Publications
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Rainforest Capitalism
(2022)
Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to theorize the social, racial, and gender power dynamics of capitalist extraction.
For Emplacement
(2024)
Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that solutions to major crises should be based in the specificities of the places they emerge from rather than a ...
The Rule of Dons
(2024)
Rivke Jaffe explains how despite Jamaica’s “dons” are associated with crime and violence, they have become figures of political authority and seen as legitimate leaders.
The Kidney and the Cane
(2025)
Alex M. Nading argues that the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of non-traditional causes among those living near and working in Nicaragua’s sugarcane plantations is not a result of climate change, it is climate change.
Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion
(2025)
The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge.
Soldier's Paradise
(2024)
Samuel Fury Childs Daly tell the history of how Africa’s postcolonial military regimes tried and ultimately failed to transform their societies into martial utopias.
Judicial Territory
(2024)
Shaina Potts traces how the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority in the economies of foreign governments promotes the interests of the American empire abroad.
The Violence of Protection
(2026)
Working with San Francisco legal and social service advocates, Lee Ann S. Wang shows how legal protections offered to immigrant and undocumented Asian American survivors of gender and sexual violence are wielded opportunistically ...
The Color Black
(2024)
Beeta Baghoolizadeh examines the twin processes of enslavement and erasure of Black people in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how following the abolition of slavery in 1929, Iranian society ...
Entrepreneurial Selves
(2014)
Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent middle class of Barbados, this remarkable book turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism.
Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan
(2013)
During the 1960s, a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s.
Bêtes Noires
(2025)
Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons called baka/bacá as a way to reckon with a shared history of enslavement, ...
The Long War on Drugs
(2023)
Since the early twentieth century, the United States has led a global prohibition effort against certain drugs in which production restriction and criminalization are emphasized over prevention and treatment as means to ...
Contemporary African Screen Worlds
(2025)
Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic ...
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema
(2020)
Daisuke Miyao reveals the undetected influence that Japanese art and aesthetics had on early cinema and the pioneering films of the Lumiére brothers.
Rwanda's Genocide Heritage
(2025)
Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory such as those that followed the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Indigenous Archives
(2025)
Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults in Los Angeles, Indigenous Archives examines how Mayas in diaspora actively forge Indigenous belonging in the ...
The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening
(2025)
Drawing on various archives in Latin America, Alejandro L. Madrid examines how listening for sound in the archive can provide opportunities to build more inclusive spaces for intellectual exchange and political mobilization.
Knowing as Moving: Perception, Memory, and Place
(2025)
Starting from the assertion that knowing takes place through bodily movement, Susan Leigh Foster theorizes how the act of moving in and through the world creates the potential for individual and collective bodies to connect.
Decolonizing Afghanistan
(2025)
Decolonizing Afghanistan examines how Afghan communities have subverted, resisted, and participated in colonial projects from the early twentieth century to the present, with a particular focus on the US intervention that ...
The Possible Form of an Interlocution
(2025)
Nahum Dimitri Chandler analyzes the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in which they discussed Du Bois’s famous formulation “the problem of the color line.”
Queer Traffic
(2025)
Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives.
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness
(2025)
Jemma DeCristo shows how black aesthetics beautifies an anti-black world that wields black art and culture as a weapon against black life.
The Noise Silence Makes
(2025)
Mariam Goshadze traces the history of noise regulation in Accra, Ghana, showing how the 1990s and 2000s conflicts between the Ga people and Pentecostal/Charismatic churches during the annual city-wide ban on drumming ...
When the Bones Speak
(2025)
Christopher T. Nelson examines how ordinary Okinawans have struggled to live with the unbearable legacies of war, Japanese nationalism, and American imperialism and how they experience and remember sacrifice.
Forest Lost
(2024)
Forest Lostis an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource ...
The Climate Trial
(2026)
The Climate Trial is a gripping journey through a landmark climate lawsuit that links a Peruvian mountain guide with a German energy giant in court, revealing how global warming reshapes moral responsibility in a changing world.
When Home Is a Photograph
(2026)
When Home Is a Photograph asks how Black people use photography to make home in the world. Leigh Raiford explores the practices of Black American activists and artists to understand the complex relationship between their ...
Protein
(2026)
In Protein, Samantha King and Gavin Weedon explore the contemporary obsession with this nutritional superstar, tracing how protein moves through food systems and fitness cultures, strengthening some bodies and environments ...
Fugitive Time
(2023)
Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black art to outline the distinct utopian desire directed at the moment when pain vanishes from the body and mind, bringing ...
Indenture Aesthetics
(2025)
Jordache A. Ellapen examines the visual and performance art practices of feminist, queer, femme, and gender nonconforming Afro-Indian and South African black artists to understand the paradoxes of freedom in contemporary ...
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun
(2026)
In Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun, Crystal Mun-hye Baik blends different genres, from narrative prose to epistles to ancestral mourning rites, to offer an intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement ...
Floating Power
(2026)
Floating Power uses the development of a Turkish-built floating power plant in Ghana as a vehicle to analyze how inventive infrastructure shapes South-South relations and embodies broader imaginations of energy futures.
Transpacific Nonencounters
(2026)
Transpacific Nonencounters works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a ...