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Automation Is a Myth
Buy Black
Luke Munn
How Black Women Transformed US Pop Culture Aria S. Halliday
April 2022 176pp 9781503631427 £16.99 / $22.00 PB 9781503631113 £56.00 / $70.00 HB
Feminist Media Studies March 2022 216pp 9780252086359 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252044274 £88.00 / $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
For some, automa�on will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-tocome. Munn moves from machine minders in China to warehouse pickers in the United States to explore the ways that new technologies do (and don't) reconfigure labor. Combining this rich array of human stories with insights from media and cultural studies, Munn points to a more nuanced, localized, and racialized understanding of the "future of work."
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consump�on in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine iden�ty since the 1960s. Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's posi�on as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Confidence Culture
Cosplay
Shani Orgad & Rosalind Gill
The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning
March 2022 256pp 14 illus. 9781478017608 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478014539 £80.00 / $99.95 HB
March 2022 224pp 62 b&w illus. 9781517912154 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9781517912147 £79.00 / $100.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Examines how impera�ves directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks hold women back rather than entrenched social injus�ces. Rejec�ng confidence culture’s remaking of feminism along individualis�c and neoliberal lines, this book explores alterna�ve ar�cula�ons of feminism that go beyond the confidence impera�ve.
Flourishing far beyond its Japanese roots, cosplay has become an interna�onal phenomenon with fervid fans who gather at enormous, worldwide conven�ons annually. Here, author Frenchy Lunning offers an in�mate, sensa�onal tour through cosplay’s past and present, as well as its global lure. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Cultural Netizenship
Food Instagram
Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria James Yékú
Identity, Influence, and Negotiation Edited by Emily J. H. Contois & Zenia Kish
May 2022 278pp 50 b&w illus. 9780253060495 £32.00 / $40.00 PB 9780253060488 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
April 2022 320pp 9780252086540 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9780252044465 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Proposes the concept of "cultural ne�zenship"—internet ci�zenship and its aesthe�co-cultural dimensions—as a way of being on the social web and ar�cula�ng counterhegemonic self-presenta�ons through viral popular images. A fascina�ng look at the intersec�on of social media and popular culture performance, this book reveals the logic of remedia�on that is central to both the internet's remix culture and the genera�ve materialism of African popular arts.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contribu�ons that explore the massively popular social media pla�orm as a space for self-iden�fica�on, influence, transforma�on, and resistance. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Front-Wave Boomers
Global Trade and Cultural Authentication
Growing (Very) Old, Staying Connected, and Reimagining Aging Gillian Ranson
The Kalabari of the Niger Delta Edited by Joanne B. Eicher
March 2022 224pp 9780774890502 £17.99 / $22.95 PB
August 2022 272pp 80 color illus., 1 b&w table 9780253062604 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780253062598 £60.00 / $75.00 HB
UBC PRESS
Gillian Ranson weaves front-wave boomers’ stories of life and aging before and during the pandemic into a powerful account of how to make growing old more humane, for this genera�on and for everyone.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Showcases the complexity and enduring aesthe�c and economic power of Kalabari cra�s. Using dress and tex�les as a lens, this book explores the Kalabari people's centuries-long role in the global trade arena. Their economic interconnectedness demonstrates that Africa was never a "dark con�nent" but, rather, cri�cally involved in a global trade built around Kalabari ingenuity and crea�vity.
Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Hatred of Sex
Haunted Dreams
Oliver Davis & Tim Dean
Fantasies of Adolescence in PostSoviet Culture Jenny Kaminer
Provoca�ons April 2022 196pp 9781496230591 £14.99 / $20.00 PB
NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies March 2022 204pp 14 b&w hal�ones 9781501762192 £36.00 / $44.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Hatred of Sex links Jacques Rancière’s poli�cal philosophy of the cons�tu�ve disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s iden�fica�on of a fundamental perturba�on at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, the authors contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent sel�ood and undermines iden�ty, rendering us all a li�le more deplorable than we might wish.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The first comprehensive study in English devoted to cultural representa�ons of adolescence in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Through close analysis of prose, drama, television, and film, maps how the adolescent hero has become a locus for mul�ple anxie�es throughout the tumultuous years since the end of the Soviet experiment.
Ingredients of Change
Insecurity
The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria Mary C. Neuburger
Edited by Richard Grusin 21st Century Studies April 2022 272pp 20 b&w illus. 9781517913106 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517913090 £89.00 / $112.00 HB
April 2022 246pp 18 b&w hal�ones 9781501762581 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781501762499 £100.00 / $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Challenging several key concepts of the twenty-first century, including precarity, securi�za�on, and resilience, this collec�on explores the concept of insecurity as a predominant logic governing recent cultural, economic, poli�cal, and social life in the West. The essays illuminate how a�empts to make human and nonhuman systems secure and resilient end up having the opposite effect, making insecurity the default state of life today.
Ingredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the O�oman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domes�cated and adapted diverse local, regional, and global foods and techniques, and how the na�on's culinary topography has been con�nually reshaped by the imperial legacies of the O�omans, Habsburgs, Russians, and Soviets, as well as by the ingenuity of its own people.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Intimate Eating
Model Machines
March 2022 192pp 13 illus. 9781478017820 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478015208 £76.00 / $94.95 HB
Asian American History & Culture June 2022 305pp 9781439922347 £32.00 / $39.95 PB 9781439922330 £88.00 / $110.50 HB
Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures Anita Mannur
A History of the Asian as Automaton Long T. Bui
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how cooking, ea�ng, and distribu�ng food can create new forms of kinship, in�macy, and social and poli�cal belonging for people of color, queer people, and other marginalized subjects. By illumina�ng how cooking, ea�ng, and distribu�ng food shapes and sustains social worlds, Mannur reconfigures how we think about networks of in�macy beyond the family, heteronorma�vity, and na�on.
Offers the first historical overview of the overlapping racializa�on of Asians and Asian Americans through their confla�on with the robotmachine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the “model machine myth,” which holds specific queries about personhood, ci�zenship, labor, and rights in the transna�onal making of Asian/America. Excludes Asia Pacific
My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence
Passionate Work
Endurance after the Good Life Renyi Hong
A Speculative Fiction Mark Amerika
June 2022 256pp 10 illus. 9781478018223 £19.99 / $25.95 PB 9781478015598 £80.00 / $99.95 HB
Sensing Media: Aesthe�cs, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media May 2022 320pp 9781503631700 £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9781503631076 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Theorizes the no�on of being “passionate about your work” as an affec�ve project that encourages people to endure economically trying situa�ons like unemployment, job change, repe��ve and menial labor, and freelancing. Hong argues, the ideal of passionate work sustains a condi�on of cruel op�mism, where passion is offered as the solu�on for the injus�ces of contemporary capitalism.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
My Life as an Ar�ficial Crea�ve Intelligence is an improvisa�onal call-and-response wri�ng performance conducted by a language ar�st and an AI language model and is arranged as a series of intellectual provoca�ons that inves�gate the crea�ve process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.
Plastic Matter
The Paranoid Chronotope
Heather Davis
Power, Truth, Identity Frida Beckman
Elements May 2022 176pp 12 illus. 9781478017752 £17.99 / $23.95 PB 9781478015130 £72.00 / $89.95 HB
May 2022 296pp 9781503631601 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503630482 £72.00 / $90.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces plas�c’s rela�ons to geology, media, race, and biology to show how plas�c and all other ma�er has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. Davis provokes readers to reexamine their rela�onships to ma�er and life in light of plas�c’s satura�on.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book iden�fies and illuminates paranoia as a significant feature of contemporary American society and culture. It explores and explains the increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society during the second half of the twen�eth century and first decades of the twentyfirst, a period that has seen the rise of control systems and neoliberal ascendency. 3
The Racial Railroad
The Souls of White Jokes
Julia H. Lee
How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy Raúl Pérez
April 2022 304pp 11 b&w illus. 9781479812776 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479812752 £71.00 / $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2022 232pp 9781503632332 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503611481 £68.00 / $85.00 HB
For almost two centuries, the train has served as the literal and symbolic vehicle for American na�onal iden�ty, manifest des�ny, and imperial ambi�ons. By considering the train through various lenses, this book tracks how racial forma�ons and conflicts are cons�tuted in significant and contradictory ways by the spaces in which they occur, revealing the legacy of the train as a cri�cal site of race in the United States.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without ge�ng offended. The insinua�on is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly poli�cized social world. But, do the stakes change when the jokes are racist? Pérez argues that we must genuinely confront this unse�ling ques�on in order to fully understand the persistence of an�-black racism and white supremacy in American society today.
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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Resistance and Revolution in Women's Body Hair Politics Breanne Fahs
Ahab Unbound
Melville and the Materialist Turn Edited by Meredith Farmer & Jonathan D. S. Schroeder
June 2022 pp 15 b&w illus. 9780295750286 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295750279 £79.00 / $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
December 2021 464pp 7 b&w illus. 9781517907556 £20.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517907549 £89.00 / $112.00 HB
Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at �mes, offends. Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice but as a connec�on to broader cultural stories about women’s reproduc�ve rights, feminist ba�legrounds about autonomy, neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global tensions around women’s place in society.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Advances inquiry into Melville’s emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of animal studies, cri�cal race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humani�es, medical humani�es, poli�cal theory, and posthumanism. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Are the Arts Essential?
Cultivating Perception through Artworks
Edited by Alberta Arthurs & Michael DiNiscia
Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics, and Culture Helen A. Fielding
February 2022 496pp 24 F/C illus. 9781479812622 £22.99 / $29.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2021 238pp 11 b&w illus. 9780253059345 £26.99 / $35.00 PB 9780253059352 £64.00 / $80.00 HB
In the midst of a devasta�ng pandemic, as theaters, galleries, and concert halls shu�ered their doors indefinitely and ins�tu�onal funding for entertainment and culture evaporated almost overnight, a cohort of highly acclaimed scholars, ar�sts, cultural cri�cs, and a journalist sat down to ponder an urgent ques�on: Are the arts essen�al?
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
What are the ethical, poli�cal and cultural consequences of forge�ng how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of conven�on and order that frame so much of our lives? Challenges us to think alongside and according to artworks, cul�va�ng a percep�on of what is really there and being expressed by them.
Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Dirty Knowledge
Hegemonic Mimicry
Provoca�ons January 2022 148pp 9781496221438 £14.99 / $20.00 PB
October 2021 328pp 36 illus. 9781478014492 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478013587 £84.00 / $104.95 HB
Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism Julia Schleck
Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century Kyung Hyun Kim
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explains how tradi�onal concep�ons of academic freedom, s�ll reflec�ve of the capitalist era in which they were conceived, fail to protect unrestricted inquiry in an academy radically altered by neoliberal economics.
Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hallyu—from a transna�onal and transcultural perspec�ve.
Terrorism in American Memory
The Masses Are Revolting
January 2022 336pp 93 b&w illus. 9781479811687 £21.99 / $29.00 PB 9781479811670 £71.00 / $89.00 HB
September 2021 342pp 23 b&w hal�ones 9781501756467 £34.00 / $42.95 HB
Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era Marita Sturken
Victorian Culture and the Political Aesthetics of Disgust Zachary Samalin
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Masses Are Revol�ng reconstructs a pivotal era in the history of affect and emo�on, delving into an archive of nineteenth-century disgust to show how this nega�ve emo�onal response came to play an outsized, vola�le part in the emergence of modern Bri�sh society.
Over the past two decades, the US has become extraordinarily preoccupied with memorializa�on and the poli�cs of memory. Marita Sturken sheds light on the struggles over who is memorialized, who is forgo�en, and what that poli�cs of memory reveals about the US as an imaginary and a na�on. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Virtue Hoarders
Writings on Media
Forerunners: Ideas First January 2021 90pp 9781517912253 £8.00 / $10.00 PB
Stuart Hall: Selected Wri�ngs October 2021 360pp 19 illus. 9781478014713 £21.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478013778 £84.00 / $104.95 HB
The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu
History of the Present Stuart Hall Edited by Charlotte Brunsdon
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Author Catherine Liu shows how Professional Managerial Class (PMC) elite workers who labor in a world of performa�ve iden�ty and virtue signaling stand in the way of social jus�ce and economic redistribu�on. Virtue Hoarders is an unapologe�cally polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consump�on habits.
Wri�ngs on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding” (1973) to other wri�ngs addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the prac�ces of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the na�on imagines itself through popular media.
Excludes Japan & ANZ
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