARAH SHARMA and RIANKA SINGH, editors May 2022 280 pages, 39 illustrations Media studies/Feminist studies Rights: World

The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends. They argue that while McLuhan’s theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experience of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This volume showcases essays, experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars, artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology. Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan’s discussion of transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan’s concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and decolonial practice. The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for radical purposes.

Sarah Sharma is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Communication, Culture, Infor­ mation and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She was the director of the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology from 2017–2022. Sharma is author of In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics, also published by Duke University Press. Rianka Singh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University, Toronto.

Confidence Culture

SHANI ORGAD and ROSALIND GILL

In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself ” imply that psychological blocks hold women back rather than entrenched social injustices. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on Foucault’s notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how “confidence culture” demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women—along with people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups—are responsible for their own conditions.

Rejecting confidence culture’s remaking of feminism along individualistic and neoliberal lines, Orgad and Gill explore alternative articulations of feminism that go beyond the confidence imperative.

March 2022 256 pages, 14 illustrations Feminist media studies/Sociology Rights: World

Shani Orgad is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Polit­ ical Science and author of Heading Home: Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality. Rosalind Gill is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in City, University of London and author of Gender and the Media.

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Vulgar Beauty

Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

MILA ZUO

April 2022 320 pages, 26 illustrations Film studies/Gender studies/Asian & Asian American studies Rights: World

In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chinese-ness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li’s post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen’s performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong’s stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory.

Mila Zuo is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia.

How Machines Came to Speak Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech

JENNIFER A. PETERSEN April 2022 312 pages, 11 illustrations Media studies/Legal studies Rights: World

In How Machines Came to Speak Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal conceptions of “speech” have transformed over the last century in response to new media technologies. Drawing on media and legal history, Petersen shows that the legal category of speech has varied considerably, evolving from a narrow category of oratory and print publication to a broad, abstract conception encompassing expressive nonverbal actions, algorithms, and data. She examines a series of pivotal US court cases in which new media technologies—such as phonographs, radio, film, and computer code—were integral to this shift. In judicial decisions ranging from the determination that silent films were not a form of speech to the expansion of speech rights to include algorithmic outputs, courts understood speech as mediated through technology. Speech thus became disarticulated from individual speakers. By outlining how legal definitions of speech are indelibly dependent upon technology, Petersen demonstrates that future innovations such as artificial intelligence will continue to restructure speech law in ways that threaten to protect corporate and institutional forms of speech over the rights and interests of citizens.

Jennifer Petersen is Associate Professor of Communications in the Annenberg School for Communi­ cation and Journalism at the University of Southern California and author of Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

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Scales of Captivity

Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child

MARY PAT BRADY April 2022 320 pages, 5 illustrations Latinx studies/Literary theory/American studies Rights: World

In Scales of Captivity, Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive or cast-off child in Latinx and Chicanx literature and art between chattel slavery’s final years and the mass deportations of the twenty-first century. She shows how Latinx expressive practices expose how every rescaling of economic and military power requires new modalities of capture, new ways to bracket and hedge life. Through readings of novels by Helena María Viramontes, Oscar Casares, Lorraine López, Maceo Montoya, Reyna Grande, Daniel Peña, and others, Brady illustrates how submerged captivities reveal the way mechanisms of constraint such as deportability underpin institutional forms of carceral modernity and how such practices scale relations by naturalizing the logic of scalar hierarchies underpinning racial capitalism. By showing how representations of the captive child critique the entrenched logic undergirding colonial power, Brady challenges racialized modes of citizenship while offering visions for living beyond borders.

Mary Pat Brady teaches literature and Latinx studies at Cornell University and is the author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space, also published by Duke Univer­ sity Press.

All That Was Not Her TODD MEYERS

February 2022 232 pages Anthropology Rights: World

While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and into the present following her death. He meditates on the possibilities of writing about someone who is gone—what should be represented, what experiences resist rendering, what ethical challenges exist when studying the lives of others. Meyers considers how chronic illness is bound up in the racialized and socioeconomic conditions of Beverly’s life and explores the stakes of the anthropologist’s engagement with one subject. Even as Meyers struggles to give her the final word, he finds himself unmade alongside Beverly. All That Was Not Her captures the complexity of personal relationships in the field and the difficulty of their end.

Todd Meyers is Associate Professor and Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.

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Rainforest Capitalism

Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession

THOMAS HENDRIKS

February 2022 328 pages, 16 illustrations Anthropology/African studies/Gender studies Rights: World

Congolese logging camps are places where mud, rain, fuel smugglers, and village roadblocks slow down multinational timber firms; where workers wage wars against trees while evading company surveillance deep in the forest; where labor compounds trigger disturbing colonial memories; and where blunt racism, logger machismo, and homoerotic desires reproduce violence. In Rainforest Capitalism Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy world of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize racialized and gendered power dynamics in capitalist extraction. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese workers and European company managers as well as traders, farmers, smugglers, and barkeepers, Hendriks shows how logging is deeply tied to feelings of existential vulnerability in the face of larger forces, structures, and histories. These feelings, Hendriks contends, reveal a precarious side of power in an environment where companies, workers, and local residents frequently find themselves out of control. An ethnography of complicity, ecstasis, and paranoia, Rainforest Capitalism queers assumptions of corporate strength and opens up new means of understanding the complexities and contradictions of capitalist extraction.

Thomas Hendriks is FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at KU Leuven University and coeditor of Readings in Sexualities from Africa.

Making Peace with Nature

Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ

ELEANA J. KIM July 2022 216 pages, 27 illustrations Anthropology/Asian studies/Environment Rights: World

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (dmz) has been off-limits to human habitation for nearly 70 years, and in that time, biodiverse forms of life have flourished in and around the dmz, as beneficiaries of an unresolved war. In Making Peace with Nature Eleana J. Kim shows how a closer examination of the dmz area in South Korea reveals that the area’s biodiversity is inseparable from scientific practices and geopolitical, capitalist, and ecological dynamics.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with ecologists, scientists, and local residents, Kim focuses on irrigation ponds, migratory bird flyways, and land mines in the South Korean dmz area, demonstrating how human and nonhuman ecologies interact and transform in spaces defined by war and militarization. In so doing, Kim reframes peace away from a human-oriented political or economic peace and toward a more-than-human, biological peace. Such a biological peace recognizes the reality of war while pointing to potential new forms of human and nonhuman relations.

Eleana J. Kim is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging, also published by Duke University Press.

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Climate Lyricism MIN HYOUNG SONG

In Climate Lyricism Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature, poetry, and essays by Tommy Pico, Solmaz Sharif, Frank O’Hara, Ilya Kaminsky, Claudia Rankine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Teju Cole, Richard Powers, and others help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change and its disastrous effects, which are inextricably linked to the legacies of racism, colonialism, and extraction. These works employ what Song calls climate lyricism—a mode of address in which a first-person “I” speaks to a “you” about how climate change thoroughly shapes daily life. The relationship between “I” and “you” in this lyricism, Song contends, affects the ways readers comprehend the world, fostering a model of shared agency from which it can become possible to collectively and urgently respond to the catastrophe of our rapidly changing climate. In this way, climate lyricism helps to ameliorate the sense of being overwhelmed and feeling unable to do anything to combat climate change.

January 2022 256 pages, 5 illustrations Environmental humanities/Critical ethnic studies/Literary studies Rights: World

Min Hyoung Song is Professor of English at Boston College and author of The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, both also published by Duke University Press.

Familial Undercurrents

Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran

AFSANEH NAJMABADI

March 2022 184 pages, 51 illustrations Middle East studies/Gender studies Rights: World

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Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family’s complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of “marrying for love” and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran’s emerging urban middle-class. Considering the role that late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature played in that process, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men’s polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open-practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.

Afsaneh Najmabadi is Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Har­ vard University and author of Professing Selves: Transsexuality and Same-Sex Desire in Contemporary Iran, also published by Duke University Press, and Women with Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity.

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Workers Like All the Rest of Them

Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile

ELIZABETH QUAY HUTCHISON November 2021 232 pages, 27 illustrations Latin American history/Gender studies/Labor Rights: World

In Workers Like All the Rest of Them, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison recounts the long struggle for domestic workers’ recognition and rights in Chile across the twentieth century. Hutchison traces the legal and social history of domestic workers and their rights, outlining their transition from slavery to servitude. For most of the twentieth century, domestic service remained one of the key “underdeveloped” sectors in Chile’s modernizing economy.

Hutchison argues that the predominance of women in that underpaid, under-regulated labor sector provides one key to persistent gender and class inequality. Through archival research, firsthand accounts, and interviews with veteran activists, Hutchison challenges domestic workers’ exclusion from Chilean history and reveals how and under what conditions they mobilized for change, forging alliances with everyone from Church leaders and legislators to feminists and political party leaders. Hutchison contributes to a growing global conversation among activists and scholars about domestic workers’ rights, providing a lens for understanding how the changing structure of domestic work and worker activism have both perpetuated and challenged forms of ethnic, gender, and social inequality.

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, author of Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930, and coeditor of The Chile Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke University Press.

Students of the World

Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

PEDRO MONAVILLE July 2022 336 pages, 24 illustrations African studies/History Rights: World

On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the cold war jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of activism and revolutionary thinking. By illuminating the many worlds inhabited by Congolese students at the time of decolonization, Monaville charts new ways of writing histories of the global 1960s from Africa.

Pedro Monaville is Assistant Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi.

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Architecture and Development

Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958–1973

AYALA LEVIN

March 2022 320 pages, 69 illustrations, including 16 page color insert Architecture/African studies/Middle East studies Rights: World

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In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent from 1958 to 1973, Levin finds that Israel positioned itself as a developing-nation alternative in the competition over aid and influence between global North and global South. In analyses of the design and construction of prestigious governmental projects in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, she details how architects, planners, and a trade union-owned construction company staged Israel as a new center of nonaligned expertise. These set of actors and professionals paradoxically capitalized on their settler colonial experience in Palestine, refashioning it as an alternative to Western colonial expertise. Levin traces how Israel became involved in the modernization of governance, education, and agriculture in Africa, as well as how African leaders chose to work with Israel to forge new South-South connections. In so doing, she offers new ways of understanding the role of architecture as a vehicle of postcolonial development and in the mobilization of development resources.

Ayala Levin is Associate Professor in the department of Architecture and Urban Design at the Univer­ sity of California, Los Angeles, and coeditor of Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South.

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Syracuse University Press Café Shira A Novel

DAVID EHRLICH

Translated from the Hebrew by MICHAEL SWIRSKY

New to Jerusalem and to adulthood, Rutha serves Café Shira’s devoted customers with a quiet compassion and a sensitive gaze, collecting their stories and absorbing them at her peril. Avigdor, the melancholy and somewhat weary café owner, philosophizes about love as he attends to the needs of his patrons while ignoring his own. Christian, a young religious pilgrim, has come to Jerusalem to find God but stumbles upon a much different revelation.

These characters form the heart of this wry, often poignant novel narrated through a series of vignettes. They are joined by a colorful cast of characters who frequent the literary café—long-married couples, young lovers, an eccentric poet, and a traumatized veteran—all finding refuge and occasionally wisdom among their motley urban community. Closely based on Ehrlich’s own experiences over the twenty-five years he devoted to running a café that became an important Jerusalem cultural venue and landmark, Café Shira is a work of disarming tenderness and bittersweet love.

March 2022 248 pages, 23 color illustrations Fiction/ Jewish studies Rights: World

David Ehrlich (1959–2020) was the author of three short story collections, 18 Blue, Tuesday and Thursday Mornings, and Who Will Die Last: Stories of Life in Israel. His literary café and bookstore, Tmol Shilshom, was a haven for avant-garde artists and writers, and the site of numerous readings by eminent authors.

Sayyid Qutb

An Intellectual Biography

GIEDRE ŠABASEVICIUTE

November 2021 300 pages, 7 illustrations Biography/ Middle East studies/Literary criticism Rights: World excluding World

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No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb is known to have abandoned literature in the 1950s in favor of Islamism, becoming its most prominent ideologist to this day. In a sharp departure from this common narrative, Šabaseviciute offers a fresh perspective on Qutb’s life that examines his Islamist commitment as a continuation of his literary project. Contrary to the notion of Islam’s incompatibility with literature, the book argues that Islamism provided as Qutb with a novel way to pursue his metaphysical quest at a time when the rising anti-colonial movement brought the Romantic models of literature to their demise. Drawing upon unexplored material on Qutb’s life—book reviews, criticism, intellectual collaborations, memoirs, and personal interviews with his former acquaintances—Šabaseviciute traces the development of Qutb’s thought in line with his shifting networks of friendship and patronage. In a distinct sociological take on Arab intellectual and literary history, this book unveils the unexplored dimensions of Qutb’s involvement in Cairo’s burgeoning cultural scene.

Giedre Šabaseviciute is research fellow at the Oriental Institute in the Czech Academy of Sciences, specializing in Egypt’s intellectual past and present.

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Sajjilu Arab American A Reader in SWANA Studies

LOUISE CAINKAR , PAULINE HOMSI VINSON, and AMIRA JARMAKANI, editors Both a summative description of the field and an exploration of new directions, this multidisciplinary reader addresses issues central to the fields of Arab American, US Muslim, and Southwest Asian and North African (swana) American studies. Taking a broad conception of the Americas, this collection simultaneously registers and critically reflects upon major themes in the field, including diaspora, migration, empire, race and racialization, securitization, and global South solidarity. The collection will be essential reading for scholars in Arab/swana American studies, Asian American studies, and race, ethnicity, and Indigenous studies, now and well into the future.

February 2022 496 pages, 6 illustrations including 4 in color Arab American studies/ethnic studies/race and racialization Rights: World

Louise Cainkar is associate professor of sociology and social welfare and justice at Marquette Uni­ versity. Pauline Homsi Vinson is an adjunct professor in the English division at Diablo Valley College.

Amira Jarmakani is a professor in the Department of Women's Studies at San Diego State University.

Mona Passage A Novel

THOMAS BARDENWERPER Mona Passage is the story of two neighbors in San Juan, Puerto Rico: Galán Betances, a Cuban emigrant, and Pat McAllister, a young Coast Guard officer. During long evenings spent together talking on their Calle Luna rooftop, a deep friendship develops based on shared traumas and a common desire to heal. When Galán learns that his sister, Gabriela, is going to be committed to a mental health facility in Cuba, he plans her escape to Puerto Rico. Pat, whose Coast Guard cutter patrols the Mona Passage for drug traffickers and migrants, warns Galán that such a journey will be treacherous—perhaps fatal. Aware of the dangers but determined for Gabriela to live a full life, Galán hands over all the money he has to a Dominican smuggler based out of a San Juan nightclub, and Gabriela begins her terrifying journey.

November 2021 296 pages Fiction Rights: World

Knowing that his cutter may be all that separates Galán and Gabriela—and haunted by the human suffering he has witnessed at sea—Pat must decide. Will he remain true to his oath, as his older brother had done in Iraq? Or will he risk his own future—and perhaps his freedom—for his closest friend?

On a moonless night, two armed vessels converge in the Mona Passage, and three lives change forever.

Thomas Bardenwerper served for five years in the US Coast Guard. He is currently pursuing a JD and a master's in public policy at Harvard Law School and the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Being There, Being Here Palestine Writings in the World

MAURICE EBILEENI March 2022 250 pages Middle East Rights: World

This book presents a comparative literary study of Palestinian writings from around the world in languages other than Arabic. It advocates for the inclusion of Anglophone, Latinate, and Hebrew language literary productions by Palestinians and Palestinian-descended authors into the national canon. The literary productions under discussion might, on the one hand, conform to a scripted national narrative which describes the history of a shared origin and the making of the Palestinian people and its culture while confronting, for centuries, the authority of various foreign occupying forces. On the other, they no longer conveniently acquiesce to this narrative’s constant call for shared collective needs and ambitions. As a result of decades of displacement, the Palestinian story has—within distinct lingual and social environments—proliferated in multiple directions and, as a result, was compelled to grapple with different cultural and political conditions.

Maurice Ebileeni is Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa.

Spatializing Authoritarianism NATALIE KOCH , editor

Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on the concept of authoritarianism. Its longstanding absence from the field is noteworthy as geographers have made extensive contributions to theorizing structural inequalities, injustice, and other expressions of oppressive or illiberal power relations and their diverse spatialities. Identifying this void, Spatializing Authoritarianism builds upon recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways. This volume advances the argument that authoritarianism must be investigated by accounting for the many scales at which it is produced, enacted, and imagined.

April 2022 302 pages Geography Rights: World

Including a diverse array of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases drawn from the Global South and North, this collection illustrates the analytical power of attending to authoritarianism’s diverse scalar and spatial expressions, and how intimately connected it is with identity narratives, built landscapes, borders, legal systems, markets, and other territorial and extraterritorial expressions of power.

Natalie Koch is associate professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

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University of Georgia Press Globalizing Collateral Language From 9/11 to Endless War

JOHN COLLINS and SOMDEEP SEN , editors

September 2021 216 pages, 5 illustrations Language/Philosophy/Political Science Rights: World

Language is never just a means of communication. It terrorizes. And, especially in times of war, it has the ability to target civilians and generate fear as a means of producing specific political outcomes, most notably the passive and active acceptance of state violence itself. For this reason, the critical examination of language must be a central part of any effort to fight imperialism, militarism, demagoguery, racism, sexism, and other structures of injustice. Globalizing Collateral Language examines the discourse surrounding 9/11 and its entrenchment in global politics and culture. To interrogate this wartime lexicon of “collateral language,” editors John Collins and Somdeep Sen have assembled a volume of critical essays that explores the long shadow of America’s “War on Terror” discourse. They illuminate how this language has now found resonance across the globe and in political projects that have little to do with the “War on Terror.” Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this book calls on us to resist the tyranny of collateral language at a time when the need for such interventions in the public sphere is more urgent than ever.

Somdeep Sen is an associate professor in international development studies at Roskilde University.

John Collins is professor of global studies at St. Lawrence University

Women, Subalterns, and Ecologies in South and Southeast Asian Women's Fiction CHITRA SANKARAN

February 2022 248 pages Women's studies/Literature/Asia Rights: World excluding World

In recent decades, East Asia has gained prominence and has become synonymous with Asia, while other Asian regions, such as South and Southeast Asia, have been subsumed under it. The resultant overgeneralization has meant that significant aspects of the global ecological crisis as they affect these two regions have been overlooked. Chitra Sankaran refocuses the global lens on these two rapidly developing regions of Asia. Combining South Asian and Southeast Asian philosophical views and folk perspectives with mainstream ecocritical and ecofeminist theories, she generates a localized critical idiom that qualifies and subverts some established theoretical assumptions. This pioneering study, introducing a corpus of more than thirty ecofictions by women writers from twelve countries in South and Southeast Asia, examines how recent global threats to ecosystems, in both nature and culture, impact subdominant groups, including women. This new corpus reveals how women and subalterns engage with various aspects of critical ecologies. Using ecofeminist theory augmented by postcolonial and risk theories as the main theoretical framework, Sankaran argues that these women writers present unique perspectives that review Asian women’s relationships to human and nonhuman worlds.

Chitra Sankaran is an associate professor of English at the National University of Singapore.

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I Lay This Body Down The Life of Rosey E. Pool

LONNEKE GEERLINGS May 2022 280 pages Biography Rights: World

Rosey E. Pool (1905–1971) tutored Anne Frank, first translated her diary, operated a Jewish resistance group, escaped from a Nazi transit camp, published African American poets in Europe, participated in the American Civil Rights Movement, and witnessed independence movements in Nigeria and Senegal. She was also friends with leading African American lights like Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, and Nina Simone. Remarkably this is the first study of Pool and her remarkable transatlantic life. As a Holocaust survivor and activist fighting against segregation in the Deep South, her life story connects histories that are often studied and told in isolation. Her life helps us understand the intersecting histories of Jewish Europe and Black America, but it also allows us to see how Pool dealt with tragedy, trauma, and loss. At its core, this book is about resilience and hope.

Lonneke Geerlings is a Policy Officer at Stichting UvO (a Dutch publishers' rights organization) who took her PhD from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

Photographic Warfare

ISIS, Egypt, and the Online Battle for Sinai

KAREEM EL DAMANHOURY May 2022 250 pages International Affairs Rights: World

Recognizing that militant non-state actors are increasingly using images as weapons against nation-states and that such groups display their actions—beheadings, fighting on the battlefield, providing services to locals, etc.—as spectacles that circulate around the globe to challenge state­based media messaging and policy agendas, numerous states and coalitions have expanded their online media presence to try and counter such threats. This book creates a visual archive of the online media campaigns by the Egyptian military and the Sinai province of isis (Wilayat Sinai) at a critical juncture when isis-led violent attacks peaked on the peninsula. It highlights how the visual strategies used in the two opposing online media campaigns compete with one another to shape the perceptions of the public.

Kareem El Damanhoury is an Egyptian academic and freelance journalist.Later, he worked as a su­ pervisor producer at GSU TV, a GPB affiliate channel in Atlanta, Georgia, and received his PhD from Georgia State University's Communication Department in 2018.

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Raiders and Natives

Cross-Cultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers

ARNE BIALUSCHEWSKI April 2022 160 pages History Rights: World

This book illuminates the relationships among-and conflicts between European buccaneers and various Indigenous peoples in Central America during the seventeenth century. Like many of the Natives they encountered on their frequent inland excursions, most of these buccaneers—chiefly those flying under English, French, and Dutch flags—also viewed the Spanish and their colonial regime as an enemy. While this sort of geo-political situation led to martial alliances, it also resulted in a variety of cross-cultural exchange that altered socio-political organization, material culture, subsistence economies, and military strategies for all involved. By placing these encounters at the center of Raiders and Natives, Bialuschewski changes our understanding of the early modern Atlantic World and the cross-cultural relations that shaped it.

Arne Bialuschewski is assistant professor of history at Trent University. His research centers on cross-cultural relations in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world, early modern piracy, and the slave trade.

Transecting Securityscapes

Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique

TILL F. PAASCHE and JAMES D. SIDAWAY January 2022 176 pages Social justice Rights: World

This book draws on over a decade of fieldwork and participant observation by the co-authors from three conflicted contexts—Cambodia, the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Mozambique. The three research sites enable comparative reflections on diversity and commonality in “securityscapes,” studying both long-term networks and short-term circuits. Intersections between “security,” power and political economy are examined in the contexts of empire, decolonization, revolution, Cold War and its aftermaths. The result is a book of wide interest.

Till F. Paasche is an associate professor of geography at Soran University, Kurdistan region. James D. Sidaway is professor of political geography at the National University of Singapore.

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University of Nebraska Press Girl Archaeologist

Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession

ALICE BECK KEHOE March 2022 275 pages Memoir/Women's Studies Rights: World

Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe’s life, begun in an era very different from the twenty-first century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeologist. She persisted against entrenched patriarchy in her childhood, at Harvard University, and as she did fieldwork with her husband in the Northern Plains. A senior male professor attempted to quash Kehoe’s career by raping her. Her Harvard professors refused to allow her to write a dissertation in archaeology. Universities paid her less than her men counterparts. Her husband refused to participate in housework or childcare. Working in archaeology and in the histories of American First Nations, Kehoe published a series of groundbreaking books and articles. Although she was denied a conventional career, through her unconventional breadth of research and her empathy with First Nations people she gained a wide circle of collaborators and colleagues. Throughout her career Kehoe found and fostered a sisterhood of feminists—strong, bright women archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians who have been essential to the field. Girl Archaeologist is the story of how one woman pursued a professional career in a male-dominated field during a time of great change in American middle-class expectations for women.

Alice Beck Kehoe is the author of North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account and The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology , as well as the anthropology textbook Humans: An Introduction to Four-Field Anthropology.

¡Vamos a avanzar!

The Chaco War and Bolivia’s Political Transformation, 1899–1952

ROBERT NIEBUHR

August 2021 292 pages, 20 illustrations History Rights: World

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In ¡Vamos a avanzar! Robert Niebuhr argues that despite widespread corruption, a lack of skills, and failed policies, Bolivian leaders in the first half of the twentieth century created a modern state because of the profound role of warfare over the Chaco. When President Daniel Salamanca hastily thrust his isolated and poverty-stricken country into the devastation of the Chaco War against Paraguay in 1932, he unleashed a number of forces that had been brewing inside and outside of Bolivia, all of which combined to bring Bolivia a truly modern national identity and state-building program. This conflict was the defining moment whereby rhetoric and populism took on a broader meaning among the newly mobile populace, especially the Indigenous war veterans, as the Bolivians proclaimed, ¡Vamos a avanzar!

(Let’s move forward!). With the final revolution of 1952, politics in Bolivia became more modern than they had been in the period of the Chaco War or during the populist leanings of all post–1899 governments. Niebuhr offers a fresh contribution, showing the importance of the turbulent populist politics of the period after 1899 and the significance of the Chaco War as the most influential revolutionary event in modern Bolivian history.

Robert Niebuhr is senior lecturer and honors faculty fellow at Arizona State University. He is the author of several books, including The Search for a Cold War Legitimacy: Foreign Policy and Tito’s Yugoslavia.

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Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree My Basketball Odyssey

SHELDON ANDERSON

September 2021 208 pages, 20 photographs Basketball/Memoir Rights: World

Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree chronicles Sheldon Anderson’s basketball career from grade school in small-town Moorhead, Minnesota, in the 1960s, to inner-city high school and college ball in Minneapolis, to a professional career in West Germany, and finally to communist Poland, where he did PhD research while on a basketball junket behind the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s. Because he was the only American player in the league at the time, and with help from a Polish scholar, Anderson was one of the first Western scholars to gain access to Communist Party documents. He’s also likely the only American scholar to have funded his research by playing semi-pro basketball in a communist country. Jump Shooting to a Higher Degree is much more than a basketball story. Anderson provides insights into the everyday lives of people on either side of the Iron Curtain, such as the English coach he played for in West Germany, an elderly woman he visited many times in East Germany, and a sailmaker’s family he lived with in Warsaw. He reflects on German, Polish, and Cold War history, providing a commentary on the times and the places where he lived and played, and the importance of basketball along the way..

Sheldon Anderson is a professor of history at Miami University. He is the author of several books, including The Forgotten Legacy of Stella Walsh: The Greatest Woman Athlete of Her Time and The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports.

Marianne Is Watching

Intelligence, Counterintelligence, and the Origins of the French Surveillance State

DEBORAH BAUER

December 2021 360 pages, 11 illustrations French History Rights: World

Professional intelligence became a permanent feature of the French state as a result of the army’s June 8, 1871, reorganization following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Intelligence practices developed at the end of the nineteenth century without direction or oversight from elected officials, and yet the information gathered had a profound influence on the French population and on pre–World War I Europe more broadly. In Marianne Is Watching Deborah Bauer examines the history of French espionage and counterespionage services in the era of their professionalization, arguing that the expansion of surveillance practices reflects a change in understandings of how best to protect the nation. By leading readers through the processes and outcomes of professionalizing intelligence in three parts—covering the creation of permanent intelligence organizations within the state; the practice of intelligence; and the place of intelligence in the public sphere—Bauer fuses traditional state-focused history with social and cultural analysis to provide a modern understanding of intelligence and its role in both state formation and cultural change.

With this first English-language book-length treatment of the history of French intelligence services in the era of their inception, Bauer provides a penetrating study not just of the security establishment in pre–World War I France but of the diverse social climate it nurtured and on which it fed.

Deborah Bauer is an assistant professor of European history at Purdue University, Fort Wayne.

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Negative Geographies Exploring the Politics of Limits

DAVID BISSELL , MITCH ROSE , and PAUL HARRISON , editors Negative Geographies is the first edited collection to chart the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography. Using a variety of case studies and empirical investigations, these chapters consider how the negative, through annihilations, gaps, ruptures, and tears, can work within or against the terms of affirmationism. The collection opens up new avenues through which key problems of cultural geography might be differently posed and points to the ways that it might be possible and desirable to think, theorize, and exemplify negation.

David Bissell is an associate professor of geography at the University of Melbourne. Mitch Rose is a senior lecturer of geography and earth science at Aberystwyth University. Paul Harrison is a lecturer of geography at Durham University.

November 2021 318 pages, 1 illustration Cultural Geography Rights: World

South of Somewhere

Wine, Food, and the Soul of the Italian South

ROBERT V. CAMUTO

October 2021 280 pages, 22 photographs Memoir/Food and Wine Rights: World

South of Somewhere begins and ends in American writer Robert Camuto’s maternal ancestral town of Vico Equense, Italy—a tiny paradise south of Naples on the Sorrento Peninsula. It was here in 1968, at ten years old, that the author first tasted Italian life, spending his own summer of love surrounded by relatives at the family’s seaside pizzeria and restaurant. He fell in love with a way of living and with the rhythms, flavors, and aromas of the Southern Mediterranean. Fifty years later, Camuto returns to Vico, connecting with family members and a new generation. A lot has changed: the old family restaurant has been razed and the seaside has been developed with hotels and restaurants, including a famous two-Michelin-starred restaurant in a medieval tower now owned by a younger cousin. Though there are more foreign visitors, the essentials of beauty, food, family bonds, and simplicity have not changed. And here Camuto finds hope that this way of life can continue. Camuto’s fine-grained storytelling in this series of portraits takes us beyond the usual objective views of viniculture nto the elusive and magical world of Italian “South-ness.” While on one level able to create an instructive narrative about Southern Italy’s twenty-first-century wine and cultural renaissance, Camuto’s unswerving eye juxtaposes the good and the bad—immeasurable beauty and persistent blight, anti-mafia forces and corruption, hope for the future and fatalism—in a land that remains an infinite source of fascination and sensory pleasure.

Robert V. Camuto is a freelance writer and author of Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country and Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey. He is a contributing editor to Wine Spectator magazine and columnist for winespectator.com. He and his family live in Italy.

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Poisoned Eden

Cholera Epidemics, State-Building, and the Problem of Public Health in Tucumán, Argentina, 1865–1908

CARLOS S. DIMAS

February 2022 255 pages History/Latin America Rights: World

In 1895, after enduring two previous cholera epidemics and facing horrific hygienic conditions and the fear of another epidemic, officials in the Argentine province of Tucumán described their home as the “Poisoned Eden,” a play on its official title, “Garden of the Republic.” Cholera elicited fear and panic in the nineteenth century, and although the disease never had the demographic impact of tuberculosis, malaria, or influenza, cholera was a source of consternation that often illuminated dormant social problems. In Poisoned Eden Carlos S. Dimas analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three epidemics, in 1868, 1886, and 1895, that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán to understand the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century. Through a reading of medical and ethnographic material, Dimas shows that cholera became intertwined in all areas of the social fabric and that Tucumanos of all classes created public health services that expanded the state’s presence in the interior. In each outbreak, provincial powers contended with how to ensure the province’s autonomy while simultaneously meeting the needs of the state to eradicate cholera. Centering disease, Poisoned Eden demonstrates how public health and debates on cholera’s contagion became a central concern of the nineteenth-century Latin American state and promoted national cohesion.

Carlos S. Dimas is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas.

A Missionary Nation

Race, Religion, and Spain’s Age of Liberal Imperialism, 1841–1881

SCOTT EASTMAN

October 2021 252 pages, 21 illustrations History/Spain Rights: World

A Missionary Nation focuses on Spain’s crusade to resurrect its empire, beginning with the so-called War of Africa. Fought in Morocco between 1859 and 1860, the campaign involved more than forty-five thousand troops and led to a long-lasting Spanish engagement in North Africa. With popular support, the government backed French invasions of Indochina and Mexico, and many veteran soldiers from the African war were reenlisted in the brutal and protracted conflict following the reannexation of the Dominican Republic in 1861. In addition, expeditions to West Africa built a colonial presence in and around the island of Fernando Po. Few works in English have examined the impact of these nineteenth-century imperial ventures on Spanish identity, notions of race, and culture. Agents of empire—from journalists and diplomats to soldiers, spies, and clerics—took up the mantle of the “civilizing mission” and pushed back against those who resisted militarized occupations. In turn, a gendered, racialized rhetoric became a linchpin of Spain’s growing involvement in North Africa and the Caribbean in the 1850s and 1860s. A Missionary Nation interrogates the legacy of Hispanic identities from multiple axes, as former colonies were annexed and others were occupied, tying together strands of European, Mediterranean, and Atlantic histories in the second age of global imperialism. It challenges the prevailing notion that secular ideologies alone informed imperial narratives in Europe. Liberal Spain attempted to reconstruct its great empire of old, but the entangled issues of nationalism, race, and religion frustrated its efforts.

Scott Eastman is a professor of history at Creighton University. He is the author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759–1823.

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Deer Season

ERIN FLANAGAN

It’s the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan’s intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals, leaving her in a huff. That same weekend, a teenage girl goes missing, and Hal returns with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight.

When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of, as rumors fly and townspeople see Hal’s violent past in a new light.

A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community, Deer Season explores troubling questions about how far people will go to safeguard the ones they love and what it means to be a family.

Erin Flanagan is a professor at Wright State University. She is the author of two short story collections The Usual Mistakes and It’s Not Going to Kill You and Other Stories.

September 2021 320 pages Fiction Rights: World

On the Other Shore

The Atlantic Worlds of Italians in South America during The Great War

JOHN STAROSTA GALANTE

January 2022 284 pages, 28 illustrations History Rights: World

On the Other Shore explores the social history of Italian communities in South America and the transnational networks in which they were situated during and after World War I. From 1915 to 1921 Italy’s conflict against Austria-Hungary and its aftermath shook Italian immigrants and their children in the metropolitan areas of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and São Paulo. The war led portions of these communities to mobilize resources—patriotic support, young men who could enlist in the Italian army, goods like wool from Argentina and limes from Brazil, and lots of money—to support Italy in the face of “total war.” Yet other portions of these communities simultaneously organized a strident movement against the war, inspired especially by anarchism and revolutionary socialism. Both of these factions sought to extend their influence and ambitions into the immediate postwar period. On the Other Shore demonstrates patterns of social cohesion and division within the Italian communities of South America; reconstructs varying transatlantic and inter-American networks of interaction, exchange, and mobility in an “Italian Atlantic”; interrogates how authorities in Italy viewed their South American “colonies”; and uncovers ways that Italians in Latin America balanced and blended relationships and loyalties to their countries of residence and origin. On the Other Shore’s position at the intersection of Latin American history, Atlantic history, and the histories of World War I and Italian immigration thereby engages with and informs each of these subject areas in distinctive ways.

John Galante is an assistant teaching professor of international and global studies at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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The Front

JOURNEY HERBECK

For one family living on the very western edge of the Great Plains, life runs parallel to the forces that had always endangered its existence. There was a price to obtain this parallel life, of course, but the family had paid it and for once found a way to survive. They had a little water. They had a little food. They had a little work. They were fine—until they weren’t.

Taking place in the span of twenty-four hours, The Front follows a man and his nine-yearold niece as they try to escape the apocalyptic circumstances that have come to their home.

Traveling north through outbreaking war, the pair navigate the disintegrating balance between rival powers. As new lines are drawn, the neutral spot their family had come to occupy is no longer recognized by either side, and the only chance for safety is to try to cross the Northern Line.

Journey Herbeck writes fiction and teaches high school science in Montana.

October 2021 196 pages Fiction Rights: World

Antisemitism on the Rise The 1930s and Today

ARI KOHEN and GERALD J. STEINACHER , editors

October 2021 268 pages, 6 photographs, 1 illustration Jewish Studies/History Rights: World

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We live in uncertain and unsettling times. Tragically, today’s global culture is rife with violent bigotry, nationalism, and antisemitism. The rhetoric is not new; it is grounded in attitudes and values from the 1930s and the 1940s in Europe and the United States. Antisemitism on the Rise is a collection of essays by some of the world’s leading experts, including Joseph Bendersky, Jean Cahan, R. Amy Elman, Leonard Greenspoon, and Jürgen Matthäus, regarding two key moments in antisemitic history: the interwar period and today. Ari Kohen and Gerald J. Steinacher have collected important examples on this crucial topic to illustrate new research findings and learning techniques that have become increasingly vital with the recent rise of white supremacist movements, many of which have a firm root in antisemitism. Part 1 focuses on the antisemitic beliefs and ideas that were predominant during the 1930s and 1940s, while part 2 draws comparisons between this period and today, including examples of ways to teach others about contemporary antisemitism. The volume seeks to inform readers about the historical progression of antisemitism and in doing so asks readers to think about what is at stake and how to bridge the gap between research and teaching.

Ari Kohen is a professor of political science, Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice, and director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the coeditor (with Gerald J. Steinacher) of Unlikely Heroes: The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching and the author of In Defense of Human Rights: A Non-Religious Grounding in a Pluralistic World. Gerald J. Steinacher is the James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust.

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Mosquitoes SUCK!

KATHERINE RICHARDSON BRUNA , SARA ERICKSON, and LYRIC BARTHOLOMAY

Comic written by BOB HALL and JUDY DIAMOND Art by BOB HALL , MICHAEL CAVALLARO, BOB CAMP, and MIKE EDHOLM

Using a science comic format to engage readers of all ages, Mosquitoes SUCK! conveys essential information about mosquito biology, ecology, and disease transmission needed for community-based control efforts. Starting with a story of a dystopian mosquito-less future, Mosquitoes SUCK! travels back in time to depict the present-day work of a scientist in her lab and the curiosity of the students she works with as they learn about the history of mosquito-human interaction, science as an ever-evolving tool, and the need to balance cutting-edge preventative technologies with broader care for environmental stewardship.

September 2021 48 pages Science/Graphic novel Rights: World

Katherine Richardson Bruna is a professor of sociocultural studies at Iowa State University. Sara Erickson is a medical entomologist who studies the interactions between mosquitoes and the patho­ gens they transmit. Lyric Bartholomay is a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bob Hall is a comic book artist and writer as well as a professional theater direc­ tor. He has worked for Marvel Comics, drawing most of their major characters including The Avengers, Thor, Spider-man, The Fantastic Four, Captain America, The Black Widow, and Doctor Doom. Judy Diamond is a professor and curator of informal science education at the University of Nebraska State Museum. She is the lead author of the comics World of Viruses and coauthor of Carnival of Contagion and C’RONA Pandemic Comics.

The Black Populations of France Histories from Metropole to Colony

SYLVAIN PATTIEU, EMMANUELLE SIBEUD and TYLER STOVALL , editors

February 2022 264 pages Black Studies/France Rights: World

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The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eighteenth century to the present. The contributors to this collection explore three main axes. The first addresses circulations— the ways Black populations have moved through the spaces of metropolitan France and the empire—and focuses on the actors themselves and the margins of maneuver available to them, particularly as soldiers, sailors, immigrants, or political militants. The second considers legacies and the ways the past has informed the present, addressing themes such as the memory of slavery, the histories of Black women and gender, and the historical influence of African Americans on Blacks in France. The final axis considers racial policy and the ways the state has shaped racial discourses through the interactions between state policies and ideas of race developed by individuals, organizations, and communities. The Black Populations of France makes an important contribution to both modern French history and the history of the global Black diaspora. By putting these histories in dialogue with each other, it underscores the central place of France in world history.

Sylvain Pattieu is a lecturer in history at University of Paris 8. He is the author of several books written and published in French. Emmanuelle Sibeud is a professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris 8. She is the author of several books written and published in French. Tyler Stovall is the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. He is the author of a number of books, including White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea.

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This Jade World

IRA SUKRUNGRUANG

This Jade World centers on a Thai American who has gone through a series of life changes.

Ira Sukrungruang married young to an older poet. On their twelfth anniversary, he received a letter asking for a divorce, sending him into a despairing spiral. How would he define himself when he was suddenly without the person who shaped and helped mold him into the person he is?

After all these years, he asked himself what he wanted and found no answer. He did not even know what wanting meant. And so, in the year between his annual visits to Thailand to see his family, he gave in to urges, both physical and emotional; found comfort in the body, many bodies; fought off the impulse to disappear, to vanish; until he arrived at some modicum of understanding. During this time, he sought to obliterate the stereotype of the sexless Asian man and began to imagine a new life with new possibilities.

October 2021 280 pages Memoir Rights: World

Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger’s bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually, healing. It questions the very nature of love and heartbreak, uncovering the vulnerability of being human.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of five books, including Buddha’s Dog and Other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, an American Book Award winner, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. He is the president of Sweet: A Literary Confection and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.

The Scars of War

The Politics of Paternity and National Responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam

SABRINA THOMAS

Foreword by ROBERT J. MRAZEK

December 2021 368 pages Transcultural Studies/Vietnam Rights: World

Scars of War examines the decisions of US policymakers denying the Amerasians of Vietnam—the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War—American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act, Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in a Cold War era, America’s defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent. Now more politically relevant than ever, Scars of War explores ideas of race, nation, and gender in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Thomas exposes the contradictory approach of policymakers unable to reconcile Amerasian biracialism with the US Code. As they created an inclusionary discourse deeming Amerasians worthy of American action, guidance, and humanitarian aid, federal policymakers simultaneously initiated exclusionary policies that designated these people unfit for American citizenship.

Sabrina Thomas is an associate professor of history and David A. Moore Chair in American History at Wabash College. Robert J. Mrazek is a former US congressman of New York.

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A Civil Society

The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944

JAMES SMITH ALLEN

May 2022 420 pages pages, 10 illustrations History/France Rights: World

A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France’s civil society and its “civic morality” on behalf of women’s rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France’s modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture. James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society and its “civic morality,” including the promotion of women’s rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women’s social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.

James Smith Allen is professor emeritus of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of several books, including Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women and In The Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800–1940, and the editor of In the Solitude of My Soul: The Diary of Geneviève Bréton, 1867–1871.

Making the Marvelous

Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts

RORI BLOOM At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the production of furniture and fashion,the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1652–1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716) gave pride of place to richly detailed descriptions of palaces, gardens, clothing, and toys. Through close readings of these authors’ descriptive prose, Rori Bloom shows how these practitioners of a supposedly minor genre made a major contribution as chroniclers and critics of the decorative arts in Old Regime France. Identifying these authors’ embrace of the pretty and the playful as a response to a frequent critique of fairy tales as childish and feminine, Making the Marvelous demonstrates their integration of artisan’s work, child’s play, and the lady’s toilette into a complex vision of creativity.

Rori Bloom is an associate professor of French at the University of Florida.

June 2022 254 pages Literary Criticism/European/French Rights: World

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The History of Anthropology

A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America

REGNA DARNELL

October 2021 398 pages, 9 photographs Anthropology Rights: World

In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focused on researchers often known as the Boasians, The History of Anthropology reveals the theoretical schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the anthropology and ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell’s fifty-year career entails seminal writings in the history of anthropology’s four fields: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology. Leading researchers, theorists, and fieldwork subjects include Edward Sapir, Daniel Brinton, Mary Haas, Franz Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Stanley Newman, and A. Irving Hallowell, as well as the professionalization of anthropology, the development of American folklore scholarship, theories of Indigenous languages, Southwest ethnographic research, Indigenous ceremonialism, text traditions, and anthropology’s forays into contemporary public intellectual debates. The History of Anthropology is the essential volume for scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students to enter into the history of the Americanist tradition and its legacies, alternating historicism and presentism to contextualize anthropology’s historical and contemporary relevance and legacies.

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual— Theory, Ethnography, Activism and author of Edward Sapir: Linguist, Anthropologist, Humanist, Invisible Genealogies: A History of Americanist Anthropology, and many other works. Darnell is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the American Anthropological Association and the Women’s Net­ work of the Canadian Anthropology Society.

148 Charles Street A Novel

TRACY DAUGHERTY April 2022 199 pages Fiction Rights: World

148 Charles Street is a novel based on the life of Willa Cather, with a particular focus on her friendship with journalist Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The women shared a passion for writing, for New York, and for the desert Southwest, but their sensibilities could not have been more different: Cather, the novelist of lyrical landscapes and aesthetic refinement, and Sergeant, the muckraking journalist and literary activist. Unlike biographies or scholarly books examining the women’s relationship, 148 Charles Street explores, as only fiction can, the two writers’ interior lives, and contrasts Sergeant’s literary activism with Cather’s more purely aesthetic approach to writing.

Tracy Daughertyis Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State Univer­ sity. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, British Vogue, The Paris Review online, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares Solos, Boulevard, Chelsea, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, and many other journals

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Hatred of Sex

OLIVER DAVIS and TIM DEAN

April 2022 196 pages Social Science/Human Sexuality Rights: World

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean draw on Jacques Rancière’s thesis in Hatred of Democracy to help explain the aversion to sex that is evident in numerous forms in the culture around us. A bold and timely intervention, Hatred of Sex serves as a major point of reference for ongoing and new discussions and debates in queer theory, feminist theory, queer of color critique, and their various sub-fields, issues, and concerns. Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious.

Oliver Davis is a professor of French studies at the University of Warwick. Tim Dean is James M. Benson Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Grammar of Civil War A Mexican Case Study, 1857–61

WILL FOWLER Using the Mexican Civil War of 1857–61 as a principal case study, Will Fowler provides a new analytical framework for the study of civil war. Fowler stresses what is essential for one to take place, and explains how, once it has erupted, it can be expected to develop and end, according to the syntax, morphology, and meanings that characterize the nature and grammar of civil war generally.

Will Fowler is a professor of Latin American studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

July 2022 342 pages, 15 illustrations History/Mexico Rights: World

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Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints Latin America since Independence

ALAN KNIGHT March 2022 456 pages, 1 illustration History/Latin America Rights: World

In seven substantial essays, previously unpublished, Alan Knight offers a distinct perspective on several overarching themes in Latin American history from 1800 to 2000. In particular Knight considers the evolving political economy of the region: the interaction of capitalist penetration and state formation, beginning with the colonial regime and its legacy and involving successive changes in state organization, the workings of the economy, labor recruitment, and the exploitation of the land.

Alan Knight is a professor emeritus of Latin American history at the University of Oxford. He is a renowned scholar of Mexican history.

Sports and Aging

A Prescription for Longevity Edited and with an introduction by GERALD R. GEMS June 2022 330 pages, 6 photographs Health & Fitness/Longevity Rights: World

In Sports and Aging, a wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, fifty years and older, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences. This collection of personal accounts includes a spectrum of contributors across genders and racial, ethnic, national, religious, social class, and educational backgrounds, to determine whether there are any common characteristics that can promote long, happy, healthy, and meaningful lifespans.

Gerald R. Gems is professor of kinesiology emeritus at North Central College.

Private Way A Novel

LADETTE RANDOLPH March 2022 270 pages Fiction Rights: World

In 2015, when cyberbullies disrupt her life in Southern California, Vivi Marx decides to cut her cord with the internet and take her life offline for a year. She flees to the one place where she felt safe as a child—with her grandmother in Lincoln, Nebraska. Never mind that her grandmother is long dead and she doesn’t know anyone else in the state. Even before she meets her new neighbors on Fieldcrest Drive, Vivi knows she’s made a terrible mistake, but every plan she makes to leave is foiled. Despite her efforts to outrun it, trouble follows her to Nebraska, just not in the ways she’d feared. With the help of her neighbors, Willa Cather’s novels, and her own imagination, Vivi finds something she hadn’t known she was searching for.

Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares magazine and is Distinguished Publisherin-Residence at Emerson College.

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Animal Bodies

On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties

SUZANNE ROBERTS April 2022 252 pages, Essays Rights: World

This book is an unflinching look at some of the most taboo subjects in our culture: illness and death, female infidelity and divorce, infertility and aging, sexual assault and abortion.

The book is very much grounded in the body, with all its desires, needs, and incongruities.

Suzanne Roberts explores the link between death and desire and what it means to accept our own animal natures, the parts we most often hide, deny, or consider only with shame— our taboo desires and our grief. With lyricism, insight, honesty, and dark humor, these essays illuminate the sometimes terrible beauty of what it means to be human, deepening the conversation on death and grief, sexuality, and the shame that comes from surviving the world in a female body with all of its complexities.

Suzanne Roberts is the author of Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, Almost Somewhere: TwentyEight Days on the John Muir Trail, and four collections of poetry. She was named the Next Great Travel Writer by National Geographic’s Traveler, and her work has been published in Best Women’s Travel Writing and listed as Notable in Best American Essays. She teaches for the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Sierra Nevada University

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University of Nebraska Press: The Jewish Publication Society Choosing Hope

The Heritage of Judaism

DAVID ARNOW March 2022 328 pages, Jewish Studies Rights: World

The first book to plumb the depths of Judaism’s abundant reservoir of hope, Choosing Hope journeys from biblical times to our day to explore nine fundamental sources of hope in Judaism: teshuvah (repentance), tikkun olam (repairing the world), Abraham and Sarah’s calling, the Exodus, covenant, Job, the world-to-come, Israel, and Jewish humor. Choosing Hope can help us both affirm hope in times of trial and transmit our deepest hopes to the next generation. Grounded in a contemporary theology that situates the responsibility for creating a better world in human hands, with God acting through us, this book can help us both affirm hope in times of trial and transmit our deepest hopes to the next generation.

David Arnow is a scholar of the festival of Passover.

Modern Musar

Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought

GEOFFREY D. CLAUSSEN Illuminating the diversity of modern Jewish moral thought, Modern Musar explores the many ways Jews understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth; curiosity and inquisitiveness; humility; courage and valor; temperance and self-restraint; gratitude; forgiveness; love, kindness, and compassion; solidarity and social responsibility; and justice and righteousness. The juxtaposition of thinkers’ views, complemented by Geoffrey Claussen’s pointed analysis, allows us to see tensions with particular clarity—and sometimes to recognize multiple compelling ways of viewing the same virtue.

Geoffrey D. Claussen is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies & Lori and Eric Sklut Emerging Scholar in Jewish Studies, Elon University

April 2022 518 pages, Jewish Studies Rights: World excluding World

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University of Nebraska Press: Potomac Books Quagmire

Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan DONALD ANDERSON , editor Foreword by PHILIP BEIDLER

In Quagmire you’ll find a range of voices—men and women, military and civilian—and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war’s aftermath. These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publication. The responses cover approximately fifteen years of the United States’ conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and demonstrate the aftermath of war and the degreed ripples that extend beyond soldiers to families and friends, lovers, hometowns, even pets.

As citizens, Pablo Neruda advised, we have an obligation to “come and see the blood in the streets.” To ignore what we do in war and what war does to us is to move willfully toward ignorance. To ignore such reminders imperils ourselves, our communities, and our nation.

October 2021 258 pages Military History Rights: World

Donald Anderson is a professor of English and writer in residence at the US Air Force Academy, where he edits War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He is the author of Gathering Noise from My Life: A Camouflaged Memoir and the editor of When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers’ Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq, among other books.

A State of Secrecy

Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance

ALISON LEWIS

October 2021 342 pages, 6 photographs, 16 illustrations History/Germany Rights: World excluding World

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Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted lives of informers, who often lived in a perpetual state of secrecy. This is the first study of its kind to explore this secret surveillance society, its arcane rituals, and the secret lives it fostered.Through a series of interlocking, in-depth case studies of informers in literature and the arts, A State of Secrecy seeks answers to the question of how the collusion of the East German intelligentsia with the Stasi was possible and sustainable. It draws on extensive original archive research conducted in the BStU (Stasi Records Agency), as well as eyewitness testimony, literature, and film, and uses a broad array of methods from biography, sociology, cultural studies, and literary history to political science and surveillance and intelligence studies. In teasing out the various kinds of entanglements of intellectuals with power during the Cold War, Lewis presents a microhistory of the covert activities of those writers who colluded with the secret police.

Alison Lewis is a professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing and Cold War Spy Stories from Eastern Europe.

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The Challenge to NATO

Global Security and the Atlantic Alliance

MICHAEL O. SLOBODCHIKOFF, G. DOUG DAVIS and BRANDON STEWART , editors Foreword by JOHN W. SCHMIDT

November 2021 320 pages, 5 illustrations Military/Current Affairs Rights: World

The post–Cold War order established by the United States is at a crossroads: no longer is the liberal order and US hegemonic power a given. The Challenge to NATO is a concise review of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its relationship with the United States, and its implications for global security. Despite seeing its seventieth anniversary in 2019, NATO faces both external and internal threats to its continued survival.

This volume examines the organization’s past, its current regional operations, and future threats facing the Atlantic Alliance, with contributions by well-known academics, former central figures within NATO, and diplomats directly involved in NATO operations. In this volume, Michael O. Slobodchikoff, G. Doug Davis, and Brandon Stewart bring together differing perspectives and orientations to provide a complete understanding of the future of the Atlantic Alliance.

Michael O. Slobodchikoff is an associate professor of political science at Troy University. He is the author of several books, including Building Hegemonic Order Russia’s Way: Order, Stability, and Predictability in the Post-Soviet Space. G. Doug Davis is an associate professor of political science at Troy University.

He is the coauthor (with Slobodchikoff) of Cultural Imperialism and the Decline of the Liberal Order: Russian and Western Soft Power in Eastern Europe. Brandon Stewart is an assistant professor of political science at Troy University.

Cartography

Navigating a Year in Iraq

KATHERINE SCHIFANI Cartography describes Katherine Schifani’s time deployed in Iraq as a counterterrorism advisor with US Special Forces in 2011. It is the story of one woman mapping the terra incognita of Iraq with questionable interpreters, nonexistent guidance, and an unclear purpose. It’s the story of a gay woman serving under the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, who realizes that the policy repeal she has long awaited is so overshadowed by a hostile environment that remaining closeted is more critical than ever.

Katherine Schifani is a seven-year US Air Force veteran and serves on the Air Force Reserve Com­ mand. She was deployed to Iraq with the US Army in 2010 where she became the officer in charge and the head logistics advisor for the Iraqi Counterterrorism Service and Iraqi Special Operations Force at twenty-five years old.

June 2022 192 pages, Memoir Rights: World

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Troubling the Water

A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia

ABBY SEIFF March 2022 168 pages, 11 photographs Environment/Cambodia Rights: World

In this intimate account of one of the world’s most productive inland fisheries, Troubling the Water explores how the rapid destruction of a single lake in Cambodia is upending the lives of millions. The abundance of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake helped grow the country for millenia and gave rise to the Kingdom of Angkor. But today, the lake is dying. Hydropower dams hold back billions of gallons of water and disrupt critical fish migration paths.

This book follows ordinary Cambodians coping with the rapid erasure of a long-held way of life. Drawing on years of reporting in Cambodia, Abby Seiff traces the changes on the Tonle Sap—weaving together vivid stories of those most affected with sharp insight into the one of the most threatened lakes in the world. For the millions who depend on it, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Abby Seiff is an American journalist with a decade of experience reporting and editing in Asia. Her writing and photography have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, the Mekong Review, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Pacific Standard, the Economist, and many more publications.

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University of New Mexico Press Gamboa's World

Justice, Silver Mining, and Imperial Reform in New Spain

CHRISTOPHER ALBI Gamboa’s World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717–1794). Gamboa was both a representative of legal professionals in the Spanish world and a central protagonist in major legal controversies in Mexico. Of Basque descent, Gamboa rose from an impoverished childhood in Guadalajara to the top of the judicial hierarchy in New Spain. He practiced law in Mexico City in the 1740s, represented Mexican merchants in Madrid in the late 1750s, published an authoritative commentary on mining law in 1761, and served for three decades as an Audiencia magistrate. In 1788 he became the first locally born regent, or chief justice, of the High Court of New Spain. In this important work, Christopher Albi shows how Gamboa’s forgotten career path illuminates the evolution of colonial legal culture and how his arguments about law and justice remain relevant today as Mexico debates how to strengthen the rule of law.

November 2021 248 pages, 12 illustrations History/Latin America Rights: World

Christopher Albi is an associate professor of history at SUNY New Paltz.

What Cannot Be Undone Essays

WALTER ROBINSON Spring 2022 185 pages Creative Literary Non-Fiction/Medicine Rights: World

In his award-winning debut essay collection Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This collection shows the raw moments where his expertise in medical ethics and pediatrics are put to the test. He is neither saint, nor hero, nor wizard. Robinson admits that on his best days he was merely ordinary. Yet in writing down the authentic stories of his patients, Robinson discovers what led him to the practice of medicine—and how his idealism was no match for the realities he faced in modern health care.

Walter M. Robinson is a physician and a writer in Massachusetts. He is also a founding editor of EastOver Press and Cutleaf, an online literary journal.

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The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook The Soul of Mexican Home Cooking

DAVE DEWITT and JOSÉ C. MARMOLEJO Spring 2022 205 pages Cooking Rights: World excluding World Spanish only

Authors Dave DeWitt and José C. Marmolejo feature more than 150 recipes that celebrate the role of chiles across appetizers, soups and stews, tacos, enchiladas, tamales, moles, and vegetarian dishes. A comprehensive glossary of Mexican chiles, cheeses, and food terminology is also included. Savor the history, culture, and recipes of Mexican regional home cooking highlighted in this unique, full-color cookbook and explore the various chile peppers showcased in this spicy trek. The only thing left to do is decide which recipe to try next!

Dave DeWitt is a food historian and one of the foremost authorities in the world on chile peppers, spices, and spicy foods. He has published fifty-six books, including Chile Peppers: A Global History. José C. Marmolejo owned and operated Don Alfonso Foods, a specialty outfit of Mexican delicacies in Austin, Texas. He assisted a PBS TV series production on fiery foods and appeared with Andrew Zim­ mern on Bizarre Foods.

La Mina

A Royal Moche Tomb

CHRISTOPHER DONNAN March 2022 266 pages Archaeology/Anthropology/Latin America Rights: World excluding Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic

This beautiful book focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987. The ceramic and metal objects it contained were among the most extraordinary ever produced in the Andean area, and it had the most colorfully decorated pre-Columbian burial chamber ever found in the Americas. The artifacts are now scattered throughout the world, nearly all of them held in private collections. In this work Donnan reveals how he was able to locate and document many of the tomb’s contents and determine how the tomb was constructed and embellished. With more than two hundred color images of the archaeological treasures unearthed at La Mina.

Christopher B. Donnan is a professor emeritus in UCLA’s Department of Anthropology. He has re­ searched the Moche civilization of ancient Peru for more than fifty years.

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From Sea Bathing to Beach Going

A Social History of the Beach I Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

B.J. BARICKMAN, HENRIK KRAAY and BRYAN MCCANN April 2022 250 pages Latin America/ History Rights: World

B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to see and be seen. Seabathing gave way to beach-going and sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the 1920s. Race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development all inform this major contribution to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the history of leisure.

B. J. Barickman (1958–2016) was an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Arizona. Hendrik Kraay is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. Bryan McCann is a profes­ sor of history at Georgetown University.

Graciela

One Woman’s Story of Survival and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes

NICOLE COFFEY KELLET May 2022 196 pages Anthropology/Latin America Rights: World

Graciela chronicles the life a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the civil war in Peru that killed seventy thousand and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s. The book traces her early years as a young child living in an epicenter of violence to her contemporary life as a postwar survivor. Through Graciela’s story we not only learn of trauma and dehumanization but also resilience, strength, and perseverance. Graciela’s history provides insight into the systemic challenges of determining truth, implementing justice, and envisioning reconciliation in a country where calls for equality and justice remain unrealized for the most marginalized.

Nicole Coffey Kellett is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine at Farming­ ton. Graciela Orihuela Rocha, a mother and grandmother from Ayacucho, Peru, is a survivor of civil war living in the rural Andean highlands.

Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico WIL G. PANSTERS

May 2022 245 pages History/Latin America Rights: World

This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug discourses and policies, which criminalized both high-profile traffickers and small-time addicts, these authorities also employed the criminals and cash connected to the drug trade to pursue more pressing political concerns. The essays in this study explore this complicated narrative and provide insight into Mexico’s history and the wider contemporary global drug trade.

Wil G. Pansters is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University.

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I Got Mine

Confessions of a Midlist Writer

JOHN NICHOLS March 2022 255 pages Memoir Rights: World

This is the memoir of Nichols’s extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing.

His education, family, wives, children, friends, enemies, politics, and place—is told from the point of view of his daily practice of writing.Beginning with his first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, published in 1965 when he was just twenty-four, Nichols shares his highs and lows: his ambivalent relationship with money; his growing disenchantment with the hypocrisy of capitalism; and his love-hate relationship with Hollywood—including the years-long struggle of working with director Robert Redford on the film of The Milagro Beanfield War, which was filmed around Truchas and featured many of Nichols’s northern New Mexico neighbors. Throughout Nichols spins a shining thread connecting his lifelong engagement with progressive political causes, his passionate interest in and identification with ordinary people, and his deep connection to the land.

John Nichols has published ten works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War.

Jesuits and Race

A Global History of Continuity and Change, ca. 1530–2020

NATHANIAL MILLETT and CHARLES H. PARKER June 2022 185 pages Religion/History Rights: World

Jesuits’ global presence in missions, imperial expansion, and education lend insight to the differences in patterns of estrangement and assimilation, as well as enfranchisement and coercion, with people from Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The essays in this collection bring together case studies from around the world as a first step toward a comparative analysis of Jesuit engagement with racialized difference. The authors hone in on labor practices, social structures, and religious agendas at salient moments during the long span of Jesuit history in this fascinating volume.

Nathaniel Millett is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. Charles H. Parker is a professor of history at Saint Louis University.

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University of North Carolina Press Porn Work

Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

HEATHER BERG Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers’ creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what’s wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

Heather Berg is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington Univer­ sity, St. Louis.

April 2021 256 pages Social History/Gender Studies/Labor History Rights: World

Permanent Markers

Race, Ancestry, and the Body after the Genome

SARAH ABEL

January 2022 272 pages, 9 illistrations Genetics/Anthropology/Race Rights: World excluding World

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Over the past twenty years, dna ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like AncestryDNA and 23andMe has sparked debates about the commodification of identity, the antiracist potential of genetic science, and the promises and pitfalls of using dna as a source of “objective” knowledge about the past. This book engages these debates by looking at the ways genomic ancestry testing has been used in Brazil and the United States to address the histories and legacies of slavery, from personal genealogical projects to collective racial politics. Reckoning with the struggles of science versus capitalism, “race-blind” versus “race-positive” public policies, and identity fluidity versus embodied experiences of racism, Permanent Markers seeks to explain why societies that have broadly embraced the social construction of race continue to search for, and find, evidence that our bodies are indelibly marked by the past.

Sarah Abel is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Latin American Studies.

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Arise Africa, Roar China

Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century

GAO YUNXIANG

December 2021 408 pages, 49 illustrations African-American Studies/Chinese Studies/ History Rights: World

This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a transpacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China’s modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. The book’s multilingual approach draws from massive yet rarely used archival streams in China and in Chinatowns and elsewhere in the United States. These materials allow Gao to retell the well-known stories of Du Bois, Robeson, and Hughes alongside the sagas of Liu and Chen in a work that will transform and redefine Afro-Asia studies.

Gao Yunxiang is professor of history at Ryerson University, and author of Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931–1945.

Cold War Liberation

The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975

NATALIA TELEPNEVA

March 2022 304 pages, 15 illustrations Africa/Russia/Cole War History Rights: World excluding World

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Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies—Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau—and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on the Soviet Union, Natalia Telepneva bridges the gap between the narratives of individual anticolonial movements and those of superpower rivalry in sub-Saharan Africa during the Cold War. Drawing on newly available archival sources from Russia and Eastern Europe and interviews with key participants, Telepneva emphasizes the agency of African liberation leaders who enlisted the superpower into their movements via their relationships with middle-ranking members of the Soviet bureaucracy. These administrators had considerable scope to shape policies in the Portuguese colonies which in turn increased the Soviet commitment to decolonization in the wider region. An innovative reinterpretation of the relationships forged between African revolutionaries and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, Cold War Liberation is a bold addition to debates about policy-making in the Global South during the Cold War. Natalia Telepneva is lecturer of international history at the University of Strathclyde.

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Planetary Specters

Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century

NEEL AHUJA

October 2021 224 pages, 24 illustrations Climate change/Global Studies Rights: World

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration. To understand the systemic reasons for displacement, Ahuja argues, it is necessary to reframe climate disaster as interlinked with the history of capitalism and the global politics of race, wherein racist presumptions about agrarian underdevelopment and Indigenous knowledge mask how financial, development, migration, and climate adaptation policies reproduce growing inequalities. Drawing on the work of Cedric Robinson and theories of racial capitalism, Ahuja considers how the oil industry transformed the economic and geopolitical processes that lead to displacement. From South Asia to the Persian Gulf, Europe, and North America, Ahuja studies how Asian trade, finance, and labor connections have changed the nature of race, borders, warfare, and capitalism since the 1970s.

Ultimately, Ahuja argues that only by reckoning with how climate change emerges out of longer histories of race, colonialism, and capitalism can we begin to build a sustainable and just future for those most affected by environmental change.

Neel Ahuja is associate professor of feminist studies and critical race and ethnic studies at the Univer­ sity of California, Santa Cruz.

Closing the Golden Door

Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island

ANNA PEGLER-GORDON

December 2021 344 pages, 19 illustrations Immigration/Asian Studies Rights: World

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The immigration station at New York’s Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest US port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the “great American melting pot.” But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island’s history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean, and even within the United States. And from 1924 to 1954, the station functioned as a detention camp and deportation center for a range of people deemed undesirable. Anna Pegler-Gordon draws on immigrants’ oral histories and memoirs, government archives, newspapers, and other sources to reorient the history of migration and exclusion in the United States. In chronicling the circumstances of those who passed through or were detained at Ellis Island, she shows that Asian exclusion was both larger in scope and more limited in force than has been previously recognized.

Anna Pegler-Gordon is a professor in the James Madison College and the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University.

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We the Dead

Preserving Data at the End of the World

BRIAN MICHAEL MURPHY Spring 2022 188 pages Media Studies Rights: World

This is a book that asks: how do you protect our most essential data from catastrophe? By etching it in steel, gassing it to kill all microbes, vacuum-sealing it, and burying it in a vault so deep it can never be recovered—because preserving humanity’s vital information is inseparable from imagining its annihilation. We the Dead traces the emergence of the data complex in the early 20th century, and its expansion through a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world, whether Depression-era eugenicists fearing racial intermixture and the downfall of the “typical” American family, or contemporary technologists seeking ever more durable and dense materials for storing data, from micro-etched metal discs to synthetic dna. Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, it reveals the dark places where the logic of the data complex has taken us.

Brian Michael Murphy is professor of media studies at Bennington College.

Hungary's Cold War

International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union

CSABA BÉKÉS Spring 2022 254 pages International Affairs Rights: World

A major historian of the Cold War and the leading expert of Hungary’s foreign policy during that era, Csaba Békés offers a sweeping examination of Hungary’s international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from their earliest emergence at the end of World War Two to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that focus on East-West relationships—often from the vantage point of the West—Békés grounds his work in the East. As such he offers a new and sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study, demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc’s overall policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed.

Csaba Békés is professor of history at Corvinus University of Budapest.

Bedlam in the New World

A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment

CHRISTINA RAMOS Spring 2022 188 pages History/Mexico Rights: World

Hospital de San Hipólito, founded in 1567 by a penitent conquistador in Mexico City, was the first facility in the Americas dedicated to the custody and care of the mentally disturbed. Filled with poignant and compelling stories of patients, doctors, friars, and Inquisitors, Christina Ramos’s microhistory of San Hipólito shines a light on the limits of Spanish rule and the Enlightenment to manage the bedlam of locura, or madness—and of colonialism. Marked by rampant rates of patient escape as well as feigned illness on the part of resourceful colonial subjects, San Hipólito’s history refracts the hopes, contradictions, and failures of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Americas.

Christina Ramos is assistant professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia ELIZABETH LHOST

Spring 2022 250 pages History/South Asia Rights: World

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But as the colonial legal system sidelined Islamic legal experts, qazis, muftis, and ordinary people fought back from below. By bringing legal debates into the public sphere, they resisted the colonial state’s authority over personal law, and they rejected legal codification by embracing flexibility and possibility. With postcards, typewriters, and telegrams, they made everyday Islamic law vibrant and resilient. Narrating these experiences, Lhost shows how ordinary Muslims shaped colonial legal life and how their diversity and difference have contributed to contemporary debates about religion, law, pluralism, and democracy in South Asia and beyond. making of modern South Asia.

Elizabeth Lhost is lecturer in history and postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College.

Transpacific Convergences

Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II

DENISE KHOR Spring 2022 160 pages History/Film Rights: World excluding World

In the era of cinema history that witnessed the rise of the Hollywood system, Japanese Americans were producing films and establishing theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate the circulation of films from Japan to the United States. Transpacific Convergences examines this history and the experiences of early twentieth century Japanese Americans at the cinema to trace an alternative network of film production, exhibition, and spectatorship, showcasing that American film history cannot be reduced to a singular or monolithic conception of national cinema.

Denise Khor is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Vanderbilt University Press Books against Tyranny Catalan Publishers under Franco

LAURA VILARDELL Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939–1975). Both the Catalan language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the regime, preoccupied as it was with creating a “one, great and free Spain.” Books against Tyranny examines the period through its censorship laws and censors’ accounts by means of intertextuality, an approach that aims to shed light on the evolution of Francoism’s ideological thought. The documents examined here includes firsthand witness accounts, correspondence, memoirs, censorship files, newspapers, original interviews, and unpublished material housed in various Spanish archives. As such, the book opens up the field and serves as an informative tool for scholars of Franco’s Spain, Catalan social movements, or censorship more generally.

Laura Vilardell is an assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Northern Illinois University.

May 2022 250 pages History/Europe/Spain & Portugal Rights: World

Transforming Saints From Spain to New Spain

CHARLENE VILLASEÑOR BLACK

July 2022 376 pages Art/History/General Rights: World

Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence. The chapters here examine the rise of the cults of the lactating Madonna, St. Anne, St. Librada, St. Mary Magdalene, and the Suffering Virgin. Concerned with holy figures presented as feminine archetypes, images that came under Inquisition scrutiny, as well as cults suspected of concealing indigenous influences, Charlene Villaseñor Black argues that these images would come to reflect the empowerment and agency of women in viceregal Mexico. Her close analysis of the imagery additionally demonstrates artists’ innovative responses to Inquisition censorship and the new artistic demands occasioned by conversion. The concerns that motivated the twenty-first century protests against Chicana artists Yolanda López in 2001 and Alma López in 2003 have a long history in the Hispanic world—anxieties about the humanization of sacred female bodies and fears of indigenous influences infiltrating Catholicism. In this context Black also examines a number of important artists in depth, including El Greco, Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera, and Pedro de Mena in Spain and Naples and Baltasar de Echave Ibía, Juan Correa, Cristóbal de Villalpando, and Miguel Cabrera.

Charlene Villaseñor Black is a professor of art history and Chicana/o studies at UCLA.

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Unlawful Violence

Mexican Law and Cultural Production

REBECCA JANZEN

May 2022 300 pages History/Latin America/Mexico Rights: World

Violence has only increased in Mexico since 2000: 23,000 murders were recorded in 2016, and 29,168 in 2017. The abundance of laws and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are mirrored in Mexico’s fragmented cultural production of the same period. Contemporary Mexican literature grapples with this splintered reality through non-linear stories from multiple perspectives, often told through shifts in time. The novels, such as Jorge Volpi’s Una novela criminal [A Novel Crime] (2018) and Julián Herbert’s La casa del dolor ajeno [The House of the Pain of Others] (2015) take multiple perspectives and follow non-linear plotlines; other examples, such as the very short stories in ¡Basta! 100 mujeres contra la violencia de género [Enough! 100 Women against Gender-Based Violence] (2013), also present multiple perspectives. Few scholars compare cultural production and legal texts in situations like Mexico, where extreme violence coexists with a high number of human rights laws. Unlawful Violence measures fictional accounts of human rights against new laws that include constitutional amendments to reform legal proceedings, laws that protect children, laws that condemn violence against women, and laws that protect migrants and Indigenous peoples. It also explores debates about these laws in the Mexican house of representatives and senate, as well as interactions between the law and the Mexican public.

Rebecca Janzen is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina.

Trajectories of Empire

Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora

JEROME C. BRANCHE

June 2022 270 pages History/Latin America/General Rights: World

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. The book’s chapters explore what it’s like to be Black today in the so-called racial democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical science in the objectification and nullification of Black female personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba; aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the discursive template was created around their social roles as enslaved or formerly enslaved people. Trajectories of Empire’s contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.

Jerome C. Branche is Associate Professor of Latin American and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings.

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