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AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art toward a School of Thought - New

AFRICOBRA: Experimental Art toward a School of Thought

Wadsworth A. Jarrell

"Kudos to Wadsworth A. Jarrell for his thoroughly engaging and art historically significant memoir."—Richard J. Powell
Care in Translation: Care-ful Research in Medical Settings - New

Care in Translation: Care-ful Research in Medical Settings

Catelijne Coopmans and Karen M. McNamara, editors

Contributors investigate what “care” is, becomes, and brings in its wake in health care settings across Asia.
Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm - New

Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm

Alex Blanchette

"Beautifully written and highly accessible, Porkopolis is a field-defining work in animal studies, the anthropology of labor, and food studies. An outstanding book."—Gabriel N. Rosenberg
Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others - New

Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others

Louise Amoore

"Technically stunning and critically informed, this book is required reading for anyone interested in how to resist the current trends toward algorithmic governmentality."—N. Katherine Hayles
The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties - New

The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties

Eric Zolov

"Required reading for anyone interested in Mexican politics and foreign relations in the long sixties, within the Americas and beyond."—Tanya Harmer
Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center - New

Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center

Harriet Evans

"Evans's interlocutors are the kinds of people who disappear in any history. Her talent in rendering these left-behind urban denizens is astonishing. Beijing from Below makes a huge contribution."—Rebecca E. Karl
The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic - New

The Politics of the Opioid Epidemic

Eric M. Patashnik and Susan L. Moffitt, editors

Leading political scientists provide new insights into the enduring features of American policy and practice that have influenced state-level and national responses to the ongoing opioid crisis.
Revolutionary Positions - New

Revolutionary Positions

Michelle Chase, Isabella Cosse, Melina Pappademos, and Heidi Tinsman, editors

As the Cuban Revolution reaches its 60th anniversary, contributors to this issue explore the revolution's impacts through the lens of sexuality and gender.
Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment - New

Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment

Carole McGranahan, editor

"This is ethnography at its best: beautifully written, surprising, deeply instructive, and grounded in an ethical practice that never ceases to care about and attend to everything and everyone with whom anthropologists engage."—Laurence Ralph

Best Sellers

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
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - Best Sellers

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Hōkūlani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, editors

"This brilliant and beautiful collection—which features interviews, personal essays, collaborative pieces with community elders, family histories, and more—is a rich ethical project that offers so much for so many. Mahalo!"—J. Kehaulani Kauanui
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 consider how individuals and communities receive and provide care in order to survive in environments that challenge their very existence.
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
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies - Best Sellers

The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

Tiffany Lethabo King

"King's concept of the shoal breaks new ground for thinking through the relationships between Indigenous peoples and African Americans and genocide and slavery as well as how they have formed our contemporary politics."— Mishauna Goeman
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
(En)gendering: Chinese Women’s Art in the Making - Best Sellers

(En)gendering: Chinese Women’s Art in the Making

Shuqin Cui, editor

Contributors consider how the work of contemporary women artists has generated new approaches to and perspectives on the Chinese art canon.

Featured Journals

History of the Present - Featured Journals

History of the Present

Joan Wallach Scott, editor

At a time when a journal committed to history as a form of critique is more necessary than ever, History of the Present encourages critical examination of both history’s influence on politics and the politics of history as a discipline.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Jonathan Oberlander, editor

A leading journal in its field, JHPPL focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health.
Labor: Studies in Working-Class History - Featured Journals

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History

Leon Fink, editor

As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor hopes to provide an intellectual scaffolding for understanding the roots of continuing social dilemmas.
Social Text - Featured Journals

Social Text

Jayna Brown and David Sartorius, editors

A daring and controversial leader in the field of cultural studies, Social Text consistently focuses attention on questions of gender, sexuality, race, and the environment, publishing key works by the most influential social and cultural theorists.

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

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.
Police Violence Syllabus - Syllabi

Police Violence Syllabus

Selections in this syllabus explore and criticize police violence in both contemporary and historical contexts. Topics include the militancy of policing, Black Lives Matter, carceral technologies, gender, and more.
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