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International Communication Association 2026

June 04, 2026 / Cape Town, SA

Below, browse our new and forthcoming titles in communication. Or, browse our complete list of books and journals in the field. If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

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Cover of Cleansing the Nation features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background.

Cleansing the Nation

India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

Raka Shome

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Winner of the 2026 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, ICA

Background of Decolonizing Afghanistan cover is light blue with the title in large dark blue text at the top. Below the title, there is an illustration of armored soldiers in helmets and gear blended with soft, colorful flowers.

Decolonizing Afghanistan

Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power

Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews, editors

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Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns.

A Thousand Paper Cuts

US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

Anjali Nath

Book

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On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Atiya Husain

Book

Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen has a contemporary art installation with black-and-white images projected onto cylindrical surfaces.

Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, editors

Book

The background of the cover of The Personality of Power is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses.

The Personality of Power

A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

Brian Massumi

Book

Cover of Insufferable Tools features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing.

Insufferable Tools

Feminism Against Big Tech

Sarah Sharma

Book

Cover of The New Politics of Online Feminism is dark purple. The title text is in a modern, geometric serif typeface in gradient shades ranging from light purple to orange. The author's name is below in green, in a smaller font.

The New Politics of Online Feminism

Akane Kanai

Book

On the cover of Erotic Knowledge, title appears at the top left in large black type on an orange background. Inset is a sketch of a powerful-looking nude woman angled away from the viewer with one arm outstretched.

Erotic Knowledge

Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory

Elena Gambino

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Cover of Gay Print Culture features an image of a handsome young man with dark hair wearing a blue tank top and a beige hat with its strap around his neck. The background includes green foliage and colorful flowers.

Gay Print Culture

A Transnational History of North America

Juan Carlos Mezo González

Book

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Emergent Genders

Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

Michelle H. S. Ho

Book

Cover of Queer Traffic features a shirtless person with a serious expression stands against a dark backdrop. They hold a large, dirty shovel in one hand and a vampire-like mask in the other. Their face is streaked with red paint resembling blood.

Sex, Panic, Free Trade

Jennifer Tyburczy

Book

Cover photo on Media Rurality depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground.

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, editors

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The Years of Blood

Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America

Alma Guillermoprieto

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Total Market American

Race, Data, and Advertising

Marcel Rosa-Salas

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Living On After Failure cover image

Living On After Failure

Affective Structures of Modern Life

Irving Goh

Book

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On the Way to Theory

Lawrence Grossberg

Book

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Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

Briggs, Charles L.

Book

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How We Write Now

Living with Black Feminist Theory

Jennifer C. Nash

Book

Cover of Crip Spacetime features a university building with grass in the foreground. A sign indicating a disabled entrance is between the words Crip and Spacetime. It is very far away from the building.

Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life

Margaret Price

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Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance

Zahra Stardust

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