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Duke University Press On the Inconvenience of Other People LAUREN BERLANT

Eric Thayer, “Sorry for the Inconvenience We Are Trying to Change the World,” November 2, 2011.

September 2022 264 pages, 18 illustrations Social theory/Cultural studies/Affect theory Rights: World

In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing on a range of sources, including Last Tango in Paris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Claudia Rankine, Christopher Isherwood, Bhanu Kapil, the Occupy movement, and resistance to anti-Black state violence, Berlant poses inconvenience as an affective relation and considers how we might loosen our attachments in ways that allow us to build new forms of life. Collecting strategies for breaking apart a world in need of disturbing, the book’s experiments in thought and writing cement Berlant’s status as one of the most inventive and influential thinkers of our time.

Lauren Berlant (1957–2021) was George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author and coauthor of many books, including The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, The Female Complaint, Cruel Optimism, Sex, or the Unbearable, and The Hundreds, all also published by Duke University Press.

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Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property Minh-Ha T. Pham

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property

MINH-HA T. PHAM In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the source of the bags’ design. In Why We Can’t Have Nice Things Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the way social media users monitor the fashion market for the appearance of knock-off fashion, design theft, and plagiarism. Tracing the history of fashion antipiracy efforts back to the 1930s, she foregrounds the work of policing that has been tacitly outsourced to social media. Despite the social media concern for ethical fashion and consumption and the good intentions behind design policing, Pham shows that it has ironically deepened forms of social and market inequality, as it relies on and reinforces racist and colonial norms and ideas about what constitutes copying and what counts as creativity. These struggles over ethical fashion and intellectual property, Pham demonstrates, constitute deeper struggles over the colonial legacies of cultural property in digital and global economies.

September 2022 184 pages, 15 illustrations Fashion/Social media/Legal studies Rights: World

Minh-Ha T. Pham is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, also published by Duke University Press.

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No Machos or Pop Stars

When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk

GAVIN BUTT

NO MACHOS OR POP STARS WHEN THE LEEDS ART EXPERIMENT WENT PUNK GAVIN BUTT

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British Post-Punk & US Latinidad

September 2022 256 pages, 28 illustrations Pop music/Latinx studies/LGBTQ studies Rights: World

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After punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paint brushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians challenged the limits of what was deemed possible in rock and pop music. Taking avantgarde ideas to the record buying public, they created situationist anti-rock and art-punk, penned deconstructed pop ditties about Jacques Derrida, and took the aesthetics of collage and shock to dark, brooding electro-dance music. In No Machos or Pop Stars Gavin Butt tells the fascinating story of the post-punk scene in Leeds, showing how England’s state-funded education policy brought together art students from different social classes to create a fertile ground for musical experimentation. Drawing on extensive interviews with band members, their associates, and teachers, Butt details the groups who wanted to dismantle art world and music industry hierarchies by making it possible to dance to their art. Their stories reveal the subversive influence of art school in a regional music scene of lasting international significance.

A Kiss across the Ocean

Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad

RICHARD T. RODRÍGUEZ In A Kiss across the Ocean Richard T. Rodríguez examines the relationship between British post-punk musicians and their Latinx audiences in the United States since the 1980s. Melding memoir with cultural criticism, Rodríguez spotlights a host of influential bands and performers including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Pet Shop Boys. He recounts these bands’ importance for him and other Latinx kids and discusses their frequent identification with these bands’ glamorous performance of difference. Whether it was Siouxsie Sioux drawing inspiration from Latinx contemporaries and cultural practices or how Soft Cell singer Marc Almond’s lyrics were attuned to the vibrancy of queer Latinidad, Rodríguez shows how Latinx culture helped shape British post-punk. He traces the fandom networks that link these groups across space and time to illuminate how popular music establishes and facilitates intimate relations across the Atlantic. In so doing, he demonstrates how the music and styles that have come to define the 1980s hold significant sway on younger generations equally enthused by their matchlessly pleasurable and political reverberations.

Richard T. Rodríguez is Professor of English and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

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Ain’t But a Few of Us

Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

WILLARD JENKINS, editor December 2022 312 pages Jazz/African American studies Rights: World

Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a Black editor or publisher. Ain’t But a Few of Us presents over two dozen candid dialogues with Black jazz critics and journalists ranging from Greg Tate, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Robin D. G. Kelly to Tammy Kernodle, Ron Welburn, and John Murph. They discuss the obstacles to access for Black jazz journalists, outline how they contend with the world of jazz writing dominated by white men, and point out that these racial disparities are not confined to jazz and hamper their efforts at writing about other music genres as well. Ain’t But a Few of Us also includes an anthology section, which reprints classic essays and articles from Black writers and musicians like LeRoi Jones, Archie Shepp, A.B. Spellman, Herbie Nichols, Greg Tate, and others.

Willard Jenkins is the Artistic Director of the DC Jazz Festival as well as an arts consultant, producer, educator, and print and broadcast journalist. His writing has been featured in JazzTimes, Downbeat, Jazz Forum, Jazzwise, and many other publications. He is the coauthor of African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston, also published by Duke University Press. He is the writer of the multipart Billie Holiday documentary podcast No Regrets.

The Miniaturists

BARBARA BROWNING

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October 2022 216 pages, 21 illustrations Creative non-fiction Rights: World

In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentiethcentury entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the “mother of forensic science,” who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut Toy Piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift’s and Lewis Carroll’s preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast, and even cosmic, realities.

Barbara Browning is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include The Gift, I’m Trying to Reach You, and The Correspondence Artist.

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Vanishing Sands

Losing Beaches to Mining

ORRIN H. PILKEY, NORMA J. LONGO, WILLIAM J. NEAL , NELSON G. RANGEL-BUITRAGO, KEITH C. PILKEY, and HANNAH L. HAYES

Beach sand mining in Portugal. Photo by William J. Neal.

December 2022 248 pages, 56 illustrations, including 53 in color Natural Resources/Environmental Activism/ Beach Mining Rights: World

In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving beaches, dunes, and associated environments, plus lives and tourism economies everywhere.

Orrin H. Pilkey is Emeritus James B. Duke Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at Duke University and the author and coauthor of many books. Norma J. Longo, a geologist and photographer, is coauthor with Pilkey of several books on coastal issues. William J. Neal, Emeritus Professor of Geology at Grand Valley State University, is an expert on ocean and Great Lakes shoreline evolution and coauthor of many books with Pilkey. Nelson G. Rangel-Buitrago is Professor in the Geology, Geophysics, and MarineResearch Group at the Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia, and a prolific author of coastal science studies. Keith C. Pilkey, an attorney concerned with legal issues of coastal development, is coauthor of two books about sea level rise. Hannah L. Smith is a scholar of changing land rights, disaster capitalism, and risk management in Barbuda and Fiji.

Black Life Matter

Blackness, Religion, and the Subject

BIKO MANDELA GRAY December 2022 184 pages African American studies/Religion/Philosophy Rights: World

In Black Life Matter, Biko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality. Gray employs a theoretical method he calls “sitting with”—a philosophical practice of care that seeks to defend the dead and the living. He shows that the police that killed Stanley-Jones and Rice reduced them to their bodies in ways that turn black lives into tools that the state uses to justify its violence and existence. He outlines how Bland’s arrest and death reveal the affective resonances of blackness, and he contends that Sterling’s physical movement and speech before he was killed point to black flesh as unruly living matter that exceeds the constraints of the black body. These four black lives, Gray demonstrates, were more than the brutal violence enacted against them; they speak to a mode of life that cannot be fully captured by the brutal logics of antiblackness.

Biko Mandela Gray is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University and coeditor of The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress.

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New Growth

The Art and Texture of Black Hair

JASMINE NICHOLE COBB

“Afro sheen stays on the case.” Advertisement, Ebony, January 1969.

January 2023 216 pages, 78 illustrations, including 32 in color African American studies/Art and visual culture Rights: World

From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure hair, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film and photography, as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from the nineteenth century to the present, Cobb shows how the racial distinctions ascribed to people of African descent become simultaneously visible and tactile. Whether examining Soul Train’s and Ebony’s promotion of the Afro hair style alongside cosmetics or how artists such as Alison Saar and Lorna Simpson underscore the construction of Blackness through the representation of hair, Cobb foregrounds the inseparability of Black hair’s look and feel. Demonstrating that Blackness is palpable through appearance and feeling, Cobb reveals the various ways that people of African descent forge new relationships to the body, public space, and visual culture through the embrace of Black hair.

Jasmine Nichole Cobb is Bacca Foundation Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University and author of Picture Freedom: Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century.

Translating Blackness

Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

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Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective

September 2022 336 pages, 23 illustrations, including 2 in color Black studies/Latinx studies/Gender and sexuality Rights: World

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LORGIA GARCÍA PEÑA In Translating Blackness Lorgia García Peña considers Black Latinidad in a global perspective in order to chart colonialism as an ongoing sociopolitical force. Drawing from archives and cultural productions from the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe, García Peña argues that Black Latinidad is a social, cultural, and political formation—rather than solely a site of identity—through which we can understand both oppression and resistance. She takes up the intellectual and political genealogy of Black Latinidad in the works of Frederick Douglass, Gregorio Luperón, and Arthur Schomburg. She also considers the lives of Black Latina women living in the diaspora such as Black Dominicana guerrillas who migrated throughout the diaspora after the 1965 civil war and Black immigrant and second-generation women like Mercedes Frías and Milagros Guzmán organizing in Italy with other oppressed communities.

In demonstrating that analyses of Black Latinidad must include Latinx people and cultures throughout the diaspora, García Peña shows how the vaivén—or, coming and going—at the heart of migrant life reveals that the nation is not a sufficient rubric from which to understand human lived experiences.

Lorgia García Peña is Mellon Associate Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University and author of The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction, also published by Duke University Press, and Community as Rebellion: Women of Color, Academia, and the Fight for Ethnic Studies.

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Queer Kinship

Race, Sex, Belonging, Form

TYLER BRADWAY and ELIZABETH FREEMAN, editors August 2022 360 pages, 1 illustration Queer theory Rights: World

The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility. The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous people and people of color.

Among other topics, they examine, the “blood tie” as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday experience and memories of trans mothers and daughters in Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state, and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of Indigenous children as a technology of settler colonialism. Queer Kinship pushes the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of queer theory forward while opening up new paths for studying kinship.

Tyler Bradway is Associate Professor of English at State University of New York, Cortland, and author of Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading. Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis, and author of Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century, and other books also published by Duke University Press.

Bad Education

Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing

LEE EDELMAN

From Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997).

December 2022 416 pages, 105 color illustrations Queer Theory/Cultural studies/Literary Theory Rights: World

Long awaited after No Future, and making queer theory controversial again, Lee Edelman’s Bad Education proposes a queerness without positive identity—a queerness understood as a figural name for the void, itself unnamable, around which the social order takes shape. Like Blackness, woman, incest, and sex, queerness, as Edelman explains it, designates the antagonism, the structuring negativity, preventing that order from achieving coherence. But when certain types of persons get read as literalizing queerness, the negation of their negativity can seem to resolve the social antagonism and totalize community. By translating the nothing of queerness into the something of “the queer,” the order of meaning defends against the senselessness that undoes it, thus mirroring, Edelman argues, education’s response to queerness: its sublimation of irony into the meaningfulness of a world. Putting queerness in relation to Lacan’s “ab-sens” and in dialogue with feminist and Afropessimist thought, Edelman reads works by Shakespeare, Jacobs, Almodóvar, Lemmons, and Haneke, among others, to show why queer theory’s engagement with queerness necessarily results in a bad education that is destined to teach us nothing.

Lee Edelman is Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, and coauthor, with Lauren Berlant, of Sex, or the Unbearable, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood Coming of Age in the Sixties

JOHN D’EMILIO

Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood Coming of Age in the Sixties John D’Emilio

September 2022 248 pages, 15 illustrations Gay history/Memoir Rights: World

John D’Emilio is one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQ history. At times his life has been seemingly at odds with his upbringing.

How does a boy from an Italian immigrant family in which everyone unfailingly went to Confession and Sunday Mass become a lapsed Catholic? How does a family who worshipped Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported Richard Nixon produce an antiwar activist and pacifist? How does a family in which the word “divorce” was never spoken raise a son who comes to explore the hidden gay sexual underworld of New York City?

Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood is D’Emilio’s coming-of-age story in which he takes readers from his working-class Bronx neighborhood to an elite Jesuit high school in Manhattan to Columbia University and the political and social upheavals of the late 1960s. He shares the personal experiences of his conservative, tight-knit multigenerational family, how he went from considering entering the priesthood to losing his faith and coming to terms with his same-sex desires. Throughout, D’Emilio outlines his complicated relationship with his family while showing how his passion for activism influenced his decision to use research, writing, and teaching to build a strong LGBTQ movement.

This is not just John D’Emilio’s personal story; it opens a window into how the conformist baby boom decade of the 1950s transformed into the tumultuous years of radical social movements and widespread protest during the 1960s. It is the story of what happens when different cultures and values collide and the tensions and possibilities for personal discovery and growth that emerge. Intimate and honest, D’Emilio’s story will resonate with anyone who has had to find their own path in a world they did not expect to find.

John D’Emilio is Emeritus Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the author of many books, including The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture, also published by Duke University Press, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940–1970, and Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Lost Prophet, which won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Award for Best Gay and Lesbian Nonfiction Book.

D’Emilio was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2005 and named “Chicagoan of the Year” by the Chicago Tribune in 2004. He lives in Chicago.

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On Paradox

The Claims of Theory

ELIZABETH S. ANKER December 2022 360 pages Critical theory Rights: World

On Paradox is literary and legal scholar Elizabeth Anker’s account of how paradox became central to left intellectualism in the later half of the 20th century. Anker argues that Cold War politics, a decline in dialectic thinking, the linguistic turn in the humanities, and a renewed investment in political theology and aesthetic theory all served to cement the centrality of the paradox as the method and politics of left-intellectualism. Crucially, Anker argues that the paradox emerged as the figure of modern intellectualism; a method which demarcated the line between ancient and modern intellectual inquiry. While Anker does not argue for a wholesale abandonment of paradox, her book asks us to consider what kinds of intellectual and political inquiries are focused through a reliance on paradox.

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor of English and Associate Member of the Law Faculty at Cornell University and coeditor of Critique and Postcritique, also published by Duke University Press.

Loss and Wonder at the World’s End LAURA A. OGDEN

In Loss and Wonder at the World’s End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people, and things—from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong—to catalog the ways environmental change and colonial history are entangled in the Fuegian Archipelago of southernmost Chile and Argentina. Repeated algal blooms have closed fisheries in the archipelago. Glaciers are in retreat. Extractive industries such as commercial forestry, natural gas production, and salmon farming along with the introduction of nonnative species are rapidly transforming assemblages of life. Ogden archives forms of loss—including territory, language, sovereignty, and life itself—as well as forms of wonder, or moments when life continues to flourish even in the ruins of these devastations. Her account draws on long-term ethnographic research with settler and Indigenous communities; archival photographs; explorer journals; and experiments in natural history and performance studies. Loss and Wonder at the World's End frames environmental change as imperialism’s shadow, a darkness cast over the earth in the wake of other losses.

November 2021 200 pages, 56 illustrations, including 1 in color Anthropology/Environmental studies Rights: World excluding Italian

Laura A. Ogden is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades, coauthor of Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers, and coeditor of The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape.

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Planetary Longings MARY LOUISE PRATT

April 2022 352 pages, 26 illustrations Indigenous studies/Cultural studies Rights: World

In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism’s devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.

Mary Louise Pratt is Silver Professor, Emerita, of Spanish and Portuguese and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Stanford University. She is coeditor of Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship and author of Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation.

Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea NAMHEE LEE

Demolition of the former Japanese Governor-General building, Seoul. 1996.

December 2022 240 pages, 6 illustrations Asian studies Rights: World

Memory Construction And The Politics Of Time In Neoliberal South Korea, by historian Namhee Lee, offers a cultural analysis of South Korea’s transition to democracy in 1987, and the ways intellectuals, political and literary figures, and activists continue to respond and revise the narrative of that transition. Lee characterizes these responses as representing a “regime of discontinuity” in which the transition was seen as a complete break from the past, and the ethos of the previous minjung (popular forces) movement erased. In particular, Lee examines memory making and history writing in the era of neoliberalism, and analyzes the reconstruction of memory in the New Right’s revisionist scholarship on South Korea’s authoritarian and colonial histories.

Namhee Lee is Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures, at University of California, Los Angeles.

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Racist Love

Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy

LESLIE BOW In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America.

March 2022 280 pages, 41 illustrations Asian American studies/American studies/ Affect Theory Rights: World

Leslie Bow is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South and Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women’s Literature.

China in the World

Culture, Politics, and World Vision

BAN WANG

March 2022 232 pages, 3 illustrations Asian studies Rights: World

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In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist even as China has adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of tianxia, meaning “all under heaven,” has constantly been updated into modern outlooks that value unity, equality, and reciprocity as key to overcoming interstate conflict, social fragmentation, and ethnic divides. Instead of geopolitical dominance, China’s worldviews stem as much from the age-old desire for world unity as from absorbing the Western ideas of the Enlightenment, humanism, and socialism. Examining political writings, literature, and film, Wang presents a narrative of the country’s pursuits of decolonization, national independence, notions of national form, socialist internationalism, alternative development, and solidarity with Third World nations. Rather than national exceptionalism, Chinese worldviews aspire to a shared, integrated, and equal world.

Ban Wang is William Haas Professor of Chinese Studies at Stanford University, editor of Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics, also published by Duke University Press, and author of Illuminations from the Past: Trauma, Memory, and History in Modern China.

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Terror Capitalism

Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City

DARREN BYLER

February 2022 296 pages, 15 illustrations China/Surveillance/Anthropology Rights: World excluding Arabic and Chinese Complex

In Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes of resource extraction in Uyghur lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism—a configuration of ethnoracialization, surveillance, and mass detention that in this case promotes settler colonialism. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the regional capital Ürümchi, Byler shows how media infrastructures, the state’s enforcement of “Chinese” cultural values, and the influx of Han Chinese settlers contribute to Uyghur dispossession and their expulsion from the city. He particularly attends to the experiences of young Uyghur men—who are the primary target of state violence—and how they develop masculinities and homosocial friendships to protect themselves against gendered, ethnoracial, and economic violence. By tracing the political and economic stakes of Uyghur colonization, Byler demonstrates that state-directed capitalist dispossession is coconstructed with a colonial relation of domination.

Darren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Climatic Media

Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control

YURIKO FURUHATA

March 2022 256 pages, 15 illustrations Media and technology/Environmental studies/ Asian studies Rights: World

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In Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan’s empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically “condition” Earth’s atmosphere and socially “condition” the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko’s fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who sought to design climate-controlled capsule housing and domed cities. Furuhata’s transpacific analysis offers a novel take on the elemental conditions of media and climate change.

Yuriko Furuhata is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University and author of Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics, also published by Duke University Press.

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Plastic Matter HEATHER DAVIS

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic’s materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic’s saturation.

March 2022 176 pages, 12 illustrations Environmental studies/Queer theory/Visual culture Rights: World

Heather Davis is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School, editor of Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, and coeditor of Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies.

Remaindered Life

NEFERTI X. M. TADIAR

In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life—practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.

July 2022 456 pages, 26 illustrations Critical Race studies/Global studies/Feminist Social Theory Rights: World

Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press, and Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order.

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King’s Vibrato

Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr.

King’s Vibrato Modernism, Blackness, and the Sonic Life of Martin Luther King Jr. Maurice O. Wallace

September 2022 376 pages, 30 illustrations African American studies/Religious studies/ Sound studies Rights: World

MAURICE O. WALLACE In King’s Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.’s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped informed King’s vocal timbre, Wallace shows how the qualities of King’s voice depended on a mix of ecclesial architecture and acoustics, musical instrumentation and sound technology, audience and song. He examines the acoustical architectures of the African American churches where King spoke and the centrality of the pipe organ in these churches, offers a black feminist critique of the influence of gospel on King, and outlines how variations in natural environments and sound amplifications made each of King’s three deliveries of the “I Have a Dream” speech unique. By mapping the vocal timbre of one of the single most important figures of black hope and protest in American history, Wallace presents King as the embodiment of the sound of modern black thought.

Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, author of Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775– 1995, and coauthor of Pictures of Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, both also published by Duke University Press.

Genres of Listening

An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires

XOCHITL MARSILLI-VARGAS

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September 2022 240 pages, 9 illustrations Anthropology/Latin American studies Rights: World

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In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on to whom, where, and how they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a “psychoanalytic ear” that emerges through responses during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations on the hidden meaning of the words. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoanalytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interactions.

Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University.

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Earworm and Event

Music, Daydreams, and Other Imaginary Refrains

ELDRITCH PRIEST

March 2022 200 pages Music and sound studies/Philosophy Rights: World

In Earworm and Event Eldritch Priest questions the nature of the imagination in contemporary culture through the phenomenon of the earworm: those reveries that hijack our attention, the shivers that run down our spines, and the songs that stick in our heads. Through a series of meditations on music, animal mentality, abstraction, and metaphor, Priest uses the earworm and the states of daydreaming, mind-wandering, and delusion it can produce to outline how music is something that is felt as thought rather than listened to. Priest presents Earworm and Event as a tête-bêche—two books bound together with each end meeting in the middle. Where Earworm theorizes the entanglement of thought and feeling, Event performs it. Throughout, Priest conceptualizes the earworm as an event that offers insight into not only the way human brains process musical experiences, but how abstractions and the imagination play key roles in the composition and expression of our contemporary social environments and more-than-human milieus. Unconventional and ambitious, Earworm and Event offers new ways to interrogate the convergence of thought, sound, and affect.

Eldritch Priest is Assistant Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, author of Boring Formless Nonsense: Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure, and coauthor of Ludic Dreaming: How to Listen Away from Contemporary Technoculture.

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August 2022 288 pages Music/Critical theory Rights: World

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In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration.

Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians—Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, Swedish drone composer and philosopher Catherine Christer Hennix, and Houston-based hip hop musician DJ Screw—Boon outlines how music constructs a vibrational space of individual and collective transformation. Contributing to a new interdisciplinary field of vibration studies, he understands vibration as a mathematical and physical concept, a religious and ontological force, and as a psychological determinant of subjectivity. Boon contends that music, as a shaping of vibration, needs to be recognized as a cosmopolitical practice—in the sense introduced by Isabelle Stengers—in which what music is within a society depends on what kinds of access to vibration are permitted, and to whom. This politics of vibration constitutes the hidden ontology of contemporary music because the organization of vibration shapes individual music scenes as well as the ethical choices that participants in these scenes make about how they want to live in the world.

Marcus Boon is Professor of English at York University, author of In Praise of Copying and The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs, and coauthor of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism.

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Violence, Ecologies, and Kin

Kimberly Th eid o n

In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy, and childbirth unfold.

She reimagines harm by taking into account the impact of violence on individual people as well as on more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable abortions.

nce, Violence, Violence, gies, Ecologies, Ecologies, Kin and Kin and Kin July 2022 128 pages, 3 illustrations Anthropology/Gender studies/Latin American studies Rights: World

Kimberly Theidon is Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at Tufts University and author of Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru.

Warring Visions

Photography and Vietnam

THY PHU

March 2022 248 pages, 70 illustrations, including 16 in color Photography/Vietnam Rights: World

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In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography, Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese themselves, capturing a range of subjects, occasions, and perspectives. Phu’s concept of warring visions refers to contrasts in the use of war photos in North Vietnam, which highlighted national liberation and aligned themselves with an international audience, and those in South Vietnam, which focused on family and everyday survival. Phu also uses warring visions to enlarge the category of war photography, a genre that usually consists of images illustrating the immediacy of combat and the spectacle of violence, pain, and wounded bodies. She pushes this genre beyond such definitions by analyzing pictures of family life, weddings, and other quotidian scenes of life during the war. Phu thus expands our understanding of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.

Thy Phu is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. She is coeditor of Feeling Photography, also published by Duke University Press, and Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada. She is also author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture.

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The Surrounds

Urban Life within and beyond Capture

ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the surrounds are an integral part of the expansiveness of urban imagination.

June 2022 176 pages, 12 illustrations Black studies/Urban studies/Geography Rights: World

AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield and author of For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities, also published by Duke University Press, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South, and Jakarta: Drawing the City Near.

Vulgar Beauty

Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

MILA ZUO

March 2022 312 pages, 26 illustrations Film studies/Gender studies/Asian & Asian American studies Rights: World

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In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li’s post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen’s performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong’s stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory.

Mila Zuo is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of British Columbia.

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Anarchist Prophets

Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight

JAMES R. MARTEL

August 2022 368 pages Political theory Rights: World

In Anarchist Prophets James R. Martel juxtaposes anarchism with what he calls archism in order to theorize the potential for a radical democratic politics. He shows how archism—a centralized and hierarchical political form that is a secularization of ancient Greek and Hebrew prophetic traditions—dominates contemporary politics through a prophet’s promises of peace and prosperity or the threat of violence. Archism is met by anarchism, in which a community shares a collective form of judgment and vision. Martel focuses on the figure of the anarchist prophet, who leads efforts to regain the authority for the community that archism had stolen. The anarchist prophet’s goal is to render themselves obsolete and to cede power back to the collective so as to not become archist herself. Martel locates anarchist prophets in a range of philosophical, literary, and historical examples, from Hobbes and Nietzsche to Mary Shelley and Octavia Butler to Kurdish resistance in Syria and the Spanish revolution. In so doing, Martel highlights how anarchist forms of collective vision and action can provide the means to overthrow archist authority.

James R. Martel is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and the author of The Misinterpellated Subject, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead.

The City Electric

Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania

MICHAEL DEGANI

Family relaxing at night, 2016, their solar battery system only strong enough for lights and phones. Photo by the author.

November 2022 264 pages, 6 illustrations Anthropology/African studies/Urban studies Rights: World

Over the last twenty years of neoliberal reform, the national power supply in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s metropolis, has become less reliable even as its importance has increased. Though mobile phones, televisions, and refrigerators have flooded the city, the electricity required to run these devices is still supplied by the old, socialist-era energy company Tanesco, which is characterized by increased fees, aging infrastructure, and a sluggish bureaucracy. While some residents contemplate off-grid solutions, others repair, extend, or tap into the state network with the assistance of freelance electricians or moonlighting utility employees. In The City Electric Michael Degani explores how electricity and its piracy has become a key site for urban Tanzanians to enact, experience, and debate their social contract with the state.

He traces the interactions of consumers, electricians, contractors, managers, workers, and others who can enable or prevent electricity from flowing, showing how consumers’ toleration of breakdowns in the electrical system and the maintenance of infrastructure parallels the functioning of collective life more generally. In this way, electricity infrastructure mediates citizens’ relations with the postsocialist state.

Michael Degani is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

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Wake Up, This Is Joburg

MARK LEWIS and TANYA ZACK

December 2022 320 pages, 251 color illustrations, 1 map Photography Rights: World

Wake Up, This Is Joburg is a collaboration between photographer Mark Lewis and writer Tanya Zack. Originally published from 2014–2019 as 10 separate photobooks by Fourthwall Books in South Africa, the collection builds a portrait of Johannesburg through individual stories and accompanying photographs. Ranging from butchers removing meat from cow heads in a parking garage meat market to underground gold miners hauling rock by hand from abandoned shafts under the city, these stories contribute to ethnographic studies of the city by showing the lived experience of its residents. At its heart, this project investigates how people are improvising to repurpose land and buildings, especially in Johannesburg’s inner city. It brings attention to a vast informal economy, as well as widespread reconstruction as crumbling buildings are occupied, burned, stripped of parts and rebuilt to serve the needs of the residents. The book will be useful to scholars interested in South Africa and African urban spaces, as well as urban anthropology more generally, and could be assigned for graduate or undergraduate classes in these fields, as well as in visual anthropology or methods courses.

Mark Lewis is a photographer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tanya Zack is an urban planner based in Johannesburg, South Africa and Visiting Researcher at Wits University.

The People’s Hotel

Working for Justice in Argentina

KATHERINE SOBERING

Entrance to the Hotel Bauen af ter it closed in 2001. Source unknown.

September 2022 280 pages, 31 illustrations Latin American studies/Sociology Rights: World

In 2001 Argentina experienced a massive economic crisis: businesses went bankrupt, unemployment spiked, and nearly half the population fell below the poverty line. In the midst of the crisis, Buenos Aires’ iconic twenty-story Hotel Bauen quietly closed its doors, forcing long-time hospitality workers out of their jobs. Rather than leaving the luxury hotel vacant, a group of former employees occupied the property and kept it open. In The People’s Hotel, Katherine Sobering recounts the history of the Hotel Bauen, detailing its transformation from a privately owned business into a worker cooperative—one where decisions were made democratically, jobs were rotated, and all members were paid equally. Combining ethnographic and archival research with her own experiences as a volunteer worker at the hotel, Sobering examines how the Bauen cooperative grew and, against all odds, successfully kept the hotel open for nearly two decades. Highlighting successes and innovations alongside the many challenges that these workers faced, Sobering presents a vivid portrait of efforts to address inequality and reorganize work in a capitalist economy.

Katherine Sobering is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas and coauthor of The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins.

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Cistem Failure

Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

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August 2022 192 pages Black studies/Trans studies/Gender studies Rights: World

In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks what does it mean to have a gender that “matches” one’s sex, that is, cisgender, when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the The Powerpuff Girls to the greeting “how ya mama’n’em” to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat of a category to hold the myriad ways that people—who may not have undergone gender affirmative interventions—depart from gender alignment. At the same time, blackness, they contend, strikes at the heart of cisgender’s invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus.

Marquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University and author of several books, most recently Black Trans Feminism, also published by Duke University Press.

Rage and Carnage in the Name of God Religious Violence in Nigeria

ABIODUN ALAO

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August 2022 312 pages, 1 illustration African studies/Religion/Politics Rights: World

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In Rage and Carnage in the Name of God, Abiodun Alao examines the emergence of a culture of religious violence in post-independence Nigeria, where Christianity, Islam, and traditional religions have all been associated with violence. He investigates the root causes and historical evolution of Nigeria’s religious violence, locating it in the forced coming together of disparate ethnic groups under colonial rule, which planted the seeds of discord that religion, elites, and domestic politics exploit. Alao discusses the histories of Christianity, Islam, and traditional religions in the territory that became Nigeria, the effects of colonization on the role of religion, the development of Islamic radicalization and its relation to Christian violence, the activities of Boko Haram, and how religious violence intermixes with politics and governance. In so doing, he uses religious violence as a way to more fully understand intergroup relations in contemporary Nigeria.

Abiodun Alao is Professor of African Studies at King’s College London and the author of several books, including A New Narrative for Africa: Voice and Agency, Mugabe and the Politics of Security in Zimbabwe, and Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment.

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PANAMA Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

Panama in Black

Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century

KAYSHA CORINEALDI In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich array of sources including speeches, yearbooks, photographs, government reports, radio broadcasts, newspaper editorials, and oral histories, Corinealdi presents the Panamanian isthmus as a crucial site in the making of an Afro-diasporic world that linked cities and towns like Colón, Kingston, Panamá, Brooklyn, Bridgetown, and La Boca. In Panama, Afro-Caribbean Panamanians created a diasporic world view of the Caribbean that privileged the potential of Black innovation. Corinealdi maps this innovation by examining the longest running Black newspaper in Central America, the rise of civic associations created to counter policies that stripped Afro-Caribbean Panamanians of citizenship, the creation of scholarship-granting organizations that supported the education of Black students, and the emergence of national conferences and organizations that linked anti-imperialism and Black Liberation. By showing how Afro-Caribbean Panamanians used these methods to navigate anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and white supremacy, Corinealdi offers a new mode of understanding activism, community, and diaspora formation.

IN BLACK Kaysha Corinealdi

September 2022 280 pages, 18 illustrations African Diaspora/Latin American and Caribbean studies/History Rights: World

Kaysha Corinealdi is Assistant Professor of World History at Emerson College.

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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic

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In Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics, Lisa E. Bloom considers the way artists, filmmakers, and activists in the Arctic and Antarctic represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist, Black, Indigenous, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant ecosystem failures, rising sea levels, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears, artists such as Katja Aglert, Subhankar Banerjee, Joyce Campbell, Judit Hersko, Roni Horn, Isaac Julien, Zacharias Kunuk, Connie Samaras, and activist art collectives take a more complex poetic and political approach. In their films and visual and conceptual art, these artists link climate change to its social roots in colonialism and capitalism while challenging the suppression of information about environmental destruction and critiquing Western art institutions for their complicity. Bloom’s examination and contextualization of new polar aesthetics makes environmental degradation more legible while demonstrating that our own political agency is central to imagining and constructing a better world.

Lisa E. Bloom is Scholar-in-Residence at the Beatrice Bain Research Group in the Department of Gender and Women’s studies, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions. Two of the book’s chapters were written with Elena Glasberg, who is the author of Antarctica as Cultural Critique: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change.

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A Ritual Geology

Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa A RITUAL GEOLOGY

GOLD AND SUBTERRANEAN KNOWLEDGE IN SAVANNA WEST AFRICA Robyn d’Avignon

July 2022 328 pages, 31 illustrations African history/Anthropology Rights: World

ROBYN D’AVIGNON Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.

Robyn d’Avignon is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.

Staple Security

Bread and Wheat in Egypt

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Bread and Wheat in egypt

Jessica Barnes

October 2022 320 pages, 45 illustrations Anthropology/Geography/Middle East studies Rights: World

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JESSICA BARNES Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. She traces the anxiety that pervades Egyptian society surrounding the possibility that the nation could run out of wheat or that people might not have enough good bread to eat, and the daily efforts to ensure that this does not happen. With rich ethnographic detail, she takes us into the worlds of cultivating wheat, trading grain, and baking, buying, and eating bread. Linking global flows of grain and a national bread subsidy program with everyday household practices, Barnes theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to secure their consistent availability and quality.

Jessica Barnes is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She is author of Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Climate Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change.

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Markets of Civilization

Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria

MURIAM HALEH DAVIS

MARKETS OF CIVILIZATION Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria MURIAM HALEH DAVIS

September 2022 288 pages, 12 illustrations African and Middle East history/Postcolonial studies Rights: World

In Markets of Civilization Muriam Haleh Davis provides a history of racial capitalism, showing how Islam became a racial category that shaped economic development in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. French officials in Paris and Algiers introduced what Davis terms “a racial regime of religion” that subjected Algerian Muslims to discriminatory political and economic structures. These experts believed that introducing a market economy would modernize society and discourage anticolonial nationalism. Planners, politicians, and economists implemented reforms that sought to transform Algerians into modern economic subjects and drew on racial assumptions despite the formally color-blind policies of the French state.

Following independence, convictions about the inherent link between religious beliefs and economic behavior continued to influence development policies. Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella embraced a specifically Algerian socialism founded on Islamic principles, while French technocrats saw Algeria as a testing ground for development projects elsewhere in the global South. Highlighting the entanglements between race and religion, Davis demonstrates that economic orthodoxies helped fashion understandings of national identity on both shores of the Mediterranean during decolonization.

Muriam Haleh Davis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coeditor of North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions, and Culture.

Feeling Media

Potentiality and the Afterlife of Art

MIRYAM SAS

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November 2022 320 pages, 53 illustrations Media studies/Asian studies Rights: World

In Feeling Media Miryam Sas explores the potentialities and limitations of media theory and media art in Japan. Opening media studies and affect theory up to a deeper engagement with works and theorists outside Euro-America, Sas offers a framework of analysis she calls the affective scale—the space where artists and theorists work between the level of the individual and larger global and historical shifts. She examines intermedia, experimental animation, and Marxist theories of the culture industries of the 1960s and 1970s in the work of artists and thinkers ranging from filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, photographer Nakahira Takuma, and the Animation Group of Three to art critic Hanada Kiyoteru and landscape theorist Matsuda Masao. She also outlines how twenty-first century Japanese artists—especially those responding to the Fukushima disaster—adopt and adapt this earlier work to reframe ideas about collectivity, community, and connectivity in the space between the individual and the system.

Miryam Sas is Professor of Film and Media and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return and Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism.

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The Terrible We

Thinking with Trans Maladjustment

CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH September 2022 208 pages, 5 illustrations Trans studies Rights: World

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and trans cultural production alike.

Observing that trans studies was founded on a split from and disavowal of madness, illness, and disability, Awkward-Rich argues for and models a trans criticism that works against this disavowal. By tracing the coproduction of the categories disabled and transgender in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century and analyzing transmasculine literature and theory by Eli Clare, Elliot Deline, Dylan Scholinski, and others, Awkward-Rich suggests that thinking with maladjustment might provide new perspectives on the impasses arising from the conflicted relationship between trans, feminist, and queer. In so doing, he demonstrates that rather than only impeding or confining trans life, thought, and creativity, forms of maladjustment have also been and will continue to be central to their development.

Cameron Awkward-Rich is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Dispatch and Sympathetic Little Monster.

Crisis Vision

Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance

TORIN MONAHAN

Josh Begley, Plain Sight: The Visual Vernacular of NYPD Surveillance (2014). Creative Commons.

October 2022 232 pages, 29 illustrations Surveillance studies/Cultural studies/Art Rights: World

In Crisis Vision, Torin Monahan explores how artists confront the racializing dimensions of contemporary surveillance. He focuses on artists ranging from Kai Wiedenhöfer, Paolo Cirio, and Hank Willis Thomas to Claudia Rankine and Dread Scott who engage with what he calls crisis vision—the regimes of racializing surveillance that position black and brown bodies as targets for police and state violence. Many artists, Monahan contends, remain invested in frameworks that privilege transparency, universality, and individual responsibility in ways that often occlude racial difference. Other artists, however, disrupt crisis vision by confronting white supremacy and destabilizing hierarchies through the performance of opacity.

Whether fostering a recognition of a shared responsibility and complicity for the violence of crisis vision or critiquing how vulnerable groups are constructed and treated globally, these artists emphasize ethical relations between strangers and ask viewers to question their own place within unjust social orders.

Torin Monahan is Professor of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity, coauthor of SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society, and coeditor of Surveillance Studies: A Reader.

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Lifelines

The Traffic of Trauma

HARRIS SOLOMON

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September 2022 296 pages, 11 illustrations Medical anthropology/South Asian studies Rights: World

In Lifelines Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, and families who experience and care for traumatic injuries due to widespread traffic accidents. He traces trauma’s moves after the accident: from scenes of road and railway injuries to the inside of ambulances; through emergency triage, surgery, and intensive care; and from the morgue for patients who do not survive into the homes of those who do. These pathways reveal how trauma shifts inequalities, infrastructures, and institutions through the lives and labors of clinical spaces.

Solomon contends that medicine itself must be understood in terms of lifelines: patterns of embodied movement that determine survival. In reflecting on the centrality of traffic to life, Lifelines explores a fundamental question: How does medicine move us?

Harris Solomon is Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India, also published by Duke University Press.

Changing the Subject

Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India

SRILA ROY

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September 2022 280 pages, 7 illustrations Women’s studies/South Asian studies Rights: World

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In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India’s liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development and ngos signalled the co-option and depoliticization of struggles for women’s rights, even as they amplified the visibility and vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of activist and ngo work around issues of gender and sexuality through a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other on rural women’s empowerment. Tracing changes in feminist governmentality that were entangled in transnational neoliberalism, Roy shows how historical and highly local feminist currents shaped contemporary queer and non-queer neoliberal feminisms.

The interplay between historic techniques of activist governance and queer feminist governmentality’s focus on changing the self offers a new way of knowing feminism—both as always already co-opted and as a transformative force in the world.

Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement, and editor of New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities.

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Turning Archival

The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies

DANIEL MARSHALL and ZEB TORTORICI, editors

Title page of Juana Aguilar’s criminal trial, 1801. Courtesy of the Archivo General de Centro América, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

November 2022 408 pages, 39 illustrations History/Queer studies Rights: World

The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of “the archive” as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to lgbtq scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots, and everyday repositories of historical memory. Among other topics, the contributors examine the everyday life of marginalized queer immigrants in New York City as an archive, second-hand vinyl record collecting and punk bootlegs, the self-archiving practices of grassroots lesbians, and the decolonial potential of absences and gaps in the colonial archives through the life of a suspected hermaphrodite in colonial Guatemala. Engaging with archives from Africa to the Americas to the Arctic, this volume illuminates the allure of the archive, reflects on that which resists archival capture, and outlines the stakes of queer and trans lives in the archival turn.

Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Culture at Deakin University. Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.

The Promise of Multispecies Justice

SOPHIE CHAO, KARIN BOLENDER , and EBEN KIRKSEY, editors

Original drawing by Feifei Zhou.

September 2022 256 pages, 23 illustrations Anthropology/Environmental Humanities/ Science studies Rights: World

What are the possibilities for multispecies justice? How do social justice struggles intersect with the lives of animals, plants, and other creatures? Leading thinkers in anthropology, geography, philosophy, speculative fiction, poetry, and contemporary art answer these questions from diverse grounded locations. In America Indigenous peoples and prisoners are decolonizing multispecies relations in unceded territory and carceral landscapes. Small justices are emerging in Tanzanian markets, near banana plantations in the Philippines, and in abandoned buildings of Azerbaijan as people navigate relations with feral dogs, weeds, rats, and pesticides. Conflicts over rights of nature are intensifying in Colombia’s Amazon.

Specters of justice are emerging in India, while children in Micronesia memorialize extinct bird species. Engaging with ideas about environmental justice, restorative justice, and other species of justice, The Promise of Multispecies Justice holds open the possibility of flourishing in multispecies worlds, present and to come.

Sophie Chao is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua, also published by Duke University Press. Karin Bolender is an artist-researcher at the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.). Eben Kirksey is author of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power and Emergent Ecologies, both also published by Duke University Press, and The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans.

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Trading Futures

A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism

FILIPE MAIA November 2022 208 pages Religious studies/Political theory Rights: World

Although the discourse of financialized capitalism presents a future that is predictable, manageable, and profitable, it hides the economic inequalities and debt of the present and constrains the sense of what’s possible. In Trading Futures Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future in financialized capitalism. Drawing on Marxism, continental philosophy, and Latin American liberation theologians Franz Hinkelammert and Rubem Alves, Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a future-shaping, subject-forming, and death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future for the sake of profit.

Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers an alternative, subversive mode of imagining the future. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism, a way to circumvent the injustices of the present, and the means to build future that cannot be managed or controlled by financial discourse.

Filipe Maia is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University.

Poverty and Wealth in East Africa A Conceptual History

RHIANNON STEPHENS November 2022 296 pages, 9 illustrations African history/Linguistics Rights: World

In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century in which she reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras, using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlain with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people’s thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region’s deeper past.

Rhiannon Stephens is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, author of A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900, and coeditor of Doing Conceptual History in Africa.

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Health in Ruins

The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital

CÉSAR E. ABADÍA-BARRERO

October 2022 320 pages, 10 illustrations Global health/Medical anthropology/Latin American studies Rights: World

In Health in Ruins César E. Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown. Using team-based and collaborative ethnography to analyze the social life of neoliberal health policy, Abadía-Barrero details the everyday dynamics around teaching, learning, and working in health care before, during, and after privatization. He argues that health care privatization not only is about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge western medicine. Despite radical cuts in funding and a corrupt and malfunctioning privatized system, El Materno’s professors, staff, and students continued to find ways to provide innovative, high-quality, and non-commodified health care. By tracking the violences, conflicts, hopes, and uncertainties that characterized the struggles to keep El Materno open, Abadía-Barrero demonstrates that any study of medical care needs to be embedded in larger political histories.

César E. Abadía-Barrero is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, author of “I Have AIDS But I Am Happy”: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil, and coeditor of A Companion to Medical Anthropology.

The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook ANALOUISE KEATING

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October 2022 304 pages Chicanx studies/Feminist theory Rights: World

In The Anzaldúan Theory Handbook AnaLouise Keating provides a comprehensive investigation of the foundational theories, methods, and philosophies of Gloria E. Anzaldúa. Through archival research and close readings of Anzaldúa’s unpublished and published writings, Keating offers a biographical-intellectual sketch of Anzaldúa, investigates her writing process and theory-making methods, and excavates her archival manuscripts. Keating focuses on the breadth of Anzaldúa’s theoretical oeuvre, including Anzaldúa’s lesser-known concepts of autohistoria y autohistoria-teoría, nos/otras, geographies of selves, and El Mundo Zurdo. By investigating those dimensions of Anzaldúa’s theories, writings, and methods that have received less critical attention and by exploring the interconnections between these overlooked concepts and her better-known theories, Keating opens additional areas of investigation into Anzaldúa’s work and models new ways to “do” Anzaldúan theory. This book also includes extensive definitions, genealogies, and explorations of eighteen key Anzaldúan theories as well as an annotated bibliography of hundreds of Anzaldúa’s unpublished manuscripts.

AnaLouise Keating is Professor of Multicultural Women’s and Gender studies at Texas Woman’s University and the author of Transformation Now! Towards a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change and other books.

She worked closely with Anzaldúa for over a decade, editing Interviews/Entrevistas and coediting (with Anzaldúa) this bridge we call home. She has also edited Anzaldúa’s books posthumously, including Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, also published by Duke University Press.

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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present.

Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense.

Volume 1, Obeah

Africans in the White Colonial Imagination

TRACEY E. HUCKS October 2022 256 pages, 30 illustrations Religion/Black diaspora/Caribbean studies Rights: World

In Volume 1, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of “obeah.” A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying African witchcraft. These preoccupations revealed the fears that bound whites to one another. At the same time, persons accused of obeah sought legal vindication and marshaled their own spiritual and medicinal technologies to fortify the cultural heritages, religious identities, and life systems of African-diasporic communities in Trinidad.

Tracey E. Hucks is Provost and Dean of the Faculty and James A. Storing Professor of Religion and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. She is the author of Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism.

Volume 2, Orisa

Africana Nations and the Power of Black Sacred Imagination

DIANNE M. STEWART October 2022 336 pages, 53 illustrations Religion/Black diaspora/Caribbean studies Rights: World

In Volume 2, Orisa, Stewart scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a religious symbol and the prominence of Africana nations and religious nationalisms in projects of black belonging and identity formation, including those of Orisa mothers. Contributing to global womanist thought and activism, Yoruba-Orisa spiritual mothers disclose the fullness of the black religious imagination’s affective, hermeneutic, and political capacities.

Dianne M. Stewart is Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Emory University and author of Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience and Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage.

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Cold War Camera

THY PHU, ERINA DUGANNE , and ANDREA NOBLE , editors

ANDREA NOBLE

THY PHU

ERINA DUGANNE

Cold War Camera EDITORS

Cold War Camera gathers essays which position photography as an integral cultural practice of the Cold War. In particular, these essays investigate how staged photographs of war and “everyday life” were used to shore up support for variety of ideological causes. Furthermore, this collection seeks to reorient criticism to include the function of photography along the frequently disregarded North-South axis, where violent proxy wars took place during the supposedly “cold” war emphasized by the East-West axis. The first section, “Visual Alliances,” explains how photography brokered Cold War solidarities between diverse and dispersed groups, while the second section, “Structures of Seeing,” traces some less familiar and, in certain cases, familial ways that photography was used to structure what could be seen and known during the global Cold War. Thy Phu is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. Erina Duganne is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas State University. Andrea Noble (d. 2017) was Professor at the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture at Durham University.

February 2023 400 pages, 104 illustrations, including 29 in color Photography Rights: World

Lion’s Share

Remaking South African Copyright

VEIT ERLMANN December 2022 368 pages, 12 illustrations Ethnomusicology/Law/African studies Rights: World

Lion’s Share is an ethnographically informed analysis of copyright and cultural production in South Africa and the postcolony at large. This project is grounded in years of research and Erlmann’s extensive background knowledge of the musical, cultural, political, and legal landscapes in South Africa. Using the well-known example of Disney’s appropriation of Solomon Linda’s song “Mbube” for The Lion King, he argues for a more empirically comprehensive and theoretically systematic approach to the study of copyright through what he calls anthropology in law. Erlmann’s analysis complicates how we think about cultural appropriation, indigenous cultural rights, musical piracy and rights enforcement in a digital entertainment industry and in South Africa.

Veit Erlmann is Professor of Ethnomusicology at University of Texas, Austin.

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New World Orderings China and the Global South

LISA ROFEL and CARLOS ROJAS, editors January 2023 280 pages Asian studies/Globalization Rights: World

The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics, but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world and the centrality of trade, labor, religion, migration, gender, race, and literature to this reconfiguration. Among other topics, the contributors examine China’s post-Bandung cultural diplomacy with African nations, how West African “pastor-entrepreneurs” in China interpreted and preached the prosperity doctrine, the diversity of Chinese-Argentine social relations in the soy supply chain, and the ties between China and India within the complex history of inter-Asian exchange and Chinese migration to Southeast Asia. By examining China’s long historical relationship with the Global South, this volume presents a non-state-centric history of China that foregrounds the importance of transnational communicative and imaginative worldmaking processes and interactions.

Lisa Rofel is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, also published by Duke University Press. Carlos Rojas is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and author of Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China.

Code

From Information Theory to French Theory

BERNARD DIONYSIUS GEOGHEGAN

Illustrations of the coding and processing mechanisms of the rapid selector. Source: John C. Green, “The Rapid Selector—An Automatic Library,” The Military Engineer 41, no. 283 (1949): 351.

January 2023 264 pages, 47 illustrations Media studies/Theory and philosophy Rights: World

Code argues that the human sciences of the mid-20th century—from anthropology to semiotics—not only drew from but were the proving ground for the technocratic logics of cybernetic theory. Cybernetics, which overlaps with information theory and game theory, is the science of communication that emphasizes the control of complex living systems and machines, reconstructing society in terms of totalizing codes. Bernard Geoghegan demonstrates that, spurred by philanthropic reform efforts and the technocratic dream of neutral and precise research in the human sciences, humanities and social science scholars including Margaret Mead, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Lacan, and Roland Barthes increasingly oriented their research towards communications theory. Code presents an ambitious new history of the reciprocal relationship between structuralist and poststructuralist thought and the communications sciences in the 20th century, showing how the technocratic and militaristic ends of media theory, systems theory, and game theory that were deployed in Cold War were linked to the work of liberal researchers and reformers. Code brings information theory and French theory “down to earth,” showing how they have been part of a common Western liberal endeavors that have included state and imperial domination.

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Digital Media at King’s College London.

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Uncanny Rest For Antiphilosophy

ALBERTO MOREIRAS

Translated by CAMILA MOREIRAS December 2022 200 pages, 11 illustrations Philosophy Rights: World

Uncanny Rest is a meditation on the experience of suspension of everyday time in conditions of confinement and its consequences, both existential and political. The main portion of the book was written between March and May of 2020 and focuses specifically on the day to day experiences of “shelter-in-place” during the coronavirus pandemic. The manuscript takes the form of dated entries, written mainly as a diary of reflections at a time of pause. Moving between micro and macro registers, the manuscript is both a narrative of personal experiences and a meditation on theory, intellectual life, and politics. Moreiras tells the story of his experience of life in suspension during this time and considers the intellectual and political challenges emerging from the pandemic and beyond.

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University. Camila Moreiras is a translator, artist, and filmmaker.

The Dancer’s Voice

Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India

RUMYA SREE PUTCHA

L. Vijayalakshmi in Sree Krishna Tulabharam (1966).

November 2022 200 pages, 33 illustrations South Asian studies/Feminism/Film Rights: World

In The Dancer’s Voice, Rumya Putcha uses the figure of the Indian classical dancer to explore the complex dynamics of transnational Indian womanhood. Combining film, archival and ethnographic analysis across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the book argues that Indian women are denied citizenship—agential participation in a community—because the archetype of dominant-caste femininity separates voice from body, making the body public and voice private. Unlike the courtesan, who sings and dances in public spaces, the wife can sing or dance, but not both. With a critical feminist methodology, Putcha shows that generations of women have embodied these archetypes of the Indian dancer, often learned from cinema, and through this embodied performance participate in a heteropatriarchal and racialized logic of body and voice. This split between body and voice is further embedded in Indian transnationalism as the voice of the immigrant woman must assimilate in ways that are distinct from the body. An interdisciplinary work, this book speaks to ethnomusicology, cinema studies, performance and dance studies, and postcolonial and feminist theory, in addition to South Asian and Asian American studies.

Rumya Sree Putcha is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Music at the University of Georgia.

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In and Out of This World

Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam

STEPHEN C. FINLEY The Nation of Islam (noi) is one of the most revered and reviled religious groups in America.

This book offers a new reading and theoretical interpretation of the noi as an organization shaped by complex religious ideas and practices, new racial grammars, cosmologies, and racial uplift ideologies. Stephen Finley challenges existing scholarship that defines the noi as primarily, even exclusively, a political black nation-state and ignores the religious meanings of their activities. Drawing on the speeches and writing of figures including Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Wallace Deen Muhammad (aka Warith Deen Mohammed), and Louis Farrakhan, the book argues that what motivated the noi were efforts to retrieve, reclaim, and reform black bodies in a context in which they were (and are) controlled and violated.

He traces the religious sources of noi’s imagination of the body, reason, and material culture.

Collage by David Metcalfe.

December 2022 264 pages, 4 illustrations African American studies/Religious studies Rights: World

Stephen C. Finley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African and African American Studies, at Louisiana State University

Ruderal City

Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin

BETTINA STOETZER

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December 2022 344 pages, 37 illustrations Anthropology/Geography Rights: World

In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer deploys the ruderal—or life that emerges at the juxtaposition of contrasting environments in one ecosystem—as an analytic to think through contemporary urban life in Berlin. In this ethnographic work, ruderal life—whether it be a garden nurtured in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, or a species of plant brought to Berlin on the boots of WWII soldiers and which took root amidst the rubble—becomes a way to understand the contemporary politics of race, nation-building, and what constitutes “nature” and the “environment” in Germany. Using a ruderal analytic, Stoetzer demonstrates how racial, gender, and class inequalities are reconfigured in conflicts over the use, experience, knowledge, and management of the city’s green spaces and “urban nature.”

Bettina Stoetzer is Class of 1948 Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT.

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Syracuse University Press Diary of a Lonely Girl, or the Battle Against Free Love MIRIAM KARPILOW

Translated from the Yiddish by JESSICA KIRZANE

First published serially in the Yiddish daily newspaper di Varhayt in 1916–18, Diary of a Lonely Girl, or The Battle against Free Love is a novel of intimate feelings and scandalous behaviors, shot through with a dark humor. From the perch of a diarist writing in first person about her own love life, Miriam Karpilove’s novel offers a snarky, melodramatic criticism of radical leftist immigrant youth culture in early twentieth-century New York City. Squeezed between men who use their freethinking ideals to pressure her to be sexually available and nosy landladies who require her to maintain her respectability, the narrator expresses frustration at her vulnerable circumstances with wry irreverence. The novel boldly explores issues of consent, body autonomy, women’s empowerment and disempowerment around sexuality, courtship, and politics.

January 2020 344 page, 2 illustrations Fiction/Jewish Studies/ women’s and gender studies/literature in translation Rights: World

Miriam Karpilove (1888–1956) published dramas, criticism, sketches, short stories, and novellas in a variety of prominent Yiddish periodicals during her fifty-year career. She was a member of the Forverts staff, publishing seven novels and numerous works of short fiction in that paper between 1929 and 1937.

Jessica Kirzane is a lecturer in Yiddish at the University of Chicago and the editor in chief of In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies.

Island of Bewilderment A Novel of Modern Iran

SIMIN DANESHVAR

Translated from the Persian by PATRICIA J. HIGGINS and POUNEH SHABANI-JADIDI

August 2022 352 pages Middle East studies/Fiction/Literature in translation/Iranian studies Rights: World

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Twenty-six-year-old college graduate, artist, and employee of the Ministry of Art and Culture, Hasti Nourian aspires to be a “new woman”—independent-minded, strong-willed, and in control of her own destiny. A destiny that includes Morad, an idealistic young architect and artist with whom Hasti is deeply in love. Morad is a sharp critic of Iran’s Westernized bourgeois class, the one that Hasti’s mother relishes. After Hasti’s father died, her mother married a wealthy businessman and moved to an exclusive neighborhood of northern Tehran.

Socializing with a mixed group of Americans, English-speaking Iranians, and British expats, her mother’s life revolves around gym visits, hairdressers, and party planning. When her mother persuades Hasti to join her at the spa, she introduces her to Salim, an eligible young man from a wealthy family whose British education and proper comportment, as well as his economic status make him an ideal suitor for Hasti in her mother’s eyes. Against her better judgment, Hasti finds herself attracted to Salim and tempted by her mother’s comfortable lifestyle. As the novel unfolds, Hasti is torn between her first love and the radical politics of her university friends, and love for her mother and the freedom economic security can bring.

Set in Tehran in the mid-1970s, just a few years before the 1977–79 revolution, Daneshvar’s unforgettable novel depicts the tumultuous social, cultural, and economic changes of the day through the intimate story of a young woman’s struggle to find her identity.

Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012) was an Iranian author, translator, and professor of art history at Tehran University. She is the author of Savushun: A Novel About Modern Iran, widely considered the first modern Persian language novel written by a woman.

Waiting for the Past A Novel

HADIYA HUSSEIN

Translated from the Arabic by BARBARA ROMAINE

Hadiya Hussein’s powerful 2017 novel plunges both characters and readers into despair and perilous darkness. Set at the end of Saddam Hussein’s brutal reign, the novel follows Narjis, a young Iraqi woman, on her quest to discover what has become of the man she loves. Yusef, suspected by the regime of being a dissident, has disappeared—presumably either imprisoned or executed. On her journey, Narjis receives shelter from a Kurdish family who welcome her into their home. There she meets Umm Hani, an older woman who is searching for her longlost son. Together they form a bond, and Narjis comes to understand the depth of loss and grief of those around her. At the same time, she is introduced to the warm hospitality of the Kurds, settling into their everyday lives, and embracing their customs. Barbara Romaine’s translation skillfully renders this complex, layered story, giving readers a stark yet beautiful portrait ofcontemporary Iraq.

October 2022 208 pages Fiction/ literature in translation/Iraqi literature/Arab literature Rights: World

Hadiya Hussein is an award-winning Iraqi writer. She has published several short story collections and novels, including the 2012 novel Beyond Love.

Life on Drugs in Iran Between Prison and Rehab

NAHID RAHIMIPOUR ANARAKI

October 2022 184 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map Iranian studies/Social justice/Islamic studies/ criminology Rights: World

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When their war on drugs began in 1979, Iran developed a reputation as having some of the world’s harshest drug penalties. As mass incarceration failed to stem the growth of drug use, Iran shifted its policies 1990 to introduce treatment regimens that focus on rehabilitation.

While most Muslim countries and some Western states still do not espouse welfare-oriented measures, Iran has established several harm-reduction centers nationwide for those who use substances. In doing so, Iran moved from labeling drug users as criminals to patients. Nahid Anarki moves beyond these labels to explore the lived experience of those who use substances and the challenges they face as a result of the state’s shifting policies. Gaining remarkable access to a community that has largely been ignored by researchers, Anarki chronicles the lives of drug users in prisons, treatment centers, and ngos. In each setting, individuals are criminalized, medicalized, and marginalized as the system attempts to “normalize” them without addressing the root cause of the problem. Drawing upon first-hand accounts, Anarki’s groundbreaking ethnography takes an essential step in humanizing drug users in Iran.

Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki is postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She has published several articles in the areas of sociology, criminology, and health sciences.

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Killing Contention

Demobilization in Morocco during the Arab Spring

SAMMY ZEYAD BADRAN Like other countries in the Middle East and North African, Moroccans were inspired by the events in Tunisia and Egypt in 2011. However, unlike other countries, Moroccans did not call for the overthrow of the king or the regime. Instead, Moroccan protesters initially demanded reforms to the constitution, and, specifically, a transition from an executive monarchy to a democratic parliamentary monarchy. Drawing upon narratives from the primary activists involved in the protest, Badran examines the Moroccan movement to understand why it failed to escalate in the same way that others in the region did. He finds that the state’s strategy of offering a series of reforms along with limited repression eventually ended the protest movement. Based on nine months of fieldwork, Killing Contention deepens our understanding of modern political movements and the complicated factors that lead to their demise.

Sammy Zeyad Badran is assistant professor of international studies at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

Septemeber 2022 216 pages, 3 illustrations History/Political Science Rights: World

Surrender Stories

BRIAN O’HARE In the tradition of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Brian O’Hare’s Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering and the welcome home parades are over? Guilt, fear, and brutality collide with love and acceptance as a diverse tribe of characters struggle to reconcile mythology with reality, and to find meaning in a uniquelyAmerican chaos. In bittersweet stories with surprising humor, the characters grapple with the choices they’ve made and a country they no longer understand. Written in spare and unsentimental prose, yet with a startling emotional punch, these stories, and the unforgettable characters who tell them, will live long in the reader’s imagination. Winner of the 2021 Veterans Writing Award.

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Brian O’Hare is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former U.S. Marine Corps officer. Currently, he’s an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in War, Literature and the Arts, Santa Fe Writers Project, and Hobart, and has beennominated for two Pushcart Prizes.

He was recently named a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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Sumud

Birth, Oral History, and Persisting in Palestine

LIVIA WICK Sumud, meaning steadfastness in Arabic, is central to issues of survival and resistance that are part of daily life for Palestinians. Although much has been written about the politics, leaders, and history of Palestine, less is known about how everyday working-class Palestinians exist day to day, negotiating military occupation and shifting social infrastructure. Livia Wick’s powerful ethnography opens a window onto the lives of Palestinians exploring specifically the experience of giving birth. Drawing upon oral histories, Wick follows the stories of mothers, nurses, and midwives in villages and refugee camps. Wick maps the ways in which individuals narrate and experience birth, calling attention to the genre and form of these stories.

Livia Wick is associate professor of anthropology in the Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies department at the American University of Beirut.

November 2022 216 pages Palestine/ Women’s Studies/ medical anthropology Rights: World

Kurds in Dark Times

New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, Violence, and Resistance

AYÇA ALEMDAROĞLU and FATMA MÜGE GÖÇEK , editors November 2022 432 pages Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies Rights: World

With an estimated population of 35 million, Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without an independent state of their own. The majority of Kurds live in Turkey, where they constitute 18 percent of the population. Since the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923, the history of the Kurds in Turkey is marked by state violence against them and decades of conflict between the Turkish military and Kurdish fighters. Although the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people is well-known and the political actors involved in the conflict have received much scholarly attention, little has been written from the vantage point of the Kurdsthemselves. resists marginalization, exclusion, and violence. Contributors look beyond the politics of state actors to examine the role of civil society and the significant role women play in the negotiation of power. This book opens an essential window into the lives of Kurds in Turkey, generating meaningful insights not only into the political interactions with the Turkish state and society, but also the informal ways in which they negotiate within society that will be crucial indeveloping peace and reconciliation.

Ayça Alemdaroğlu is a research scholar and associate director of the Program on Turkey at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Fatma Müge Göçek is professor of sociology and women’s studies at the University of Michigan.

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University of Georgia Press Straight Into Darkness Tom Petty as Rock Mystic

MEGAN VOLPERT Straight into Darkness is a music historian and pop culture aficionado’s dream—a deeply visceral, exhaustive, and eloquent appreciation for one of the greatest contemporary musicians of our time, Tom Petty. In this acclaimed book, Volpert judges the forty years of Petty’s career.In this highly philosophical and deeply personal exploration of one obscure Tom Petty song, Volpert’s essays comb through the musical, historical, rhetorical and sociological implications of a forgotten gem in a legendary catalog with satisfying results.

Megan Volpert is the author/editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree.

Septemeber 2022 168 pages Music Rights: World

Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain

MELISSA GARCÍA-LAMARCA Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People provides a conceptual framework for reading debt as an apparatus for regulating life in Barcelona post 2008 global financial crisis. The book combines political economic analysis with everyday life perspectives to show how the process driving mortgage indebtedness is lived, experienced, and contested by people.

García-Lamarca lays out a Marxist analysis of the financialization of housing, Foucault’s biopolitics, and Jacques Ranciere’s political subjectivation to deepen theorization around the human consequences of the destruction of home and the potential for political resistance to these housing injustices.

Melissa García-Lamarca is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

October 2022 248 pages Economics/Social issues Rights: World

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Photographic Warfare

isis, Egypt, and the Online Battle for Sinai

KAREEM EL DAMANHOURY

May 2022 250 pages, 41 illustrations International Affairs/Middle East/ Rights: World

Photographic Warfare explores the processes of visual contestation at work in the competing official media campaigns of state forces and militant, nonstate actors in the online environment. Islamist and far-right militant groups are increasingly weaponizing their visual media by displaying their actions—beheadings, trainings, fighting on the battlefield, services provision to locals, and so on—as spectacles that circulate around the globe to challenge statebased media messaging and policy agendas. In response, numerous states and coalitions have expanded their online media presence to counter such threats. Using the conflict between isis and the Egyptian state over the Sinai Peninsula as a case study, Kareem El Damanhoury introduces an analytical framework of visual contestation to guide future studies of competing visual media campaigns in the online environment. The proposed model provides a rubric for dissecting and understanding contemporary photographic warfare using visual framing, semiotic analysis, contextual interpretations, and comparative applications. Photographic Warfare further emphasizes the many situational factors that influence visual output and content, including militant attacks, counterterrorism operations, loss of leaders, and introduction of new groups into the battlefield.

Kareem El Damanhoury, PhD is an Egyptian academic and freelance journalist.Later, he worked as a supervisor producer at GSU TV, a GPB affiliate channel in Atlanta, Georgia, and received his Ph. D. from Georgia State University’s Communication Department in 2018.

Raiders and Natives

Cross-Cultural Relations in the Age of Buccaneers

ARNE BIALUSCHEWSKI

April 2022 160 pages, 5 illustrations History/Indigenous Studies/Maritime History Rights: World

Throughout the seventeenth century Dutch, French, and English freebooters launched numerous assaults on Spanish targets all over Central America. Many people have heard of Henry Morgan and François L’Olonnais, who led a series of successful raids, but few know that the famous buccaneers often operated in regions inhabited and controlled by Native Americans rather than Spaniards. Arne Bialuschewski explores the cross-cultural relations that emerged when greedy marauders encountered local populations in various parts of the Spanish empire. Natives, as it turned out, played a crucial role in the outcome of many of those raids. Depending on their own needs and assessment of the situation, indigenous people sometimes chose to support the colonial authorities and sometimes aided the intruders instead. Freebooters used native guides, relied on expertise and supplies obtained from local communities, and captured and enslaved many natives they encountered on their way.

This book tells the fascinating story of how indigenous groups or individuals participated in the often-romanticized history of buccaneering. Building on extensive archival research, Bialuschewski untangles the wide variety of forms that cross-cultural relations took. By placing these encounters at the center of Raiders and Natives, the author changes our understanding of the early modern Atlantic World and the role that native populations played in the international conflicts of the seventeenth century.

Arne Bialuschewski teaches in the history department at Trent University in Canada. He is the author of Piratenleben and coauthor of Piracy in the Early Modern Era.

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University of Nebraska Press Girl Archaeologist

Sisterhood in a Sexist Profession

ALICE BECK KEHOE

March 2022 230 pages, 23 photographs Memoir/Women’s Studies Rights: World excluding World

Girl Archaeologist recounts Alice Kehoe’s life, begun in an era very different from the twentyfirst century in which she retired as an honored elder archaeologist. She persisted against entrenched patriarchy in her childhood, at Harvard University, and as she did fieldwork with her husband in the Northern Plains. A senior male professor attempted to quash Kehoe’s career by raping her. Her Harvard professors refused to allow her to write a dissertation in archaeology. Universities paid her less than her men counterparts. Her husband refused to participate in housework or childcare. Working in archaeology and in the histories of American First Nations, Kehoe published a series of groundbreaking books and articles. Although she was denied a conventional career, through her unconventional breadth of research and her empathy with First Nations people she gained a wide circle of collaborators and colleagues. Throughout her career Kehoe found and fostered a sisterhood of feminists—strong, bright women archaeologists, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians who have been essential to the field. Girl Archaeologist is the story of how one woman pursued a professional career in a male-dominated field during a time of great change in American middle-class expectations for women.

Alice Beck Kehoe is a professor of anthropology emeritus at Marquette University. She is the author or editor of twenty books, including North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account, The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology, and North America Before the European Invasions

Everywhen

Australia and the Language of Deep History

ANN MCGRATH, LAURA RADEMAKER , and JAKELIN TROY , editors Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for knowing, narrating, and reenacting the past in the present blur the distinctions of linear time, making all history now. Ultimately, questions of time and language are questions of Indigenous sovereignty. The Australian case is especially pertinent because Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are among the few Native peoples without a treaty with their colonizers. Appreciating First Nations’ time concepts embedded in languages and practices, as Everywhen does, is a route to recognizing diverse forms of Indigenous sovereignties.

January 2023 330 pages, 19 photographs, 4 maps, 12 tables, 8 charts Indigenous Studies Rights: World excluding ANZ

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Ann McGrath is the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and a Distinguished Professor at Australian National University. Laura Rademaker is Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow at the Australian National University. Jakelin Troy is the director of Indigenous research at the University of Sydney.

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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology REGNA DARNELL

Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. History of Theory and Method in Anthropology reveals the theory schools, institutions, and social networks of scholars and fieldworkers primarily interested in the ethnography of North American Indigenous peoples. Darnell’s fifty-year career entails foundational writings in the four fields of the discipline: cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, and physical anthropology.

Regna Darnell is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. She is the coeditor of The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual— Theory, Ethnography, Activism, author of The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America, and author or editor of many other works. Darnell is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the American Anthropological Association.

June 2022 348 pages, 4 photographs, 4 tables Anthropology Rights: World

Private Way A Novel

LADETTE RANDOLPH In 2015, when cyberbullies disrupt her life in Southern California, Vivi Marx decides to cut her cord with the internet and take her life offline for a year. She flees to the one place where she felt safe as a child—with her grandmother in Lincoln, Nebraska. Never mind that her grandmother is long dead and she doesn’t know anyone else in the state. Even before she meets her new neighbors on Fieldcrest Drive, Vivi knows she’s made a terrible mistake, but every plan she makes to leave is foiled. Despite her efforts to outrun it, trouble follows her to Nebraska, just not in the ways she’d feared. With the help of her neighbors, Willa Cather’s novels, and her own imagination, Vivi finds something she hadn’t known she was searching for.

Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares magazine and is Distinguished Publisher-in-Residence at Emerson College. She is the author of several books, including This is Not the Tropics, Haven’s Wake, A Sandhills Ballad, and Leaving the Pink House.

March 2022 242 pages Fiction Rights:

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Vanished Stories

KARIN LIN-GREENBERG Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen by the people around them. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past. Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life; each deals with something or someone who has vanished—a person close to her, a friendship, a relationship—as she seeks to make sense of the world around her in the wake of that loss.

September 2022 216 pages Fiction Rights: World

Karin Lin-Greenberg is the author of the story collection Faulty Predictions, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel You Are Here, which is forthcoming from Counterpoint in 2023.

Hatred of Sex

OLIVER DAVIS and TIM DEAN

Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions, including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement, and “traumatology,” demonstrating how hatred of sex has been optimized and exploited by neoliberalism. Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious.

April 2022 206 pages Social Science/Human Sexuality Rights: World

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Oliver Davis is a professor of French studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Jacques Rancière and editor of Rancière Now. Tim Dean is James M. Benson Professor in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality.

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Sports and Aging

A Prescription for Longevity Edited and with an introduction by GERALD R. GEMS In Sports and Aging, a wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, fifty years and older, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences. This collection of personal accounts includes a spectrum of contributors across genders and racial, ethnic, national, religious, social class, and educational backgrounds, to determine whether there are any common characteristics that can promote long, happy, healthy, and meaningful lifespans.

Gerald R. Gems is a professor emeritus of kinesiology at North Central College. He is the author and editor of several books, including Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers and The Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism.

June 2022 324 pages, 6 photographs Health & Fitness/Longevity Rights: World

Henry James Framed

Material Representations of the Master

MICHAEL ANESKO

October 2022 272 pages, 8 photographs, 31 illustrations Literary/ Visual Studies Rights: World

Henry James Framed is a cultural history of Henry James as a work of art. Throughout his life, James demonstrated an abiding interest in—some would say an obsession with—the visual arts. In his most influential testaments about the art of fiction, James frequently invoked a deeply felt analogy between imaginative writing and painting. At a time when having a photographic carte de visite was an expected social commonplace, James detested the necessity of replenishing his supply or of distributing his autographed image to well-wishing friends or imploring readers. Yet for a man who set the highest premium on personal privacy, James seems to have had few reservations about serving as a model for artists in other media and sat for his portrait a remarkable number of twenty-four times. Surprisingly few James scholars have brought into primary focus those occasions when the author was not writing about art but instead became art himself, through the creative expression of another’s talent. To better understand the twenty-four occasions he sat for others to represent him, Michael Anesko reconstructs the specific contexts for these works’ coming into being, assesses James’s relationships with his artists and patrons, documents his judgments concerning the objects produced, and, insofar as possible, traces the later provenance of each of them. James’s long-established intimacy with the studio world deepened his understanding of the complex relationship between the artist and his sitter. James insisted above all that a portrait was a revelation of two realities: the man whom it was the artist’s conscious effort to reveal and the artist, or interpreter, expressed in the very quality and temper of that effort. The product offered a double vision—the strongest dose of life that art could give, and the strongest dose of art that life could give.

Michael Anesko is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

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Wheels on Ice

Stories of Cycling in Alaska

JESSICA CHERRY and FRANK SOOS , editors Wheels on Ice reveals Alaska’s key role in bicycling both as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature.

This collection opens with the first bicycle boom and the advent of the safety bicycle in the late 1800s, at approximately the same time gold was discovered in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. As bicycles evolved, Alaskans were among the first to innovate: the fatbike, for example, evolved from the mountain bike in the late 1980s into a wider-framed bike with fatter tires, making snow biking more accessible and giving birth to the Iditabike race. More recently, ultra-endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox rode all the major roads in the state, totaling more than 4,500 miles of gravel and pavement. Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos’s diverse group of stories covers cycling both past and present. From riders commuting in every kind of weather to those seeking long-distance adventure in the most remote sections of the United States, these stories will inspire cyclists to ride into their own stories in Alaska and beyond.

October 2022 328 pages, 26 photographs, 3 maps Cycling/Outdoors Rights: World

Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. She writes a literary column for the alternative weekly Anchorage Press. Frank Soos (1950–2021) was the author of Unpleasantries: Considerations of Difficult Questions, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite, and Early Yet, and coauthor of Double Moon: Constructions and Conversations. He was a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alaska–Fairbanks.

If This Were Fiction A Love Story in Essays

JILL CHRISTMAN If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car accident; for her children; for her husband, Mark; and ultimately, for herself. In this collection, Christman takes on the wide range of situations and landscapes she encountered on her journey from wild child through wounded teen to mother, teacher, writer, and wife. In these pages there are fatal accidents and miraculous births; a grief pilgrimage that takes Christman to jungles, volcanoes, and caves in Central America; and meditations on everything from sexual trauma and the more benign accidents of childhood to gun violence, indoor cycling, unlikely romance, and even a ghost or two.Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction focuses an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Christman’s first fifty years and sends out a message of love, power, and hope.

September 2022 226 pages, 2 illustrations Personal Essays Rights: World

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Jill Christman is the author of two memoirs, Darkroom: A Family Exposure and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, a senior editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, and executive producer for the podcast Indelible: Campus Sexual Violence.

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The Grammar of Civil War A Mexican Case Study, 1857–61

WILL FOWLER In The Grammar of Civil War Will Fowler examines the origin, process, and outcome of civil war. Using the Mexican Civil War of 1857–61 (or the War of the Reform, the political and military conflict that erupted between the competing liberal and conservative visions of Mexico’s future), Fowler seeks to understand how civil wars come about and, when they do, how they unfold and why. By outlining the grammatical principles that underpin a new framework for the study of civil war, Fowler stresses what is essential for one to take place and explains how, once it has erupted, it can be expected to develop and end, according to the syntax, morphology, and meanings that characterize and help understand the grammar of civil war generally.

Will Fowler is a professor of Latin American studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and an international member of the Mexican Academy of History. His books include Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858, Santa Anna of Mexico, and Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, 1795–1853, among others.

July 2022 342 pages, 11 photographs, 4 maps, 3 tables History/Mexico Rights: World

Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 GRACE E. COOLIDGE

December 2022 346 pages, 4 genealogies History/Spain Rights: World

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Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family, 1400–1600 looks at illegitimacy across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyzes its implications for gender and family structure in the Spanish nobility, a class whose actions, structure, and power had immense implications for the future of the country and empire. Grace E. Coolidge demonstrates that women and men were able to challenge traditional honor codes, repair damaged reputations, and manipulate ideals of marriage and sexuality to encompass extramarital sexuality and the nearly constant presence of illegitimate children. This flexibility and creativity in their sexual lives enabled members of the nobility to repair, strengthen, and maintain their otherwise fragile concept of dynasty and lineage, using illegitimate children and their mothers to successfully project the noble dynasty into the future—even in an age of rampant infant mortality that contributed to the frequent absence of male heirs. While benefiting the nobility as a whole, the presence of illegitimate children could also be disruptive to the inheritance process, and the entire system privileged noblemen and their aims and goals over the lives of women and children.

Grace E. Coolidge is a professor of history at Grand Valley State University. She is the author of Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain and editor of The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain.

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Woman Pissing

ELIZABETH COOPERMAN

When we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunchy Picasso painting, Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists—particularly twentieth-century women artists—who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty. At the same time, Cooperman grapples with her own questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood, considering her decade-long struggle to finish writing her own book and realizing that she has failed to perform one of the most fundamental creative acts; bearing a child. Woman Pissing is composed of roughly one hundred short prose “paintings” that converge around questions of creativity and fecundity. As the book unfolds it builds a larger metaphor about creativity, and the concerns of artistry and motherhood begin to entwine. The author comes to terms with self-doubt, inefficiency, frustration, and a nonlinear, circuitous process and proposes that these methods might be antidotes to the aggressive bravura and Picassian overconfidence of ego-driven art.

November 2022 154 page, 9 illustrations Art/History/General Rights: World

Elizabeth Cooperman is coeditor (with David Shields) of the anthology Life Is Short—Art is Shorter and coauthor (with Thomas Walton) of The Last Mosaic. Her work has appeared in Writer’s Chronicle, Seattle Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms, and other journals. She is the art director of PageBoy Magazine.

Aquaman and the War against Oceans Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene

RYAN POLL November 2022 270 pages, 20 illustrations Comics / Environment Rights: World excluding World

The New 52 reimagining of Aquaman—a massive overhaul and rebranding of all DC Comics— transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In this series, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination.

In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become a site of warfare and mass death. Poll contends that the series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are both beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism,” and simultaneously, all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.

Ryan Poll is an associate professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University. He is the author of Main Street and Empire: The Fictional Small Town in the Age of Globalization.

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A Civil Society

The Public Space of Freemason Women in France, 1744–1944

JAMES SMITH ALLEN A Civil Society explores the struggle to initiate women as full participants in the masonic brotherhood that shared in the rise of France’s civil society and its “civic morality” on behalf of women’s rights. As a vital component of the third sector during France’s modernization, freemasonry empowered women in complex social networks, contributing to a more liberal republic, a more open society, and a more engaged public culture. James Smith Allen shows that although women initially met with stiff resistance, their induction into the brotherhood was a significant step in the development of French civil society, including the promotion of women’s rights in the late nineteenth century. Pulling together the many gendered facets of masonry, Allen draws from periodicals, memoirs, and archival material to account for the rise of women within the masonic brotherhood in the context of rapid historical change. Thanks to women’s social networks and their attendant social capital, masonry came to play a leading role in French civil society and the rethinking of gender relations in the public sphere.

May 2022 374 pages, 2 photographs, 8 illustrations, 1 map, 3 graphs, 1 table History/France Rights: World

James Smith Allen is professor emeritus of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is the author of several books, including Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women and In The Public Eye: A History of Reading in Modern France, 1800–1940, and the editor of In the Solitude of My Soul: The Diary of Geneviève Bréton, 1867–1871.

From Near and Far

A Transnational History of France

TYLER STOVALL

December 2022 272 pages, 9 photographs, 3 illustrations History/France Rights: World

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From Near and Far relates the history of modern France from the French Revolution to the present. Noted historian Tyler Stovall considers how the history of France interacts with both the broader history of the world and the local histories of French communities, examining the impacts of Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Paul Gauguin, and Josephine Baker alongside the rise of haute couture and the contemporary role of hip hop. From Near and Far focuses on the interactions between France and three other parts of the world: Europe, the United States, and the French colonial empire. Taking this transnational approach to the history of modern France, Stovall shows how the theme of universalism, so central to modern French culture, has manifested itself in different ways over the last few centuries. Moreover, it emphasizes the importance of narrative to French history, that historians tell the story of a nation and a people by bringing together a multitude of stories and tales that often go well beyond its boundaries. In telling these stories From Near and Far gives the reader a vision of France both global and local at the same time.

Tyler Stovall (1954–2021) was the dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Fordham University. He was the author or editor of a number of books, including White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea and coeditor of The Black Populations of France: Histories from Metropole to Colony.

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University of Nebraska Press: Bison Books 148 Charles Street A Novel

TRACY DAUGHERTY Tracy Daugherty’s historical novel 148 Charles Street explores the fascinating story of Willa Cather’s friendship with Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The women shared a passion for writing, for New York, and for the desert Southwest, but their sensibilities could not have been more different: Cather, the novelist of lyrical landscapes and aesthetic refinement, and Sergeant, the muckraking journalist and literary activist. Their friendship is sorely tested when Cather fictionalizes a war that Sergeant covered as a reporter, calling into question, for both women, the uses of art and journalism, the power of imagination and witness. 148 Charles Street is a testament to the bonds that endure despite disagreements and misunderstandings, and in the relentlessness of a vanishing past. 148 Charles Street explores, as only fiction can, the two writers’ interior lives, and contrasts Sergeant’s literary activism with Cather’s more purely aesthetic approach to writing.

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Tracy Daugherty is distinguished emeritus professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. In addition to biographies of Joan Didion and Joseph Heller, he has published several novels, including High Skies, Axeman’s Jazz, The Boy Orator, Desire Provoked, and What Falls Away.

Think of Horses A Novel

MARY CLEARMAN BLEW At age seventeen Tam Bowen left her Montana home in disgrace after giving birth to a son out of wedlock. After working her way through college, she settled in Portland, Oregon, where she began making a living for herself and her son by writing soft-porn romance novels.

Now, at fifty, Tam is estranged from her son and deeply depressed. She has returned to the cabin in Montana’s Snowy Mountains where she grew up, to ponder the choices she has made in her life. At first dismayed by the many changes she finds in the mountain community, Tam gradually makes a few friends and becomes increasingly involved in the lives of two troubled teenagers, who draw her back into the horsemanship she turned away from so many years ago. For Tam, horses provide a sense of stability amid the uncertainty of her new-old life and expose the vulnerability of all the folks who struggle with the vagaries of a tough place.

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Mary Clearman Blew is the author or editor of numerous fiction and nonfiction books, including the three previous novels in her Montana quartet: Waltzing Montana (set in 1925), Sweep Out the Ashes (set in 1975), and Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin (set in 2012), all published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is professor emerita of English at the University of Idaho and has won numerous awards, including the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award.

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The Shinnery A Novel

KATE ANGER Seventeen-year-old Jessa Campbell thrives on the Shinnery, her family’s homestead in 1890s Texas, bordered by acres of shin oaks on the rolling plains. Without explanation her father sends her away to settle a family debt. A better judge of cattle than of men, Jessa becomes entangled with a bad one. Everything unravels after she puts her trust in Will Keyes. When Jessa returns home to the Shinnery, pregnant and alone, her father goes on a mission of frontier justice, with devastating consequences. In the aftermath Jessa fights for her claim to the family farm and for a life of independence for herself and her sisters. A story of coming-ofage, betrayal, and revenge, The Shinnery is inspired by the author’s family history and a trial that shook the region. .

Kate Anger is a playwright and lecturer at the University of California–Riverside.

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University of Nebraska Press: The Jewish Publication Society The Book of Revolutions

The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah

EDWARD FELD

September 2022 320 pages, 1 photograph, 1 map, 6 tables Jewish Studies Rights: World

The Torah is truly the Book of Revolutions, born from a military coup (the Northern Israelite revolution), the aftermath of an assassination and regency (a Judean revolution), and a quiet but radical revolution effected by outsiders whose ideas proved persuasive (Babylonian exile). Emerging from each of these were three key legal codes—the Covenant Code (Exodus), the Deuteronomic Code (Deuteronomy), and the Holiness Code (Leviticus)— which in turn shaped the Bible, biblical Judaism, and Judaism today. In dramatic historical accounts grounded in recent Bible scholarship, Edward Feld unveils the epic saga of ancient Israel as the visionary legacy of inspired authors in different times and places. Prophetic teaching and differing social realities shaped new understandings concretized in these law codes. Revolutionary biblical ideas often encountered great difficulties in their time before they triumphed. Eventually master editors wove the threads together, intentionally preserving competing narratives and law codes. Ultimately, the Torah is an emblem of pluralistic belief born of revolutionary moments that preserved spiritual realities that continue to speak powerfully to us today.

Edward Feld is senior editor of Siddur Lev Shalem, the Rabbinical Assembly prayerbook for Sabbaths and Festivals, and its sister High Holiday volume Mahzor Lev Shalem.

Modern Musar

Contested Virtues in Jewish Thought

GEOFFREY D. CLAUSSEN

April 2022 464 pages Jewish Studies Rights: World

How do modern Jews understand virtues such as courage, humility, justice, solidarity, or love?

In truth: they have fiercely debated how to interpret them. This groundbreaking anthology of musar (Jewish traditions regarding virtue and character) explores the diverse ways seventy-eight modern Jewish thinkers understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth; curiosity and inquisitiveness; humility; courage and valor; temperance and self-restraint; gratitude; forgiveness; love, kindness, and compassion; solidarity and social responsibility; and justice and righteousness. These thinkers—from the Musar movement to Hasidism to contemporary Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Renewal, Humanist, and secular Jews—often agree on the importance of these virtues but fundamentally disagree in their conclusions. The juxtaposition of their views, complemented by Geoffrey Claussen’s pointed analysis, allows us to see tensions with particular clarity—and sometimes to recognize multiple compelling ways of viewing the same virtue. By expanding the category of musar literature to include not only classic texts and traditional works influenced by them but also the writings of diverse rabbis, scholars, and activists—men and women—who continue to shape Jewish tradition, Modern Musar challenges the fields of modern Jewish thought and ethics to rethink their boundaries—and invites us to weigh and refine our own moral ideals.

Geoffrey D. Claussen is an associate professor of religious studies, chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and Lori and Eric Sklut Scholar in Jewish Studies at Elon University

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University of Nebraska Press: Potomac Books Cold

Three Winters at the South Pole

WAYNE L. WHITE

September 2022 256 pages, 28 color illustrations, 1 chart Polar exploration Rights: World

Winter owns most of the year at the South Pole, starting in mid-February and ending in early November. Total darkness lasts for months, temperatures can drop below -100 degrees Fahrenheit, and windchill can push temperatures to -140 degrees. Few people on the planet can say they know what it feels like to walk in the unworldly, frigid winter darkness at the South Pole, but Wayne L. White can—having walked several thousand miles, never missing a day outside during his stay, regardless of the conditions. As the winter site manager of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, White was responsible for the selection, training, and health and safety of the forty-two- and forty-six-person crews. Motivated by the determination and bravery of historical pioneers such as Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, White honed his leadership skills to guide a diverse group of experienced and talented craftsmen, scientists, and artisans through three winters, the longest term of any winter manager. Despite hardships, disasters, and watching helpless as a global pandemic unfolded far beyond their horizon, his crews prevailed. In Cold White documents his time in these extreme elements and offers a unique perspective on the United States Antarctic Program at the South Pole.

Wayne L. White is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and has served as a civilian contractor in assignments around the globe for more than twenty-five years, with nearly three years in the U.S. Antarctic Program at the South Pole. He has conducted solo expeditions to New Guinea, the Amazon, and Africa.

He is a member of the Explorers Club of New York City and the Adventurers Club of Los Angeles and received the 2020 Adventurer of the Year award from the Adventurers Club of Los Angeles.

Cartography

Navigating a Year in Iraq

KATHERINE SCHIFANI Cartography describes Katherine Schifani’s time deployed in Iraq as a counterterrorism advisor with U.S. Special Forces in 2011. It is the story of one woman mapping the terra incognita of Iraq with questionable interpreters, nonexistent guidance, and an unclear purpose. It’s the story of a gay woman serving under the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, who realizes that the policy repeal she has long awaited is so overshadowed by a hostile environment that remaining closeted is more critical than ever.

Katherine Schifani is a fourteen-year air force veteran and currently serves on the Air Force Reserve Command. She was deployed in 2011 with the army to Iraq, where, at twenty-five years old, she became the officer in charge and the head logistics advisor for the Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service and Iraqi Special Operations Forces.

June 2022 192 pages Memoir Rights: World

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The Time Left between Us ALICIA DEFONZO

September 2022 232 page, 13 photographs, 1 map Memoir/WWII Rights: World

A blend of memoir, history, and oral storytelling, The Time Left between Us bridges the gap between the generation who fought World War II and the generation who has forgotten it.

Alicia DeFonzo takes an unplanned visit to the Normandy beaches while staying in Paris.

Her grandfather “Del” (Anthony DelRossi) had fought in World War II, and she becomes distraught after realizing how little she knows about the war and his experiences, which until then had remained largely unspoken. Across landscapes and lifetimes DeFonzo retraces her beloved grandfather’s tour through World War II Europe. The eighty-four-year-old DelRossi recounts stories as an army combat engineer surviving major campaigns, including Normandy, St. Lo, the Bulge, Hürtgenwald, and Remagen, then liberating concentration camps. In this braided narrative, we see DeFonzo’s childhood in a traditional Italian American family with an erratic Marine Corps father and a beloved grandfather. Spanning ten years, DeFonzo’s travels and research take an unexpected detour after she inherits a Nazi Waffen-SS diary from her grandfather, and, in her final trip, returns to Germany to confront the diary owner’s family. DeFonzo’s and her grandfather’s stories merge when Del undergoes open-heart surgery and Alicia must be the one to safeguard the past. Both nostalgic and gripping, The Time Left between Us is a meditation on how deeply connected the past is to the present and how the truth—and what we remember of it—are fragmented.

Alicia DeFonzo is a senior lecturer of English and a Fulbright Specialist in the Department of English at Old Dominion University. She is a frequent literary guest and contributing writer for local and national NPR.

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University of New Mexico Press Steinbeck’s Imaginarium

Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters

ROBERT DEMOTT In Steinbeck’s Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s artistic career. DeMott positions Steinbeck not only as a major American novelist but also as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s. DeMott’s essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck’s artistic career that deserve closer attention. He considers Steinbeck’s addiction to writing through the lens of the extensive, obsessive full-length diaries and journals that he kept while writing three of his best-known novels. Collectively, the chapters illuminate John Steinbeck as a fully conscious, self-aware, literate, experimental novelist who has not always been given proper credit for his achievements. His talents will continue to warrant study and admiration for years to come.

Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio University in Athens.

November 2022 205 pages Literary Criticism Rights: World

A Cross and a Star

Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile

MARJORIE AGOSÍN In this classic memoir which explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era. Woven into the narrative are the stories of Frida’s father, who had to leave Vienna in 1920 because he fell in love with a Christian cabaret dancer; of her paternal grandmother, who arrived in Chile later with a number tattooed on her arm; and of her great-grandmother from Odessa, who loved the Spanish language so much that she repeated its harmonious sounds even in her sleep. Agosín’s A Cross and a Star is a moving testament to endurance and to the power of memory and of words. This edition includes a collection of important new photographs, a new afterword by the author, as well as a foreword by Ruth Behar.

Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism October 2022 184 pages Memoir Rights: World

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I Got Mine

Confessions of a Midlist Writer

JOHN NICHOLS I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols’ extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing. Everything that went into making him a writer and eventually found an outlet in his work—his education, family, wives, children, friends, enemies, politics, and place—is told from the point of view of his daily practice of writing. Beginning with his first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, published in 1965 when he was just twenty-four, Nichols shares his highs and lows: his ambivalent relationship with money; his growing disenchantment with the hypocrisy of capitalism; and his love-hate relationship with Hollywood—including the years-long struggle of working with director Robert Redford on the film version of The Milagro Beanfield War, which was filmed around Truchas and featured many of Nichols’ northern New Mexico neighbors. Throughout I Got Mine Nichols spins a shining thread connecting his lifelong engagement with progressive political causes, his passionate interest in and identification with ordinary people, and his deep connection to the land.

May 2022 280 pages Memoir Rights: World

John Nichols has published ten works of nonfiction and thirteen novels, including the classic The Milagro Beanfield War. His recent works include The Annual Big Arsenic Fishing Contest! A Novel, On Top of Spoon Mountain, and My Heart Belongs to Nature: A Memoir in Photographs and Prose.

Late Work

A Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and What I Was Reading

JOAN FRANK Curious, ruminative, and wry, this literary autobiography tours what Rachel Kushner called “the strange remove that is the life of the writer.” Frank’s essays cover a vast spectrum—from handling dismissive advice, facing the dilemma of thwarted ambition, and copying the generosity that inspires us, to the miraculous catharsis of letter-writing and some of the books that pull us through. Useful for writers at any stage of development, Late Work offers a seasoned artist’s thinking through the exploration of issues, paradoxes, and crises of faith. Like a lively conversation with a close, outspoken friend, each piece tells its experience from the trenches.

Joan Frank is the award-winning author of twelve books of literary fiction and essays including Because You Have To: A Writing Life and Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place.

October 2022 205 pages Memoir/Writing Rights: World

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The Empty Bowl

Poems of the Holocaust and After

JUDITH SHERMAN In this poerty collection, survivor Judith H. Sherman strives to make art from trauma. Her poems, written largely in the words of a fifteen-year-old survivor, provide historical entry into the Holocaust. Put simply, the poems explore the reality of the events experienced by Sherman in her determination to survive—from first leaving home to illegal border crossings, hiding, capture, imprisonment by the Gestapo, the horrors of the Ravensbruck concentration camp, liberation, and, finally, a full life of joys and challenges that came after, including the unyielding intrusions of the past and hopeful celebration of a compassionate future.

Born in Kurima, Slovakia, Judith H. Sherman is a Holocaust survivor now living in New Jersey. She is the mother of three, the grandmother of five, and a widow. A retired social worker and psychotherapist, she is the author of the acclaimed memoir Say The Name: A Survivor’s Tale in Prose and Poetry.

Septemeber 2022 103 pages Poetry/Jewish Studies Rights: World

Dancing on the Sun Stone

Mexican Women and the Gendered Politics of Octavio Paz

MARJORIE BECKER This is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz’s signature poem, “Sun Stone”—allowing a new gendered history to emerge.

Marjorie Becker is an associate professor of history and English at the University of Southern California.

December 2022 145 pages History Rights: World

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The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook The Soul of Mexican Home Cooking

DAVE DEWITT and JOSÉ C. MARMOLEJO The Mexican Chile Pepper Cookbook is the first book to explore the glories of Mexican regional cooking by focusing on this single, but endlessly variable, ingredient. Authors Dave DeWitt and José C. Marmolejo feature more than 150 recipes that celebrate the role of chiles across appetizers, soups and stews, tacos, enchiladas, tamales, moles, and vegetarian dishes. Comprehensive glossaries of Mexican chiles, cheeses, and food terminology are also included.

Savor the history, culture, and recipes of Mexican regional home cooking highlighted in this unique, full-color cookbook and explore the various chile peppers showcased in this spicy trek south of the border. The only thing left to do is decide which recipe to try next!

April 2022 296 pages, 183 color photos Cooking Rights: World Spanish only

Dave DeWitt is a food historian and one of the foremost authorities in the world on chile peppers, spices, and spicy foods. He has published fifty-six books, including Chile Peppers: A Global History. José C. Marmolejo owned and operated Don Alfonso Foods, a specialty outfit of Mexican delicacies in Austin, Texas. He assisted a PBS TV series production on fiery foods and appeared with Andrew Zimmern on “Bizarre Foods.”

From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

B. J. BARICKMAN

Edited by HENRIK KRAAY and BRYAN MCCANN

April 2022 318 pages, 32 illustrations, 3 maps, 2 tables Latin America/ History Rights: World

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In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the 1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the history of leisure.

B. J. Barickman (1958–2016) was an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Arizona. While he began his research career as a scholar of Bahia’s sugar-plantation economy, he later turned his interests to urban Rio de Janeiro’s society and culture. His previous works include A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780–1860. Hendrik Kraay is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889. Bryan McCann is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is the author of Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

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Graciela

One Woman’s Story of War, Survival, and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes

NICOLE COFFEY KELLETT with GRACIELA ORIHUELA ROCHA

May 2022 308 pages, 15 illustrations, 4 maps Anthropology/Latin America Rights: World

Graciela chronicles the life of a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the war in Peru that killed seventy thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s. The book traces her early years as a young child living in an epicenter of violence to her contemporary life as a postwar survivor. Graciela Orihuela Rocha’s history embodies the horrors, injustices, promises, and challenges faced by countless individuals who endured and survived the war. Her story provides intimate insights into deep-seated divisions within Peruvian society that center around skin color, gender, language, and ties to the land. These fault lines have endured to the present day, fostering discontent and violence in Peru. Through Graciela’s story we not only learn of trauma and dehumanization but also resilience, strength, and perseverance. Graciela’s history provides insight into the systemic challenges of determining truth, implementing justice, and envisioning reconciliation in a country where calls for equality and justice remain unrealized for the most marginalized.

Nicole Coffey Kellett is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine at Farmington. Graciela Orihuela Rocha, a mother and grandmother from Ayacucho, Peru, is a survivor of civil war living in the rural Andean highlands.

Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth-Century Mexico

WIL G. PANSTERS and BENJAMIN T. SMITH, editors

This work brings together a new generation of drug historians and new historical sources to uncover the history of the drug trade and its regulations. While the US and Mexican governments developed anti-drug discourses and policies, which criminalized both high-profile traffickers and small-time addicts, these authorities also employed the criminals and cash connected to the drug trade to pursue more pressing political concerns. The essays in this study explore this complicated narrative and provide insight into Mexico’s history and the wider contemporary global drug trade.

May 2022 360 pages, 7 maps History/Latin America Rights: World

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Wil G. Pansters is a professor of social and political anthropology of Latin America at Utrecht University. He is the editor of Violence, Coercion and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur and La Santa Muerte in Mexico: History, Devotion, and Society. Benjamin T. Smith is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. His works include The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade; The Mexican Press and Civil Society, 1940–1976: Stories from the Newsroom, Stories from the Street; and The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750–1962.

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Jesuits and Race

A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530–2020

NATHANIAL MILLETT and CHARLES H. PARKER , editors Jesuits and Race examines the role that the Society of Jesus played in shaping Western understandings about race and explores the impact the Order had on the lives and societies of non-European peoples throughout history. Jesuits provide an unusual, if not unique, lens through which to view the topic of race given the global nature of the Society of Jesus and the priests’ interest in humanity, salvation, conversion, science, and nature. Jesuits’ global presence in missions, imperial expansion, and education lend insight to the differences in patterns of estrangement and assimilation, as well as enfranchisement and coercion, with people from Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The essays in this collection bring together case studies from around the world as a first step toward a comparative analysis of Jesuit engagement with racialized difference. The authors hone in on labor practices, social structures, and religious agendas at salient moments during the long span of Jesuit history in this fascinating volume..

June 2022 272 pages, 3 drawings Religion/History Rights: World

Nathaniel Millett is an associate professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is the author of The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World. Charles H. Parker is a professor of history at Saint Louis University. His publications include Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600–1800; Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800; and Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age.

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University of North Carolina Press The Other Side of Silence

A Memoir of Exile, Iran, and the Global Women’s Movement

MAHNAZ AFKHAMI When a phone rings in the early hours of a November 1978 New York hotel room, Mahnaz Afkhami, the first Minister of Women’s Affairs for Iran, learns she can never go home again: her country has fallen to Ayatollah Khomeini. A member of the Shah’s government, Mahnaz struggles to rebuild her life in the United States even as she faces exile and a death warrant from the Islamic revolution. Refusing to remain silent, she reemerges as an architect of the women’s movement in the global South—only to encounter familial, cultural, political, and organizational hurdles that threaten to derail her quest to empower women and change the structure of human relations. A skilled storyteller who has spent a lifetime living in two worlds, Mahnaz shares with humor, honesty, and compassion her unexpected and meteoric rise from unassuming English professor to a champion of women’s rights in Iran.

October 2022 314 pages Memoir Rights: World

Born in Kerman, Iran, Mahnaz Afkhami is the Founder and President of Women’s Learning Partnership, Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies, and former Minister for Women’s Affairs in Iran.

Accidental Kindness A Doctor’s Notes

MICHAEL STEIN October 2022 185 pages Medicine Rights: World

When we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms but also from our self-blame. We want from our doctor’s kindness under any of its many names: empathy, caring, compassion, humanity. We look for safety and forgiveness. But we often forget that doctors, too, are often in need of forgiveness—from their patients and from themselves.using a series of moving, oftentimes autobiographical essays that examine medical and psychological history, clinical mistakes, and how one stumbles into kindness and forgiveness, Michael Stein examines the oft-times conflicting goals of patients and medicine. Kindness should not become the patient’s forbidden or unrealistic expectation, yet the aim of this book is to leave the reader with new knowledge of and insights into what they might hope for, and what might go wrong, or right, in the most intimate patient-doctor moments.

Michael Stein, M.D., is the award-winning author of six novels and four books of non-fiction, most recently Broke: Patients Talk About Money With Their Doctor.

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We the Dead

Preserving Data at the End of the World

BRIAN MICHAEL MURPHY

August 2022 328 pages, 20 illustrations Media Studies Rights: World

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America’s most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that now accompany each of us from birth to death. This data complex backs up and protects our most vital information against decay and destruction, and yet it binds us to corporate and government institutions whose power is also preserved in its bunkers, infrastructures, and sterilized spaces. We the Dead traces the emergence of the data complex in the early twentieth century and guides readers through its expansion in a series of moments when Americans thought they were living just before the end of the world.

Depression-era eugenicists feared racial contamination and the downfall of the white American family, while contemporary technologists seek ever denser and more durable materials for storing data, from microetched metal discs to cryptocurrency keys encoded in synthetic DNA. Artfully written and packed with provocative ideas, this haunting book illuminates the dark places of the data complex and the ways it increasingly blurs the lines between human and machine, biological body and data body, life and digital afterlife.

Brian Michael Murphy is dean of the college and director of the MFA in Public Action at Bennington College.

Hungary’s Cold War

International Relations from the End of World War II to the Fall of the Soviet Union

CSABA BÉKÉS In this magisterial and pathbreaking work, Csaba Békés shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary’s international relations with both the Soviet Bloc and the West from the end of World War II to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unlike many studies of the global Cold War that focus on East-West relationships— often from the vantage point of the West—Békés grounds his work in the East, drawing on little-used, non-English sources. As such, he offers a new and sweeping Cold War narrative using Hungary as a case study, demonstrating that the East-Central European states have played a much more important role in shaping both the Soviet bloc’s overall policy and the East-West relationship than previously assumed. Similarly, he shows how the relationship between Moscow and its allies, as well as among the bloc countries, was much more complex than it appeared to most observers in the East and the West alike.

June 2022 414 pages International Affairs Rights: World excluding World

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Csaba Békés is research professor for the Centre of Social Sciences, founding director of the Cold War History Research Center, and professor of history at Corvinus University of Budapest.

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The Struggle for Iran

Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954

DAVID S. PAINTER and GREGORY BREW While it only lasted three years, the Iranian crisis was a pivotal chapter in the history of the postwar world. Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with the reversal of nationalization following the overthrow of nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the crisis confirmed the dominance of Western corporations over the resources of the Global South for the next twenty years and was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. Drawing on newly declassified documents from British, American, and Iranian sources, Gregory Brew and David Painter examine the oil crisis and 1953 coup, embracing a global approach that promises to be the first and only single volume that has drawn from all available documentary sources, providing an accessible and concise narrative that demystifies the complex stories of oil, diplomacy, espionage, Iranian politics, and Anglo-American relations bound up in the Mosaddeq moment.

January 2023 320 pages, History/Iran/Cold War Rights: World

David S. Painter is associate professor of international history at Georgetown University. Gregory Brew is a Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow at International Security Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.

Guaraná

How the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant Captivated Brazil

SETH GARFIELD The history of Brazil is refracted in Seth W. Garfield’s chronicle of guaraná, a glossy-leaved Amazonian vine that packs the highest caffeine kick of any plant in the world, as it transformed from a pre-Columbian cultivar to a multibillion-dollar soft drink industry and a quintessential and beloved taste of Brazil. For Garfield, guaraná pitches the seemingly contradictory ideals of pristine nature and communal harmony against modernity’s promises of scientific experimentation and capitalist development, the polestar of Brazilian politics.

Brazilian scientists, folklorists, literati, and culinarians elevated guaraná as a hallowed local flora and food of national distinction. But unlike kola nuts, guaraná could not compete in the global supply chain due to challenges with labor, transportation, and its dedicated use in the domestic market. Perhaps, Garfield muses, it is guaraná’s “unglobal” profile itself that allows it so successfully to play the role of authenticity and to offer the quintessential Brazilian taste.

December 2022 280 pages History/Brazil Rights: World

Seth W. Garfield, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region.

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The Vietnam War in the Pacific World BRIAN CUDDY and FREDRIK LOGEVALL , editors

Co-edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Fred Logevall, this anthology is the first book to examine the Vietnam War from a regional perspective rather than throough a U.S. lens, despite the fact that it was fought entirely in the Pacific world and deeply affected every aspect of life for those that lived through and were born after what was ultimately a civil war that reverberated across the Asia Pacific region. The time is ripe for a post-colonial interpretation of a struggle rooted in Indochinese and not American history, and Fred Logevall, Brian Cuddy, and the contributors in this volume highlight the ripple effects the war had across the Pacific world.

Brian Cuddy is Lecturer in security studies at Macquarie University and historian of twentieth century international politics and US foreign relations. Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer professor of international affairs and professor of history at Harvard University.

November 2022 History/Vietnam Rights: World

The Tormented Alliance

American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949

ZACH FREDMAN

September 2022 205 pages Military History Rights: World excluding World

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During World War II and the months following Japan’s surrender, more than 120,000 American troops served in China. In 1942, Chinese soldiers and officials welcomed them with ten-course banquets toasting Sino-American friendship, and civilians gathered in the streets to greet arriving GIs. Yet a short three years later, Chinese interpreters and laborers were walking out of their US Army jobs on strike, locals rioted as they protested widespread sexual misconduct by American servicemen, and fistfights and shootings broke out across the country between Chinese soldiers and their supposed American allies. Initial enthusiasm for the US marines who arrived to assist the Chinese Nationalists in reasserting control over formerly Japanese-occupied territory quickly gave way to outrage over American misconduct and violations of Chinese sovereignty. Fredman shows how the day-to-day encounters between ordinary American soldiers and the Chinese people eventually poisoned relationships at all levels of contact, from soldiers and officials, to interpreters, hostel workers, farmers, beggars, and thieves. Through their stories, drawn from both Chineseand English-language sources from six countries, Fredman demonstrates how the initially amicable American military presence in China became a de facto occupation.

Zach Fredman is assistant professor of humanities at Duke Kunshan University.

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The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro

Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town

DAVIKEN STUDNICKI-GIZBERT This longue-durée history of extractivism from the time of the Spanish Conquest to the present day tells the story of Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in northern Mexico. Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert portrays Cerro de San Pedro as a prototypical mine whose history exemplifies larger trends and patterns that have unfolded across the Americas. He reveals how colonial, national, and business regimes repeatedly transgressed the limits of environmental and human exhaustion—with significant ecological, economic, and political consequences.

Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, author of A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea, is associate professor of history at McGill University.

December 2022 250 pages History/Mexico Rights: World excluding World

Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia ELIZABETH LHOST

July 2022 376 pages, 12 illustrations, 4 maps, 1 table History/South Asia Rights: World

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal training in law, fought back as the colonial system in India sidelined Islamic legal experts. They petitioned the East India Company for employment, lobbied imperial legislators for recognition, and built robust institutions to serve their communities. By bringing legal debates into the public sphere, they resisted the colonial state’s authority over personal law and rejected legal codification by embracing flexibility and possibility. With postcards, letters, and telegrams, they made everyday Islamic law vibrant and resilient and challenged the hegemony of the Anglo-Indian legal system. Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change. The rich archive of unpublished fatwa files, qazi notebooks, and legal documents they left behind chronicles their efforts to make Islamic law relevant for everyday life, even beyond colonial courtrooms and the confines of family law. Lhost shows how ordinary Muslims shaped colonial legal life and how their diversity and difference have contributed to contemporary debates about religion, law, pluralism, and democracy in South Asia and beyond.

Elizabeth Lhost is lecturer in history and postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College.

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Transpacific Convergences

Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II

DENISE KHOR

July 2022 208 pages, 35 illustrations, 2 maps History/Film Rights: World

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Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States. Drawing from a fascinating multilingual archive including the films themselves, movie industry trade press, Japanese American newspapers, oral histories, and more, this book reveals the experiences of Japanese Americans at the cinema and traces an alternative network of film production, exhibition, and spectatorship. In doing so, Denise Khor recovers previously unknown films such as The Oath of the Sword (1914), likely one of the earliest Asian American film productions, and illuminates the global circulations that have always constituted the multifaceted history of American cinema. Khor opens up transnational lines of inquiry and draws comparisons between early Japanese American cinema and Black cinema to craft a broad and expansive history of a transnational public sphere shaped by the circulation and exchange of people, culture, and ideas across the Pacific.

Denise Khor is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Vanderbilt University Press Books against Tyranny Catalan Publishers under Franco

LAURA VILARDELL Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939–75). Both the Catalan language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the regime, preoccupied as it was with creating a “one, great, and free Spain.” Books against Tyranny compiles, for the first time, the strategies Catalan publishers used to resist the censorship imposed by Franco’s regime. Author Laura Vilardell examines documents including firsthand witness accounts, correspondence, memoirs, censorship files, newspapers, original interviews, and unpublished material housed in various Spanish archives. As such, Books against Tyranny opens up the field and serves as an informative tool for scholars of Franco’s Spain, Catalan social movements, and censorship more generally. .

Laura Vilardell is an assistant professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Northern Illinois University.

May 2022 250 pages History/Europe/Spain & Portugal Rights: World

Transforming Saints From Spain to New Spain

CHARLENE VILLASEÑOR BLACK Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence. The chapters here examine the rise of the cults of the lactating Madonna, St. Anne, St. Librada, St. Mary Magdalene, and the Suffering Virgin. Concerned with holy figures presented as feminine archetypes, images that came under Inquisition scrutiny, as well as cults suspected of concealing indigenous influences, Charlene Villaseñor Black argues that these images would come to reflect the empowerment and agency of women in viceregal Mexico. In this context Black also examines a number of important artists in depth, including El Greco, Murillo, Jusepe de Ribera, and Pedro de Mena in Spain and Naples and Baltasar de Echave Ibía, Juan Correa, Cristóbal de Villalpando, and Miguel Cabrera.

July 2022 376 pages Art/History/General Rights: World

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Charlene Villaseñor Black is a professor of art history and Chicana/o studies at UCLA. She is the author of Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire.

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Unlawful Violence

Mexican Law and Cultural Production

REBECCA JANZEN

May 2022 300 pages, History/Latin America/Mexico Rights: World

The abundance of laws and constitutional amendments that have cropped up in response are mirrored in Mexico’s fragmented cultural production of the same period. Contemporary Mexican literature grapples with this splintered reality through non-linear stories from multiple perspectives, often told through shifts in time. The novels, such as Jorge Volpi’s Una novela criminal [A Novel Crime] (2018) and Julián Herbert’s La casa del dolor ajeno [The House of the Pain of Others] (2015) take multiple perspectives and follow non-linear plotlines; other examples, such as the very short stories in ¡Basta! 100 mujeres contra la violencia de género [Enough! 100 Women against Gender-Based Violence] (2013), present perspectives from multiple authors. Few scholars compare cultural production and legal texts in situations like Mexico, where extreme violence coexists with a high number of human rights laws. Unlawful Violence measures fictional accounts of human rights against new laws that include constitutional amendments to reform legal proceedings, laws that protect children, laws that condemn violence against women, and laws that protect migrants and Indigenous peoples. It also explores debates about these laws in the Mexican house of representatives and senate, as well as interactions between the law and the Mexican public.

Rebecca Janzen is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of South Carolina.

Trajectories of Empire

Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora

JEROME C. BRANCHE , editor

June 2022 270 pages History/Latin America/General Rights: World

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Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. The book’s chapters explore what it’s like to be Black today in the so-called racial democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical science in the objectification and nullification of Black female personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba; aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the discursive template was created around their social roles as enslaved or formerly enslaved people.

Jerome C. Branche is professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Monstrous Politics

Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City

BEN GERLOFS Transdisciplinary by design, Monstrous Politics first moves historically through Mexico City’s turbulent twentieth century, driven centrally by the contentious imbrication of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its capital city. Participant observation, expert interviews, and archival materials demonstrate the shifting strategies and alliances of recent decades, provide the reader with a sense of the texture of contemporary political life in the city during a time of unprecedented change, and locate these dynamics within the history and geography of twentieth century urbanization and political revolution. Drawing on theories of social revolution that embrace complexity, and espousing a methodology that foregrounds the everyday nature of politics, Monstrous Politics develops an understanding of revolutionary urban politics at once contextually nuanced and conceptually expansive, and thus better able to address the realities of politics in the “urban age” even beyond Mexico City.

Ben Gerlofs is an assistant professor in the department of geography at the University of Hong Kong.

January 2023 304 pages Urban Studies Rights: World

Tirana Modern

Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe

MATTHEW ROSEN Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, Tirana Modern draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. Formulated as a question, the topic of the book is: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity?

Drawing on material from the independent Albanian publisher, Pika pa sipërfaqe (“Point without Surface”), Tirana Modern provides a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and social reality as mediated by reading and literature.

Matthew Rosen is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Ohio University.

August 2022 204 pages Social Science Rights: World

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Journey without End

Migration from the Global South through the Americas

ANDREW NELSON and ROB CURRAN Based on five years of collaborative research between a journalist and an anthropologist, this book makes an engrossing, sometimes surreal, narrative-driven critique of how statelevel immigration policy fails extracontinental migrants. The book begins with Kidane, an Eritrean migrant who has left his pregnant wife behind to make the four-year trip to North America; it then picks up the natural disaster–riddled voyage of Roshan and Kamala Dhakal from Nepal to Ecuador; and it continues to the trials of Cameroonian exile Jane Mtebe, who becomes trapped in a bizarre beachside resort town on the edge of the Darién Gap—the gateway from South to Central America. Journey without End follows these migrants as their fitful voyages put them in a semi-permanent state of legal and existential liminality as mercurial policy creates profit opportunities that transform migration bottlenecks—Quito’s tourist district, a Colombian beachside resort, Panama’s Darién Gap, and a Mexican border town—into spontaneous migration-oriented spaces rife with race, gender, and class exploitation.

October 2022 282 pages Social Science/Emigration & Immigration Rights: World

Andrew Nelson is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Texas. Rob Curran is a freelance journalist and frequent contributor to Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

Women’s Work

How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain

REBECCA INGRAM

September 2022 260 pages, Women’s Studies/Spain Rights: World

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We are living a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the Spanish government to declare its cuisine as part of panish patrimony. Yet even with this widespread global attention, we know little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for demonstrating Spain’s modernity and, in relation, the roles ascribed to the modern Spanish women responsible for daily cooking. This book reveals the paradoxical messages women have navigated, even in texts about a daily practice that shaped their domestic and work lives. This argument is significant because of the degree to which domestic activities, including cooking, occupied women’s daily lives, even while issues like their fitness as citizens and participation in the public sphere were hotly debated. At the same time, progressive intellectuals from diverse backgrounds began to invoke Spanish cooking and eating as one measure of Spanish modernity. Women’s Work shows how culinary writing engaged these debates and reached women at the site of much of their daily labor—the kitchen—and, in this way, shaped their thinking about their roles in modernizing Spain.

Rebecca Ingram is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at the University of San Diego.

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The Mexican Transpacific

Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance

IGNACIO LÓPEZ-CALVO This book, a continuation of the author’s previous research on cultural production by Latin American authors of Asian ancestry, focuses mostly on texts, films, and artworks produced

by Asian Mexicans, rather than on the Japanese or Chinese as mere objects of study. However, it will also be contrasted with the representation of Asians by Mexican authors with no Asian ancestry. With this interdisciplinary study, the author hopes to bring to the fore this silenced community’s voice and agency to historicize their own experience.In spite of the unquestionable influence of the Nikkei communities in Mexico’s history and culture, and the numerous historical studies recently published on these two communities, the study of their cultural production and, therefore, their self-definition and how they conceive themselves has been, for the most part, overlooked.

Ignacio López-Calvo is a professor and UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities at UC Merced.

November 2022 308 page Literary Criticism/Caribbean & Latin American Rights: World

Masculine Figures

Fashioning Men and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain

NICHOLAS WOLTERS Based on years of archival research in Madrid and Barcelona, this interdisciplinary study offers a fresh approach to understanding how men visualized themselves and their place in a nation that struggled to modernize after nearly a century of civil war, colonial entanglement, and imperial loss. Masculine Figures is the first study to provide a comprehensive overview of competing models of masculinity in nineteenth-century Spain, and is particularly novel in its treatment of Catalan texts and previously unstudied evidence (e.g., department store catalogs, commercial advertisements, fashion plates, and men’s tailoring journals). Through specific and recurring figures like the student, the priest, the businessman, and the heir, male novelists represent an increasingly middle-class world at odds with the values and virtues it inherited from an imperial Spanish past, and those it imported from more industrialized nations like England and France. The visual culture of the time and place marks the material turn in middle-class masculinity and sets the stage for discussions of race and sexuality.

December 2022 304 pages History/Europe/Spain & Portugal Rights: World

Nicholas Wolters is an assistant professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University.

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