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A Blessing and a Curse
Oil, Politics, and Morality in Bolivarian Venezuela
Matt Wilde
October 2023 232pp
9781503637078 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503636620 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offering a new synthesis between anthropological work on energy, politics, and morality, the book explores how the use of oil money to fund the revolution's social programs and political reforms produced profound cultural anxieties about the contaminating effects of petroleum revenues in everyday settings.
Aiding Ireland
The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy
Anelise Hanson Shrout
The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
January 2024 280pp
9781479824595 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looks at the ways that disparate groups used Irish famine relief in the 1840s to advance their own political agendas. They included enslaved Black people, poor tenant farmers, plantation owners, abolitionists, and politicians. Most of these people had no personal connection to Ireland. Shrout uncovers what was to be gained for each group by participating in global famine relief.
Archaism and Actuality
Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary
Harry Harootunian
Theory in Forms
November 2023 304pp
9781478025221 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020363 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. Drawing on Japanese philosophers Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, Marxist theory, and Gramsci’s notion of passive revolution, Harootunian shows how the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its program dedicated to transforming the country into a modern society exemplified a unique path to capitalism.
A Slow Reckoning
The USSR, the Afghan Communists, and Islam
Vassily Klimentov
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
February 2024 312pp 18 b&w halftones, 4 maps
9781501773808 £49.00/ $54.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examiones the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989). As Klimentov demonstrates, the Soviet and communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall communist approach to reforming Afghanistan and helps explain the failure of their modernization project.
American Presidents in Diplomacy and War Statecraft, Foreign Policy, and Leadership
Thomas R. Parker
November 2023 198pp
9780268207236 £40.00/ $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Chronicles the major foreign policy crises faced by twelve American presidents in order to uncover the reoccurring patterns of successful and less successful uses of diplomatic, economic, and military power. In this brief and highly readable book, Thomas Parker reveals how America’s most successful leaders manage events instead of allowing events to control them.
Bayard Rustin
A Legacy of Protest and Politics
Edited by Michael G. Long
February 2024 256pp
9781479818495 £23.99/ $27.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Celebrates the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader behind the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This volume draws a full picture of Bayard Rustin: a gay, pacifist, socialist political radical who changed the course of US history and set a precedent for future civil rights activism.
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Being Human Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
Fazil Moradi
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
January 2024 210pp 18 b&w images
9781978831698 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978831704 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Being Human gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modern state violence and its afterlife. It is a work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors’ hospitality, infinite pursuit of justice, and acts of translation - law and politics.
Bolsonarismo
The Global Origins and Future of Brazil’s Far Right
Fernando Brancoli
November 2023 218pp none
9781978838550 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978838567 £63.00/ $69.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bolsonarismo documents the rise of the far-right alliance that emerged in Brazil in 2020 around the figure of former President Jair Bolsonaro. Fernando Brancoli delves deeply into how Bolsonarismo has developed a specific political orientation through its partnerships with other groups, practices, and subjectivities within Brazil, as well as internationally.
Cold War Deceptions
The Asia Foundation and the CIA
David H. Price
February 2024 320pp 2 tables
9780295752242 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752235 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
During the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. Cold War Deceptions provides a rare view into the bureaucratic functioning of a covert operation in which most employees did not know they were working for the CIA.
Black, Quare, and Then to Where
Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics
Jennifer
Susanne Leath
Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
November 2023 312pp 8 illus.
9781478025146 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020165 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Ma’at—the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth. As a moral force, leath contends, Ma’at opens new possibilities of understanding justices in the US.
Cash, Clothes, and Construction
Rethinking Value in Bolivia's Pluri-economy
Kate Maclean
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
November 2023 288pp 8 b&w illus.
9781517915964 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781517915957 £100.00/ $112.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
A groundbreaking feminist perspective on Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) rule in Bolivia and the country’s transformation under Evo Morales. Based on more than twelve years of research exploring the change in Bolivia since 2006, this book focuses on finance, clothing, and construction—and how Indigenous women have defied expectations.
Composing Aid
Music, Refugees, and Humanitarian Politics
Oliver Y. Shao
Activist Encounters in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
October 2023 210pp
9780253067654 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253067647 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Composing Aid, Shao turns a critical ear towards the United Nations-run Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, one of the largest and oldest encampments in the world. This politically engaged ethnography delves into various cultural practices, including hip hop shows, traditional dances, religious ceremonies, and NGO events, in an urbanized borderland area beset with precarity and inequality.
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Conflicts
The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel
Liron Mor
December 2023 288pp 6 b&w illus.
9781531505448 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531505431 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Conflicts engages Hebrew and Arabic literature to critically reassess the concept of conflict. Drawing on a diverse archive, ranging from the 1930s to the present and from prose and poetry to film and television, it reveals indigenous literary concepts that better theorize the region’s antagonisms and mediations, its colonial technologies and anticolonial practices.
Death Dust
The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs
Constitutional Crossroads
Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change
Edited by Kate Puddister & Emmett Macfarlane
Law and Society
August 2023 520pp 13 tables; 4 charts 9780774867924 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Contributors bypass historical description to offer reflective analyses of different aspects of Canada’s constitution as it is understood in the twenty-first century. With a focus on the themes of rights, reconciliation, and constitutional change, this book provides profound insights into institutional relationships, public policy, and law and politics.
Destroy Them Gradually
Displacement as Atrocity
William
C. Potter, Sarah Bidgood, Samuel Meyer & Hanna Notte
December 2023 232pp
9781503637658 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9781503636668 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)— weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt.
Do All the Good You Can
How Faith Shaped Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s Politics
Gary Scott Smith
October 2023 320pp
9780252045318 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Gary Scott Smith examines the role of Clinton’s faith in her life and work. Clinton’s lifelong Methodism shaped a missionary zeal that, combined with her impressive personal talents, fueled many of her highprofile political endeavors while helping her cope with the prominent travails brought on by neverending conservative rancor and her husband’s infidelity.
Andrew R. Basso
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
February 2024 292pp 1 b&w photo, 17 tables
9781978831285 £81.00/ $89.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Destroying Them
Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany’s Genocide of the Herero (1904-1908); Ottoman Genocides of Christian Minorities (1914-1925); Expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943-1952); and Climate Violence (21st Century).
Elastic Empire Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine
Lisa Bhungalia
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
December 2023 264pp
9781503637511 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9781503634527 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elastic Empire traces how foreign aid, on which much of the Palestinian population is dependent, has multiplied the sites and means through which Palestinian life is regulated, surveilled, and policed— this book tells the story of how aid has also become war.
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Encountering Palestine
Un/making Spaces of Colonial Violence
Edited by Mark Griffiths & Mikko Joronen
Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth
December 2023 294pp 15 photos, index
9781496237491 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781496232588 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Situated at the intersection of culture and politics this book reflects upon power in Palestine and Israel. This book utilizes frameworks, such as hyperreality, biopolitics, and settler capitalism, to help us understand colonialism in Palestine.
Forbes Burnham
The Life and Times of the Comrade Leader
Linden F. Lewis
Critical Caribbean Studies
January 2024 238pp 7 b&w images, 1
table 9781978837515 £40.00/ $44.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
It is virtually impossible to understand the history of modern Guyana without understanding the role played by Forbes Burnham. Forbes Burnham is the first political biography of this complex and influential figure. It charts how the political party he founded, the People’s National Congress, combined nationalist rhetoric, socialist policies, and Pan-Africanist philosophies.
From Migrants to Refugees
The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border
Jill Rosenthal
November 2023 336pp 4 illus.
9781478024996 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478020356 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tells the history of how Rwandan migrants in a Tanzanian border district became either citizens or refugees as nation-state boundaries solidified in the wake of decolonization. Outlining the process of those who lived and circulated across the RwandaTanzania border came to have a national identity, Rosenthal reveals humanitarian aid’s role in the process of decolonization and nation building.
Follow the Leader, Lose the Region
Charting a Canadian Strategy for the Asia-Pacific
Jeff Reeves
November 2023 230pp
9780774868600 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Presents the case for the development of a foreign policy regarding how Asia sees itself rather than Western presumptions. Examining a range of key issues, it draws on Asian scholarship, leadership statements, polling, and media to show Western misunderstanding of regional developments and to outline alternative, regionally based perspectives on Asia’s contemporary dynamics.
Free to Hate
How Media Liberalization
Enabled Right-Wing Populism in Post-1989 Bulgaria
Martin Marinos
Geopolitics of Information
November 2023 304pp 30 b&w photos
9780252087615 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9780252045509 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Marinos applies a critical political economy approach to place Bulgarian right-wing populism within the structural transformation of the country’s media institutions. As Marinos shows, media concentration under Western giants like Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and News Corporation have led to a neoliberal turn of commercialization, concentration, and tabloidization across media.
Governing the Displaced Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism
Ali Bhagat
February 2024 192pp
9781501773617 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501773600 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Governing the Displaced answers a straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this moment of heightened global displacement? In its intersectional engagement with theories of racial capitalism with respect to right-wing populism the book is a timely and necessary contribution to the field of migration studies and to political economy.
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How Sanctions Work
Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare
Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani & Ali
Vaez
February 2024 200pp
9781503637801 £20.99/ $24.00 PB
9781503637313 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
To answer these questions, the authors of How Sanctions Work highlight Iran, the most sanctioned country in the world. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling establishment, or to weaken its hold on power.
Independent Africa
The First Generation of Nation Builders
Emmanuel Kwaku
Akyeampong
September 2023 362pp 13 b&w illus.
9780253066657 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253066640 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations. Combining aspects of history, economics, and political science, Independent Africa examines the important connections between the first generation of African leaders, and the shared ideas that informed their endeavors at nationbuilding and worldmaking.
Infrastructures of Impunity
New Order Violence in Indonesia
Elizabeth F. Drexler
December 2023 276pp 20 b&w
halftones
9781501773105 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501773099 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66) is not only a legal status, but also a cultural and social process. Impunity for the initial killings and for subsequent acts of political violence has many elements and together their existence explains the persistence of impunity.
Humanitarian Fictions
Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
Megan Cole Paustian
January 2024 288pp
9781531505486 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781531505479 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. Humanitarian Fictions aims to understand the workings of humanitarian literature, as they engage with and critique narratives of Africa. Paustian shows how the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives that give African agency its due.
Indirect Rule
The Making of US International Hierarchy
David A. Lake
February 2024 270pp 7 charts, 8 graphs
9781501773747 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781501773730 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lake examines how states indirectly exercise authority over others and how this mode of rule affects domestic and international politics. Lake's conceptualization of indirect rule sharpens our understanding of how the United States came to occupy the pinnacle of world power. Yet the consequences of indirect rule he documents— including anti-Americanism—reveal its shortcomings.
Inspired Citizens
How Our Political Role Models Shape American Politics
Jennie Sweet-Cushman
November 2023 206pp
9781439923498 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781439923481 £80.00/ $89.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the impact role models have in American politics through the lens of political psychology. Sweet-Cushman investigates how citizens, especially marginalized ones, can be influenced by the presence of political role models. Inspired Citizens strengthens our understanding of what we should (and should not) look to political figures for in guiding democratic behaviors and inspiring productive citizenship.
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August 2023 376pp
Integral Human Development
Catholic Social Teaching and the Capability Approach
Edited by Séverine Deneulin & Clemens Sedmak
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
9780268205706 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This book brings together for the first time social scientists and theologians in dialogue over the Catholic social tradition (CST) and the capability approach (CA). The contributors discuss their mutual grounds, differences, and common areas.
Island X
Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism
Wendy Cheng
November 2023 232pp 22 b&w illus., 1 map
9780295752051 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752068 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Island X delves into the compelling political lives of Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model minorities, many were in fact deeply political. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of self-determination.
Lord Acton for Our Time
Christopher
Lazarski
People for Our Time
October 2023 180pp 1 b&w line drawing
9781501771712 £16.99/ $19.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty—how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and necessary ingredients, and the history of its development in Western Civilization. Lord Acton for Our Time provides an introduction that presents essentials about Acton's life and recovers his theory of liberalism.
Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World
Edited by Quinn Mecham & Julie Chernov Hwang
August 2023 240pp 5 b&w illus.
9781512825466 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Since 2000, more than twenty countries around the world have held elections in which parties that espouse a political agenda based on an Islamic worldview have competed for legislative seats. The book's contributors examine major cases of Islamist party evolution and participation in democratic and semidemocratic systems in Turkey, Morocco, Yemen, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Bangladesh.
"Let Us Vote!"
Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment
Jennifer Frost
November 2023 384pp 23 b&w illus.
9781479827244 £20.99/ $24.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age.“Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. The book provides an essential investigation of how this massive political change occurred, and how it could be brought about again.
Machiavelli on War
Christopher Lynch
December 2023 372pp
9781501773020 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a comprehensive interpretation of the philosopherhistorian's treatment of war throughout his writings, from poems and memoranda drafted while he was Florence's top official for military matters to his posthumous works. Lynch argues that the issue of war permeates the form and content of each of Machiavelli works, concluding that he was the first great modern philosopher.
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Marx for Cats
A Radical Bestiary
Leigh Claire La Berge
November 2023 416pp 100 illus.
9781478019251 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478016618 £94.00/ $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Revises the medieval form of the bestiary to meet Marxist critique to show how cats have been central to both the consolidation of capitalism as well as some of its most fiercest critics. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.
On the Doorstep of Europe
Asylum and Citizenship in Greece
Heath Cabot
The Ethnography of Political Violence
August 2023 280pp 5 b&w illus.
9781512825213 £22.99/ $26.50 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Cabot presents an ethnographic study of the asylum system in Greece, tracing the ways asylum seekers, bureaucrats, and service providers attempt to navigate the dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and social relations that emerge through this legal process. Cabot’s account shows how the difficulties encountered by asylum seekers in an earlier time remain relevant in the face of ongoing crises.
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change
Marc Edelman
Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
February 2024 354pp 5 b&w halftones, 4 charts
9781501773945 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781501773440 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's agricultural systems. Edelman explains how peasant movements are staking claims, shaping debates over their rights and the category of "peasant."
Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work
Edited by Shayna Plaut & Neil Bilotta
August 2023 272pp 6 b&w photos
9780774868518 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Invites readers into a series of overlapping conversations, as activists, researchers, and others consider the complex messiness of ethics in practice and the implications for human rights work in academia and beyond. This thoughtful work proposes that personal reflection and sometimes uncomfortable discussions are essential components of critical human rights practice.
P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Hans Ingvar Roth
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
August 2023 320pp 14 illus.
9781512825541 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Although overlooked, one of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ most important authors was the vice chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Peng Chun Chang (1892-1957), a Chinese diplomat and philosopher. Roth casts new light on Chang's multifaceted life and involvement with one of modern history's most important documents.
Plato's "Letters"
The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
Plato Translated by Ariel Helfer
Agora Editions
December 2023 294pp
9781501772894 £38.00/ $41.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy.
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Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
Edited by Agnieszka Doll, Laura Bisaillon & Kevin Walby
November 2023 304pp 8 figures
9781771993982 £38.00/ $41.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Examines how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political activist ethnography, a unique social research strategy that uses political confrontation as a resource and focuses on moments and spaces of direct struggle to reveal how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them.
Politics in the Crevices
Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
Sarah El-Kazaz
November 2023 272pp 24 illus.
9781478025276 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020493 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city.
Raising Two Fists
Struggles for Black Citizenship in Multicultural Colombia
Roosbelinda Cárdenas
February 2024 278pp
9781503635807 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503613799 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Raising Two Fists is a historically grounded ethnography of Afro-Colombian political mobilization after the multicultural turn that swept Latin America in the 1990s, when states began to recognize and legally enshrine rights for Afrodescendants. Cárdenas explores three major strategies that Afro-Colombians' developed in their struggles against racialized dispossession.
Political Theology and Islam
From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State
Paul L. Heck
November 2023 540pp
9780268207359 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Political Theology and Islam’s first section spells out the concepts and methods for the study of politics in Islam as a struggle for a moral order. Deftly moving in various political theaters and through a wide range of intellectual traditions, Heck’s book will emerge as a touchstone of scholarship in the field of Muslim politics and intellectual thought.
Proud to Punish
The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
Laurent Gayer
Translated by Cynthia Scoch & Trista Selous
January 2024 248pp
9781503637672 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503636569 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "rough justice": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law.
Religion, Populism, and Modernity
Confronting White Christian Nationalism
and Racism
Edited by Atalia Omer & Joshua Lupo
Contending Modernities
September 2023 316pp 2 b&w illus.
9780268205829 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Examines the recent rise of White Christian nationalism in Europe and the US, focusing on how right-wing populist groups have mobilized racist and xenophobic rhetoric in their bids for political power. The editors show how confronting these issues requires that we unearth their historical precedents and also imagine futures that point to new ways.
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Religious Appeals in Power Politics
Peter
S. Henne
Religion and Conflict
October 2023 222pp
9781501772139 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781501770500 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how states use, or attempt to use, confessional appeals to religious belief and conscience to advance political strategies and objectives. Through case studies of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, Henne demonstrates that religion, although not as high profile as economic sanctions or threats of military force, remains a potent weapon in international relations.
Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation
Audra Mitchell
February 2024 392pp 5 b&w illus.
9781517906818 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517906801 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of “extinction,” “conservation,” and “biodiversity,” Mitchell fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives.
Russian Liberalism
Paul Robinson
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
September 2023 300pp
9781501772177 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781501772146 £112.00/ $125.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms by the Russian and Soviet governments at various points in time. Paul Robinson's comprehensive survey covers the entire period from the late eighteenth century to the present day.
Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
Edited by Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields & Laura Kina
Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture
February 2024 328pp 18 color illus., 32 b&w illus., 1 map
9780295752341 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing, nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Contributors recenter the victims of nuclear technologies and demonstrate how political and artistic expression can effect change.
Rights Refused
Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
Stanford Studies in Human Rights
September 2023 336pp
9781503636712 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503634725 £81.00/ $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Taking the reader from protest camps, to flop houses, to prisons, and presenting practices as varied as courtroom immolation, occult cursing ceremonies, and land reoccupations, Rights Refused shows how Burmese subaltern politics compel us to reconsider how rights frameworks operate everywhere.
Social Bonds and Catastrophic Acts
Edited by Elizabeth Stewart
November 2023 200pp
9781478024781 £11.99/ $14.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of “passage à l’acte” can be used to analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and “Lacan noir” on the sociopolitico-cultural scene.
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Spymaster's Prism
The Fight against Russian Aggression
Jack Devine
November 2023 303pp 13 photos, 1 appendix, index
9781640126015 £22.99/ $26.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
In Spymaster’s Prism, the legendary spymaster Jack Devine aims to ignite public discourse on our country’s intelligence, covert action, and counterintelligence posture against Russia. This cogent study illuminates why intelligence has been such a key driver in the war and how it will be a critical lever in order to prevail.
The Cunning of Gender Violence
Geopolitics and Feminism
Edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami & Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
August 2023 480pp 4 illus.
9781478020431 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781478019954 £107.00/ $119.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into world affairs. Combating gender-based violence against women is a visible and powerful agenda in international governance, law, state violence and global securitization.
The Fantasy Economy
Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement
Neil Kraus
October 2023 282pp
9781439923719 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
9781439923702 £99.00/ $110.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Challenges the basic assumptions of the education reform movement of the last few decades. Kraus insists that education cannot control the labor market and unreliable corporate narratives fuel this misinformation. Moreover, misguided public policies, such as accountability and school choice, along with an emphasis on workforce development and STEM over broad-based liberal arts education, have only produced greater inequality.
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma
Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics
Brian D. Blankenship
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
November 2023 210pp 1 chart, 12 graphs
9781501772474 £43.00/ $47.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book examines why the US is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for its own defense. Blankenship argues this is because the US tries to conserve its resources whilst also preserving influence in its alliances. Blankenship's dismantles assumptions that burdensharing is always desirable but difficult to obtain.
The Effluent Eye Narratives for Decolonial RightMaking
Rosemary
J. Jolly
January 2024 264pp
9781517915698 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517915681 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing their failure not simply to state and institutional malfeasance but to the very concept of human rights as anthropocentric—and, therefore, fatally shortsighted. In an engaging mix of literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous and Black critique, and substantive forays into the medical humanities, Jolly proposes right-making in the demise of human rights.
The Fate of Peruvian Democracy
Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left
Tamara Feinstein
September 2023 340pp 4 b&w illus., 3 tables, 2 maps
9780268206222 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Feinstein chronicles the late-twentieth-century Shining Path conflict and argues that it significantly contributed to the rupture and disintegration of the noninsurgent legal Left in Peru. The book contributes to debates on memory and human rights in Peru and Latin America where divisions over how to remember the war retraced the fault lines of earlier debates over democracy and violence.
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The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement Nazan Üstündağ
September 2023 272pp 13 b&w illus.
9781531505523 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531505516 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Focusing on the mother, the woman politician and woman guerilla, Üstündağ argues that the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement changes what politics consists of. This book seeks to establish what new entanglements with wide-ranging thought the movement offers for politics.
The Niqab in France Between Piety and Subversion
Agnès De Féo
Translated by Lindsay Turner
January 2024 208pp 25 b&w illus.
9781531504649 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531504632 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
A series of compelling first-person accounts from French and Francophone women who wear or have worn the niqab in France’s Salafi communities. With the backdrop of the French government’s 2010 ban on full facial veiling in public spaces, De Féo draws on her subjects’ own words to show their agency, working against the clichés that often underlie public views of the niqab.
The Pink Wave Women Running for Office After Trump
William W. Parsons & Regina
M. Matheson
December 2023 192pp 25 b&w illus.
9781479826476 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election shocked and dismayed many women, and motivated many to run for office at all levels of government. In The Pink Wave, Matheson and Parsons explore this inspiring phenomenon and its impact on women’s representation.
The Natural Border Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean
Timothy Raeymaekers
February 2024 234pp
9781501773648 £36.00/ $39.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tells the recent history of Mediterranean rural capitalism from the perspective of marginalized Black African farm workers. Raeymaekers shows that in the context of global supply chains and repressive border regimes, the book foregrounds the fundamental racial hierarchies upon which agrarian production and reproduction are based.
The Picky Eagle How Democracy and Xenophobia
Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion
Richard W. Maass
September 2023 312pp 1 map, 2 charts
9781501772290 £24.99/ $28.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
By presenting twenty-three case studies, Maass examines the decision-making of US leaders facing opportunities to pursue annexation between 1775 and 1898. In addition to offering an updated history of the foundations of US territorial expansion, The Picky Eagle adds important nuance to previous theories of great-power expansion, with implications for our understanding of US foreign policy and international relations.
The Politics of CrisisMaking
Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon
Estella Carpi
Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration
July 2023 224pp 5 b&w illus., 1 b&w table
9780253066398 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253066381 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
By exploring how humanitarian practice is with welfare and development, Carpi exposes how the politics of defining crises affect the social identity and membership of the displaced. This book shows the crisis as discourse and how to reshuffle societies.
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The Propaganda of Freedom
JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War
Joseph Horowitz
Music in American Life
September 2023 248pp
9780252045271 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. In counterpoint, Horowitz investigates personal, social, and political factors that actually shape the creative act.
The Russian Way of Deterrence Strategic Culture, Coercion, and War
Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky
October 2023 224pp
9781503637825 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503630871 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Strategic deterrence, or what Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky calls deterrence à la Russe, is one of the main tools of Russian statecraft. Adamsky deftly describes the genealogy of the Russian approach to coercion and highlights the cultural, ideational, and historical factors that have shaped it in the nuclear, conventional, and informational domains.
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition
Graham James McAleer & Alexander S. RosenthalPubul
December 2023 330pp
9780268207427 £49.00/ $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
In this book, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age. They make a case for a political orientation that they call “conservative humanism,” which threads a middle way between liberal universalism and its ideological alternatives.
The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean
How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression
Tariq D. Khan
September 2023 288pp 2 b&w photos
9780252087431 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780252045301 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan’s analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation’s long history of internal repression and social control.
The War That Must Not Occur
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise
September 2023 192pp
9781503635159 £21.99/ $25.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Revisiting debates on the effectiveness and ethics of nuclear deterrence, JeanPierre Dupuy is led to reformulate some of the most difficult questions in philosophy. He develops a counterintuitive but powerful theory of apocalyptic prophecy: once a major catastrophe appears to be possible, one must assume that it will in fact occur.
The World Refugees Made
Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy
Pamela Ballinger
November 2023 336pp 9 b&w halftones, 3 maps
9781501770111 £27.99/ $31.95 NIP CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions—colonies, protectorates, and provinces—in Africa and the Balkans. Ballinger's analysis of the postwar international refugee regime and Italian decolonization illuminates the study of human rights history, humanitarianism, postwar reconstruction, fascism and its aftermaths, and modern Italian history.
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The Wrong War
American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–1953
Rosemary Foot
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
September 2023 300pp
9781501772061 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Despite the stated intent of the U.S. in the 1950s to keep the Korean conflict from spreading, the debate on extending the war was far more intense and protracted than previous accounts of this period have suggested. Concentrating on the debate over expansion, Rosemary Foot reveals the strains it caused both within the U.S. bureaucracy and with its North Atlantic allies.
Totalitarianism
A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy
Simona Forti
Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
January 2024 184pp
9781503637375 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503627505 £76.00/ $85.00 HB
STANFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the last decade, we have witnessed the return of one of the most controversial terms in the political lexicon: totalitarianism. What are we talking about when we define a totalitarian political and social situation? When did we start using the word as both adjective and noun? And, what totalitarian ghosts haunt the present?
Violence of Democracy
Interparty Conflict in South India
Ruchi Chaturvedi
August 2023 272pp
9781478020776 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020011 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities.
Torture in the National Security Imagination
Stephanie Athey
January 2024 336pp
9781517913281 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517913274 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Drawing on examples from news to military reports, legal writing, and activist media, Athey shows that torture must be seen as a colonial legacy with a corporate future, highlighting the centrality of torture to the American empire—including its role in colonial settlement, American Indian boarding schools, and police violence.
Unraveling the Gray Area Problem
The United States and the INF Treaty
Luke Griffith
December 2023 336pp 10 b&w halftones
9781501773068 £51.00/ $56.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The INF Treaty enhanced Western security by prohibiting US and Russian ground-based missiles with maximum ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. Significantly, it eliminated hundreds of Soviet SS-20 missiles. Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a decade to negotiate, and failed in just thirty years.
Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals
How the System Fails
Indigenous Peoples
Bruce Granville Miller
Foreword by Sharon VenneManyfingers
November 2023 240pp 8 tables
9780774867764 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Draws on testimony, ethnographic data, and years of tribunal decisions to show how cases are fought, and offers an in-depth look at anthropological expertise in the courts. Miller’s candid analysis reveals the nature of the tribunal, which protects human rights and re-engages the trauma of discrimination that suffuses social and legal systems.
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How Faith Shapes LGBT Identity and Politics in the United States
Royal G. Cravens III
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics
January 2024 252pp
9781439924433 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781439924426 £99.00/ $110.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the religious belief and practice on political behavior among the LGBT community, a population persecuted by religious institutions who are generally considered to be non-religious. Cravens details how the queer community experiences spirituality and the consequences for their identity, socialization, and political development.
Feminism in Coalition
Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism
Liza Taylor
January 2023 304pp
9781478019152 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478016519 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how U.S. women of color feminists’ coalitional collective politics of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s is an indispensable resource to contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice activism. By illustrating coalition’s vitality to a variety of practical and philosophical interdisciplinary discussions, encourages us to rethink feminist and political theory.
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