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Mare Nostrum Group
America Under the Hammer
Auctions and
the
Emergence of Market Values
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Early American Studies
November 2024 256pp 16 b&w photos
9781512826517 £36.00/ $39.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
This book follows the overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods.
Appearance Politics
Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China
Lex Lu
November 2024 306pp 35 b&w halftones, 26 color halftones
9781501777851 £53.00/ $58.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Lex Lu argues in Appearance Politics that crafting an appealing and powerful outward image has long been an essential political instrument in China. Its traces may be found in historical records, imperial portraits, physiognomic prognostications, photographs, posters, statues, and digital images.
Band People Life and Work in Popular Music
Franz Nicolay
American Music Series
September 2024 296pp
9781477323533 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage. Through interviews and incisive cultural critique, writer and musician Franz Nicolay provides a portrait of the musical middle class.
American Contact
Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History
Edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman
Material Texts
August 2024 456pp 60 b&w halftones
9781512825770 £67.00/ $74.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
American Contact explores the dynamics of intercultural encounters through the medium of material texts. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America.
Audible Loss
New Music and the Crisis of Memory
Andrea Zarafshon Moore
February 2025 256pp 2 images and 8 music examples
9781531508692 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531508685 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three major crises in US society at the turn of the twenty-first century: the AIDS epidemic, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the ongoing conditions of anti-Black violence.
Bangtan Remixed
A Critical BTS Reader
Edited by Patty Ahn, Michelle Cho, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen and Yutian Wong
August 2024 432pp 48 illus., including 15 in color
9781478030621 £27.99/ $31.95 PB
9781478026389 £106.00/ $117.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Delves into the cultural impact of celebrated K-Pop boy band BTS and shows how one band can inspire millions of fans and provide a broad range of insights into contemporary social and political life. The collection’s contributors—who include artists, scholars, journalists, activists, and fans—approach BTS through inventive and wide-ranging transnational perspectives.
Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990
Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 211)
Nian-Sheng Huang
Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society
October 2024 296pp 53 b&w illus
9781606189276
£21.99/ $24.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Explores Benjamin Franklin’s diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the relations between the functions of images and perceptions in society and social and cultural conditions that have constantly affected the alterations of those images.
Common Circuits
Hacking Alternative Technological Futures
Luis Felipe R. Murillo
February 2025 232pp
9781503641488 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9781503640603 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Based on long-term field research across San Francisco, Tokyo, and Shenzhen, Common Circuits explores a transnational network of hacker spaces that stand as potent, but often invisible, alternatives to the dominant technology industry.
Contours of Israeli Politics
Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy
Hannah M. Ridge
November 2024 210pp
9781439925843 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781439925836 £89.00/ $99.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This timely book focuses on the socio-political ramifications of hierarchy within the upper stratum of Israeli society. Using public opinion studies and qualitative data, Ridge’s findings reveal the ways in which Jewish ethnicity continues to influence the politics of Israel, a Jewish ethno-religious state.
Biomythography Bayou
Mel Michelle Lewis
The Griot Project Book Series
October 2024 122pp 10 color and 5 b&w images
9781684484812
£22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781684484829
£54.00/ $59.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Biomythography Bayou is more than just a book of memoir; it is a ritual for conjuring queer embodied knowledges and decolonial perspectives. Blending a rich gumbo of genres—from ingredients such as praise songs, folk tales, recipes, incantations, and invocations—it also includes a multimedia component, with “bayou tableau” images and audio recording links.
Computational Humanities
Editeed by Jessica Marie Johnson, David Mimno and Lauren Tilton Debates in the Digital Humanities
September 2024 344pp 19 b&w illus. and 3 tables
9781517915988 £31.00/ $36.00 PB
9781517915971 £111.00/ $124.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
This volume is organized around four questions: Why or why not pursue computational humanities? How do we engage in computational humanities? What can we study using these methods? Who are the stakeholders?
Dissatisfactions
Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style
Joshua Javier Guzmán
Minoritarian Aesthetics
November 2024 256pp 30 b&w illus.
9781479812837 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479812820 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Guzmán explores the queer punk and Chicano/Latino avant-garde art scenes in post-1968 Los Angeles from the rise of Ronald Reagan to the height of the AIDS epidemic. He demonstrates how style–as a cultural form and sensibility–becomes essential to Latino politics at the moment the utopian impulses of the 1960s begin to fade.
Dreams of Presence
A Geographical Theory of Culture
Mitch Rose
December 2024 240pp 3 b&w illus.
9781487566173 £49.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Provides a novel theoretical approach to the question of culture and will be of use to geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, and social theorists grappling to understand why culture continues to be a dominant political force in our contemporary world. The book argues that culture is a claim; not something subjects ever have but something they desire.
Fitness Fiesta!
Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
September 2024 248pp 20 illus.
9781478030812 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026570 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Closely examining videos, ads, memes, and press coverage as well as interviews she conducted with instructors, Rivera-Rideau shows how Zumba Fitness claims to celebrate Latinx culture and diversity while it simultaneously traffics in the same racial and ethnic stereotypes that are used to justify racist and xenophobic policies targeting Latinx communities in the United States.
Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing
Edited by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M.
Price and Caterina Bernardini
January 2025 312pp 31 b&w illus.
9781517916688 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517916671 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Navigates the ever-shifting terrain of digital academia, examining practical and ethical considerations as technology continues to evolve. In this indispensable collection, digital humanities practitioners and scholars work with a wide range of archival materials to confront key challenges surrounding the adaptation and sustainability of digital editorial projects as well as their societal impact.
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
October 2024 284pp 44 color illus. 9781978839779 £21.99/ $24.95 PB 9781978839786 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Finding God in All the Black Places, Beretta E. Smith-Shomade contends that Black spirituality and Black church religiosity are the critical crux of Black popular culture. She argues that cultural, community and social support live within the Black church and that spirit, art and progress are deeply entwined and seal this connection.
Free Listening
Naomi Waltham-Smith
Provocations
November 2024 198pp
9781496234520 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Free Listening offers a radical reframing of seemingly intractable debates and polarized positions on free speech, academic freedom, systemic injustice, and political dissent by shifting attention from our voices to our ears. A wide-ranging critical reflection on issues from civility to criticality, righteous anger to gentle listening, and silencing to streaming platforms.
Global Yorùbá Regional and Diasporic Networks
Toyin Falola
September 2024 596pp 84 b&w illus. 9780253070555 £49.00/ $55.00 PB
9780253070548 £90.00/ $100.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this volume, renowned scholar Toyin Falola covers the history, people, traditions, environment, religion, spirituality, cosmology, culture, and philosophy of one of Africa's largest cultural groups, the Yorùbá, all while considering the people's relationship with their immediate and distant neighbors.
Hell-Bent for Leather
Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western
Edited by Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush and Sara L. Spurgeon
Postwestern Horizons
January 2025 441pp
9781496241900 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781496241542 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex and sexuality are imagined in weird western literature, film, television, and video games, paying special attention to portrayals of power and privilege.
Inside Tenement Time
Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance
Kezia Page
Critical Caribbean Studies
November 2024 178pp 1 color and 3 b&w images
9781978837881 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978837898 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Covering the long historical arc of the twentieth to the 21 centuries, Inside Tenement Time uses Jamaica as a case study to examine moments of crisis and particular spaces, especially urban yard enclaves and their environs, in the Caribbean encounter with surveillance.
It’s Nation Time A Progressive Defence
Jerry White
October 2024 344pp
9780228022961 £27.99/ $32.95 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Broadly internationalist but also deeply insightful about the particular cultures and politics of small nations, It’s Nation Time defends an idea of nation, and a form of nationalism that are rooted in the potential for diversity, flexibility, and progressive politics.
In Defense of Sex Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire
Christopher Breu
November 2024 224pp 2 b&w illus.
9781531508777 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781531508760 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the need to recenter the category of sex–theorizing sex itself as nonbinary–in contemporary studies of gender and sexuality. Moving from critique to theorizing embodiment, desire, and forms of bioaccumulation, In Defense of Sex concludes by proposing the unabashedly utopian project of building a sexual and embodied commons.
Isle of Rum
Havana Club, Cultural Mediation, and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity
Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing Cuba to the outside world.
Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia
Race and Reception
Edited by David C. Oh and Benjamin Min Han
August 2024 pp 2 tables
9780295752969 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752952 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Exploring how fans from different cultural and racial backgrounds engage with Korean media, this edited collection reveals complex transcultural affinities, conflicts, and negotiations. Throughout, the contributors provide perceptive analyses that reveal what the interplay of race and Korean entertainment tells us about the complex nature of transnational fandom.
Left Turns in Brown Study
Sandra Ruiz
Writing Matters!
August 2024 152pp
9781478030126 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781478025863 £85.00/ $94.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Sandra Ruiz offers a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Conceptual, poetic, and unconventional, this book is crucial for all those who theorize minoritarian literary aesthetics and think through utopia, queer possibility, and the entwinement of forms.
Made in NuYoRico
Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings
Marisol Negrón
Refiguring American Music
October 2024 352pp 31 illustrations
9781478030898 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781478026662 £98.00/ $109.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on interviews with fans, legendary musicians, and music industry figures as well as analyses of songs, albums, film, and archival documents, Negrón shows how Nuyorican cultural and social histories became embedded in salsa during its foundational period of the mid-1960s and its boom in the 1970s and impacted the music’s flows.
Millennial North Korea
Forbidden Media and Living
Creatively with Surveillance
Suk-Young Kim
October 2024 256pp
9781503640870 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503614918 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining a close reading of North Korean state media with original interviews with defectors, Kim explores how the tensions between millennial North Korea and North Korean millennials leads to a more nuanced understanding of a fractured and fragmented society that has been frequently perceived as an unchanging, monolithic entity.
Listening
Interviews, 1970–1989
Jonathan Cott
January 2025 368pp
9781517907617 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Presents a wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of remarkable writings. Collection of interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. These conversations affirm the indispensable and transformative powers of the imagination and offer us new ways to view these lives and their worlds.
Metagraffiti
Graffiti Art and the Urban Image in Latin America
Chandra Morrison Ariyo
December 2024 186pp 25 color and 10 b&w images
9781978834408 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978834415 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Metagraffiti explores how graffiti art transmits ideas about graffiti culture. These insights, in turn, inspire a deeper understanding of the social construction of cities. Focusing on graffiti scenes from São Paulo and Santiago de Chile, this innovative visual ethnography examines diverse forms of self-reference and metareference that appear in Latin American graffiti art.
Mother Trouble
Mediations of White Maternal Angst after Second Wave
Feminism
Miranda J. Brady
October 2024 136pp 4 b&w illus.
9781487556938 £27.99/ $37.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The book narrows in on popular media to think about white maternal angst as a manifestation of feminism’s unrealized possibilities and continued omissions since the second wave. Mother Trouble reveals how the unease around white motherhood in the media has become a proxy for the troubles faced by all mothers.
Natural Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair
Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson
October 2024 288pp 14 b&w images
9781479814732 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Johnson shares her own hair story and amplifies the voices of Black women across the globe who, after years of chemically relaxing their hair, return to a “natural” style. She powerfully illustrates how the natural hair movement is part of a larger social change among Black women to assert their own purchasing power, standards of beauty, and bodily autonomy.
Occupied Words
What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish
Hannah Pollin-Galay
Series edited by Steven Weitzman, Shaul Magid and Francesca Trivellato
Jewish Culture and Contexts
September 2024 312pp 11 b&w halftones
9781512825909 £40.00/ $44.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. In Occupied Words, Hannah Pollin-Galay explores Khurbn Yiddish as a form of Holocaust memory and as a testament to the sensation of speech under genocidal conditions through lenses of cultural history, philology, and literary interpretation.
Poisoned Relations
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
In Poisoned Relations, Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. This book examines more than five hundred investigations and trials in four colonial contexts, bringing a groundbreaking application of historical linguistics and new avenues of which to navigate the violence of colonial archival silences.
Needle Work
A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada
Jamie Jelinski
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
June 2024 424pp 153 photos, colour throughout 9780228021988 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Richly illustrated and drawing on archives, print media, and objects held in institutions and private collections across Canada and beyond, Jamie Jelinski traces the evolution of commercial tattooing in Canada and provides a timely understanding of a vocation that is now familiar but whose intricate history has rarely been considered.
Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory. Asking readers to think about thinking, Grossberg traces cultural and critical theory’s foundations from the contested enlightenments to modern and postmodern conceptualizations of power, experience, language, and existence.
Lennard J. Davis shows how “poornography”— distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes — creates harmful and dangerous stereotypes that build barriers to social justice and change. To remedy this, Davis argues, poor people should write realistic depictions of themselves. Only then can the lived experience of poverty be more fully realized.
Prohibition in Turkey
Alcohol and the Politics of Identity
Emine Ö. Evered
December 2024 288pp 20 b&w illus.
9781477330319 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Historian Evered’s account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its communities’ rights to alcohol. The first author to reveal this experience’s connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how drinking practices reflected many of the changes that were underway.
Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
William Grady
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
November 2024 304pp 75 b&w illus.
9781477329986 £45.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes.
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
Sam Langsdale
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
September 2024 240pp 16 b&w illus.
9781477329788 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Searching for Feminist Superheroes recognizes that female-led superhero comics, with diverse casts of characters, exist on the margins of the mainstream superhero genre. But rather than focusing on these stories as marginalized, Sam Langsdale’s work on heroes locates the margins as a site of innovation and productivity.
Pulcinella's Brood
Popular Culture in the Enlightenment
Karen T. Raizen
Toronto Italian Studies
November 2024 368pp 30 b&w illus., 7 b&w figures
9781487555788 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell’arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. The book explores how Pulcinella was inserted into discourses about social order, aesthetics, and politics – how he became a revolutionary, a critic of the Catholic Church, and a champion of education.
Righteous Sisterhood
The Politics and Power of an AllWomen's Motorcycle Club
Sarah L. Hoiland
January 2025 193pp
9781439925935 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781439925928 £80.00/ $89.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hoiland’s insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stories of women bikers for whom riding in an MC is “an act of rebellion” and “liberating” even as it constrains—a reactionary populist version of the American Dream dipped in “girl power.” Hoiland investigates why women choose to join, and why, in some cases, they exit or become exiled.
Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture
Detour to the Imaginary
Stuart Hall
Edited by Gilane Tawadros
Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
August 2024 392pp 64 color illus. 9781478030331 £26.99/ $30.95 PB 9781478026105 £103.00/ $114.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume demonstrates the breadth and range of Hall’s thinking on art, film, photography, archives, and museums. In so doing, it enables us to arrive at radical and innovative ways of understanding the world.
Sex Work in Popular Culture
Lauren Kirshner
July 2024 400pp 33 colour illus. and 20 b&w illus.
9781487548636 £27.99/ $37.50 PB
9781487507862 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years – a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex work in North American society. The book reveals how sex work is being recognized as real work and an issue of human rights.
Singular Sensations
A Cultural History of One-Panel
Comics in the United States
Michelle Ann Abate
September 2024 254pp 18 color and 40 b&w images
9781978840683 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781978840690 £67.00/ $74.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Engaging with a wide range of historical time periods, socio-political subjects, and aesthetic styles, Singular Sensations demonstrates how comics as we know and love them would not be the same without singlepanel titles. Abate’s book brings the single-panel comic out of the margins and into the foreground.
Staging Tianxia
Dunhuang Expressive Arts and China's New Cosmopolitan Heritage
Lanlan Kuang
September 2024 256pp 21 b&w illus., 8 b&w tables
9780253070906 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253070890 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
A careful ethnographic study that explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a historically multiethnic and cosmopolitan nation.
Sheets of Scattered Sand
Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim
Justin Tse
Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities
November 2024 304pp 20 b&w illus.
9780268208714 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they reflect on their efforts to adapt to secular communities while retaining their identity and beliefs. Tse’s work serves as an illuminating prequel to contemporary stories of the Hong Kong protests and a newly emergent Asian American politics.
¡Somos Tejanas!
Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas
Edited by Jody A. Marín and Norma E. Cantú
February 2025 304pp 24 b&w photos, 8-page color insert
9781477330616 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781477330609 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In ¡Somos Tejanas!, Cantú and Marín assemble contemporary Tejanx writers who provide firsthand accounts of their experience of identity, enriching the field of Tejanx studies and gender and sexuality. This collection dispels the silence imposed by colonial erasure and state policymakers.
State of Shock
The Kibbutz in Israel from AvantGarde to Fetish, 1948-1955
Lior Libman
Jewish Culture and Contexts
November 2024 272pp
9781512826661 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Libman offers original theoretical and historiographical insights into the imagery of the kibbutz, and Israeli culture. This book defines the kibbutz’s as a cultural trauma which robbed it of interpreting historical experience.
Technoskepticism
Between Possibility and Refusal
DISCO Network
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
February 2025 216pp
9781503640634 £13.99/ $16.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create and how refusal of new technologies is an especially powerful mode, particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no.
The Cancel Culture Panic
How an American Obsession Went Global
Adrian Daub
September 2024 224pp
9781503640849 £15.99/ $18.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this incisive new work, Daub compares the global spread of cancel culture discourse to moral panics past, showing that talk of cancel culture in global media has become a preoccupation of an embattled liberalism.
The Hour of Absinthe
A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink
Nina S. Studer
Intoxicating Histories
October 2024 264pp 21 photos
9780228022206 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Providing keen insight into how local cultural narratives about absinthe shaped what quickly became a global reputation, Nina Studer provides a panoptic view of the French Empire’s influence on absinthe’s spectacular fall from grace.
Captures the region of Minas Gerais in Brazil’s enthrallment with football and shows us how and why play is central to the human condition. Faflik profiles members of the most celebrated local team, Clube Atlético Mineiro (CAM), as well as its passionate fans, to show how futebol and fandom shape their work, play, pride, identity, and community
Despite attempts to expand games beyond their conventional audience of young men, the physical contexts of game play and production remain offlimits and unsafe for so many. Nicholas Taylor explores the physical places where games are played and how they contribute to the persistence of gaming's problematic politics.
Leerom Medovoi turns away from conventional views of race as a politics of the phenotypical body to theorize race instead as a politics of populational threat. He weaves histories of color-line racism, nativism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anticommunism into a pathbreaking account of the political work populational racism accomplishes.
The Intimate Life of Computers
Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s
Reem Hilu
November 2024 240pp 15 b&w illus.
9781517916657
£22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517916640 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was geared toward helping sustain heteronormative middle-class families by shaping relationships between users. Moving beyond male-dominated computer culture, this book emphasizes the neglected history of the influence of women’s culture and feminist critique on the development of personal computing despite women’s underrepresentation in the industry.
The Museum
A Short History of Crisis and Resilience
Samuel J. Redman
October 2024 232pp
9781479835317 £12.99/ $14.95 PB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Explores the concepts of “crisis” as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty. A captivating examination of crisis moments in US museum history from the early years of the twentieth century to the present day, The Museum offers inspiration in the resilience and longevity of America’s most prized cultural institutions.
The Promise of Beauty
Mimi Thi Nguyen
October 2024 312pp 5 illus.
9781478030973 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026761 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastrophe. Drawing widely from aesthetic and critical theories, Nguyen outlines how beauty—or its lack—points to the conditions that must exist for it to flourish.
The Medical Carnivalesque
Folklore among Physicians
Lisa Gabbert
August 2024 228pp 12 b&w illus.
9780253070234 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780253070241 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Medical Carnivalesque connects patient and physician suffering to laughter; acknowledges suffering as an essential component of life; and constitutes a way in which some physicians address the core philosophical and existential issues with which they regularly engage as they go about their daily work.
The Politics of Collecting
Race and the Aestheticization of Property
Eunsong Kim
August 2024 328pp 9 illus.
9781478030485 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026242 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Drawing on history, theory, and economics, Kim challenges received notions of artistic success and talent and calls for a new vision of art beyond the cultural institution.
The Time of the Cannibals
On Conspiracy Theory and Context
Elizabeth Anne Davis
Thinking from Elsewhere
November 2024 320pp 8 color and 23 b&w illus.
9781531508852 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781531508845 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories “in context.”
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
December 2024 258pp 16 b&w images
9781978830066 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978830073 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories reemerge as transmediated events.
Unstuck in Time
On the Post-Soviet Uncanny
Eliot Borenstein
November 2024 222pp
9781501777899 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781501777882 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Eliot Borenstein examines the ways in which films, fiction, television, social media, political parties, and even theme parks use the conventions of time travel and alternate history to fantasize about narratives that are more appealing than the post-Soviet present.
Where the Wild Things Were Boyhood and Permissive
Parenting in Postwar America
Henry Jenkins
Postmillennial Pop
February 2025 368pp 32 b&w and 9 color images
9781479831890 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479831869 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Peanuts to Dennis the Menace, the book reveals how childhood and the stories about it became central to Cold War concerns with democracy, citizenship, globalization, the space race, science, race relations, gender, and sexuality. Jenkins demonstrates, the era’s emblematic child was the boy in the striped shirt: white, male, suburban, middle class, Christian, and above all, American.
Drawing on more than ten years of interviews and fieldwork, Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies describes the culture of Ukrainian Canadians living in the Prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and gives voice to a group of everyday people who are too often overlooked, highlighting their accomplishments and their contributions to Canadian life.
Waste
Consuming Postwar Japan
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
December 2024 414pp 18 b&w halftones
9781501778797 £29.99/ $34.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources. Siniawer shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities of the historical moment, and revealing people’s concerns and hopes.
Worm-Time
Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics
We Jung Yi
December 2024 264pp 21 b&w halftones
9781501778575 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
From novels of dissent during the authoritarian era to films and webtoons in the new millennium, We Jung Yi's transmedia analyses unearth people's experiences of "wormification"—traumatic survival, deferred justice, and warped capitalist growth in the wake of the Korean War.
October 2024 504pp 294 color illus.
9781478030430 £58.00/ $65.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Your History with Me
The Films of Penny Siopis
Edited by Sarah Nuttall Theory
in Forms
A comprehensive study of Penny Siopis’s short films, which have put her at the front ranks of contemporary artist-filmmakers. Opening new vocabularies of thought for engaging with her films, this volume outlines how her work remakes the possibilities of film as a mode of experimentation and intervention.
A War of Colors
Graffiti and Street Art in
Postwar
Beirut
Nadine A. Sinno
April 2024 320pp 16-page color insert, 85 b&w photos
9781477328743 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
In A War of Colors, Sinno examines how graffiti and street art have been used in postwar Beirut to comment on the changing social dynamics of the region. Through analyzing graffiti, makers can reclaim cityscapes that were damaged by militias during the war. Copiously illustrated with images, this book is a visually captivating journey of both scarred and polished walls in the city.
Africanfuturism
African Imaginings of Other Times, Spaces, and Worlds
Kimberly Cleveland
Africa in World History
February 2024 216pp 15 color
9780821411483 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
A comparative investigation of speculative expression by African creatives, this book features diverse examples of Africanfuturism from across the continent and in different media, including art, literary fiction, film, song lyrics, and comic books. The book is appropriate for students, academics, and general readers.
April 2024 164pp
A Nation of Family and Friends?
Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women
Aarti Ratna
Critical Issues in Sport and Society
9781978834118 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781978834125 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mining autobiographical insights (as a South Asian scholar living in the UK), Ratna examines the complex and dynamic relationships between South Asian women and sporting and leisure cultures. recent
A Winning Dialect
Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural Norway
Thea R. Strand
June 2024 pp
9781487545963 £18.99/ $24.95 PB
9781487545956 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling
Women, Memory, and Public Space
Edited by Valentina Rozas-Krause and Andrew M. Shanken
Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
May 2024 272pp 71 b&w illus.
9781531506391 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781531506384 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Breaking the Bronze Ceiling comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.
Coca-Cola, Black Panthers, and Phantom Jets
Israel in the American Orbit, 1967-1973
Oz Frankel
July 2024 344pp
9781503639522 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503636262 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the late 1960s, Israel became more closely entwined with the US as both a strategic ally but also through its intensifying intimacy with American culture, society, and technology. Nevertheless, there remained ambivalence about, and resistance to, American influences. Taking an expansive view of Israeli–American encounters, historian Oz Frankel reveals their often unexpected consequences.
Fandom Is Ugly
Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture
Mel Stanfill
Critical Cultural Communication
August 2024 272pp
9781479824960 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479824953 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Fandom Is Ugly argues that reactionary politics and media fandoms go hand in hand, and to understand one, we need to understand the other. Drawing on a corpus of angry social media posts, Stanfill finds that ugly moments happen when deep emotional attachments collide with social structures.
Monuments
Decolonized
Algeria's French Colonial Heritage
Susan Slyomovics
Worlding the Middle East
July 2024 368pp
9781503639485 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781503632899 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century. But following Algeria's independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meaning and some were "repatriated" to France. Slyomovics follows the afterlives of Frenchbuilt war memorials in Algeria and those taken to France. She analyzes the colonial nostalgia, dissonant heritage, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art.
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain
Edited by Susan Larson
Toronto Iberic
July 2024 392pp
9781487529109 £69.00/ $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain examines the evolution of domestic space through an analysis of the media-driven concept of comfort.
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century Transgressing the Frame
James Scorer
World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
June 2024 272pp 25 b&w illus.
9781477329023 £40.00/ $45.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
A groundbreaking and comprehensive study of twenty-first-century Latin American comics, this book documents how these works move beyond national boundaries and explores new aspects of its creators. Drawing from archives across the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book posits that these comics produce micronarratives of everyday life that speak to sites of shared social struggle.
Organizing Color
Toward a Chromatics of the Social Timon Beyes
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
March 2024 292pp
9781503638617 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638303 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Constructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, Organizing Color demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with colour's allure and flux. This book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization—a "chromatics of organizing"— that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.
Preoccupied Indigenizing the Museum
Edited by Dare Turner and Leila Grothe
May 2024 160pp 50 color plates, 15 color illus.
9780912298023 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’ pivotal role in North American history. The written and visual contributions address and refute the oppressive and pervasive hierarchies of colonialism upon which museums are based.
The Green Space
The Transformation of the Irish Image
Marion R. Casey
The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
April 2024 320pp 17 b&w images
9781479817450 £29.99/ $35.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines what contributed to remaking the Irish image from downtrodden and despised to universally acclaimed. Featuring a rich assortment of sources and images, The Green Space takes the history of the Irish image in America as a prime example of the ways in which culture and identity can be revolutionized.
Red Migrations
Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917
Edited by Philip Gleissner and Bradley A. Gorski
September 2024 504 pp 9781487543884 £59.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Foregrounding transnational movements in and around Soviet culture, Red Migrations rethinks the field of migration studies in socialist Eastern Europe.
Vanishing Vienna Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
Jewish Culture and Contexts
June 2024 272pp
9781512825343 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period and a framework for interpreting Viennese culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust. A society that consumes, redefines, and bestows symbolic meaning on the victims in their absence.
