Columbia University Press Fall 2024 Catalog

FALL 2024 COLUMBIA

CONTENTS

Trade and General Interest   1

Columbia Business School Publishing   44

Kristeva Library   47

New in Paper   50

Politics   58

Journalism  60

Philosophy   61

Religion   64

Film Studies   66

Literary Studies   67

Asian Studies   68

History   70

Sociology   72

Sundial House   76

Rockbook  .

Wallach Art Gallery   79 ERIS   80

Peterson Institute for International Economics   83

Tulika Books   84

Association for Asian Studies   86 Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press  88

Jagiellonian University

Floating Opera Press  106

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press   108

Verlag Barbara Budrich   109

ibidem Press   112 transcript publishing 122

Award-Winning Titles   138

Electronic Resources  139

Author / Title Index   140

Client Presses   143

Subagents   144

Dear Readers,

I am proud to present our Fall 2024 catalog, which features a stellar roster of important authors writing on topics both far and wide and close at hand.

Columbia University Press is deeply connected to our New York City home, and many of this season’s titles illuminate the city and its history. Jonathan Conlin’s The Met (p. 1) shows us a new side of the iconic museum. The letters of Joe Brainard (p. 22) give us a fascinating look into the art and literary scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. Robert Pigott’s Destination City (p. 36) uncovers the surprising stories of famous visitors we don’t typically associate with New York. And for our upstate neighbors, Mark S. Ferrara provides a working-class history of the Erie Canal in time for its bicentennial (p. 37)

Leading Columbia University figures contribute major books to this catalog. Antoine Compagnon, a Proust scholar, examines the French author’s little-known Jewish ties (p. 20). The anthropologist Rosalind C. Morris has written a magnum opus on South Africa’s gold industry, Unstable Ground (p. 24). The great critic Phillip Lopate’s essays and reviews are collected in My Affair with Art House Cinema (p. 23). Gil Anidjar rethinks the political in terms of mothers and mothering (p. 33) In Search of an Open Mind (p. 43) presents the speeches and writings of the university’s former president, Lee C. Bollinger. Donald Keene, Columbia’s legendary scholar of Japanese literature, and the novelist Shirley Hazzard wrote each other erudite and charming letters for decades, now presented in Expatriates of No Country (p. 19)

The catalog also features compelling, character-driven film histories. Joseph McBride delivers another trademark critical study, George Cukor’s People (p. 2), and J. E. Smyth reveals the remarkable career of Mary C. McCall Jr. (p. 3), once the most powerful woman in Hollywood.

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The Met

A History of a Museum and Its People

JONATHAN CONLIN

A LOOK AT THE PEOPLE AND FORCES THAT SHAPED THE MET

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who bought, restored, catalogued, visited, and watched over these works tell us about the museum?

This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings. Jonathan Conlin tells the stories of the people who have shaped the museum—from curators and artists to museumgoers and security guards—and the communities that have made it their own. Highlighting inequalities of wealth, race, and gender, he exposes the hidden costs of the museum’s reliance on “robber barons” and oligarchs, the exclusionary immigration policies that influenced the foundation of the American Wing, and the obstacles faced by women curators. Drawing on extensive interviews with past and current staff, Conlin brings the story up to the present, including the museum’s troubled 150th anniversary in 2020. As the Met faces continued controversy, this book offers a timely account of the people behind an iconic institution and a compelling case for the museum’s vision of shared human creativity.

JONATHAN CONLIN is professor of modern history at the University of Southampton. His books include Tales of Two Cities: Paris, London, and the Birth of the Modern City (2014) and Mr. Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man (2019).

“As well researched and illustrated as it is written, Conlin’s The Met offers a rich, incisive, original, and highly entertaining account of the evolution of America’s most famous museum.”

—Andrew McClellan, author of The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao

“A tour de force of original research and critical insight, Conlin’s The Met is a fascinating study, a must-read for anyone interested in the multifaceted history of the United States’ premier art museum.”

—Alan Wallach, author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21871-9

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OCTOBER 400 pages / 6" x 9" / 68 b&w figures

HISTORY / NEW YORK

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“Joseph McBride is a natural resource. . . . Here, his keen and affectionate ‘actors-first’ approach to his subject echoes Cukor’s own elusive, sensitive style, forming a portrait made of portraits of others.

As ever with McBride, you’ll be driven to seek out films you’ve never even wondered about, and to reencounter others that you recall only as passing dreams.”

—Jonathan Lethem,

author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

George Cukor’s People Acting for a Master Director

JOSEPH M c BRIDE

EXAMINING THE CAREER OF GEORGE CUKOR THROUGH THE ACTORS HE WORKED WITH

The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood. Reductively stereotyped in his time as a “woman’s director”— a thinly veiled, disparaging code for “gay”—he brilliantly directed a wide range of iconic actors and actresses, including Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, and Maggie Smith. As Katharine Hepburn, the star of ten Cukor films, told the director, “All the people in your pictures are as goddamned good as they can possibly be, and that’s your stamp.”

In this groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated critical study, Joseph McBride provides insightful and revealing essayistic portraits of Cukor’s actors in their most memorable roles. The queer filmmaker gravitated to socially adventurous, subversively rule-breaking, audacious dreamers who are often sexually transgressive and gender fluid in ways that seem strikingly modern today. McBride shows that Cukor’s seemingly self-effacing body of work is characterized by a discreet way of channeling his feelings through his actors. Cukor’s wry wit, his keen sense of psychological and social observation, his charm and irony, and his toughness and resilience kept him active for more than five decades in Hollywood. George Cukor’s People gives him the in-depth, multifaceted examination his rich achievement deserves.

$40.00* / £35.00 cloth 978-0-231-21082-9

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NOVEMBER 432 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 91 film stills

FILM STUDIES

FILM AND CULTURE SERIES

All

JOSEPH M c BRIDE is a film historian and a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg; three books on Orson Welles; and critical studies of Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, and the Coen Brothers. He acted for Welles in The Other Side of the Wind and has won a Writers Guild of America award.

© JUDY RACE

Mary C. McCall Jr.

The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter

J. E. SMYTH

THE BIOGRAPHY OF A LEADER WHO RESHAPED

THE

ROLE OF WOMEN AND LABOR IN HOLLYWOOD

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry’s most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the first woman president of the Screen Writers Guild after leading the fight to unionize the industry’s writers and secured the first contract guaranteeing a minimum wage, credit protection, and pay raises. Her advocacy was not welcomed by all: To screenwriters McCall was an “avenging goddess,” but to studio heads she was, in the words of one executive, “the meanest bitch in town.” And after a clash with the mogul Howard Hughes in the blacklist-era 1950s, she disappeared from the pages of Hollywood history.

J. E. Smyth tells McCall’s remarkable story for the first time, putting the spotlight on her trailblazing career and crucial influence. She explores McCall’s life and work, from her friendships with stars such as Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and James Cagney to her authorship of the hit Maisie series about a working-class showgirl’s adventures. Analyzing McCall’s deft political maneuvering, Smyth offers new insight on screenwriters’ struggle for equality and recognition. She also examines why McCall’s legacy is unrecognized, showing how the Hollywood blacklist and entrenched sexism obscured her accomplishments. Colorful and compelling, this biography provides a powerful account of how one extraordinary woman shaped Golden Age Hollywood.

J. E. SMYTH is a professor of history at the University of Warwick. She is the author or editor of several books, including Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood (2018) and a new edition of Jane Allen’s novel I Lost My Girlish Laughter (2019). In 2021, she was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“In this brilliantly written book, Smyth restores Mary C. McCall Jr. to a male-dominated history of film from which she is glaringly absent. With encyclopedic knowledge and lively and engaging prose, Smyth crafts a thoroughgoing portrait of McCall’s life and oeuvre, documenting the challenges that women screenwriters and union leaders faced before the backlash of the 1950s ended so many of their careers.”

—Carol Stabile, author of The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist

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AUGUST 320 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 28 b&w photographs

“Quite simply, the absolute best resource on vaccination available. The most authoritative two voices I know of answer every question, doubt, hope, and fear that anyone concerned about vaccinating their kids or themselves can imagine. This book belongs on the shelf or electronic reader of every parent, anyone who has parents, anyone thinking of becoming a parent, and anyone made nervous by what they see about vaccines on social media.”

—Arthur L Caplan, Drs William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine

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SEPTEMBER 352 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 3 tables

HEALTH / SCIENCE

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Vaccines

and Your Family Separating Fact from Fiction

PAUL A. OFFIT, M.D., AND CHARLOTTE A. MOSER

AN UPDATED ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO VACCINES

This book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines. Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser—scientists and parents with decades of experience—equip readers with the facts they need to navigate vaccine decisions for the whole family, from babies to elders. In straightforward prose, they offer accessible and authoritative answers to today’s most common vaccine-related questions.

Offit and Moser explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tested. Chapters examine vaccine safety, ingredients, the workings of the immune system, and practical considerations from the implications of different medical conditions to missed doses. The book covers vaccines that have been available for decades as well as newer vaccines for illnesses such as RSV, COVID-19, and mpox, including both traditional and mRNA vaccines. A timely resource for all families, this book allays unfounded fears and provides a clear, easy-tounderstand picture of vaccines and vaccination.

Vaccines and Your Family is a revised and updated edition of Vaccines and Your Child (2011) that expands coverage to include all ages and addresses recent scientific progress. It explores the new recommendations and new questions regarding vaccines that have arisen in the intervening years.

PAUL A. OFFIT , M.D., is the director of the Vaccine Education Center and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia as well as the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an internationally recognized vaccine expert and the coinventor of a rotavirus vaccine.

CHARLOTTE A. MOSER is codirector of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and creator of Parents PACK, the center’s program for the public. She has spent more than two decades designing content and resources that answer pressing vaccine questions and has published numerous scientific papers related to disease prevention, immunology, and vaccines.

Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change

Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions

ELLEN PRAGER AND DAVE JONES

ENTERTAINING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE OCEANS, METEOROLOGY, AND CLIMATE

Could ancient giant sharks called megalodons still exist in the deep sea? What should you do if stung by a jellyfish? Can we predict lightning strikes? And how is climate change affecting hurricanes?

With humor, easy-to-understand language, and fun illustrations, marine scientist Ellen Prager and meteorologist Dave Jones use frequently asked and zany questions about the ocean and atmosphere to combat misinformation and make science engaging and understandable for all. From dangerous marine life, coral reefs, and the deep sea to lightning, hurricanes, weather forecasting, the Sun, and climate change, they reveal what’s fact, what’s fiction, and how to find science-based answers. This book is perfect for anyone curious about the world around them, educators, science communicators, and even scientists who want to learn about and explain topics outside their expertise.

ELLEN PRAGER is a marine scientist, author, and the chief scientist for StormCenter Communications. She also works as a freelance writer and consultant. Her numerous books include Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans’ Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter (2011) and Chasing Science at Sea: Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts (2008).

DAVE JONES is a meteorologist and thirty-five-year veteran of the weather industry. He is the founder of StormCenter Communications and worked as an on-air meteorologist in Washington, DC, and for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

PRAGER and JONES are frequently requested public speakers and appear on television as experts. They are partners for work and in life.

“With today’s deluge of misinformation, Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change is sorely needed, giving straightforward answers to commonly asked questions about climate, weather, and the environment.”

—Timothy H Dixon, Distinguished University Professor and director of the USF Natural Hazards Network, University of South Florida

“In this book, Prager and Jones make atmospheric, oceanographic, and space science exciting and accessible to nonscientists in an interesting and easy-to-follow manner.”

—Paul Gross, author of Extreme Michigan Weather: The Wild World of the Great Lakes State

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OCTOBER 240 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 20 b&w images, 16-page color insert (27 color images)

SCIENCE

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“Victor D. Cha and his team of researchers insist on novel approaches to unveiling the mystery of North Korea. This book employs innovative research methodologies: data scraping, ethnography, and unique micro-surveys of ordinary citizens. It calls on privileged insights into North Korea. Peace, human rights, and change will only come about by adopting fresh approaches of inquiry, to which the authors of this important book summon us.”

—The Hon Michael Kirby, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea (2013–14)

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21109-3

$115.00 / £95.00 cloth 978-0-231-21108-6

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SEPTEMBER 368 pages / 6" x 9" / 14 b&w illustrations, 26 tables

GLOBAL POLITICS

CONTEMPORARY ASIA IN THE WORLD

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The Black Box

Demystifying the Study of Korean Unification and North Korea

VICTOR D. CHA

NEW WAYS TO UNDERSTAND NORTH KOREA FROM A GLOBAL EXPERT

North Korea is commonly thought of as the most mysterious place in the world. The country is marked by its opacity and inaccessibility, its inner workings seen as impossible for outsiders to grasp. In this groundbreaking book, the leading scholar and practitioner Victor D. Cha shines a light into the “black box” of North Korea and draws critical lessons for the possible reunification of Korea after many decades of division.

The Black Box demonstrates convincingly that North Korea, while far from transparent, is less inscrutable than is typically assumed. Using innovative research methods from data scraping to ethnography, including microsurveys of ordinary North Koreans, Cha unearths a trove of new information. Through these pioneering findings, and incorporating his experiences as a White House official negotiating with North Korean interlocutors and traveling to North Korea, he paints a vivid picture of this enigmatic country. Cha explores the regime’s core tendencies, its policies toward the U.S.–South Korea alliance, cybersecurity threats, the potential for economic development, the growth of a nascent civil society, and pathways toward Korean unification, among other topics. The Black Box provides both an essential understanding of contemporary North Korea and an insightful guide to studying the country from one of the world’s most esteemed experts.

VICTOR D. CHA is Distinguished University

Professor, D.S. Song-KF Endowed Chair, and professor of government in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government at Georgetown University. He serves in senior advisory positions for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Department of Defense Policy Board, and the National Endowment for Democracy. Cha previously served on the National Security Council as director for Asian affairs.

Putin’s Revenge

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

LUCIAN KIM

A JOURNALIST’S FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF RUSSIA’S WAR ON

UKRAINE

In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe’s largest land war since World War II?

Lucian Kim—an on-the-ground reporter in the region for decades—offers a gripping, definitive account of Russia’s path to war, from Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Maidan uprising right up to the full-scale invasion. He examines the Kremlin’s motives, tracing Putin’s transformation from a seemingly pragmatic leader into an embittered tyrant who saw it as his historical mission to reconquer Ukraine. Kim places the war in the broader context of the Soviet Union’s collapse, arguing that it represents a clash between those who reject the Soviet past—like Volodymyr Zelensky and Alexei Navalny—and those who still identify with it. He debunks the Kremlin narrative that the West instigated the conflict, and he instead identifies the root causes of the war in the legacy of Russian imperialism and Putin’s dictatorial rule. At the same time, Kim is critical of the West’s empty promises to Ukraine, which made the country vulnerable to a revanchist Russia.

Putin’s Revenge features insight from Kim’s firsthand reporting on key moments, such as Russia’s occupation of Crimea and the beginning of the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine. This book tells the long history of the lead-up to the invasion with revelatory detail and fresh analysis, shedding new light on a conflict that has roiled the post–Cold War order.

LUCIAN KIM has reported on Ukraine and Russia since Vladimir Putin’s first term in office. Based in Moscow and Berlin for more than twenty years, he covered central and eastern Europe as a correspondent for National Public Radio, Bloomberg News, and the Christian Science Monitor. He was the recipient of a Wilson Center Fellowship in Washington, DC, where he began writing this book.

“In an engaging narrative that weaves together historical backdrop with firsthand experience, the journalist Lucian Kim takes us inside the Russo-Ukrainian war, giving us a deep understanding of Putin and the nature of his regime.”

—James Goldgeier, American University

$27.95t / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-21402-5

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NOVEMBER 336 pages / 6" x 9" / 6 b&w maps

POLITICS / CURRENT EVENTS

WOODROW WILSON CENTER SERIES

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“The Abraham Accords were a watershed moment in Middle East politics. Elham Fakhro’s wellresearched book provides a muchneeded comprehensive account of the origins of the accords, how they were negotiated, and their legacy. Clear, insightful, and timely, this is a must-read book for scholars and policymakers interested in the Middle East today.”

The Abraham Accords

The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization

ELHAM FAKHRO

UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS AND RIPPLE EFFECTS OF THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS

In August 2020, Donald Trump announced that his administration had brokered a groundbreaking treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the first normalization agreement between Israel and an Arab state in more than twenty years. Soon afterward, Bahrain joined the agreements, known as the Abraham Accords. How were these treaties achieved, and why did the parties involved see normalization as in their interest? In what ways have the accords altered the Middle East’s political landscape, and how have they affected the question of Palestine?

—Vali Nasr, Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins

University

This book is a groundbreaking in-depth analysis of the Abraham Accords, shedding new light on their causes and consequences. Elham Fakhro demonstrates how shared security concerns, economic interests, and regional political shockwaves led to a surprising strategic convergence between the Gulf states and Israel, setting the stage for covert relations to come out into the open. She examines the role of the Trump administration in negotiating the agreements and shows how the UAE and Bahrain have instrumentalized the accords to burnish their reputations in Western capitals. Fakhro underscores how Washington’s Middle East policy shifted toward expanding the agreements at the expense of attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—with profound costs. Offering a critical lens on a muchhailed agreement, this book argues that the pursuit of normalization in isolation from a lasting solution to the conflict has entrenched the conditions that continually plunge the Middle East into crisis.

$35.00* / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-21238-0

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OCTOBER 360 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

GLOBAL POLITICS

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ELHAM FAKHRO is a research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and an associate fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. She was previously a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group.

Immigration Realities

Challenging Common Misperceptions

ERNESTO CASTAÑEDA AND CARINA CIONE

DEBUNKING PERNICIOUS MYTHS ABOUT IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRATION

Immigrants are less likely than citizens to commit crimes. They are eager to learn local languages. Immigration is not a burden on social services. Border walls do not work. There is no unmanageable refugee crisis. Yet many such misinformed assumptions and harmful misconceptions pervade conversations about immigration.

This timely book is a practical, evidence-based primer on immigrants and immigration. Each chapter debunks a frequently encountered claim and answers common questions. Presenting the latest findings and decades of interdisciplinary research in an accessible way, Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione emphasize the expert consensus that immigration is vital to the United States and many other countries around the world. Featuring original insights from research conducted in El Paso, Texas, Immigration Realities considers a wide range of places, ethnic groups, and historical eras. It provides the key data and context to understand how immigration affects economies, crime rates, and social welfare systems, and it sheds light on contentious issues such as the safety of the U.S.-Mexico border and the consequences of Brexit. This book is an indispensable guide for all readers who want to counter false claims about immigration and are interested in what the research shows.

ERNESTO CASTAÑEDA is the director of the Immigration Lab and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. His books include A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (2018); Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States (2019); and Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration (2024).

CARINA CIONE is a sociologist and writer based in Baltimore, MD. Their work has been featured by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Trauma Care, El Paso News, and American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies working paper series.

$30.00* / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20375-3

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NOVEMBER 360 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 16 b&w photos and charts

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights Except Spanish-language Rights: Columbia University Press; Spanish-language Rights: The Author

“In clear and compelling prose, backed up by detailed analysis, Spence shows us how we got to our current state and where we might look for resources to get beyond the tribalism and contempt that mark so much of contemporary climate politics. Although Spence has no illusions about the challenges we face in trying to build a more respectful politics, this is ultimately a hopeful book that recognizes the redemptive power of having authentic conversations across difference. It deserves to be widely read.”

—William Boyd, author of The Slain Wood: Papermaking and

Its Environmental Consequences in the American South

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21708-8

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AUGUST 384 pages / 6" x 9"

POLITICS

CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY SERIES

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Climate of Contempt

How to Rescue the U.S. Energy Transition from Voter Partisanship

DAVID B. SPENCE

WHY POLARIZATION THWARTS CLIMATE-FRIENDLY ENERGY POLICY

Why is the United States struggling to enact policies to reduce carbon emissions? Conventional wisdom holds that the wealthy and powerful are to blame, as the oligarchs and corporations that wield disproportionate sway over politicians prioritize their short-term financial interests over the climate’s long-term health. David B. Spence argues that this top-down narrative misses a more important culprit—with critical consequences for the energy transition.

Climate of Contempt offers a voter-centric, bottomup explanation of national climate and energy politics. Members of Congress respond to voters whose animosity toward the opposing party makes compromise politically risky. The most powerful driver of polarization, in turn, is the mixture of ideology and social media that constitutes today’s information environment. Spence explores the effects of polarization, partisanship, and propaganda on energy policy and considers how to build a broader climate coalition. He contends that cooperation on this crucial issue is still possible, but it will require sustained person-to-person engagement across ideological and partisan boundaries to foster a more productive dialogue. Providing a timely and incisive understanding of the politics of the energy transition, Climate of Contempt suggests new paths forward and offers hope for a net-zero future.

DAVID B. SPENCE is the Rex G. Baker Chair in Natural Resources Law in the School of Law and professor of business, government, and society in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in energy and environmental regulation. He is a coauthor of a leading casebook, Energy, Economics, and the Environment

Beyond Power Transitions

The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations

XINRU MA AND DAVID C. KANG

WHY ASIAN HISTORY CHALLENGES IR PREDICTIONS OF WAR

Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a declining hegemon and a rising rival is based exclusively on European examples, such as the Peloponnesian War, as chronicled by Thucydides, as well as the rise of Germany under Bismarck and the Anglo-German rivalry of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. What lessons does East Asian history offer, for both the power transitions debate and the future of U.S.-China relations?

Examining the rise and fall of East Asian powers over 1,500 years, Beyond Power Transitions offers a new perspective on the forces that shape war and peace. Xinru Ma and David C. Kang argue that focusing on the East Asian experience underscores domestic risks and constraints on great powers, not relative rise and decline in international competition. They find that almost every regime transition before the twentieth century was instigated by internal challenges and even the exceptions deviated markedly from the predictions of power transition theory. Instead, East Asia was stable for a remarkably long time despite massive power differences because of common understandings about countries’ relative status. Provocative and incisive, this book challenges prevailing assumptions about the universality of power transition theory and shows why East Asian history has profound implications for international affairs today.

XINRU MA is a research scholar at Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

DAVID C. KANG is Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where he also directs the Korean Studies Institute.

“If one idea animates thinking about China’s rise, it is the power transition approach: that China will inevitably come into conflict with political incumbents. Ma and Kang start from very different premises: that internal politics and ideational factors—shared conjectures—drive politics. They make the argument by retrieving Asia’s history, considering the region over the longue durée. Their book provides a badly needed service: a different lens—although not necessarily a more hopeful one—on the current conjuncture.”

—Stephan Haggard, coauthor of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20537-5

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-20536-8

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-55597-5

AUGUST 280 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 9 b&w illustrations, 5 tables

GLOBAL POLITICS

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND POLITICS

All Rights: Columbia University Press

“Deckman shows how Gen Z is already—and will continue—shaping the future of our democracy. Pairing original survey data and rich interviews with Gen Z activists, Deckman’s intersectional analyses complicate conventional narratives and demand that we take Gen Z women and queer Gen Zers seriously as agents of political change. Those who are seeking solutions to our political crises will be especially drawn to this innovative and ultimately optimistic work. It is a must-read for scholars, students, practitioners, and the public alike.”

—Kelly Dittmar, Rutgers University

$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21389-9

$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-21388-2

$25.99 / £22.00 e-book 978-0-231-56008-5

SEPTEMBER 320 pages / 6" x 9" / 50 b&w

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POLITICS

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Politics of Gen Z

How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our Democracy

MELISSA DECKMAN

THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION HAPPENING AMONG AMERICA’S YOUNGEST VOTERS

Progressive activism today is increasingly spearheaded by the nation’s youngest voters. Gen Z— those born between 1997 and 2012—has come of age in a decade of upheavals. They have witnessed the election of Donald Trump, the murder of George Floyd, and the Dobbs Supreme Court decision, and they have lived under the constant threats of mass shootings and climate change. In response, leftleaning Zoomers, particularly women and LGBTQ people, have banded together to take action.

This book tells the story of Gen Z’s growing political participation—and why it is poised to drive U.S. politics leftward. Bringing together original data and compelling narrative—including nearly one hundred interviews with Gen Z activists and several national surveys—political scientist Melissa Deckman explores the world of youth-led progressive organizing, highlighting the crucial importance of gender and sexuality. She reveals why women and LGBTQ Zoomers are participating in politics at higher levels than their straight male peers, creating a historic “reverse gender gap.” Deckman takes readers inside Gen Z’s fight for a more inclusive and just future, sharing stories of their efforts to defend reproductive rights, prevent gun violence, stem climate change, and win political office. A deep dive into the politics of Gen Z, this book sheds new light on how young voters view politics and why their commitment to progressive values may transform the country in the years ahead.

MELISSA DECKMAN is the CEO of PRRI, the Public Religion Research Institute. A political scientist who studies gender, religion, and American political behavior, she was previously the Louis L. Goldstein Professor of Public Affairs and chair of the Department of Political Science at Washington College. Deckman’s books include Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right (2016).

Proximity Politics

How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors

JERONIMO CORTINA

WHY DISTANCE IS A CRUCIAL INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC OPINION

Republicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme weather event like a hurricane or flood can encourage someone to attribute climate change to human activity. Why do we react so differently to faraway events and ones that take place on our doorsteps, and what does this reveal about our political landscape?

Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of the world. Analyzing geocoded survey data, Jeronimo Cortina demonstrates the crucial ways space and place influence public opinion. He demonstrates that the closer someone is to an event, social group, or policy, the likelier they are to have firsthand, specific, grounded knowledge of the subject. Conversely, distance leads to detachment, making it more likely that decontextualized or unreliable information and individual or group biases will prevail. Considering a range of case studies, from virus outbreaks to protests, Cortina unravels how spatial, emotional, temporal, social, and cultural distances affect public opinion. Bringing together quantitative and qualitative data in an accessible style, Proximity Politics shows that even in today’s interconnected world, we are still profoundly influenced by what happens next door.

JERONIMO CORTINA is associate professor of political science and executive director of the Population Health Collaborative at the University of Houston. He is coeditor of A Quantitative Tour of the Social Sciences (with Andrew Gelman, 2012) and New Perspectives on International Migration and Development (Columbia, 2013).

“The roles of distance, space, and place are relatively understudied in terms of the impact they have on political attitudes and behaviors. This book addresses that gap. Moreover, it goes even further by doing so in a theoretically rich and multidisciplinary way, which can speak to the role of distance and space as they intersect with other fields and disciplines.”

—Johanna Dunaway, coauthor of News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era

$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20533-7

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$25.99 / £22.00 e-book 978-0-231-55595-1

OCTOBER 256 pages / 6" x 9" / 34 b&w Illustrations, 21 tables

POLITICS

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“Part Gulag Archipelago, part One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Red Wind Howls breaks the curse of erased memory imposed by the colonial powers. An urgent, tragic, and vital testimony for the Tibetan people.”

—Woeser, author of Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution

The Red Wind Howls A Novel

TSERING DÖNDRUP

Translated by Christopher Peacock

A SWEEPING NOVEL OF OCCUPIED TIBET FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVING TIBETAN-LANGUAGE WRITERS

A remarkable novel by one of Tibet’s foremost authors, The Red Wind Howls is a courageous and gripping portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao’s regime. The story delves deep into forbidden history, spanning the famine of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and, most taboo of all, the 1958 Amdo rebellion when Tibetans rose in armed revolt against the Chinese state. Tsering Döndrup selfpublished the book in 2006, because no publisher would risk accepting it. When the authorities caught wind, all copies were confiscated and the author faced severe reprisals. He lost his job as head of the local archives, his passport was confiscated, and he has been under close surveillance ever since.

This powerful novel is largely set in the punitive labor camps to which Tibetans were sent after the failed rebellion, where many perished from starvation or forced labor. Inside and outside the camps, it depicts with dark humor a world of informers, cruelty, and score settling, against the backdrop of environmental devastation and the destruction of traditional ways of life. The novel draws on extensive interviews conducted by the author, and the rhythms of oral storytelling are reflected in its fragmented narrative style, which jumps back and forth between periods and events. The Red Wind Howls is both a richly imaginative work of fiction and a vital piece of historical testimony.

TSERING DÖNDRUP is one of modern Tibet’s most celebrated writers. His fiction has been translated into numerous languages, and he is the recipient of several literary awards—though none domestically since the release of this novel, which brought him intense scrutiny from the Chinese state.

$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21373-8

$100.00 / £84.00 cloth 978-0-231-21372-1

$24.99 / £20.00 e-book 978-0-231-55999-7

FEBRUARY 392 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

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CHRISTOPHER PEACOCK is assistant professor of East Asian studies at Dickinson College. Among his translations are Tsering Döndrup’s The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (Columbia, 2019).

Lakshmi’s Secret Diary

A Novel

ARI GAUTIER

Translated by Sheela Mahadevan

LAKSHMI THE ELEPHANT DEBATES FREE WILL WITH HER FRIENDS, THE GURU DOG AND THE WISE FLYING FISH

Seeking to escape captivity, Lakshmi the temple elephant sets out on a stirring journey toward freedom. On her way, she briefly experiences life as a film star and encounters a colorful cast including a three-legged dog named Tripod Dog Baba, other elephants in the Bandipur Forest, a chameleon facing an existential crisis, a moon who dances with an elephant, and a flying fish called Alphonse.

Lakshmi’s Secret Diary is a remarkable Indian Francophone novel set in Pondicherry, the former capital of French India. Blending philosophical meditations, retellings of Sanskrit mythology, and social critique, Ari Gautier tells the story of Lakshmi’s attempt to escape her fate. From the point of view of animals, the novel explores concepts of destiny, freedom, and identity. It illuminates the paradoxes of animal-human relations in India, where animals are both abused and worshiped, and provides an imaginative critique of the caste system. Gautier’s vivid portrait of Pondicherry brings to life the religious, cultural, culinary, and visual diversity of the city’s districts and sheds light on the little-known history of French colonialism in India. An afterword explores issues such as reincarnation and Indian translation traditions in relation to the novel. At once tragic and comic, satirical and surreal, Lakshmi’s Secret Diary is a surprising, compelling, and moving novel from a gifted storyteller.

ARI GAUTIER is an Indian Francophone writer and poet from the former French Indian territory of Pondicherry, now based in Norway. One of the few contemporary Indian writers who adopts French as a primary literary language, he is also the author of the novel Le Thinnai and the short story collection Nocturne Pondichéry

SHEELA MAHADEVAN is lecturer in French and Francophone studies at the University of Liverpool.

“What a magnificent and original novel, introducing the reader to a dreamlike world where the nature of India plays a major role.”

—Maryse Condé, author of Segu and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“Fusing history, memory, mythology, and the immediate present, Lakshmi’s Secret Diary is Ari Gautier’s gift to a lost humankind. Meditative and melancholy, whimsical and funny, it breaks free of its location in colonial Pondicherry to meditate on the human condition, on fate and freedom and choice. It lingers long after you’ve read it.”

—Geetanjali Shree, International Booker Prize–winning author of Tomb of Sand

$24.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21205-2

$100.00 / £84.00 cloth 978-0-231-21204-5

$23.99 / £20.00 e-book 978-0-231-55918-8

AUGUST 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Le Lys Bleu Éditions

Eclipse A Novel

KEIICHIRO HIRANŌ

Translated by Brent de Chene and Charles De Wolf

THE AWARD-WINNING DEBUT NOVEL FROM ONE OF JAPAN’S MOST CELEBRATED CONTEMPORARY WRITERS

In the late fifteenth century, a young Dominican friar sets out on a journey from Paris to Florence in search of manuscripts of pre-Christian philosophy. Along the way, he encounters an ascetic alchemist in a small village. As the young man falls under the spell of the alchemist’s quest for enlightenment, a series of disasters—culminating in a total solar eclipse—strikes the village, with profound consequences.

Keiichiro Hiranō’s Eclipse was a meteoric literary sensation when it first appeared in 1998. Its author, still an undergraduate, was hailed as a prodigy; the book received Japan’s most prestigious literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, and became a bestseller. Set on the eve of the Renaissance in Europe, Eclipse depicts a society that is on the surface vastly different from modern-day Japan. Yet its account of a challenge to dualistic binaries and ossified worldviews holds striking contemporary resonance and philosophical depth. Taking the form of a memoir, Eclipse brings together an evocative portrayal of its historical setting, including the lore of medieval alchemy, with a rich literary lexicon, lush imagery, and psychological intricacy. This vivid translation offers Anglophone readers a vital work by one of Japan’s most distinctive voices.

KEIICHIRO HIRANŌ is an acclaimed Japanese novelist who has published thirteen major works of fiction in a variety of genres and styles. His books in English translation are A Man (2020) and At the End of the Matinee (2021).

BRENT DE CHENE is professor emeritus at Waseda University.

CHARLES DE WOLF is professor emeritus at Keio University.

$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-21491-9

$80.00 / £68.00 cloth 978-0-231-21490-2

$19.99 / £16.99 e-book 978-0-231-56052-8

NOVEMBER 152 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

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The Talnikov Family A

Novel

AVDOTYA PANAEVA

Translated by Fiona Bell

A GRIPPING NOVEL BY A RADICAL NINETEENTHCENTURY WOMAN AUTHOR

In the Talnikov household, violence is in the air. Natasha grows up in a chaotic and abusive family, surrounded by screaming relatives and scurrying cockroaches. Her father whips his children but dotes on his pets. Her aunts and governess take a grim satisfaction in doling out discipline—in between primping and preening for suitors. Amid this bleakness, Natasha and her siblings conspire to steal stray moments of childhood joy.

Avdotya Panaeva’s The Talnikov Family portrays a tumultuous upbringing in 1820s St. Petersburg with equal parts wit and rage. Modeled on the author’s own life before her marriage to a nobleman writer, this sensational novel joined nineteenth-century Russia’s intense debates about gender, sexuality, and revolution. It was swiftly suppressed after its original appearance in 1848, the censor calling it “cynical” and “undermining of parental power.” Panaeva published a number of iconic Russian writers; her own novel anticipates Dostoevsky’s frenetic quarrels and heightened tone as well as Chernyshevsky’s sweeping radicalism. Unlike many of her contemporaries, however, Panaeva considers the experiences of servants and workers, and she offers a critique of the family as ruthless as any other in literature. In Fiona Bell’s vivid translation, The Talnikov Family offers readers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Russian literature and the society that shaped it.

AVDOTYA PANAEVA (1820–1893) was a Russian novelist, memoirist, and contributor to the liberal and radical literary journal The Contemporary. Her novels include Lady of the Steppes (1855), A Woman’s Lot (1862), and, coauthored with Nikolai Nekrasov, Three Countries of the World (1848) and The Dead Lake (1851).

FIONA BELL is a translator and scholar of Russophone literature. Her translations from the Russian include Nataliya Meshchaninova’s Stories of a Life and the short fiction of the contemporary Belarusian writer Tatsiana Zamirovskaya.

“Bell makes this two-hundred-yearold text crackle with an immediacy that suggests we rethink the canon.”

—Marian Schwartz, translator of Anna Karenina

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21319-6

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$21.99 / £17.99 e-book 978-0-231-55976-8

OCTOBER 208 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

All Rights: Columbia University Press

“It is wonderful to now have the lively and complete translation of this curious text.”

—Andrew Schonebaum, author of Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

More Swindles from the Late Ming Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

ZHANG YINGYU

Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk

ROLLICKING TALES OF SWINDLES FROM LATE

IMPERIAL CHINA

A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for traveling merchants. A wealthy widow is drugged and robbed by a lodger posing as a well-to-do student. Vengeful judges and corrupt clerks pervert the course of justice. Cunning soothsayers spur on a plot to overthrow the emperor. Yet good sometimes triumphs, as when amateur sleuths track down a crew of homicidal boatmen or a coldcase murder is exposed by a frog. These are just a few of the tales of crime and depravity appearing in More Swindles from the Late Ming, a book that offers a panorama of vice—and words of warning—from one seventeenth-century writer.

This companion volume to The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection presents sensational stories of scams that range from the ingenious to the absurd to the lurid, many featuring sorcery, sex, and extreme violence. Together, the two volumes represent the first complete translation into any language of a landmark Chinese anthology. An introduction explores the geography of grift, the role of sex and family relations, and the portrayal of Buddhist clergy and others claiming supernatural powers. Opening a window onto the colorful world of crime and deception in late imperial China, this book testifies to the enduring popularity of stories about scoundrels and their schemes.

$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21245-8

$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-21244-1

$25.99 / £22.00 e-book 978-0-231-55938-6

NOVEMBER 280 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 4 b&w illustrations

ASIAN STUDIES

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS

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ZHANG YINGYU (fl. 1612–1617) lived during the Wanli period (1573–1620) of the Ming dynasty.

CHRISTOPHER REA is a professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. BRUCE RUSK is an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. They are the translators of The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection (Columbia, 2017).

Expatriates of No Country

The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene

BRIGITTA OLUBAS, EDITOR

THE BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE OF TWO FASCINATING FIGURES

For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Brought together by the death of a mutual friend in the late 1970s, they discovered a profound connection built on mutual affinities for literature and culture and common values of humanism and cosmopolitanism.

Expatriates of No Country presents Hazzard and Keene’s correspondence, offering readers a new and intimate perspective on the work and achievements of these towering figures. Both left behind their countries of birth, and they shared experiences of displacement, estrangement, and fashioning new lives and selves in adopted homelands. Hazzard, who departed from Australia as a teenager without completing her formal education, led an expatriate life in New York and Italy as she attained literary fame. Keene, a pacifist who served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, devoted himself to the literature and culture of Japan, where he became revered. Their erudite and elegantly written letters trace the larger story of their friendship, casting a new light on two extraordinary people through their unlikely connection.

SHIRLEY HAZZARD (1931–2016) was an Australian-born novelist and essayist who spent much of her life in New York City, Capri, and Naples. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus (1980), acclaimed as her masterpiece, and the National Book Award for The Great Fire (2003).

DONALD KEENE (1922–2019) was Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for more than fifty years. He wrote dozens of books, including the definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature. In 2011, he gave up his U.S. citizenship and became a Japanese citizen.

BRIGITTA OLUBAS is professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is the author of Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life (2022), as well as the editor of Hazzard’s collected stories and selected nonfiction.

“This book is a dual portrait of two supremely cultivated and original people. Olubas beautifully captures the nineteenth-century fullness of the letters exchanged. I found myself swept up by the sheer drama, wondering what these two rare birds would say next.”

—Benjamin Taylor, author of Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21445-2

$95.00 / £80.00 cloth 978-0-231-21444-5

$21.99 / £17.99 e-book 978-0-231-56034-4

OCTOBER 160 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

LITERARY STUDIES

All Rights: Columbia University Press

“Compagnon, a world-renowned Proust scholar for the past four decades, reveals the history of the maternal side of the novelist’s family and explains how Proust was read and appropriated by Jewish critics after his death, in France and elsewhere. The book unfurls like an investigation and is a highly enjoyable read.”

—François Proulx, author of Victims of the Book: Reading and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France

$27.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21135-2

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$26.99 / £22.00 e-book 978-0-231-55886-0

NOVEMBER 368 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

LITERARY STUDIES

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL

THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

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Proust, a Jewish Way

ANTOINE COMPAGNON

Translated by Jody Gladding

UNDERSTANDING THE “JEWISH SIDE” OF PROUST

Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great author’s underappreciated Jewish side. Compagnon traces Proust’s ties to the French Jewish community, examining his relations with his mother’s successful and assimilated family, the Weils. He explores how French Jews read and responded to Proust’s masterpiece In Search of Lost Time in the 1920s and 1930s. Challenging contemporary critics who perceive self-hatred or even antisemitism in Proust’s work, Compagnon shows that many Jewish intellectuals and young Zionists admired and vigorously debated the novel, some seeing it as a source for pride in their Jewish identity. He also considers Proust’s portrayal of homosexuality and how it relates to notions of Jewishness. A work of remarkable erudition and deep research, Proust, a Jewish Way brings to light the vanished world of Proust’s first Jewish readers and shows how it can illuminate our reading of the great novelist today.

ANTOINE COMPAGNON is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, professor emeritus at the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie française. He is the author of many books on subjects including Montaigne, Baudelaire, Proust, Colette, literary theory, and cultural history.

JODY GLADDING is a poet who has translated dozens of works from French.

Hannibal Lokumbe

Spiritual Soundscapes of Music, Life, and Liberation

LAUREN COYLE ROSEN AND

HANNIBAL LOKUMBE

FINDING SPIRITUALITY AND SOCIAL MEANING IN MUSIC THROUGH THE LIFE AND WORK OF A FASCINATING FIGURE

For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, he composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, indigenous histories, and humanity. This innovative book demonstrates that Lokumbe’s musical compositions, created in collaboration with his ancestors, are multisensorial spiritual soundscapes that aspire to chronicle, heal, and liberate.

The cultural anthropologist Lauren Coyle Rosen draws on several years of close conversations with Lokumbe, as well as his journals, to provide a powerful collaborative account of his remarkable life and work. The authors explore Lokumbe’s creative journeys and the spiritual dimensions of his art. They trace Lokumbe’s entire career, from his early years in the Texas and New York City jazz scenes to his widely acclaimed orchestral compositions. The book also addresses Lokumbe’s work in prisons and schools with the Music Liberation Orchestra, founded in the 1970s. Illuminating his philosophies of music, spirituality, justice, and freedom, this book immerses readers in Lokumbe’s many revelatory worlds.

LAUREN COYLE ROSEN is the author of Law in Light, Fires of Gold, and six volumes of poetry. She served on the faculty in anthropology at Princeton University, where she received the President’s Award in Distinguished Teaching.

HANNIBAL LOKUMBE is an award-winning composer, jazz musician, poet, author, and educator whose career spans over six decades. In addition to more than 150 musical compositions written and commissioned for orchestra and smaller ensembles, he has published three volumes of poetry.

“Hannibal Lokumbe is the beautifully written, inspiring, compelling, and transformative account of the living journey of a spiritually evolved human being. He (like me) has faced demons and realizes that in this existence there is no place for the burdens of fear or anger; only forgiveness and hope can sustain humanity. Hannibal, thank you for it.”

—Dr Kim Phúc Phan Thi, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and “the girl in the picture”

$28.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21786-6

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$27.99 / £22.00 e-book 978-0-231-56193-8

DECEMBER 264 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

MUSIC / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

BLACK LIVES IN THE DIASPORA: PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE

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“Joe Brainard was the sweetest person I’ve ever known, and that sweetness radiates from these letters, which are also an essential record of New York’s painters and poets from the 1960s to the 1990s. Famous for his writing in I Remember and for his thousands of beautiful collages, Joe was a passionate, original spirit, gifted with a serious naiveté.”

—Edmund White, author of The Humble Lover

Love, Joe

The Selected Letters of Joe Brainard

JOE BRAINARD

Edited by Daniel Kane

JOE BRAINARD’S LETTERS, RECOUNTING HIS FRIENDSHIPS AND ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT

An artist and writer whose charming and inventive works are at once modest and ambitious, Joe Brainard was one of the most distinctive figures on New York City’s vibrant cultural scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Widely known for his influential experimental memoir, I Remember, Brainard worked in a variety of forms, from New York School–aligned poetry to Pop Art–adjacent artworks, including wild riffs on the comic strip character Nancy. His art drew on the everyday and popular culture, exuding a sense of amiability, wit, and generosity.

Love, Joe presents a selection of Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life and allowing readers to witness an extraordinarily fertile moment in New York’s history. Brainard’s letters to his partner, Kenward Elmslie, and others also open a window onto the transformations of queer life during this period. His correspondents include poet and artist friends such as John Ashbery, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Fairfield Porter, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer, James Schuyler, Alex Katz, and Andy Warhol, as well as lovers, patrons, high school friends, and fans. At once an insider’s view of the art and literary worlds and a revelation of Brainard’s creative process, these letters invite readers to share in his radical but gentle candor, his open-mindedness, and a sophisticated naiveté that helped him erase the conventional barriers between art and life.

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OCTOBER 296 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 33 b&w scans of letters  and  sketches

LITERATURE / ART

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JOE BRAINARD (1942–1994) was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to New York City in 1960. He was a prolific writer and artist across media, including paintings, collages, assemblages, and comic-strip collaborations with poets. He died from AIDS-related pneumonia.

DANIEL KANE is a professor of American literature at Uppsala University. His books include “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City (Columbia, 2017).

My Affair with Art House Cinema Essays

and Reviews

PHILLIP LOPATE

ESSAYS ON THE VISCERAL PLEASURES AND PROFOUND

INSIGHT THAT MOVIES OFFER

Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Lopate’s selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling—and sometimes disappointing or frustrating—through his keen eyes.

In an essayist’s sinuous prose style, Lopate captures the formal mastery, artistic imagination, and emotional intensity of art house essentials like Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris, as well as works by contemporary filmmakers such as Maren Ade, Hong Sang-soo, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Christian Petzold, Paolo Sorrentino, and Jafar Panahi. Essays explore Chantal Akerman’s rigorous honesty, Ingmar Bergman’s intimacy, Abbas Kiarostami’s playfulness, Kenji Mizoguchi’s visual style, and Frederick Wiseman’s vision of the human condition. Lopate also reflects on the work of fellow critics, including Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. His considered, at times contrarian critiques and celebrations will inspire readers to watch or rewatch these films. Above all, this book showcases Lopate’s passionate advocacy for not only particular films and directors but also the joys and value of a filmgoing culture.

PHILLIP LOPATE is the author of many acclaimed books, including the essay collections Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body and the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer He is the editor of several anthologies of essays. Lopate taught for many years in the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.

“In this superb collection, Phillip Lopate goes where passion has taken him, which luckily for us is unbounded by the requirements and format of any single publication.

My Affair with Art House Cinema combines some of the idiosyncratic notes of the personal essay with an easy command of film history, enhanced by Lopate’s typically astute analysis of the way visual and compositional choices inform directorial sensibility. A treasure trove of a book that invites us to rethink the masterpieces of art house cinema and make acquaintance with unknown gems.”

—Molly Haskell, author of Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films

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JULY 416 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

FILM STUDIES

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“Morris is a remarkable scholar, deep thinker, and artist. The tragedy of gold mining and its relationship to the emergence and sustenance of apartheid and its aftermath is a story that needs to be told. In this book, she develops an astonishingly capacious and powerful analytic through the lens of fetishism in order to understand the enduring fantasies of, and feverish desires for, gold as well as racialized politics within South Africa’s race-based capitalism.”

—Andrew C Willford,

author of The Future of Bangalore’s Cosmopolitan Pasts: Civility and Difference in a Global City

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DECEMBER 456 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

ANTHROPOLOGY

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Unstable Ground

The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa

ROSALIND C. MORRIS

A MAGNIFICENT, SWEEPING ACCOUNT OF THE GOLD INDUSTRY

IN SOUTH AFRICA

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit—often deadly—search for ore. Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around these mines, Unstable Ground reveals the worlds that gold made possible—and gold’s profound costs for those who have lived in its shadow and dreamed of its transformative power. From the vantage point of the closure of South Africa’s gold mines, Rosalind C. Morris reconsiders their histories, beginning in the present and descending into the pasts that shaped them. Anchored in evocative descriptions of mining in the ruins, this book explores the social worlds built on gold and the lives that were remade and sometimes undone by the industry over a century and a half. Morris views this industry from its margins, against the backdrop of the cyanide revolution, the gold standard’s demise, and recurrent sinkholes, as well as the insurrectionary protests and violence that continue to this day. In writing that is by turns immersive, incisive, and poetic, she recasts the history of South Africa and the incomplete effort to overcome apartheid amid the transformations of the global economy. Interweaving ethnography, history, personal testimony, and political thought with striking readings of South African literary texts, Unstable Ground is a work of extraordinary ambition and depth.

ROSALIND C. MORRIS is professor of anthropology at Columbia University. A writer, cultural critic, and documentary filmmaker, she has received numerous awards for her scholarly and artistic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Politics of Sorrow

A Story of Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan Exile

TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA

A NARRATIVE

ACCOUNT OF

INTERNAL STRUGGLES IN THE EARLY YEARS OF TIBETAN EXILE

The Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner of unity. To contest Chinese colonization and stand up for self-determination, Tibetan refugees were asked to shed regional allegiances and embrace a vision of a shared national identity.

The Politics of Sorrow tells the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of chieftains and lamas from the regions of Kham and Amdo, who sought to preserve Tibet’s cultural diversity in exile. They established settlements in India in the mid-1960s with the goal of protecting their regional and religious traditions, setting them apart from the majority of Tibetan refugees, who saw a common tradition as the basis for unifying the Tibetan people. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa traces these different visions for Tibetan governance and identity, juxtaposing the Tibetan government in exile’s external struggle for international recognition with its lesser-known internal struggle to command loyalty within the diaspora. She argues that although unity was necessary for democracy and independence, it also drew painful boundaries between those who belonged and those who didn’t. Drawing on insightful interviews with Tibetan elders and an exceptional archive of Tibetan exile texts, The Politics of Sorrow is a compelling narrative of a tumultuous time that reveals the complexities of Tibetan identities then and now.

TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA is a professor of literature and creative writing at Villanova University. She is the author of three poetry collections, as well as the memoir Coming Home to Tibet (2016). Her mother served as a member of parliament in the exile government for three terms.

“Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s poignant and deeply personal work chronicles Tibet’s tumultuous journey from fractured beginnings to the arduous pursuit of building a nation in exile. Delving into the heart of the Tibetan struggle for identity and grappling with the profound question of what constitutes a national identity amid the challenges of displacement, The Politics of Sorrow invites readers to witness a community’s journey to discover its voice from disarray.”

—Tsering Shakya, author of The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947

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DECEMBER 288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 6 b&w photographs, 2 maps

GLOBAL HISTORY

STUDIES OF THE WEATHERHEAD EAST ASIAN INSTITUTE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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“Dr. Rip’s Essential Beach Book provides an appealing overview of waves and beaches with a folksy tone and scientific perspective. The author covers everything the public needs to know about beach safety, with a focus on understanding, identifying, and escaping rip currents.”

—Stephen P Leatherman (“Dr Beach”), professor in the Department of Earth & Environment, Florida International University

“The beach is a fun but dangerous place. Everyone who loves the surf should read this fantastic book.”

—Mick Fanning, three-time surfing world champion

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MAY 200 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 56 images

SCIENCE

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Dr. Rip’s Essential Beach Book

Everything You Need to Know About Surf, Sand, and Safety

ROB BRANDER

A BEACHGOER’S GUIDE TO HAZARDS LIKE RIP CURRENTS

How do waves break, and what makes good surf? What are dangerous rip currents, and how do you spot one? What should you do if you get caught in one?

Australia’s best-known surf scientist, Rob “Dr. Rip” Brander, takes readers on a fascinating and entertaining journey to uncover how beaches form and behave, the science of waves and currents, and how beaches respond to storms and climate change. He explains where the sand we lay our towels on came from, how the tides that wash up new treasures each day work, why no two beaches are exactly the same, and why some of them are disappearing. He also explores some of the hazards to watch out for, from rip currents to tsunamis to the (unlikely) event you find yourself swimming with a shark. Whether you’re a surfer looking for the perfect wave or you just enjoy hitting the beach with friends and family, this book is a must-read for all ocean lovers.

ROB BRANDER is a coastal scientist and professor at the University of New South Wales Sydney who specializes in rip currents and beach safety. He has been giving talks on the “Science of the Surf” to the community and thousands of schoolchildren since 2001 and gained the nickname “Dr. Rip” for his habit of jumping into rip currents and releasing harmless purple dye.

What Walks This Way

Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

SHARMAN APT RUSSELL

Illustrations and photos by Kim

A. Cabrera

LEARNING TO IDENTIFY WILDLIFE BY TRACKS AND SIGNS

Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

The nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife—mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice—near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. With wit and compassion, she guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks left by browsing deer, predatory weasels, and inquisitive bears, skunks, and raccoons. Closely observing these traces, Russell also finds community, a sense of place, and a renewed connection with the nonhuman world. She explores the health of mammal populations in North America and questions common wildlife-management practices, calling for new approaches that better reflect current understandings of ecology. Above all, What Walks This Way is a celebration of all the wild animals secretly, stubbornly, and triumphantly roving through our cities, suburbs, and countryside.

©

SHARMAN APT RUSSELL teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles and is a professor emeritus at Western New Mexico University. She is the author of a dozen books and winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing.

KIM A. CABRERA is a master tracker and wellknown wildlife tracking educator.

“A collection of beautifully written stories about the author’s quest to deepen her connection with nature.”

—Jonah Evans, track and sign evaluator, Cybertracker

“Reading What Walks This Way is like going on a slow and restorative hike with a close friend. The book is filled with both personal stories and insight into the natural history of North American mammals, giving the reader a guide to more deeply witness and love the lives of wildlife around us. Sharman Apt Russell offers an antidote to defaunation, one dusty footprint at a time.”

—Emily Burns, program director, Sky Island Alliance

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AUGUST 208 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 112 figures and tables

SCIENCE / NATURE

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“The Other Big Bang offers a grand perspective on evolutionary and human history, from the origins of life on Earth to the emergent complexities of human sexuality.”

—Simon

LeVay, author of Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story

The Other Big Bang

The Story of Sex and Its Human Legacy

ERIC S. HAAG

THE HISTORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF SEX AND WHAT THE BIOLOGY TELLS US ABOUT OURSELVES

Sex shapes who we are as individuals and as a species. Where in the mists of time did something so important—and eye-catching—originate, and what does this history tell us about ourselves? Why do we have sex, and sexes, at all?

In The Other Big Bang, the evolutionary and developmental biologist Eric S. Haag explores the two-billion-year history of sex, from the first organisms on Earth to contemporary humans. He delves into the deep history of sexual reproduction, from its origins as a fix for a mutational crisis to an essential feature of all complex life. Haag traces sexual differentiation from its earliest forms in microbes to its elaboration in animals, showing why sex differences in cells and organisms help species adapt, persist, and evolve. Humanity’s clear sexual kinship with yeast and clams exists even as we evolved differences that distinguish us from other mammals, and even other apes.

Bringing the story up to the present, Haag argues that the evolutionary history of human sexuality helps us better understand contemporary society. Our ancient male-female sexual system remains an important fact of life, even as we see increasingly diverse sexual orientations, gender expressions, and parenthood choices. Witty and inviting, The Other Big Bang offers a clear view of the evolutionary roots of human sexuality and their significance today.

ERIC S. HAAG is professor of biology and director of the Biological Sciences Graduate Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has conducted research on the evolution of sex and reproduction in animals such as sea urchins, roundworms, and hermaphroditic fish for three decades.

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NOVEMBER 288 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 42 figures

SCIENCE

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Macroevolutionaries

Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould

BRUCE S. LIEBERMAN AND NILES ELDREDGE

NATURAL HISTORY ESSAYS IN THE VEIN OF, AND HONORING, STEPHEN JAY GOULD

One of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague, mentor, and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gould’s acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series of wry and insightful reflections on the fields to which they have devoted their careers.

Lieberman and Eldredge explore the major features of evolution, or “macroevolution,” examining key issues in paleontology and their links to popular culture, philosophy, music, and the history of science. They focus on topics such as punctuated equilibria, mass extinctions, and the history of life—with detours including trilobites, Hollywood stuntmen, coywolves, birdwatching, and New Haven-style pizza. Lieberman and Eldredge’s essays showcase their deep knowledge of the fossil record and keen appreciation of the arts and culture while touching on different aspects of Gould’s life and work. Ultimately, they show why Gould’s writings and perspective are still relevant today, following his lead in using the natural history essay to articulate their view of evolutionary theory and its place in contemporary life. At once thought-provoking and entertaining, Macroevolutionaries is for all readers interested in paleontology, evolutionary biology, and Gould’s literary and scientific legacy.

BRUCE S. LIEBERMAN is Dean’s Professor of Evolutionary Biology and senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas, where he also directs the Paleontological Institute and is editor in chief of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology

NILES ELDREDGE is an invertebrate paleontologist, an evolutionary biologist, and an emeritus curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History. He discovered punctuated equilibria with Stephen Jay Gould and played a leading role in developing the field of macroevolution.

“Two eminent scientists—Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge— present their personal journeys through the wondrous land of the history of life. On this journey, they reflect on the themes and works of their late colleague and supervisor, Stephen Jay Gould, who is still a major inspiration for all scholars and enthusiasts of the natural world. In a series of thirteen entertaining and revealing essays that are accessible for a general reader, they explore the nuances of the evolution of life and culture.”

—Andrej Spiridonov, Vilnius University

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AUGUST 216 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 43 images

SCIENCE

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“The Clock in the Sun rekindles in me a spark of what my ancestors must have felt when they worshiped the Sun. Sokolsky methodically reconstructs the mystery and history of sunspots and reignites curiosity for our phenomenal solar timekeeper.”

—Jamie

Zvirzdin, author of

Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter

The Clock in the Sun

How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

PIERRE SOKOLSKY

SUNSPOTS AS A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE SUN

On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where a cosmology originating with Aristotle prevailed, the Sun was regarded as part of the unchanging celestial realm, and it took observations through telescopes by Galileo and others to establish the reality of solar imperfections. In the nineteenth century, amateur astronomers discovered that sunspots ebb and flow about every eleven years—spurring speculation about their influence on the weather and even the stock market.

Exploring these and many other crucial developments, Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle. He ranges widely across cultures and throughout history, from the earliest recorded observations of sunspots in Chinese annals to satellites orbiting the Sun today, and from worship of the Sun as a deity in ancient times to present-day scientific understandings of stars and their magnetic fields. Considering how various thinkers sought to solve the puzzle of sunspots, Sokolsky sheds new light on key discoveries and the people who made them, as well as their historical and cultural contexts. Fast-paced, comprehensive, and learned, The Clock in the Sun shows readers our closest star from many new angles.

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OCTOBER 320 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 34 images

SCIENCE

PIERRE SOKOLSKY is an experimental particle astrophysicist. He is distinguished professor of physics and astronomy emeritus at the University of Utah, where he was also dean of the College of Science. Sokolsky is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and a recipient of the American Physical Society’s Panofsky Prize in High Energy Physics.

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

DAVID ROSNER AND GERALD MARKOWITZ

HEALTH DISPARITIES THROUGHOUT U.S. HISTORY

Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order, from the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious diseases spreading in overcrowded tenements and the vast environmental contamination caused by industrialization and through climate change and pandemics in the twenty-first century.

Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler. This book underscores that powerful people and institutions have always seen some lives as more valuable than others, and it emphasizes how those who have been most affected have challenged and changed these systems. Ultimately, this history shows that unequal outcomes are a choice—and we can instead collectively make decisions that foster life and health.

DAVID ROSNER is professor of history and Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, where he also directs the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health.

GERALD MARKOWITZ is distinguished professor of interdisciplinary studies and history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

ROSNER and MARKOWITZ are also the authors of Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (2002) and Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children (2013), among other books.

“The discussion of health disparities has needed an overview book for a long time that links the social and institutional reasons for ill health. This book will be critical to anyone in public health or the health professions as well as to a general audience. I wish I had it when I was teaching.”

—Susan M Reverby, author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy

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OCTOBER 256 pages / 6" x 9" / 25 b&w illustrations

HISTORY / HEALTH

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“This ambitious, clear-eyed, and beautifully written book redefines and reinvigorates feminist aesthetic thought. The Beauty of Choice is an exquisite hybrid of art and criticism: it is art as criticism and criticism as art. It is something that only Wendy Steiner could have written—a crowning achievement.”

—James E

. Young, author of The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between

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JULY 288 pages / 6" x 9" / 55 b&w illustrations, 8 images in a color insert

GENDER STUDIES / ART

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The Beauty of Choice On Women,

Art, and Freedom

WENDY STEINER

A WIDE-RANGING EXPLORATION OF AESTHETICS AND WOMEN’S DESIRES

In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values.

Steiner reframes long-standing questions surrounding desire, art, sexual assault, and beauty in light of #MeToo. Beginning with an opera she wrote based on Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” she presents women’s sexual choices as fundamentally aesthetic in nature—expressions of their taste—and artworks as stagings of choice in courtship, coquetry, consent, marriage, and liberation. A merger of art criticism, evolutionary theory, political history, and aesthetics, this book paints the struggle between female autonomy and patriarchal violence and extremism as the essence of art.

The Beauty of Choice pursues its claims through a striking diversity of examples: Sei Shōnagon’s defense of pleasure in the Pillow Book; Picasso’s and Balthus’s sexualization of their models; the redefinition of “waste” in postmodern fiction; and interactivity and empathy in the works of contemporary artists such as Marlene Dumas, Barbara MacCallum, Kristin Beeler, and Hannah Gadsby. It offers the first critical study of Heroines, a memorial to the twenty thousand women raped in Kosovo during the Serbian genocide. This deeply original book gives taste, beauty, and pleasure central roles in a passionate defense of women’s freedom.

WENDY STEINER is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an opera librettist and multimedia artist. Her many acclaimed books include The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (1995) and Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001).

On the Sovereignty of Mothers

The Political as Maternal

GIL ANIDJAR

REINTERPRETING THE POLITICAL FROM THE STANDPOINT OF MOTHERHOOD

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil Anidjar argues, has always been maternal.

In a series of finely woven meditations on slavery, sovereignty, and the social contract, this book places mothers and mothering at the crux of political thought. Anidjar identifies a maternal sovereignty and a maternal contract, showing that without motherhood, there could be no constitution, preservation, or reproduction of collective existence in time. And maternal power is also power over life and death, as he reveals through a nuanced consideration of abortion.

Through the concept of the maternal, Anidjar offers new insights into abiding sources from the Bible and ancient Greece to classical and modern political philosophy—the story of Hagar and Sarah, Oedipus and his two mothers, Hegel’s dialectic of master and slave—reinterpreted in light of Black and feminist criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and autotheoretical reflection. Elegantly written and provocative, On the Sovereignty of Mothers offers the maternal as a new frame for understanding the political order.

GIL ANIDJAR teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (2003); Semites: Race, Religion, Literature (2008); and Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia, 2014).

“Gil Anidjar is a brilliant and provocative thinker. In this book, he takes up a well-worn topic (mothers and mothering) and succeeds in generating exciting new formulations and original insights. This beautifully conceived book exhibits dazzling erudition, philosophical sophistication, and startling literary analysis to ask urgent political and philosophical questions.”

—Elissa Marder, author of The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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OCTOBER 176 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION

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“Martin L. Kilson was the consummate teacher, and in this posthumous work of wide-ranging thought and scholarship, he brilliantly explores the pivotal yet often obscured legacy of giants of the twentieth-century African American intelligentsia. Their contributions— alongside his own—were not only foundational to Black life and letters; they also provide much-needed sustenance in our own troubled times. We all will be grateful to have this last great book of Professor Kilson’s at hand.”

—Henry Louis Gates, Jr , Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University

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JULY 296 pages / 6" x 9"

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES / HISTORY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Black Intellectuals and Black Society

MARTIN L. KILSON

Foreword by Cornel West

INSIGHT INTO MAJOR TWENTIETH-CENTURY BLACK

INTELLECTUALS

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals. Kilson examines the ideas and careers of several key thinkers, placing their intellectual odysseys in the context of the dynamics that shaped the Black intelligentsia more broadly. He argues that the trajectory of twentieth-century Black intellectuals was determined by the interplay between formal ideas and egalitarian struggle.

Beginning with the tension between W. E. B. Du Bois’s civil rights activism and Booker T. Washington’s accommodationism, Kilson explores the formation and evolution of Black intellectuals and activists across generations. Chapters consider Horace Mann Bond’s career in higher education, the political scientist John Aubrey Davis’s transition from civil rights activist to federal policy technocrat, Ralph Bunche’s writings on European colonial rule in Africa, Harold Cruse’s classic polemic The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, E. Franklin Frazier’s analysis of the Black bourgeoisie, Adelaide M. Cromwell’s studies of the challenges facing elite Black women, and Ishmael Reed and Cornel West’s advocacy as public intellectuals amid a conservative turn. Timely and engaging, this book sheds new light on the abiding questions and debates in Black political thought.

MARTIN L. KILSON (1931–2019) was Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus at Harvard University. He wrote and edited several books, including Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1880–2012 (2014) and A Black Intellectual’s Odyssey: From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League (2021). He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a longtime member of the editorial board of Dissent

CORNEL WEST is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.

The Ex-Human

Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ

HOW SF IMAGINES FUTURES BEYOND THE HUMAN

Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has become an unhabitable hellscape? What other possible futures do narratives of the end of humanity allow us to imagine?

Michael Bérubé explores the surprising insights of classic and contemporary works of SF that depict civilizational collapse and contemplate the fate of Homo sapiens. In a lively, conversational style, he considers novels by writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Liu Cixin, Philip K. Dick, and Octavia Butler, as well as films that feature hostile artificial intelligence, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and the Terminator and Matrix franchises. Bérubé argues that these works portray a future in which we have become able to see ourselves from the vantage point of something other than the human. Though framed by the possibility of human extinction, they are driven by a vision of the “ex-human”—a desire to imagine that another species is possible. For all science fiction readers worried about the fate of humanity, The Ex-Human is an entertaining yet sobering account of how key novels and films envision the world without us.

MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University and a former president of the Modern Language Association. He is the author of twelve books, including Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child and What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education

“A vivacious and unrelenting confrontation with the consolations and desolations of contemporary science fiction from one of literary culture’s most insightful and wideranging polymaths, Michael Bérubé’s The Ex-Human is by turns brilliant, hilarious, despairing, and refusing despair. An absolute must-read.”

—Gerry Canavan, author of Octavia E. Butler

$26.00* / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-21505-3

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MAY 312 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

LITERARY STUDIES

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“Here is a smorgasbord of interesting notables, the collection of whom is held together by the variety of their personalities and the lively readability of their descriptions. The text is factual and informative, but most of all it is entertaining. And in its totality, it provides a feel for the movers and shakers of the world who have spent at least some time in New York City.”

—Andrew Alpern, author of The Dakota: A History of the World’s Best-Known Apartment Building

Destination City

A Gallery of New York’s Most Surprising Visitors and Residents Throughout History

ROBERT PIGOTT

A FIELD GUIDE TO NEW YORK’S MOST UNLIKELY VISITORS

Leon Trotsky was living in the Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in common—except both came to New York City to indulge in extramarital affairs. Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart were roommates for two years in the 1930s, sharing a Manhattan apartment dubbed “Casa Gangrene.” Simone de Beauvoir smoked her first joint at the Plaza Hotel in 1947. The thirteen-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald was a menace to his Bronx neighbors, once firing a BB gun at their windows. Greta Garbo had a fear of dentists’ offices and found a practitioner who would examine her on a bench on Central Park West. Barack Obama spent his first night in Manhattan “curled up in an alley-way” on West 109th Street.

Telling these tales and many others, Destination City presents the surprising stories of historical figures who are not usually associated with New York City but spent key parts of their lives there. Vignettes recount incidents in the lives of hundreds of notable people—writers, artists, actors, scientists, activists, politicians, revolutionaries, and more. Some were greeted with ticker-tape parades; others came to the city penniless. Some fell in love with the city; others despised it. But all were marked in some way by their time in New York. Robert Pigott’s writing captures the fabric of a bygone city, bringing to life the colorful world these figures inhabited. Charming and wry, this book is for all readers interested in an unconventional angle on New York City.

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NEW YORK / HISTORY

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ROBERT PIGOTT is the general counsel of a New York City nonprofit that develops affordable housing. He is a former section chief and bureau chief of the New York Attorney General’s Charities Bureau as well as the author of New York’s Legal Landmarks, a historical guidebook. A lifelong New Yorker, Pigott lives in Manhattan.

The Raging Erie

Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal

MARK S. FERRARA

A WORKING-CLASS HISTORY OF THE ERIE CANAL

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas, and accelerated the westward expansion of the United States. Yet few of the laborers who toiled along the canal shared in the prosperity it brought.

Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the canal, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation. The Raging Erie chronicles the fates of the Native Americans whose land was appropriated for the canal, the European immigrants who bored its route through the wilderness, and the orphan children who drove draft animals that pulled boats around the clock. Ferrara also shows how the canal served as a conduit for the movement of new ideas and religions, a corridor for enslaved people seeking freedom via the Underground Railroad, and a spur for social reform movements that emerged in response to the poverty and suffering along its path.

Brimming with vivid characters drawn from the underbelly of antebellum life, The Raging Erie explores the social dislocation and untold hardships at the heart of a major engineering feat, shedding light on the lives of the canallers who toiled on behalf of American expansion.

MARK S. FERRARA is professor of English at the State University of New York. His recent books include American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living (2020) and Living the Food Allergic Life (2023).

“Ferrara has written a terrific and necessary book about the deeper depths of the Erie Canal and the underside of the American Dream. With the bicentennial of the great waterway upon us, The Raging Erie uncovers the lives of the many laboring people who were often castaways in America’s first transportation revolution. A mustread.”

—Richard S Newman, author of Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present

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HISTORY

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“For years McGowan has worked to understand the core mechanism of the libidinal economy that sustains capitalism. With Pure Excess, we finally have the definitive formulation. He condenses deep paradoxes: capitalism produces pure excess even when most people cannot satisfy their basic needs.

This book is obligatory reading for everyone who wants to understand the global crisis we are in.”

—Slavoj Žižek

Pure Excess

Capitalism and the Commodity

TODD M c GOWAN

GRASPING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LOGIC OF CAPITALISM

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice— is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary turn away from the good and the useful toward excessive growth, which now threatens the habitability of the planet.

Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, McGowan shows how the production of commodities explains the role of excess in the workings of capitalism. Capitalism and the commodity ensnare us with the image of the constant fulfillment of our desires—the seductive but unattainable promise of satisfying a longing that has no end. To challenge this system, McGowan turns to art, arguing that it can expose the psychological mechanisms that perpetuate capitalist society and reveal the need for limits. Featuring lively writing and engaging examples from film, literature, and popular culture, Pure Excess uncovers the hidden logic of capitalism—and helps us envision a noncapitalist life in a noncapitalist society.

TODD M c GOWAN teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Embracing Alienation, The Racist Fantasy, Emancipation After Hegel, Capitalism and Desire, and Only a Joke Can Save Us, among other books. He is also the cohost of the Why Theory podcast with Ryan Engley.

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DECEMBER 224 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" PHILOSOPHY

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Contemplation

The Movements of the Soul

KEVIN HART

CONTEMPLATION AS A PHILOSOPHICAL AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

What is contemplation? How is it distinct from meditation? Is contemplation essentially religious or mystical? What should one contemplate, and how? Are there different styles of contemplation, and why should one practice them? Ought we try to lead more contemplative lives?

This book offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation. Kevin Hart examines a variety of religious, aesthetic, and philosophical notions, shedding light on the singular qualities of contemplation. This book spans topics including the spiritual exercises of the ancient Greeks, overlooked aspects of Christian spirituality, and aesthetic contemplation of nature and art. Contemplation ranges from ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, and Plotinus to Aquinas and other medieval theologians as well as modern philosophers like Kant, Husserl, and Wittgenstein. Though focused on Christianity, it also considers contemplation in other religious traditions, among them Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Paganism.

Concise and comprehensive, this book provides both religious and nonreligious readers with a foundational understanding of the history and nature of contemplation as well as the benefits of practicing it.

KEVIN HART is the Jo Rae Wright University Professor in the Divinity School at Duke University. His most recent books include Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation (2023) and DarkLand: Memoir of a Secret Childhood (2024). His recent poems are collected in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (2015).

“Lucidly written and comprehensive in scope, Kevin Hart’s book on contemplation reflects both his erudition as a scholar and his sophistication as a contemplative practitioner. He moves gracefully between philosophical and theological histories and then back to possibilities for practice in the reader’s present. Philosophy forged in the mind of a poet, as Hart’s readers have come to expect.”

—Cassandra Falke, Arctic University of Norway

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JULY 160 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

RELIGION / PHILOSOPHY

NO LIMITS

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“A society’s deathways are notoriously resistant to change. In this needful book, Mikles documents through interviews with doctors, nurses, undertakers, grieving family members, pastors, rabbis, sheiks, and swamis how the pandemic overcame that resistance. As COVID protocols stymied traditional American deathways, Americans of all religions (and none) improvised. Shattered Grief tells their stories with sensitivity and smarts.”

—Stephen Prothero, author of God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time

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JULY 264 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" RELIGION

Shattered Grief

How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America

NATASHA L. MIKLES

HOW RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY SURROUNDING DEATH CHANGED IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospitals and never seen again. Social distancing often meant conventional funerals could not be held. Religious communities of all kinds were disrupted at the exact moment mourners turned to them for support. These unprecedented circumstances caused dramatic transformations of not only communal rituals but also how people make meaning after the losses of loved ones.

Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death. Based on extensive interviews incorporating a multitude of perspectives—including funerary and medical professionals, religious leaders, grief counselors, death doulas, spirit mediums, community organizers, and those who lost loved ones—it provides a snapshot of how people renegotiated spiritual and religious traditions, worldviews, identities, and communities during the deadliest pandemic in a century. Through these diverse and powerful voices, Natasha L. Mikles tells the story of spiritual innovation, religious change, and the struggle to achieve personal and national self-understanding against the backdrop of mass casualties. Compelling and accessible, Shattered Grief is an essential book for a range of readers interested in how we make sense of death and dying.

NATASHA L. MIKLES is an assistant professor at Texas State University. Her research interests revolve around lived interpretations of death, mourning, and the afterlife in diverse religious traditions ranging from contemporary American spirituality to nineteenth-century Tibetan Buddhism.

© KOREY HOWELL

Paranormal States

Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities

D. E. OSTO

WHAT THE PARANORMAL EXPERIENCES OF CONTEMPORARY CONVERT BUDDHISTS TELL US ABOUT SCIENCE AND RELIGION

A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and encounters with other beings such as ghosts and deities, and they often interpret these events through a specifically Buddhist lens. This book is a groundbreaking exploration of these phenomena and their implications for both humanistic and scientific study of the paranormal.

D. E. Osto examines accounts of paranormal phenomena experienced by convert Buddhists from around the world collected through an online survey and interviews, placing them in the context of Indian Buddhist sources and recent scientific research. They focus in detail on the life stories of two interviewees and the important role the paranormal has played in their lives. These contemporary first-person narratives demonstrate the continued importance of the psychic and paranormal within the Buddhist tradition, and they can be interpreted as a living Buddhist folklore. Osto considers the limitations of both traditional religious views and Western scientific studies of the paranormal and proposes instead a new Buddhist phenomenological approach. Ultimately, Paranormal States contends, these deeply mysterious and extraordinary experiences exceed current understandings—and they can help bridge the gap between religious and scientific worldviews.

D. E. OSTO is senior lecturer in philosophy at Massey University. They are the author of Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (Columbia, 2016) and An Indian Tantric Tradition and Its Modern Global Revival: Contemporary Nondual Zaivism (2020), among other books.

“The brilliance of this book lies in valuing Buddhist experience, whether or not it fits into external schemas. This centers actual Buddhists and their lives. I prize this over anything else in Buddhist studies.”

—Franz Metcalf, author of What Would Buddha Do?: 101 Answers to Life’s Daily Dilemmas

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SEPTEMBER 352 pages / 6" x 9"

RELIGION

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“Cohen has been the doyen of global studies of the law and politics of China and wider East Asia for more than half a century. International legal scholarship on China has been shaped by his work—not only his seminal writings but also his role as a larger-than-life figure central to transnational academic activities, legal practice, diplomacy, and civil society work engaging with China. Future generations of scholars will turn to this work to understand how China’s legal political system and international and transnational relations evolved.”

—Eva Pils, author of Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism

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DECEMBER 352 pages / 6" x 9"

MEMOIR / GLOBAL HISTORY / LAW

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Eastward, Westward A Life in Law

JEROME A. COHEN

A MEMOIR OF LAW AND ACTIVISM IN ASIA AND THE UNITED STATES

Few Americans have done more than Jerome A. Cohen to advance the rule of law in East Asia. The founder of the study of Chinese law in the United States and a tireless advocate for human rights, Cohen has been a scholar, teacher, lawyer, and activist for more than sixty years. Moving among the United States, China, and Taiwan, he has encouraged legal reforms, promoted economic cooperation, mentored law students—including a future president of Taiwan—and brokered international crises. In this compelling, conversational memoir, Cohen recounts a dramatic life of striving for a better world from Washington, DC, to Beijing, offering vital firsthand insights from the study and practice of Sino-American relations. In the early 1960s, when Americans were not permitted to enter China, he met with émigrés in Hong Kong and interviewed them on Chinese criminal procedure. After economic reform under Deng Xiaoping, Cohen’s knowledge of Chinese law took on a new importance as foreign companies began to pursue business opportunities. Helping China develop and reconstruct its legal system, he made an influential case for the roles of Western law and lawyers. Cohen helped break political barriers in both China and Taiwan, and he was instrumental in securing the release of political prisoners in several countries. Sharing these experiences and many others, this book tells the full story of an unparalleled career bridging East and West.

JEROME A. COHEN is professor emeritus at New York University School of Law, where he is also founder and faculty director emeritus of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute. He is an adjunct senior fellow for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Cohen is the author of several books on Chinese law, and for many years he was a practicing lawyer focused on China.

In Search of an Open Mind

Speeches and Writings

LEE C. BOLLINGER

THE SPEECHES AND ESSAYS OF FORMER COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT LEE C. BOLLINGER

Throughout his twenty-one-year tenure as president of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger was an outspoken national leader on many of the major issues confronting higher education and society more broadly. One of the country’s preeminent First Amendment scholars, he published frequently on free speech and press while leading a wide range of transformational university initiatives. During a period marked by profound change, he spoke within and beyond the academy about the challenges facing journalism, global free speech, and academic freedom, as well as the critical value of increasing racial and cultural diversity in higher education.

In Search of an Open Mind is a curated selection of Bollinger’s speeches, articles, and opinion columns during these momentous decades. These pieces cover a broad array of topics, from civil rights and civil liberties to the nature of the university and living a good life. Bollinger spoke often about the essential role of affirmative action in college admissions in overcoming the long legacy of racial discrimination, having led the litigation in the landmark case of Grutter v. Bollinger, in which, for the first time, a majority of the Supreme Court upheld the practice as constitutional. With the engaging writing style of a seasoned speaker and gifted teacher, this book provides firsthand insights into central issues of our civic and political life that are as timely now as when they were originally delivered.

LEE C. BOLLINGER served as Columbia University’s nineteenth president from 2002 to 2023, the longest tenure of any contemporary Ivy League president. He is the first Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Columbia Law School faculty, and a renowned constitutional scholar. Bollinger is one of the country’s most prominent voices for robust freedom of speech and a leading advocate for affirmative action.

“Bollinger’s text is a classic of the art form.”

—Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus and University Professor, the George Washington University

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OCTOBER 360 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

HIGHER EDUCATION / POLITICS

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“This book provides extraordinary insight into what it means to be a social entrepreneur.”

—Van Jones, CNN commentator and political activist

“This book tells the inspiring story of an extraordinarily successful social activist who used the precepts of social entrepreneurship to deal with highly charged conflicts around the world.”

—Frank Ricciardone, former U S ambassador to the Philippines, Egypt, and Turkey

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

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From Vision to Action

Remaking

the World Through Social Entrepreneurship

JOHN MARKS

A GUIDE TO SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND A FRAMEWORK FOR WIN-WIN PROBLEM SOLVING

Social entrepreneurs are people who launch ventures aimed at promoting positive change in their community and the world. Their bottom line is not financial profit but the common good. Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks has written a practitioner’s guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.

From Vision to Action offers a master class in effective negotiation and conflict resolution. It builds on a core strategy of understanding differences and acting on commonalities. Marks uses his own experiences of creating real-life breakthroughs during his time leading Search for Common Ground, which he founded and built with his wife, Susan Collin Marks, into the world’s largest peacebuilding nonprofit. Beginning with an improbable effort to promote cooperation between the CIA and the KGB, this book features examples that range from helping prevent genocide in Burundi to using children’s television to lessen ethnic tensions in Macedonia to creating a culture of mediation in Morocco. Readers learn key lessons, such as adapting to unexpected outcomes, communicating persuasive stories, and being incrementally transformational— or transformationally incremental. Bringing together compelling narratives and useful tools, From Vision to Action delivers practical guidance on building bridges and creating meaningful change.

JOHN MARKS is the founder of the renowned peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground, which was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. He is now the founder and managing director of Confluence International and a visiting scholar in peacebuilding and social entrepreneurship at Leiden University. Coauthor of the controversial New York Times best-seller The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Marks has produced TV series in twenty-five countries.

Defeating Dengue A Multistakeholder Approach to Problem Solving

R. EDWARD FREEMAN AND ANDREW SELL

HOW MULTISTAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS FOUGHT

DENGUE FEVER IN INDONESIA

Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection, is a scourge of tropical climates. An extraordinary project in Indonesia, however, brought together a vast diversity of partners to combat the spread of the disease through innovative methods. This book tells the remarkable story of the fight against dengue and explores the implications for all social enterprises and business families seeking to tackle the world’s biggest challenges.

R. Edward Freeman and Andrew Sell examine the contributions of the many stakeholders who worked together across national, regional, and local levels for more than a decade. A scientific breakthrough found that infecting mosquitoes with a bacterium could prevent them from transmitting dengue and other viruses. To reduce the toll of the disease, though, this discovery needed to go beyond the laboratory. In Indonesia, thousands of people across a broad swath of society—including a leading business family and its foundation, university and medical school faculty and staff, local volunteers, and the sultan of Yogyakarta—formed a multistakeholder partnership whose efforts ranged from funding and management to large-scale field studies through releasing mosquitoes in their own backyards. Defeating Dengue is at once an insightful case study of the power of multistakeholder partnerships and a gripping story of scientific and social achievement.

R. EDWARD FREEMAN is University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor of Business Administration, and academic director of the Institute for Business in Society at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is the author of the influential Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (2010, originally published in 1984) and coauthor of The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs (Columbia, 2020), among other books, and he has worked with executives and companies around the world.

ANDREW SELL is a senior research associate with the Virginia Department of Social Services. He was previously senior associate director of research at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

“Defeating Dengue tells a compelling and rigorous story. The details, emotional telling, and personal insights about how such a large-scale collaborative effort can successfully be brought into being are inspiring.”

—Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy and Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, Carroll School of Management at Boston College

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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

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“How can you as an investor determine whether a stock’s price is higher or lower than its value?

Drawing on original cutting-edge scholarship, Penman and Pope’s book of tools—including strategies for thinking about profitability, potential growth, and risk—will protect readers from paying too much.”

—Robert Stoumbos, chair of excellence in financial reporting, ESSEC Business School

Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing

STEPHEN PENMAN AND PETER POPE

A GUIDE TO VALUE INVESTING WITH A FOCUS ON ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES

How should an investor challenge the market price and find value? This book provides a new lens, arguing that value investing is a matter of understanding the business through accounting. Stephen Penman and Peter Pope—leading authorities on accounting and its investment applications—demonstrate why attention to financial statements is the key to judicious valuation. More broadly, they show that accounting fundamentals, when analyzed in a systematic manner, teach us how to think about value in new ways.

This guide to investing through analysis of financial statements presents both underlying principles and practical examples. It examines how an accounting book is structured, the ways to read one in order to extract information about value, and why accounting techniques help investors avoid common traps. Through cases that depict finance, investing, and accounting principles in action, readers learn crucial lessons for challenging the market’s pricing.

Financial Statement Analysis for Value Investing is essential reading for anyone interested in the fundamentals of value investing, practitioners and students alike. Both professional and individual investors can benefit from its techniques and insights, and it is well suited for value investing and financial statement analysis courses in business schools.

STEPHEN PENMAN is the George O. May Professor Emeritus and special lecturer at Columbia Business School, as well as a distinguished professor at Bocconi University. His books include Accounting for Value (Columbia, 2010).

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BUSINESS

HEILBRUNN CENTER FOR GRAHAM & DODD INVESTING SERIES

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PETER POPE is professor of accounting at Bocconi University and emeritus professor of accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the academic coordinator of the Institute of Quantitative Investment Research.

Julia Kristeva is among the world’s most acclaimed and accomplished thinkers. Born in Bulgaria in 1941, she has lived and worked in France since 1966, becoming one of the country’s most important public intellectuals. A renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist, she has written dozens of books spanning semiotics, political theory, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique, as well as several novels and autobiographical works, that have been influential worldwide. Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII. She was the inaugural recipient of the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2004 “for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture, and literature.” Columbia University Press is proud to have been the publisher of Kristeva’s books in English translation for more than four decades, helping her vital body of work reach a global readership. This season, we continue the Kristeva Library, reissuing her works with a bold new look and a unified format, with striking new covers and updated interior design to ensure that these essential books continue to inspire and provoke readers around the world for years to come. Last season, we brought you New Maladies of the Soul, Language: The Unknown, Time and Sense, The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, and Intimate Revolt, and this catalog features five more of her most important works with additional volumes to follow.

This Incredible Need to Believe

JULIA KRISTEVA

Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic

In this provocative work, Julia Kristeva skillfully upends entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalyst and critic. She analyzes the inexorable push toward faith that lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Hannah Arendt, and others, she investigates the intersection between the desire for God and the shadowy zone in which belief resides.

“Nowhere else does Kristeva provide such a sustained treatment of her views on religion. Kristeva scholars and students will find this book an indispensable text.”

—Noelle McAfee, Emory University

“An impressive . . . crystallization of [Kristeva’s] religious and psychoanalytic thought.”

Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature

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EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

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Tales of Love

JULIA KRISTEVA

Translated by Leon S. Roudiez

“The analytical work is punctuated throughout by the personal, so that intelligently moving thoughts on motherhood aptly intervene. Kristeva makes a very strong case for the claim that the goal of analysis is not a truth in but a dynamic rebirth of the analysand via language.”

Choice

Assuming the voices of psychoanalyst, scholar, and postmodern polemicist, Julia Kristeva discusses both the conflicts and commonalities among the Greek, Christian, Roman, and contemporary discourses on love, desire, and self. Her analysis deals with the role of narcissism and idealization in the formation of a love object. She accounts for the role of the death drive by coining the term “love/hate.”

Hatred and Forgiveness

JULIA KRISTEVA

Translated by Jeanine Herman

“A memorable source of reflections on the temptation and quest of being.”

Metapsychology

Julia Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of language, abjection, idealization, female sexuality, love, and forgiveness. She examines the “maladies of the soul,” drawing on examples from her practice and the ailments of her patients, such as fatigue, irritability, and general malaise, as well as the Bible and texts by Marguerite Duras, St. Teresa of Avila, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, and Georgia O’Keefe. Balancing political calamity and individual pathology, she addresses internal and external catastrophes and global and personal injuries, confronting the nature of depression, obliviousness, fear, and the agony of being and nothingness. Constant questioning, Kristeva contends, is essential to achieving the coming to terms we all seek at the core of forgiveness.

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EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

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The Severed Head Capital Visions

JULIA

KRISTEVA

Translated by Jody Gladding

“Considers a remarkable range of representations of the severed head in art historical, religious, and mythological contexts.”

Times Literary Supplement

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre that she curated, Julia Kristeva unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, she turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical fact, further developing a critical theme in her work—the power of horror—and the potential for the face to provide an experience of the sacred. Kristeva considers the head as icon, artifact, and locus of thought, seeking a keener understanding of the violence and desire that drives us to sever, and in some cases keep, such a potent object.

Passions of Our Time

JULIA

KRISTEVA

Edited with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman

Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila MalovanyChevallier

“The essays and interviews in Passions of Our Time not only thoughtfully extend and develop some of Kristeva’s seminal ideas but also brilliantly address pressing contemporary issues, such as changing notions of motherhood, fatherhood, disability, and sexuality, and powerfully demonstrate that psychoanalysis is still relevant today. This volume makes it clear why Julia Kristeva is one of the most important cultural critics of our time.”

—Kelly Oliver, author of Reading Kristeva: Unraveling the Double-Bind

Passions of Our Time showcases essays of Julia Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the challenges of the present. In a series of striking investigations, she thinks through disability and normativity, monotheism and secularization, the need to believe and the desire to know.

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21899-3

$21.99 / £17.99 e-book 978-0-231-56252-2

$17.00* / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-21905-1

NOVEMBER 176 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: La Réunion des Musées Nationaux

NOVEMBER 424 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

PHILOSOPHY

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: The French Publishers’ Agency

Investing in the Era of Climate Change

BRUCE USHER

RUNNER-UP, 2023 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK

AWARDS FOR PHILANTHROPY, NONPROFIT, AND SUSTAINABILITY

Bruce Usher offers an indispensable guide to the risks and opportunities for investors as the world faces climate change. He explores the role that investment plays in reducing emissions to net zero by 2050, detailing how to finance the winners and avoid the losers in a transforming global economy. Grounded in academic and industry research, Usher’s insights bring clarity to a complex and controversial topic while illuminating the people behind the numbers. This book sets out a practical and actionable plan for investors that will alter the course of climate change.

“Investors looking to do well by doing good will find this a valuable resource.”

Publishers Weekly

BRUCE USHER is professor of professional practice and the Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 Faculty Director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. He is the author of Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century (Columbia, 2019).

$19.95t / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-21854-2

OCTOBER 304 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 38 figures

BUSINESS

CLOTH EDITION  2022 978-0-231-20088-2

All Rights: Columbia University Press

My Journeys in Economic Theory

EDMUND PHELPS

A Best Book in Economics for 2023

—Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. In this book, Phelps tells the story of his role in reshaping economic theory, offering a powerful personal account of a creative and rewarding career. Recounting a life packed with intellectual adventure, My Journeys in Economic Theory provides a profound vision of a dynamic, modern economy that offers lives rich with creativity and meaning.

“Elegant.”

Wall Street Journal

EDMUND PHELPS, the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2006, is the founding director of the Center on Capitalism and Society and the McVickar Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Columbia University.

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21910-5

DECEMBER 248 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

ECONOMICS

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20730-0

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Sisterhood

How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

COURTNEY THORSSON

One of the “Best Black History Books of 2023.”

Black Perspectives

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves “The Sisterhood,” the group—which also came to include Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Margo Jefferson, and others—would get together once a month over the next two years, creating a vital space for Black women to discuss literature and liberation. The Sisterhood tells the story of how this remarkable community transformed American writing and cultural institutions.

COURTNEY THORSSON is an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon and the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women’s Novels (2013). She is the recipient of a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the research and writing of this book.

$19.00* / £15.99 paper 978-0-231-21874-0

FEBRUARY 296 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

LITERARY STUDIES / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20472-9

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Harvard Square A Love Story

CATHERINE J. TURCO

“Turco takes a deep dive into what it is that makes a Main Street or community center special to its denizens. Her historically informed account will certainly resonate with those with fond memories of the Square’s past iterations.”

Harvard Magazine

Catherine J. Turco, an economic sociologist and longtime denizen of Harvard Square, explores why we love our local marketplaces and why we so often struggle with changes in them. She dives into Harvard Square’s past and present, introducing readers to a compelling set of characters. Offering a new and powerful lens that exposes the stability and instability, the security and insecurity, markets provide, Turco transforms how we think about our cherished local marketplaces and markets in general.

CATHERINE J. TURCO is an economic sociologist and the author of The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media (Columbia, 2016). She teaches at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is the Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship and associate professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy.

$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-21877-1

OCTOBER 344 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 17 b&w photographs

SOCIOLOGY

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20928-1

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Every Brain Needs Music

The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

LARRY S. SHERMAN AND DENNIS PLIES

With Illustrations by Susi B. Davis

“Witty and informative.”

The Hindu

Larry S. Sherman, a neuroscientist and lifelong musician, and Dennis Plies, a professional musician and teacher, collaborate to show how our brains and music work in harmony. Written for both musical and nonmusical people, including newcomers to brain science, this book is a lively and easy-to-read exploration of the neuroscience of music and its significance in our lives.

LARRY S. SHERMAN is a professor of neuroscience at the Oregon Health and Science University. An enthusiastic piano player since age four, he has published widely on brain development, aging, and disease, and given lectures on music and the brain throughout the world.

DENNIS PLIES, who was for many years a music professor at Warner Pacific University, has been involved with music for his entire life. Starting at the age of seven, he played marimba for audiences and on television, and he has recorded albums in genres including gospel, classical, and jazz.

Attraction, Love, Sex

The Inside Story

SIMON L e VAY

“An up-to-date, scientifically informed, original, and witty review of (almost) everything you always wanted to know about sex but might have been afraid to ask. Highly recommended.”

Choice Reviews

Simon LeVay introduces readers to a memorable cast of researchers trying to unravel the many mysteries that surround sex and sexuality. He distills vast expertise on the biology and psychology of sex into an engaging and easy-to-understand survey with scientific acumen, a critical eye, and a sense of humor. This book reveals how scientists are unraveling the secrets of sex and, in the process, shattering many traditional ideas and prejudices.

SIMON L e VAY is a neuroscientist and writer who has served on the faculties of Harvard Medical School and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He is best known for his 1991 report documenting a difference in brain structure between gay and straight men. LeVay is author or coauthor of twelve books, including a leading textbook on human sexuality.

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21911-2

SEPTEMBER 288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 62 figures

MUSIC / SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20910-6

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21914-3

DECEMBER 296 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 6 figures

SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20450-7

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Curious History of the Heart

A Cultural and Scientific Journey

VINCENT M. FIGUEREDO

GOLD AWARD WINNER, 2024 NONFICTION

BOOK AWARDS

This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. Vincent M. Figueredo—an accomplished cardiologist and expert on the history of the human heart—explores the role and significance of the heart in art, culture, religion, philosophy, and science across time and place. He examines how the heart really works, its many meanings in our emotional and daily lives, and what cutting-edge science is teaching us about this remarkable organ.

“Provocative and broad in scope, this offers much food for thought.”

Publishers Weekly

VINCENT M. FIGUEREDO has been a practicing cardiologist and physician-scientist for thirty years. His experience spans academic medicine, medical research, teaching, private practice, and senior hospital administration, including as chair of cardiology and professor of medicine. Figueredo’s research interests include how the heart responds to injury, alcohol, and stress.

The Curious Human Knee

HAN YU

WINNER, 2023 CHOICE OUTSTANDING

ACADEMIC TITLE

Han Yu provides an informative, surprising, and entertaining exploration of the human knee across time and place. Distilling a vast amount of research in a style that is engaging, conversational, and even personal and witty, this book opens readers’ eyes to the complexity and significance of the humble knee.

“[An] enlightening blend of science and cultural history. . . . Yu excels at identifying colorful material on an ostensibly mundane subject, and lay readers will appreciate the accessible prose. This makes for an animated and wide-ranging exploration of an unassuming body part.”

Publishers Weekly

HAN YU is a professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University, where she teaches scientific and technical communication. Her books include Mind Thief: The Story of Alzheimer’s (Columbia, 2021).

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21912-9

OCTOBER 312 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 45 figures

SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20818-5

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21913-6

JANUARY 296 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 25 figures

SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20702-7

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The New City

How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future

DICKSON D. DESPOMMIER

Foreword by Mitchell Joachim

A top 12 climate book to give friends and family over the holidays.

Yale Climate Connections

Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy.

DICKSON D. DESPOMMIER is emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University. His previous books include The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the Twenty-First Century (2010), which popularized the idea of raising crops inside tall buildings; People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders (Columbia, 2013); and Parasitic Diseases (seventh edition, 2019).

The Universal Timekeepers Reconstructing History Atom by Atom

DAVID J. HELFAND

“Wonderful. . . . Using engaging examples from art forgeries to the Shroud of Turin to the Big Bang itself, Helfand expertly ushers readers through the subtle science that vibrantly brings the past to life.”

—Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe and Until the End of Time

David J. Helfand reconstructs the history of the universe—back to its first microsecond 13.8 billion years ago—with the help of atoms. He shows how, by using detectors and reactors, microscopes and telescopes, we can decode the tales these infinitesimal particles tell. A lively and inviting introduction to the building blocks of everything we know, this book demonstrates the power of science to unveil the mysteries of unreachably remote times and places.

DAVID J. HELFAND , former chair of the Astronomy Department at Columbia University, has served on Columbia’s faculty for nearly five decades. He was also president and vice chancellor of Quest University Canada. Helfand is the chair of the American Institute of Physics and a past president of the American Astronomical Society. He is the author of A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind (Columbia, 2016).

$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-21909-9

FEBRUARY 216 pages / 7 x 10" / 85 color figures, 6 tables

URBAN STUDIES

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20550-4

World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Mel Parker Books, LLC

$17.00* / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-21903-7

FEBRUARY 288 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 33 figures

SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-21098-0

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Octopus in the Parking Garage

A Call for Climate Resilience

ROB VERCHICK

WINNER, 2023 CHOICE OUTSTANDING

ACADEMIC TITLE

One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex’s parking garage: an octopus. The creature—and the combination of infrastructure quirks and climate impacts that left it stranded—is a potent symbol of the disruptions that a changing climate has already brought to our doorsteps. Engaging and accessible, The Octopus in the Parking Garage empowers readers to face the climate crisis and shows what we can do to adapt and thrive.

“An ability to make complex policy engaging is a hallmark of [Verchick’s].”

Financial Times

ROB VERCHICK is a leading climate law scholar who designed and implemented climate-resilience policies in the Obama administration. He holds the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University New Orleans, is a senior fellow in disaster resilience at Tulane University, and serves as president of the Center for Progressive Reform.

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21901-3

JANUARY 288 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 8 figures

CLIMATE CHANGE

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20354-8

World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press;

All Other Rights: William Clark

The Traveler’s Guide to Space For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists

NEIL F. COMINS

“A delight . . . Don't leave Earth without it.”

New Scientist

Astronomer and former NASA/ASEE scientist Neil F. Comins has written the go-to book for anyone interested in space exploration. He describes the wonders that travelers will encounter—weightlessness, unparalleled views of Earth and the cosmos, and the opportunity to walk on another world—as well as the dangers: radiation, projectiles, unbreathable atmospheres, and potential equipment failures. Although many challenges are technical, Comins outlines them in clear language for all readers. He synthesizes key issues and cutting-edge research in astronomy, physics, biology, psychology, and sociology to create a complete manual for the ultimate voyage.

NEIL F. COMINS is professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine. His books include Discovering the Universe (eleventh edition, 2019) and Heavenly Errors: Misconceptions About the Real Nature of the Universe (Columbia, 2003).

$23.00* / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-21902-0

SEPTEMBER 296 pages / 6" x 9" / 77 b&w illustrations

SCIENCE

CLOTH EDITION  2017 978-0-231-17754-2

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Rust Belt Union Blues

Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party

LAINEY NEWMAN AND THEDA SKOCPOL

“Illuminates the decline of an economic, social, and political world that once bolstered progressive and Democratic prospects.”

American Prospect

Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol provide timely insight into the relationship between the decline of unions and the shift of working-class voters away from Democrats. Drawing on interviews, union newsletters, and ethnographic analysis, they pinpoint the significance of eroding local community ties and identities. Rust Belt Union Blues sheds new light on why so many union members have dramatically changed their party politics. It makes a compelling case that Democrats are unlikely to rebuild credibility in places like western Pennsylvania unless they find new ways to weave themselves into the daily lives of workers and their families.

LAINEY NEWMAN is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of Harvard College and a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

THEDA SKOCPOL is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University.

$18.00* / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-21879-5

SEPTEMBER 328 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 20 b&w illustrations

POLITICS / SOCIOLOGY

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-20882-6

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Rural Voter

The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America

NICHOLAS F. JACOBS AND DANIEL M. SHEA

“If you live in the city, read this book.”

—Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the “rural voter”—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns. Combining a historical perspective with the largest-ever national survey of rural voters, Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea uncover how this overwhelmingly crucial voting bloc emerged and how it has roiled American politics.

NICHOLAS F. JACOBS is assistant professor of government at Colby College. He is a coauthor of What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America (2022).

DANIEL M. SHEA is professor and chair of government at Colby College. His books include Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America (2019).

$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21857-3

OCTOBER 488 pages / 6" x 9"

AMERICAN POLITICS

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-21158-1

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Spoiled The Myth of Milk as Superfood

ANNE MENDELSON

“Sharply written, wide-ranging, and instructive.”

New York Review of Books

Spoiled is an unflinching and meticulous critique of the glorification of fluid milk and its alleged universal benefits. Anne Mendelson’s groundbreaking book chronicles the story of milk from the Stone Age peoples who first domesticated cows, goats, and sheep to today’s troubled dairy industry.

ANNE MENDELSON is a culinary historian and freelance writer specializing in food-related subjects. Her most recent book is Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey (Columbia, 2016).

Ambitious and Anxious

How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education

YINGYI MA

WINNER, 2021 BEST BOOK AWARD, HIGHER EDUCATION SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF THE COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY

Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of Chinese international undergraduate students in American higher education, arguing that these students’ experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social changes in China.

YINGYI MA is professor of sociology at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she is also director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program.

The One Descartes, Plato, Kant

ALAIN BADIOU

Translated by Jacques Lezra with Susan Spitzer

Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard

“This is Badiou at his very best and at his most accessible.”

—Todd McGowan, author of Universality and Identity Politics

Alain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series on “the One” focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant.

ALAIN BADIOU is emeritus professor of philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris. JACQUES LEZRA is professor and chair of Hispanic studies at the University of California, Riverside. SUSAN SPITZER is a frequent translator of Badiou’s works.

KENNETH REINHARD is research professor of comparative literature and English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21880-1

$22.00* / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-21906-8

JANUARY 416 pages / 6" x 9"

FOOD / HISTORY

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-18818-0

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$25.00* / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-21878-8

SEPTEMBER 312 pages / 6" x 9" / 50 b&w figures

SOCIOLOGY

CLOTH EDITION  2020 978-0-231-18458-8

All Rights: Columbia University Press

DECEMBER 288 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" PHILOSOPHY

CLOTH EDITION  2023 978-0-231-19412-9

THE SEMINARS OF ALAIN BADIOU

World English-language Rights: Columbia University Press; All Other Rights: Librairie Artheme Fayard

To Stand with Palestine

Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States

KARAM DANA

“Vital and timely. This book is essential reading.”

—George Bisharat, author of Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank

This book provides a new lens on activism around Palestinian issues, showing how the global Palestinian diaspora has driven transnational political movements. Karam Dana examines the social and technological forces that have opened space for Palestinian voices to be heard by wider audiences worldwide. Timely and insightful, this book offers an inside look at how Palestinians have told their story to the world and why the world increasingly sympathizes with their plight, with significant implications for the global political landscape.

KARAM DANA is the Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research and the founding director of the American Muslim Research Institute at the University of Washington Bothell.

Blessing America First

Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration

DAVID T. BUCKLEY

“Buckley’s account—smart, eye-opening, and constructive—deserves a very wide audience. And here’s hoping that future policymakers pay attention to his guidance.”

—E J Dionne Jr , author of Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country

Drawing on firsthand experience in the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama-Trump transition, David T. Buckley traces how the Trump administration’s populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy. A groundbreaking examination of Trump’s State Department, Blessing America First draws broader lessons for understanding the relationship between religion and democracy under populist rule.

DAVID T. BUCKLEY is the Paul Weber Endowed Chair of Politics, Science, and Religion in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville, where he also directs the Center for Asian Democracy. He is the author of Faithful to Secularism: The Religious Politics of Democracy in Ireland, Senegal, and the Philippines (Columbia, 2017).

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18617-9

$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18616-2

$29.99 / £25.00 e-book 978-0-231-54652-2

OCTOBER 432 pages / 6" x 9"

POLITICS

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20755-3

$130.00 / £109.00 cloth 978-0-231-20754-6

$31.99 / £28.00 e-book 978-0-231-55701-6

SEPTEMBER 320 pages / 6" x 9" / 7 b&w illustrations

POLITICS

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Combination of All Forms of Struggle

Insurgent Legitimation and State Response to FARC

ALEXANDRA RACHEL PHELAN

Investigating the relationship between FARC and the Colombian state from the outbreak of conflict in 1964 to the signing of the final peace agreement in 2016, Alexandra Rachel Phelan offers new insight into the dynamics of insurgencies. In such conflicts, both states and insurgents seek to assert their legitimacy, which has crucial implications for any prospective resolution. Phelan argues that the case of Colombia demonstrates that insurgents are more likely to engage in negotiations when the state recognizes their political legitimacy than when it demands their defeat. During a protracted conflict, when it is unclear that the state can win by military strength alone, offering incentives for political settlements can minimize—and perhaps even end— fighting.

ALEXANDRA RACHEL PHELAN is a lecturer in politics and international relations in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21701-9

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21702-6

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-56149-5

DECEMBER 328 pages / 6" x 9"

GLOBAL POLITICS

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Illusions of Control Dilemmas

in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria

ERICA L. GASTON

“This book is a grim but necessary autopsy of America’s policy failures. With intrepid field research, extensive interviews, and sharp analytical thinking, Gaston shows why these efforts often proved ineffective or counterproductive.”

—Ariel I Ahram, author of Break All the Borders: Separatism and the Reshaping of the Middle East

Over the last two decades, the United States has supported a range of militias, rebels, and other armed groups in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Drawing on extensive field research and hundreds of interviews with stakeholders, Erica L. Gaston unpacks the challenges of attempting to control proxy forces.

ERICA L. GASTON is senior policy advisor and head of the Conflict Prevention and Sustaining Peace Programme at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a nonresident fellow at both the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Global Public Policy institute.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21013-3

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21012-6

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-55828-0

JULY 456 pages / 6" x 9"

GLOBAL POLITICS

COLUMBIA STUDIES IN TERRORISM AND IRREGULAR WARFARE

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The President’s Day

Managing Time in the Oval Office

MATTHEW N. BECKMANN

The President’s Day is a groundbreaking study of the history, theory, and practice of modern presidential time management. Matthew N. Beckmann argues that in choosing what and who will fill their time, presidents determine their value, define their role, and drive their agenda. Combining extensive archival research with interviews spanning administrations from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, he reveals each president’s signature pattern in terms of when to work, how long to work, how much to pack in, what to prioritize, and whom to see along the way.

MATTHEW N. BECKMANN is a professor of political science at UC Irvine.

Mexico’s Resilient Journalists

How Reporters Manage Risk and Cope with Violence

JULIETA BRAMBILA

“Anyone interested in the impact of the press on a evolving democracy should read this book.”

—Roderic Ai Camp, author of Politics in Mexico: The Path of a New Democracy

In recent decades, Mexico has been one of the most dangerous democracies for journalists. Their coverage of the war on drugs, abuses of power, and human rights violations has led to harassment, threats, and violence by powerful cartels and corrupt officials. Julieta Brambila provides a groundlevel view of how Mexican journalists have navigated this perilous environment, offering insight into how they protect themselves while reporting on the most critical and sensitive subjects.

JULIETA BRAMBILA is a media scholar and public servant who holds a PhD in communication from the University of Leeds. She currently serves as head of communication and public affairs at Mexico’s National Institute for Geography and Statistics and was previously head of communication at the Mexican Ministry of Finance.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20131-5

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-20130-8

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21587-9

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21586-2

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-56101-3

AUGUST 256 pages / 6" x 9"

AMERICAN POLITICS

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-55403-9

AUGUST 320 pages / 6" x 9" / 1 figure

JOURNALISM

REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SERIES

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Japanese Ideology

A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism

TOSAKA JUN

Translated by Robert Stolz

A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive—yet underrecognized— theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the world plummeted into an age of reaction. Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism.

TOSAKA JUN (1900–1945) was a Marxist philosopher of science and cultural critic. He was cofounder and editor of the journal Materialism Studies. Arrested several times in the 1930s, he died in prison on August 9, 1945.

ROBERT STOLZ is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is coeditor of Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader (2014) and author of Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 (2014).

Beyond Liberalism

PRABHAT PATNAIK

“A brilliant critique of the complicity of liberal doctrine with capitalism through its entire history.”

—Akeel Bilgrami, author of Capital, Culture, and the Commons

Prabhat Patnaik demonstrates that liberalism and Marxism provide vastly differing accounts of individual freedom and the forces that restrict it. In the Marxist view, people, contrary to appearances, lack real agency under capitalism. Competition coerces individuals to act according to the impersonal logic of capitalism, making them mere instruments of the system. In this way, capitalism creates universal alienation, and true individual freedom is possible only through overcoming it. Readable yet rigorous, Beyond Liberalism brings together political philosophy and political economy to offer a renewed vision of socialism.

PRABHAT PATNAIK has taught economics at the University of Cambridge and Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he is currently professor emeritus. His books include Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism (1997), The Value of Money (2009), A Theory of Imperialism (with Utsa Patnaik, 2017), and Capital and Imperialism (with Utsa Patnaik, 2021).

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SEPTEMBER 384 pages / 6" x 9"

PHILOSOPHY

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AUGUST 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

PHILOSOPHY

COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY

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Regenerative Politics

EMMA PLANINC

“One of the boldest interventions in political theory in years.”

—Samuel Moyn, Yale University

Regenerative Politics makes a bold intervention into the fraught landscape of contemporary liberal democracy, arguing that the survival of rights depends on abandoning their claims to self-evidence. Emma Planinc argues that liberal democracies must open themselves up to a regenerative politics that accepts all claims against political convention as self-determinative—including those that desire the rejection of rights or the overturning of liberal democracies.

“Bracingly written and rigorously argued, Regenerative Politics makes a profoundly illuminating contribution to our understanding of Enlightenment political thought and its fundamental contemporary legacies.”

—Sankar Muthu, author of Enlightenment Against Empire

EMMA PLANINC is assistant professor of political theory at the University of Notre Dame.

Staging Sovereignty

Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

ARTHUR BRADLEY

This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance. Arthur Bradley weaves together political theory and literature, reading figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schmitt, Benjamin, Derrida, and Agamben alongside writers including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Schiller, Melville, Valéry, Kafka, Ionesco, and Genet. Formally inventive and deeply interdisciplinary, Staging Sovereignty offers a surprising and original narrative of political modernity from early modern political theology to the age of neoliberal capitalism.

ARTHUR BRADLEY is professor of comparative literature at Lancaster University. His most recent book is Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Columbia, 2019).

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JULY 264 pages / 6" x 9"

PHILOSOPHY

NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

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NOVEMBER 312 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 8 b&w illustrations

PHILOSOPHY

INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE

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Earthborn Democracy A Political Theory of Entangled Life

ALI ASLAM, DAVID W. M c IVOR, AND JOEL ALDEN SCHLOSSER

“I found this to be an incredibly compelling argument and discussion of the myriad ways in which democracy and environmental justice are entangled, using a nonspeciesist frame, humbly leaning upon Indigenous thinking and practices, and generously incorporating the work of other leading thinkers.”

—Adrian Parr, author of Earthlings: Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World

This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis through stories of multispecies agency and egalitarian political organization across history. Resonating across these practices and stories past and present is a belief that we are all—human as well as nonhuman—earthborn, and this can serve as the basis for reimagining democracy.

ALI ASLAM is assistant professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College. DAVID W. M c IVOR is associate professor of political science at Colorado State University. JOEL ALDEN

SCHLOSSER is chair and associate professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College.

Landscape Aesthetics Toward an Engaged Ecology

ALBERTO L. SIANI

“Combining theoretical rigor with a conversational style, Landscape Aesthetics offers an incisive shift in thinking and brings this fresh theory to bear on the ways we think about and live in worlds of crises.”

—Emma Waterton, director of the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre, University of York

The notion of landscape typically seems innocuous, associated with leisure and contemplation. Likewise, aesthetics is often seen as apolitical, a matter of subjective tastes and preferences. This book challenges the common understanding of these categories as disengaged and demonstrates how uniting landscape studies and philosophical aesthetics opens new ways of addressing both the environmental crisis and the crisis of the humanities.

ALBERTO L. SIANI is associate professor of aesthetics in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. He is the author of Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character (2023).

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SEPTEMBER 232 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

PHILOSOPHY

CRITICAL LIFE STUDIES

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JULY 256 pages / 6" x 9" / 48 b&w illustrations

PHILOSOPHY

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Out of Sight, Into Mind

The History and Philosophy of Yogic Perception

JED FORMAN

Most Indian and Tibetan religious traditions have some theory of yogic perception—a profound type of sentience afforded by meditative practice. And most consider it the bedrock of their religious authority, the primary means by which one gains spiritual insight. Disagreements about what yogis perceive abound, however, spanning many philosophical topics, including epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, and language. Out of Sight, Into Mind is a groundbreaking exploration of debates over yogic perception, revealing their contemporary relevance as a catalyst for comparative philosophy. Shedding new light on the intellectual history of yogic perception, this book models how a comparative approach can yield novel philosophical insights.

JED FORMAN is the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies at Simpson College. With the Yakherds collective of scholars, he is a coauthor of Knowing Illusion: Bringing a Tibetan Debate into Contemporary Discourse (2021).

Discerning Buddhas

Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism

KEVIN BUCKELEW

In Song-period China (960–1279 CE), masters in the Chan (Japanese Zen) school of Buddhism were presented as sources of religious authority on par with the Buddha, an almost unthinkably lofty status before the rise of Chan. This claim carried great rhetorical power, facilitating Chan’s appeal to Buddhist monastics and powerful patrons alike. But it also raised a challenging question for Chan Buddhists, who insisted that buddhahood properly transcends all worldly marks: By what signs could one recognize a Chan master as a buddha? Kevin Buckelew argues that Chan Buddhists wove together tropes of sovereignty, hospitality, and martial heroism drawn from both Buddhist tradition and China’s cultural heritage to develop a distinctive vision of what it meant for a Chan master to be a buddha in Song-period China.

KEVIN BUCKELEW is assistant professor of religious studies at Northwestern University. He is coeditor of Buddhist Masculinities (Columbia, 2023).

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DECEMBER 328 pages / 6" x 9"

PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION

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NOVEMBER 328 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 2 b&w illustrations

RELIGION

THE SHENG YEN SERIES IN CHINESE BUDDHIST STUDIES

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Gods in the World Placemaking and Healing in the Himalayas

AFTAB JASSAL

In the north Indian state of Uttarakhand, in the Central Himalayas, Hindu deities are ever-present in the lives of devotees. Gods in the World is a richly descriptive and evocative ethnography of Hindu ritual practices that shows how deities and other supernatural agents come to matter to ordinary people. Aftab S. Jassal traces how acts of placemaking, including healing practices that repair and restore relations between people and deities, allow deities to participate and intervene in human affairs. Bringing together fresh insights on the dynamics of caste and gender together with enduring questions about ritual, healing, and the nature of human-divine relations, this book offers a striking account of everyday Hinduism in a contested and rapidly changing region.

AFTAB S. JASSAL is assistant professor of anthropology as well as affiliate faculty in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Global Health Program at the University of California, San Diego.

The Shape of Spirituality

The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation

DICK HOUTMAN AND GALEN WATTS, EDITORS

The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is individualistic, privatized, and apolitical—and to make the definitive case for its social and political significance. Contributors examine the sweeping influence of spirituality on a variety of realms, including health care and therapeutic practice, popular culture, civic engagement, public protest, conspiracy culture, and progressive politics. Leveraging cutting-edge quantitative and qualitative data, this authoritative book makes clear that, far from being marginal and inconsequential, spirituality holds profound public importance today.

DICK HOUTMAN is professor of sociology of culture and religion at the Center for Sociological Research, University of Leuven.

GALEN WATTS is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo.

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NOVEMBER 264 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 1 map, 14 b&w photographs

RELIGION

RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE

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OCTOBER 352 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

RELIGION / SOCIOLOGY

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The Rebirth of Suspense Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema

RICK WARNER

“Warner offers a provocative rethinking of suspense that gives us a new way of seeing works of slow cinema and the aesthetic of slowness more generally. Sophisticated but accessible, this is an exciting work of film scholarship.”

—Jordan Schonig, author of The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement

This ambitious and wide-ranging book offers a redefinition of suspense by considering its unlikely incarnations in the contemporary films that have been called “slow cinema.”

Rick Warner examines works in which suspense arises where the boundaries between art cinema and popular genres become indefinite, including Chantal Akerman’s La captive, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves, Lucrecia Martel’s Zama, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy, and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return.

RICK WARNER is an associate professor and director of film studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Harun Farocki Forms of Intelligence

NORA M. ALTER

“Alter’s book is an exemplary labor of love. It approaches Farocki’s films with the very intelligence, care, sophistication, and open-mindedness his work continues to call for and deserves.”

—Lutz Koepnick, author of Resonant Matter: Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality

Harun Farocki was one of the world’s most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and video, and art installations, which have been exhibited globally. This groundbreaking book is an incisive and comprehensive analysis of Farocki’s oeuvre, shedding new light on his media experimentation and writings across platforms and venues.

NORA M. ALTER is professor of film and media arts at Temple University. Her books include Chris Marker (2006) and The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction (Columbia, 2018).

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SEPTEMBER 288 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 85 b&w images

FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

FILM AND CULTURE SERIES

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JUNE 272 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 39 b&w images

FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES

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Unseasonable Climate Change in Global Literatures

SARAH DIMICK

“After reading Unseasonable, you cannot but see your local environments as arrhythmic and out of seasonal joint. As climate crisis and literature encode new memories, we need—and Dimick provides— better accounts of the ‘when’ of climate justice.”

—Heather Houser, author of Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data

Sarah Dimick links accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified through literature. Ranging from Henry David Thoreau’s journals to Alexis Wright’s depiction of Australia’s catastrophic bushfires, from classical Tamil poetry to repeat photography, she contends that climate injustice is an increasingly temporal issue. Amid misaligned and broken rhythms, attending to the shared but disparate experience of the unseasonable can realign or sharpen solidarities within the climate crisis.

SARAH DIMICK is assistant professor of English at Northwestern University.

The Rise of Pacific Literature

Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism

MAEBH LONG AND MATTHEW HAYWARD

“This book is a triumph. With deft and illuminating close readings, Long and Hayward convey the twists and turns—and reciprocal relationships—by which a genuinely local and significant literary culture emerged in Oceania.”

—Stephen Ross, author of Spectrality in Modern Fiction

In the 1960s and 1970s, the staff and students of two newly founded universities in the Pacific Islands helped foster a golden age of Oceanian literature. Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward examine the reading and teaching of Pacific oral narratives, European and American modernisms, and African, Caribbean, and Indian literature, tracing how Oceanian writers appropriated and reworked key texts and techniques.

MAEBH LONG is senior lecturer in English at the University of Waikato. She is the author of Assembling Flann O’Brien (2014). MATTHEW HAYWARD is senior lecturer in literature and acting head of the School of Pacific Arts, Communication, and Education at the University of the South Pacific. Long and Hayward are coeditors of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (2019).

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OCTOBER 304 pages / 5.5" x 8.5" / 11 b&w illustrations

LITERARY STUDIES

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AUGUST 304 pages / 6" x 9"

LITERARY STUDIES

MODERNIST LATITUDES

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Embodied Performance

Warriors, Dancers, and the Origins of Noh Theater

MATSUOKA SHINPEI

Translated by Janet Goff

Foreword by Haruo Shirane

“Embodied Performance is arguably the most important and influential book on medieval Japanese performance published in the last thirty years.”

—Reginald Jackson, author of A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei—a leading scholar of noh theater— provides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japan’s most celebrated art forms.

MATSUOKA SHINPEI is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has published numerous works on medieval Japanese literature and culture.

JANET GOFF (1946–2022) was a scholar and devotee of noh and the author of Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays (1991).

HARUO SHIRANE is the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines A Reader

HOWARD CHIANG AND SHU-MEI

SHIH, EDITORS

“Essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the stakes and contributions of one of the most important challenges in recent decades to dominant ways of knowing about Asia in its global relations.”

—Takashi Fujitani, author of Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II

This reader presents the latest and most cutting-edge work in Sinophone studies, bringing together both senior and emerging scholars to highlight the interdisciplinary reach and significance of this vital field. It gives readers an unparalleled survey of the past, present, and future of Sinophone studies.

HOWARD CHIANG is the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, a professor of East Asian languages and cultural studies, and the director of the Center for Taiwan Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

SHU-MEI SHIH is the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Humanities and professor of Asian languages and cultures, comparative literature, and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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JULY 328 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

ASIAN STUDIES

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SEPTEMBER 400 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 17 b&w images

ASIAN STUDIES

GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE

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If All the World Were Paper

A History of Writing in Hindi

TYLER W. WILLIAMS

“Williams proposes an entirely new way of understanding the genesis of Hindi literature as a whole—through the books that encase and support it, in all their physical glory and specificity. This book about books is itself a truly beautiful book, page after page after page.”

—John Stratton Hawley, author of Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the Twenty-First Century

How do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? Tyler W. Williams shows that the material and social processes through which the vernacular of Hindi came to be written down and the particular form that it took played a critical role in establishing it as a language capable of transmitting poetry, erudition, and even revelation. If All the World Were Paper demonstrates that the ways books were inscribed, organized, and used can tell us as much about their meaning and significance as the texts within them.

TYLER W. WILLIAMS is an associate professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

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SEPTEMBER 328 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

ASIAN STUDIES

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Discovered but Forgotten

The Maldives in Chinese History, c. 1100-1620

BIN YANG

“This is an engrossing book, one that is hard to put aside once you dive into its oceanic depths.”

—Victor Mair, coeditor of Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbors

Chinese traders and explorers first visited the Maldives, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, in the early fourteenth century. But the island kingdom vanished from Chinese records by the end of the sixteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including Chinese and Jesuit maps and archaeological analysis of shipwrecks— Discovered but Forgotten is a pioneering examination of China’s relations with the Maldives, offering new ways to understand Chinese maritime exploration and the global history of the Indian Ocean.

BIN YANG is professor of history at City University of Hong Kong. His books include Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Columbia, 2008) and Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History (2019).

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21233-5

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OCTOBER 384 pages / 6" x 9" / 7 b&w Illustrations, 8 tables, 6 maps

HISTORY

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Working for Debt

Banks, Loan Sharks, and the Origins of Financial Exploitation in the United States

SIMON BITTMANN

“A fascinating social history of wage credit and a powerful contribution to the expanding sociological study of exploitation.”

—Christopher Muller, Harvard University

Working for Debt explores how the fight against wage loans divided the American credit market along class, race, and gender lines. Simon Bittmann argues that the moral and political crusades of Progressive Era reformers helped create the exclusionary credit markets that favored white male breadwinners. The politics of credit expansion served to obscure the failures of U.S. capitalism, using the “loan shark” as a scapegoat for larger, deeper depredations. As credit became a core feature of U.S. capitalism, the association of legitimate borrowing with white middle-class households and the financial exclusion of others was entrenched.

SIMON BITTMANN is a tenured researcher in sociology at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the University of Strasbourg.

Energy Citizenship

Coal and Democracy in the American Century

TRISH KAHLE

The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning of citizenship in an energy-intensive democracy. Tracing the uncertain relationship between coal and democracy from the Progressive Era to the election of Ronald Reagan, this book unmasks the violence of energy systems and shows how energy governance cuts to the heart of persistent questions about democracy, justice, and equality.

TRISH KAHLE is a historian of energy, work, and politics at Georgetown University Qatar and co-leads the Energy Humanities Research Initiative at the Center for International and Regional Studies.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20289-3

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AUGUST 360 pages / 6" x 9" / 35 figures

HISTORY / SOCIOLOGY

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OCTOBER 432 pages / 6" x 9" / 30 b&w Illustrations

HISTORY

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The Feminist Pacific

International Women’s Networks in Hawai‘i, 1820–1940

RUMI YASUTAKE

“Yasutake’s focus on a multicultural society struggling with imperialism allows us to see a new dimension of transnational women’s activism.”

—Leila J Rupp, author of Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement

As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s organizing in this era of rapid globalization, tracing how diverse movements intersected and converged in Hawai‘i—with worldwide consequences. Bridging nineteenth-century Protestant churchwomen’s evangelism with twentiethcentury feminist internationalism, this book recasts women’s global organizing from the perspective of the Pacific.

RUMI YASUTAKE is a professor emerita at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. She is the author of Transnational Women’s Activism: The United States, Japan, and Japanese American Immigrant Communities in California, 1859–1920 (2004).

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AUGUST 304 pages / 6" x 9"

HISTORY

GLOBAL AMERICA

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Killing the Elites Haiti, 1964

JEAN-PHILIPPE BELLEAU

In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. Entire families—all from the town’s upper class—were slaughtered. Through a rich historical ethnography of the massacre, Jean-Philippe Belleau offers a new account of the workings of the François “Papa Doc” Duvalier regime and an innovative analysis of anti-elite violence. Drawing on interviews with eyewitnesses and former regime members as well as a wide range of unexplored primary sources, this book reveals why the victimization of the elite is essential to mass violence.

JEAN-PHILIPPE BELLEAU is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He worked for several years in human rights and diplomacy with the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and NGOs.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21379-0

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SEPTEMBER 368 pages / 6.125" x 9.25" / 20 figures

HISTORY / ANTHROPOLOGY

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Styles for Flourishing

Histories of Survival in the Racial Niche

GABRIEL ALEJANDRO TORRES COLÓN

“Torres Colón deftly explores how some communities develop distinctive styles within ‘racial niches’ in order to flourish and celebrate their collective culture.”

—Lee D Baker, author of From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896–1954

Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón develops an innovative theory to grasp racial experiences in their full sociocultural complexity, with vital implications for both social science and antiracist politics. This book demonstrates how people draw from their experiences to fashion “styles for flourishing”—embodied strategies for survival in racialized societies that can both reproduce and contest racial orders. Torres Colón explores how styles develop within “racial niches” through nuanced considerations of a boxing gym in the U.S. Rust Belt, Afro–Puerto Rican community organizing in an ancestral mangrove forest, and Muslim political activism in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa.

GABRIEL ALEJANDRO TORRES COLÓN is assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He is a coauthor of Genetic Ancestry: Our Stories, Our Pasts (2021).

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SEPTEMBER 280 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

ANTHROPOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY

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We Are Each Other’s Business

Black Women’s Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement

NICOLE M. BROWN

“Ambitious and illuminating. The lessons Brown draws are just as urgent today.”

—Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Nicole M. Brown examines Black women’s leadership within the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement, calling for understanding them as sophisticated strategists who engaged the tensions among capitalism, consumerism, and economic liberation. She analyzes Black women’s engagement with consumer credit, tracing how they linked consumption with citizenship and critiqued the state’s treatment of the poor. Bringing together historical sociology, computational methods, and intersectional Black feminist theory, We Are Each Other’s Business offers innovative and generative insights into Black women’s struggle for political and economic equity.

NICOLE M. BROWN is associate professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s College of California.

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20523-8

$130.00 / £109.00 cloth 978-0-231-20522-1

$31.99 / £28.00 e-book 978-0-231-55590-6

AUGUST 240 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles

Desire Objects and Human Rights

LEA DAVID

Everyday items found at the sites of atrocities possess a striking emotional force. Victims’ garments, broken glasses, wallets, shoes, and other such personal property that are recovered from places of death including concentration camps, mass graves, and prisons have become staples of memorial museums, exhibited to the public as material testimony in order to evoke sympathy and promote human rights. Lea David examines how artifacts of atrocities circulate and, in so doing, sheds new light on the institutions and social processes that shape collective memory of human rights abuses.

LEA DAVID is an assistant professor in the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. She is the author of The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (2020).

Civic Activism in South Korea

The Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism

SEUNGSOOK MOON

“Analytically acute and deftly presented, Civic Activism in South Korea is not only a challenging analysis of the country but also an important statement about the wider world.”

—John Lie, author of Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea

Examining how “citizens’ organizations” in South Korea negotiate with the market and neoliberal governance, Seungsook Moon offers new ways to understand the intricate relationship between democracy and neoliberalism as modes of ruling. Bringing together rich empirical cases with deft theoretical analysis, she argues that neoliberalism simultaneously enables and constrains civic activism. This book illuminates the contradictions of social engagement today, with global implications.

SEUNGSOOK MOON is professor of sociology at Vassar College. She is the author of Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea (2005).

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21774-3

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21773-6

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-56188-4

DECEMBER 416 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21149-9

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21148-2

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-55893-8

JULY 320 pages / 6" x 9" / 12 b&w photographs

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Everyday Democracy

Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China

ANTHONY J. SPIRES

Everyday Democracy is a groundbreaking study of bottom-up organizations in China, arguing that even in an authoritarian state, they nurture the skills and habits of democracy. Anthony J. Spires offers an in-depth look at two youth-based, youth-led volunteer groups in which ideals of equality, mutual respect, and dignity have motivated young people to invent new practices and norms that contrast greatly with typical top-down organizational culture. Drawing on more than a decade of field-based research with a diverse array of participants, this book pinpoints the seeds of a democratic culture inside an authoritarian regime.

ANTHONY J. SPIRES is a sociologist and associate professor at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies. He is the author of Global Civil Society and China (2024).

The Extraordinary in the Mundane

Family and Forms of Community in China

BECKY YANG HSU, EDITOR

How do individuals address serious challenges in a context where organized gatherings are subject to strict government control? This book brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the many ways people in China self-organize and create varied forms of coordination to solve important problems. Through compelling, detail-rich case studies, The Extraordinary in the Mundane provides a wide-ranging and timely examination of the varieties of civic action in contemporary China.

BECKY YANG HSU is associate professor of sociology at Georgetown University, where she is also affiliated with the Asian Studies Program and is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Her most recent book is The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness: Anxieties, Hopes, and Moral Tensions in Everyday Life (coedited with Richard Madsen, 2019).

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21151-2

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21150-5

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-55894-5

NOVEMBER 320 pages / 6.125" x 9.25"

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights Except Chinese (Simplified and Complex) Language Rights: Columbia University Press; Chinese-language Rights: The Author

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-21791-0

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-21790-3

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-56196-9

DECEMBER 320 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Distancing the Past

Racism as History in South African Schools

CHANA TEEGER

“In this brilliant ethnography, Teeger analyzes how young South Africans learn about apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Expertly researched, beautifully written, and filled with deep insights, this book should be widely read everywhere difficult histories need to be reckoned with.”

—Mary C Waters, Harvard University

Chana Teeger examines how young South Africans, born into democracy, confront their country’s racist apartheid past in high school history lessons. Drawing on extensive observational, interview, and textual data, Distancing the Past vividly chronicles how students learn that racism is a thing of the past, even as they experience it in their everyday lives. This timely account of the remaking of race and inequality in the aftermath of de jure discrimination offers vital lessons for other societies grappling with their own racist histories.

CHANA TEEGER is an associate professor in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a senior research associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-21341-7

$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-21340-0

$29.99 / £25.00 e-book 978-0-231-55987-4

JUNE 192 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

Curricular Injustice

How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities

LAUREN D. OLSEN

“Curricular Injustice shows why medicine as currently taught will continue to marginalize patients and what must change for health systems and providers to offer more humane and equitable care.”

—Janet K Shim, University of California, San Francisco

Medical schools have increasingly incorporated the humanities and social sciences into their teaching, seeking to make future physicians more empathetic and more concerned with equity. In practice, however, such education has often not only failed to deliver on its promise but even entrenched the inequalities that the medical profession set out to address. Lauren D. Olsen examines how U.S. medical school faculty conceived, designed, and implemented their vision of education, tracing the failures of curricular reform.

LAUREN D. OLSEN is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology within the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20787-4

$140.00 / £117.00 cloth 978-0-231-20786-7

$34.99 / £30.00 e-book 978-0-231-55715-3

JULY 312 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

SOCIOLOGY

All Rights: Columbia University Press

The Company

VERÓNICA GERBER BICECCI

Translated by Christina MacSweeney Epilogue by Cristina Rivera Garza

“Gerber Bicecci moves us toward the past and the future, without for an instant forgetting the present we share. . . . Nothing is at peace here, everything is at stake.”

—from the epilogue by Cristina Rivera Garza

“The most fascinating book I have read this year is La compañía [The Company], by Verónica Gerber

Bicecci, a brilliant exercise in appropriation and remix that conjures the ghosts of a family to delve into the ruins of mining in Mexico.”

—Jorge Carrión, The New York Times (2019)

$16.00* / £12.99 paper 979-8-9879264-9-9

OCTOBER 200 pages / 7" x 6" / 75 b&w illustrations

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Based on a trip to the now abandoned Mexican mercury mining town of San Felipe Nuevo Mercurio, The Company explores the development of mercury mining as a technology and its present environmental consequences, both predictable and unforeseen, in what Cristina Rivera Garza terms “an exemplary disappropriative work.”

The first part of the book involves a rewriting of Amparo Dávila’s “The Houseguest,” changing specific aspects of the text: verb tenses are transposed to the future; the houseguest becomes the menacing presence of The Company; and the domestic helper who suffers the intimidation of The Company along with her unnamed female employer is the machine. In part B, scientific reports dating from the 1950s to the present day, conversations with experts and miners, and excerpts from the story of “Long, Tall José” construct a history of mercury mining in the area and the subsequent environmental contamination. In both sections, text is accompanied by images that range from Gerber Bicecci’s intervened photographs of the ghost town and the surrounding area to technical diagrams and reinterpreted maps, as well as pictograms from Manuel Felguérez’s La máquina estética (1975).

VERÓNICA GERBER BICECCI is a visual artist who writes. Her works include the series of drawings Diagrams of Silence and the collection of essays Mudanza. She currently coordinates, with Guillermo Espinosa Estrada, the Permanent Diagonal Writing Workshop in Mexico City.

CHRISTINA M ac SWEENEY is the translator of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth, which received the 2016 Valle Inclán Translation Prize and was also shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Her translations include collaborations with Daniel Saldaña París, Elvira Navarro, Julián Herbert, Jazmina Barrera, and Karla Suárez.

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the acclaimed author of The Iliac Crest, The Taiga Syndrome, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, and Ningún reloj cuenta esto

Crossing Waters

LUISA ETXENIKE

Translated by Lilit

Žekulin Thwaites

Manuela left Colombia a year ago for a coastal town in the Basque region of Spain together with her nine-year-old son, Juan Camilo, who has not said a word since they arrived. She is now working as a housekeeper-companion to Irene, a well-known dress designer left blind as the result of an accident. Gradually, as the two women exchange their stories, cope with the boy’s silence, and forge a strong friendship, the traumatic events that changed all of their lives emerge, with unexpected consequences.

Luisa Etxenike’s Cruzar el agua / Crossing Waters is a powerful reflection on the need to avoid nostalgia, to move forward, to grow and adapt to new situations and environments. The images are haunting, and the language is starkly simple and poetic.

LUISA ETXENIKE is an award-winning author from the Basque Country. She has published nine novels, two books of short stories, a collection of poetry, three plays, a noir novel, and the nonfiction book Correspondence with Mircea Catarescu

LILIT ŽEKULIN THWAITES is an award-winning Australian literary translator of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. She is the English translator of the renowned Spanish writer Rosa Montero as well as Antonio Iturbe’s The Librarian of Auschwitz (2017).

$12.00* / £9.99 paper 979-8-9903224-0-0

OCTOBER 200 pages / 5" x 7"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

The Book of Affects

MARÍLIA ARNAUD

Translated by Ilze Duarte

Critically acclaimed in her native Brazil, Marília Arnaud now reaches a wider, international readership with this bilingual edition of O Livro dos Afetos / The Book of Affects. In this short story collection, Arnaud uncovers the moving, complex, and often mystifying workings of the human heart as her characters grapple with desire, jealousy, betrayal, loss, and longing in nine stories ranging from the tender to the violent. From alternating points of view—male and female, adult and child—Arnaud’s assured voice breathes life into these characters. Arnaud’s writing echoes some of Clarice Lispector’s themes—love, loss, gender, the complexity of human relationships—yet sets itself apart with its distinctive narrative style and diction. The Book of Affects offers an enticing sample of the talent and skill that make Arnaud one of the most accomplished Brazilian writers of our time.

MARÍLIA ARNAUD is the author of three novels: Suite of Silence, Liturgy of the End, and The Secret Bird, winner of the 2021 Kindle Prize in Literature in Brazil.

ILZE DUARTE translates fiction by contemporary Brazilian authors. She is a recipient of the Sundial House 2024 Literary Translation Award for this translation

$12.00* / £9.99 paper 979-8-9879264-6-8

DECEMBER 200 pages / 5" x 7"

FICTION IN TRANSLATION

Rockbook is an independent press founded by a Japanese and French team and based in France. It aims to bring Japanese wonders to the world.

Pop Yokai

Contemporary Character Art of Japan

AKIKO IWAMOTO, EDITOR

Supervision by Masanobu Kagawa

Art by Chubei Yagyu

Photographs by Atsushi Nomura

Translated in collaboration with Cathy Hirano Yokai are strange, mysterious creatures that populate Japanese folklore and inspire contemporary art and entertainment, such as Pokémon and the Oscarwinning film Spirited Away. The Yokai Art Museum, which is situated on the idyllic island of Shodoshima in the Seto Inland Sea, is the only museum in Japan dedicated solely to contemporary yokai and boasts a collection of almost 1,000 artworks. Visitors are guided by the voice of one such creature as they discover the origins and history of yokai and explore the contemporary world through yokai-themed art. This fascinating, one-of-a-kind museum is reproduced in the pages of this book. It includes material written by Dr. Masanobu Kagawa, the first accredited Japanese yokai scholar and the author of many yokai-related books; original works created for this publication by the yokai artist and museum director Chubei Yagyu; and yokai tales from Shodoshima and other parts of Kagawa.

AKIKO IWAMOTO runs a publisher based in France that aims to make Japanese curious culture known worldwide.

MASANOBU KAGAWA (known as Dr. Yokai) is the author of many yokai-related books, the first accredited Japanese yokai scholar, and head curator of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History.

CHUBEI YAGYU is Japan’s leading yokai artist and the director of the Yokai Art Museum.

ATSUSHI NOMURA is a Shodoshima-based photographer whose work has been exhibited in Tokyo, Paris, and New York.

$45.00* / £38.00 paper 978-2-9589451-0-7

NOVEMBER 208 pages / 7.16" x 10.12" / Color illustrations and color photos throughout ART

CATHY HIRANO is an award-winning translator whose most recognized work is for the lifestyle guru Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Shifting Shorelines

Art, Industry, and Ecology Along the Hudson River

ANNETTE BLAUGRUND, BETTI-SUE HERTZ,

ELIZABETH W. HUTCHINSON, AND DOROTHY M. PETEET, EDITORS

Shifting Shorelines, published in conjunction with an eponymous exhibition, brings together historical and contemporary art, material culture, and environmental science to engage in an interdisciplinary critical dialogue. Through visual, ecological, and material evidence the authors demonstrate the various cycles of exploitation, damage, and reclamation. In so doing, the publication offers a counter reading of the received art historical narratives about the “scenic Hudson”—narratives overwhelmingly grounded on the work of white male artists—and aims for a rich and complex understanding of the legacy, lives, and livelihoods along the river informed by the voices and experiences of a broad range of creators. By focusing deeply on a specific place, this richly illustrated collection of essays offers a story of human and more-than-human history that reverberated across the country on other industrialized rivers such as the Mississippi, Ohio, and Columbia.

ANNETTE BLAUGRUND is the former director of the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts.

BETTI-SUE HERTZ is director and chief curator at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery.

ELIZABETH W. HUTCHINSON is Tow Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard College.

DOROTHY M. PETEET is a senior research scientist at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies and adjunct professor at Columbia University.

$45.00 / £38.00 paper 978-1-884919-39-8

OCTOBER 160 pages / 8" x 11" / 80 color illustrations ART

Hungry Ghosts

GABRIELE TINTI AND ROGER BALLEN

Translated by David Graham

Hungry Ghosts sees the prize-winning poet Gabriele Tinti collaborate with the acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen on a unique artistic engagement with the furthest edges of life and consciousness. Drawing inspiration from the Petavatthu verses of the Buddhist tradition, Hungry Ghosts is a thrilling evocation of the disturbing visions and the yearnings for a world beyond that have fed both ancient and modern understandings of the afterlife.

Taking as their starting points the simplest of media—respectively, the brief epigraphic verse and the photographic negative—Tinti and Ballen have produced something truly extraordinary: a masterfully crafted series of poems in dialogue with a stunning array of phantasmagoric images. Tinti’s verse has become renowned for its combination of rigorous sparseness on the level of diction with imagery of an extraordinary power and resonance. These qualities are once again much in evidence in Hungry Ghosts, but Tinti’s response to Ballen’s brilliant and disquieting works has also led him to explore an entirely new terrain: the uncanny borderlands between life and death.

ROGER BALLEN is an award-winning photographer based in South Africa, renowned both for the documentary-style works featured in series such as Platteland: Images from Rural South Africa and for his more recent, experimental images incorporating artistic forms such as painting and sculpture.

GABRIELE TINTI is an Italian poet and writer. He has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum, among many other institutions.

DAVID GRAHAM lives in Venice and has been translating from Italian to English for almost thirty years.

$45.00* / £38.00 paper 978-1-91680974-1

OCTOBER 182 pages / 8.66” x 10.63” / 40 b&w illustrations

POETRY / PHOTOGRAPHY

Age of Anxiety

Second edition, with a new introduction and revised translation

CONSTANTINE TSOUCALAS

Translated by Alex Stavrakas

We live in an age of ever-deepening anxiety. Free of convictions, released from certainties, we appear untethered—and alone. The values that underpinned our sense of and need for collectivity have been reduced to their lowest common denominator: liberty means nothing more than exploiting our individuality; equality has become an empty political slogan; and as for solidarity, it’s nowhere to be seen. Such ruptures are neither accidental nor benign. The not-so-brave new social mandates are outgrowths of globalization’s casualties: the complete eclipsing of political sovereignty, the gradual weakening of national identities, and the breakdown of the welfare state. The situation is one of crisis.

In this revelatory contribution to political science and sociology, Constantine Tsoucalas draws upon a wide range of philosophical discourses to understand and diagnose our anxious, opiate-seeking age and to suggest that identity and difference have been incorporated into the deepest substratum of capital, culminating in our times’ greatest woe: the extreme fetishization of the self.

CONSTANTINE TSOUCALAS has worked at the Athens Centre for Social Research and at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He has served as a professor of sociology at the University of Paris and, since 1985, as a professor of sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Athens, and he has also been an Alexander S. Onassis Fellow and a visiting professor at the Columbia and Princeton Universities.

$20.00* / £16.99 paper 978-1-91680975-8

NOVEMBER 170 pages / 4.92” x 7.72”

SOCIOLOGY / POLITICS

“Greece’s preeminent sociologist.”

—Helena Smith, The Guardian

ERIS GEMS

ERIS gems make available in the form of beautifully produced saddle-stitched booklets a series of outstanding short works of fiction and nonfiction.

The Fly

KATHERINE MANSFIELD

$6.00* / £4.99 paper 978-1-91680977-2

SEPTEMBER 20 pages / 4.33" x 7.87" FICTION

On Being Ill

VIRGINIA WOOLF

$6.00* / £4.99 paper 978-1-91680979-6

SEPTEMBER 20 pages / 4.33" x 7.87" ESSAY

The Case Against Travel

AGNES CALLARD

$6.00* / £4.99 paper 978-1-91680981-9

SEPTEMBER 20 pages / 4.33" x 7.87" PHILOSOPHY

The Right to Be Lazy

PAUL LAFARGUE

Translated by Charles Kerr

$6.00* / £4.99 paper 978-1-91680983-3

SEPTEMBER 20 pages / 4.33" x 7.87" POLITICS

Helen’s Exile

ALBERT CAMUS

Translated by Justin O’Brien

$6.00* / £4.99 paper 978-1-91680985-7

SEPTEMBER 20 pages / 4.33" x 7.87" PHILOSOPHY

Justice in Palestine

MAHATMA GANDHI

$6.00* / £4.99 paper 978-1-91680988-8

MAY 14 pages / 4.33" x 7.87" POLITICS

Floating Exchange Rates at Fifty

DOUGLAS A. IRWIN AND MAURICE OBSTFELD, EDITORS

Fifty years ago, in March 1973, the major industrial economies abandoned fixed exchange rates, conclusively ending the post–World War II Bretton Woods arrangements. Since then, much of the world has moved away from fixed exchange rates to a variety of regimes based on considerable exchange rate flexibility. How has the international monetary system performed over the past half century? What have we learned from the experience of more flexible exchange rates? This book brings together leading economists and policy makers to debate and discuss these questions, as well as to assess the evolution of the international monetary system, the dominance of the U.S. dollar, and the role of exchange rate regimes in shaping the world economy.

MAURICE OBSTFELD is Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.

DOUGLAS A. IRWIN , nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is the John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College.

The Green Frontier Assessing the Economic Implications of Climate Action

JEAN PISANI-FERRY AND ADAM S. POSEN, EDITORS

Addressing climate change will entail major challenges for economic growth, employment, inflation, and public finances. But much uncertainty surrounds the channels through which mitigation and adjustment efforts yield benefits or impose costs on the global economy, from nations to workers, households, and companies. The Green Frontier offers research originally presented at a major conference at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in June 2023 in Washington, DC, organized to shed light on this field of study and recommend policies for the future.

JEAN PISANI-FERRY is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and senior fellow at Bruegel.

ADAM S. POSEN is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-88132-749-6

$19.99 / £16.99 e-book 978-0-88132-750-2

APRIL 384 pages / 6" x 9" / 51 figures, 8 charts

ECONOMICS

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-88132-751-9

$19.99 / £16.99 e-book 978-0-88132-752-6

JUNE 450 pages / 6" x 9" / 77 b&w illustrations, 7 charts

ECONOMICS

Jahan Ara Begum, 1614–1681

A Biographical Study

NAUSHEEN JAFFERY

Edited by Shailaja Kathuria

A seventeenth-century princess left behind a varied legacy that is still a vibrant part of India in the form of the Chandni Chowk bazaar of Delhi, the commercial port city of Surat in Gujarat, the gardens of Kashmir, the Jama Masjid of Agra, and her scholarly works on Sufi saints. Nausheen Jaffery tells the story of the remarkable Jahan Ara (1614–1681), who was entrusted with responsibilities at a very young age, exploring her accomplishments, power, piety, and place in history.

NAUSHEEN JAFFERY (1972–2004) was a historian trained at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her English translation of Sair-ul-Manazil, a nineteenthcentury Persian text, edited and introduced by Swapna Liddle, was published in 2017. This book is an edited, updated version of her MPhil dissertation, a biographical sketch of the Mughal princess Jahan Ara.

SHAILAJA KATHURIA works on the sustainability of traditional knowledge and skills with marginalized communities, as well as on the relevance of history and heritage. Her research specialization is nineteenth-century Agra.

The Kokani Muslims

Mausim’s

Children

SABRINA CAZI MODAK AND NAAZNEEN TABISH HUMZA

This book explores the world of a littoral community, the Kokani Muslims. The story of this multiracial, multiethnic community begins 1,300 years ago when Arab and Persian merchants came to the Konkan to trade. The community grew when locals embraced their faith and when Muslim migrants from Gujarat, the Deccan, and Uttar Pradesh in India and from Africa joined the fold. This melange of populations brought about a composite culture that shines through in the houses, attire, cuisine, rituals, and traditions of the Kokani Muslims. Today, this community of about a quarter of a million people is spread across the globe, with the majority in India. This book also presents short biographies of Kokani people who have distinguished themselves by their enterprise, ingenuity, and perseverance.

SABRINA CAZI MODAK is a Kokani first-time author who lives in Mumbai.

NAAZNEEN TABISH HUMZA , a Mumbai-based lawyer, was an academic and an Urdu storyteller.

$39.00 / £32.00 cloth 978-81-958394-2-1

DECEMBER 208 pages / 6.25" x 9.5" / b&w illustrations

HISTORY

$60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-81-965803-8-4

DECEMBER 384 pages / 6.25" x 9.5" / b&w illustrations

ETHNOGRAPHY / SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Political Choices

Essays on State, Resistance, and Intellectuals

NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJI

Advanced industrial states have developed colossal instruments of propaganda and violence to throttle popular opposition and disenfranchise the working masses. In the absence of mass movements, forms of terror have taken over the role of resistance. Terror is now used as a pretext for controlling domestic populations, targeting specific communities, and launching wars of aggression abroad. What options for resistance are now available to halt what otherwise looks like an inevitable course toward doom? These essays are an effort to come to grips with this overwhelming question. They are expressions of anguish and anger and celebrations of little glimmers of hope—attempts to analyze, understand, expose, and act.

NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJI is a former professor of philosophy, University of Delhi. He is the author of December 13: Terror Over Democracy and Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege

The Ghazal Eros

Lyric Queerness in History

SHAD NAVED

The old ghazal, the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian, and Arabic, has been read as great literature but seldom as a document of history. This book argues that there is a key yet neglected element—the expression of masculine passion for a masculine object— that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages. A focus on this element, which Shad Naved terms lyric queerness, in mainstream cultural history and even LGBTQ studies reveals a lyrical corpus that was historically aware, vernacularizing, and suspicious of otherworldly interpretations.

SHAD NAVED is a comparatist and translator at Dr B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. He has published on the lyric, its multilingual tendencies, and its teaching in classrooms today.

$52.00 / £45.00 cloth 978-81-9658034-6

DECEMBER 312 pages / 6.25" x 9.5"

POLITICS / ESSAYS

$37.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-81-9658031-5

DECEMBER 196 pages / 6.25" x 9.5"

LITERARY / CULTURAL HISTORY

The War for Chinese Talent in America

The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-U.S. Relations

DAVID ZWEIG

in the 21st Century

To overcome so-called brain drain, some developing countries employ the “Diaspora Option,” encouraging their overseas nationals to use the knowledge they gain abroad to help their motherland. Since the mid-1990s, China’s party-state has vigorously used an extensive array of programs and incentives to persuade ethnic Chinese living in America to transfer their technological knowhow back home. Many Chinese working abroad facilitated this flow, some to strengthen their former homeland, others from self-interest. In 2018, the Trump administration declared war on these efforts. Employing a McCarthy-like campaign called the “China Initiative,” the government investigated Chinese scientists across the United States. The campaign affected hundreds, with many losing their jobs, and some were even briefly arrested.

This book documents China’s no-holds-barred effort to access U.S. technology and America’s vigorous counterattack and efforts to disrupt the transfer of U.S. technology to China. It highlights how the war has undermined Sino-American scientific collaboration and triggered the outflow of some top Chinese talent from the United States back to China.

DAVID ZWEIG is professor emeritus, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST); distinguished visiting professor at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan; and vice president of the Center for China and Globalization (Beijing). For fifteen years, he directed the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at HKUST.

$18.00 / £14.99 paper 978-1-952636-49-3

$17.99 / £14.99 e-book 978-1-952636-52-3

JULY 200 pages / 6" x 9"

ASIAN STUDIES / POLITICS

ASIA SHORTS

Murakami Haruki on Film

MARC

YAMADA

This book examines the cinematic adaptations of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki’s fiction over the past forty years. Films based on Murakami’s work—including Tony Takitani (2004), Norwegian Wood (2010), Burning (2018), and Drive My Car (2022)—manifest a contradictory impulse to faithfully capture the author’s literary worlds while also expanding and developing these worlds. Created by directors from Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Mexico, and the United States, among other national traditions, these films demonstrate the way adaptations say something new about the different cultural contexts in which they appear. Though the creative reworking of Murakami’s literary worlds threatens to distance us from the author, this book argues that the process of “translating” Murakami from one medium to another references the theme of transformation that is central to his work.

MARC YAMADA is a professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Brigham Young University. His recent books include Kore-eda Hirokazu: Shared Spaces of Filmmaking (2023) and Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades (2019).

$18.00 / £14.99 paper 978-1-952636-53-0

$17.99 / £14.99 e-book 978-1-952636-54-7

OCTOBER 180 pages / 6" x 9"

FILM STUDIES

ASIA SHORTS

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema

RACHEL D i NITTO, EDITOR

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. The films examined cover 1954 through 2020 and include documentaries, monster films, cult films, studio blockbusters, and activist cinema. The chapters highlight important moments in disaster ecocinema, introduce films not well known outside of Japan, and analyze films not previously read through an environmental lens. Chapters are organized under intersecting themes that address the slow and fast violence of local and planetary environmental destruction: toxicscapes, contaminated futures and childhoods, nuclear anxiety and violence, and ruined and apocalyptic landscapes. This book showcases a range of directors, eras, audiences, and genres and illustrates the profound diversity of Japanese films that feature systemic assaults on the environment.

RACHEL D i NITTO is a professor of Japanese literary and cultural studies at University of Oregon. She is the author of Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster (2019).

$18.00 / £14.99 paper 978-1-952636-50-9

$17.99 / £14.99 e-book 978-1-952636-51-6

SEPTEMBER 260 pages / 6" x 9"

FILM STUDIES

ASIA SHORTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Wiesław Krajka: Introduction

Wiesław Krajka: The Methodology of Studying Joseph Conrad Globally in the 21st Century: Reflections on the Publishing Strategy of the Series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives

Lilia Omelan: Stefan Bobrowski: A Faithful Fighter for Poland’s Freedom

Lilia Omelan: Conrad’s Lwów

Karol Samsel: The Echoes of Polish Romanticism in Nostromo

Daniel Vogel: Conradian “Heart of Darkness” in Selected Science Fiction Works by Stanisław Lem: Solaris, Return from the Stars, and Fiasco

Ewa Kujawska-Lis: Janko Góral: The Polish Face of “Amy Foster”—Between Translation, Appropriation, and Refraction

Wiesław Krajka: Social Archetypes of Identity in Joseph Conrad’s “Tomorrow,” One Day More, and Jutro by Baird, Hussakowski, and Sito

Olga Binczyk: First Encounters: Joseph Conrad on Reading Lists Among Pre-College Audiences

Mirosława Buchholtz: Digital Footprints: The Reception of “Jądro ciemności” (“Heart of Darkness”) on YouTube

Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech: Graphic Adaptations of “Heart of Darkness”

James Mellor: Schiffs and Spectators: John Auerbach and Joseph Conrad’s Orientations Home

John G. Peters: Russia and Nothingness in Joseph Conrad’s Writings

$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-83-227-9777-8

DECEMBER 340 pages / 6" x 9"

LITERARY CRITICISM

CONRAD: EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES

New Insights Into Conrad and Poland

WIESŁAW KRAJKA, EDITOR

Despite the large number of publications on Joseph Conrad’s Polishness—including previous volumes of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives—many questions remain. This book brings together a variety of thematic and methodological approaches in search of new insights.

After the opening chapter, which comments on Polishness as studied in previous volumes of this series, contributions examine the life of Conrad and members of his close family; Conrad’s literary works in relation to Polish literature; Polish reception of his oeuvre, including adaptations and educational influence, as translations, as works of art, and in schools and popular culture; the Polish Jewish experience; and exilic feelings. The coda of the volume is a study that presents a view of Russia as antithetical to Polishness.

Essays range across traditional biographical criticism, literary analysis and interpretation, comparison of Conrad’s literary works and their intertextual study with those by other authors and with other works of art, translation and adaptation studies, investigations of reception of literature and popular culture, archetypal criticism, and philosophical criticism.

The book is volume 33 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wiesław Krajka.

WIES Ł AW KRAJKA is professor emeritus at Maria Curie–Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He is the author of Isolation and Ethos: A Study of Joseph Conrad (1992) and editor of Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad’s Fiction (2020), Some Intertextual Chords of Joseph Conrad’s Literary Art (2019), and Joseph Conrad’s Authorial Self: Polish and Other (2018), among others. He is the editor of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives.

Management Sciences— New Horizons

PIOTR BU Ł A, EDITOR

“Stands out positively compared to publications dedicated to issues related to processes and directions of changes in contemporary organizations.”

—Szymon Cyfert, Poznań University of Economics and Business

This collection outlines the directions of evolution in management sciences to initiate discussions on processes and trends in contemporary organizations. The contributors cover supply chain management, the formulation of strategies in higher education institutions, managing family businesses, and public entity management. From both theoretical and practical management perspectives, this book helps readers navigate the evolution of management sciences, consider changes in the environment, and understand the importance of adaptation and resilience-building processes.

PIOTR BU Ł A is associate professor and head of the Department of International Management at the Krakow University of Economics and visiting professor at the College of Business and Economics at the University of Johannesburg

Twentieth-Century Models of the Theatrical Work

KRZYSZTOF PLE Ś NIAROWICZ

Translated by William Brand Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz offers an analysis of the consequences and achievements of contemporary theatrical autonomism. He identifies an antinomy that fits exclusively within the framework of a theatrical work— illusion/disillusion—to replace the obsolete opposition between a literary work (drama) and an unliterary theatrical work (spectacle).

KRZYSZTOF PLE Ś NIAROWICZ is professor and head of the Department of Contemporary Culture at Jagiellonian University. His books include The Dead Memory Machine: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Death and Eastern Drama of the Absurd in the Twilight of the Soviet Bloc, as well as critical editions of Tadeusz Kantor’s writings.

$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-83-233-5350-8

$39.00 / £32.00 Web PDF 978-83-233-7537-1

SEPTEMBER 200 pages / 6.14" x 9.21" / 27 b&w figures, 10 b&w charts

BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-83-233-5374-4

$34.00 / £28.00 Web PDF 978-83-233-7557-9

$34.00 / £28.00 EPUB 978-83-233-7558-6

SEPTEMBER 192 pages / 6.14" x 9.21" / 12 b&w figures

PERFORMING ARTS

“I started digging my way to Palestine later than most, but I made good time. I had very little to carry. A few things had set me back, but most difficult of all was finding a place to start. . . . The backyard of our house in the outskirts of Sydney had been cemented over in the 1980s. I tried getting through the foundation with a jackhammer, but I was only two meters deep before a councilman showed up saying a complaint had been made that I was disturbing the neighborhood. ‘That’s alright, I won’t be here long,’ I told him.

‘I’m going to Palestine.’ ”

—from “Down Under,” by Jumaana Abdu

$24.00 paper 978-1-77363-694-8

SEPTEMBER 160 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

FICTION

Thyme Travellers

An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

SONIA SULAIMAN, EDITOR

Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s leading voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore, and futures.

A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it. Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem. Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned. A father and son struggle to connect over the AI scripts prompting their conversation. In this trailblazing anthology, editor Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada.

SONIA SULAIMAN writes short speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Her work has appeared in Arab Lit Quarterly, Beladi, Fantasy, FIYAH Magazine, Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth, Seize the Press, Lackington’s, and Ask the Night for a Dream. Her stories have been nominated for Pushcart, Lammy, and Best New Weird awards. She curates the Read Palestinian Spec Fic Reading list. She is also the editor of a collection of short stories called Muneera and the Moon: Stories Inspired by Palestinian Folklore

One Box

ANDI VICENTE

Illustrated by Allan Matudio

One Box is a children’s counting story about a migrant worker sending a box of gifts and supplies to their loved ones in the Philippines. Also known as Balikbayan boxes, these are typically filled with things like canned goods, clothing, and snacks. But in One Box there’s more than just stuff—it’s full of promises.

With tenderness and gorgeous illustrations, this Filipino parent tells their child about all the things they will do together when they are reunited. Part of a young queer family separated by migration and indentured labor, they don’t count the days; they count the ways they will rebuild their relationships.

ANDI VICENTE (they/them) is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes installation, image making, and digital collage, exploring intersectional identities, precarious livelihoods, and the juxtaposition of movements.

ALLAN MATUDIO is a multidisciplinary artist whose mediums include illustrations, comics, and metalwork. His art practice focuses on FilipinoCanadian identity, migrant worker struggles, and precolonial Filipino art and mythology.

“These pages are overflowing with love, dreams, and resilience. Just like the very box in the story, this book is a treasured gift, packed with tenderness and care.”

—Sennah Yee, author of My Day with Gong Gong

$24.95 cloth 978-1-77363-692-4

SEPTEMBER 36 pages / 8.5" x 8.5"

CHILDREN’S

“Rooted in her own experience of the climate crisis as a new mother, Sarah Marie Wiebe takes us through the deep and necessary work of care in times of overlapping crises. Combining incisive analysis with lyrical narrative, Wiebe bravely guides her reader through the mess of our times; this mess is sometimes joyful, sometimes painful, and always hot. Timely and gripping, this book is a powerful rallying cry for radical care.”

—Rebecca Hall, author of Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North

Hot Mess

Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency

SARAH MARIE WIEBE

Foreword by Rachel yacaaʔał George

No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our well-being: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. The extreme heat landed Wiebe in the hospital, dehydrated and separated from her nursing baby from dawn until dusk. So began a year of mothering through heat, fires, and floods. The climate emergency’s many incarnations shaped Wiebe’s politics of parenting and revealed the layers, textures, and nuances of the disastrous emergencies we encounter in a world dominated by extractive capitalism.

Drawing on hospital codes to explore the connections, Wiebe opens up tender conversations about intimate matters of how our bodies respond to emergency interventions: informed consent, emergency C-sections, reproductive mental health, and anticolonial and antiracist resistance. A critical ecofeminist scholar, Wiebe invites collective envisioning and enacting of caring, ethical relations between humans and the planet, including our atmospheres, lands, waters, animals, plants, and one another.

SARAH MARIE WIEBE is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria and an adjunct professor at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa with a focus on community development and environmental sustainability. She is a cofounder of the FERN Collaborative (Feminist Environmental Research Network) and author of Life Against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat.

$25.00 paper 978-1-77363-566-8

SEPTEMBER 144 pages / 5" x 7"

PARENTING / ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

RACHEL YACAA ʔ A Ł GEORGE holds a PhD in Indigenous governance from the University of Victoria and previously worked as the research coordinator for the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Insurgent Ecologies

Between Environmental Struggles and Post-Capitalist Transformations

THE UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS

COLLECTIVE, EDITOR

Insurgent Ecologies takes readers on an inspiring journey across key sites of ecological crisis and contestation, showing how revolutionary politics can emerge from the convergences between place-based, often disconnected struggles. These engaging essays speak to longstanding debates around how to advance transformations in, against, and beyond capitalism. The book presents stories of the visions and strategies of struggles organized around sovereignty, land, climate, feminisms, and labor, written by scholar-activists rooted in territories around the globe, offering locally grounded yet global perspectives. Each story reflects on how to build solidarity and comradeship across diverse struggles and how new political subjects and transformative collective projects for social-ecological justice are created.

THE UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS COLLECTIVE is a group of political ecology researchers founded in 2014 and organized around a blog platform by the same name.

Rethinking Free Speech

PETER IVES

The political theorist Peter Ives offers a new way of thinking about the essential and increasingly contentious debates around the politics of speech. Drawing on political philosophy, including the classic arguments of John Stuart Mill, and everyday examples, Ives takes the reader on a journey through the hotspots of today’s raging speech wars. In its bold and careful insights on the combative politics of language, Rethinking Free Speech provides a map for critically grasping these battles as they erupt in university classrooms, debates around the meaning of antisemitism, the “canceling” of racist comedians, and the proliferation of hate speech on social media. This is an original and essential guide to the perils and possibilities of communication for democracy and justice.

PETER IVES is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Gramsci’s Politics of Language and Language and Hegemony in Gramsci, as well as coeditor of Gramsci, Language and Translation and Language Policy and Political Theory

$35.00 paper 978-1-77363-691-7

OCTOBER 256 pages / 6" x 9"

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

$25.00 paper 978-1-77363-697-9

NOVEMBER 192 pages / 6" x 9" POLITICS

Conceivable

A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family

LAINE HALPERN ZISMAN

Illustrated by Kelsy Vivash

This book moves beyond the birds and the bees to consider the politics, challenges, choices, and opportunities for agency and joy involved in 2slgbtq+ fertility, conception, and family building. With contributions from healthcare workers, mental health professionals, and support people in the field of reproductive health and 2slgbtq+ sexual care, Conceivable is an honest and thorough look at growing your family. It is for birthing parents, nongestational parents, families seeking a surrogate or donor, and those who do not yet know what they need. Featuring illustrations, worksheets, and activities, this guide gives readers the knowledge they need to navigate advocacy, rights, and regulations.

LAINE HALPERN ZISMAN is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria and a lecturer at the University of Toronto. A certified fertility support practitioner and family building educator, she received a PhD from the University of Toronto and an MFA in documentary media at Toronto Metropolitan University.

KELSY VIVASH is a queer artist, designer, and writer currently living in Toronto.

Got Blood to Give Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation

OMISOORE H. DRYDEN

The history of blood donation practices speaks to the larger story of anti-Black racism. Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, Got Blood to Give examines how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation systems. OmiSoore H. Dryden examines contaminated blood crises in the 1980s and 1990s, Canadian Red Cross Society, and Canadian Blood Services. She contextualizes contemporary homonationalisms, medical anti-Black racism, and homophobia and transphobia in blood-related practices, connecting blood stories with health disparities affecting Black and Black queer populations.

OMISOORE H. DRYDEN is the James R. Johnston Endowed Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, and interim director of Black Studies Research Institute at Dalhousie University. She is the cofounder and colead of the Black Health Education Collaborative; coeditor of Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging; a past copresident of the Black Canadian Studies Association; and a founding member of the National Coalition Confronting Anti-Black Racism in Donor Protocols.

$27.00 paper 978-1-77363-689-4

NOVEMBER 160 pages / 5.5" x 7.5" / 50 line drawings and 25 b&w illustrations

LGBTQ+ STUDIES

$28.00 paper 978-1-77363-695-5

NOVEMBER 124 pages / 6" x 9"

HEALTH / LGBTQ+ STUDIES

Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals

ADAM SNEYD

Foreword by James Schneider

The conventional wisdom is that efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will contribute to building a more inclusive, sustainable and peaceful world. Adam Sneyd counters this point of view, uncovering the hidden politics of the SDG project. Sneyd’s analysis of each of the seventeen goals reveals how the SDGs are infused with a political orientation that sharply contrasts with their world-changing aspirations. He argues that the SDGs do more to bolster the legitimacy of the liberal international economic order and advance capitalist interests than to address pressing global challenges.

ADAM SNEYD is an associate professor of political science at the University of Guelph. He is the author of numerous books on the politics of the global economy, including Politics Rules: Power, Globalization and Development

JAMES SCHNEIDER is a political organizer, writer, and communications director for the Progressive International. He cofounded the left-wing grassroots movement Momentum and was the UK Labour Party’s press secretary. He is the author of Our Bloc: How We Win

Thinking Systematics

Critical-Dialectical Reasoning for a Perilous Age and a Case for Socialism

MURRAY E. G. SMITH AND TIM HAYSLIP

Thinking Systematics is conceived as a “toolkit for the mind”—designed to improve how we think about the world, analyze information, and pursue our goals. It makes a compelling argument that individual thinking and collective decision making are being systematically constrained within limits imposed by outmoded forms of cognition and the determination of privileged elites to perpetuate an unsustainable status quo. The dialectical reasoning advocated in this wide-ranging book aims to overcome those limits and to allow a much more profound understanding of the human condition in the twenty-first century. Such strategies, methods, and habits of thought can contribute significantly to a “new common sense”—one adequate to meeting the immense challenges facing humanity in our era.

MURRAY E. G. SMITH is professor emeritus in sociology at Brock University. His books include Twilight Capitalism and Invisible Leviathan

TIM HAYSLIP is a PhD student in sociology at York University.

$24.00 paper 978-1-77363-690-0

SEPTEMBER 176 pages / 5.5" x 8.5"

POLITICS

CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT

$38.00 paper 978-1-77363-693-1

SEPTEMBER 356 pages / 6" x 9"

SOCIAL THEORY

Caught in the Eye of the Storm

Urban Revitalization in Toronto’s Lawrence Heights

JON CARELESS

This book is a case-study analysis of the public housing district of Lawrence Heights in North York, Toronto, a neighborhood undergoing the largest revitalization in Canada. The book presents a chronological narrative of change and upheaval in Lawrence Heights, beginning with its origins after World War II. As the community became progressively more racialized and oppressed in the late twentieth century, the reputation of Lawrence Heights and its occupants became steadily more denigrated. In this context, local political officials and private developer partners have striven to tear Lawrence Heights down and rebuild it into a socially mixed neighborhood.

JON CARELESS is a researcher of urban issues, including homelessness and urban revitalization, with a primary focus on the city of Toronto, where he lives. He has a PhD in political science from York University and works as a senior policy advisor for Ontario Public Service.

The Canadian Non-profit Sector

Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community

TED RICHMOND AND JOHN SHIELDS

Foreword by Axelle Janczur

Neoliberal restructuring has left individuals and families scrambling for survival and increasingly reliant on the underfunded and overregulated nonprofit sector to patch over steadily growing social fissures. Ted Richmond and John Shields analyze the place of the nonprofit sector in neoliberal times, paying particular attention to the provision of social, human, and health services in Canada’s changing welfare state system. They examine the creativity and resilience of nonprofits in maintaining and expanding their services.

TED RICHMOND has worked in the nonprofit and government sectors for some forty years and is an active community-based researcher.

JOHN SHIELDS is professor emeritus in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he taught for thirty-five years.

AXELLE JANCZUR has been the executive director at Access Alliance for the past twenty-one years.

$28.00 paper 978-1-77363-688-7

OCTOBER 192 pages / 6" x 9"

URBAN STUDIES

$27.00 paper 978-1-77363-669-6

SEPTEMBER 160 pages / 6" x 9"

SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Habitation Society

Creating Sustainable Prosperity

FRED BLOCK

In The Habitation Society, the leading economic and political sociologist Fred Block argues that we are at a time of “blocked transition” from one mode of economic and social organization to another. We now have a habitation economy because most people work at creating, maintaining, or improving the soft and hard infrastructure of the communities in which we live. The problem, however, is that we do not yet have a habitation society since our economy continues to be organized through the structures, institutions, and concepts of an industrial economy. While the old industrial economy is dying, the new habitation society cannot yet be born.

Our methods for understanding how the economy works are also built around the analysis of industrial production, which are completely inadequate, Block shows, for grasping the new reality of how we buy and consume services in the habitation economy. In the absence of concepts to make sense of what is happening, the political space becomes filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation.

Block’s compelling analysis offers a path through this confusion and a means to understand our transition and what form this will take. He examines the economy as it actually exists in the present and maps out what would make that economy work more effectively in the hope that this will empower people to recognize the kinds of changes that could be made to improve things for themselves, their families, and their communities.

FRED BLOCK is research professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading economic and political sociologists. He has served on the board of the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy since 1989 and is the author, most recently, of Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion (2018).

“The Habitation Society is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the ills of our contemporary economic system and envision a more just and sustainable future.”

—Mariana Mazzucato, author of Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

$30.00 paper 978-1-78821-750-7

$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-749-1

DECEMBER 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5" POLITICS / SOCIOLOGY

New World New Rules

What Works for Global Governance

GEORGE PAPACONSTANTINOU AND JEAN PISANI-FERRY

The need for collective action has never been greater, but geopolitics, structural changes, and diverging preferences mean that existing global governance arrangements, devised at Bretton Woods in the 1940s, are either unraveling or outmoded. In this book, two of Europe’s most experienced policy makers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance. They examine practices across several key policy areas—climate, health, trade and competition, banking and finance, taxation, migration, and the digital economy—considering what works, what doesn’t, and why. The global governance solutions they put forward are ambitious but pragmatic—as today’s crises urgently demand.

GEORGE PAPACONSTANTINOU is the acting director of the Florence School of Transnational Governance. He was formerly Greek finance minister in the government of George Papandreou and played a key role in the Greek debt crisis.

JEAN PISANI-FERRY is professor of economics at Sciences Po, Paris; a senior fellow at Bruegel, the European think tank; and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC.

North Korea

Survival of a Political Dynasty

RAMON PACHECO PARDO

The Kim family of North Korea is the most successful political dynasty of the twentieth century, and it shows no signs of loosening its grip on power. Deliberately isolated from the world, North Korea survives through the sale of weapons while its people often starve because of its refusal to take in international trade or aid. Ramon Pacheco Pardo offers insight and firsthand experience of North Korea today. In seeking to explore the threat North Korea might pose to global security, he shows how the regime has been shaped by its own sense of insecurity and animosity toward the United States. As the regime continues to develop its own nuclear capabilities and export arms to Russia, Iran, and Syria, Pardo considers its tense relations with the United States, Japan, and South Korea, as well as its more ambiguous relationship with China.

RAMON PACHECO PARDO is professor of international relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance. His books include Korea: A New History of South and North (with Victor D. Cha, 2023) and Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop (2022).

$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-695-1

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NOVEMBER 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5"

POLITICS

DECEMBER 152 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"

POLITICS

FLASHPOINTS

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

MARTIN SHAW

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) began in 1957 with a small group of public figures and grew into a mass movement that would resonate worldwide. Martin Shaw details CND’s rise, the activists involved, the tensions around direct action, and the ways the campaign mobilized to “ban the bomb.” He shows how CND’s approach, as part of the Stop the War Coalition in response to the Iraq War, influenced the Labour Party and, indirectly, the Obama administration. The book shows CND to be a pioneering example of activism for peace whose style and ideas continue to reverberate in the wider protest movements of the twenty-first century, from Occupy to Extinction Rebellion.

MARTIN SHAW is emeritus professor of international relations and politics at the University of Sussex. He was involved in the student and Vietnam War movements in the late 1960s and cofounded a local European Nuclear Disarmament (END) group in Hull and became a member of END’s national committee. He was also chair of Humberside CND and took part in national CND affairs in the 1980s.

Deglobalization

EDWARD ASHBEE

Edward Ashbee examines the globalizing processes of the past thirty years, and considers the extent to which there has been “deglobalization” or “slobalization” and the reasons for these apparent shifts. He looks first at the original promise held out by globalizing trends and then the backlash against “globalism,” asking to what extent it led to a stalling or even reversal of globalizing processes. The analysis disaggregates the different trends that collectively constitute “globalization,” surveys competing perspectives, and reviews the ideas of those who argue that the concept is either myth or hyperbole. This book reveals how globalization is being reconfigured in ways that weaken its former associations with neoliberalism and Americanization, thereby laying the basis for a new economic and social settlement.

EDWARD ASHBEE is professor in the Department of International Economics, Government, and Business at Copenhagen Business School. His books include Countering China: US Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative (2023) and US Politics Today (fourth edition, 2019).

$30.00 paper 978-1-78821-778-1

$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-777-4

DECEMBER 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5"

HISTORY / ACTIVISM

SHORT HISTORIES

$30.00 paper 978-1-78821-731-6

$99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-730-9

OCTOBER 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5"

ECONOMICS

SHORT HISTORIES

Unhappy Families

Childcare in a Hopeless World

ADAM FERNER

Adam Ferner’s engaging book explores the ethical dimensions of childcare in a world riven by conflict, inequality, and the climate emergency. He argues that widespread attitudes toward biological parenthood contribute to these worsening crises, and he examines the liberatory potential of foster care and adoption. Written in a clear and jargon-free style, the book is also informed by Ferner’s extensive experience as a youth worker, child minder, and child support worker. Foregrounding the concerns of young people, this book challenges us to look afresh at our everyday notions of parenthood, childcare, and reproduction and to question the dominant ethos of the family.

ADAM FERNER is a freelance writer and child support worker living in North London. He has a PhD in philosophy from Birkbeck University of London and is author of Think Differently (2016), How to Disagree (2018, with Darren Chetty), and The Philosopher’s Library (2021, with Chris Meyns).

Foul Play

Tackling Football’s Integrity Problem

DAN HOUGH

Football has an integrity problem. Whether it is the reckless behavior of players on or off the pitch, television commentators bad-mouthing decisions during the game, or corrupt governance, the sport has a tarnished reputation. Big money means big public interest and an even bigger responsibility to make it a sport that is inclusive, professional, and, at the very least, law abiding. Dan Hough puts the game under the microscope to explain how football’s integrity could be improved, analyzing the roles of players, managers, owners, referees, pundits, and fans. Surprisingly, it is not just about the money sloshing around top-flight clubs, it is about the way the game is played, managed, governed, and regulated that makes the sport’s ethos what it is. It is time that it was tackled properly.

DAN HOUGH is professor of corruption analysis at the University of Sussex. A lifelong football fan, he spends most of his time out of the office either watching Shrewsbury Town Football Club or playing for Ascot United.

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OCTOBER 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5"

CHILDCARE / SOCIOLOGY

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NOVEMBER 192 pages / 5.45" x 8.5"

SPORTS

Preventing the Greenlash

An Economist’s Approach to Net Zero

LORENZO FORNI

The climate crisis presents a clear and present danger to life on earth. Yet we have almost everything we need to tackle it, except the political determination to do so. Politicians stand at a crossroads where the path to green policies is fraught with political risks, as the immediate costs to society may overshadow the profound future benefits. Leveraging his economics training, Lorenzo Forni sets out the decisions we need to take to collectively save the world from the ravages of climate catastrophe and how politicians might keep voters on board with the net-zero agenda. He demonstrates how reaching the net-zero emissions target to forestall further climatic change cannot be achieved by small changes in individual lifestyles alone but by big and brave public policy enacted by governments that is properly financed and economically sound.

LORENZO FORNI is professor of economic policy at the University of Padua and head of Prometeia Associazione. He has worked at the International Monetary Fund and the Central Bank of Italy.

Timber!

How Wood Can Help Save the World from Climate Breakdown

PAUL BRANNEN

The carbon emissions generated by concrete and steel construction are well known. Why then are we not using more carbonfriendly building materials? In a passionate and compelling argument, Paul Brannen advocates the use of timber in buildings wherever possible. His controversial and counterintuitive argument is clear: planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon, we also have to chop them down and use more wood in our buildings and cities. Taking timber from the margins to the mainstream, from the forests to the cities, this book offers fresh and inventive ideas that over time could see our expanding cities storing more carbon than our expanding forests.

PAUL BRANNEN is director of public affairs for the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries and the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry, and he also works for Timber Development UK. He is a former MEP and is a regular media contributor on environmental issues.

$25.00 paper 978-1-78821-781-1

OCTOBER 160 pages / 5.1" x 7.8"

ECONOMICS

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SEPTEMBER 256 pages / 5.85" x 8.25" / 33 b&w figures

SUSTAINABILITY

Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge

DAVID E. COOPER

“This is a remarkable book. Cooper harnesses his tremendous erudition ranging across worldwide philosophical thought and cultures to present a timely antidote to hubristic unrealistic plans. It is a virtuoso performance.”

—John Shand, Open University, author of Philosophy and Philosophers

In this thoughtful and insightful book, the philosopher David E. Cooper rejects an activist commitment to radical improvement of the human condition and instead advocates quietism as a way to live as well and as happily as we can. This quietist position, which draws on Buddhist and Daoist ideas as well as Western philosophy, calls for finding refuge from the everyday human world. Such places of refuge, Cooper argues, are best found in nature, whether a garden or a wilderness.

DAVID E. COOPER is emeritus professor of philosophy at Durham University. He has been president of the Aristotelian Society and chair of the Mind Association. His recent books include Senses of Mystery: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life (2017) and Animals and Misanthropy (2018).

The Urban Field

Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly

SAMI MOISIO AND UGO ROSSI

“Combining innovative theorizing with radical critique, Moisio and Rossi rethink the strategic role of cities, the stakes in transformative politics, and the meaning of the urban field in the era of technocapitalism.”

—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia

Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi reveal how monopoly technocapitalism has colonized cities through ubiquitous digital platforms. They critically examine the relationship between capital and the state, focusing on four key sites: labor, human capital, start-ups, and forms of life. Moisio and Rossi contend that the urban field can be recast as a collective endeavor aiming at redefining established modes of economic value creation.

SAMI MOISIO is professor of spatial planning and policy in the Department of Geosciences and Geography and vice dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki. His book Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy won the 2019 Regional Studies Association Book Award.

UGO ROSSI is professor of political and economic geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila. He is the author of Cities in Global Capitalism (2017).

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NOVEMBER 168 pages / 5.45" x 8.5"

PHILOSOPHY

OCTOBER 192 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"

URBAN STUDIES

URBAN WORLDS

Demography and the Making of the Modern World

Public Policies and Demographic Forces

JOHN RENNIE SHORT

John Rennie Short critically explores the implications of population changes from a social and economic perspective and considers what this means for public policy. He shows how events as varied and important as the Arab Spring, migrant flights from Africa to Europe, budget negotiations in the United States, immigration debates in Japan, and economic growth in India and Brazil—all seemingly diverse issues from around the world—are shaped by forces of demography. In particular, he focuses on the range of public policies that have been developed, rejected, and adopted to meet these population challenges.

JOHN RENNIE SHORT is emeritus professor in the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is the author of many books, including most recently The Rise and Fall of the National Atlas in the Twentieth Century (2022) and Geopolitics: Making Sense of a Changing World (2021).

Decolonizing African Agriculture

Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation

WILLIAM G. MOSELEY

Why have so many approaches to farming and food policy failed in sub-Saharan Africa? Because, argues William Moseley in this compelling analysis, of the shortcomings of a prevailing Western, colonial agricultural science. To tackle food security successfully, we need a noncolonial, indigenous agronomy that creates the social innovation needed to support the livelihoods of small-scale farmers. Achieving this transformation, however, will require institutional reform at the global level, addressing the multilateral and bilateral agencies involved with farming and food policy.

WILLIAM G. MOSELEY is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography and director of the Food, Agriculture, and Society Program at Macalester College.

$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-704-0

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JULY 192 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" PUBLIC POLICY

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DECEMBER 240 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"

SOCIAL SCIENCE

The Political Economy of Deindustrialization

Causes, Consequences, Implications

RAY KIELY

It is often assumed that deindustrialization is a bad thing, confined to the Global North, and caused by cheap imports from the Global South. Although not entirely incorrect, the truth is far more complicated. Ray Kiely argues that the current economic debate assumes too much in terms of causality around deindustrialization, which is better seen as a product of wider changes in contemporary global capitalism. A clearer understanding of the processes of deindustrialization can help in appreciating the political responses and movements across the Global North and South—and enable us to find better responses to the processes themselves.

RAY KIELY is professor of international politics at Queen Mary University of London. His books include The Neoliberal Paradox (2018).

False Prophets of Economics Imperialism

The Limits of Mathematical Market Models

MATTHEW WATSON

This deeply researched and wide-ranging intellectual history studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists’ mathematical market models being exported across the social sciences. Matthew Watson surveys the evolution of modern economics and its methodology, charting the escape from reality that has allowed economists’ hypothetical mathematical models to speak to increasingly self-referential mathematical truths. Even though mathematical market models can facilitate important abstract thought experiments, they are no substitute for carefully contextualized empirical investigations of real social phenomena.

MATTHEW WATSON is professor of political economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His books include Foundations of International Political Economy (2005), The Political Economy of International Capital Mobility (2007), and Uneconomic Economics and the Crisis of the Model World (2014).

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OCTOBER 224 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"

POLITICS

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NOVEMBER 288 pages / 6.15" x 9.2"

ECONOMICS

Max Weber’s Sociological Thoughts on the Economy

ANDREA MAURER, EDITOR

This book offers a fresh reading of Max Weber’s work and highlights his thinking about the economy and economic interactions in society. In an attempt to restore Weber’s place in the history of economics and to relate his approach to social science to the field today, a distinguished group of scholars explore his life and works, his interest in economic institutions and forms, and his most influential analytical concepts.

ANDREA MAURER is a full professor of sociology at Trier University, Germany.

Heralds of a Democratic Europe

Representation Without Politicization in the European Community, 1948–68

KOEN VAN ZON

The received wisdom is that long before the EU was plagued by Euroscepticism and other forms of contestation, there was a “permissive consensus” between European elites and the general public. This book looks beyond this presumed consensus to ask how the members of European institutions perceived and shaped their relations with European citizens during the early years of the European Communities.

KOEN VAN ZON is a postdoctoral researcher at Studio Europa Maastricht.

Europe and the British Left

Beyond the Progressive Dilemma

OWEN PARKER, MATTHEW LOUIS BISHOP, AND NICOLE LINDSTROM

“A well-researched, realistic, and very fluent treatment of the past, present, and future association of the UK with the rest of Europe.”

—Neil Kinnock, president of the Labour Movement for Europe, former leader of the Labour Party

The European question has long divided the Left. This book makes the case for an approach that is critical of the European Union yet pragmatically embraces its potential.

OWEN PARKER is senior lecturer in European politics at the University of Sheffield. MATTHEW LOUIS BISHOP is senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Sheffield. NICOLE LINDSTROM is professor of politics at the University of York.

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OCTOBER 256 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" SOCIOLOGY

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OCTOBER 240 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" HISTORY

UNDERSTANDING EUROPE

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AUGUST 288 pages / 6.15" x 9.2" POLITICS

BUILDING PROGRESSIVE ALTERNATIVES

Imperfect Solidarities

ARUNA D’SOUZA

Can empathy deliver political change? Does art that elicits emotional identification with others take us where we need to go?

“We need models of political action and discourse that allow us to accommodate the discomforts on which solidarity must be based; the liberal desire to build bridges based on empathy is too shaky to withstand the complexities of our world.”

—Aruna D’Souza

In Imperfect Solidarities, the writer and art historian Aruna D’Souza offers observations pulled from current events as well as contemporary art that suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotion is an imperfect ground for solidarity. Empathy—and its correlate, love—is a distraction from the hard work that needs to be done to achieve justice. Instead, D’Souza contends, we need to imagine a form of political solidarity that is not based on empathy but on the much more difficult obligation of care. When we can respect the unknowability of the other and still care for and with them, without translating ourselves into their terms, perhaps we will fare better at building political bridges.

ARUNA D’SOUZA is a writer and critic based in New York. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times and 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board. Her writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Bookforum, Frieze, Momus, and Art in America, among other places. Her book Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts was named one of the best art books of 2018 by the New York Times. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism and a 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant.

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JULY 116 pages / 4.72" x 6.69" / 8 color illustrations

ESSAYS

CRITICS’ ESSAY SERIES

Art Was Never There

Nostalgia and the Creative Act

MITCH SPEED

Contemporary art is deeply nostalgic, haunted by a time when “in-the-flesh” experiences of it held profound social importance. But did it ever really play such a role?

In Art Was Never There, Mitch Speed asks whether contemporary art is doomed to become an obsolete curiosity or if it can act as a site of resistance against an algorithmically driven culture industry that fuels alienation and wreaks havoc on the earth. Traveling through histories of artistic practice and thought, Speed traces the mechanisms through which art’s search for a lost purpose gives way to a populist pseudo-authenticity. In this way, the book shows how contemporary art figures in the political struggles of our time, and in particular how leftand right-wing politics are equally enthralled by nostalgia. Art Was Never There shuttles between new writing and quotation, using its own textual form to navigate past and present, fantasy, and the real.

MITCH SPEED is a Canadian writer based in Berlin. He is the author of Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (2019), a book-length study of Mark Leckey’s video artwork of the same name. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, Camera Austria, Canadian Art, and Momus.ca, among other publications.

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NOVEMBER 168 pages / 5.51" x 7.87"

ART CRITICISM

Take Charge of Your Own Ageing

Growing Old in Hong Kong

JEAN WOO

“This book is a must-read for policy makers, businesspeople, NGOs, older adults, and caregivers.”

—Ng Mee Kam, director of the Urban Studies Program, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Although Hong Kong people enjoy the world’s longest life expectancy, an important question has arisen: Is the city achieving healthy aging? In response, Jean Woo addresses an array of challenges faced by the elderly population, including elder poverty, unfriendly community designs, unfair stigmatization, and late-life loneliness. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, she advocates for self-care, education, and empowerment—and encourages us to move beyond dependence on doctors and medications.

JEAN WOO is the codirector of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Institute of Health Equity; director of the CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing; Henry G. Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at CUHK; and honorary consultant at Prince of Wales Hospital and Shatin Hospital.

72 Ways of Saving Lives

Folk Remedies in Old China

RONALD SULESKI

Foreword by Shigehisa Kuriyama

“Suleski’s translation and commentary call our attention to a work that now compels us to expand our horizons.”

—from the foreword by Shigehisa Kuriyama

When lay people in premodern China got sick, they usually could not rely on conventional medicine because of access and cost. Instead, they relied on remedies drawn from a woodblock-printed booklet called the Seventy-Two Therapies. Ronald Suleski goes through the original text both to provide a window onto the everyday lives of common people in pre-1950 China and to add a historical and interpretive analysis to each therapy. Suleski’s reading fosters an appreciation of China’s long tradition of folk remedies and places them in the context of contemporary thinking.

RONALD SULESKI was assistant director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He now serves as director of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies at Suffolk University Boston.

SHIGEHISA KURIYAMA is Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

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OCTOBER 120 pages / 5" x 8" / 28 b&w illustrations; 5 tables; 14 charts

HEALTH

EDGE SERIES

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OCTOBER 290 pages / 6" x 9" / 87 b&w illustrations

HISTORY

United Nations Peace Operations Revisited

A Critical Assessment After 75 Years

STIVEN TREMARIA

The first international peace operation by the United Nations took place in 1948. Seventy-five years later, more than one hundred multilateral missions have been launched on a global scale as mechanisms of international conflict management and resolution. This book offers a critical assessment of the historical development, aims, and performance of these peace operations, as well as their controversies, contemporary challenges, and future outlook.

STIVEN TREMARIA is a research associate at the Chair of Political Sciences at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.

At the Origins of Parliamentary Europe

Supranational Parliamentary Government in Debates of the Ad Hoc Assembly for the European Political Community in 1952–1953

KARI PALONEN

In 1952, politicians from Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg formed the first Ad Hoc Assembly with the aim of drafting a constitution for a future European Political Community. Rediscovering this previously neglected origin of parliamentary Europe, Kari Palonen investigates the significance of the Ad Hoc Assembly for the politicization of European integration. He delves into how the assembly functioned as a project of European integration after the Second World War, interpreting it as a moment in the political theory and conceptual history of parliamentarism that opens new perspectives on the later stages of the parliamentarization of the EU.

KARI PALONEN is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

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NOVEMBER 50 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

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OCTOBER 220 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

Contested Social and Ecological Reproduction

Impacts of States, Social Movements, and Civil Society in Times of Crisis

ANTONIA KUPFER AND CONSTANZE STUTZ, EDITORS

Humanity has not succeeded in securing the basis of life for all people. A major reason is the dominant global capitalist economy, which is based on the exploitation and use of nature—but this state of affairs is not accepted by everyone. This book provides a close socio-analytical look at how states, social movements, and civil society actors deal with this polycrisis.

ANTONIA KUPFER is professor of macrosociology at the Institute of Sociology at Technical University of Dresden in Germany.

CONSTANZE STUTZ is working on her doctorate in sociology at the Institute for Social Research Frankfurt, Germany.

Social Work in the Changing Welfare State

A Policy Analysis of Active Labour Market Policies for Disadvantaged Youth in Austria

ALBAN KNECHT

Alban Knecht analyzes the changes in political discourses and social-political measures with regard to employment promotion for disadvantaged young people in Austria. Against the background of his resource theory, he discusses measures such as intercompany apprenticeships, youth guarantee, and compulsory training and illustrates the effect that the social investment paradigm as well as the capability-orientated, neoliberal, and right-wing populist approaches may have on the practical work of professionals and on the young people concerned.

ALBAN KNECHT is a research associate in the Department of Educational Science at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

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JUNE 150 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

SOCIAL SCIENCE

$60.00 paper 978-3-8474-3053-7

FEBRUARY 139 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

PUBLIC POLICY

Tyranny of the Majority?

Implications of Direct Democracy for Oppressed Groups in Europe

ANNA KRÄMLING

Does direct democracy result in a tyranny of the majority for oppressed groups?

This pioneering analysis of more than 500 referenda shows that on the contrary, marginalized groups were often able to benefit from direct democracy. However, the interests of LGBTQ+ groups, groups of low socioeconomic status, and foreign nationals are under pressure. To protect them, Anna Krämling develops ways to design direct democratic votes that support such constituencies.

ANNA KRÄMLING earned her PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt and is now a public servant at the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport, Housing, and Rural Areas.

Translating Student Diversity Within the German Higher Education System

How Universities Respond to the Political Discourse on Widening Participation

JULIA MERGNER

How do universities respond to the institutional demand to deal with an increasingly heterogeneous student body? Julia Mergner examines the widening participation policy discourse from an organizational sociological perspective. She shows how different universities translate the idea of student diversity into their local context and legitimize strategies, structures, and practices for managing it.

JULIA MERGNER is a postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Academic Teaching and Faculty Development at Technical University, Dortmund.

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APRIL 207 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

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NOVEMBER 244 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

EDUCATION

SALE

The Post-Soviet Human Philosophical Reflections on Social History after the End of Communism

MYKHAILO MINAKOV

“This is a must-read for those who want to understand why the post-Soviet space, after the caesura of 1989–91, was not where optimists expected it to be and why utopia became dystopia.”

—Georgiy Kasianov, Maria Curie–Skłodowska University, Lublin

The post-Soviet period (1989–2022) was, in its way, unprecedented. During that period, the post-Soviet human attempted to establish a free politics and economy, as well as gain collective emancipation and personal freedom. Even though these attempts failed in most cases, the post-Soviet human’s political creativity was an intriguing phenomenon and is worthy of deeper study and understanding. Without learning the lessons of post-Soviet history, the East European and north Eurasian peoples are doomed to perpetually repeat its vicious cycles of tragedy and destruction.

MIKHAIL MINAKOV is a senior advisor at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is editor in chief of Ideology and Politics Journal and is the author or coauthor of twelve books.

The End of the Soviet World?

Essays

on Post-Communist

Political and Social Change

PAWE Ł KOWAL, GEORGES MINK, AND IWONA REICHARDT, EDITORS

Foreword by Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski

“I highly recommend this publication to all scholars of international affairs.”

—Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Ukrainian journalist and politician

These essays analyze the changes that have taken place in the post-Soviet space since 1991, which involve both democratization and a return to authoritarianism. Together they ask: Had there been no revolutions and mass pro-democratic protest in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, would there also be no war today?

PAWE Ł KOWAL is professor of political studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Polish parliament’s lower house, the Sejm.

GEORGES MINK is professor of European civilization at the College of Europe in Natolin and director of research in ISP-CNRS France.

IWONA REICHARDT is deputy editor in chief of the journal New Eastern Europe and teaches at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków.

RICHARD BUTTERWICK-PAWLIKOWSKI is professor of European civilization at the College of Europe in Natolin.

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JULY 160 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

HISTORY

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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NOVEMBER 300 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

In the Eye of the Storm

Origins, Ideology, and Controversies of the Azov Brigade, 2014-2023

CHRISTIAN KAUNERT,

ALEX

M ac KENZIE, AND ADRIEN NONJON, EDITORS

“Outstanding . . . Makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics of the Azov movement.”

—Maura Conway, Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University

The Azov Brigade, notorious for its far-right origins, has garnered worldwide attention through its role in the defense of Mariupol in 2022. This book examines Azov’s ideology and the controversies around the unit, scrutinizing the history and evolution of the unit from its creation to the present.

CHRISTIAN KAUNERT is professor of international security at Dublin City University as well as director of the International Center for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales.

ALEX M ac KENZIE is senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Liverpool.

ADRIEN NONJON is a PhD candidate in history at the Centre de Recherche Europes-Eurasie of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.

War and the Transformation of Ukrainian Society (2022–23) Empirical Evidence

ANTON GRUSHETSKYI AND VOLODYMYR PANIOTTO

“Everyone who cares about the future of the democratic development of humanity should read this book.”

—Yevgen Golovakha, director, Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Using data from hundreds of opinion surveys from 1991 to 2023, this book examines the profound transformation that has occurred in Ukrainian society as a result of Russia’s large-scale invasion. The authors analyze how the war has affected the formation of Ukrainian national identity, geopolitical orientations, society’s readiness to resist, and attitudes toward the state and its institutions. The book is not only an invaluable source of public opinion data but also constitutes a basis for further analysis of postwar reality.

ANTON GRUSHETSKYI is executive director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

VOLODYMYR PANIOTTO is the cofounder and president of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology as well as a professor of sociology at the National University of KyivMohyla Academy.

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SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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Teaching IR in Times of War

Experiences of University Lecturers during Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

KATERYNA ZAREMBO, MICHÈLE KNODT, AND MAKSYM YAKOVLYEV, EDITORS

This book explores the experiences of Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian academics who have taught international relations courses during the Russian war against Ukraine. The contributors cover a wide range of issues, such as lecturing inside a bomb shelter, enabling resilience, and embracing the psychological effects of the war on teaching. They argue that universities have to rethink their curricula in terms of both content and format in order to adapt to new realities.

KATERYNA ZAREMBO is an associate fellow of the New Europe Center and a guest researcher at the Technical University Darmstadt.

MICH È LE KNODT is professor of political science at Technical University Darmstadt and director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence.

MAKSYM YAKOVLYEV is the head of international relations at the National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy.

Uncanny Allies

Russia and Belarus on the Edge, 2012–2024

RASMUS NILSSON

This book challenges the claim that Russia and Belarus are unwavering allies or that Russia has unquestioned control over Belarus. Instead, Belarus plays at least four different roles within Russian foreign policy. First, Belarus is sometimes a conduit for Russian power projection toward Western enemies. Second, Belarus is sometimes a supporter in Russian attempts to centralize the post-Soviet space around itself. Third, Belarus is sometimes an object of Russian economic ambition or even greed. Fourth, Belarus also presents a source of danger and vulnerability to Russian physical and, perhaps more importantly, ontological security.

RASMUS NILSSON is lecturer in Russian foreign policy and post-Soviet politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London.

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DECEMBER 200 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" EDUCATION

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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DECEMBER 300 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

The House Always Wins

The Corrupt Strategies that Shaped Kazakh Oil Politics and Business in the Nazarbayev Era

GIAN MARCO MOISÉ

Foreword by Alena Ledeneva

“A majestic theoretical and empirical encounter with the complex, informal methods that kleptocrats and their retinues use to ruthlessly raid oil wealth.”

—Kristian Lasslett, Ulster University

Examining the oil sector in Kazakhstan, Gian Marco Moisé explores the various ways informal governance and corruption converge and are shaped by different actors participating in the industry.

GIAN MARCO MOISÉ works in democracy development in Brussels. He runs the YouTube channel “Understanding Politics.”

ALENA LEDENEVA is professor of politics and society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of University College London.

“Well informed, subtle, and insightful. If you are looking for a deep analysis of the dark sides of the oil industry in Kazakhstan and beyond, look no more, and start from this book.”

—Abel Polese, Dublin City University

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JULY 340 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" POLITICS

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Essays on Education, Ideology, Literature, Practice, and the Media

NATALIA KUDRIAVTSEVA AND DEBRA A. FRIEDMAN, EDITORS

Foreword by Laada Bilaniuk

The post-Soviet period in Ukraine and Kazakhstan has been characterized by not only the transition to capitalism but also linguistic change as national languages vie with Russian. This collection of essays offers a critical examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, from legislation and state institutions to everyday language practices and social media platforms.

NATALIA KUDRIAVTSEVA is professor of translation and Slavic studies at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University.

DEBRA A. FRIEDMAN is associate professor of second language studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

LAADA BILANIUK is professor of anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

$32.00 paper 978-3-8382-1949-3

OCTOBER 240 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

LANGUAGE ARTS

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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Executing a Renaissance The Poetological Nation of Ukraine

JOSEF WALLMANNSBERGER, EDITOR

Ukraine’s “Executed Renaissance”—the annihilation of the most creative, innovative, and productive poets, thinkers, and artists in the 1920s and 1930s—is of renewed relevance for an independent Ukraine fighting for its liberty and cultural survival against imperialist aggression. This collection responds to the poets, thinkers, and scholars who are again persecuted and executed, showing that Ukrainian intellectuals and artists are in the midst of cultural and linguistic renaissances under the grimmest of circumstances.

JOSEF WALLMANNSBERGER is professor of computational linguistics at the University of Kassel.

Dark Days, Determined People Stories from Ukraine under Siege

ORYSIA HRUDKA AND BOHDAN BEN

Foreword by Myroslav Marynovych

“Anyone who wants to know the reality of war should read this book.”

—Winfried Schneider-Deters, director of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s Kyiv Office, 1996–2000

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a Kyiv theology professor joined the Ukrainian defense as a sniper and left the city to fight near Chornobyl. Elsewhere, a small group of Chernihiv residents rescued thousands of locals from the besieged city, using hidden roads to bypass Russian soldiers. Others suddenly found themselves under Russian occupation. The stories in this book, collected from diverse regions of Ukraine since the invasion, speak of courage, resilience, pain, death, love, and hope.

ORYSIA HRUDKA reports on the Russo-Ukrainian war for Euromaidan Press

BOHDAN BEN has been a journalist for Euromaidan Press since 2018. He has written dozens of in-depth articles on the Russo-Ukrainian War.

MYROSLAV MARYNOVYCH is the cofounder of Amnesty International, Ukraine.

$25.00 paper 978-3-8382-1741-3

JULY 160 pages / 5.83" x 8.27" HISTORY

UKRAINIAN VOICES

$32.00 paper 978-3-8382-1958-5

OCTOBER 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

CURRENT EVENTS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Narratives of the Russo-Ukrainian War

A Look Within and Without

OLEKSANDR PANKIEIEV, EDITOR

Foreword by Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

This book presents a selection of essays and interviews with scholars and experts that were published by the Forum for Ukrainian Studies in the first two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion. The authors tackle a broad range of questions about identity, culture, propaganda, security, international relations, history, decolonization, and the state of the art in Ukrainian studies and Russian studies in Western academia in the context of the war. The interviews and essays provide knowledgeable and nuanced perspectives of the war from both within Ukraine and abroad.

OLEKSANDR PANKIEIEV is the editor in chief of Forum for Ukrainian Studies and a research coordinator at the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

NATALIA KHANENKO-FRIESEN is professor of Ukrainian culture and ethnography and the director of the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Understanding Contemporary Russian Militarism

From Revolutionary to New Generation Warfare

OLEXANDER HRYB

Foreword by Mark Laity

“A truly remarkable academic but easily readable masterpiece.”

—Glen Grant, Ukraine defense expert, Baltic Security Foundation

Russian perceptions of crisis after the demise of the USSR led certain circles in Moscow to conclude that an “Anglo-Saxon” anti-Soviet clandestine information war had nearly destroyed Russia. Russian politicalmilitary elites decided that the nature of war had changed and Moscow must fight back with a perpetual subversion of the West. This book shows that such a faulty outcome was not inevitable and peace on mutually acceptable terms is not impossible.

OLEXANDER HRYB is a sociologist and London-based analyst. He previously worked at BBC World Service and the British Army and is currently a cultural advisor on Central and Eastern Europe.

MARK LAITY was the former director of the Communications Division at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and is now the senior director of the StratCom Academy.

$37.00 paper 978-3-8382-1964-6

SEPTEMBER 330 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

$25.00 paper 978-3-8382-1927-1

NOVEMBER 140 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

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Unrecognized War

The Fight for Truth about Russia’s War on Ukraine

ROMAN SOHN AND ARIANA GIC, EDITORS

Foreword by Viktor Yushchenko

“Sohn and Gic’s incisive writing has stood the test of time.”

—Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, former deputy prime minister for European and Euroatlantic Integration of Ukraine

This essay collection narrates a decade of advocacy for a resolute international response to Moscow’s threat. The authors argue that what is at stake in Ukraine is not just territory but the fate of democracy.

ROMAN SOHN is chair of the Direct Initiative International Center for Ukraine and a senior advisor at the Center for Eastern European Democracy.

ARIANA GIC is director of the Direct Initiative International Center for Ukraine and a senior advisor at the Center for Eastern European Democracy.

$33.00 paper 978-3-8382-1947-9

NOVEMBER 320 pages / 5.83” x 8.27”

POLITICS

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Ukrainian Public Nationalism in the General Government

The Case of Krakivski Visti, 1940–1944

ERNEST GYIDEL

Foreword by David R. Marples

Most research on Ukrainian nationalism in the twentieth century focuses on the OUN and UPA and their armed struggle. Ernest Gyidel’s book deals with a littlestudied page in the history of nationalism, namely its public expression in the legal press under German occupation in World War II. Gyidel uses Krakivski Visti (Cracow News)—the leading Ukrainian newspaper of the General Government—as a case study because of its unique status of being less constrained by German censorship.

ERNEST GYIDEL is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Languages and Literature at Lund University.

$32.00 paper 978-3-8382-1865-6

NOVEMBER 240 pages / 5.83” x 8.27”

HISTORY

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Sociology in Jokes An Entertaining Introduction

VOLODYMYR PANIOTTO

“This book became very popular in Ukraine, attracting widespread attention from readers. I recommend it to everyone interested in original approaches.”

—Yevgen Golovakha, director of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Volodymyr Paniotto presents selected anecdotes on various topics that sociologists study and shows us how jokes can help scholars analyze and explain different situations. This book was first published in Ukrainian in January 2022.

VOLODYMYR PANIOTTO is the cofounder and president of the Kiev International Institute of Sociology and is also professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-1857-1

JULY 210 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

SOCIOLOGY

UKRAINIAN VOICES

Belarus: A Silenced History

A Chronological Account from the Middle Ages to the War in Ukraine

TONI STENSTRÖM

“The publication of this history is a significant event.”

—Harri Tiido, Estonian journalist and former diplomat

Throughout the centuries, various rulers of Belarus have intentionally silenced its national history to distance the country from its European context. Challenging Russian imperialist narratives, Toni Stenström argues that Belarus shares crucial history with Poland and Lithuania.

TONI STENSTRÖM has worked as an interpreter and tour leader on numerous expeditions to Belarus. Since 2023, he has commented on the situation in Belarus in the Finnish media.

Encyclopedia Tyrannica A Research Guide to Authoritarianism

JEROEN

J. J.

VAN DEN BOSCH AND NATASHA

LINDSTAEDT, EDITORS

“A comprehensive and valuable source of information for anyone interested in autocratic politics.”

—Abel Escribà-Folch, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalunya)

The Encyclopedia Tyrannica serves as a comprehensive research guide in the field of authoritarianism. It delves into the historical, theoretical, and methodological underpinnings of key concepts and explores their varied applications across different world regions.

JEROEN VAN DEN BOSCH works as an Erasmus+ project coordinator at Adam Mickiewicz University. NATASHA

LINDSTAEDT is professor of government at the University of Essex, where she also serves as the faculty dean for education in the social sciences.

Saul Goodman—the American Candide?

Essays on Politics, Philosophy and Film

JOSETTE BAER

Foreword by Wolfgang Rother

“This book proves that Baer is an accomplished political theorist.”

—Jaroslav Mihálik, University of Ss Cyrill and Method

Josette Baer’s collection of seven essays offers fascinating insight into how film as a medium can portray political thought. Her analysis covers films such as The Best of Enemies and The Lost Daughter and the TV series Breaking Bad and Better Call

Saul.

JOSETTE BAER is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at UCM Trnava, Slovakia, and adjunct professor of political theory at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Zurich.

$44.00 paper 978-3-8382-1921-9

JULY 310 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

POLITICS

$115.00 paper 978-3-8382-1882-3

OCTOBER 900 pages / 6.69” x 9.45”

POLITICS

$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-1674-4

APRIL 268 pages

PHILOSOPHY / FILM STUDIES

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A Message to You

A Cartography of Mobilities—Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities, and Global Cities

NATALIA RIBAS-MATEOS

Bringing together ethnographic fieldwork in different sites, Natalia Ribas-Mateos provides lucid accounts of the hidden sexual violence present at Mediterranean borders, particularly in Tangier and Oujda. She demonstrates how these stories are brought to diasporic cites—London and Paris—through the organization of video debates and crowdfunding projects.

NATALIA RIBAS-MATEOS is Maria Zambrano Senior Researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and visiting fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Anita Desai’s India

The Religious Plague, Holocaust, Decadence and Remembrance

HARJOT BANGA

“This comprehensive critical exploration is instrumental for both scholars and students seeking to unravel the intersections of history, literature, and postcolonial theory.”

—Carmen Concilio, University of Turin

Through the work of the author Anita Desai, Harjot Banga combines literary theory, history, and postcolonial studies to understand the Muslim experience in post-Partition India.

HARJOT BANGA is a PhD candidate at the University of Turin and Genoa. Since November 2023, he has been a member of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Turin.

Speech A Natural History

FRANCISCO GAONA

Edited by Brook Nestor

By isolating aspects of speech we are able to tell how it came into being. Francisco Gaona traces the evolution of the signal calls of anthropoid apes and early hominids into the vocalized phonic utterances of speech. This tracing is essential if we want to understand the history of speech.

FRANCISCO GAONA is professor emeritus of Spanish and linguistics of the Department of Foreign Languages at Sonoma State University.

BROOK NESTOR is a translator and author.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1938-7

OCTOBER 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

SOCIOLOGY

$25.00 paper 978-3-8382-1956-1

JUNE 150 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

LITERARY STUDIES

$45.00 paper 978-3-8382-1924-0

AUGUST 350 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

LANGUAGE ARTS

Phantom Border

A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany

KERSTIN LANGE

“A valuable perspective on the recent history of Germany.”

—Gerard A Weber, associate professor, Bronx Community College

During the four decades that the Iron Curtain divided Germany, more than 1,200 rare animal and plant species found refuge in the border strip—today known as the Green Belt. Kerstin Lange uses the Green Belt as a map for a personal reconnaissance of her home country and as a lens through which to investigate the transformation of the border between East and West Germany.

KERSTIN LANGE is an independent writer and journalist based in Vermont. Lange has published in Sapiens, Northern Woodlands, and Vermont Quarterly magazines, and she was a commentator on Vermont Public Radio for ten years.

When Are You Going to Get a Proper Job?

Sixty Years in Journalism: The World Was My Oyster

JONATHAN POWER

“I was delighted to see that Jonathan’s path had in one main aspect been similar to mine. That path was faith in the potential goodness of humanity. He had documented the atrocities of civil rights abuse. I had suggested the same idea in my music, and somehow we had both come together many years later to compare notes.”

—Paul McCartney (school friend at the Liverpool Institute for Boys)

Jonathan Power tells the story of his life and what it was like to be a foreign affairs journalist for sixty years.

JONATHAN POWER is a journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster. He is the author of eight books, including The Human Flow and Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International

What We Truly Need Experiences of a Psychoanalyst

DIETER ADLER

“[This book] is peppered with subtle humor and subversive irony, and in an almost casual way provides prompts that help the reader find answers.”

Deutsches Aerzteblatt (the official journal of the German Medical Association)

The psychoanalyst Dieter Adler takes stock after thirty years on the other side of the couch and brings us his life stories so that readers can identify and implement the things that will bring about true satisfaction.

DIETER ADLER has worked as a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, group analyst, and child and youth therapist for thirty years. He is the founder and chair of the German Network of Psychotherapists.

$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-1951-6

OCTOBER 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

SOCIAL SCIENCE

$17.00 paper 978-3-8382-1838-0

OCTOBER 150 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

MEMOIR

EDITION NOEMA

$25.00 paper 978-3-8382-1946-2

NOVEMBER 178 pages / 5.83" x 8.27"

PSYCHOLOGY

Beyond Molotovs

A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP ON AUTHORITARIANISM AND COUNTER-STRATEGIES AND KOLLEKTIV ORANGOTANGO, EDITORS

How can we counter authoritarian affects? This book brings together more than fifty firsthand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements by activists, artists, and scholars from around the world, focusing on the sensuous and emotional dimension of their strategies. From the collective art and aesthetics of feminist movements in India, Iran, Mexico, and Poland to sewing collectives, subversive internet art in Hong Kong, and even board games, the contributions open new perspectives on moments of resistance, subversion, and creation.

THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP ON AUTHORITARIANISM AND COUNTER-STRATEGIES is an initiative of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung that brings together scholar-activists from across the Global South to research the authoritarian Right and strategic responses from the Left.

KOLLEKTIV ORANGOTANGO is a circle of critical geographers and friends. As popular educators, they strive for a collective horizontal production of knowledge; as militant scholars, they link practical interventions and theoretical reflection.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-7055-4

AUGUST 356 pages / 8.27" x 9.84" / four-color print throughout

POLITICS

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Change the Record

Punk Women Music Politics

M. I. FRANKLIN

Poets, guitarists, songwriters, TV stars, provocateurs, riot grrrl founders—punk women musicians such as Viv Albertine, Alice Bag, Pauline Black, Carrie Brownstein, Kim Gordon, Nina Hagen, Chrisse Hynde, Patti Smith, Brix Smith Start, and Cosey Fanni Tutti have broken new ground in writing about their lives. They fill gaps in the historical record, back catalogues, and perceptions of how music works as politics. They provide fans and music scholars with a corrective to male-centric studies of punk as a DIY politics of resistance. M. I. Franklin shows how they do this, along with ways to hear the personal and world politics inherent in their musical output.

M. I. FRANKLIN is a professor and chair of media of cultural industries and society at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-4171-4

JUNE 154 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 28 b&w illustrations

MUSIC

CULTURE & THEORY

The Youth Climate Uprising

From the School Strike Movement to an Ecophilosophy of Democracy

DAVID FOPP WITH ISABELLE AXELSSON AND LOUKINA TILLE

One Friday in 2018, a few young people joined Greta Thunberg to protest, and the global climate strike movement was born. The scientist David Fopp spent 250 Fridays with the newly formed grassroots movement. Together with the activists Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, he offers an insider perspective on this fight for a globally just and sustainable society. They also turn their focus to science and our political engagement: How can research in all disciplines help with this struggle? And how can we fight the climate crisis by transforming and deepening democracy?

DAVID FOPP is a climate justice activist and researches theories of sustainability and societal transformation at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.

ISABELLE AXELSSON is a youth climate justice activist and studied human geography at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

LOUKINA TILLE is a youth climate justice activist and studies political science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Webfare A Manifesto for Digital Well-Being

MAURIZIO FERRARIS

Webfare, a form of digital welfare, seeks to initiate a Copernican revolution that places need instead of merit at the center of society. In twenty-first-century welfare, consumption and production will be considered as the two faces of the same reality. The possibility to create new value is precisely what sets Webfare apart from traditional welfare: it recognizes the new value created by the web and aims to use it for everyone’s well-being.

MAURIZIO FERRARIS is a full professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Turin and is the president of the Labont Center for Ontology.

$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-7031-8

JULY 426 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 53 color illustrations

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

X-TEXTS ON CULTURE AND SOCIETY

$25.00 paper 978-3-8376-7176-6

JULY 110 pages / 5.31" x 8.86"

MEDIA STUDIES

TECHNOSOPHY

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Securitising Decolonisation

The Silencing of Ewe and Togoland Unification under United Nations Trusteeship, 1945-1960

JULIUS HEISE

With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement seized the international spotlight, ensuring that the topic of unification dominated the UN Trusteeship System for more than a decade. Yet colonial distortion left unification unfulfilled, allowing the seeds of secessionist conflict to grow. Julius Heise presents a theory-driven history of Togoland’s path to independence, offering a crucial lesson for international state-building efforts.

JULIUS HEISE is a research fellow at the Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg.

The Biosecurity Individual

A Cultural Critique of the Intersection between Health, Security, and Identity

FREDERIKE OFFIZIER

Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self-)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection of health, security, and identity, exploring how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.

FREDERIKE OFFIZIER is a lecturer and researcher in American studies at Universität Potsdam.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7306-7

MAY 422 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 50 b&w illustrations

POLITICS

POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7145-2

APRIL 294 pages / 6.1" x 9.45"

PHILOSOPHY

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES

Land Use

Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America I

OLAF KALTMEIER, MARÍA FERNANDA

LÓPEZ SANDOVAL, JOSÉ AUGUSTO

PÁDUA, AND ADRIÁN GUSTAVO

ZARRILLI, EDITORS

Volume 1 of the handbook focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions touch on numerous aspects, including the transformations of material and social practices, their political and legal regulations, and the imaginaries of virgin territories. Consequently, far from limiting themselves to a static cartography of land use, the contributors investigate the appropriations of borders and historic transformations in land use.

OLAF KALTMEIER is a professor of Iberoamerican history at Universität Bielefeld. MARÍA FERNANDA LÓPEZ

SANDOVAL is a senior lecturer at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador. JOSÉ AUGUSTO

PÁDUA is a professor of Brazilian environmental history at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. ADRIÁN GUSTAVO ZARRILLI is an associate professor at the National University of Quilmes and La Plata, Argentina.

Biodiversity

Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II

OLAF KALTMEIER, ANTOINE ACKER, LEÓN ENRIQUE ÁVILA ROMERO, AND REGINA HORTA DUARTE, EDITORS

Volume 2 of the handbook focuses on biodiversity in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

OLAF KALTMEIER is a professor of Iberoamerican history at Universität Bielefeld. ANTOINE ACKER is an environmental historian and professor at Université de Genève. LEÓN ENRIQUE ÁVILA ROMERO is a full-time professor-researcher in sustainable development at the Intercultural University of Chiapas. REGINA HORTA DUARTE is full professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.

$60.00  paper 978-3-8376-7011-0

JULY  440 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 15 b&w illustrations

SOCIOLOGY

THE ANTHROPOCENE AS MULTIPLE CRISIS: PERSPECTIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA

$55.00  paper 978-3-8376-7012-7

JULY  300 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 15 b&w illustrations

SOCIAL SCIENCE

THE ANTHROPOCENE AS MULTIPLE CRISIS: PERSPECTIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA

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Comparing and Change Orders, Models, Perceptions

ANTJE FLÜCHTER, KIRSTEN KRAMER,

REBECCA MERTENS, AND SILKE SCHWANDT, EDITORS

Comparisons affect various ways of perceiving and interpreting the world, characterized by distinct legitimization strategies and knowledge application routines by different actors. The contributors to this book explore the link between change and practices of comparing, focusing on order, representation, and models. They delve into how comparing influences knowledge production and also focus on persisting orders of knowledge.

ANTJE FLÜCHTER is spokesperson of the collaborative research center 1288 Practices of Comparing and a professor of early modern history at Universität Bielefeld.

KIRSTEN KRAMER is principal investigator at the collaborative research center 1288 Practices of Comparing and a professor of comparative literature and Romance studies at Universität Bielefeld.

REBECCA MERTENS is a postdoctoral researcher at the collaborative research center 1288 Practices of Comparing .

SILKE SCHWANDT is principal investigator at the collaborative research center 1288 Practices of Comparing and a professor of digital history at Universität Bielefeld.

Live Performance and Video Games

Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers

RÉJANE DREIFUSS, SIMON HAGEMANN, AND IZABELLA PLUTA, EDITORS

Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters, and the connection between physical and fictional or virtual worlds: the relationship between live performance and video games is complex and diverse. This book brings together researchers and artists to explore this relationship, analyzing artistic forms such as VR performance, immersive theater, and speedrunning.

RÉJANE DREIFUSS works as a dramaturge and project manager for the theater company sonimage.

SIMON HAGEMANN is a lecturer in communication at University of Lorraine.

IZABELLA PLUTA is a researcher in the performing arts, theater critic, and translator who is an associated researcher at the Center of Theatre Studies, University of Lausanne.

$55.00  paper 978-3-8376-7266-4

APRIL  282 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 1 b&w and 12 color illustrations

HISTORY

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-7173-5

AUGUST 250 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 25 b&w illustrations

PERFORMING ARTS

THEATRE STUDIES

Pioneering Participatory Art Practices

Tracing Actors, Associations and Interactions across the Long Sixties

ANNEMARIE KOK

Participatory art practices allow members of an audience to contribute to the creation of art. Annemarie Kok provides a detailed analysis of the use of participatory strategies in art in the so-called long sixties in Western Europe. Drawing on extensive archival materials and actor-network theory, she maps out the various actors in participatory projects by John Dugger and David Medalla, Piotr Kowalski, and telewissen, which were part of documenta 5 (Kassel, 1972).

ANNEMARIE KOK is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen. She is the author of a book on Dutch art criticism between 1989 and 2015.

Bio-Art

Varieties of the Living in Artworks from the Pre-modern to the Anthropocene

JULIO VELASCO AND K LAUS WEBER, EDITORS

Bio Art is the form that most directly grapples with the problems of the Anthropocene. It develops a variety of mediums, often related to scientific research, creating art that uses plants, insects, mammals, bacteria, bird songs, forest sounds, or genetic modification. Its uniqueness comes from incorporating, not just representing, the living in a diverse range of artworks. In discussing such works from various world regions and time periods, contributors to this book critique the divide between human and nonhuman animals and between culture and nature.

JULIO VELASCO is an artist-researcher who holds a PhD in art and art sciences from the Sorbonne Université.

KLAUS WEBER is professor of economic and social history at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt.

$65.00 paper 978-3-8376-7219-0

MAY 484 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 45 b&w illustrations, 23 color illustrations

ART HISTORY

IMAGE

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-7177-3

APRIL 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.86"

ART CRITICISM

IMAGE

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Building Institution

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York 1967-1985

KIM FÖRSTER

Building Institution chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era. Kim Förster traces the compelling history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, which was active in New York from 1967 to 1985. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories, he constructs a collective biography that details the institute’s diverse roles and the dynamic interplay among research and design, education, culture, and publishing. By exploring the transformation of cultural production, this book makes a significant contribution to the institutional history of architecture.

KIM FÖRSTER researches and teaches at the University of Manchester.

Digital Transformation in Design Processes and Practices

LAURA S. SCHERLING, EDITOR

What does it take to create innovative tech-savvy designs that are usable, appealing, and good for society? The contributors to this book introduce contemporary research on the digitization and datafication of products, exploring topics such as user experience, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments in design. Coming from varied backgrounds, they emphasize that digital transformation is not just a technical process but also a social and learning process that fundamentally changes the way we understand information.

LAURA S. SCHERLING is a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

$70.00 cloth 978-3-8376-6518-5

AUGUST 584 pages / 6.69" x 9.45"

ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURE

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-7142-1

MAY 283 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 16 b&w illustrations

ARCHITECTURE

DESIGN

Entangled Future Im/mobilities

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mobility Studies

DANIELA ATANASOVA, ROMANA BUND, DOVAINE BUSCHMANN, RACHAEL DINIEGA, JANA DONAT, BARBARA GFOELLNER, AND NICOLA KOPF, EDITORS

The contributors to this book share findings on entangled future mobilities and immobilities from the humanities and social sciences in diverse case studies, such as Afrofuturistic poetry, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, and climate adaptation in Morocco.

DANIELA ATANASOVA is a PhD candidate and a member of the research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies at Universität Wien. ROMANA BUND is a PhD candidate and a member of the research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies. DOVAINE BUSCHMANN is a scientific project assistant at the research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies. RACHAEL DINIEGA is a climate change, mobilities, and human rights researcher. JANA DONAT is a PhD candidate in international development. BARBARA GFOELLNER is a PhD candidate and a member of the research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies. NICOLA KOPF is a PhD candidate a scientific project assistant at the research platform Mobile Cultures and Societies at Universität Wien.

East Central European Art Histories and Austria

Imperial Pasts – Neoliberal Presences –Decolonial Futures

JULIA ALLERSTORFER, KAROLINA MAJEWSKA-GÜDE, AND MONIKA LEISCH-KIESL, EDITORS

The cultural politics of the AustroHungarian Empire shaped modes of writing the art histories of East Central Europe. This book critically scrutinizes the imperial legacies, transnational transfer processes, and cultural hierarchies in art historiographies, artistic practices, and institutional histories surrounding the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, taking into account the era of the Dual Monarchy as well as the period after 1989.

JULIA ALLERSTORFER is an art historian, curator, and assistant professor at the Institute of History and Theory of Art at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz.

KAROLINA MAJEWSKA-GÜDE is a researcher, art historian, and curator at the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw.

MONIKA LEISCH-KIESL is a curator and professor of art history and aesthetics at Katholische Privat-Universität Linz.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7380-7

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

NETWORKS, TRANSFER, AND SPACES: PERSPECTIVES OF CULTURAL STUDIES

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7363-0

JUNE 418 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 41 b&w illustrations, 11 color illustrations

ART HISTORY

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Urban Heritage Planning in Tehran and Beyond

Sequences of Disrupted Spatial-Discursive Assemblages

SOLMAZ YADOLLAHI

The primary challenge of heritage planning in Tehran and beyond lies not in the dominance of an inflexible authorized heritage discourse but instead in the absence of stable administrative structures. Solmaz Yadollahi maps the historical trajectory of conservation and urban heritage planning in Iran, depicting a discursive-spatial assemblage that tends to knock down its accumulated resources.

SOLMAZ YADOLLAHI is a conservation architect who has held academic positions at Brandenburgische Technische Universität CottbusSenftenberg.

The Capitalist Economy and Its Prosthetics

Necessity, Evolution, and Dilemmas of a Brotherhood

GERHARD H. WÄCHTER

Under capitalism, a sterile economy emerges that takes away investment from the productive economy and generates underemployment. States react with prosthetics: artificial transfers to the productive economy. What happens when these methods are exhausted? Gerhard H. Wächter examines major theoretical and historical lines of thought on this question, drawing on Quesnay, Sismondi, Malthus, Marx, Keynes, and others.

GERHARD H. WÄCHTER is a business lawyer in Berlin who specializes in M&A litigation and a law professor at Universität Leipzig.

The Prize of Success

The Swiss Design Awards and the Closed Networks of Promotion

JONAS BERTHOD

In the small world of Swiss graphic design, prizes such as the Swiss Design Awards are followed closely. Awards play the role of bellwethers of the scene; however, criticisms inevitably arise. Speaking in hushed tones, designers speculate as to why one colleague won over another. Rumors have it that jury members favor their inner circles and exclude competitors. Analyzing this universe in detail, Jonas Berthod retraces the recent history of the SDA and the emergence of a new design culture in Switzerland.

JONAS BERTHOD is an artistic deputy, lecturer, and researcher at the University of Art and Design Lausanne.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-7162-9

JUNE 268 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 12 b&w illustrations

URBAN STUDIES

CULTURAL HERITAGE STUDIES

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-7278-7

JUNE 532 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 24 b&w illustrations, 2 color illustrations

SOCIAL SCIENCE

EDITION TRANSCRIPT

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7191-9

JUNE 256 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 59 b&w illustrations, 37 color illustrations

ART CRITICISM

DESIGN

The Multi-Sided Ethnographer

Living the Field beyond Research

TIM BURGER, USMAN MAHAR, PASCALE SCHILD, AND ANNA-MARIA WALTER, EDITORS

Dedicated to the anthropologist Martin Sökefeld, this book explores methodological and ethical dimensions of ethnographic research. The contributors show how personal relationships, passions, and commitments drive ethnographers, shaping the knowledge they create with others.

TIM BURGER is a postdoctoral researcher at the collaborative research center Cultures of Vigilance at LudwigMaximilians-Universität München.

USMAN MAHAR holds a postdoctoral position at Universität St. Gallen.

PASCALE SCHILD is a social anthropologist at Universität Bern.

ANNA-MARIA WALTER is a social anthropologist at the Rachel Carson Center.

$65.00 paper 978-3-8376-6677-9

MAY 328 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 20 b&w illustrations, 11 color illustrations ANTHROPOLOGY

CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE

Saving and Being Safe Away from Home

Savings and Insurance Associations in Ethiopia and Its Diaspora

KIM GLÜCK AND SOPHIA THUBAUVILLE, EDITORS

Savings and insurance associations are widespread not only in Ethiopia but also in its diaspora, even in countries with diversified and comprehensive formal financial institutions. The contributors to this book give a comprehensive overview of these associations, asking what activities within them tell us about their members’ future aspirations and ideas of a good life.

KIM GLÜCK is a social anthropologist specializing in Ethiopian studies.

SOPHIA THUBAUVILLE is a social anthropologist at the Frobenius-Institut für kulturanthropologische Forschung in Frankfurt.

The Good, Bad, and Challenging Migrant

Contested Religious Identities in Postmigrant Societies Between New Turkey and New Tyrol

FATMA HARON

In postmigrant societies, belonging, identity, and transnationality go far beyond inclusion and exclusion. Fatma Haron scrutinizes the impact of social remittances on the transnational identification process between new Tyrol and new Turkey, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and semistructured narrative interviews.

FATMA HARON works at the Austrian Center of Peace.

$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7127-8

JULY 250 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 10 b&w illustrations ANTHROPOLOGY

CULTURE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7007-3

MAY 254 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" ANTHROPOLOGY

POSTMIGRATION STUDIES

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It’s How You Flip It Multiple Perspectives on Hip-Hop and Music Education

LINUS EUSTERBROCK, CHRIS KATTENBECK, AND OLIVER KAUTNY, EDITORS

At the intersection of hiphop and music education, scholars, artists, and educators cooperate in this book to investigate topics such as representations of gangsta rap in school textbooks, the possibilities and limits of working with hip-hop in an intersectional music-critical pedagogy context, and the reflection of hip-hop artists on their work in music education institutions.

LINUS EUSTERBROCK is a research assistant in the Department of Arts and Music at Universität zu Köln, Germany.

CHRIS KATTENBECK is a research assistant in the Department of Arts and Music at Universität zu Köln.

OLIVER KAUTNY is a professor of music education at Universität zu Köln.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6667-0

JULY 280 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 15 b&w illustrations

MUSIC

POPULAR MUSIC

Remixing the Hip Hop Narrative Between Local Expressions and Global Connections

JAMES BARBER, CHRISTIAN BÜSCHGES, DIANNE VIOLETA

MAUSFELD, AND BRITTA SWEERS, EDITORS

This interdisciplinary book addresses hip-hop’s historical and regional struggles for representation of race, gender, generation, place, and language, as well as the tension between authenticity and commercialization.

JAMES BARBER is a PhD student at the Institute of Musicology at Universität Bern. CHRISTIAN BÜSCHGES is a professor of Iberian and Latin American history in the Institute of History at Universität Bern. DIANNE VIOLETA MAUSFELD is an associate researcher at the Institute of History at Universität Bern. BRITTA SWEERS is a professor of cultural anthropology of music at the Institute of Musicology at Universität Bern.

Singular Plural Ways of Staging Together Perspectives on Contemporary Dance, Art Performance and Visual Art

IRIS JULIAN

Focusing on staging processes in contemporary dance and art performance creates new opportunities to study creative participation and coauthorship. Iris Julian analyzes experimental projects initiated by two groups and a single choreographer— Collect-if by Collect-if, Deufert + Plischke, and Xavier Le Roy—looking beyond the importance that is often attributed to single authorship in the arts.

IRIS JULIAN is a cultural scholar who holds a doctorate in philosophy.

$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7052-3

SEPTEMBER 320 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 10 b&w illustrations

MUSIC

POPULAR MUSIC

$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-7247-3

JUNE 386 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 24 b&w illustrations

PERFORMING ARTS

CRITICAL DANCE STUDIES

At the Edge of AI

Human Computation Systems and Their Intraverting Relations

LIBUŠE HANNAH VEPŘEK

How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can alone? Through multiple perspectives and methods, Libuše Hannah Vepřek examines the imagination of these assemblages, their creation, and everyday negotiation in the interplay of various actors and play/science entanglements at the edge of AI.

LIBUŠE HANNAH VEPŘEK is a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Emotional Drivers of Innovation

Exploring the Moral Economy of Prototypes

FRANZISKA SÖRGEL

Challenging the view that the process of innovation is a matter of rational and linear creativity, this book demonstrates that emotions influence innovations as they are inherent in initial ideas, expectations, and habitual evaluation criteria that affect the development process.

FRANZISKA SÖRGEL is a postdoctoral researcher at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis.

Scientific Understanding

What It Is and How It Is Achieved

ANNA ELISABETH HÖHL

Anna Elisabeth Höhl provides a novel philosophical account of scientific understanding by developing and defending necessary and sufficient conditions for the understanding that scientists achieve of the phenomena they are researching. This account of scientific understanding is based on and supported by a detailed investigation of an episode from scientific practice in biology.

ANNA ELISABETH HÖHL is a philosopher of science and works as a project coordinator at the Institute of Philosophy at Leibniz Universität Hannover.

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7228-2

NOVEMBER 360 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" /

16 b&w illustrations

MEDIA STUDIES

SCIENCE STUDIES

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-7147-6

AUGUST 200 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 17 b&w

illustrations

SOCIAL SCIENCE

SCIENCE STUDIES

$65.00 paper 978-3-8376-7262-6

APRIL 260 pages / 5.83" x 8.86" / 4 b&w illustrations, 1 color illustration

PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHY – ENLIGHTENMENT –CRITIQUE

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World Construction via Networking

The Storytelling Mechanics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH HANSEN

There is growing mainstream acceptance of worlds and storytelling spread among several different texts, such as films, television series, novels, and comics. This pioneering book employs a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the narrative network of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and develop a structural model for understanding interconnected narratives.

CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH HANSEN is a scholar specializing in literary studies, media studies, transmediality, and narratology.

Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction

Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality, and Posthumanism

ALAN N. SHAPIRO

Alan N. Shapiro investigates the social impact of virtual/ augmented reality, AI, social media platforms, robots, and the brain-computer interface, suggesting that the boundary between science fiction narratives and the “real world” has become indistinct. Science fictional thinking should be advanced as a principal mode of knowledge for grasping the world and digitalization.

ALAN N. SHAPIRO teaches media theory at Hochschule für Künste Bremen and future design research at Hochschule Luzern.

Translations and Participation Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

JÖRG DINKELAKER AND KLARA-AYLIN WENTEN, EDITORS

The contributors to this book spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the interdependencies between translational practices—linguistic as well as cultural—and social participation. Authors from diverse fields, including interpreting, translation, and education research, as well as anthropology and sociology, share their perspectives on this vital yet often overlooked issue.

JÖRG DINKELAKER is full professor for adult education and further vocational training at the Faculty of Education at the Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg.

KLARA-AYLIN WENTEN is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Kassel.

$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-7100-1

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LITERARY STUDIES

LETTRE

$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-7242-8

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MEDIA STUDIES

DIGITAL SOCIETY

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

MEDIATION AND TRANSLATION IN TRANSITION

The Gaze of the X-Ray An Archive of Violence

SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI, EDITOR

X-ray technology was fashioned to maintain and save life. However, as the contributors to this book show, it has been a device of ruination as well. They visualize the traces and patterns of harm caused by states, racial capitalism, colonial racism, and sexism. By juxtaposing different cases across time and space, this collection sheds light on the relations between technology and violence.

SHAHRAM KHOSRAVI is a professor of anthropology at Stockholm University.

Sexuality, Family Planning, and Reproduction

Historical Dimensions in Central and Eastern Europe from 1600 until Today

FRITZ DROSS, BIRGIT NEMEC, AND IGOR

KĄKOLEWSKI, EDITORS

Contributors to this book reconsider the history of sexuality, family planning, and reproduction in Central and Eastern Europe, from contraception to representations of motherhood and controversies over reproductive rights.

FRITZ DROSS is as an assistant professor at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Friedrich–Alexander Universität ErlangenNürnberg in Erlangen. BIRGIT NEMEC is professor for the history of medicine at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. IGOR KĄKOLEWSKI is a historian and director of the Center for Historical Research Berlin of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

O My Friends, There Is No Friend

The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

MATT HERN AND AM JOHAL

Matt Hern and Am Johal argue that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human. This book includes interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Leela Gandhi, and Leanne Simpson.

MATT HERN is a founder and codirector of Solid State Community Industries.

AM JOHAL is the director of Simon Fraser University’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-7048-6

JUNE 194 pages / 6.1" x 9.45" / 96 b&w illustrations HISTORY OF SCIENCE

CORPOREAL MATTERS

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-7083-7

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HISTORICAL GENDER STUDIES

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What We Brought with Us

Things of Exile and Migration

VANESSA AGNEW, EDITOR

In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and rejuvenation. Through a series of scholarly essays and biographical vignettes, this richly illustrated collection draws on such observations to examine the meanings that possessions assume when they are wrenched from their original contexts.

VANESSA AGNEW teaches cultural studies at Technische Universität Dortmund.

Social Forms of Religion

European and American Christianity in Past and Present

MAREN FREUDENBERG AND ASTRID REUTER, EDITORS

Social forms of religion are communally productive at the same time as they enable individual religious experiences. The contributors to this book explore this tension by examining different social forms that Christianity in Europe and the Americas has taken in the past and present.

MAREN FREUDENBERG is a sociologist of religion at the Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

ASTRID REUTER is a professor of religious studies at Universität Münster and principal investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Religion & Politics.

Philosophy and Jewish Thought

Theoretical Intersections

BENIAMINO FORTIS, ELLEN RINNER, AND LARS TITTMAR, EDITORS

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. The contributors to this book, however, propose another way to advance the debate: instead of adopting a historical approach, they consider the intersections of philosophy and Jewish thought from a theoretical perspective.

BENIAMINO FORTIS holds a PhD in philosophy.

ELLEN RINNER is a research associate at the Department of Transcultural History of Judaism at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

LARS TITTMAR holds a PhD in philosophy.

$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-7116-2

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THE ACADEMY IN EXILE BOOK SERIES

$60.00 paper 978-3-8376-6826-1

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$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7292-3

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in Recent American Reportage

PASCAL SIGG

As a literary genre, nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. These writers assert themselves in a postmodern way by scrutinizing their own mediation.

PASCAL SIGG works as a journalist in Switzerland.

Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

Digital War: Media Strategies and Visual Politics during the FullScale Attack of Russia on Ukraine

Vol. 10, Issue 1 (2024)

ANNA NÄSLUND AND RAMÓN REICHERT, EDITORS

This special issue investigates smartphone use, online media, platform politics, and the impact of the crowdsourced war. The contributors analyze digital society and its relationship to war, violence, genocide, witnessing practices, and cultural appropriation in a critical manner.

ANNA NÄSLUND is professor of art history at Stockholm University.

RAMÓN REICHERT is a senior researcher at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge

Making Sense: Thinking through Making Architecture

Vol. 4, No. 6 (2023)

NICOLAI BO ANDERSEN, VICTOR BOYE JULEBÆK, AND EVA SIEVERT

ASMUSSEN, EDITORS

This issue of Dimensions investigates how the production of architectural knowledge involves the interaction of the body, material reality, and the environmental world.

NICOLAI BO ANDERSEN is an architect and professor at the Royal Danish Academy–Center for Sustainable Building Culture.

VICTOR BOYE JULEBÆK is an architect PhD and assistant professor at the Royal Danish Academy–Center for Sustainable Building Culture.

EVA SIEVERT ASMUSSEN is an architect and industrial PhD fellow at the Royal Danish Academy–Center for Sustainable Building Culture.

$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6864-3

$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-7326-5

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LITERARY STUDIES

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-6868-1

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$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20763-8

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In Remembrance of the Saints

MUHAMMAD SADIQ KASHGHARI

Translated by David Brophy

Winner: 2024 Patrick D. Hanan Prize, Association for Asian Studies

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19819-6

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The Politics of Survival

GLADYS L. MITCHELL-WALTHOUR

Winner: 2024 Anna Julia Cooper Outstanding Publication Award, Association for the Study of Black Women in Politics

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20767-6

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2023 GLOBAL POLITICS

Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures

ROCHONA MAJUMDAR

Co-Winner: 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Trust

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20105-6

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Lineages of the Literary

NICOLE WILLOCK

Winner: 2024 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies

$35.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19707-6

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2021 RELIGION / ASIAN STUDIES

The Shape of Sex

LEAH D e VUN

Winner: 2024 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America

Winner: 2022 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19551-5

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In Her Own Name

SARA CHATFIELD

Winner: 2024 V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19967-4

$29.99 / £25.00 e-book 978-0-231-55323-0

2023 AMERICAN POLITICS

Becoming Guanyin

YUHANG LI

Winner: 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming Studies

$40.00 / £35.00 paper 978-0-231-19013-8

$29.99 / £25.00 e-book 978-0-231-54873-1

2020 RELIGION / ASIAN STUDIES

The Octopus in the Parking Garage

ROB VERCHICK

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$32.00* / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20354-8

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