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Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory - New

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory

Patricia Hill Collins

“Anyone who claims the mantle of Black feminist theorist is standing in the house Patricia Hill Collins built. She is one of our most important intellectual architects."— Brittney Cooper
The Black Shoals - New

The Black Shoals

Tiffany Lethabo King

"Tiffany Lethabo King dares to think the simultaneously distinct yet edgeless relationship between Blackness and Indigeneity."—Mishauna Goeman
Disorienting Disability - New

Disorienting Disability

Michele Friedner and Karen Weingarten, issue editors

This issue of South Atlantic Quarterly examines the stakes of orienting toward or away from disability as a category and as a method.
Savage Ecology - New

Savage Ecology

Jairus Victor Grove

"Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism."—Bonnie Honig
Bomb Children - New

Bomb Children

Leah Zani

"A riveting and reflexive account of war remains, military waste, and ‘development’ in contemporary Laos."—Ann Laura Stoler
Citizen Science: Practices and Problems - New

Citizen Science: Practices and Problems

Shun-Ling Chen and Fa-ti Fan, issue editors

This EASTS special issue emphasizes different conceptions of citizen and citizenship in how we think about citizen science.
Fictions of Land and Flesh - New

Fictions of Land and Flesh

Mark Rifkin

"With characteristic brilliance and creativity, Mark Rifkin turns to Black and Indigenous futurist work as a way to produce that difficult but necessary dialogue.”—Roderick A. Ferguson
Patriarchy, Protection, and Women’s Agency in Modern France - New

Patriarchy, Protection, and Women’s Agency in Modern France

Elinor Accampo & Venita Datta, issue editors

Collected to honor the work of French women’s history scholar Rachel G. Fuchs, the essays in this issue reflect the methodologies and inquiries of her research.
Wages Against Artwork - New

Wages Against Artwork

Leigh Clare La Berge

“This highly original work of Marxist aesthetic theory is a must-read for anyone interested in art and capitalism."—Sianne Ngai

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
Questioning the Super-Rich - Best Sellers

Questioning the Super-Rich

Jennifer Smith Maguire and Paula Serafini, issue editors

This Cultural Politics issue uses the super-rich as a lens for exploring the impact of wealth and power on class mentalities, identities, and cultures.
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

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Eric M. Patashnik, editor

A leading journal in its field, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health—past, present, and future.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society - Featured Journals

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Wen-Hua Kuo, editor

Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society.
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.
Hispanic American Historical Review - Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review

Martha Few, Zachary Morgan, Matthew Restall, and Amara Solari, editors

Founded over 100 years ago, Hispanic American Historical Review pioneered the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States and remains the most widely respected journal in the field.

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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