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    Congratulations to Zong-qi Cai, who won the Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) this year, and to Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, which won Best Digital Feature!

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  • Writing in Space, 1973–2019 by Lorraine O'Grady

    "Lorraine O'Grady is one of the foremost conceptual artists of the last century. Writing in Space, 1973-2019 is an indispensable contribution to our appreciation of the breadth and innovation of her singular practice."—Thelma Golden

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  • Black Diamond Queens by Maureen Mahon

    "... Mahon has done plenty to expose how Black women rockers have been marginalized by musicians, audiences, historians, and critics. A well-researched, sociologically savvy effort to expand the rock canon."—Kirkus Reviews

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  • The Anagonist

    This issue of Novel: A Forum on Fiction proposes a new type of novelistic hero: the “anagonist.” Unlike the protagonist, the anagonist generally does not act; and if she does, her action is inconsequential to the work.

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The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making - New

The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making

Joseph Masco

“With a rare combination of deep empathy and a sense of the fatally surreal, Joseph Masco's eloquent book takes on the planet-sized problems of nuclear war and climate collapse.” — Catherine Lutz
COVID-19: Politics, Inequalities, and Pandemic - New

COVID-19: Politics, Inequalities, and Pandemic

Jonathan Oberlander, editor

This issue marks the journal’s first effort to make sense of the pandemic as a political, social, and comparative phenomenon that is likely to redefine public health, health policy, and health care politics for years to come
Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death - New

Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death

Christopher Freeburg

“This bold, brilliant study teaches us how to stumble, with uncertainty and vulnerability, into the ever-expanding archive of slavery.” — Margo Natalie Crawford
Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production - New

Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production

Anthony Reed

"The beauty and appeal of Soundworks lies in Reed's fresh focus on the records that allow us to hear the more ephemeral and unrecordable situation of blackness.” — Margo Natalie Crawford
Solarity - New

Solarity

Darin Barney and Imre Szeman, issue editors

By approaching the social implications—and not just the technical ones—of the emergence of solar energy, contributors investigate whether and how solar energy might avoid, or reproduce, the pathologies of existing capitalist and colonialist petrocultures.
Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine - New

Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine

Christopher Harker

“The first in-depth ethnographic research on debt formation in the contemporary Palestinian context, this groundbreaking work proposes a host of new ways for social geographers to rethink debt at multiple scales." — Deborah James
Queer Political Theologies - New

Queer Political Theologies

Ricky Varghese, David K. Seitz, and Fan Wu, issue editors

This special issue of GLQ brings together queer studies and political theology in order to explore the relationship between the self and politics, theism, and queerness while also recentering marginalized and underrepresented minorities, beliefs, and practices.
The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing - New

The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

Erica Rand

“In this wonderful book, hip checks provide the ground for asking urgent questions, the methodology for exploring the questions, and the means for rethinking what we thought we knew.” — Eithne Luibhéid
The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection - New

The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection

Mark W. Driscoll

"Driscoll dazzlingly argues that at the origin of the Anthropocene lies the predatory behavior of European colonialism in East Asia—what he daringly terms 'climate caucasianism', a historically unprecedented assemblage of extraction, coloniality, ecological devastation, commerce, and war." — Arturo Escobar

Best Sellers

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning - Best Sellers

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

Karen Barad

“[A]n elegant mesh of detailed explanations of social theories, scientific concepts and new pathways of technological innovation; all explored and then rewoven to form the carefully constructed foundation for her theory of agential realism.” — Jennifer M. Wilson
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Best Sellers

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

"Powerfully demonstrate[s] what we too often forget: our attempts at securing safety for ourselves and our communities are subject to much more powerful attempts by the state and society to make itself safe—including to make itself safe from us and our most radical, challenging, revolutionary, feminist ideas." — Ruthann Robson
Radical Care - Best Sellers

Radical Care

Hi′ilei Hobart and Tamara Kneese, editors

Situating discussions of care within a historical trajectory of feminist, queer, and Black activism, contributors to this special issue consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
Necropolitics - Best Sellers

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

"This book establishes Achille Mbembe as the leading humanistic voice in the study of sovereignty, democracy, migration, and war in the contemporary world."—Arjun Appadurai
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
Queer Inhumanisms - Best Sellers

Queer Inhumanisms

Mel Y. Chen and Dana Luciano, issue editors

This issue features a group of leading theorists from multiple disciplines who decenter the human in queer theory, exploring what it means to treat “the human” as simply one of many elements in a queer critical assemblage.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman

Featured Journals

Theater - Featured Journals

Theater

Tom Sellar, editor

Celebrating 50 years of publication, Theater has been the most informative, serious, and imaginative American journal available to readers interested in contemporary theater and performance.
Radical History Review - Featured Journals

Radical History Review

RHR Editorial Collective

Articles in RHR address issues of gender, race, sexuality, imperialism, and class, stretching the boundaries of historical analysis. Recent issues have reevaluated the role of policing in society.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Jonathan Oberlander, editor

Recent and forthcoming issues address the politics of the opioid epidemic, an appraisal of the ACA after 10 years, and a first look at responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Romanic Review - Featured Journals

Romanic Review

Elisabeth Ladenson, editor

Now published by Duke University Press, Romanic Review covers all periods of French, Italian, and Ibero-Romance languages and literature, and it welcomes a broad diversity of critical approaches.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Jonathan Wahl, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Michael Detlefsen and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus - Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus

This syllabus features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus - Syllabi

Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus

These articles, books, and journal issues tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that revisit queer studies topics, including decolonizing queerness, queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, and contemporary coming-out stories.
Labor and Precarity Syllabus - Syllabi

Labor and Precarity Syllabus

These books and articles consider the many faces of precarity around the world, including roles such as gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, and sanitation workers.
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus - Syllabi

Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus

This syllabus explores the ways disasters affect us and how we emerge from them changed. These lessons might help us conceptualize potential shapes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - Syllabi

Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

As we collectively deal with the implications of a global pandemic, care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene.
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus - Syllabi

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus

Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we present books and journal articles that help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.
Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus - Syllabi

Environmentalism and Climate Change Syllabus

This syllabus features books and journal articles about environmentalism and climate change. Topics include climate change, environmental crisis, climate fiction, and environmental racism.
Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus - Syllabi

Feminist Politics and Women’s Rights Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that tackle feminist and women’s rights topics, including reproductive justice, women’s marches, and transnational feminism.
Global Immigration Syllabus - Syllabi

Global Immigration Syllabus

This syllabus focuses on areas of tension within and between nations over issues of immigration. It examines how sovereignty and humanitarianism intersect with cultural, ethnic, and economic issues.
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