Highlights Catalogue - S19

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Highlights Earth Emotions

New Words for a New World GLENN A. ALBRECHT Examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known ecoemotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia— love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene.

Glenn A. Albrecht is an Australian environmental philosopher. He retired from Murdoch University in 2014 as a Professor of Sustainability, and he is now an Honorary Associate in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. Cornell University Press

Spring| Summer 2019

Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet Eating with the World in Mind NICO SLATE

Sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during India’s struggle for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi’s diet—vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting—anticipated many of the debates in twenty-firstcentury food studies, and presaged the necessity of building healthier and more equitable food systems.

Nico Slate is professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India and editor of Black Power beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of the Black Power Movement.

University of Washington Press

10 b&w illus. | February 2019 | 256pp | HB | 9780295744957 | £23.99

May 2019 | 264pp | PB | 9781501715228 | £15.99

Revenge of the ShePunks

A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot VIVIEN GOLDMAN As an industry insider and pioneering postpunk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually wellrounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes— identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. Born in London, Vivien Goldman has been a music journalist and documentarian for more than forty years and served as Bob Marley’s first U.K. publicist. She is a former member of the new-wave bands Chantage and The Flying Lizards. She is now an Adjunct Professor teaching Punk, Afrobeat and Reggae at New York University. Her five previous books include The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Album of the Century. University of Texas Press May 2019 | 216pp | PB | 9781477316542 | £13.99

The Dark Fantastic

Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS An engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is Associate Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and International Educational Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. A former Detroit Public Schools teacher and National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, she is an expert on diversity in children’s literature, youth media, and fan studies. New York University Press Postmillennial Pop May 2019 | 240pp | HB | 9781479800650 | £21.99

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