Publications
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Governing Gaza
(2007-01-01)
Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers. Still not part of a sovereign state, it would seem too exceptional to be a revealing ...
Europe (in theory)
(2007-01-01)
Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and ...
The Banality of Good
(2024)
Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member state governments.
Get Shown the Light
(2023)
Michael Kaler demonstrates that the Grateful Dead developed a radical new way of playing rock music as a means to unleashing the spiritual and transformative potential of their music.
Fear of a Dead White Planet
(2025)
Contending that contemporary study of the environment can often reproduce the violence it means to address, Fear of a Dead White Planet proposes a methodological shift that is place-based and allows for the conjuring of ...
Homesick
(2025)
Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change.
Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
(2025)
Katharine Gerbner traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans.
Decentralizing Knowledges
(2025)
Decentralizing Knowledges argues that epistemic decentralizing—the diverse infrastructures and nonhegemonic practices of knowledge production—should be a main objective in studying the specific infrastructures and practices ...
Garbarge Citizenship
(2018)
Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, ...
The Birth of Energy
(2019)
In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of energy back to the nineteenth-century science of thermodynamics to challenge the underlying logic that informs today's uses of energy. ...