Beyond Despair
The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children
Hélène Dumas
Translated by Catherine Porter
Thinking from Elsewhere
June 2024 272pp 6 b&w illus.
9781531506087 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531506070 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Winner of Prix Pierre Lafue and Prix lycéen du livre d’histoire des Rendez-vous de l’histoire de Blois, Beyond Despair presents a bracing look at the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children
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Breathless
Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Andrew McDowell
South Asia in Motion
April 2024 264pp
9781503638778 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637955 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit ("exuntouchable") farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them.
China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Thomas White
Series edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan
June 2024 248pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 table
9780295752433 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752426 £94.00/ $105.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Alasha now styles itself as “China’s Camel Country,” where the domestic camel has special status, exempted from many grassland conservation policies that apply to other types of livestock. This study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and a work of political ecology addressing critical questions of conservation, state power, and rural livelihoods.
Conflicted Making News from Global War
Isaac Blacksin
July 2024 312pp
9781503639447 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638242 £108.00/ $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as Afghanistan and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be. Blacksin shows why news coverage of contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official rationales for war.
Cemetery Citizens
Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds
Adam Rosenblatt
April 2024 264pp
9781503639119 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503613973 £99.00/ $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Across the United States, groups of volunteers clean headstones and research silenced histories, offering care to individuals who were denied basic rights in life and in death. This is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead and what kinds of repair are still possible.
Circular Ecologies
Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China
Amy Zhang
July 2024 224pp
9781503639294 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637962 £99.00/ $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Zhang argues that in post-reform China, waste—the material vestige of decades of growth and increasing consumption—is a systemic irritant that troubles China's technocratic governance. Waste provoked an unlikely political coalition of urban communities that came to constitute a nascent, bottom-up environmental politics, and offers a model for conceptualizing ecological action under authoritarian conditions.
Conspiracy/Theory
Edited by Joseph Masco & Lisa Wedeen
January 2024 512pp 2 illus.
9781478025559 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781478020813 £112.00/ $124.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational response to an obviously decipherable reality, Conspiracy/Theory identifies important affinities between conspiracy theory and critical theory. It recognizes the motivation people have to search for patterns in events, to uncover what is covert and attend to dimensions of life that might be hiding in plain sight.
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Cultivating Livability
Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru
Camille Frazier
May 2024 224pp 18 b&w illus.
9781517914998 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517914981 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In recent years, the concept of “livability” has captured the global imagination, influencing discussions about the implications of climate change and what really makes for a livable life?
Anthropologist Camille Frazier probes the meaning of “livability” in Bengaluru through ethnographic work among producers and consumers, and professionals.
Exiled to Motown
A Community History of Japanese Americans in Detroit
Scott Kurashige
March 2024 316pp
9780295749020 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Drawing from a community-based oral history and archiving project, Exiled to Motown captures the compelling stories of Japanese Americans in the Midwest, filling in overlooked aspects of the Asian American experience. It serves as a model for collaboration on projects between scholars, elders, and community activists.
Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry
Art, Affect, and Labor
Tiffany Rae Pollock
May 2024 186pp 13 b&w hts., 3 maps
9781501774935 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501774928 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the evolution of fire dancing from informal community jam sessions into the iconic, touristoriented performances at beach parties and bars, through a close consideration of the role of affect in the lives of fire dancers in the ever-changing scene. Pollock examines how fire artists reimagine their labor, lives, and communities in Thailand's tourism industry.
Disability Worlds
Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp
May 2024 296pp 11 illus.
9781478030409 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026181 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wideranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene
The New Nature
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena & Feifei Zhou
May 2024 344pp
9781503637320 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Human action has transformed our planet and ushered in a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene. This book takes stock of our current planetary crisis, leading readers through a series of sites, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history.
Fractal Repair
Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
Matthew Chin
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
March 2024 248pp 7 illus.
9781478030225 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478025986 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Matthew Chin advances a theory and method of queer fractals to investigate queerness in Jamaica from early colonial occupation to the present, and analyzes multigenre archives ranging from midtwentieth-century social science studies of the Caribbean to Jamaica’s National Dance Theatre Company to HIV/AIDS organizations to write reparative histories of queerness.
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Fragile Hope
Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India
Sandhya Fuchs
South Asia in Motion
June 2024 296pp
9781503639362 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503638341 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recently, India has seen a rise in violence against Dalits (ex-untouchables) and other minorities. Consequently, an emerging "Dalit Lives Matter" movement has campaigned for the effective implementation of India's only hate crime law: the 1989 Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act (PoA). Fuchs unveils how Dalit communities in the state of Rajasthan interpret and mobilize the PoA.
Global Ayahuasca
Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds
Alex K. Gearin
Spiritual Phenomena
August 2024 280pp
9781503639836 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503636576 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ceremonies of drinking the psychoactive brew ayahuasca have flourished across the planet in recent decades. Gearin challenges the simplified obsession with universal or primordial truth that has pervaded inquiries into ayahuasca experiences, and explores the practices of contemporary ayahuasca drinkers to reveal how the brew has conjured contradictory visions across the globe.
Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence
Jennifer Riggan & Amanda Poole
Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration
February 2024 214pp 6 b&w illus.
9780253067999 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253067982 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Makes key empirical and theoretical contributions in forced migration studies, East African studies and anthropology. Deftly shifts the focus of refugee studies away from Europe to regions in the Global South to understand the violence of of migration deterrence.
From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Shuxuan Zhou
May 2024 184pp 6 b&w illus., 2 maps, 1 table
9780295752679 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752662 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urbanindustrial space. This book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.
Healing Movements
Chicanx-Indigenous Activism and Criminal Justice in California
Megan S. Raschig
June 2024 224pp 7 b&w images
9781479827077 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479827060 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Healing Movements explores the work of former gang-involved Chicanx members in California who who forged new pathways for cultural healing and countering the carceral system. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Salinas, Healing Movements reveals how these communities have taken shape in large part through a conscious effort to uplift Chicanx-Indigenous culture and ceremonial practices.
In the Land of the Unreal
Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
Lisa Messeri
March 2024 312pp 22 illus.
9781478030232 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025979 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. With In The Land of the Unreal, Messeri navigates the intersection of place, technology, and social change to show that technology alone cannot upend systemic forces attached to gender and race.
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Incommunicable
Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
Charles L. Briggs
March 2024 336pp 16 illus.
9781478026006 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025788 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Building on efforts by social movements and coalitions of health professionals and patients to craft more just and equitable futures, Briggs helps imagine health systems and health-care discourses beyond the oppressive weight of communicability and the stigma of incommunicability.
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
Series edited by Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan & Anand A. Yang
June 2024 240pp 17 b&w illus.
9780295752693 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752709 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city, yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and what biking means in the city, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria challenges assumptions that underlie sustainable transportation planning.
Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, PatientConsumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
Rosalynn A. Vega
May 2024 336pp 3 b&w illus.
9781477328682 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477328675 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Physicians of the Future interrogates the hidden logics of inclusion and exclusion in functional medicine (FM), a holistic form of personalized medicine that targets chronic disease. Using data culled from online support groups, conferences, docuseries, and more, Vega argues that FM practices prioritize the individual while inadvertently reinscribing inequities based on race and class.
Knowing Silence
How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School
Ariana Mangual Figueroa
April 2024 260pp 16 b&w illus.
9781517910457 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517910440 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
In Knowing Silence, Ariana Mangual Figueroa challenges the assumption that children are largely unaware of their immigration status and its implications. By providing six Latina students with iPod Touches to record themselves, and listening carefully to their speech and significant silences, Mangual Figueroa reveals the complex ways young people understand the impact of their immigration status.
Perilous Wagers
Gambling,
Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo
Klaus K. Y. Hammering
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
August 2024 288pp 10 b&w hts.
9781501776427 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501776410 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Takes place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where the men can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns. Explores how one group of day-laborers created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life.
Porous Becomings
Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres
Edited by Andreas Bandak & Daniel M. Knight
March 2024 344pp 5 illus.
9781478030287 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478026051 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through ethnographic encounters as diverse as angels and religious conversion in Ethiopia, the percolation of war in Bosnia, and incarcerated bodies crossing the Atlantic, Porous Becomings showcases how French philosopher of science Michel Serres’ interrogation of the fundamentals of human existence opens new pathways for anthropological knowledge.
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Pregnant at Work
Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice
Elise Andaya
Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
March 2024 208pp 6 b&w images
9781479817597 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479817580 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Examines the experiences of pregnant service sector workers in New York City as they try to navigate precarious low-wage service labor and safety net prenatal care. Through interviews and fieldwork in a prenatal clinic of a public hospital, Elise Andaya vividly describes workers’ struggles to maintain expected tempos of labor as their pregnancies progress.
Resistance as Negotiation
Making States and Tribes in the Margins of Modern India Uday Chandra
South Asia in Motion
June 2024 304pp
9781503638112 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects.
Schoolishness
Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning
Susan D. Blum
May 2024 420pp 1 diagra, 6 diagrams, 13 charts
9781501774744 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781501774188 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation. Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning in ten dimensions.
Reclaiming Diasporic Identity
Transnational Continuity and National Fragmentation in the Hmong Diaspora
Sangmi Lee
Studies of World Migrations
February 2024 280pp 9 b&w photos.
9780252087868 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045769 £99.00/ $110.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand, and Argentina. Sangmi Lee draws on the concept of diasporic identity to explore the contemporary experiences of Hmong people living in Vang Vieng, Laos, and Sacramento, California.
Reworking Citizenship
Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa
Brady G'sell
August 2024 288pp
9781503639171 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503636811 £116.00/ $130.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In scenes eerily reminiscent of the apartheid era, July 2021 saw South Africa's streets filled with angry crowds burning and looting shops. G’Sell details the broiling discontent around political belonging exposed by these and similar uprisings. Through long-term fieldwork with impoverished black women living in South Africa's third largest city, G'Sell highlights how they strive to rework political institutions that effectively exclude them.
Seductive Spirits
Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism
Nathanael Homewood
Spiritual Phenomena
March 2024 292pp
9781503638068 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503637931 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Homewood examines the frequent and varied experiences of spirit possession and sex with demons that constitute a vital part of Pentecostal deliverance ministries, offering insight into these practices assembled from long-term ethnographic engagement with four churches in Accra, the capital of Ghana.
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Silicon Valley Imperialism
Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Erin McElroy
March 2024 296pp 16 illus.
9781478030218 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478025962 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley techno-capitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents and generating extreme income inequality, in order to expand its reach
Sticky, Sexy, Sad
Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
Treena Orchard
April 2024 224pp 1 b&w table
9781487549305 £20.99/ $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.
From 1st April 2024
Thailand’s Far South Engaging the Difficult Realities in a Recurring Conflict
Kee Howe Yong
October 2024 272pp
9781487556129 £52.00 / $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Questioning the naturalness of the nation state, Thailand’s Far South explores the recurring conflict in Muslimmajority provinces in Thailand’s southern region.
From 1st April 2024
States of Return
Rethinking Migration and Mobility
Edited by Deborah A. Boehm & Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar
July 2024 272pp 1 b&w figure
9781479823352 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479823345 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
States of Return addresses the many cultural transitions that have accelerated and transformed return during the first decades of the twenty-first century. This book highlights the ways in which different migrants’ returns reflect conditions of power, capturing movement across borders in the world today.
Sugar
An Ethnographic Novel
Edward Narain & Tarryn
Phillips
March 2024 304pp
9781487554989 £18.99 / $26.95 PB
9781487554972 £56.00 / $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This captivating ethnographic novel tells a story about global inequality through a rich, poignant, and often humorous portrait of everyday life in the postcolonial Pacific.
From 1st April 2024
The Ethnographer's Way
A Handbook for Multidimensional Research Design
Kristin Peterson & Valerie Olson
March 2024 376pp 19 illus.
9781478030157 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478025900 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project. The handbook’s ten modules walk readers step-by-step, from the initial lightbulb moment to constructing research descriptions, planning data gathering, writing grant and dissertation proposals, and preparing for fieldwork.
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The Fragmentary City
Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar
Andrew M. Gardner
May 2024 198pp 17 b&w hts.
9781501775017 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501774980 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Gardner frames the contemporary cities of the Arabian Peninsula not as poor imitations of Western urban modernity, but instead as cities on the frontiers of a global, neoliberal, and increasingly urban future. The book provides an overview of the gulf migration system with its diverse migrant experiences.
The Politics of Kinship Race, Family, Governance
Mark Rifkin
February 2024 400pp
9781478030003 £26.99/ $30.95 PB
9781478021049 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mark Rifkin explores how the construction of family as a white liberal institution of race-making drives US settlercolonial violence.
The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2
Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography
Franz Boas
Edited by Andrea Laforet, Angie Bain & co.
Franz Boas Papers Documentary Edition
April 2024 1040pp 9 photos., 13 illus., 4 maps, 44 figures, index 9781496235718 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This volume explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau through the correspondence between Franz Boas and James Teit.
The Trauma Mantras
A Memoir in Prose Poems
Adrie Kusserow
January 2024 176pp
9781478025573 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
9781478020844 £85.00/ $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who uses her international work with refugees and humanitarian projects to challenge some of the most basic Western assumptions about the self, illness, suffering, and healing.
Through the Lens of Cultural Anthropology
Second Edition
Laura Tubelle de González
May 2024 328pp 60 colour illus., 3 b&w illus., 18 colour maps, 4 colour figures
9781487552084 £49.00 / $70.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The second edition of this beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology and encourages them to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.
From 1st April 2024
Throw Your Voice
Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods
Meghanne Barker
August 2024 234pp 23 b&w hts.
9781501776465 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781501776458 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater, Meghanne Barker shows how children, and puppets, as proxies, bring to life ideologies of childhood and visions of a rosy future. The heart of this story is about living in displacement and about the fragile intimacies achieved amidst conditions of missing.
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Trapped
Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It
Mark Maguire & Setha Low
March 2024 160pp
9781503632967 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Calls to stop brutal police violence, argue Maguire and Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who take comfort in security capitalism. Angela Davis has written of the challenge of persuading people that "safety, safeguarded by violence, is not really safety." Maguire and Low provide a common language to discuss security capitalism and offering ways to escape its clutches.
Unruly Domestication
Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru
Kristin Skrabut
May 2024 312pp
9781477329108 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477329092 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Unruly Domestication provides valuable insight into the dynamics of housing and urban development in the Global South, elucidating the most intimate and profound effects of global efforts to do good. The only full-length ethnography written about Lima’s iconic and policy-inspiring shantytowns in thirty years, this book draws on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research.
Untold Stories
Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life
David Divita
March 2024 206pp 6 b&w illus.
9781487554293 £18.99 / $26.95 PB
9781487554279 £59.00 / $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Featuring a community of Spanish labour migrants in France who were born at the time of Spain’s civil war and came of age during General Francisco Ferdinand’s dictatorship, Untold Stories reveals how legacies of authoritarianism circulate in the lives of older adults.
From 1st April 2024
Underground
Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest
Bruce O'Neill
The City in the Twenty-First Century
May 2024 272pp 38 b&w photos
9781512825831 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781512825824 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Underground details tremendous sums of money have been invested to gentrify and expand to provide upwardly mobile residents with space in an overcrowded and increasingly unaffordable city center. As cities around the world extend further downward, new aesthetics of inequality are fundamentally shaping where and how the middle classes fit in the city.
Unsettling Queer Anthropology
Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures
Edited by Margot Weiss
May 2024 336pp 8 illus.
9781478030386 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026150 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology.
Utopia of the Uniform Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army
Tanja Petrovic
Theory in Forms
March 2024 256pp 55 illus.
9781478025689 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020943 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tanja Petrović draws on interviews with dozens of veterans of the Yugoslav People’s Army to show how their experiences in the military provided a framework for bringing the key political ideas of collectivity, solidarity, egalitarianism, education, and comradeship into being.
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Vibes Up
Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn
Sabia McCoy-Torres
August 2024 304pp 5 b&w images
9781479827176 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479827114 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Vibes Up offers an exploration of Caribbean culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian Diaspora. Through an examination of elements of the Black outdoors, this book shows the important role that reggae plays in articulating the frustrations of migration, and forming transnational relationships.
What Work Means
Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic
Claudia Strauss
June 2024 372pp 4 b&w hts., 1 diagram, 2 charts
9781501775512 £31.00/ $35.95 PB
9781501775505 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Strauss observes that Americans are often described as workaholics driven by a Puritan work ethic. Drawing upon the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations Strauss shows that this Puritan ethic cultural description homogenizes diverse work motivations. This book inspires discussions about current work in current contexts of teleworking, greater automation, and nonstandard employment.
Violent Intimacies
The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
Asli Zengin
February 2024 296pp 22 illus.
9781478025627 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020882 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.
Words and Silences
Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic
Laur Vallikivi
March 2024 350pp 46 b&w illus., 3 maps
9780253068767 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9780253068750 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Words and Silences tells the story of an extraordinary group of independent Nenets reindeer herders in the northwest Russian Arctic. Under socialism these nomads managed to avoid the Soviet state and its institutions of collectivization, but soon after the atheist regime collapsed, while some staunchly resisted, many of them became fervent fundamentalist Christians.
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