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  • Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i

    “[Detours] seeks to flip travel writing's static script, telling tourists that they are not entitled to all things Hawaiian because the Hawai‘i of their imagination is obliterating the Hawai‘i of Kanaka Maoli."— Bani Amor, Fodor’s Travel

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Necropolitics - New

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
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - New

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

“This brilliant and beautiful collection is a rich ethical project that offers so much for so many. Mahalo!” — J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Trans∗⁄Religion - New

Trans∗⁄Religion

Max Strassfeld and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, issue editors

This issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly stages a long-overdue conversation between trans studies and religious studies.
Reading Sedgwick - New

Reading Sedgwick

Lauren Berlant, editor

"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writing remains indispensable, never more so than now when the light of her intelligence illuminates a darkening horizon."— Christina Crosby
Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair - New

Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair

Deborah A. Thomas

"A remarkable book that should be read by everyone who thinks black life matters."— Hazel V. Carby
Ethnography #9 - New

Ethnography #9

Alan Klima

"An amazing and wonderful book by a masterful and compelling writer."— Kathleen Stewart
Violence and Policing - New

Violence and Policing

Shamus Khan and Madiha Tahir, issue editors

Contributors to this Public Culture issue examine the discourse and practices of policing, identifying parallels between police and military power and providing insights into how policing transforms societal relationships.
The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery - New

The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery

Gwen Bergner and Zita Nunes, issue editors

This American Literature issue interrogates the plantation as a form, logic, and technology that continues to produce inequalities.

Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

"A brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." —Kirkus
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
Stolen Life - Best Sellers

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both." —Vulture
Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing - Best Sellers

Mesoamerican Experiences of Illness and Healing

Rebecca Dufendach, issue editor

Contributors to this Ethnohistory issue address how Mesoamericans experienced bodily health in the wake of the 16th-century encounter with Europeans.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure - Best Sellers

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare

"A dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination."—Aurora Levins Morales
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
On Chantal Akerman - Best Sellers

On Chantal Akerman

Patricia White, issue editor

The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture.

Featured Journals

Theater - Featured Journals

Theater

Tom Sellar, editor

For almost fifty years Theater has been the most informative, serious, and imaginative American journal available to readers interested in contemporary theater and performance.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies - Featured Journals

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Soha Bayoumi, Sherine Hafez, and Ellen McLarney, editors

This interdisciplinary journal advances the fields of Middle East gender, sexuality, and women's studies through the contributions of academics, artists, and activists from around the globe.
Prism - Featured Journals

Prism

Zong-qi Cai and Yunte Huang, editors in chief

Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature presents cutting-edge research on modern literary production, dissemination, and reception in China and beyond.
Critical Times - Featured Journals

Critical Times

Samera Esmeir, editor

Published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, Critical Times is an open-access online journal seeking to present the multiple forms that critical thought takes today.

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.
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