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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
Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky - New

Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

William Craft Brumfield

"An important record of how Russia changed over a troubled century that will help readers appreciate what will come to be seen as lost worlds." — Blair A. Ruble
Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination - New

Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination

Amy Chazkel, Monica Kim, and A. Naomi Paik, editors

This issue helps us imagine a world without police by examining historical cases in which people resolved social problems through means other than relying on formal institutions of law enforcement.
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
Getting Back the Land: Anticolonial and Indigenous Strategies of Reclamation - New

Getting Back the Land: Anticolonial and Indigenous Strategies of Reclamation

Shiri Pasternak and Dayna Nadine Scott, editors

Essays track movement towards Indigenous self-determination Canada and beyond in the face of the divisive politics of extraction.
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
Time out of Joint: The Queer and the Customary in Africa - New

Time out of Joint: The Queer and the Customary in Africa

Kirk Fiereck, Neville Hoad, and Danai S. Mupotsa, editors

Contributors to this special issue investigate how queer theory might change when African texts, experiences, and concepts are placed front and center rather than treated as examples or case studies.
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
On Chantal Akerman - Best Sellers

On Chantal Akerman

Patricia White, 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.
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

Featured Journals

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.
Public Culture - Featured Journals

Public Culture

Arjun Appadurai and Erica Robles-Anderson, editors

The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena.
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

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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