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  • Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life by Michael M. J. Fischer

    “An ingenious intervention. Fischer conducts an ethnography of experimental art as itself a ‘para-ethnography’ of life embedded in futuristic technologies that reshape bodies, histories, and ecologies across the hybrid cultures of Southeast Asia.”— Prasenjit Duara

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  • Insignificant Things by Matthew Francis Rarey

    “Insignificant Things is a stunning contribution to the larger study of Blackness and formations of modernism and a model for those who seek to do this kind of transcultural and diasporic work.”—Steven Nelson

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  • Annotations by Nahum Dimitri Chandler

    “Annotations is a major contribution to the study of Du Bois’s early philosophical thought and an invaluable meditation on the 1897 essay, ‘The Conservation of Races.’ Few if any Du Bois scholars have approached Du Bois’s writing with the patience and nuance that Chandler insistently shows it demands.”—Robert Gooding-Williams

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  • Mendings by Megan Sweeney

    “Mendings is a beautiful, evocative, heart-rending book that has been written with care and craft. . . . A daring, experimental, hybrid work of theory and meditation, Mendings is a relentless personal reflection and family memoir.”—Tiya Miles

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Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe - New

Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe

Brianne Cohen

“Beautifully written, Don’t Look Away not only effectively argues for the place of art in contemporary culture but also raises precisely the kinds of questions we should be asking about the relationship between art and structural violence and the extent to which art enables participation in violent discourse and acts.”—Rachel Haidu
Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana - New

Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

Brenda Chalfin

“Chalfin’s extensive elaboration of the political theories of the public and private and the politics of materiality situate this book at a unique intersection of Africanist anthropology and major philosophical debates of our time.”—Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism - New

Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism

Maylei Blackwell

“Providing a new understanding of Indigenous migration and transnational organizing, Scales of Resistance will make an invaluable contribution to feminist studies, Native American and Indigenous studies, hemispheric American studies, Latinx studies, and critical ethnic studies.”—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Multispecies Justice - New

Multispecies Justice

Danielle Celermajer and Sophie Chao, issue editors

Utilizing a multispecies lens and anti-colonial framework, contributors to this special issue of Cultural Politics seek to reconceptualize justice to include beings beyond the human realm.
Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico - New

Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico

Yanna Yannakakis

“[A] compelling study of how Indigenous communities in colonial Mexico adapted European concepts of custom to their own communal lifeways. It shows how they advanced those reformulated versions in Spanish courts of law. . . . As with her first book, The Art of Being In-between, Yannakakis has written a classic in the field of Latin American history.”—Kevin Terraciano
Pandemic! COVID-19 and Literary Studies - New

Pandemic! COVID-19 and Literary Studies

Jason Gladstone, Karim Mattar, and Nan Goodman, issue editors

Contributors to this special issue of English Language Notes engage with pandemic storytelling in relation to literary history and literary production, environmental literary studies, and higher education and the profession.
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe - New

A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe

Andrea Muehlebach

“In this utterly absorbing ethnography of everyday resistances to the financialization of water, Andrea Muehlebach brings us vividly and vitally into those social movements in today’s Europe that seek to make water work for collectivity, justice, and life.”—Stefan Helmreich
Decentering Molière - New

Decentering Molière

Benoit Buldoc, Sylvaine Guyot, Christophe Schuwey, and Tom Sellar, issue editors

This special issue of Theater redefines the conversation around the life, work, cultural context, and legacy of Molière, a French playwright, actor, poet, and pivotal cultural figure, and thereby presents new contributions to the fields of disability studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory.
Curating the Moving Image - New

Curating the Moving Image

Mark Nash

In Curating the Moving Image, influential curator and theorist Mark Nash draws on his work at Documenta11, the Venice Biennale, and elsewhere to explore the possibilities of contemporary curation.

Best Sellers

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
Dark Matters - Best Sellers

Dark Matters

Simone Browne

"Dark Matters is of great importance not just because it illuminates historical and contemporary surveillance technologies of (anti)blackness, but equally because it opens up a series of questions around geography, race, power, and surveillance."—Hidefumi Nishiyama, Theory & Event
The t4t Issue - Best Sellers

The t4t Issue

Cameron Awkward-Rich, Hil Malatino, issue editors

Originating in Craigslist personals to indicate a trans person seeking another trans person, the term “t4t” has come to describe not only circuits of desire and attraction but also practices of trans solidarity and mutual aid. Contributors to this issue of TSQ investigate the multiple meanings associated with t4t, considering both its potential and its shortcomings.
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
Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition - Best Sellers

Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition

Jesse A. Goldberg, Marquis Bey, issue editors

This special issue of GLQ brings together scholars, artists, and activists working at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and radical movements to consider prison abolition as a project of queer liberation and queer liberation as an abolitionist project.
Cruel Optimism - Best Sellers

Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

“This is Berlant at her most revolutionarily queer, questioning what would happen if we stopped thinking of ourselves in terms of identity categories, and instead reorganized our sense of self around the specific objects and ideas to which we are attached and the affects that they produce in us.” — Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Best Sellers

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

“Sweeping in its scope, exhaustively researched, and balanced in presentation,Subversive Habits is a seminal history of Black Catholic Nuns and their struggle for equality and justice in the Catholic Church.” —Bettye Collier-Thomas
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 (1950–2015). Arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture, Akerman is central to Camera Obscura's own legacy, and her film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was covered in one of the first issues of the journal.
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

Featured Journals

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History - Featured Journals

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Leon Fink, editor

The labor question—who will do the work and under what economic and political terms?—beckons today with renewed global urgency. As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History hopes to provide an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas.
Agricultural History - Featured Journals

Agricultural History

Albert Way, editor

Agricultural History is the journal of record in its field. As such, it publishes articles that explore agriculture and rural life over time, in all geographies and among all people.
History of Political Economy - Featured Journals

History of Political Economy

Kevin D. Hoover, editor

Focusing on the history of economic thought and analysis, History of Political Economy has made significant contributions to the field and remains an important means of communication.

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 Alexander Kiselev, 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

Curtis Franks 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

Critical University Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus

The syllabus provides insight into critical inquiries of the university system and its histories, and reflects on directions for future frameworks for higher education.
Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus - Syllabi

Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus

Early attempts to conceptualize how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the discourse in the humanities and social sciences in 2021.
Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus - Syllabi

Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus

These resources help contextualize the experiences of Asian & Pacific Americans amid anti-Asian racism in the US, while also exploring community formation, solidarity between marginalized groups, and worldmaking possibilities.
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.
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