Stanford University Press F25 Catalogue

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

FALL / WINTER 2025-6

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DEMOLISHING DETR O IT

How Structural Racism Endures

NICHOLAS L. CAVERLY

HOW INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEMS—BUILDINGS, LAWS, ALGORITHMS, EXCAVATORS, REGULATIONS, TOXINS—MAINTAIN WHITE SUPREMACY WITHIN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE.

For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these structures, many argue, is essential to making space for Detroit’s majority-Black populace to flourish in the wake of white flight and deindustrialization. In 2013, the city set out to demolish more than twenty thousand empty buildings by the end of the decade, with administrators suggesting it would offer an innovative model for what other American cities could do to combat the effects of racist disinvestment. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with city residents, demolition workers, and public officials, as well as analyses of administrative archives, Demolishing Detroit examines the causes, procedures, and consequences of empty-building demolitions in Detroit. Contrary to stated goals of equity, the book reveals how racism and intersecting inequities endured despite efforts to level them.

As calls to dismantle racist systems have become increasingly urgent, this book provides cautionary tales of urban transformations meant to combat white supremacy that ultimately reinforced inequality. Bridging political analyses of racial capitalism, infrastructures, and environments in cities, Nick Caverly grapples with the reality that tearing down unjust policies, ideologies, and landscapes is not enough to end racist disparities in opportunities and life chances. Doing so demands rebuilding systems in the service of reparative futures.

“Nick Caverly has written an intellectually provocative, original, and refreshing examination of Detroit. He skillfully foregrounds the stories and experiences of Detroit residents and demolition workers to provide an unexpected and nuanced view on how racism, labor, and urban redevelopment operate in contemporary American cities. Caverly’s ethnographic sensitivity combined with his attentiveness to the relationship between structural racism and the built environment is not only innovative, but sorely needed in the present moment.”

—Andrew Newman, co-editor of A People’s Atlas of Detroit

Nicholas L. Caverly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

DECEMBER 2025 256 pages | 6 x 9

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Cloth $28.00 (£21.99) HC 9781503640252

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History

THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY / UNPUBLISHED BASEL WRITINGS (WINTER

Volume 1

1869/70–FALL 1873)

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Translated by SEAN D. KIRKLAND and ANDREW J. MITCHELL

RIGOROUS NEW TRANSLATION OF NIETZSCHE’S FIRST BOOK, THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY , ALONG WITH CRITICAL CONTEXT-PROVIDING UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS

During his early years in Basel, as professor of classical philology, Nietzsche develops an original understanding of ancient Greek poetry, philosophy, and culture, alongside a biting critique of contemporary German society and a call for its reform. These years see him publish his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, where tragic drama is understood as the harmonizing of Apollonian and Dionysian drives. In it, Nietzsche traces the rise of tragedy as an art form, diagnoses its demise at the hands of Socratic rationalism, and champions its revival in Wagnerian music drama, as part of a larger project of German national renewal. The unpublished texts gathered here allow us to see The Birth of Tragedy within the larger context of Nietzsche’s concerns at this time and chart the compositional and interpretive development of that first book while revealing some roads not taken. Included also are three book-length projects: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions, a literary presentation of a program for sweeping educational reform in the name of producing the genius; Five Prefaces to Five Unwritten Books, a set of short philosophical, cultural, and historical interventions; and Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, an investigation of early Greek philosophy in its cultural context. The celebrated essay “On Truth and Lies in an Extra-Moral Sense,” and two short pro-Wagner pieces, “Exhortation to the Germans” and “A New Year’s Word for the Editor of the Weekly Im neuen Reich,” round out this essential collection of early writings. Extensive translators’ annotations supply critical background information and context for Nietzsche’s comments on ancient Greek and contemporary German culture.

Sean D. Kirkland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of The Ontology of Socratic Questioning in Plato’s Early Dialogues (2012). Andrew J. Mitchell is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger (2015).

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE JANUARY 2026 704 pages | 5 x 8

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Humanities

READER BOT

What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters

NAOMI S. BARON

WHAT HAPPENS TO HUMAN READING WHEN AI BOTS CAN DO IT FOR US?

Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology’s ability to draw, do computer coding, and especially to write. Those AI-generated essays and poems, legal briefs and responses to requests for information are all visible evidence of large language models at work. What we don’t see is the critical prior step: before it can write, AI needs to read.

W hile AI’s written outcomes are remarkably similar to what a diligent student, lawyer, or researcher might produce, AI doesn’t read the way that humans do. Now that AI is proving an adept reader, what happens to our own reading skills and motivations—especially at a time when both voluntary and school reading are increasingly on the decline? We have learned that when we let chatbots write for us, there are pros and cons to handing over our virtual pens. It’s critical that we also think through the consequences of relinquishing reading—a deeply human activity—to bots.

W hat do we stand to gain and lose when we let AI read for us? Tracing the intersecting trajectories of AI and reading, Reader Bot tackles this vital question, revealing why we must be thoughtful about how we welcome AI-as-reader into our lives.

Naomi S. Baron is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at American University. Her most recent books include How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio (2021) and Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing (Stanford, 2023).

JANUARY 2026 224 pages | 6 x 9

Cloth $25.00 (£19.99) HC 9781503643949

eBook 9781503644885

Computers & AI

Credit: Nikhil

Bhattacharya

DARE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY

How Open-Mindedness Creates Exceptional Decision-Making

GERALD ZALTMAN

A HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSOR’S GUIDE TO THINKING ABOUT THINKING, USING THE CREATIVE POWER OF THE UNCONSCIOUS.

Professor Gerald Zaltman’s pioneering research methods for understanding the unconscious desires of customers are used by companies around the world. Dare to Think Differently uses the same groundbreaking methods to explain the deep and innovative thinking used by highly successful executives.

Reflecting emerging viewpoints in neuroscience, Zaltman contends that multiple forces, not just a brain, collaborate to produce a mind. Highly effective decision-makers are able and willing to go beyond their conscious thinking and surface powerful, creative, unconscious thoughts and feelings. They candidly ask whether what they feel they “know” is actually warranted, opening their minds to new alternatives.

The book’s insights emerge from a large number of one-on-one in-depth interviews with senior leaders around the globe, reinforced with research findings from scientific literatures. Zaltman presents six techniques he developed to help his students at Harvard, and his blue chip consulting clients, tap into the creative power of the unconscious: “befriending your ignorance,” “serious play,” “chasing your curiosity,” asking the right “discovery questions,” “panoramic thinking,” and using the “voyager outlook.” These techniques provide a research-based set of ideas for improving decision-making that go beyond the existing literature on “thinking smarter.”.

Mirroring Zaltman’s Harvard Business School classroom practice, each chapter opens with a practical-thinking exercise that helps readers surface the mental processes and biases that unconsciously close minds and constrict thinking. This creative surfacing is the crucial foundation for any leader operating in a complex, uncertain environment, who needs unconventional solutions to challenging problems.

“This fascinating and original book won’t tell you what to think. It will tell you how your mind would be more effective if it uses the six habits of an open mind. These habits are learnable with Zaltman’s guiding exercises. I don’t know of another book like it. ”

—Philip Kotler, Northwestern University

Gerald Zaltman is an emeritus professor at the Harvard Business School, and a former member of the Executive Committee of Harvard University’s Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. Zaltman pioneered the use of tools and insights from cognitive neuroscience, art therapy, and linguistics to understand subconscious customer thoughts and feelings.

FEBRUARY 2026 224 pages | 6 x 9

19 halftones

Cloth $28.00 (£21.99) HC 9781503644298

eBook 9781503645028

Business

JUSTICE IN THE BALANCE

Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights

JESSICA GREENBERG

Established as a post-World War II response to conflict and fascism, the European Court of Human Rights is routinely characterized as the most successful human rights institution in the world. Based in Strasbourg, France, its jurisdiction extends to over 700 million people on European soil across the 46 Council of Europe member countries. The Court is the crown jewel of the Council, an international organization dedicated to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. And yet, for years, European institutions have been haunted by the specter of failure. In the shadow of rising populism, inequality, and war, faith in democracy and the rule of law has been shaken to its core. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over eight years with human rights advocates, lawyers, and judges at the European Court of Human Rights, this book asks: What kind of justice is possible through law?

Drawing on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and archival research, Jessica Greenberg tracks two paradoxical experiences of the European human rights system and the Court: on the one hand, the Court as a bureaucratic “machine;” on the other, the Court as the “conscience of Europe.” She argues that human rights frameworks fuel imaginative approaches to social change, and compel legal actors to creatively navigate institutions through advocacy, persuasion, and innovative interpretation of what the law is and what it should be.

Jessica Greenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Postsocialist Serbia (Stanford, 2014).

MAKING DO

Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia

MARDI REARDON-SMITH

Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been used for large scale cattle farming. It is also a place of global significance as the site of multiple environmentally protected bioregions, with ongoing efforts to recognize them as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Despite the very human role in shaping the landscape of Cape York, the region remains widely thought of as a “wilderness” to be conserved and protected. In this context, what counts as natural and native matters crucially—as does who gets to decide how species and people are categorized and, accordingly, how they are controlled.

Based on long-term field research with Aboriginal traditional owners, settler-descended cattle herders, and park rangers, Making Do investigates complex ways in which people form, maintain, and transform relationships to changing environments. How do we know the places in which we live, and how do we care for them among the ruptures created by forces like climate change, settler colonialism, and structural inequalities? To address these questions, Mardi Reardon-Smith traces issues such as the history of land tenure changes, the identification and control of weeds and feral pigs, and wildfires and Aboriginal cultural burning. Sprawling, messy, and sometimes violent, caring for land is not just about repair, restoration, or maintenance—rather, it is about bringing into being workable landscapes, liveable worlds, and possible futures.

Mardi Reardon-Smith is an environmental anthropologist and research fellow at Monash University.

STANFORD STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS

SEPTEMBER 2025 264 pages | 6 x 9

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Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503643758

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Anthropology

OCTOBER 2025 264 pages | 6 x 9

29 halftones

Paper

$28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644441

Cloth $110.00 (£87.00) SDT 9781503643635

eBook 9781503644458

Anthropology

NOW WE ARE HERE

Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life

GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA

Every day families make one of the most difficult decisions in their lives: leave their homes in search of a safer and better future for their children. Now We Are Here is the story of how the ideal of a good American education underwrites the migratory decisions, trajectories, and experiences of migrant families. Through innovative and in-depth ethnographic research in schools and in homes conducted between 2018 and 2021, Gabrielle Oliveira takes readers into the lives of 16 migrant families from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. She interweaves stories of parental sacrifice, children’s experience of schooling, teachers’ understandings of the trauma experienced by these families, and the consequences of a global pandemic on already-vulnerable families.

Oliveira provides a rich view into the full lives of migrant families and centers their power to resist multiple emergencies. After facing detention and/or separation at the U.S. border, these families also faced the unexpected disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic. The compounded traumas of leaving home, harsh border policies, and a public health crisis pushed families to reconceptualize their ideas of education and what it might mean to make a life in a new country. Recounting everyday struggles and stories of determination amid devastating circumstances, this book reflects on migrant journeys and educational opportunity in the United States.

WHERE THE SUN RISES SQUARE

Mass Incarceration and the Binds of

Reform in Brazil

DAVID C. THOMPSON

Brazil’s prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China. Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazil’s prisons have become infamous for their overcrowding and mismanagement. And yet, this landscape of punishment is built on top of a set of progressive laws that center reform as the primary aim and concern of incarceration. Every morning, when black, windowless vans carry the newly incarcerated to their destinations, they pass through prison gates emblazoned with the words, “Resocialize to Conquer the Future.”

Through long-term fieldwork within the prisons of Rio de Janeiro, David Thompson investigates the legal and moral impulse to “resocialize” as it animates the prison system of Brazil. Following incarcerated people, psychologists, attorneys, and missionaries, he draws attention to the forms of prison life and governance that reform and resocialization bring forth, from parole applications and psycho-social evaluations to prison escapes. He argues these institutions are driven by a set of unfulfilled promises: the image of a reformed, future self; the insistence that a more “humane” prison is possible; the promise of Brazilian democracy itself; and the stalled project of Black emancipation. Across these domains, Thompson charts how imprisonment forces its captives to constantly navigate between the hope of reform and the weaponization of this hope against them.

David C. Thompson is an Associate Research Fellow in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.

NOVEMBER 2025 248 pages | 6 x 9

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Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644540

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Anthropology

NOVEMBER 2025 248 pages | 6 x 9

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Anthropology

Gabrielle Oliveira is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and Brazil Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

ART CAPITAL

Museum Politics and the Making of the Louvre Abu Dhabi

BETH DERDERIAN

Museums often served nationalist and imperialist interests in the past, but the primary force in the 21st century is the market. Museum franchising—exemplified by the Louvre Abu Dhabi—is one of the most visible cases of the increasing entanglement of art and museums with capital interests. Such projects are often touted as global enterprises diversifying the art world. Frequently, critics of these controversial projects question these claims and market influence.

The intersection of these two forces—increasing capitalization and moving toward inclusivity—creates a fundamental tension, and that is the subject of Beth Derderian’s Art Capital. Focusing on the decade between the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s announcement and its eventual opening, the book analyzes how major shifts away from the 19th- and 20th-century paradigm of culture-state representation play out in museums’ and artists’ everyday practices. Derderian traces the emergence of a new logic, wherein the ways that artists represent the state shift, as does the notion of what constitutes ‘good art.’ In addition, these intersecting forces spur preemptive erasures that neutralize and depoliticize difference for museum publics.

Drawing on ethnographic research with artists, curators, museum staff, gallerists, art teachers, and other arts professionals, this book analyzes the UAE art world as a microcosm of these massive, epistemic changes.

Beth Derderian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at the College of Wooster.

COMMITTEE WORLDS

Governing Medical Research through Ethics in the Asia-Pacific

RACHEL DOUGLAS-JONES

Medical research is a global endeavor; a complex network of international drugs trials and data collection in the pursuit of novel treatments. And the Asia-Pacific region is considered an ideal “market” for such trials, with large populations and good hospitals. However, to become hosts to global trials, and to export valid trial data, researchers are required to engage local research ethics committees. Supported through grants from the World Health Organization, the Forum of Ethics Review Committees of Asia and the Pacific (FERCAP) was established in 2000, and has spent the last twenty years building capacity for ethics assessment in hospitals and universities across the region. They are the translators of global ethics standards and principles for regional audiences. Through a decade of ethnographic engagement with FERCAP, following members from their base in Thailand to workshops across Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Taiwan, and mainland China, Rachel Douglas-Jones demonstrates that research ethics committees, their material and social form, are spaces of contestation where the futures of global medical research are decided. With this book, Douglas-Jones contributes a key reference for studies of “the committee” upon which future work in the anthropology of policy can build. Understanding how ethics review committees do their work allows anthropologists of policy, global health, and bureaucracy to consider the values embedded in ethics as a bureaucratic practice.

Rachel Douglas-Jones is Associate Professor of Data and Infrastructure and Head of the Technologies in Practice Research group at the IT University of Copenhagen.

CULTURE AND ECONOMIC LIFE

JANUARY 2026 264 pages | 6 x 9

1 table, 29 halftones, 2 maps

Paper $32.00 (£24.99) SDT 9781503644762

Cloth $130.00 (£103.00) SDT 9781503644182

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Anthropology

ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY

JANUARY 2026 216 pages | 6 x 9 15 halftones

Cloth $65.00 (£54.00) SDT 9781503644274

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Anthropology

DOMESTIC NATIONALISM

Muslim Women, Health, and Modernity in Indonesia

CHIARA FORMICHI

Chiara Formichi argues that Muslim women in Java and Sumatra, from the late 1910s to the 1950s, were central to Indonesia’s progress as guardians and promoters of health and piety through gendered activities of care work. While sidelined in the Dutch colonial project of hygienic modernity, women’s labor of social reproduction became increasingly visible during the Japanese Occupation and early years of independence. Women from all walks of life were called upon to fulfill domestic and motherly roles for the production and socialization of laborers, soldiers, and citizens. The medicalization of cleanliness, intersecting with multiple patriarchal orders, marginalized women’s traditional influence and knowledge. However, leveraging the critical importance of infant care, cleanliness, and nutrition, women pushed against the boundaries imposed on them by the colonial and postcolonial state.

Largely absent from government archives, their words and acts are evident in vernacular magazines and visual sources drawn from official outreach, news and lifestyle media, and advertisements. Women writers rearticulated scientific mothering, nationalist maternalism, and Islamic ideals of motherhood to create a public voice through gendered care work. The framework of Domestic Nationalism proposes that as the modern Indonesian nation-state took shape capitalizing on the public function of mothering, so did homemaking become a crossroads of national and international approaches to development, blurring nonaligned self-reliance and global capitalist interests.

Chiara Formichi is the H. Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions and Asian studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Islam and Asia: A History (2020).

THE RANGE OF THE RIVER

A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia

IFTEKHAR IQBAL

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system—including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi—forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range of the River uncovers the entwined histories of these vast waterways and the empires, human actors, and other-than-human forces that have shaped Asia since the 1850s. Both ethnodiverse and biodiverse, these rivers were more than contested imperial spaces—they were also channels of communal and material exchange, linking near and distant contact zones. They fostered connections across Asia, driving commerce, mobility, and cultural encounters that transformed them into shared, living commons bridging societies, political powers, and economic interests.

Tracing six major rivers across eight countries, Iftekhar Iqbal argues that these river systems formed the core of a discursive space where empires, regional political forces, ethnic groups, boaters, peddlers, explorers, merchants, and mules encountered each other in layered pathos and pathways. This groundbreaking study reimagines the river not as merely a tool of empire but as a dynamic force in itself, shaping a truly transregional Asia. By weaving together diverse riverine life-worlds, The Range of the River invites us to rethink Asia’s spatial history.

Iftekhar Iqbal is Associate Professor of History at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

OCTOBER 2025 280 pages | 6 x 9

35 halftones

Paper $32.00 (£24.99) SDT 9781503644427

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Asian Studies

DECEMBER 2025 272 pages | 6 x 9

41 halftones, 1 map

Paper $32.00 (£24.99) SDT 9781503644946

Cloth $130.00 (£108.00) SDT 9781503641990

eBook 9781503644953

Asian Studies

COLONIAL SURVEILLANCE

Technologies of Identification and Control in Japan’s Empire

MIDORI OGASAWARA

In order to compete with Western powers, Japan began to rapidly modernize its governing institutions, in the process creating a national population registration and identification bureaucracy, the Koseki system, in 1871. A few decades later, when Japan began to extract natural resources from and militarize Northeast China during its colonial expansion, new identification technologies were introduced to control a growing population of colonial subjects. Against the historical backdrop of these pioneering identification systems in Japan, Midori Ogasawara invites readers to delve into the little-known genealogy of modern-day identification systems and the colonial roots of the surveillance technologies that saturate our digital lives today.

Based on archival research in Japan and China, as well as interviews with the families of Chinese survivors of Japanese colonialism, Ogasawara’s narrative explores the emergence of Japanese identification systems and the transformation of identification techniques in its colonies and occupied areas. Taking a historical and sociological perspective informed by surveillance studies, Ogasawara shows how biometric identification became a powerful means of population control and racialization of ethnic others, a process that helped the Japanese government to classify the Chinese as “desirable” or “undesirable” and to reduce whole persons to mere resources. Tracing it from the Koseki system to colonial surveillance in Northeast China, Ogasawara uncovers the troubling history of identification technology in modern Japan.

Midori Ogasawara is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

THE ISLANDS AND THE STARS

A History of Japan’s Space Programs

SUBODHANA WIJEYERATNE

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China’s CNSA, US’s NASA, and Russia’s Roscosmos. JAXA’s budget is more than $1 billion USD—bigger than France or Germany individually, and more than that of Italy, India, Canada, and the UK combined. And yet, Japan’s significant contributions have largely been absent in the history of space exploration, and space exploration largely absent in the history of technology in Japan. The Island and the Stars corrects this conspicuous oversight. Through meticulous archival research in Japanese and anglophone archives, Subodhana Wijeyeratne examines the history of Japan’s space exploration efforts over nearly a century.

Wijeyeratne traces the evolution of Japan’s space program from its early origins in the 1920s, through the postwar period of rapid technological innovation, to the consolidation of its various institutional elements into JAXA in 2003. He situates Japan’s space programs within the broader history of the country’s postwar recovery, economic growth, and cultural identity, while also considering their place within global trends in space exploration. Through this narrative, Wijeyeratne not only illuminates Japan’s centrality to the global history of science and technology, but also offers insights into the future of global space exploration, emphasizing the importance of diverse voices and perspectives in the quest to understand our place in the cosmos.

Subodhana Wijeyeratne is Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University.

MARCH 2026 296 pages | 6 x 9

1 table, 21 halftones

Paper $30.00 (£23.99) SDT 9781503644717

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eBook 9781503644724

Asian Studies

JANUARY 2026 352 pages | 6 x 9

2 figures, 22 halftones

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503644786

Cloth $140.00 (£110.00) SDT 9781503644144

eBook 9781503644793

Asian Studies

IGNORANCE UNMASKED

Essays in the New Science of Agnotology

E dited by ROBERT N. PROCTOR and LONDA SCHIEBINGER

WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF IGNORANCE. THIS BOOK OFFERS A GUIDE TO HOW WE GOT HERE—AND HOW WE MIGHT ESCAPE.

From obfuscations of climate science to the myriad deceptions in language, Ignorance Unmasked explores how agnotology—the study of ignorance—can help us better grasp: Why don’t we know what we don’t know? What are the obstacles to knowledge, and how might those be overcome?

Ignorance has countless agents and authors; it gets deliberately manufactured and widely disseminated. In a provocative set of essays, this book engages climate change and public health, algorithmic amplification of misinformation, deep fakes and data obsolescence, the origins of free market fundamentalism and gun industry deceptions, along with the ignorance produced by military trauma, sugar and meat agnotology, environmental malfeasance, and the forgetting of the Nakba. It helps us better understand how and why knowledge gets erased, and how rectifying such ignorance can enlarge human liberties and planetary health.

Contributors: Nadia Abu El-Haj, Daniel Akselrad, Erik M. Conway, John Donohue, Hany Farid, Benjamin Franta, Peter Galison, Jennifer Jacquet, Caroline A. Jones, Robert Lustig, Naomi Oreskes, Robert N. Proctor, Rosemary Sayigh, Londa Schiebinger, and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup

“In a world where up is down and down is up, Ignorance Unmasked brings to bear the power of history to dismantle systematically perpetuated ignorance, with each chapter revealing surprising insights into how our world has been built—accidentally and intentionally—to deceive us.”

—Yogi Hendlin, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Robert N. Proctor is Professor of History at Stanford University.

Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science at Stanford University. Together, Proctor and Schiebinger are editors of Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance (Stanford, 2008).

SEPTEMBER 2025 328 pages | 6 x 9

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Paper $30.00 (£23.99) AC 9781503643956

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eBook 9781503643963

History

AMERICAN CONQUEST

The Northwest Indian War and the Making of US Foreign Policy

ANDREW A. SZAREJKO

The first war of America’s existence as an independent state was fought against the Shawnee, the Miami, and other Ohio River Valley tribes in the Northwest Indian War of 1790–95. The war provides a window into how US conquest of the continent would proceed through the next century and comprise a central element of US foreign policy into the future. Szarejko examines why the United States first engaged in this war to secure its claim to the Old Northwest and how the reverberations of the war extend far beyond the process of settlement. In focusing on US strategy during the war—its reliance on military bases to project power and a nascent counterinsurgency doctrine—Szarejko expertly traces the patterns established by this conflict throughout American political history and demonstrates how that military victory continues to be legitimized today through local commemorations of the war. This innovative book argues forcefully against the conventional claim that early US foreign policy was isolationist, brings Indigenous politics more fully into the realm of international relations, and allows researchers in several scholarly fields to better understand the nature of American conquest.

Andrew A. Szarejko is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wartburg College.

NEOLIBERALISM AND RACE

LARS CORNELISSEN

Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which are explicit, while others are more coded. Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. The book’s key argument is that neoliberal thought is constitutively racialized— its racial motifs cannot be extracted from neoliberalism without rendering it theoretically and politically incoherent. The book aptly explores a wide variety of racial constructs through the structure of neoliberal ideology, deconstructing the conceptualizations works of landmark thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Peter Bauer, Thomas Sowell, Charles Murray, and others from the early twentieth century to the present. In this original--perhaps controversial—critique, Cornelissen asserts that neoliberal thinkers were not just the passive recipients of racial discourse, but also directly impacted it.

Lars Cornelissen is a historian of neoliberalism. His writings have been published in History of European Ideas, Constellations, and Modern Intellectual History

SEPTEMBER 2025 240 pages | 6 x 9

1 halftone

Paper $24.00 (£18.99) SDT 9781503643819

Cloth $95.00 (£79.00) SDT 9781503643536

eBook 9781503643826

History

CURRENCIES: NEW THINKING FOR FINANCIAL TIMES

OCTOBER 2025 266 pages | 6 x 9

288 pages | 6x9

Paper $32.00 (£24.99) SDT 9781503644342

Cloth $130.00 (£108.00) SDT 9781503643550

eBook 9781503644359

History

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

TITO’S GULAG

A History of the Prison Island of Goli Otok

MARTIN PREVIŠI Ó, Translated by DESMOND MAURER and

JOHANNAH MAURER

In 1948, the Cominform, the Soviet-dominated organization that represented communist parties throughout Eastern Europe, expelled its Yugoslav branch, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, for “nationalist” tendencies. The following year, Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia’s leader, began mass arrests of suspected Stalinists. Prior to the expulsion, everyone in Yugoslavia had been a Stalin supporter—or claimed to be—and the result was a campaign comparable to the Stalinist terror of the 1930s.

Using previously unexamined archival material and drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors of Goli Otok, historian Martin Previšić delves into the origins of political repression under Tito and the daily workings of the prison camp island. Over this period, Yugoslav security forces arrested some 13,000 people and imprisoned them on Goli Otok, or “Barren Island,” a desolate prison island off the coast of Croatia, where they were subjected to brutal treatment rivaling that in any Soviet gulag. Originally published in Croatian in 2019, this book is the first in English to fully examine this shocking and revealing episode from the region’s past.

Martin Previšić is Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

MARXISM AND THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia and the Idea of Central Europe

MOLLY PUCCI

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in interwar Europe: the Czechoslovak communist party. Rather than telling a story rooted in later divisions between East and West, Molly Pucci considers the party in a Central European context, shaped by the common experiences of postwar displacement, imperial collapse, economic and social upheaval, grassroots violence, and the uncertain power of revolution.

Starting with the party’s unique approach to socialism, derived from its Austro-Marxist heritage, she discusses its diverse Czech, Slovak, Jewish, Hungarian, Ruthenian, Polish, and German national groups and unique role in fostering radical emigre communities from across the region. Pucci offers a vibrant new history of how the party’s artists, novelists, poets, photographers, lawyers, and journalists made sense of, and sought inspiration from, the socialist experiment in the East. Placing the party’s history in a regional, transnational, and global perspective, she provides a multinational, multilingual perspective on early communist ideas, networks, and culture in Central Europe.

Molly Pucci is Assistant Professor of Twentieth Century European History at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of the award-winning book Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe (2020).

STANFORD–HOOVER SERIES ON AUTHORITARIANISM

OCTOBER 2025 568 pages | 6 x 9

13 tables, 7 figures, 30 halftones, 2 maps

Cloth $75.00 (£62.00) SDT 9781503629103

eBook 9781503641129 History

STANFORD STUDIES ON CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

NOVEMBER 2025 344 pages | 6 x 9

1 table, 26 halftones

Cloth $75.00 (£62.00) SDT 9781503641792

eBook 9781503644489

History

THE WORLD BANK AND THE COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA

The Argentine Challenge CLAUDIA KEDAR

Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pillar of the postwar order, and the world’s leading development institution. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the World Bank’s pivotal role in the Cold War in Latin America through an examination of its interactions with Argentina—one of Latin America’s largest economies, and a heavy borrower of the World Bank. In doing so, it unveils the surprisingly complex interplay between the World Bank’s bureaucratic goals, US administrations, and Argentina’s efforts to serve its own national interests.

Drawing on a multi-archival corpus of primary sources, including newly declassified documents from the World Bank archives, the author examines the Bank’s often-counterintuitive responses to major economic and political challenges posed by Argentina, including populism, developmentalism, economic nationalism, authoritarianism, human rights violations, and the “Lost Decade” of the 1980s. Showing how the World Bank ranged from full alignment with US interests to neutrality and subtle dissent, the book reveals the integral influence of the Bank as a Cold War actor. Raising vital questions about the role of international organizations in developing countries, this book reframes our understanding of the economic Cold War in Latin America and beyond.

Claudia Kedar is Chair of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of The International Monetary Fund and Latin America: The Argentine Puzzle in Context (2013).

TRUE MATERIALISM

Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom

JENSEN SUTHER

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in both Marxism and German Idealism across the humanities, but the discourse around the two traditions has grown stagnant and is still defined by the same century-old debates—materialism versus idealism, history versus logic, revolution versus reform. With this exciting new work, Jensen Suther endeavors to transform this discourse by presenting an unprecedented systematic vision of the possibility of a Hegelian Marxism, grounded in Aristotle’s logic of living form. Through engagement with three titans of literary modernism— Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, and Samuel Beckett—Suther pursues not only an account of Hegel’s materialism but also a new critique of capitalist modernity. Breaking with the received view of Marx’s relation to German Idealism, the book argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel’s idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition. The implication for Marxist criticism is that literary works cannot be understood apart from the political struggle for both recognition and new forms of social production. Anyone invested in socialist politics, the future of literary theory, the history of philosophy, and the study of modernism will want to contend with the way Suther rethinks Marxist theory and literary criticism from the ground up, starting with their foundations in Hegelian thought.

Jensen Suther received his PhD from Yale University and is currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.

DECEMBER 2025 352 pages | 6 x 9

4 tables, 2 figures

Cloth $75.00 (£62.00) SDT 9781503645080

eBook 9781503645097

History

CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT

SEPTEMBER 2025 416 pages | 6 x 9

1 table

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503643918

Cloth $140.00 (£116.00) SDT 9781503643512

eBook 9781503643925

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THE NEW LIVES OF IMAGES

Digital Ecologies and Anthropocene

Imaginaries in Morethan-Human Worlds

ADRIAN J. IVAKHIV

In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. Drawing upon an immense range of materials, Ivakhiv reassesses the place of imagination in cultural life, analyzing how people have interacted with images in the past and the ways that digital media are profoundly altering these relationships today. The book contributes powerfully to the study of visual culture and digital media, and provides provocative interpretations of a range of important artists and media movements: from the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky, the ambitious multiscreen installations of John Akomfrah, the abstract art of Swedish spiritualist Hilma af Klint, and the Afrofuturism of jazz musicians like Sun Ra and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs, to the ever-expanding universe of animal videos on YouTube. Along the way, the book delves into animacy and religious imagery, iconophilia and iconoclasm, divination and prophecy, “truthiness” and “enchantment networks,” online communities and artificial intelligence, the political and affective economies of digital media, and the role of utopian futurism in the present “climate-colonial Anthropocene” predicament. The result is a vital contribution toward a more empowering conception of the creative imagination and its possibilities in today’s emerging digital ecology.

Adrian J. Ivakhiv is J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, Simon Fraser University and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Thought and Culture, University of Vermont. His most recent book is Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times (2018).

SOVEREIGNTY DISRUPTED

Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality

GILAH

KLETENIK

Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of “Western” philosophy. To corroborate this original thesis, the book uncovers how the rationales of sovereignty secure dominant “Western” theories about the nature of reality, the promise of reason, and the status of humans. Such approaches rely on properties of sovereignty that essentialize difference, naturalize hierarchy, and valorize autonomy.

To redress these models and the supremacies they promote, Gilah Kletenik turns to Spinoza. Through a fresh reading of his Ethics, Kletenik develops an egalitarian alternative that starts with denaturalizing sovereignty. It is not a coincidence that Spinoza critiques the hegemonic rationales of “Western” philosophy nor that his doing so has eluded analysis. This is because his insurrection against “Western” sovereignties is sparked by the scintillas of immanence that he inherits from medieval Jewish and Islamic naturalism, the very philosophies that Christian, “Western,” thought has repressed. This book recovers these marginalized voices, exposing centuries of interpretations that assimilate Spinoza’s program to the sovereignties he disrupts. Kletenik thinks with Spinoza to unmask the supremacies of colonialism, neoliberalism, and cishetsexism alongside the sovereignties anchoring contemporary theory. In critiquing “Western” philosophy, Kletenik limns a more ethical alternative, oriented by immanence and disparity.

Gilah Kletenik is Hazel D. Cole Postdoctoral Fellow, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.

SENSING MEDIA: AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURES OF MEDIA

SEPTEMBER 2025 426 pages | 6 x 9

3 tables, 2 figures, 18 halftones

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503643987

Cloth $140.00 (£116.00) SDT 9781503643505

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CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT

OCTOBER 2025 440 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503644465

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UNSEPARATE

Modernism, Interdisciplinary Art, and Network Aesthetics

STEVEN HENRY MADOFF

MADOFF RETHINKS MODERNISM—FROM WAGNER TO DUCHAMP, DADA TO THE BAUHAUS—FOR OUR PRESENT ERA OF NETWORK CULTURE

For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation—of an alienated world in pieces. In this book, critic and curator Steven Henry Madoff proposes that there was always another artistic intention present among the modernists that offered visions of wholeness in the face of anomie brought on by wars and new technologies. From the mid-nineteenth century, when Richard Wagner championed his idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk (the total work of art), to the rise of the Bauhaus out of the ruins of World War I as the most influential art school of the twentieth century, the urge to connect different art forms into single, unified works points toward our own omnipresent culture of networks and has given rise, over the last sixty years, to such artistic practices as installation and performance art that also combine many kinds of art into one—dreams of interconnectivity binding disparate elements together. Using the contemporary lens of network aesthetics to rethink the artworks of some of the towering figures of European modernism, including Paul Cézanne, Marcel Duchamp, Hugo Ball, and Walter Gropius, this book revises standard readings of this historical art, providing not only a way to more deeply understand the art of the present, but also as a way to look at and reimagine our own society in a time of increasingly divisive turmoil.

Steven Henry Madoff is the founding chair of the Masters in Curatorial Practice program at the School of Visual Arts in New York and a former senior critic at Yale University’s School of Art. His writing has been translated into many languages and he lectures internationally on contemporary art and education.

Credit: Susan Salinger

SENSING MEDIA: AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURES OF MEDIA

OCTOBER 2025 272 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) AC 9781503644199

Cloth $140.00 (£116.00) SDT 9781503642294

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AMERICAN MEDIUM

A New Film Philosophy

EYAL PERETZ

In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection between the concept of “America” and the medium of film. Through exemplary close readings of six fundamental American films—John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette—Peretz demonstrates the way the connection between “America” and film is enabled through the development of a philosophical concept of medium that allows both “America” and film to be thought anew.

As Peretz shows, “America” can be understood as a medium providing a new framework for understanding human life in modernity—an era that’s seen the demise of theology (or the “death of god,” as Nietzsche declared). Through incisive readings of the films mentioned above, Peretz shows each to function in its own singular fashion as an allegory of the way that “America”—that is, the demand to ground human life non-theologically—becomes the notion around which the medium of Hollywood film circulates.

Eyal Peretz is Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington, and the author of several books, including The Off-Screen: An Investigation of the Cinematic Frame (Stanford, 2017).

GENRE BENDING

The Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction

JEREMY ROSEN

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction’s embrace of genre fiction’s conceits as “genre bending” and argues that while literary writers adopt genres for a wide variety of purposes, what they share is a revitalized attitude toward genre—a recognition that while genres can be used in formulaic ways, they can also be adapted and transformed endlessly. Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chang-rae Lee, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, and Colson Whitehead. He finds that literary writers’ embrace of popular genres is the product of several seemingly contradictory forces, including their attempt to extend a modernist-inspired project of formal experiment, to pursue high cultural prestige, and to preserve the distinctiveness of the literary, which they perceive to be under threat, while also embracing the role of providing pleasure to readers. Examining what today’s most critically acclaimed and widely read literary writers have done with the genres of genre fiction, Genre Bending reveals the values, practices, and forms, as well as the tensions, that constitute literary fiction today.

Jeremy Rosen is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (2016).

CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT

NOVEMBER 2025 256 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644984

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POST*45

DECEMBER 2025 336 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503644625

Cloth $140.00 (£110.00) SDT 9781503644236

eBook 9781503644632

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BEHIND OUR BACKS

Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction

AMY DE’ATH

In this daring study, Amy De’Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital’s impersonal compulsions – by what happens “behind our backs.” Challenging the symptomatic interpretive methods of Western Marxism, De’Ath argues that value-critical accounts of Marx’s work enable a feminist reading method that understands how value dissimulates itself from the social forms it generates, obscuring their historical content.

Close reading works by Kay Gabriel, Bernadette Mayer, Bhanu Kapil, Marie Annharte Baker, Alli Warren, and Hannah Black, Behind Our Backs explains how these examples of everyday feminized ingenuity — by turns excessive, improper, ironic, and sincere — express the reality of capitalism’s appearances, and in doing so call forth dialectical readers. Through this careful collation of poetic cases, capital is revealed to be not a force of human nature, but the expression of a dynamic social configuration – a logic realized every day, and one whose gendering inversions are felt and critiqued in the formal experiments of trans, queer, Indigenous, and diasporic verse. Feminized poetry, De’Ath demonstrates, is a central archive for the critique of political economy.

Amy De’Ath is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Culture, and Theory, King’s College London, and the author of the poetry volume Not a Force of Nature

NEGATIVE MEDIA

Erasure and the Limits of Retention

ELLA KLIK

In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storage and its attendant costs. The impulse to keep everything inevitably confronts material constraints, compelling a reckoning with erasure as a necessity that enables ongoing creation. As this book reveals, such considerations are far from unique to the digital age.

Spanning early analog sound recordings to contemporary debates about digital cloud solutions, Negative Media proposes that acts of removal, cutting, deletion, and effacement shape the invention and use of popular storage technologies from the 19th century to the present. Ella Klik invites readers to reconsider how recording mechanisms operate, arguing that negation is not a design flaw but a process intentionally woven into the very fabric of these systems. Through engaging stories, including the accidental deletion of the Apollo 11 moon landing tapes, the book traces a genealogy of undoing that reframes our understanding of media’s lifecycle, from production to managing scarcity and abundance. Rather than privileging long-term retention as the primary framework for analysis, Klik navigates through media histories and theories to foreground reuse at a moment where prevailing narratives insist—perhaps too boldly—that nothing can ever truly disappear from the internet.

Ella Klik is Assistant Professor in the graduate program of Hermeneutics & Culture at Bar-Ilan University.

POST*45

FEBRUARY 2026 216 pages | 6 x 9

1 figure, 1 halftone

Paper $32.00 (£24.99) SDT 9781503644847

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SENSING MEDIA: AESTHETICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURES OF MEDIA

FEBRUARY 2026 192 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $30.00 (£??.00) SDT 9781503645264

Cloth $120.00 (£99.00) SDT 9781503639768

eBook 9781503645271

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MOBILIZING THE PAST

The Lessons of History and the Danger of War between China and the United States

STEVE CHAN

Historical analogies are often utilized to frame and formulate foreign policies, illuminate issues of war and peace, and mobilize support for particular political programs. The historical record, however, can be distorted in a variety of ways, leading to overly simplistic, misleading conclusions that impair sound policy and scholarship. This danger is most imminent and palpable when there exists premature academic consensus, pressure to conform to political orthodoxy, intellectual complacency, and cognitive resistance to alternate interpretations of historical episodes. We must be especially vigilant to guard against these pitfalls when deliberating one of the most high-stakes topics in global politics: the alarming potential for military conflict between the United States and China.

Past precedents and parallels regularly inform analyses of China’s relations with the US. By highlighting serious errors of commission or omission in popular narratives and scholarly studies concerning international relations in general and Sino-American relations in particular, Steve Chan challenges commonly accepted “lessons of history” and cautions against the misuse and misunderstanding of the past in examining China’s rise and its implications for international peace and stability. This far-reaching book presents alternative, overlooked historical accounts that are highly pertinent to Sino-American relations today, making it essential for researchers and students of international affairs.

Steve Chan is College Professor of Distinction Emeritus at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Looking for Balance: China, the United States, and Power Balancing in East Asia (Stanford, 2012).

GOOD CHANGE

The

Rise and Fall of Poland’s Illiberal Revolution

STANLEY BILL and BEN STANLEY

Few countries serve as a more useful case study for understanding the global tension between liberal and illiberal conceptions of democracy than Poland. Under the populist Law and Justice (PiS) –led government, a large part of the Polish electorate welcomed the party’s “Good Change”—as it described its program—despite accusations of democratic backsliding. PiS offered voters neglected by previous governments a combination of economic redistributionism and cultural traditionalism, supplemented with narratives of bolstering Poland’s national prestige and sovereignty. Yet after eight years of success, it was defeated in the October 2023 elections by a “pro-democratic” coalition. The history of PiS shows both the strengths and weaknesses of democratic illiberalism as a challenge to liberal democracy.

Bill and Stanley analyze the course and causes of the party’s successes and failures. The authors deftly outline PiS’s assault on democratic institutions, its paradigm-changing redistributive programs, cultural backlash agenda, politics of history, and the reasons for its fall from power. Poland’s democracy has proven resilient to the specter of autocratization, but its future development under a new government raises fresh questions. This essential book considers what the rise and fall of Poland’s illiberal government reveals about the future of liberal democracy and its ongoing transformations in the twenty-first century.

Stanley Bill is Professor of Polish Studies, University of Cambridge. He is Chair of the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES).

Ben Stanley is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

JULY 2025

272 pages | 6 x 9

Paper

$28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503643789

Cloth $110.00 (£87.00) SDT 9781503643642

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SEPTEMBER 2025 360 pages | 6 x 9 14 figures

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503643680

Cloth $140.00 (£110.00) SDT 9781503634565

eBook 9781503643697

International Affairs

THE GEOPOLITICS OF FEAR

From Security to Solidarity at Europe’s Racial Borders

BERNA TURAM

The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the most vulnerable, yet understudied, area of the EU’s anti-immigrant security regime: the port cities in border zones on major refugee routes. Turam shifts the predominant focus from the global scale of fear to the urban scale of native–migrant solidarity in Greece and Sicily—Europe’s two major entrance points in the East and Central Mediterranean. Building upon a rapidly growing scholarship on emotional geographies and affective geopolitics, Turam brings emotions to the center and emphasizes their role in forming, transforming, contesting, interrupting, and even evading the securitization of migration. Within the context of rising racism, nativism, and Islamophobia, readers will discover surprising and inspiring acts of day-to-day resistance to securitization empowered by a sense of safety and local trust, as well as cooperation between municipalities, pro-migrant locals, and asylum-seekers. Uncovering how racialized migrants become the catalyst of transformation from the violent legacy of borderlands to peaceful resistance, the ethnography reveals how intense emotions affect pro-migrant practices, contribute to the formation of safe places, and open the way for dynamic Black and Muslim migrant activism and solidarity at Europe’s racial borders.

Berna Turam is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University. This is her fourth book.

OVERSEEN OR OVERLOOKED?

Legislators, Armed Forces, and Democratic Accountability

DAVID P. AUERSWALD, PHILIPPE LAGASSÉ, and STEPHEN M. SAIDEMAN

“War is too important to be left to the generals,” declared French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau over a century ago. But which civilians, exactly, play the most important roles in controlling the armed forces? When civilian control is studied, the focus is typically on those in the upper echelons of the executive branch: presidents, prime ministers, or defense secretaries. Yet, because civilians in the executive may be tempted to hide problems or use the military in controversial ways, researchers must extend Clemenceau’s dictum: if war is too important to be left to the generals, civilian control is too important to leave with the executive. This book aims to understand the similarities and differences among the world’s democracies regarding the role of legislatures in democratic civil-military relations. Drawing on over a dozen cases from across the globe, the authors examine how most legislatures face capability and motivational impediments to conducting truly robust oversight and propose realistic reforms to strengthen military accountability to elected officials and the public—the heart of the civil-military relationship.

David P. Auerswald is Professor of Security Studies at the U.S. National War College.

Philippe Lagassé is Associate Professor and Barton Chair at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.

Stephen M. Saideman is Professor and Paterson Chair of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.

OCTOBER 2025 240 pages | 6 x 9

14 halftones

Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503643703

Cloth $110.00 (£91.00) SDT 9781503643529

eBook 9781503643710

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SEPTEMBER 2025 360 pages | 6 x 9

39 tables, 3 figures

Cloth $75.00 (£62.00) SDT 9781503643420

eBook 9781503643802

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HOW TO SURVIVE A HOSTILE WORLD

Power, Politics, and the Case for Realism

PATRICK PORTER

The oldest ideas are the best. This book is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter, a scholar of international relations, defends the realist approach to understanding the world by addressing head-on the most robust critiques of the tradition. Drawing from a wide literature, Porter restages three prominent criticisms of realism: that it is immoral, unrealistic, and provincial. In erudite, clear, and at times morbidly funny prose, Porter makes the case that realism is, in fact, everything its critics believe it is not: moral in its commitment to securing the polity and its interests in a world where there is no higher government; realistic and the best starting point for explaining how human groups tend to behave; and practical for use by everyone, everywhere, including beyond the Euro-Atlantic.

From Thucydides to Kautilya to Machiavelli, realists claim that the world is an inherently dangerous place defined by the shadow of conflict, whether we like it or not. As the 21st century grapples with multiple interlocking crises concerning economic dislocation, climate crisis, and war, we need realism now more than ever. This book is for readers who are looking for sensible guidance on how to work within that reality and survive in an increasingly hostile world.

Patrick Porter is Professor of International Security and Strategy at the University of Birmingham.

A WORLD OF WOUNDS

Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope

NANCY J. MANRING

At the end of the Reagan administration, American public opinion polls showed there were no discernible differences based on political party in response to the question, “Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?” However, in the early 1990s, a partisan gulf between conservatives and liberals emerged around environmental issues. Today, half as many Republicans self-identify as environmentalists when compared to Democrats. Political stagnation on climate action, in turn, has led to a growing number of Americans of all ages who experience ecological grief (known as solastalgia) and eco-anxiety (a chronic fear of environmental doom). These emotions emerged in response to the existential distress associated with living in a world of relentless environmental damage and irreversible ecological losses: a world of wounds.

This book offers an antidote to political frustration and hopelessness. Nancy J. Manring provides an indispensable analysis of the multi-decade, conservative war against American environmentalism and maps out realistic strategies for rebuilding a bipartisan environmental movement. Nurturing authentic hope, in contrast to blind optimism or false promises, begins with an unflinching look at both planetary and political realities. Choosing authentic hope is an ongoing process that requires emotional honesty, courage, and action. This forceful book serves as both a tool for change and a spirited scholarly intervention.

Nancy J. Manring is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Environmental Science and Sustainability program at Ohio University.

OCTOBER 2025 232 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $22.00 (£16.99) SDT 9781503644069

Cloth $90.00 (£74.00) SDT 9781503641839

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NOVEMBER 2025 272 pages | 6 x 9

3 figures

Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644403

Cloth $110.00 (£87.00) SDT 9781503643659

eBook 9781503644410

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ABIDING INFLUENCE

Presidents, Nationalist Beliefs, and US Policy in the Asia Pacific, 1898–1972

GIUSEPPE PAPARELLA

How do nationalist beliefs shape and influence American foreign policy?

What are the contemporary implications of America’s long-standing engagement in the Asia Pacific? This book unearths the varied processes underpinning the relationship between nationalism and the formulation of foreign policy, highlighting the central function of leaders’ nationalist beliefs in the history of America’s international behavior. By developing a novel theoretical framework and drawing on original archival research and methods of process-tracing, Paparella shows how presidents’ nationalist beliefs can influence distinct foreign policy attitudes that have underpinned important foreign policy decisions and turning points in the Asia Pacific. By putting nationalism back on center stage, Paparella makes a strong case for looking at this history as a complex succession of interactions—between states, but also between leaders—that are highly contingent and shaped by the nationalist views of the leading US decision-makers over time. This thoughtful study provides scholars and students with an interpretative key to understand the multifaceted role of the United States in the Asia Pacific, as well as policy recommendations to overcome the security and the credibility challenges posed by the rise of China in the region today.

Giuseppe Paparella is Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

FROM DOMINANCE TO PARITY

America’s

Political Parties and the New Era of Electoral Instability

DAVID W. BRADY and BRETT

PARKER

At the time Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president of the United States, the Democratic Party had been enjoying a half-century of sustained electoral advantage. It had long controlled Congress and dominated measures of party identification. When Carter defeated Gerald Ford in 1976, 40% of Americans called themselves Democrats and another 12% told survey takers they leaned towards the party. To win the election of 1976, Carter just needed to hold the voters that started out on his side. Nearly fifty years later, American politics has inverted itself. Close electoral competition is the norm, and politics are at a stalemate. Brady and Parker call the existing deadlock the era of party parity, an age of division unseen since the late-nineteenth century. This book explains this profound shift in electoral politics. Drawing on fresh datasets and long-running surveys, the authors trace the decline of the Democratic majority and consider how this decline differed from past realignments. They show why modern American presidential elections are always close and argue that the rise of Donald Trump largely reinforced preexisting trends. Their work represents a significant contribution to the scholarly literature on party identification and realignment.

David W. Brady is McCoy Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Davies Family Emeritus Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Brett Parker is a political scientist and attorney living in New York.

STUDIES IN ASIAN SECURITY

NOVEMBER 2025 288 pages | 6 x 9

1 table, 2 figures

Cloth $75.00 (£62.00) SDT 9781503641747

eBook 9781503644304

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OCTOBER 2025 208 pages | 6 x 9

21 tables, 47 figures

Cloth $80.00 (£66.00) SDT 9781503644212

eBook 9781503644588

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ENDURING HOSTILITY

The Making of America’s Iran Policy

DALIA DASSA KAYE

HOW US-IRAN POLICY IS MADE, THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT, AND THE UNDERLYING IDEAS AND PERCEPTIONS THAT INFORM IT.

US policy toward Iran has remained remarkably consistent since the earliest years of the Reagan administration. Even momentous geopolitical shifts, changing leaderships, and evolving domestic priorities have not fundamentally altered this seemingly permanent hostile relationship. Standard explanations pin the blame on Iran and its revolutionary leaders propagating an ideology and policies at odds with the US and the West. While there is no doubt that Iran bears significant blame for a deeply adversarial relationship—the country often engages in dangerous and repressive activities and regularly violates international law and norms—this book argues that “it’s them, not us” accounts cannot alone explain the unusual nature of America’s posture toward this complicated but critically important country.

This book tells the story of the making of America’s Iran policy over the past four decades, offering a window into how foreign policy is constructed in Washington and why it is so often difficult to change. Drawing on original interviews with former and current government officials, as well as the author’s own participation in dozens of track two meetings related to Iran over the past twenty years, Kaye deftly explores how America’s Iran policy is made, the people who make it, and the underlying ideas and perceptions that inform it. America’s stance on Iran is at its core homegrown, shaped by the worldviews and predominant framing and discourse on Iran across several generations of American policymakers. This book illustrates how such views and resulting policies became deeply entrenched, reinforced by Iran’s own antagonistic posture. Kaye looks back at US policy toward Iran to help us look ahead, offering wider lessons for current dynamics in American foreign policymaking.

“In this incisive and timely book, Dalia Dassa Kaye tells the story of over four decades of America’s effort to contend with Iran’s regional role and nuclear ambitions. A much-needed resource on an urgent topic and a must-read for policymakers and academics.”

—Vali Nasr, author of Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History

“Fills an important gap in our understanding of the troubled relationship between Iran and the United States. Digging deep into history, and drawing on new evidence, Kaye finds that American policy towards Iran is, at its core, ‘homegrown.’ A thoughtful, readable, and important analysis. ”

—Janice Gross Stein, University of Toronto

Dalia Dassa Kaye is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and former Senior Political Scientist and Director of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy.

DECEMBER 2025

224 pages | 6 x 9

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REIMAGINING AID

Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia

MARY-COLLIER WILKS

It was long assumed that Western liberal democracy and free-market capitalism held all the answers for development and national progress. Today, in the face of growing inequality and global power imbalances, this post–Cold War narrative has faltered. New players on the international scene, many from South and East Asia, have emerged to vie for influence and offer new models of development. Despite these recent changes, however, prominent international aid organizations still work under the assumption there are one-sizefits-all best practices. In Reimagining Aid, Wilks takes readers to Cambodia, a country at the heart of this transformation. Through a vivid, multi-sited ethnography, the book investigates the intricate interplay between aid donors from Japan and the United States, their competing priorities, and their impact on women’s health initiatives in Cambodia. Cambodian development actors emerge not just as recipients of aid, but as key architects in redefining national advancement in hybrid, regional terms that juxtapose “Asia” to the “West.” This book is a clarion call for practitioners, policymakers, and scholars to rethink what development means in a multipolar world. A must-read for anyone invested in Southeast Asia’s role in global affairs and evolving definitions of gender in development, Reimagining Aid is a powerful reminder that the next chapter of global advancement is being written in unexpected places.

Mary-Collier Wilks is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

MISTAKING ORDER FOR ANARCHY

Territory, Mobility, and Security in the Sahel CASEY MCNEILL

International stabilization interventions in so-called fragile states have failed everywhere they have been tried. The United Nation’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali, for example, recently withdrew at the request of Mali’s military government. It left conditions of even greater instability than when the mission was deployed a decade earlier. Far from an outlier, the failure of this mission exposes flaws in the commonsense notion that territorial governance is a necessary foundation for global security. McNeill historicizes and politicizes this assumption, showing how the modern equation of security with territorial control has displaced a diversity of approaches to ordering and securing collective life. In Mali and the broader Sahel, security conditions are shaped by arid ecologies, which have produced distinctive ways of organizing authority, populations, and resources, oriented toward mobility, pluralism, and flexible boundaries. Drawing on historical and anthropological research—as well as data from more than a hundred interviews conducted in Mali, Niger, and the headquarters of AFRICOM—this book situates contemporary dynamics in the Sahel not as disruptions on the margins of international order but as indicators of core problematics shaping security. In the face of these challenges, McNeill models alternative, non-territorial practices of political order and collective security that are highly relevant to rethinking security more broadly, in the Sahel and beyond.

Casey McNeill is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University.

STUDIES OF THE WALTER H. SHORENSTEIN

ASIA-PACIFIC RESEARCH CENTER

JANUARY 2026 232 pages | 6 x 9

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International Affairs

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International Affairs

A WORLD OF PIETY

The

Aims

of Castilian Kabbalah

JEREMY

PHILLIP BROWN

A WORLD OF PIETY EXAMINES THE HISTORICAL ASPIRATIONS OF KABBALAH TO PROMPT A REVIVAL OF ANCIENT RABBINIC PIETY IN MEDIEVAL CASTILE.

What were the aims of the celebrated works of rabbinic wisdom fashioned during the reigns of Alfonso X and Sancho IV of Castile, including the formative Book of the Zohar? In pursuit of this question, Judaica scholar Jeremy Phillip Brown turns to the Hebrew and Aramaic writings composed by Todros ben Joseph ha-Levi Abulafia of Toledo, Joseph Gikatilla of Medinaceli, and especially Moses de León of Guadalajara. These writings set out to disseminate the secret patrimony of ancients: a knowledge of divinity comprised of essentially Jewish attributes as a basis for human emulation. According to these texts, God models a pious form of life—not merely a life of Torah and the commandments, but a program exceeding the norms of religious obligation. Midnight vigils for prayer and study, guarding the eyes and tongue, sexual austerity, spiritual poverty and concern for the materially poor—the texts affirm that God exemplifies these and other modes of piety, prompting their imitation as a penitential means of individual and even social transformation. By means of their writings, the Castilian authors sought to form penitents as “other people” created anew in the Judeomorphic image of God. A World of Piety sheds light on the core motivations of a discourse that would emerge as a major domain of religion and thought by reconstructing the socio-historical ambitions of a little-known cadre of medieval rabbis active in a Christian milieu.

Jeremy Phillip Brown is Jordan H. Kapson Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Notre Dame.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST

Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union

Edited and

Translated by

SASHA SENDEROVICH and HARRIET MURAV

In the Shadow of the Holocaust is a collection of newly translated short fiction written in the aftermath of one of the most significant Jewish tragedies of the 20th century. In these works, Jewish authors from Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, writing in Yiddish and Russian, tell the stories of ordinary people living on after the devastation of the Holocaust. Filled with memories, love, and loss, these narratives describe not only how people died, but also how they continued to live.

Despite the official view in the USSR that wartime deaths of Jews resulted from the larger tragedy of Nazi Germany’s invasion, Jews in the Soviet Union profoundly engaged with thinking about and memorializing the Holocaust, addressing it in a wide range of literary works. The significance of the texts they wrote, however, has remained largely neglected. This volume brings these compelling stories to light, providing students, teachers, researchers, and interested readers with critical, annotated translations of authors who wrote in richly diverse ways in the shadow of World War II. The voices brought together in this book create a distinct chorus of personal, idiosyncratic experiences of loss and provide new perspectives on questions fundamental to literature of the Holocaust, the legacies of genocide, and the nature of historical trauma and memory.

Sasha Senderovich is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures and of International Studies at the University of Washington. With Harriet Murav, he translated David Bergelson’s Judgment: A Novel (2017). He is the author of How the Soviet Jew Was Made (2022).

Harriet Murav is Center for Advanced Study Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent book is As the Dust of the Earth: The Literature of Abandonment in Revolutionary Russia and Ukraine (2024).

STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE

STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH MYSTICISM

OCTOBER 2025 312 pages | 6 x 9

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Jewish Studies

FEBRUARY 2026 264 pages | 6 x 9

3 maps

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Jewish Studies

WORTHY OF JUSTICE

The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice

JAMIE ROWEN

Over the past three decades jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for adults accused of crimes that are associated with substance use and mental health disorders. The Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) is one example of these problem-solving courts. VTCs benefit from the availability of extensive (and free) medical and social services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as the social and political legitimacy that comes with serving veterans.

Worthy of Justice takes this specific form of problem-solving court as lens for examining broader social inequalities in the criminal legal system. Jamie Rowen argues that the rationale for VTCs flows not from what veterans have done but from who they are. Their operations are fueled by the notion that their participants’ criminal behavior is the result of military service rather than other personal choices made, thus making them uniquely worthy of public support. In this way, VTCs powerfully expose the contradictions inherent in the idea that criminals deserve punishment.

Rowen draws on fieldwork at three such courts across the US. Ultimately, she illustrates how the politics of crime and the politics of welfare increasingly intersect and, together, construct classes of Americans who are either worthy, or not.

Jamie Rowen is Director of the Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, and Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement (2017).

SPECIAL DAMAGE

The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law

JESSICA LAKE

In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from “civilised” society when her neighbor accused her of carrying a bastard child. To silence the ruinous rumors and vindicate her name, Smith sued him for defamation. But in court, she faced the onerous burden, entrenched within English law of sexual slander, of proving “special damage.” Smith should have lost her case, but her action set off a remarkable reform movement.

In Special Damage, Jessica Lake offers a comparative legal history of gendered hate speech, verbal abuse, and sexual harassment across 19th-century America, Australia, and England. Drawing upon original archival material, she tracks the creation of the Slander of Women reforms that made it easier for women to sue when called “whores.” Lake reveals, for the first time, the cases brought by women that spurred and benefitted from these reforms. In doing so, she details how debates about women, speech, and reputation circulated through transnational common law networks, connecting countries, colonies, and continents.

The Slander of Women movement furthered legal protections for women, but also created links between ideas of whiteness, femininity, chastity, and civilization. Special Damage tells a compelling story that questions the costs and compromises of legal progress in a patriarchal and unequal “civilised” New World.

Jessica Lake is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, in the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits (2016).

DECEMBER 2025 296 pages | 6 x 9

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Law

THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW

DECEMBER 2025 232 pages | 6 x 9

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Law

ATROCITY WITHOUT PUNISHMENT

A Political Theory of Leniency in Mexico’s War on Drugs

JUAN ESP Í NDOLA

Leniency might sometimes be the ethical response to atrocity. However, the more extraordinary an act of violence is, the greater the compulsion to severely punish the offender. The rationale is that the threat of harsh punishment will be more effective at preventing crime. At the same time, the notion that the criminal justice system is corrupt and ineffective has become commonplace. At the center of these conflicting trends is a puzzle that this book sets out to solve: what if punishment should not only be judged by its effectiveness, but also by its morality?

Mexico’s War on Drugs has unleashed an endless cycle of violence in the country. The resulting human toll is catastrophic. Atrocity Without Punishment advances ethically compelling reasons to impose lenient sentences on offenders involved in drug trafficking, including many who commit serious offenses. Juan Espíndola argues that this is in fact a morally permissible, even obligatory, way to hold perpetrators accountable.

From this vantage point, Espíndola problematizes the relationship between punishment and core political values such as legitimacy and justice. By challenging the criminal justice system in this way, he charts a path toward a more just criminal legal system that can muster the support of those who reject abolitionism.

Juan Espíndola is Associate Professor at the Institute for Philosophical Research in the national Autonomous University of Mexico. He is the author of Transitional Justice after German Reunification (2015), and El hombre que lo podía todo (2004).

THE POLICE, ACTIVISTS, AND KNOWLEDGE

The

Struggle

Against Racialized Policing in France

MAGDA BOUTROS

Over the past fifteen years in France, police brutality, racial profiling, and police impunity have become salient issues of the public and political debate. In this book, Magda Boutros examines the social movements that brought these issues to the forefront of public conversations and analyzes how they influenced the terms of the debate about policing and inequality. In France, like in other countries, the police hold significant power to determine what is known – and what remains hidden – about their practices. Drawing on a comparative ethnography of three activist coalitions, Boutros shows the different ways activists produced evidence about policing and racial inequalities: collecting quantitative data, documenting lived experiences of police targets, or victims coming together to analyze patterns of oppression. Each approach to data production shaped activists’ conceptions of police violence and racism, their ability to push beyond a “bad apples” narrative, and their visions for change. It also impacted their capacity to push the boundaries of what is knowable and sayable in the media, policy, and judicial fields.

Boutros argues that we must pay attention to the capacity of the police to control what we know, and to the methods movements use to produce knowledge about policing and inequality.

Magda Boutros is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Center for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), CNRS, Paris, France.

THE CULTURAL LIVES OF LAW

FEBRUARY 2026 224 pages | 6 x 9

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Law

FEBRUARY 2026 272 pages | 6 x 9

2 tables, 2 figures

Paper $30.00 (£23.99) SDT 9781503645066

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Law

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL LAW

Fourth Edition

DEAN T. ADAMS and MARGARET A. DALTON

AN INVALUABLE, COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE FOR THE VIBRANT AND EVER-EVOLVING LANDSCAPE OF EDUCATION LAW.

California School Law provides an accessible, comprehensive source for the latest law and policy in this rapidly changing and critical field. Earlier editions of the book, authored by Frank Kemerer and Peter Sansom, have become coveted desktop references for administrators, governing board members, education attorneys, union leaders, and policymakers. In this updated and expanded fourth edition, Dean T. Adams and Margaret A. Dalton bring this analysis up to the present, including examining California’s often unique state law as well as applicable federal law, and exploring how they combine to affect the day-to-day operation of the state’s traditional public, charter, and private schools.

Beginning with an explanation of the legal framework for California schooling, the book moves quickly to examine important areas of law including curriculum, teacher and student rights of expression, religion in the public school setting, racial and gender discrimination, students with disabilities, student discipline, privacy, search and seizure, and legal liability in both state and federal court. Also included are chapters on unions and collective bargaining, employment, and educational finance issues.

Law never stands still and is proceeding at a record pace in education. This book is an invaluable tool for readers who wish to obtain a working knowledge of this extensive area of education law.

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS

“I would recommend this book to every educator and policymaker in public education. It is a great reference for immediate and comprehensive information on a variety of laws that govern California education.”

—Dr. Sonny H. Da Marto, Educational Consultant, Former Superintendent of Schools, and Past-President, The Association of California School Administrators

“California School Law is a new and different contribution to the California policy scene. The writing style is a blend of law and policy that is easy to follow.”

—Michael Kirst, Professor of Education, Emeritus, Stanford University, and Former President, California State Board of Education

Dean T. Adams is Founding Partner at Adams Silva & McNally LLP.

Margaret A. Dalton is Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law.

FEBRUARY 2026 720 pages | 6 x 9

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Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503644366

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ROBED REPRESENTATIVES

How Black Judges Advocate in American Courts

TANEISHA

MEANS DAVIS

The number of Black state and federal judges has grown considerably in the post-Civil Rights Era. They are, in fact, the second most represented group of judges in the state and federal courts. Furthermore, historic appointments of Black men and women to the federal judiciary, including Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as generally increased calls for the diversification of the courts in recent years have renewed questions about judicial representation. What does having more Black judges in courthouses and communities mean for the political representation of Black people and Black interests?

In Robed Representatives, Taneisha Means Davis offers new insights into the lives, identity politics, and actions of Black state court judges. The narratives centered in the book reveal an identity-to-politics link that exists among Black judges that lead them to represent their group interests. This link is corroborated with data that highlights numerous previously unidentified manifestations of racial representation in the legal system. Means demonstrates that only through exploration of the lives, identities, and behaviors of historically underrepresented judges will it be possible to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the importance—and limitations—of racial diversity in the courts.

Taneisha Means Davis is Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair at Vassar College

EMPIRE OF MANNERS

Ottoman Sociability

and War-Making

in the Long Eighteenth Century

JAMES GREHAN

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look more closely, they can tell us much more than we might first suppose, revealing what conventional accounts of state, economy, and religion often ignore. With this book, James Grehan offers a panoramic view of manners and sociability across the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire, from the Balkans to the Middle East to North Africa. Studying chronicles, biographical dictionaries, and travel accounts, he throws new light on the inner dynamics of Ottoman society during a transitional period in Ottoman history which has too often been misunderstood.

Empire of Manners proposes a new way of thinking about the history of manners, arguing that violence and war-making, as much as civility and etiquette, have a central role in shaping them. The eighteenth century proved to be a turning point in this paradoxical relationship between violence and manners as war-making turned into a substantially more complex and costly enterprise, leaving a deeper and wider social footprint. The interplay between violence and manners, an unlikely couple, unexpectedly narrates the Ottoman path to the modern age.

James Grehan is Professor of History at Portland State University. His previous book is Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2014).

FEBRUARY 2026 328 pages | 6 x 9

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Law

STANFORD OTTOMAN WORLD SERIES: CRITICAL STUDIES IN EMPIRE, NATURE, AND KNOWLEDGE

SEPTEMBER 2025 360 pages | 6 x 9

20 halftones, 1 map

Paper $35.00 (£27.99) SDT 9781503643727

Cloth $140.00 (£116.00) SDT 9781503643383

eBook 9781503643734

Middle East Studies

HOW COMMERCE BECAME LEGAL

Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

OMAR YOUSSEF CHETA

When Egypt’s markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting commercial sphere reflected the political contestations among the governors of Egypt, European consulates, Ottoman rulers, and a growing number of private entrepreneurs, both foreign and local. How Commerce Became Legal explores the legal and business practices that resulted from this fusion of Ottoman, French, and Islamic legal concepts and governed commerce in Egypt.

Focusing on the decades between the formalization of Cairo’s practical autonomy within the Ottoman Empire in the 1840s and its incorporation into the British Empire in the 1880s, Omar Cheta considers how modern laws redefined the commercial sphere, shaping a mode of market governance that would persist for decades to come. He highlights the demarcation of a new law-defined commercial realm separate from the land regime and from civil or family-centered exchanges, and reconstructs these changes through both legal codes and state orders, as well as individual merchant voices preserved in court documents. As this book documents both individual experiences and structural explanations, it offers a rare perspective on the scope and reach of market governance over the mid nineteenth century, revealing changes simultaneously from within and without state institutions.

Omar Youssef Cheta is Assistant Professor of History at Syracuse University.

CRISISWORK

Activist Lifeworlds and Bounded Futures in Lebanon

YASEM . N . PEK II

The world’s attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of how such major events, and other predicaments from Lebanon’s long history, have mobilized a thriving network of activists whose lived experiences of multiple crises have shaped their politics, belonging, and vision of Lebanon’s future.

Crisiswork presents a story of Lebanon through the lens of activist lifeworlds, showing how, amid crisis, both political structures and everyday life become a terrain of generative possibility.

Through an ethnographic investigation into the relationship between crisis and political imagination, Yasemin İpek examines activism as an open-ended process, looking at the diversity of experiences that leads to ambivalent political engagements. She follows a range of self-identified activists—including unemployed NGO volunteers, middle-class consultants, and leftist entrepreneurs—as their crisiswork, and response to contradictory pressures, leads them to new ways of being and acting. Crisiswork demonstrates how class-based and other inequalities on local and global scales affect the lived realities and political imaginations of activists. It provides an innovative analytical framework for understanding the complex political and social struggles against crises in the global South.

Yasemin İpek is Assistant Professor of Global Affairs at George Mason University.

SEPTEMBER 2025 256 pages | 6 x 9

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Cloth $70.00 (£58.00) SDT 9781503643390

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OCTOBER 2025 320 pages | 6 x 9 16 halftones

Paper $32.00 (£24.99) SDT 9781503644311

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eBook 9781503644328

Middle East Studies

SMUGGLING LAW

Unsettled Sovereignties in Turkey’s Kurdish Borderlands

FIRAT BOZÇALI

The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-milelong land border, transporting everyday consumer goods—fuel, tobacco, sugar, and tea—as well as more illicit goods, and the province supports the financial, technical, and labor capacities that sustain these smuggling economies. As the Turkish state has enacted increasingly punitive anti-smuggling laws, smuggling has also become a site of contentious politics. This book explores anti-smuggling law enforcement and criminal prosecutions to reveal a key site—the criminal court—where borders and claims of sovereignty are simultaneously remade and disrupted.

Taking readers from border villages, mountain passes, and road checkpoints to courtrooms, law offices, and forensic laboratories, Fırat Bozçalı examines how Kurdish smugglers, with the help of their lawyers, legally disrupt state sovereignty in criminal courts. Kurdish smugglers and lawyers adopt and rework procedures, rules, and reasonings in ways that interrupt the courts’ capacity to coopt, discipline, and oppress. Bozçalı theorizes this evasive engagement with the legal system as a strategy of techno-legal politics among marginalized and persecuted groups, one that extends beyond the Kurdish case. Smuggling Law holds profound relevance in today’s world, where ever-expanding regimes of surveillance, oppression, and dispossession unfold in the broader contexts of the global war on terror and data-driven capitalism.

Fırat Bozçalı is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.

POLITICAL UNDESIRABLES

Citizenship, Denaturalization, and Reclamation in Iraq

ZAINAB SALEH

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing on the mass denaturalization and deportation of Iraqi Jews in 1950–51 and Iraqis of Iranian origin in the early 1980s. Since the formation of the modern state of Iraq under British rule in 1921, practices of denaturalization and expulsion of citizens have been mobilized by ruling elites to curb political opposition. Iraqi politicians, under both monarchical and republican rule, routinely employed the rhetoric of threats to national security, treason, and foreignness to uproot citizens they deemed politically undesirable.

Using archival documents, ethnographic research, and literary and autobiographical works, Zainab Saleh shows how citizenship laws can serve as a mechanism to discipline the population. As she argues, these laws enforce commitment to the state’s political order and normative values, and eliminate dissenting citizens through charges of betrayal of the homeland. Citizenship in Iraq, thus, has functioned as a privilege closely linked to loyalty to the state, rather than as a right enjoyed unconditionally. With the rise of nativism, right-wing nationalism, and authoritarianism all over the world, this book offers a timely examination of how citizenship can become a tool to silence opposition and produce precarity through denaturalization.

Zainab Saleh is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Haverford College. She is the author of Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford, 2021).

NOVEMBER 2025 272 pages | 6 x 9

3 halftones, 2 maps

Paper $30.00 (£23.99) SDT 9781503644496

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Middle East Studies

DECEMBER 2025 200 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644649

Cloth $110.00 (£87.00) SDT 9781503643833

eBook 9781503644656

Middle East Studies

TWO RIVERS ENTANGLED

An Ecological History of the Tigris and Euphrates in the Twentieth Century

DALE J. STAHL

During the twentieth century, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers underwent a profound physical transformation, one that mirrored the region’s political shift from imperial rule to nation-state. Here, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey took shape in the wake of the Ottoman Empire, and the two rivers became sites of economic development planning and large-scale environmental engineering. It is a modern conceit that industrial, technological societies transcend ecological change, that technology and ecology operate separately. With this book, Dale J. Stahl instead centers riverine ecologies within the context of social and political projects and shows how natural processes encounter human intentions to manage, control, or modernize.

Weaving imperial and national histories with ecological ones, Two Rivers Entangled undermines familiar accounts of the invention of states, the advance of nations, and the triumphs of technical expertise. Stahl entangles a wide range of human and nonhuman actors—knitting together the movement of engineers and bureaucrats with that of salt particles, linking the disappointment of revolutionaries to the dissolution of unreliable rock, and following the flow of water over embankments and into poetry. Ultimately, this book offers an alternative account of twentieth-century Middle Eastern history, one subject as much to ecological change as to human visions and intentions.

Dale J. Stahl is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver.

BELONGING ON BOTH SHORES

Mobility, Migration, and the Bordering of the Persian Gulf

LINDSEY R. STEPHENSON

For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British imperial intervention, and border regulations, all of which posed challenges to everyday mobility in this oceanic world. Those crossing the water became the primary foil for bordering spaces, restricting and regulating movement, and defining difference more generally. Belonging on Both Shores tells the story of people’s struggles to move freely between Iran and the Arab shores of the Gulf as the unregulated mobility that had characterized everyday life in the nineteenth century was increasingly policed in the twentieth.

Using a wide range of Arabic, Persian, and English sources, Lindsey Stephenson demonstrates how state officials refined notions of territorial belonging against the movement of Iranians, the most visible mobile “group” in the Persian Gulf arena. Engaging migrant voices, Stephenson narrates how Iranians challenged a perceived requirement to belong to a single place and highlights the techniques these migrants employed to remain connected to both shores. Tracing the movement of Iranians across and around the Persian Gulf and investigating how the technologies of state and mobility transformed fluidity and people’s understanding of movement, this book tells a new story of how the modern Gulf was formed.

Lindsey R. Stephenson is a historian of the Indian Ocean. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.

JANUARY 2026 288 pages | 6 x 9

12 halftones, 3 maps

Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644731

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Middle East Studies

JANUARY 2026 200 pages | 6 x 9

1 table, 7 halftones, 8 maps

Cloth $70.00 (£58.00) SDT 9781503644250

eBook 9781503644755

Middle East Studies

PLOTS AND DEEDS

Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine

PAUL KOHLBRY

THE EMANCIPATORY POTENTIAL AND LIMITS OF LAND JUSTICE, WHEN LAND IS AT ONCE HOME, PROPERTY, TERRITORY, AND HOMELAND.

Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine’s agrarian fabric. But after military occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israeli land confiscations and economic policies pushed rural cultivators into wage labor. In recent decades, Palestinian land titling and private developers have driven the slow transformation of agricultural land into real estate. In Plots and Deeds, Paul Kohlbry argues that we should see these changes as part of a larger process of agrarian annihilation, one in which state violence and market coercion together devastate the social, ecological, and economic relationships that make agrarian livelihoods possible.

Kohlbry tells the story of those who, refusing annihilation, struggle both for the return of land, and for their return to it. Through long-term engagements in the central highlands of the West Bank, Kohlbry shows how peasant practices and ethics matter for those fighting to rebuild collective attachments to rural places, and the surprising ways that property ownership has become a means of both land dispossession and defense. Going beyond accounts that treat the peasant as a tragic figure or a heroic national symbol, Kohlbry foregrounds the complexity of agrarian life to reveal the relationships between agrarian regeneration and political liberation—ultimately connecting Palestine within a global struggle for land justice.

Paul Kohlbry is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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FEBRUARY 2026 256 pages | 6 x 9

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Cloth $110.00 (£87.00) SDT 9781503645103

eBook 9781503645127

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ARTISTS AT WORK

Rethinking Policy for Artistic Careers

JOANNA WORONKOWICZ

Why do people choose to pursue a career in the arts? And who doesn’t get to? Written with clarity, and grounded in data, Artists at Work offers an eye-opening look at what it truly means to build a career as an artist today. Joanna Woronkowicz examines how artists navigate unique challenges in America’s creative economy, from unpredictable job markets to evolving copyright laws and public funding constraints.

Woronkowicz exposes current public policy as patchwork, and susceptible to changes in the political climate. Such fragile infrastructure only exacerbates race- and class-based inequalities that exist in the art world. Remaking this system requires a deeper understanding of creative labor. By shining a light on today’s artists–who they are, how they train, and what they do–Woronkowicz emphasizes both that artists are not unlike other workers, and also that policies have not been designed with their unique employment behaviors in mind.

In spite of the very real challenges facing artists, there is good reason to be optimistic. Concluding with several targeted recommendations for reforms, this book is a timely and critical guide for anyone invested in supporting the future of the arts, and artists, in America.

Joanna Woronkowicz is Associate Professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the Center for Cultural Affairs at Indiana University. She is the author of Building Better Arts Facilities (2014).

HOMESICK

Race and Exclusion in Rural New England

EMILY WALTON

A racial demographic transition has come to rural northern New England. White population losses sit alongside racial and ethnic minority population gains in nearly all of the small towns of the Upper Valley region spanning New Hampshire and Vermont. Homesick considers these trends in a part of the country widely considered to be progressive, offering new insights on the ways white residents maintain racial hierarchies even there.

Walton focuses on the experiences of mostly well-educated migrants of color moving to the area to take well-paid jobs – in this case in health care, higher education, software development, and engineering. Walton shows that white residents maintain their social position through misrecognition—a failure or unwillingness to see people of color as legitimate, welcome, and valuable members of the community. The ultimate impact of such misrecognition is a profound sense of homesickness, a deep longing for a place in which one can feel safe, wanted, and accepted.

Tightly and sensitively argued, this book helps us better understand how to recognize and unsettle such processes of exclusion in diversifying spaces in general.

Emily Walton is Associate Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

CULTURE AND ECONOMIC LIFE

SEPTEMBER 2025 172 pages | 6 x 9

6 tables, 2 figures

Cloth $50.00 (£39.00) SDT 9781503636408

eBook 9781503643772

Sociology

NOVEMBER 2025 160 pages | 6 x 9

6 tables, 3 figures, 1 map

Paper $28.00 (£21.99) SDT 9781503644519

Cloth $110.00 (£87.00) SDT 9781503643932

eBook 9781503644526

Sociology

WHITE FLANK

Organizing White People for Racial Justicee

CHANDRA RUSSO

A NEW GENERATION OF WHITE ANTIRACIST ORGANIZERS ARE MOVING BEYOND THE PRIVILEGE FRAME TO TAKE CONCRETE STEPS TOWARDS COLLECTIVE LIBERATION.

Racial politics in the United States are as tumultuous as ever. A resurgent white nationalism finds broadening support while the Movement for Black Lives marks a newly consolidated and highly visible iteration of the centuries-long Black Freedom struggle. The question of what it would take to get more white people to fight for racial justice is as urgent as ever. Chandra Russo takes up this question in White Flank.

W hite people’s participation in antiracist action has always been fraught, with competing narratives about what meaningful allyship looks like, and what one should do with their white privilege. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) has emerged as the largest national effort explicitly seeking to organize white people. Beyond just book clubs and discussion circles, and against the seductions of virtue signaling, SURJ invites and equips white communities to take part in concrete antiracist action and to organize for lasting change.

Using the case of SURJ, this book tells the story of a new generation of white antiracist efforts in a range of local contexts, from Los Angeles to rural Appalachia. White Flank documents the promises and complexities of antiracist organizing. Russo argues that shifting white communities’ understanding of antiracism away from a focus on individual morality and towards collective action is a crucial achievement.

Growing the white flank of a multiracial justice movement is bound to be messy. Yet our present moment requires that white people join with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in the fight for collective liberation.

“This exciting work takes readers into the organizing trajectories, the inner lives, and even the quandaries of linked white antiracist groups, urban and rural. White Flank reflects profound insights from its author and from activists to whom she has listened so well. Describing campaigns building on specific mutual interests across color lines, but also aiming to foster broader interracial solidarity among whites, this study will be as useful in social movements as it is in classrooms.”

—David Roediger, author of An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education

Chandra Russo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Colgate University. She is the author of Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest to the US Security State (2018).

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Paper $28.00 (£21.99) AC 9781503644380

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ADVOCACY, INC.

INGOs and Business Influence in the Movement against “Modern Slavery”

STEPHANIE A. LIMONCELLI

The contemporary movement to fight “modern slavery” has increasingly turned its attention to issues of forced labor, child labor and labor trafficking in a wide variety of industries and supply chains. At the same time, businesses have become more involved with the movement and their leadership has been touted as a better alternative to the assumed inferiority of civil society responses. How has business influence been playing out in the “anti-slavery” movement and what are the implications for international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) fighting these forms of labor exploitation? Based on interviews, online texts, documents, and media content from a variety of INGOs and other organizations in Europe and the United States fighting these problems, Advocacy, Inc. provides a cautionary case study. “Anti-slavery” advocacy has become a new market in which INGOs are pressed to become increasingly like for-profit businesses and the strategies they pursue do not adequately address the driving forces that have created conditions for continued labor exploitation in the global economy. Moreover, some businesses benefit from this scenario, having to do very little to claim ‘hero’ status in advocacy efforts, while practices that perpetuate labor exploitation continue unabated.

Stephanie A. Limoncelli is Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of The Politics of Trafficking (Stanford, 2010).

LABORING IN THE SHADOWS

Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work

BIANCA J. BALDRIDGE

Youth workers are essential to the fabric of society. Schools, families, and many of our social institutions rely heavily on their work, yet their contributions often go unrecognized. Laboring in the Shadows explores the critical role of Black youth workers, especially in the lives of vulnerable youth, and the challenges they face in their unstable, underappreciated position.

Bianca J. Baldridge situates the experiences of Black youth workers within the broader context of anti-Blackness and historical inequities. Drawing on rich interview data from across the United States, Baldridge offers a nuanced analysis of how the precarity of this work—marked by high turnover rates, low wages, and housing insecurity—compounds the challenges these workers face. She highlights how Black youth workers resist these structural harms by adopting and implementing innovative pedagogical practices alongside practices of “freedom dreaming” and joy as forms of resistance and pathways to agency for youth despite their precarious roles.

Positioning Black youth workers within a broader network of informal care workers in the United States, Baldridge underscores the significance, fragility, precarity, and power of these dedicated professionals, their essential work, and the possibilities they create for youth.

Bianca J. Baldridge is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University. She is the author of Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youthwork (Stanford, 2019).

FEBRUARY 2026 224 pages | 6 x 9

Paper $30.00 (£23.99) SDT 9781503644823

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COMPTON IN MY SOUL

A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality

ALBERT M. CAMARILLO

When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle there. The city’s majority was then White, and Compton would shift to a predominantly Black community over Al’s youth. This book weaves Al’s personal story with histories of this now-infamous place and illuminates a changing US society— the progress and backslides over half a century for racial equality and educational opportunity. Camarillo unmasks fundamental contradictions in American life: racial injustice and interracial cooperation, inequality and equal opportunity, racial strife and racial harmony. Even as legacies of inequality still haunt American society, he writes with hope for a better, more inclusive America—and the aspiration that his life’s journey can inspire others as they start down their own path.

Albert M. Camarillo is widely regarded as one of the founding scholars of the field of Mexican American history and Chicano Studies. He has been a member of the Stanford University history faculty since 1975, and has served as the President of the Organization of American Historians. Camarillo has published numerous books and essays that examine the experiences of Mexican Americans and other racial and immigrant groups in American cities.

THE TRANSITION

Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas DANIEL KIEL

Every Supreme Court transition is significant, but the replacement of Thurgood Marshall with Clarence Thomas proved particularly momentous. Not only did it shift the ideological balance on the Court; it was inextricably entangled with the persistent American dilemma of race. In The Transition, this most significant transition is explored through the lives and writings of the first two African American justices on Court, touching on their lasting impact on understandings of American citizenship as well as the central currents of Black political thought over the past century. Daniel Kiel shows that it is their unique perspectives as Black justices that make this succession echo across generations.

Daniel Kiel is the FedEx Professor of Law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

STANFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE RACE AND ETHNICITY

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SEPTEMBER 2025 376 pages | 6 x 9

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HEGEL

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KLAUS VIEWEG

In this landmark biography, Klaus Vieweg provides readers an intimate account of the milieu in which Hegel developed his thought, along with detailed, clear-sighted analyses of Hegel’s four major works. What results is a new interpretation of Hegel through the lens of reason and freedom. Vieweg draws on extensive archival research that has brought to light a wealth of hitherto undiscovered documents and handwritten notes relating to Hegel’s work, touching on Hegel’s engagement with the leading thinkers and writers of his age: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Holderlin, and others. Combatting clichés and misunderstandings about Hegel, Vieweg also offers a sustained defense of the philosopher’s more progressive impulses. Highly praised upon its release in Germany as having set the new biographical standard, this monumental work emphasizes Hegel’s relevance for today, depicting him as a vital figure in the history of philosophy.

Klaus Vieweg is Professor of Classical German Philosophy at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, and one of the world’s leading Hegel experts. Vieweg has authored or edited more than two dozen books, with translations appearing in Italian, Spanish, Chinese and English, among other languages. OCTOBER 2025

NAKAM

The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge

DINA PORAT

Nakam (Hebrew for “vengeance”) tells the story of “the Avengers” (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity—but their plots were ultimately stymied. Most of the members of Nakam eventually returned to Israel, where for decades many of them refused to speak publicly about their roles in the group.

W hile the Avengers’ story began to come to light in the 1980s, details of the relations between the group and Zionist leadership and the motivations of its members have remained unknown. Drawing on rich archival sources and in-depth interviews with the Avengers in their later years, historian Dina Porat examines the formation of the group and the clash between the formative humanistic values held by its members and their unrealized plans for violent retribution.

Dina Porat is Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History at Tel Aviv University and former Chief Historian of Yad Vashem.

A HISTORY OF FAKE THINGS ON THE INTERNET

WALTER J. SCHEIRER

Computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news, conspiracy theories, reports of the paranormal, and other deviations from reality that have become part of mainstream culture, from image manipulation in the nineteenth-century darkroom to the literary stylings of large language models like ChatGPT. An expert in machine learning and recognition, Scheirer breaks down the technical advances that made new developments in digital deception possible, and shares behind-the-screens details of early Internet-era pranks that have become touchstones of hacker lore. His story introduces us to the visionaries and mischief-makers who first deployed digital fakery and continue to influence how digital manipulation works— and doesn’t—today: computer hackers, digital artists, media forensics specialists, and AI researchers. Ultimately, Scheirer argues that problems associated with fake content are not intrinsic properties of the content itself, but rather stem from human behavior, demonstrating our capacity for both creativity and destruction.

Walter J. Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE

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A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, and Translation vol. 22

Housed at the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages at Stanford University, Mantis seeks out the work of talented poets, translators and critics from around the world.

Founded in 2000 by Sara Hackenberg and Jenn Fishman, for 20 years Mantis has published a yearly print journal, run entirely by the graduate students of various national literature departments. While our disciplines may differ, we all bring our love for poetry and passion for translation to each and every issue.

As we bring the work of our magnificent contributors to a wider audience with this web imprint, we remain dedicated to print publishing with our annual issue, made possible by generous funding from the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages.

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WALKING OUT

America’s New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond

MICHAEL L. BEEMAN

From tariff wars to torn-up trade agreements, Michael Beeman explores America’s recent and dramatic turn away from support for freer, rules-based trade to instead go its own new way. Focusing on America’s trade engagements in the Asia-Pacific, he contrasts the trade policy choices made by America’s leaders over several generations with those of today–decisions that are now undermining the trading system America created and triggering new tensions between America and its trading partners, allies and adversaries alike.

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AUTHOR INDEX

Adams, Dean T. 27

Auerswald, David P. 19

Baldridge, Bianca J. 35

Bann, Stephen 42

Baron, Naomi S. 3

Baumann, Shyon 44

Beeman, Michael L. 38

Bill, Stanley 18

Bond-Theriault, Candace 42

Boutros, Magda 26

Boyce, Dave 44

Bozçalı, Fırat 30

Brady, David W. 21

Brown, Jeremy Phillip 24

Cahn, Naomi R. 42

Camarillo, Albert M. 36

Canizales, Stephanie L. 44

Caverly, Nicholas L. 1

Chan, Steve 18

Chaves-González, Diego 45

Chavez, Leo R. 44

Cheta, Omar Youssef 29

Christian, Michelle 44

Chung, Kimberly 44

Cornelissen, Lars 11

Crawford, Bridget J. 42

Dalton, Margaret A. 27

Daly, Erin 44

Darian-Smith, Eve 42

De’Ath, Amy 17

Derderian, Beth 7

Douglas-Jones, Rachel 7

Douglass, Patrice D. 44

Driesen, David M. 42

Efron, John M. 44

Ehrlich, Paul R. 43

Erakat, Noura 42

Espíndola, Juan 26

Formichi, Chiara 8

Fox, Sandra 42

Garvey Berger, Jennifer 42

Girard, René 42

Greenberg, Jessica 5

Grehan, James 28

Han, Byung-Chul 42

Hoffman, Andrew J. 45

Huddart, Emily 44

İpek, Yasemin 29

Iqbal, Iftekhar 8

Ivakhiv, Adrian J. 14

Johnston, Josée 44

K ahn, Sandra 43

K arimi, Paela 43

K assenova, Togzhan 43

K aye, Dalia Dassa 22

K ayes, D. Christopher 43

Kedar, Claudia 13

Kiel, Daniel 36

Kirkland, Sean D. 2

Kiskaddon, Dustin 43

Kletenik, Gilah 14

Klik, Ella 17

Kohlbry, Paul 32

Lacarte, Valerie 45

Lagassé, Philippe 19

Lake, Jessica 25

Limoncelli, Stephanie A. 35

L ocke, Joseph L. 43

Mack, Ruth 45

Madoff, Steven Henry 15

Manring, Nancy J. 20

Maurer, Desmond 12

Maurer, Johannah 12

Maxwell, Lida 43

Mazza, Roberta 43

McNeill, Casey 23

Means Davis, Taneisha 28

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