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D U K E<br />

U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S<br />

BOOKS & JOURNALS F A L L & W I N T E R 2 0 1 4


GENERAL INTEREST<br />

The Last Beach, Pilkey & Cooper 1<br />

My Tibetan Childhood, Naktsang 2<br />

What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Massumi 3<br />

On The Wire, Williams 4<br />

Postcolonial Modernism, Okeke-Agulu 5<br />

Other Planes of There, Green 6<br />

Speculation, Now, Rao, Krishnamurthy & Kuoni 7<br />

My Father’s House, Dumm 8<br />

Willful Subjects, Ahmed 9<br />

Land’s End, Li 10<br />

The Theater of Operations, Masco 11<br />

The Life of Captain Cipriani, James 12<br />

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement<br />

Association Papers, Volume XII, Garvey 13<br />

Dance Floor Democracy, Tucker 14<br />

Traveling Heavy, Behar 15<br />

Adam’s Gift, Creech 15<br />

A Rock Garden in the South, Lawrence 16<br />

Beautiful at All Seasons, Lawrence 16<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY<br />

Entrepreneurial Selves, Freeman 17<br />

Aurality, Ochoa Gautier 17<br />

Speculative Markets, Peterson 18<br />

Second Chances, Whyte 18<br />

Biomedicine in an Unstable Place, Street 19<br />

How Climate Change Comes to Matter, Callison 19<br />

The Multispecies Salon, Kirksey 20<br />

Illusions of a Future, Schechter 20<br />

The Republic Unsettled, Fernando 21<br />

Rubble, Gordillo 21<br />

Given to the Goddess, Ramberg 22<br />

Cultivating the Nile, Barnes 22<br />

CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

Habeas Viscus, Weheliye 23<br />

Oxford Street, Accra, Quayson 23<br />

Utopias, Featherstone & Miles 24<br />

Porn Archives, Dean, Ruszczycky & Squires 24<br />

WOMEN’S STUDIES<br />

A Taste for Brown Sugar, Miller-Young 25<br />

Street Corner Secrets, Shah 25<br />

contents<br />

MUSIC<br />

Roy Cape, Guilbault & Cape 28<br />

MEDIA STUDIES<br />

Beautiful Data, Halpern 28<br />

Forensic Media, Siegel 29<br />

Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era, Marcus 29<br />

AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

New World Drama, Dillon 30<br />

Formations of United States Colonialism, Goldstein 30<br />

Orgies of Feeling, Anker 31<br />

Soundtracks of Asian America, Wang 31<br />

Staging the Blues, McGinley 32<br />

Desire and Disaster in New Orleans, Thomas 32<br />

Fighting for Recognition, Smith 33<br />

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

Wandering, Cervenak 33<br />

Skin Acts, Stephens 34<br />

Black Atlas, Madera 34<br />

INDIGENOUS & NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

A Nation Rising, Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Hussey & Wright 35<br />

Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America,<br />

Woolford, Benvenuto & Hinton 35<br />

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

Portrait of a Young Painter, Vaughan 36<br />

The Great Depression in Latin America, Drinot & Knight 36<br />

The Vanguard of the Atlantic World, Sanders 37<br />

We Are Left without a Father Here, Findlay 37<br />

The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast, Albuquerque Jr. 38<br />

Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Gutiérrez Aguilar 38<br />

GEOGRAPHY<br />

Prostitution and the Ends of Empire, Legg 39<br />

HISTORY<br />

German Colonialism in a Global Age, Naranch & Eley 39<br />

Body and Nation, Rosenberg & Fitzpatrick 40<br />

Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire, Burton & Hofmeyr 40<br />

POLITICAL SCIENCE<br />

Developments in Russian Politics 8, White, Sakwa & Hale 41<br />

GAY & LESBIAN / QUEER / TRANSGENDER STUDIES<br />

A View from the Bottom, Nguyen 26<br />

On the Visceral, Part I, Holland, Ochoa & Tompkins 26<br />

Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary, Aizura, Ochoa,<br />

Vidal-Ortiz, Cotton & Balzer/LaGata 27<br />

Queer Theory without Antinormativity, Wiegman & Wilson 27<br />

JOURNALS<br />

Miriam Hansen, Bathrick, Huyssen & Rentschler 41<br />

Tikkun, Lerner 42<br />

MIT and the Transformation of American Economics, Weintraub 42<br />

journals 43<br />

selected backlist & bestsellers 46<br />

sales information & index Inside Back Cover<br />

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Tube<br />

www.dukeupress.edu<br />

COVER: Fay McKenzie dancing the jitterbug with a serviceman at the Hollywood Canteen, 1943.<br />

Courtesy of hollywoodphotographs.com. From Dance Floor Democracy, page 14.


The Last Beach<br />

orrin h. pilkey & j. andrew g. cooper<br />

general interest<br />

Orrin H. Pilkey and J. Andrew G. Cooper<br />

the last beach<br />

The Last Beach is an urgent call to save<br />

the world’s beaches while there is still<br />

time. The geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and<br />

J. Andrew G. Cooper sound the alarm in<br />

this frank assessment of our current<br />

relationship with beaches and the grim<br />

future if we do not change the way we<br />

understand and treat our irreplaceable<br />

shores. Combining case studies and<br />

anecdotes from around the world, they<br />

argue that many of the world’s developed<br />

beaches, including some in Florida and<br />

in Spain, are virtually doomed and that<br />

we must act immediately to save imperiled<br />

beaches.<br />

After explaining beaches as dynamic ecosystems, Pilkey and Cooper assess<br />

the harm done by dense oceanfront development, accompanied by the<br />

construction of massive seawalls to protect new buildings from a shoreline<br />

that encroaches as sea levels rise. They discuss the toll taken by sand mining,<br />

trash that washes up on beaches, and pollution, which has contaminated<br />

not only the water but also, surprisingly, the sand. Acknowledging the<br />

challenge of reconciling our actions with our love of beaches, the geologists<br />

offer suggestions for reversing course, insisting that given the space,<br />

beaches can take care of themselves and provide us with multiple benefits.<br />

Orrin H. Pilkey, deemed “America’s<br />

foremost philosopher of the beaches,”<br />

by the New York Times, is James B.<br />

Duke Professor Emeritus of Geology at<br />

the Nicholas School of the Environment<br />

at Duke University, and Founder and<br />

Director Emeritus of the Program for the<br />

Study of Developed Shorelines, based at Western Carolina<br />

University. Pilkey is a coauthor (with Keith C. Pilkey)<br />

of Global Climate Change: A Primer, published by Duke<br />

University Press, and of twenty books in the Press’s Living<br />

with the Shore series, edited by Pilkey and William J. Neal.<br />

The Orrin Pilkey Marine Science and Conservation Genetics<br />

Center opened at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort,<br />

North Carolina, in 2013. Pilkey lives in Hillsborough, North<br />

Carolina.<br />

J. Andrew G. Cooper is Professor<br />

of Coastal Studies in the School of<br />

Environmental Sciences at the University<br />

of Ulster. He and Pilkey are coauthors<br />

(with William J. Neal and Joseph T. Kelley)<br />

of The World’s Beaches: A Global Guide<br />

to the Science of the Shoreline and<br />

coeditors of Pitfalls of Shoreline Stabilization. Well known<br />

for his advocacy of nonintervention on shorelines and<br />

his work on beaches and coasts worldwide, Cooper lives<br />

in the town of Coleraine in Northern Ireland.<br />

“We’re all used to lying on beaches and zoning out—but it turns out that if we want<br />

those beaches to be there much longer we better stand up and make our voices<br />

heard. This is fascinating new information about one of the planet’s most beloved<br />

ecosystems.”—BILL MCKIBBEN, author of Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across<br />

America’s Most Hopeful Landscape<br />

also by Orrin H. Pilkey<br />

“The Last Beach is a must-read for anyone interested in the plight of the world’s<br />

beaches. This brave confrontation with coastal engineers, coastal planners, developers,<br />

politicians, and beachfront property owners lays bare their adverse impact on the<br />

world’s beaches.”—ANDREW SHORT, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney<br />

Global Climate Change:<br />

A Primer<br />

Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey,<br />

with Mary Edna Fraser<br />

paper, $19.95tr/£12.99<br />

978–0–8223–5109–2 / 2011<br />

ENVIRONMENT<br />

November 272 pages, 69 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5809–1, $19.95tr/£12.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5798–8, $69.95/£46.00<br />

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general interest<br />

My Tibetan Childhood<br />

When Ice Shattered Stone<br />

naktsang nulo<br />

Translation edited and abridged by Angus Cargill<br />

With a Foreword by Ralph Litzinger<br />

and an Introduction by Robert Barnett<br />

Naktsang Nulo (born in 1949) worked as an official<br />

in the Chinese government, serving as a primary<br />

school teacher, police officer, judge, prison governor,<br />

and county leader in Qinghai province, China,<br />

before retiring in 1993. Angus Cargill was formerly<br />

a Lecturer in the Department of Tibetan Language<br />

and Literature at Minzu University of China, Beijing.<br />

Ralph A. Litzinger is the author of Other Chinas:<br />

The Yao and the Politics of National Belonging.<br />

Robert Barnett is the Director of Modern Tibetan<br />

Studies at Columbia University and the author of<br />

Lhasa: Streets with Memories.<br />

“Equipped with a superbly comprehensive introduction,<br />

this absorbing memoir of nomadic life in the 1950s takes<br />

us deep into a Tibetan world neglected by both official<br />

Chinese histories and narratives by Tibetans in exile.<br />

Few books on Tibet have been as revelatory as this<br />

one.”—PANKAJ MISHRA, author of From the Ruins of<br />

Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking<br />

of Asia<br />

In My Tibetan Childhood, Naktsang Nulo<br />

chronicles his life in Tibet’s Amdo region<br />

during the 1950s. Recalling events as he<br />

experienced them at the age of ten, he<br />

describes his upbringing as a nomad on<br />

the grasslands of Tibet’s eastern plateau.<br />

He depicts pilgrimages to monasteries,<br />

including a 1500-mile horseback expedition<br />

his family made to Lhasa. A year or so<br />

later, they attempted to flee by the same<br />

route as troops of the People’s Liberation<br />

Army advanced into their area. Naktsang’s<br />

father was killed in the fighting that<br />

ensued, part of a little-known wave of<br />

unrest that took place throughout Amdo<br />

in 1958, as Tibetans rose up against the imposition of social and religious<br />

reforms by the Chinese forces. During the next year, the author and his brother<br />

were imprisoned in a camp where, after the onset of famine, very few children<br />

survived.<br />

The narrative reveals, through the eyes of a child, the lived experience of the<br />

forced and violent incorporation of the Tibetan heartlands into the People’s<br />

Republic by Chinese troops in the 1950s. The author’s matter-of-fact accounts<br />

cast the atrocities that he relays in stark relief. Remarkably, Naktsang lived<br />

to tell his tale. His book was published in 2007 in China, where tens of<br />

thousands of unofficial copies are believed to have circulated. It is one of<br />

the most reprinted works in modern Tibetan literature. This translation offers<br />

rare insight into a fascinating, painful period of modern Tibetan history.<br />

“With little comment or condemnation, [My Tibetan Childhood] records the price paid<br />

in lives and lifestyles by the author’s family and community for their incorporation into<br />

modern China. . . . In many senses, it is a naive story, the chronicle of a world seen through<br />

a child’s eyes. But to readers within Tibet, it was a revelation. It told of epochal events<br />

that had rarely if ever been described before in print.”—ROBERT BARNETT, from the<br />

introduction<br />

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TIBET/MEMOIR<br />

November 356 pages, 30 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5726–1, $24.95tr/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5712–4, $89.95/£59.00


general interest<br />

What Animals<br />

Teach Us about Politics<br />

brian massumi<br />

BRIAN MASSUMI<br />

What<br />

Animals<br />

Teach Us<br />

about<br />

Politics<br />

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics,<br />

Brian Massumi takes up the question<br />

of “the animal.” By treating the human<br />

as animal, he develops a concept of an<br />

animal politics. His is not a human politics<br />

of the animal, but an integrally animal<br />

politics, freed from connotations of the<br />

“primitive” state of nature and the accompanying<br />

presuppositions about instinct<br />

permeating modern thought. Massumi<br />

integrates notions marginalized by the<br />

dominant currents in evolutionary biology,<br />

animal behavior, and philosophy—notions<br />

such as play, sympathy, and creativity—<br />

into the concept of nature. As he does<br />

so, his inquiry necessarily expands, encompassing not only animal behavior<br />

but also animal thought and its distance from, or proximity to, those capacities<br />

over which human animals claim a monopoly: language and reflexive<br />

consciousness.<br />

For Massumi, humans and animals exist on a continuum. Understanding that<br />

continuum, while accounting for difference, requires a new logic of “mutual<br />

inclusion.” Massumi finds the conceptual resources for this logic in the work<br />

of thinkers including Gregory Bateson, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon, and<br />

Raymond Ruyer. This concise book intervenes in Deleuze studies, posthumanism,<br />

and animal studies, as well as areas of study as wide-ranging as affect<br />

theory, aesthetics, embodied cognition, political theory, process philosophy,<br />

the theory of play, and the thought of Alfred North Whitehead.<br />

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication<br />

Department at the University of Montreal. He is the<br />

author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy<br />

and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual:<br />

Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published<br />

by Duke University Press.<br />

“This is a truly brilliant book, one of Brian Massumi’s best.<br />

More than anyone else I have read, Massumi makes<br />

real progress in untangling the relationship between play,<br />

sympathy, politics, and animality. What Animals Teach Us<br />

about Politics provides a fascinating and persuasively nonsubject-centered<br />

account of sympathy, and it goes a long<br />

way toward helping us to see how the practice and theorization<br />

of ‘politics’ would be radically refigured within a processontology.”—JANE<br />

BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter:<br />

A Political Ecology of Things<br />

“In a remarkable work of speculative thought, Brian Massumi<br />

reimagines what politics can be when we ramify the<br />

importance of play—its excesses, surpluses, and transformative<br />

energies—and how it intimately binds human beings to<br />

other forms of life. This is not the ‘animal,’ and the ‘politics,’<br />

you thought you knew.”—CARY WOLFE, author of Before<br />

the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame<br />

also by Brian Massumi<br />

Parables for the Virtual:<br />

Movement, Affect, Sensation<br />

paper, $24.95/£15.99<br />

978–0–8223–2897–1 / 2002<br />

POLITICAL THEORY/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

September 152 pages paper, 978–0–8223–5800–8, $21.95/£13.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5772–8, $74.95/£49.00<br />

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general interest<br />

On The Wire<br />

linda williams<br />

Linda Williams is Professor of<br />

Film Studies and Rhetoric at the<br />

University of California, Berkeley.<br />

Her books include Screening<br />

Sex and Porn Studies, both also<br />

published by Duke University Press;<br />

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas<br />

of Black and White from Uncle Tom<br />

to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing<br />

Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy<br />

of the Visible.” In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime<br />

Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and<br />

Media Studies.<br />

“I must admit initially being skeptical of Linda Williams’s<br />

thesis that The Wire is best understood as melodrama.<br />

But after reading her convincing and compelling analysis,<br />

I not only came away with new insights into a series<br />

that I knew very well, but have fully revised my notions<br />

of how serial melodrama applies to contemporary television.<br />

This vital book is essential reading for scholars<br />

and viewers of both The Wire and television drama<br />

more broadly.”—JASON MITTELL, author of Television<br />

and American Culture<br />

“Linda Williams’s kaleidoscopic study compellingly<br />

considers The Wire as art, as rhetoric, and as political<br />

intervention. Her absorbing argument for the series<br />

as ‘institutional melodrama’ upends conventional<br />

discussions not only about this narrative but about<br />

the broader practice of contemporary television drama.<br />

We understand The Wire not as tragedy, not as a novel,<br />

not as a piece of journalism; rather, we see and feel<br />

the show at the intersection of home and the world,<br />

as the orange couch in the courtyard of the low rises.”<br />

—SEAN O’SULLIVAN, author of Mike Leigh<br />

Many television critics, legions<br />

of fans, even the President of the<br />

United States, have cited The Wire<br />

as the best television series ever.<br />

On The Wire<br />

In this sophisticated examination of<br />

the HBO serial drama that aired from<br />

2002 until 2008, Linda Williams,<br />

a leading film scholar and authority<br />

on the interplay between film, melodrama,<br />

and issues of race, suggests<br />

what exactly it is that makes The<br />

Wire so good. She argues that while<br />

the series is a powerful exploration<br />

of urban dysfunction and institutional<br />

failure, its narrative power<br />

LINDA WILLIAMS<br />

derives from its genre. The Wire is<br />

popular melodrama, not Greek tragedy, as critics and the series creator David<br />

Simon have claimed. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once,<br />

it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore’s people and<br />

institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local government<br />

and local journalism. The Wire transforms close observation into an<br />

unparalleled melodrama by juxtaposing the good and evil of individuals with<br />

the good and evil of institutions.<br />

SPIN OFFS<br />

A Series Edited by Lynn Spigel<br />

also by Linda Williams<br />

Screening Sex<br />

paper, $27.95/£17.99<br />

978–0–8223–4285–4 / 2008<br />

Porn Studies<br />

Linda Williams, editor<br />

paper, $27.95/£17.99<br />

978–0–8223–3312–8 / 2004<br />

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TELEVISION<br />

August 272 pages, 60 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5717–9, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5706–3, $84.95/£55.00


general interest<br />

Postcolonial Modernism<br />

Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria<br />

chika okeke-agulu<br />

postcolonial modernism<br />

art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria<br />

Chika Okeke-a gulu<br />

Written by one of the foremost<br />

scholars of African art and<br />

featuring over 125 color images,<br />

Postcolonial Modernism chronicles<br />

the emergence of artistic<br />

modernism in Nigeria in the<br />

heady years surrounding political<br />

independence in 1960, before<br />

the outbreak of civil war in 1967.<br />

Chika Okeke-Agulu traces the<br />

artistic, intellectual, and critical<br />

networks in several Nigerian<br />

cities. Zaria is particularly important,<br />

because it was there, at the<br />

Nigerian College of Arts, Science<br />

and Technology, that a group of<br />

students formed the Art Society<br />

and inaugurated “postcolonial modernism” in Nigeria. As Okeke-Agulu explains,<br />

their works show both a deep connection with local artistic traditions and the<br />

stylistic sophistication that we have come to associate with twentieth-century<br />

modernist practices. He explores how these young Nigerian artists were<br />

inspired by the rhetoric and ideologies of decolonization and nationalism in<br />

the early- and mid-twentieth century and, later, by advocates of negritude<br />

and pan-Africanism. They translated the experiences of decolonization into<br />

a distinctive “postcolonial modernism” that has continued to inform the work<br />

of major Nigerian artists.<br />

Chika Okeke-Agulu is an<br />

artist, curator, and Associate<br />

Professor in the Department<br />

of Art & Archaeology<br />

and the Center for African<br />

American Studies at Princeton<br />

University. He is a coauthor of<br />

Photo ©Chika Okeke-Agulu<br />

Contemporary African Art since<br />

1980 and coeditor (with Okwui Enwezor and Salah M. Hassan)<br />

of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, also published<br />

by Duke University Press.<br />

“With this impressive book, Chika Okeke-Agulu has written<br />

an expansive, incisive, and dazzling account of the production<br />

of a new spirit of postcolonial artistic modernity in Nigeria<br />

at the denouement of colonialism in the 1950s. Postcolonial<br />

Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century<br />

Nigeria is perhaps the most important book of its kind<br />

to appear in years. In succinct and lucid language, and on<br />

lavishly illustrated pages, it offers a vigorous analysis of the<br />

artistic forces that lend a new understanding of the complex<br />

formations of global art history.”—OKWUI ENWEZOR,<br />

Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich<br />

“In this work of prodigious scholarship, Chika Okeke-Agulu draws on a trove of previously<br />

unexamined archival resources and he subjects the artistic and literary production<br />

of Nigeria’s pioneer modernists to critical analysis. Redirecting our understanding<br />

of the modern art movement in Nigeria, his book will interest a broad range of<br />

scholars, including those studying comparative modernism, global art, visual culture,<br />

history, and literature. This groundbreaking work affirms Okeke-Agulu as a rigorous<br />

critical thinker and interdisciplinary scholar.”—SALAH M. HASSAN, Goldwin Smith<br />

Professor, Department of History of Art and Africana Studies and Research Center,<br />

Cornell University<br />

ART/AFRICAN STUDIES<br />

January 376 pages, 129 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5746–9, $29.95tr/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5732–2, $99.95/£65.00<br />

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general interest<br />

Other Planes of There<br />

Selected Writings<br />

renée green<br />

Renée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker.<br />

Her exhibitions, videos, and films have been seen<br />

throughout the world in museums, biennales,<br />

and festivals. A selection of her books includes<br />

Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, Ongoing<br />

Becomings, Between and Including, Shadows and<br />

Signals, and, as editor, Negotiations in the Contact<br />

Zone. Green’s essays and fiction have appeared in<br />

magazines and journals such as Transition, October,<br />

and Collapse. She is also a Professor at the MIT<br />

Program in Art, Culture and Technology, School<br />

of Architecture and Planning.<br />

“More than a collection of an artist’s writings, Other<br />

Planes of There is also a rigorous meditation on the<br />

question of why artists are compelled to write. Along<br />

the way, almost incidentally as it were, readers are<br />

offered a self-conscious survey of the most advanced<br />

thinking in the artistic practice of an artist who not<br />

only dares to represent herself but also to put herself<br />

forward, in that representation, as representative.”<br />

—FRED MOTEN, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics<br />

of the Black Radical Tradition and B Jenkins<br />

“Renée Green’s far-reaching social and political interests<br />

have led her into taking on the roles of artist-curatorarchivist-historian-exhibition<br />

designer—and, perhaps<br />

most unusual, adventuress-traveler. As indefatigable<br />

explorer of circuits of ideas, objects, geographies,<br />

histories, and categories, as challenger of historical<br />

and cultural boundaries, she has accrued an extraordinary<br />

body of work across at least four continents.<br />

This remarkable selection of essays bears vivid witness<br />

to the range of her ideas, the reach of her curiosity,<br />

and her generosity and acuity of intellect.”—YVONNE<br />

RAINER, avant-garde American dancer, choreographer,<br />

and filmmaker<br />

OTHER PLANES OF THERE<br />

Selected Writings | RENÉE GREEN<br />

For more than two decades, the artist<br />

Renée Green has created an impressive<br />

body of work in which language is an<br />

essential element. Green is also a prolific<br />

writer and a major voice in the international<br />

art world. Other Planes of There<br />

gathers for the first time a substantial<br />

collection of the work she wrote between<br />

1981 and 2010. The selected essays<br />

initially appeared in publications in different<br />

countries and languages, making their<br />

availability in this volume a boon to those<br />

wanting to follow Green’s artistic and<br />

intellectual trajectory.<br />

Charting this cosmopolitan artist’s thinking<br />

through the decades, Other Planes of There brings essays, film scripts, reviews,<br />

and polemics together with reflections on Green’s own artistic practice and<br />

seminal artworks. It immerses the reader in three decades of contemporary art<br />

showcasing the art and thought, the incisive critiques, and prescient observations<br />

of one of our foremost artists and intellectuals. Sound, cinema, literature,<br />

time-based media, and the relationship between art forms and other forms of<br />

knowledge are just a few of the matters that Green takes up and thinks through.<br />

Featuring a new visual essay created by the artist for this volume, Other Planes<br />

of There is lavishly illustrated with 290 illustrations (with nearly 250 in color).<br />

“The publication of Other Planes of There is a major intellectual event. Given Renée<br />

Green’s stature and influence, both in the United States and abroad, her writing can<br />

be surprisingly hard to track down. This volume will be an essential reference point<br />

for anyone invested in critical practice of the last three decades and the shape of things<br />

to come. We need this book.”—HUEY COPELAND, author of Bound to Appear: Art,<br />

Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America<br />

6<br />

October 544 pages, 290 illustrations, including 249 in color paper, 978–0–8223–5703–2, $29.95tr/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5692–9, $99.95/£65.00<br />

ART


Speculation, Now<br />

Essays and Artwork<br />

edited by vyjayanthi venuturupalli rao,<br />

with prem krishnamurthy & carin kuoni<br />

With an Afterword by Arjun Appadurai<br />

general interest<br />

Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao is Assistant Professor<br />

of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New<br />

School. Prem Krishnamurthy, a designer and<br />

curator based in New York, is a founder of the awardwinning<br />

design studio Project Projects. Carin Kuoni<br />

is Director and Curator of the New School’s Vera List<br />

Center for Art and Politics, a public research laboratory<br />

dedicated to exploring the relationship between political<br />

and aesthetic practices. Arjun Appadurai is the Paulette<br />

Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication<br />

at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human<br />

Development at New York University.<br />

Hans Haacke, photograph from !!..., created for Speculation, Now, 2014. Courtesy of the Vera List Center.<br />

Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates<br />

unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork<br />

is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive<br />

change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether “the<br />

speculative” can be represented on a map. An ethnographer investigates religious<br />

possession in Islam to contemplate states between the divine and the<br />

seemingly human. A financial technologist queries understandings of speculation<br />

in financial markets. A multimedia artist and activist considers the relation<br />

between social change and assumptions about the conditions to be changed,<br />

and an architect posits purposeful neglect as political strategy. The book<br />

includes an extensive glossary with more than twenty short entries in which<br />

scholars contemplate such speculation-related notions as insurance, hallucination,<br />

prophecy, the paradox of beginnings, and states of half-knowledge. The<br />

book’s artful, nonlinear design mirrors and reinforces the notion of contingency<br />

that animates it. By embracing speculation substantively, stylistically, seriously,<br />

and playfully, Speculation, Now reveals its subversive and critical potential.<br />

“Speculation can only occur in the course of action, in the<br />

heat of practice, in the thick of experience. It is immanent<br />

critique, insofar as it does not seek to distance itself from<br />

experience but rather to intervene . . . through a particular<br />

form of disciplined action. Hannah Arendt famously distinguished<br />

action from behavior, by remarking that genuine<br />

action begins something new in the world. So does speculation,<br />

as the many projects, art works, and arguments in this<br />

book so vividly illustrate.”—ARJUN APPADURAI, from the<br />

afterword<br />

Artists and Essayists include:<br />

Arjun Appadurai, William Darity Jr., Filip De Boeck, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Darrick Hamilton,<br />

Victoria Hattam, Angie Keefer, Laura Kurgan, Lin + Lam, Gary Lincoff, Lize Mogel, Christina Moon,<br />

Trevor Paglen, Stefania Pandolfo, Satya Pemmaraju, Mary Poovey, Walid Raad, Sherene Schostak,<br />

Robert Sember, Lucy Skaer, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss<br />

PUBLISHED BY DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART<br />

AND POLITICS AT THE NEW SCHOOL<br />

ART/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

October 272 pages, 60 color illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5829–9, $29.95tr/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5815–2, $99.95/£65.00<br />

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general interest<br />

My Father’s House<br />

On Will Barnet’s Paintings<br />

thomas dumm<br />

Photo by Judith Piotrkowski<br />

Thomas Dumm is William H.<br />

Hastie ’25 Professor of Political<br />

Ethics at Amherst College. He is<br />

the author of Loneliness as a Way<br />

of Life, A Politics of the Ordinary,<br />

Michel Foucault and the Politics<br />

of Freedom, and Democracy and<br />

Punishment: Disciplinary Origins<br />

of the United States, and a<br />

coeditor of Performances of<br />

Violence.<br />

“My Father’s House is a genuine and rare accomplishment.<br />

Art criticism is often at its best when, rather than<br />

dissecting objects, it follows their rhythms, twists, and<br />

turns. Thomas Dumm does just that. One of this book’s<br />

many strengths is the variety of ways that he evocatively<br />

relates the experience of Will Barnet’s paintings. Another<br />

is the magnificent introduction, which brings Emerson,<br />

Melville, Cavell, and others into conversation with the<br />

spirit of Barnet’s work and with Barnet himself.”—TOM<br />

HUHN, author of Imitation and Society: The Persistence<br />

of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant<br />

“In this beautiful book, Thomas Dumm invents a new<br />

genre of writing, neither art criticism nor memoir nor<br />

philosophy nor psychology but something drawing from<br />

each of those, something that tries to show more than<br />

describe how works of art have power, a disseminating,<br />

productive power that exceeds any biography. Dumm is<br />

an extraordinary writer and courageous thinker.”—JANE<br />

BENNETT, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology<br />

of Things<br />

:::<br />

My Father’ s house<br />

on will barnet’s paintings<br />

Thomas Dumm<br />

:::<br />

In My Father’s House, the political philosopher<br />

Thomas Dumm explores a series<br />

of stark and melancholy paintings by the<br />

American artist Will Barnet. Responding<br />

to the physical and mental decline of his<br />

sister Eva, who lived alone in the family<br />

home in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet<br />

began work in 1990 on what became<br />

a series of nine paintings depicting Eva<br />

and other family members as they once<br />

were and as they figured in the artist’s<br />

memory. Rendered in Barnet’s signature<br />

quiet, abstract style, the paintings, each<br />

featured in full color, present the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of a twentieth-century<br />

American family.<br />

Dumm first became acquainted with Barnet and his paintings in 2008. Given his<br />

scholarly focus on the lives of ordinary people, he was immediately attracted<br />

to the artist’s work. When they met, Dumm and Barnet began a friendship and<br />

dialogue that lasted until the painter’s death in 2012, at the age of 101. This<br />

book reflects the many discussions the two had concerning the series of paintings,<br />

Barnet’s family, his early life in Beverly, and his eighty-year career as a<br />

prominent New York artist. Reading the almost gothic paintings in conversation<br />

with the writers and thinkers key to both his and Barnet’s thinking—Emerson,<br />

Spinoza, Dickinson, Benjamin, Cavell, Nietzsche, Melville—Dumm’s haunting<br />

meditations evoke broader reflections on family, mortality, the uncanny, and<br />

the loss that comes with remembrance.<br />

“Thomas Dumm’s unique intelligence, perceptual clarity, and philosophical erudition inform<br />

this powerful homage to the artist Will Barnet and his series of paintings, My Father’s<br />

House. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Benjamin, and Stanley Cavell<br />

are among those summoned to assist Dumm as he meditates on questions of place<br />

and person, loss and love, past and present, conjured for him by Barnet’s haunting and<br />

haunted works. This is a deeply moving account of how an encounter with art might allay<br />

the turbulent loneliness of our age.”—ANN LAUTERBACH, author of Under the Sign<br />

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ART CRITICISM/POLITICAL THEORY & PHILOSOPHY<br />

September 144 pages, 10 color illustrations cloth, 978–0–8223–5546–5, $24.95tr/£15.99


general interest<br />

Willful Subjects<br />

sara ahmed<br />

In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed<br />

Willful Subjects<br />

explores willfulness as a charge often<br />

Sara Ahmed made by some against others. One<br />

history of will is a history of attempts<br />

to eliminate willfulness from the will.<br />

Delving into philosophical and literary<br />

texts, Ahmed examines the relation<br />

between will and willfulness, ill will<br />

and good will, and the particular<br />

will and general will. Her reflections<br />

shed light on how will is embedded<br />

in a political and cultural landscape,<br />

how it is embodied, and how will<br />

and willfulness are socially mediated.<br />

Attentive to the wayward, the wandering,<br />

and the deviant, Ahmed considers<br />

how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded<br />

in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the<br />

willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that<br />

willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.<br />

also by Sara Ahmed<br />

Sara Ahmed is Professor of Race and<br />

Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College,<br />

University of London. She is the<br />

author of On Being Included: Racism<br />

and Diversity in Institutional Life,<br />

The Promise of Happiness, and Queer<br />

Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects,<br />

Others, all also published by Duke University Press, as well<br />

as The Cultural Politics of Emotion, Strange Encounters:<br />

Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, and Differences That<br />

Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism.<br />

“Like Sara Ahmed’s other works, which are known for their<br />

originality, sharpness, and reach, Willful Subjects offers<br />

here a vibrant, surprising, and philosophically rich analysis<br />

of cultural politics, drawing on feminist, queer, and antiracist<br />

uses of willingness and willfulness to explain forms of sustained<br />

and adamant social disagreement as a constitutive<br />

part of any radical ethics and politics worth its name.”<br />

—JUDITH BUTLER, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative<br />

Literature, University of California, Berkeley<br />

“Willful Subjects is beautifully conceived and expertly<br />

conducted, sentence by sentence, suggestion by suggestion.<br />

Paradoxically, Sara Ahmed’s willfulness promises happiness<br />

for her readers. Exquisite formulations engage our contemplation<br />

and render real intellectual enjoyment. Followers<br />

of Ahmed, of whom there are many, will not be disappointed.<br />

This new instance of razor-sharp thinking powerfully builds<br />

upon The Promise of Happiness to look at something<br />

usefully slicing through contentment: the scissoring relations<br />

between the will and willfulness. More than cutting-edge, this<br />

is cutting thought.”—KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON, author<br />

of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth<br />

Century<br />

On Being Included:<br />

Racism and Diversity<br />

in Institutional Life<br />

paper, $22.95/£14.99<br />

978–0–8223–5236–5 / 2012<br />

The Promise<br />

of Happiness<br />

paper, $24.95/£15.99<br />

978–0–8223–4725–5 / 2010<br />

Queer Phenomenology:<br />

Orientations,<br />

Objects, Others<br />

paper, $22.95/£14.99<br />

978–0–8223–3914–4 / 2006<br />

FEMINIST THEORY/CULTURAL STUDIES/PHILOSOPHY<br />

August 304 pages paper, 978–0–8223–5783–4, $24.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5767–4, $89.95/£59.00<br />

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general interest<br />

Land’s End<br />

Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier<br />

tania murray li<br />

Tania Murray Li is Professor of<br />

Anthropology at the University of<br />

Toronto. She is the author of The<br />

Will to Improve: Governmentality,<br />

Development, and the Practice of<br />

Politics, also published by Duke<br />

University Press.<br />

“This is a wonderful book. It may have the biggest<br />

general impact of a book centered on Southeast Asian<br />

rural social dynamics since James Scott’s seminal<br />

Weapons of the Weak. With unusual clarity and great<br />

persuasiveness, Tania Murray Li explores theoretical and<br />

methodological issues through vivid depictions of peoples’<br />

lives.”—HENRY BERNSTEIN, Professor Emeritus<br />

of Development Studies, University of London<br />

tania murray li<br />

LAND’S END<br />

Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier<br />

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic<br />

research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania<br />

Murray Li offers an intimate account of the<br />

emergence of capitalist relations among<br />

indigenous highlanders who privatized their<br />

common land to plant a boom crop, cacao.<br />

Spurred by the hope of ending their poverty<br />

and isolation, some prospered, while others<br />

lost their land and struggled to sustain their<br />

families. Yet the winners and losers in this<br />

transition were not strangers—they were kin<br />

and neighbors. Li’s richly peopled account<br />

takes the reader into the highlanders’ world,<br />

exploring the dilemmas they faced as sharp<br />

inequalities emerged among them.<br />

The book challenges complacent modernization narratives promoted by development<br />

agencies that assume inefficient farmers who lose out in the shift to<br />

high-value export crops can find jobs elsewhere. Decades of uneven and often<br />

jobless growth in Indonesia meant that for newly landless highlanders, land’s<br />

end was a dead end. The book also has implications for social-movement activists,<br />

who seldom attend to instances where enclosure is initiated by farmers<br />

rather than coerced by the state or agribusiness corporations. Li’s attention to<br />

the historical, cultural, and ecological dimensions of this conjuncture demonstrates<br />

the power of the ethnographic method and its relevance to theory and practice<br />

today.<br />

also by Tania Murray Li<br />

“Tania Murray Li, one of the foremost scholars of the native peoples, economies, and<br />

ecologies of Southeast Asia, here tells the subtle and challenging story of the Lauje,<br />

a group who defy clichés of indigeneity and whose destructive involvement in commodity<br />

production was willingly embraced. Her analysis complicates our understanding of<br />

the expansion of global capitalism, and the millions of people who do not fit easily into<br />

narratives of modern rural transformation.”—MICHAEL R. DOVE, coeditor of Beyond<br />

the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia<br />

The Will to Improve:<br />

Governmentality, Development,<br />

and the Practice of Politics<br />

paper, $26.95/£17.99<br />

978–0–8223–4027–0 / 2007<br />

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ANTHROPOLOGY/SOCIAL THEORY<br />

August 248 pages, 14 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5705–6, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5694–3, $84.95/£55.00


general interest<br />

The Theater of Operations<br />

National Security Affect from<br />

the Cold War to the War on Terror<br />

joseph masco<br />

How did the most powerful nation on<br />

earth come to embrace terror as the<br />

organizing principle of its security policy<br />

THE<br />

In The Theater of Operations, Joseph<br />

Masco locates the origins of the presentday<br />

U.S. counterterrorism apparatus<br />

THEATER<br />

in the Cold War’s “balance of terror.”<br />

OF<br />

He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11,<br />

the U.S. Global War on Terror mobilized<br />

OPERATIONS<br />

a wide range of affective, conceptual,<br />

and institutional resources established<br />

during the Cold War to enable a new<br />

planetary theater of operations. Tracing<br />

NATIONAL SECURITY AFFECT FROM THE COLD WAR<br />

how specific aspects of emotional<br />

TO THE WAR ON TERROR<br />

JOSEPH MASCO<br />

management, existential danger, state<br />

secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American<br />

social contract, he draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to<br />

offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and<br />

unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts,<br />

and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an<br />

unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined,<br />

and emergent.<br />

Joseph Masco is Professor of<br />

Anthropology at the University of<br />

Chicago. He is the author of The Nuclear<br />

Borderlands: The Manhattan Project<br />

in Post–Cold War New Mexico, winner<br />

of the J. I. Staley Prize from the School<br />

for Advanced Research and the Rachel<br />

Carson Prize from the Society for the<br />

Social Studies of Science.<br />

“What Joseph Masco shows us in The Theater of Operations<br />

is an entire affective structure—the management of anxiety,<br />

resilience, steadfastness, sacrifice—that is demanded of every<br />

citizen. Alert to liquid containers above 2.4 ounces, hypervigilant<br />

about abandoned bags, suspicious of loitering, and<br />

prepared for the detonation of a thermonuclear weapon—<br />

we learn to live our lives aware of tiny and apocalyptic things.<br />

With an anthropologist’s eye long attuned to life in the parawartime<br />

state, Masco is the perfect guide to the theater of<br />

the security state.”—PETER GALISON, author of Einstein’s<br />

Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time<br />

“Joseph Masco’s brilliance lies in his ability to make visible the complex affective and<br />

discursive technologies that emerged from the long history of the Cold War, and to illuminate<br />

their effects on our everyday perceptions of security and harm. This much-anticipated<br />

book will be read widely in cultural anthropology and cultural studies. It is beautifully<br />

written and argued. That one leaves The Theater of Operations a bit paranoid is a<br />

tribute to Masco’s rhetorical skill.”—ELIZABETH A. POVINELLI, author of Economies<br />

of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance in Late Liberalism<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/AMERICAN STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

November 288 pages, 57 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5806–0, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5793–3, $84.95/£55.00<br />

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general interest<br />

The Life of Captain Cipriani<br />

An Account of British Government<br />

in the West Indies with the pamphlet<br />

The Case for West-Indian Self Government<br />

c. l. r. james<br />

With a New Introduction by Bridget Brereton<br />

C. L. R. James (1901–1989), a Trinidadian historian,<br />

political activist, and writer, is the author of The Black<br />

Jacobins, an influential study of the Haitian Revolution.<br />

His play Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only<br />

Successful Slave Revolt in History and his now-classic<br />

book on sport and culture, Beyond a Boundary, are<br />

both published by Duke University Press. Bridget<br />

Brereton is Emerita Professor of History at the<br />

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.<br />

“The Life of Captain Cipriani and the excerpted<br />

pamphlet, The Case for West-Indian Self Government,<br />

are two of C. L. R. James’s most significant contributions<br />

to the anticolonial cause. These early works<br />

played a crucial part in the development of his career<br />

as a writer and political thinker. They helped articulate<br />

the case for independence for Trinidad and the West<br />

Indies, and they effectively launched James’s career<br />

as a public figure.”—KENT WORCESTER, author of<br />

C. L. R. James: A Political Biography<br />

“This volume is an indispensable introduction to<br />

the dialectical synthesis of biography, sports, race,<br />

politics, and poetics that the early James brought to<br />

his encounter with Marxism. It was the later merging<br />

of the codes of these two already complex and synthetic<br />

discourses that made possible classic works like<br />

The Black Jacobins and Beyond A Boundary.”—PAGET<br />

HENRY, coeditor of C. L. R. James’s Caribbean<br />

C. L. R. JAMES<br />

THE LIFE OF<br />

CAPTAIN CIPRIANI<br />

THE STORY OF THE<br />

ONLY SUCCESSFUL SLAVE<br />

REVOLT IN HISTORY<br />

A Play in Three Acts<br />

AN ACCOUNT<br />

OF BRITISH<br />

GOVERNMENT<br />

IN THE<br />

WEST INDIES<br />

WITH THE PAMPHLET The Case for West-Indian Self Government<br />

The Life of Captain Cipriani (1932) is the earliest<br />

full-length work of nonfiction by the Trinidadian<br />

writer C. L. R. James, one of the most significant<br />

historians and Marxist theorists of the twentieth<br />

century. It is partly based on James’s interviews<br />

with Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1876–1945). As<br />

a captain with the British West Indies Regiment<br />

during the First World War, Cipriani was greatly<br />

impressed by the service of the black West Indian<br />

troops and appalled at their treatment during and<br />

after the war. After his return to the West Indies,<br />

he became a Trinidadian political leader and advocate<br />

for West Indian self-government. James’s book is as much polemic as<br />

biography. Written in Trinidad and published in England, it is an early and powerful<br />

statement of West Indian nationalism. An excerpt, The Case for West-Indian<br />

Self Government, was issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in<br />

1933. This volume includes the biography, the pamphlet, and a new introduction<br />

in which Bridget Brereton considers both texts and the young C. L. R. James<br />

in relation to Trinidadian and West Indian intellectual and social history. She<br />

discusses how James came to write his biography of Cipriani, how the book was<br />

received in the West Indies and Trinidad, and how, throughout his career, James<br />

would use biography to explore the dynamics of politics and history.<br />

also in the C. L. R. James Archives<br />

THE C. L. R. JAMES ARCHIVES<br />

A Series Edited by Robert A. Hill<br />

C. L. R. James<br />

in Imperial Britain<br />

Christian Høgsbjerg<br />

paper, $24.95/£15.99<br />

978–0–8223–5618–9 / 2014<br />

Beyond a Boundary<br />

C. L. R. James<br />

paper, $24.95tr/£15.99<br />

978–0–8223–5563–2 / 2013<br />

Rights: U.S. only<br />

Toussaint Louverture<br />

C. L. R. James<br />

paper, $23.95tr/£15.99<br />

978–0–8223–5314–0 / 2012<br />

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HISTORY/CARIBBEAN STUDIES<br />

July 200 pages paper, 978–0–8223–5651–6, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5639–4, $84.95/£55.00


general interest<br />

The Marcus Garvey and<br />

Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers<br />

The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921 Volume XII<br />

marcus garvey<br />

robert a. hill, editor in chief<br />

Volume XII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal<br />

Negro Improvement Association Papers covers<br />

a period of twelve months, from the opening of the<br />

UNIA’s historic first international convention in New<br />

the<br />

marcus York, in August 1920, to Marcus Garvey’s return to<br />

garvey<br />

and<br />

universal negro the United States in July 1921 after an extended tour<br />

improvement<br />

association<br />

papers<br />

of Cuba, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, and Belize.<br />

The Caribbean Diaspora, 1920–1921<br />

Volume XII<br />

In many ways the 1920 convention marked the high<br />

robert a. hill<br />

Editor in Chief<br />

point of the Garvey movement in the United States,<br />

while Garvey’s tour of the Caribbean, in the winter<br />

and spring of 1921, registered the greatest outpouring<br />

of popular support for the UNIA in its history. The period covered in the<br />

present volume was the moment of the movement’s political apotheosis,<br />

but also the moment when the finances of Garvey’s Black Star Line went into<br />

free fall.<br />

Robert A. Hill is Professor of History at the University<br />

of California, Los Angeles, where he is Editor in Chief and<br />

Project Director of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro<br />

Improvement Association Papers Project at the James S.<br />

Coleman African Studies Center.<br />

PRAISE FOR THE MARCUS GARVEY AND UNIVERSAL<br />

NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION PAPERS<br />

“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement<br />

Association Papers will take its place among the most important<br />

records of the Afro-American experience.”—ERIC FONER,<br />

New York Times Book Review<br />

“Robert A. Hill and his staff . . . have gathered over 30,000<br />

documents from libraries and other sources in many<br />

countries. . . . The Garvey papers will reshape our understanding<br />

of the history of black nationalism and perhaps<br />

increase our understanding of contemporary black politics.”<br />

—CLAYBORNE CARSON, The Nation<br />

Volume XII highlights the centrality of Caribbean people not only to the convention,<br />

but also to the movement. The reports to the convention discussed the<br />

range of social and economic conditions obtaining in the Caribbean, particularly<br />

their impact on racial conditions. The quality of the discussions and debates<br />

were impressive. Contained in these reports are some of the earliest and most<br />

clearly enunciated statements in defense of social and political freedom in the<br />

Caribbean. These documents form an underappreciated and still underutilized<br />

record of the political awakening of Caribbean people of African descent.<br />

“Now is our chance, through these important volumes,<br />

to finally begin to come to terms with the significance<br />

of Garvey’s complex, fascinating career and the meaning<br />

of the movement he built.”—LAWRENCE W. LEVINE,<br />

The New Republic<br />

also available<br />

About The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro<br />

Improvement Association Papers Project<br />

A monumental archival undertaking, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement<br />

Association Papers Project has collected thousands of historical documents related to<br />

Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA),<br />

which spread Garvey’s influential message of racial pride, black nationalism, and Pan-<br />

Africanism around the world. The Papers include letters, pamphlets, intelligence reports,<br />

newspaper articles, speeches, legal records, and diplomatic dispatches carefully assembled,<br />

editorially arranged, and annotated by Robert A. Hill and his research team.<br />

For more information about The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement<br />

Association Papers, visit web.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp<br />

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro<br />

Improvement Association Papers, Volume<br />

XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920<br />

cloth, $120.00/£78.00<br />

978–0–8223–4690–6 / 2011<br />

HISTORY/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/CARIBBEAN STUDIES<br />

September 480 pages, 15 illustrations cloth, 978–0–8223–5737–7, $120.00/£78.00<br />

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general interest<br />

Sherrie Tucker is Professor of<br />

American Studies at the University<br />

of Kansas. She is the author of Swing<br />

Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s<br />

and coeditor of Big Ears: Listening<br />

for Gender in Jazz Studies, both also<br />

published by Duke University Press.<br />

“The publication of Dance Hall Democracy elevates cultural<br />

studies scholarship to new levels of sophistication and<br />

significance.”—GEORGE LIPSITZ, author of Midnight<br />

at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story<br />

“Sherrie Tucker has given us a meticulously researched and<br />

beautifully written evocation of the Hollywood Canteen.<br />

This original and highly creative work is a model of cultural<br />

history by a scholar of exemplary insight, intelligence, and<br />

sensitivity. Tucker brilliantly reads the dance floor to reveal<br />

meanings created, challenged, and negotiated by the dancers.<br />

Dance Floor Democracy insists upon a complex and multidimensional<br />

portrait of a period and a place too often viewed<br />

through the lens of nostalgia.”—FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN,<br />

author of Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive<br />

Politics During World War II<br />

Dance Floor Democracy<br />

The Social Geography of Memory<br />

at the Hollywood Canteen<br />

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Canteen was the most famous of the<br />

patriotic home-front nightclubs where civilian<br />

hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted<br />

men of the Allied Nations. Since the opening<br />

night, when the crowds were so thick that<br />

Bette Davis had to enter through the bathroom<br />

window to give her welcome speech,<br />

the storied dance floor where movie stars<br />

danced with soldiers has been the subject<br />

of much U.S. nostalgia about the “Greatest<br />

Generation.” Drawing from oral histories<br />

with civilian volunteers and military guests<br />

who danced at the wartime nightclub,<br />

Sherrie Tucker explores how jitterbugging swing culture has come to represent<br />

the war in U.S. national memory. Yet her interviewees’ varied experiences and<br />

recollections belie the possibility of any singular historical narrative. Some<br />

recall racism, sexism, and inequality on the nightclub’s dance floor and in Los<br />

Angeles neighborhoods, dynamics at odds with the U.S. democratic, egalitarian<br />

ideals associated with the Hollywood Canteen and the “Good War” in popular<br />

culture narratives. For Tucker, swing dancing’s torque—bodies sharing weight,<br />

velocity, and turning power without guaranteed outcomes—is an apt metaphor<br />

for the jostling narratives, different perspectives, unsteady memories, and<br />

quotidian acts that comprise social history.<br />

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Big Ears:<br />

Listening for Gender<br />

in Jazz Studies<br />

Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker, editors<br />

pape, $27.95/£17.99<br />

978–0–8223–4320–2 / 2008<br />

Swing Shift:<br />

“All–Girl” Bands of the 1940s<br />

paper, $26.95tr/£17.99<br />

978–0–8223–2817–9 / 2001<br />

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October 416 pages, 36 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5757–5, $26.95/£17.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5742–1, $94.95/£62.00


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NEW IN PAPERBACK<br />

Traveling Heavy<br />

A Memoir in between Journeys<br />

ruth behar<br />

“Ruth Behar’s vivid personal vignettes<br />

sing of sorrow and joy, disappointment<br />

and love. They range from family and<br />

fieldwork to travel and returns to her<br />

birthplace: Havana, Cuba. They explore<br />

her mixedness, Jewish and Latina. She<br />

is an ethnographer and a writer. Read<br />

and join her moving quest for belonging<br />

and home.”—RENATO ROSALDO,<br />

author of The Day of Shelly’s Death:<br />

The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief<br />

“‘Travelers are those who go elsewhere<br />

because they want to . . . .<br />

Immigrants are those who go elsewhere<br />

because they have to.’ Ruth Behar’s own story is one of being both<br />

the reluctant immigrant and the enthusiastic traveler, and finally, perhaps<br />

to appease both legacies, ‘an anthropologist who specializes in homesickness.’<br />

Behar admits Spanish is her mother tongue, and yet she is a master<br />

craftsperson in her father tongue, English. As always, her exquisite stories<br />

leave me astonished, amused, exhilarated, illuminated, and forever transformed.”<br />

—SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street<br />

“Ruth Behar takes us deep into geographies she has charted, transcending<br />

anthropological reportage and finding the poetry that is there not<br />

only in the places she has mapped but also in history. She has written an<br />

observant and surprisingly compassionate book, full of warmth. I enjoyed<br />

reading every page; it is full of wisdom and devastating sincerity.”—NILO<br />

CRUZ, author of Anna in the Tropics, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama<br />

Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba. She and her family moved<br />

to New York City when she was five. In the years since, she has become<br />

an internationally acclaimed writer and the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate<br />

Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the<br />

author of many books, including An Island Called Home: Returning<br />

to Jewish Cuba, The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks<br />

Your Heart, and Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s<br />

Story, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Behar has been<br />

honored with many prizes, including a MacArthur “Genius” Award.<br />

NEW IN PAPERBACK<br />

Adam’s Gift<br />

A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the<br />

Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and Gays<br />

jimmy creech<br />

With a New Foreword by Frank Schaefer<br />

“Adam’s Gift is the most engaging<br />

and candid autobiography I have<br />

Adam’s<br />

come across. The extraordinary<br />

Gift<br />

journey of the Reverend Jimmy Creech<br />

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certainly reveals his innermost desire<br />

A MeMoir of A<br />

PAstor’s CAlling to to help allay the suffering that exists<br />

Defy the ChurCh’s<br />

on our planet. Viewed within this<br />

PerseCution of<br />

lesbiAns AnD gAys<br />

context, it comes as no surprise that<br />

as a young United Methodist minister<br />

he became involved in the justice<br />

issue that would rock the church from<br />

within—the LGBTQ rights movement.<br />

. . . Sadly, Jimmy’s message of inclusiveness<br />

and acceptance of LGBTQ<br />

jimmy creech<br />

With a NeW ForeWord by FraNk SchaeFer<br />

rights within the Christian community<br />

was ahead of his time and was, therefore, not heard or correctly understood<br />

by the leadership. In 1999, he was defrocked by a U.M. church trial<br />

court. But that did not stop him from continuing his advocacy and activism<br />

within the church. . . . Creech’s early witness and activism within the church<br />

have provided a foundation for our new understanding of what ministerial<br />

integrity means in the LGBTQ movement.”—FRANK SCHAEFER, from the<br />

foreword<br />

“Jimmy Creech is a man who puts his life where his Gospel is! His amazing<br />

journey, as told in his memoir, is the story of a follower of Christ who,<br />

like Christ, risked his own life and ministry for the sake of the marginalized<br />

and scorned. The LGBT community will forever owe him a debt for his<br />

sacrifice and his witness to the love of God for ALL of God’s children.”<br />

—BISHOP GENE ROBINSON, Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire<br />

Jimmy Creech is a former United Methodist minister, now retired and<br />

living in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has worked with many social action<br />

organizations, including Soulforce, an interfaith movement confronting<br />

spiritual violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender<br />

persons; the Methodist Federation for Social Action; the Raleigh Religious<br />

Network for Gay and Lesbian Equality; and Faith in America, an organization<br />

working to end religion-based bigotry. Frank Schaefer, a United<br />

Methodist minister, was put on a church trial for performing his son’s<br />

same-sex wedding.<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/JEWISH STUDIES/LATINO STUDIES<br />

July 248 pages, 18 photographs<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5720–9, $19.95tr/£12.99<br />

RELIGION/GAY & LESBIAN STUDIES/MEMOIR<br />

July 362 pages, 17 color photographs<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5752–0, $22.95tr/£14.99<br />

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NEW IN PAPERBACK<br />

A Rock Garden in the South<br />

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Edited by Nancy Goodwin with Allen Lacy<br />

PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH LAWRENCE<br />

“I have learned more about horticulture, plants, and garden history<br />

and literature from Elizabeth Lawrence than from any other one person.”<br />

—KATHARINE WHITE, The New Yorker<br />

“As in all her gardening books, Elizabeth Lawrence writes from her own<br />

experience and personal records and out of relish and delight. . . . She’s<br />

written with the intimacy that comes of full knowledge, true and patient love,<br />

a grower’s sense of continuity in the natural world, and a lyricist’s lifetime<br />

practice of praise.”—EUDORA WELTY<br />

Available in paperback for the first time,<br />

ELIZABETH LAWRENCE<br />

this book features the avid gardener<br />

and beloved writer Elizabeth Lawrence’s<br />

thoughts on rock gardening. She<br />

addresses the unique problem of cultivating<br />

rock gardens in the South, where<br />

A Rock<br />

Garden in<br />

the South the growing season is prolonged and<br />

EDITED BY NANCY GOODWIN<br />

WITH ALLEN LACY the humidity and heat are not conducive<br />

to such planting. Describing her experiences<br />

making a rock garden, Lawrence<br />

offers excellent advice on placing stones,<br />

constructing steps, selecting plants, and making cuttings. At the<br />

same time, A Rock Garden in the South is relevant to all kinds of<br />

gardens; the renowned garden writer thoroughly discusses plants<br />

she has tried, recommending bulbs and other perennials, annuals,<br />

and woody plants. The editors have added an encyclopedia of plants<br />

alphabetized by genus and species.<br />

Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985) wrote a popular gardening column<br />

for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 until 1971. She is the author of<br />

A Southern Garden, Gardens in Winter, and Lob’s Wood, as well as<br />

Beautiful at All Seasons, Gardening for Love, and The Little Bulbs, which<br />

are published by Duke University Press. Nancy Goodwin is the author<br />

of Montrose: Life in a Garden, also published by Duke University Press.<br />

Allen Lacy, formerly a gardening columnist for the New York Times, is<br />

the author of numerous gardening books. Goodwin and Lacy are coauthors<br />

of A Year in Our Gardens: Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy.<br />

NEW IN PAPERBACK<br />

Beautiful at All Seasons<br />

Southern Gardening and Beyond<br />

with Elizabeth Lawrence<br />

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Edited by Ann L. Armstrong and Lindie Wilson<br />

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Elizabeth Lawrence began a weekly<br />

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column for the Charlotte Observer.<br />

This book presents 132 of the more<br />

than 700 pieces that she wrote for<br />

the Observer over fourteen years.<br />

Beautiful at All Seasons<br />

Southern Gardening and Beyond with Elizabeth Lawrence<br />

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“A . . . book of garden essays by the<br />

incomparable Elizabeth Lawrence is a<br />

cause for celebration.”—EMILY HERRING<br />

WILSON, author of No One Gardens<br />

Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence<br />

“Lawrence displays the virtues of a dedicated plantswoman: she is<br />

generous, patient, watchful and above all curious as she delves into<br />

the histories of her favorite plants.”—JENNIFER POTTER, The Times<br />

Literary Supplement<br />

“All gardeners will welcome this splendidly edited collection of essays<br />

by Elizabeth Lawrence. They will delight in her elegant prose and subtle<br />

humor and will marvel at her breadth of knowledge of plants and literature.<br />

I could hardly put it down.”—NANCY GOODWIN, author of Montrose:<br />

Life in a Garden<br />

“Reading Lawrence reminds us that gardening is a way to connect to our<br />

community, our history and traditions and ultimately to the world around<br />

us. This is one for the bedside table.”—DAVID BARE, Winston-Salem<br />

Journal<br />

Elizabeth Lawrence (1904–1985) wrote a popular gardening column<br />

for the Charlotte Observer from 1957 until 1971. She is the author<br />

of A Southern Garden, Gardens in Winter, and Lob’s Wood, as well as<br />

A Rock Garden in the South, Gardening for Love, and The Little Bulbs,<br />

which are published by Duke University Press. Ann L. Armstrong<br />

is a garden lecturer and writer in Charlotte, North Carolina. She wrote<br />

the Wing Haven Garden Journal, a garden planning and maintenance<br />

calendar. Lindie Wilson owned Elizabeth Lawrence’s former<br />

home in Charlotte, where for more than twenty years she maintained<br />

the garden that Lawrence began in 1948.<br />

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GARDENING<br />

September 240 pages<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5775–9, $19.95tr/£12.99<br />

GARDENING<br />

September 264 pages, 10 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5776–6, $19.95tr/£12.99


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Entrepreneurial Selves<br />

Neoliberal Respectability and the<br />

Making of a Caribbean Middle Class<br />

carla freeman<br />

Aurality<br />

Listening and Knowledge<br />

in Nineteenth-Century Colombia<br />

ana maría ochoa gautier<br />

“Carla Freeman’s scholarship reveals a delicate omnivorousness. She<br />

offers a unique perspective on the affective economies through which<br />

neoliberal capitalism and its middle-class subjects are made and remade,<br />

demonstrating that neoliberalism is not monolithic or guaranteed. Its<br />

varied ‘structures of feeling’ are produced, contested, and differentiated.<br />

Freeman’s way of making and working with theory is rare; it traverses<br />

multiple registers, holding in tension the specific, the general, the abstract,<br />

and the concrete.”—CINDI KATZ, author of Growing Up Global: Economic<br />

Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives<br />

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging<br />

political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on<br />

the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment<br />

of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography<br />

on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds<br />

dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the<br />

rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that<br />

the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility<br />

and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped<br />

through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures<br />

are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by<br />

reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of ‘reputation-respectability.’<br />

This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social<br />

practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputation)<br />

are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and,<br />

in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional<br />

economy.<br />

Carla Freeman is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Women’s,<br />

Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Anthropology<br />

and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, at Emory University. She is<br />

the author of High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women,<br />

Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean, also published by Duke<br />

University Press, and a coeditor of Global Middle Classes: Theorizing<br />

Through Ethnography.<br />

NEXT WAVE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES<br />

A Series Edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman<br />

duke<br />

“Aurality shows how hearing, writing, speech, and song were central to<br />

the constitution of modern personhood in the nineteenth century. Using<br />

Colombia as her case study, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how<br />

colonial intellectuals, creoles, and indigenous people spoke, sung, and<br />

wrote across difference as they struggled to establish new kinds of political<br />

subjectivity and nationality. Her book offers a vital alternative to<br />

a literature that has too often taken Western Europe and Anglophone<br />

North America as points of historical departure. Aurality will transform<br />

our understandings of the human and the animal; nation and citizenship;<br />

music and language; speech and writing; and modernity itself.”<br />

—JONATHAN STERNE, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format<br />

In this audacious book, Ana María<br />

Ochoa Gautier explores how listening<br />

has been central to the production<br />

of notions of language, music, voice,<br />

and sound that determine the politics<br />

of life. Drawing primarily from<br />

nineteenth-century Colombian sources,<br />

Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced<br />

AurAlity by different living entities at the juncture<br />

of the human and nonhuman.<br />

Listening & Knowledge in<br />

Nineteenth-Century Colombia<br />

Her “acoustically tuned” analysis of<br />

Ana María Ochoa Gautier a wide array of texts reveals multiple<br />

debates on the nature of the aural.<br />

These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in<br />

the service of the production of different notions of personhood and<br />

belonging. In Ochoa Gautier’s groundbreaking work, Latin America<br />

and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life<br />

and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and<br />

the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial.<br />

Ana María Ochoa Gautier is Associate Professor of Music and Director<br />

of the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University. She is the author<br />

of several books in Spanish.<br />

SIGN, STORAGE, TRANSMISSION<br />

A Series Edited by Jonathan Sterne and Lisa Gitelman<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/CARIBBEAN STUDIES<br />

November 296 pages, 8 photographs<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5803–9, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5792–6, $89.95/£59.00<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/SOUND STUDIES<br />

November 304 pages, 3 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5751–3, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5736–0, $89.95/£59.00<br />

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Speculative Markets<br />

Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria<br />

kristin peterson<br />

Second Chances<br />

Surviving AIDS in Uganda<br />

susan reynolds whyte, editor<br />

“Speculative Markets brings exceptional clarity to a topic of genuine importance—the<br />

relationship between transnational finance capital and pharmaceutical<br />

supply in West Africa. This is a brilliant multisited ethnography<br />

of a market, advancing new theoretical understandings of contemporary<br />

economic life in Nigeria and beyond. Kristin Peterson also makes a vital<br />

contribution to global health and pharmaceutical reasoning by raising<br />

critical questions about drug procurement, distribution, and efficacy.”<br />

—JULIE LIVINGSTON, author of Improvising Medicine: An African<br />

Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic<br />

“Second Chances provides insight of impressive range and depth into the<br />

impact of global health programs. It moves medical anthropology’s theoretical<br />

agenda along by offering a subtle but sharp critique of contemporary<br />

manifestations of biological/therapeutic citizenship. Yet its greatest innovation<br />

may be methodological. As a convincing work of collective ethnography,<br />

Second Chances reveals the productive potential of ‘team’ or ‘project’<br />

anthropology.”—VINH-KIM NGUYEN, author of The Republic of Therapy:<br />

Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS<br />

In this unprecedented account of the<br />

dynamics of Nigeria’s pharmaceutical<br />

markets, Kristin Peterson connects<br />

multinational drug company policies,<br />

oil concerns, Nigerian political and<br />

economic transitions, the circulation<br />

of pharmaceuticals in the Global<br />

South, Wall Street machinations,<br />

and the needs and aspirations of<br />

individual Nigerians. Studying the<br />

pharmaceutical market in Lagos,<br />

Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria<br />

Nigeria, she places local market<br />

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social norms and credit and pricing<br />

practices in the broader context of<br />

regional, transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains<br />

how a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market<br />

collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal economic<br />

reforms. And she illuminates the relation between that collapse and the<br />

American turn to speculative capital during the 1980s. In the process,<br />

she reveals the mutual constitution of financial speculation in the drug<br />

industry and the structural adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on<br />

African nations. Her book is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the<br />

effects of speculation and “development” as they reverberate across<br />

markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions<br />

of the Lagos pharmaceutical market.<br />

Kristin Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University<br />

of California, Irvine.<br />

EXPERIMENTAL FUTURES:<br />

TECHNOLOGICAL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS,<br />

ANTHROPOLOGICAL VOICES<br />

A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit<br />

During the first decade<br />

of this millennium, many<br />

thousands of people in<br />

Uganda who otherwise<br />

would have died from<br />

AIDS got second chances<br />

at life. A massive global<br />

health intervention, the<br />

scaling up of antiretroviral<br />

Photo by the author.<br />

therapy (ART), saved them<br />

and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment.<br />

As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medicine<br />

and encouraged “positive living.” Because ART is not a cure but a<br />

lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society,<br />

families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad<br />

knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection<br />

explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances.<br />

Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and<br />

bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is<br />

based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including<br />

both Western and African scholars.<br />

Contributors<br />

Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang<br />

Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte<br />

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of<br />

Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics<br />

of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and<br />

coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.<br />

CRITICAL GLOBAL HEALTH: EVIDENCE, EFFICACY, ETHNOGRAPHY<br />

Edited by Vincanne Adams and João Biehl<br />

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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY/AFRICAN STUDIES<br />

August 264 pages, 8 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5702–5, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5693–6, $84.95/£55.00<br />

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY/AFRICAN STUDIES<br />

November 336 pages, 12 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5808–4, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5795–7, $94.95/£62.00


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Biomedicine in an Unstable Place<br />

Infrastructure and Personhood<br />

in a Papua New Guinean Hospital<br />

alice street<br />

“This compelling study achieves almost perfect pitch in the way it engages<br />

quite different sources of understanding. At once true to the locale of a<br />

hospital in the Pacific and to the world of institutions just round everyone’s<br />

corner, it also conveys the unexpected accommodations that patients and<br />

staff alike have to make to the predicaments in which they find themselves.<br />

Closely observed, sympathetic, critical, this is contemporary ethnography<br />

of the first order.”—MARILYN STRATHERN, University of Cambridge<br />

Photo by the author.<br />

Biomedicine in an<br />

Unstable Place is<br />

the story of people’s<br />

struggle to make<br />

biomedicine work<br />

in a public hospital<br />

in Papua New Guinea.<br />

It is a story encompassing<br />

the history of<br />

hospital infrastructures as sites of colonial and postcolonial governance,<br />

the simultaneous production of Papua New Guinea as a site of global<br />

medical research and public health, and people’s encounters with<br />

urban institutions and biomedical technologies. In Papua New Guinea,<br />

a century of state building has weakened already inadequate colonial<br />

infrastructures, and people experience the hospital as a space of institutional,<br />

medical, and ontological instability.<br />

In the hospital’s clinics, biomedical practitioners struggle amid severe<br />

resource shortages to make the diseased body visible and knowable to<br />

the clinical gaze. That struggle is entangled with attempts by doctors,<br />

nurses, and patients to make themselves visible to external others—<br />

to kin, clinical experts, global scientists, politicians, and international<br />

development workers—as socially recognizable and valuable persons.<br />

Here hospital infrastructures emerge as relational technologies that are<br />

fundamentally fragile but also offer crucial opportunities for making<br />

people visible and knowable in new, unpredictable, and powerful ways.<br />

Alice Street is a Chancellors Fellow in Social Anthropology in the School<br />

of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.<br />

How Climate Change Comes to Matter<br />

The Communal Life of Facts<br />

candis callison<br />

“A gifted storyteller who brings enormous empathy and nuance to each<br />

group she documents, Candis Callison depicts the current discursive struggles<br />

over climate change, as such diverse players as corporate responsibility<br />

advocates, evangelical Christians, and Inuit tribal leaders, not to<br />

mention scientists and journalists, seek to reconcile the need for dramatic<br />

change with their existing sets of professional norms and cultural values.<br />

This is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand how<br />

science gets refracted across an increasingly diverse media landscape and<br />

for anyone who wants to understand how they might be more effective at<br />

changing entrenched beliefs and practices.”—HENRY JENKINS, coauthor<br />

of Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture<br />

During the past decade, skepticism about climate change has frustrated<br />

those seeking to engage broad publics and motivate them to take<br />

action on the issue. In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison<br />

examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they<br />

encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change. She<br />

explores the efforts of science journalists, scientists who have become<br />

expert voices for and about climate change, American evangelicals,<br />

Indigenous leaders, and advocates for corporate social responsibility.<br />

The disparate efforts of these groups illuminate the challenge of maintaining<br />

fidelity to scientific facts while transforming them into ethical<br />

and moral calls to action. Callison investigates the different vernaculars<br />

through which we understand and articulate our worlds, as well as the<br />

nuanced and pluralistic understandings of climate change evident in<br />

different forms of advocacy. As she demonstrates, climate change offers<br />

an opportunity to look deeply at how issues and problems that begin<br />

in a scientific context come to matter to wide publics, and to rethink<br />

emerging interactions among different kinds of knowledge and experience,<br />

evolving media landscapes, and claims to authority and expertise.<br />

Candis Callison is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of<br />

Journalism at the University of British Columbia.<br />

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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY/GLOBAL HEALTH<br />

October 328 pages, 13 illustrations<br />

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ANTHROPOLOGY/SCIENCE STUDIES/ENVIRONMENT<br />

December 328 pages<br />

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anthropolog y<br />

The Multispecies Salon<br />

eben kirksey, editor<br />

“This timely anthology offers a substantial and engaging introduction to<br />

the field of multispecies studies, clearly presenting the core concepts of<br />

an important and influential area of scholarship, which will become increasingly<br />

central to anthropology, science studies, environmental studies,<br />

and social theory. At the same time, The Multispecies Salon is in many<br />

ways an art book. It features an extraordinary range of remarkable art<br />

projects, which are fascinating in their own right and beautifully written<br />

up.”—SARAH FRANKLIN, author of Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells,<br />

and the Future of Kinship<br />

EBEN KIRKSEY, EDITOR<br />

A new approach to writing culture has<br />

arrived: multispecies ethnography.<br />

Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes<br />

appear alongside humans in this<br />

singular book about natural and<br />

cultural history. Anthropologists<br />

have collaborated with artists and<br />

biological scientists to illuminate<br />

how diverse organisms are entangled<br />

in political, economic, and cultural<br />

systems. Contributions from influential<br />

writers and scholars, such as<br />

Dorion Sagan, Karen Barad, Donna<br />

Haraway, and Anna Lowenhaupt<br />

Tsing, are featured along with essays by emergent artists and cultural<br />

anthropologists.<br />

Delectable mushrooms flourishing in the aftermath of ecological<br />

disaster, microbial cultures enlivening the politics and value of food,<br />

and emergent life forms running wild in the age of biotechnology<br />

all figure in this curated collection of essays and artifacts. Recipes<br />

provide instructions on how to cook acorn mush, make cheese out<br />

of human milk, and enliven forests after they have been clear-cut.<br />

The Multispecies Salon investigates messianic dreams, environmental<br />

nightmares, and modest sites of biocultural hope.<br />

Contributors<br />

The<br />

MULTISPECIES<br />

SALON<br />

Karen Barad, Caitlin Berrigan, Karin Bolender, Maria Brodine, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn,<br />

David S. Edmunds, Christine Hamilton, Donna J. Haraway, Stefan Helmreich,<br />

Angela James, Lindsay Kelley, Eben Kirksey, Linda Noel, Heather Paxson, Nathan Rich,<br />

Anna Rodriguez, Dorion Sagan, Craig Schuetze, Nicholas Shapiro, Miriam Simun,<br />

Kim TallBear, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing<br />

Eben Kirksey is a permanent faculty member in Environmental Humanities<br />

at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author<br />

of Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Global Architecture of<br />

Power, also published by Duke University Press.<br />

Illusions of a Future<br />

Psychoanalysis and the Biopolitics of Desire<br />

kate schechter<br />

“Illusions of a Future is not only a careful, fightingly smart account of what<br />

happens to middle-American psychoanalysis and its ‘crisis’ under neoliberal<br />

conditions of risk and accountability. It is an argument for a rethinking of biopolitics.<br />

Kate Schechter uses a rigorous historical and ethnographic account<br />

of twentieth-century and contemporary psychoanalysis in Chicago to address<br />

and extend both Foucauldian and Derridean readings of analysis and of Freud<br />

at the very point where these readings appear to falter or reverse course.<br />

She does so through empirical engagement with ‘local catalogs of resistances,’<br />

a project that she terms ‘rethinking biopolitics with renovated psychoanalytic<br />

resources’ and one that makes intense and rewarding demands on<br />

its reader.”—LAWRENCE COHEN, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer’s,<br />

The Bad Family, and Other Modern Things<br />

A pioneering ethnography of psychoanalysis,<br />

Illusions of a Future explores the<br />

ILLUSIONS political economy of private therapeutic<br />

labor within industrialized medicine.<br />

FUTURE<br />

Focusing on psychoanalysis in Chicago,<br />

psychoanalysis and the<br />

biopolitics of desire<br />

a historically important location in the<br />

development and institutionalization of<br />

kate schechter<br />

psychoanalysis in the United States, Kate<br />

Schechter examines the nexus of theory,<br />

practice, and institutional form in the<br />

original instituting of psychoanalysis,<br />

its normalization, and now its “crisis.”<br />

She describes how contemporary analysts<br />

struggle to maintain conceptions<br />

of themselves as capable of deciding what psychoanalysis is and how<br />

to regulate it in order to prevail over market demands for the efficiency<br />

and standardization of mental health treatments.<br />

OF A<br />

In the process, Schechter shows how deeply imbricated the analyst-patient<br />

relationship is in this effort. Since the mid-twentieth century, the “real”<br />

relationship between analyst and patient is no longer the unremarked<br />

background of analysis but its very site. Psychoanalysts seek to validate<br />

the centrality of this relationship with theory and, through codified “standards,”<br />

to claim it as a privileged technique. It has become the means by<br />

which psychoanalysts, in seeking to protect their disciplinary autonomy,<br />

have unwittingly bound themselves to a neoliberal discourse of regulation.<br />

Kate Schechter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at<br />

Rush Medical College, Chair of Conceptual Foundations at the Institute for<br />

Clinical Social Work, and Faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.<br />

She is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Chicago.<br />

EXPERIMENTAL FUTURES:<br />

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL VOICES<br />

A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit<br />

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ANTHROPOLOGY/ART<br />

October 344 pages, 86 illustrations (including 10 in color)<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5625–7, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5610–3, $94.95/£62.00<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/PSYCHOANALYSIS<br />

August 288 pages<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5721–6, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5708–7, $84.95/£55.00


anthropolog y<br />

The Republic Unsettled<br />

Muslim French and the<br />

Contradictions of Secularism<br />

mayanthi l. fernando<br />

Rubble<br />

The Afterlife of Destruction<br />

gastón r. gordillo<br />

“The Republic Unsettled is a brilliant book, at once a concrete examination<br />

of the experiences of Muslim French and a compelling analysis of the<br />

structural and discursive obstacles they face. A major contribution to both<br />

ethnography and political theory, this provocative, beautifully written work<br />

will appeal to those interested in debates about Muslims in Europe and the<br />

possibilities for thinking difference differently.”—JOAN WALLACH SCOTT,<br />

author of The Fantasy of Feminist History<br />

“At the edges of the dreamscapes put forward by the state and capital,<br />

Gastón R. Gordillo shows us haunted places where phantoms and<br />

curses join human bones and broken bricks: rubble. The Argentine Chaco<br />

becomes a magical landscape wrapped in multiple pasts and presents.<br />

Simultaneously erudite and evocative, Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction<br />

remakes the stories we tell about knowledge and history—and the legacy<br />

of violent conquest from the Spanish empire to the soy boom.”—ANNA<br />

LOWENHAUPT TSING, coeditor of Words in Motion: Toward a Global<br />

Lexicon<br />

Mayanthi L. Fernando<br />

The Republic<br />

unseTTled<br />

In 1989, three Muslim schoolgirls<br />

from a Paris suburb refused to<br />

remove their Islamic headscarves in<br />

class. The headscarf crisis signaled<br />

an Islamic revival among the children<br />

of North African immigrants;<br />

it also ignited an ongoing debate<br />

about the place of Muslims within<br />

the secular nation-state. Based on<br />

ten years of ethnographic research,<br />

The Republic Unsettled alternates<br />

between an analysis of Muslim<br />

French religiosity and the contradictions<br />

of French secularism<br />

Muslim French and the contradictions of secularism<br />

precipitated by this Muslim identity.<br />

Mayanthi L. Fernando explores how Muslim French draw on both Islamic<br />

and secular-republican traditions to create novel modes of ethical and<br />

political life, reconfiguring those traditions to imagine a new future for<br />

France. She also examines how the political discourses, institutions,<br />

and laws that constitute French secularism regulate Islam, transforming<br />

the Islamic tradition and what it means to be Muslim. Fernando traces<br />

how long-standing tensions within secularism and republican citizenship<br />

are displaced onto France’s Muslims, who are, as a result, rendered<br />

illegitimate as political citizens and moral subjects. She argues, ultimately,<br />

that the Muslim question is as much about secularism as it is<br />

about Islam.<br />

Mayanthi L. Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the<br />

University of California, Santa Cruz.<br />

At the foot of the Argentine Andes,<br />

bulldozers are destroying forests<br />

and homes to create soy fields in<br />

an area already strewn with rubble<br />

from previous waves of destruction<br />

and violence. Based on ethnographic<br />

research in this region<br />

//////////////////// The Afterlife of Destruction<br />

where the mountains give way to<br />

the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gastón<br />

R. Gordillo shows how geographic<br />

space is inseparable from the<br />

material, historical, and affective<br />

ruptures embodied in debris.<br />

Gastón R. Gordillo His exploration of the significance<br />

of rubble encompasses lost cities,<br />

derelict train stations, overgrown Jesuit missions and Spanish forts,<br />

stranded steamships, mass graves, and razed forests. Examining the<br />

effects of these and other forms of debris on the people living on<br />

nearby ranches and farms, and in towns, Gordillo emphasizes that for<br />

the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist<br />

endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the<br />

violence and dislocation that created it.<br />

Gastón R. Gordillo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of<br />

British Columbia. He is the author of Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place<br />

and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco, also published by Duke University<br />

Press.<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/FRANCE<br />

September 336 pages<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5748–3, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5734–6, $94.95/£62.00<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

July 336 pages, 65 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5619–6, $26.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5614–1, $94.95/£62.00<br />

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anthropolog y<br />

Given to the Goddess<br />

South Indian Devadasis<br />

and the Sexuality of Religion<br />

lucinda ramberg<br />

Cultivating the Nile<br />

The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt<br />

jessica barnes<br />

“Lucinda Ramberg’s powerful combination of ethnographic observation<br />

and theoretical reflection connects the study of a particular social group<br />

in South India (devadasis or jogatis) with general issues in anthropology<br />

and feminist and queer studies. Given to the Goddess will prove relevant<br />

to those, such as myself, who know very little about India but who are<br />

concerned with related issues in different contexts.”—ÉRIC FASSIN,<br />

Université Paris-8<br />

Who and what are marriage and<br />

sex for Whose practices and which<br />

Given to the Goddess ways of talking to god can count as<br />

Lucinda Ramberg<br />

religion Lucinda Ramberg considers<br />

these questions based on two years<br />

of ethnographic research on an ongoing<br />

South Indian practice of dedication<br />

in which girls, and sometimes boys,<br />

are married to a goddess. Called<br />

devadasis, or jogatis, those dedicated<br />

become female and male women who<br />

conduct the rites of the goddess outside<br />

the walls of her main temple and<br />

SOUTH INDIAN DEVADASIS and the SEXUALITY of RELIGION<br />

transact in sex outside the bounds<br />

of conjugal matrimony. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites<br />

that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long<br />

been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is<br />

productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues,<br />

and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or<br />

religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of<br />

modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between<br />

and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.<br />

Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of<br />

Anthropology and the Program in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies<br />

at Cornell University.<br />

“Cultivating the Nile is an impressive account of something we know little<br />

about despite its growing urgency: the causes of water scarcity in any<br />

particular region and the ways that the people affected deal with it.<br />

A significant contribution to the growing literature on water sustainability<br />

around the world, Cultivating the Nile is likely to be discussed for years<br />

to come.”—STEVEN C. CATON, Harvard University<br />

The waters of the Nile are fundamental<br />

to life in Egypt. In this compelling<br />

ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores<br />

the everyday politics of water: a politics<br />

anchored in the mundane yet vital<br />

acts of blocking, releasing, channeling,<br />

and diverting water. She examines<br />

the quotidian practices of farmers,<br />

government engineers, and international<br />

donors as they interact with<br />

The e veryday PoliT ics<br />

Cultivating the Nile<br />

of waT er in egyPT<br />

the waters of the Nile flowing into and<br />

through Egypt. Situating these local<br />

jessica barnes<br />

practices in relation to broader processes<br />

that affect Nile waters, Barnes<br />

moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation<br />

canal to international water conference. By showing how the waters<br />

of the Nile are constantly made and remade as a resource by people in<br />

and outside Egypt, she demonstrates the range of political dynamics,<br />

social relations, and technological interventions that must be incorporated<br />

into understandings of water and its management.<br />

Jessica Barnes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography<br />

and the Environment and Sustainability Program at the University of South<br />

Carolina.<br />

NEW ECOLOGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY<br />

A Series Edited by Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau<br />

22<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION/SOUTH ASIA<br />

September 304 pages, 25 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5724–7, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5710–0, $89.95/£59.00<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES<br />

September 256 pages, 24 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5756–8, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5741–4, $89.95/£59.00


cultural studies<br />

Habeas Viscus<br />

Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics,<br />

and Black Feminist Theories of the Human<br />

alexander g. weheliye<br />

“Habeas Viscus is a major contribution to the discourses of race and<br />

modern politics. Alexander G. Weheliye intervenes in contemporary<br />

engagement with Agamben’s and Foucault’s scholarship on biopolitics<br />

by opening new lines of inquiry for thinking through the problem of the<br />

human. Weheliye turns to the work of two major scholars and theorists<br />

of black studies, Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter, revealing their<br />

thinking about the material and discursive existence of black bodies as<br />

vital analytical rubrics for conceptualizing the human.”—WAHNEEMA<br />

LUBIANO, editor of The House That Race Built<br />

HABEAS VISCUS<br />

Habeas Viscus focuses attention on<br />

the centrality of race to notions of<br />

the human. Alexander G. Weheliye<br />

develops a theory of “racializing<br />

assemblages,” taking race as a<br />

set of sociopolitical processes that<br />

discipline humanity into full humans,<br />

not-quite-humans, and nonhumans.<br />

This disciplining, while not biological<br />

per se, frequently depends<br />

on anchoring political hierarchies<br />

RACIALIZING ASSEMBLAGES, BIOPOLITICS, in human flesh. The work of the<br />

AND BLACK FEMINIST THEORIES OF THE HUMAN<br />

black feminist scholars Hortense<br />

ALEXANDER G. WEHELIYE<br />

Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital<br />

to Weheliye’s argument. Particularly significant are their contributions<br />

to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and<br />

the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers<br />

configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception<br />

of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye<br />

posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives<br />

to the “bare life and biopolitics discourse” exemplified by the works<br />

of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends,<br />

vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race<br />

in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need<br />

to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational<br />

to the study of modern humanity.<br />

Alexander G. Weheliye is Associate Professor of African-American<br />

Studies and English at Northwestern University. He is the author of<br />

Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity, also published by<br />

Duke University Press.<br />

Oxford Street, Accra<br />

City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism<br />

ato quayson<br />

“Oxford Street, Accra is an erudite and accomplished book by one of Africa’s<br />

most prominent literary and cultural critics. Ato Quayson is astute in his<br />

use of critical theory to illuminate transforming African urban cultures,<br />

and he is creative in the aspects of urban space he chooses to analyze.<br />

He inventively depicts the tensions of the diverse imaginaries, calculations,<br />

and ethical sensibilities that cut across the conventional zones and distinctions<br />

of city life, giving rise to new connections near and far.”—ABDOU-<br />

MALIQ SIMONE, author of For the City Yet to Come: Changing African<br />

Life in Four Cities<br />

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City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism Ato Quayson<br />

In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson<br />

analyzes the dynamics of Ghana’s<br />

capital city through a focus on Oxford<br />

Street, part of Accra’s most vibrant<br />

and globalized commercial district.<br />

He traces the city’s evolution from<br />

its settlement in the mid-seventeenth<br />

century to the present day. He combines<br />

his impressions of the sights,<br />

sounds, interactions, and distribution<br />

of space with broader dynamics,<br />

including the histories of colonial and<br />

postcolonial town planning and the<br />

marks of transnationalism evident in<br />

Accra’s salsa scene, gym culture, and commercial billboards. Quayson<br />

finds that the various planning systems that have shaped the city—and<br />

had their stratifying effects intensified by the IMF-mandated structural<br />

adjustment programs of the late 1980s—prepared the way for the early-<br />

1990s transformation of a largely residential neighborhood into a kinetic<br />

shopping district. With an intense commercialism overlying, or coexisting<br />

with, stark economic inequalities, Oxford Street is a microcosm of<br />

historical and urban processes that have made Accra the variegated<br />

and contradictory metropolis that it is today.<br />

,<br />

Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for<br />

Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is<br />

the author of Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing, Calibrations:<br />

Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the<br />

Crisis of Representation, as well as editor of the two-volume Cambridge<br />

History of Postcolonial Literature, coeditor of A Companion to Diaspora<br />

and Transnationalism, and General Editor of the Cambridge Journal<br />

of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry.<br />

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/CRITICAL THEORY/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

August 224 pages, 14 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5701–8, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5691–2, $84.95/£55.00<br />

AFRICAN STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

August 320 pages, 20 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5747–6, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5733–9, $94.95/£62.00<br />

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cultural studies<br />

Utopias<br />

mark featherstone & malcolm miles,<br />

special issue editors<br />

a special issue of CULTURAL POLITICS<br />

Following the collapse of<br />

communist and socialist<br />

utopianism in the twentieth<br />

century, the global<br />

economic crisis has<br />

foreclosed the promise of<br />

a neoliberal consumerist<br />

utopia in the twenty-first.<br />

This special issue of<br />

Hut 11, a.k.a. the Bombe Room, a.k.a. “the hell hole.” Cultural Politics considers<br />

what happens when<br />

Photo by Gair Dunlop.<br />

people believe that the system they currently inhabit does not work,<br />

but they see few viable alternatives, and wide-scale change seems<br />

impossible in any case. Considering history, fiction, art, and economic<br />

theory, the contributors think about the ways in which a vital future<br />

might emerge from an exhausted culture. Topics include narratives of<br />

catastrophe and escape in Cold War fiction, the narcotic haze of amusement<br />

culture in China, and the meaning of protest and utopian critique<br />

in contemporary art. The issue also features an interview with autonomist<br />

Paolo Virno on social individualism and imagination. Exploring<br />

how the current dystopian worldview points toward alternative utopian<br />

futures, the contributors seize a critical opportunity for new forms of<br />

cultural politics to emerge.<br />

Contributors<br />

Thierry Bardini, John Beck, Mark Chou, Mark Dorrian, Gair Dunlop, Mark Featherstone,<br />

Jonathan Harris, Malcolm Miles, Tao Dongfeng, Paolo Virno<br />

Mark Featherstone is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University.<br />

Malcolm Miles is Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of<br />

Plymouth School of Architecture, Design and Environment.<br />

Porn Archives<br />

tim dean, steven ruszczycky<br />

& david squires, editors<br />

“Everyone working on porn will have to refer to this field-defining collection.<br />

It is an important book, notable for its compelling argument, stellar<br />

roster of contributors, intellectual heft, and broad theoretical scope.<br />

It is the most exacting and exciting statement about porn studies to date.”<br />

—ROBYN WIEGMAN, author of Object Lessons<br />

While sexually explicit writing and<br />

art have been around for millennia,<br />

pornography—as an aesthetic, moral,<br />

and juridical category—is a modern invention.<br />

The contributors to Porn Archives<br />

explore how the production and proliferation<br />

of pornography has been intertwined<br />

with the emergence of the archive as a<br />

conceptual and physical site for preserving,<br />

cataloguing, and transmitting documents<br />

and artifacts. By segregating and regulating<br />

access to sexually explicit material,<br />

archives have helped constitute pornography<br />

as a distinct genre. As a result,<br />

porn has become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as<br />

the production of pleasure.<br />

Jess, Untitled “paste-up” (ca.<br />

1950s). © The Jess Collins Trust,<br />

used by permission.<br />

The essays in this collection address the historically and culturally<br />

varied interactions between porn and the archive. Topics range from<br />

library policies governing access to sexually explicit material to the<br />

growing digital archive of “war porn,” or eroticized combat imagery;<br />

and from same-sex amputee porn to gay black comic book superhero<br />

porn. Together the pieces trace pornography as it crosses borders,<br />

transforms technologies, consolidates sexual identities, and challenges<br />

notions of what counts as legitimate forms of knowledge. The collection<br />

concludes with a valuable resource for scholars: a list of pornography<br />

archives held by institutions around the world.<br />

Contributors<br />

Jennifer Burns Bright, Eugenie Brinkema, Joseph Bristow, Robert L. Caserio, Ronan<br />

Crowley, Tim Dean, Robert Dewhurst, Lisa Downing, Frances Ferguson, Loren Glass,<br />

Harri Kalha, Marcia Klotz, Prabha Manuratne, Mireille Miller-Young, Nguyen Tan Hoang,<br />

John Paul Ricco, Steven Ruszczycky, Melissa Schindler, Darieck Scott, Caitlin Shanley,<br />

Ramón E. Soto-Crespo, David Squires, Linda Williams<br />

Tim Dean is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at SUNY<br />

at Buffalo, where he is also the Director of the Center for the Study<br />

of Psychoanalysis and Culture. He is the author of Unlimited Intimacy:<br />

Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking and Beyond Sexuality.<br />

Steven Ruszczycky recently completed a PhD in English at SUNY at<br />

Buffalo, where David Squires is a PhD candidate in English.<br />

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CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

July 164 pages, 11 illustrations Vol. 10, no. 2<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–6818–2, $15.00/£9.99<br />

CULTURAL STUDIES/GENDER STUDIES<br />

December 544 pages, 31 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5680–6, $29.95/£19.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5671–4, $99.95/£65.00


women’s studies<br />

A Taste for Brown Sugar<br />

Black Women in Pornography<br />

mireille miller-young<br />

Street Corner Secrets<br />

Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai<br />

svati p. shah<br />

“Finally: scholarship that centers black women’s labor and ideas in both<br />

academia and the sex industries and gives crucial voice to underrepresented<br />

workers and feminist thinkers. Accessible to scholars and general<br />

readers alike, this book will enrage you, enlighten you, and make you<br />

rethink everything you know about race and sex.”—TRISTAN TAORMINO,<br />

author of True Lust: Adventures in Sex, Porn, and Peversion<br />

A Taste for Brown Sugar boldly takes on<br />

representations of black women’s sexuality<br />

in the porn industry. It is based on<br />

Mireille Miller-Young’s extensive archival<br />

research and her interviews with dozens<br />

of women who have worked in the adult<br />

entertainment industry since the 1980s.<br />

The women share their thoughts about<br />

desire and eroticism, black women’s sexuality<br />

and representation, and ambition<br />

and the need to make ends meet. Miller-<br />

Young documents their interventions into<br />

the complicated history of black women’s<br />

sexuality, looking at individual choices,<br />

however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised line—as small acts<br />

of resistance, of what she calls “illicit eroticism.” Building on the work<br />

of other black feminist theorists, and contributing to the field of sex<br />

work studies, she seeks to expand discussion of black women’s sexuality<br />

to include their eroticism and desires, as well as their participation<br />

and representation in the adult entertainment industry. Miller-Young<br />

wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the decisions<br />

they make, albeit often within material and industrial constraints,<br />

recognized as their own.<br />

Jeannie Pepper, Cannes, France<br />

1986. Courtesy of JohnDragon.com.<br />

Mireille Miller-Young is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the<br />

University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a coeditor of The Feminist<br />

Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure.<br />

“I learned a tremendous amount from Street Corner Secrets. Svati P. Shah<br />

thoughtfully and passionately lays out the struggles poor women face every<br />

day and their creative attempts to survive and move forward. Her concern<br />

about and respect for the women she meets shines through on every page.<br />

This is the best of engaged anthropology. It will become a classic on gendered<br />

labor, sexual labor, and the precarity of informal work.”—DENISE BRENNAN,<br />

author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States<br />

Street Corner Secrets challenges widespread<br />

notions of sex work in India by<br />

examining solicitation in three spaces<br />

STREET CORNER SECRETS<br />

within the city of Mumbai that are<br />

seldom placed within the same analytic<br />

frame—brothels, streets, and public<br />

day-wage labor markets (nakas), where<br />

sexual commerce may be solicited<br />

discreetly alongside other incomegenerating<br />

activities. Focusing on women<br />

who migrated to Mumbai from rural, economically<br />

underdeveloped areas within<br />

Sex, Work, and Migration<br />

in the City of Mumbai<br />

SVATI P. SHAH India, Svati P. Shah argues that selling<br />

sexual services is one of a number of<br />

ways women working as laborers may earn a living, demonstrating that<br />

sex work, like day labor, is a part of India’s vast informal economy. Here,<br />

various means of earning—legitimized or stigmatized, legal or illegal—<br />

overlap or exist in close proximity to one another, shaping a narrow field<br />

of livelihood options that women navigate daily. In the course of this rich<br />

ethnography, Shah discusses policing practices, migrants’ access to housing<br />

and water, the idea of public space, critiques of states and citizenship,<br />

and the discursive location of violence within debates on sexual commerce.<br />

Throughout, the book analyzes the epistemology of prostitution, and the<br />

silences and secrets that constitute the discourse of sexual commerce on<br />

Mumbai’s streets.<br />

Svati P. Shah is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender,<br />

Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.<br />

NEXT WAVE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES<br />

A Series Edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman<br />

WOMEN’S STUDIES/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

October 400 pages, 40 color illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5828–2, $27.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5814–5, $99.95/£65.00<br />

ANTHROPOLOGY/SOUTH ASIA/WOMEN’S STUDIES<br />

August 272 pages, 6 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5698–1, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5689–9, $89.95/£59.00<br />

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gay & lesbian / queer / transgender studies<br />

A View from the Bottom<br />

Asian American Masculinity<br />

and Sexual Representation<br />

nguyen tan hoang<br />

“Nguyen Tan Hoang’s exciting book is a compelling account of the aesthetic,<br />

political, and queer possibilities of racialized forms of ‘bottomhood.’<br />

As someone who has been writing about masochism and passivity in<br />

relation to queer femininities for a while, I realize that this is the book<br />

I have needed in sorting through the complex forms of personhood, pleasure,<br />

and power that bottomhood braids into the meanings of race, nation,<br />

and sexuality.”—JACK HALBERSTAM, author of The Queer Art of Failure<br />

A View from the Bottom offers a<br />

major critical reassessment of male<br />

effeminacy and its racialization in<br />

visual culture. Examining portrayals<br />

of Asian and Asian American men in<br />

Hollywood cinema, European art film,<br />

gay pornography, and experimental<br />

documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang<br />

explores the cultural meanings that<br />

accrue to sexual positions. He shows<br />

how cultural fantasies around the<br />

position of the sexual “bottom” overdetermine<br />

and refract the meanings of<br />

race, gender, sexuality, and nationality<br />

in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian<br />

masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and<br />

abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position<br />

that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of<br />

bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond,<br />

and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender,<br />

and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not<br />

around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and<br />

shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates<br />

new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers<br />

a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well<br />

as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.<br />

Nguyen Tan Hoang is Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies<br />

at Bryn Mawr College. He is also a videomaker whose works include<br />

look_im_azn, K.I.P., PIRATED! and Forever Bottom! His videos have been<br />

screened at the Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Center, and the Centre<br />

Pompidou.<br />

On the Visceral, Part I<br />

Race, Sex, and Other Gut Feelings<br />

sharon holland, marcia ochoa &<br />

kyla wazana tompkins, special issue editors<br />

a special issue of GLQ<br />

Using the gut as a starting point,<br />

this special issue of GLQ focuses<br />

on the idea of the visceral as a<br />

trope for the carnal and bloody<br />

logic that organizes life. It brings<br />

together scholars working in food<br />

studies, American studies, sexuality<br />

and queer studies, and critical<br />

race theory, who are keen not<br />

only to understand patterns of<br />

bodily production and consumption<br />

but also to propose new<br />

theoretical scaffoldings for our<br />

understanding of the intersection<br />

of race, food, the human, and<br />

the animal. These essays highlight<br />

the moments, texts, and<br />

processes that link food, flesh,<br />

and the alimentary tract to<br />

systems of pleasure—as well as to historical and political systems of<br />

inequality. The contributors seek to unearth structures of feeling, sensing,<br />

and embodiment that have been obscured either by colonialist<br />

historiography or political prejudice.<br />

Sweetness January 20, 2006. gimmepicture@<br />

dirtysurface.com.<br />

Contributors<br />

Leah Devun, Sharon Holland, Rachel Lee, Jennifer C. Nash, Marcia Ochoa, Kyla Wazana<br />

Tompkins, Zeb Tortorici<br />

Sharon Holland is Associate Professor of English at Duke University.<br />

She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism and Raising the Dead:<br />

Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity, both published by Duke<br />

University Press. Marcia Ochoa is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies<br />

at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Queen for<br />

a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity<br />

in Venezuela, also published by Duke University Press. Kyla Wazana<br />

Tompkins is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s<br />

Studies at Pomona College.<br />

PERVERSE MODERNITIES<br />

A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe<br />

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QUEER THEORY/ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

July 312 pages, 39 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5684–4, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5672–1, $89.95/£59.00<br />

CULTURAL STUDIES/QUEER THEORY<br />

September 140 pages, 2 illustrations Vol. 20, no. 4<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–6816–8, $12.00/£9.99


gay & lesbian / queer / transgender studies<br />

Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary<br />

aren aizura, marcia ochoa, salvador<br />

vidal-ortiz, trystan cotton & carsten Balzer/<br />

Carla laGata, special issue editors<br />

a special issue of TSQ: TRANSGENDER STUDIES QUARTERLY<br />

Queer Theory without Antinormativity<br />

robyn wiegman &<br />

elizabeth a. wilson, special issue editors<br />

a special issue of DIFFERENCES<br />

What is at stake in acknowledging transgender studies’ Anglophone<br />

roots in the global North and West What kinds of politics might<br />

emerge from challenging the assumption that biological sex—or the<br />

categories “man” and “woman”—is stable and self-evident across<br />

time, space, and culture This special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies<br />

Quarterly asks how trans scholarship can decolonize, rather than<br />

reproduce, dominant imaginaries of sexuality and gender.<br />

The issue highlights roadblocks as well as unexpected openings in the<br />

global circulation of trans politics and culture. A First Nations scholar<br />

recovers lost tribal knowledge of non-Eurocentric gender. A Thai trans<br />

filmmaker negotiates culturally incommensurable categories of self.<br />

Two contributors consider what is lost as the term transgender replaces<br />

local, vernacular categories of difference in India. A study of genderqueer<br />

childhood in Peru disrupts colonial ethnographer-informant<br />

roles, while another author critiques the colonialist ethnography on the<br />

sarimbavy, gender nonconforming categories of Madagascar. Another<br />

essay follows the global commodity chain of synthetic hormones to<br />

explore the biopolitics of transgender bodies and race. Finally, a roundtable<br />

discussion among transnational activists, culture makers, and<br />

scholars offers perspectives ranging from the celebratory to the cynical<br />

on decolonizing the transgender imaginary.<br />

Contributors<br />

Aren Aizura, Finn Jackson Ballard, Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata, Karma Chavez,<br />

Giancarlo Cornejo, Trystan Cotton, Aniruddha Dutta, Julian Gill-Peterson, Marcia Ochoa,<br />

Seth Palmer, Jai Arun Ravine, Lara Rodriguez, Liz Rosenfeld, Raina Roy, T. J. Tallie,<br />

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Saylesh Wesley, Cindy Wu<br />

Aren Aizura is Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the<br />

School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Marcia Ochoa<br />

is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California,<br />

Santa Cruz. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is Associate Professor of Sociology<br />

at American University. Trystan Cotton is Associate Professor of Gender<br />

Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. Carsten Balzer/Carla<br />

LaGata is the senior researcher of Transgender Europe and lead researcher<br />

of the Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide project.<br />

The tyrannies of sexual normativity have been widely denounced<br />

in queer theory. Heteronormativity, homonormativity, family values,<br />

marriage, and monogamy have all been objects of sustained queer<br />

critique, most often in purely oppositional form: as antinormativity.<br />

The contributors to this special issue of differences ask a seemingly<br />

simple question of this critical code: can queer theory proceed without<br />

a primary allegiance to antinormativity These essays offer an affirmative<br />

answer either by rethinking normativity or eschewing it altogether<br />

in order to redirect the intellectual and political energies of the field.<br />

Contributors<br />

Erica Edwards, Annamarie Jagose, Vicki Kirby, Heather Love, Madhavi Menon,<br />

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Michael Warner, Robyn Wiegman, Elizabeth A. Wilson<br />

Robyn Wiegman is Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at<br />

Duke University. She is the author of Object Lessons and editor of Women’s<br />

Studies on Its Own: A Next Wave Reader in Institutional Change, both<br />

published by Duke University Press. Elizabeth A. Wilson is Professor<br />

of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is<br />

the author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, also<br />

published by Duke University Press.<br />

TRANSGENDER STUDIES<br />

August 176 pages Vol. 1, no. 3<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–6817–5, $12.00/£9.99<br />

QUEER THEORY<br />

October 200 pages Vol. 26, no. 1<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–6813–7, $14.00/£9.99<br />

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music<br />

Roy Cape<br />

A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand<br />

jocelyne guilbault & roy cape<br />

Beautiful Data<br />

A History of Vision and Reason since 1945<br />

orit halpern<br />

media studies<br />

“Roy Cape is a true delight. It is an engagingly written portrayal of the<br />

interplay of Roy Cape’s musicianship and life, demonstrating how his social<br />

relations on the bandstand are inextricably connected to the way he lives<br />

in the world. I like the way that the book moves from the conventions of<br />

biography to a lively exchange between Roy and Jocelyne Guilbault, and<br />

then becomes increasingly adventurous, only to slow down again before<br />

the poignant afterword.”—RONALD RADANO, author of Lying Up a<br />

Nation: Race and Black Music<br />

“Beautiful Data is a wonderful book, deeply engaging and full of compelling<br />

insights. Reading across fields, disciplines, borders, and issues, Orit<br />

Halpern chronicles the emergence of a new way of thinking about the<br />

world for the digital moment. It is crucial reading for anyone interested<br />

in the new directions in which the humanities, the arts, and education are<br />

moving.”—PRISCILLA WALD, author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers,<br />

and the Outbreak Narrative<br />

joCeLyne guiLBAuLt<br />

A Life on the CALypso<br />

roy CApe<br />

soCA BAndstAnd<br />

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist<br />

active as a band musician for more<br />

than fifty years and as a bandleader<br />

for more than thirty. He is known<br />

throughout the islands and the<br />

Caribbean diasporas in North America<br />

and Europe. Part ethnography, part<br />

biography, and part Caribbean music<br />

history, Roy Cape is about the making<br />

of reputation and circulation, and<br />

about the meaning of labor and work<br />

ethics. An experiment in storytelling,<br />

it joins Roy’s voice with that of<br />

ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.<br />

The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while discussing<br />

Roy’s journey as a performer and bandleader. In conversation,<br />

they began experimenting with voice, with who takes the lead, who<br />

says what, when, to whom, and why. Their book reflects that dynamic,<br />

combining first-person narrative, dialogue, and the polyphony of Roy’s<br />

bandmates’ voices. Listening to recordings and looking at old photographs<br />

elicited more recollections, which allowed Roy to expand on<br />

recurring themes and motifs. This congenial, candid book offers different<br />

ways of knowing Roy’s labor of love—his sound and work through<br />

sound, his reputation and circulation as a renowned musician and bandleader<br />

in the world.<br />

Jocelyne Guilbault is Professor of Music at the University of California,<br />

Berkeley. She is the author of Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics<br />

of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics and Zouk: World Music in the West Indies.<br />

Roy Cape (born in Trinidad in 1942) is an internationally renowned calypso<br />

and soca musician and bandleader. He has toured widely, played on hundreds<br />

of recordings, and released eight albums with his band Roy Cape All<br />

Stars.<br />

Charles and Ray Eames, Glimpses of the USA, Moscow 1959. ©2013 Eames Office, LLC<br />

(eamesoffice.com).<br />

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and<br />

a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the<br />

second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of<br />

attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit<br />

Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves,<br />

to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of<br />

cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human<br />

sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in<br />

attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed<br />

attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms<br />

of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management<br />

and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value<br />

of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and<br />

train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations<br />

in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief<br />

that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a<br />

crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.<br />

Orit Halpern is Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social<br />

Research and Eugene Lang College.<br />

EXPERIMENTAL FUTURES:<br />

TECHNOLOGICAL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS,<br />

ANTHROPOLOGICAL VOICES<br />

A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit<br />

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MUSIC/ANTHROPOLOGY<br />

October 328 pages, 57 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5774–2, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5760–5, $89.95/£59.00<br />

MEDIA STUDIES/SCIENCE STUDIES<br />

January 384 pages, 108 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5744–5, $27.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5730–8, $99.95/£65.00


media studies<br />

Forensic Media<br />

Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity<br />

greg siegel<br />

Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era<br />

sharon marcus, special issue editor<br />

a special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE<br />

“An original historical analysis of the intersection of accidents and media,<br />

this book resonates with the present climate of terror and risk, bringing a<br />

significant historical dimension to our understanding of the contemporary<br />

moment. Forensic Media demonstrates how thoroughly the technological<br />

accident drives and is driven by parallel developments in modern recording<br />

media. By raising crucial questions about the role of the mediated accident<br />

in modern debates on causality, evidence, knowledge, and narrative, it<br />

makes significant contributions to media archeology and the history of<br />

science.”—KAREN BECKMAN, editor of Animating Film Theory<br />

Photograph by and courtesy of Jeffrey Milstein.<br />

www.jeffreymilstein.com<br />

In Forensic Media, Greg<br />

Siegel considers how photographic,<br />

electronic, and<br />

digital media have been<br />

used to record and reconstruct<br />

accidents, particularly<br />

high-speed crashes and<br />

catastrophes. Focusing in<br />

turn on the birth of the<br />

field of forensic engineering,<br />

Charles Babbage’s invention<br />

of a “self-registering<br />

apparatus” for railroad trains, flight-data and cockpit voice recorders<br />

(“black boxes”), the science of automobile crash-testing, and various<br />

accident-reconstruction techniques and technologies, Siegel shows<br />

how “forensic media” work to transmute disruptive chance occurrences<br />

into reassuring narratives of causal succession. Through historical<br />

and philosophical analyses, he demonstrates that forensic media are<br />

as much technologies of cultural imagination as they are instruments<br />

of scientific inscription, as imbued with ideological fantasies as they<br />

are compelled by institutional rationales. By rethinking the historical<br />

links and cultural relays between accidents and forensics, Siegel sheds<br />

new light on the corresponding connections between media, technology,<br />

and modernity.<br />

Jay-Z and Marina Abramović. Still from Picasso Baby: A Performance Art Film, 2013 (director<br />

Mark Romanek).<br />

The contributors to Celebrities and Publics in the Internet Era ask how<br />

new digital media platforms such as search engines, Twitter, Facebook,<br />

Instagram, and YouTube have qualitatively changed celebrity culture.<br />

Drawing on examples ranging from the luxury selfies of microcelebrities<br />

including Kane Lim to performance artist Marina Abramović’s collaborations<br />

with Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, from the karaoke standard in shows<br />

such as American Idol to Syrian singer Assala’s media battle with the<br />

Assad regime, and from the “emotion economy” of reality TV to the<br />

influence of such network entrepreneurs as Tim O’Reilly, the essays in<br />

this special issue of Public Culture identify core structural features that<br />

contribute to the development of a new theory of celebrity.<br />

Contributors<br />

Laura Grindstaff, Marwan M. Kraidy, Christine Larson, Sharon Marcus, Alice E. Marwick,<br />

Susan Murray, Sharrona Pearl, Dana Polan, Carlo Rotella, Karen Tongson, Fred Turner<br />

Sharon Marcus is Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative<br />

Literature at Columbia University.<br />

Greg Siegel is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the<br />

University of California, Santa Barbara.<br />

SIGN, STORAGE, TRANSMISSION<br />

A Series Edited by Jonathan Sterne and Lisa Gitelman<br />

MEDIA STUDIES/SCIENCE STUDIES<br />

November 296 pages, 57 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5753–7, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5739–1, $89.95/£59.00<br />

MEDIA STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

December 200 pages, 40 illustrations Vol. 27, no. 1<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–6814–4, $16.00/£9.99<br />

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american studies<br />

New World Drama<br />

The Performative Commons<br />

in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849<br />

elizabeth maddock dillon<br />

“Beginning with regicide and ending in riot, New World Drama revisits key<br />

sites along the Atlantic rim to show how theatrical audiences, electing their<br />

representatives from a ballot of dramatic characters, expanded the ‘public<br />

sphere’ of the print world into a dynamic ‘performative commons.’ In this<br />

innovative book, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon reframes discussion across<br />

literature, history, cultural studies, and performance studies.”—JOSEPH<br />

ROACH, author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance<br />

In New World Drama, Elizabeth<br />

Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous<br />

E lizabeth<br />

M addock<br />

scene of theatre in the eighteenth-<br />

DILLON<br />

N EW<br />

century Atlantic world to explore the<br />

W ORLD<br />

creation of new publics. Moving from<br />

D RAMA<br />

England to the Caribbean to the early<br />

the<br />

PERFORMATIVE<br />

COMMONS<br />

United States, she traces the theatri-<br />

in the<br />

ATLANTIC<br />

cal emergence of a collective body<br />

WORLD<br />

1649–1849<br />

in the colonized New World—one<br />

that included indigenous peoples,<br />

diasporic Africans, and diasporic<br />

Europeans. In the raucous space of<br />

the theatre, the contradictions of<br />

colonialism loomed large. Foremost<br />

among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of<br />

a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom.<br />

Audiences in London eagerly watched the royal slave, Oroonoko, tortured<br />

on stage, while audiences in Charleston and Kingston were<br />

forbidden from watching the same scene. Audiences in Kingston and<br />

New York City exuberantly participated in the slaying of Richard III on<br />

stage, enacting the rise of the “people,” and Native American leaders<br />

were enjoined to watch actors in blackface “jump Jim Crow.” Dillon<br />

argues that the theater served as a “performative commons,” staging<br />

debates over representation in a political world based on popular sovereignty.<br />

Her book is a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and<br />

modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.<br />

Formations of United States Colonialism<br />

alyosha goldstein, editor<br />

“This indispensable anthology makes a significant intervention in multiple<br />

fields by bridging what has often been seen as two separate processes,<br />

the consolidation of U.S. control over the continent and the rise of formal<br />

overseas interests at the end of the nineteenth century. The collected<br />

essays offer rich and substantive directions for future investigations to<br />

scholars interested in what American Indian and Indigenous studies bring<br />

to American studies and U.S. imperial studies.”—JODI A. BYRD, author<br />

of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism<br />

Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S.<br />

settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism<br />

in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the essays in this groundbreaking<br />

volume underscore the United States as a fluctuating constellation<br />

of geopolitical entities marked by overlapping and variable practices<br />

of colonization. By rethinking the intertwined experiences of Native<br />

Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chamorros, Filipinos, Hawaiians, Samoans,<br />

and others subjected to U.S. imperial rule, the contributors consider<br />

how the diversity of settler claims, territorial annexations, overseas<br />

occupations, and circuits of slavery and labor—along with their attendant<br />

forms of jurisprudence, racialization, and militarism—both facilitate<br />

and delimit the conditions of colonial dispossession. Drawing on the<br />

insights of critical indigenous and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory,<br />

critical geography, ethnography, and social history, this volume emphasizes<br />

the significance of U.S. colonialisms as a vital analytic framework<br />

for understanding how and why the United States is what it is today.<br />

Contributors<br />

Julian Aguon, Joanne Barker, Berenika Byszewski, Jennifer Denetdale, Augusto Espiritu,<br />

Alyosha Goldstein, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Barbara Krauthamer, Lorena Oropeza, Vicente<br />

L. Rafael, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Lanny Thompson, Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa, Manu<br />

Vimalassery<br />

Alyosha Goldstein is Associate Professor of American Studies at the<br />

University of New Mexico. He is the author of Poverty in Common: The<br />

Politics of Community Action during the American Century, also published<br />

by Duke University Press.<br />

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon is Professor of English at Northeastern<br />

University. She is the author of The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of<br />

Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere.<br />

NEW AMERICANISTS<br />

A Series Edited by Donald A. Pease<br />

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AMERICAN STUDIES/THEATER<br />

August 360 pages, 17 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5341–6, $26.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5324–9, $94.95/£62.00<br />

AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

October 424 pages, 14 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5810–7, $27.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5796–4, $99.95/£65.00


american studies<br />

Orgies of Feeling<br />

Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom<br />

elisabeth r. anker<br />

Soundtracks of Asian America<br />

Navigating Race through Musical Performance<br />

grace wang<br />

“Anyone who thinks that melodrama is inherently politically progressive<br />

is advised to read this book, the first to systematically apply the role<br />

of the American melodramatic mode to the politics of American heroic<br />

sovereignty. Perhaps the boldest part of Elisabeth R. Anker’s thesis is not<br />

simply the general argument that Americans often cast their politics into<br />

narratives of victimization and vengeance, but the historical argument that<br />

a new kind of melodrama has emerged ‘with a vengeance’ after the end of<br />

the Cold War and especially after 9/11. I am in awe at this book’s boldness<br />

and acuity.”—LINDA WILLIAMS, author of On The Wire<br />

Melodrama is not just a film or literary<br />

genre but a powerful political<br />

discourse that galvanizes national<br />

orgies of feeling sentiment to legitimate state violence.<br />

Finding virtue in national suffering<br />

and heroism in sovereign action,<br />

melodrama and melodramatic political discourses<br />

the politics of freedom<br />

cast war and surveillance as moral<br />

imperatives for eradicating villainy<br />

and upholding freedom. In Orgies<br />

elisabeth r. anker of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly<br />

reframes political theories of sovereignty,<br />

freedom, and power by<br />

analyzing the work of melodrama<br />

and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates<br />

desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses<br />

in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric,<br />

Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich<br />

Nietzsche’s notion of “orgies of feeling,” in which overwhelming<br />

emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness<br />

onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends<br />

that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication<br />

of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is<br />

ultimately an expression of the public’s inability to overcome systemic<br />

exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated<br />

threats to the nation.<br />

“Soundtracks of Asian America is smart and informed, capacious and beautifully<br />

written. Arguing that the racialized imagination works similarly across<br />

musical genres, Grace Wang explores senses of Asian and Asian American<br />

belonging across the worlds of classical and popular music. From young<br />

classical musicians’ parents as key sites of ideology formation to the<br />

‘reverse migration’ of young Asian Americans to East Asian popular music<br />

markets, her case studies are inspired and telling.”—DEBORAH WONG,<br />

author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music<br />

In Soundtracks of Asian America, Grace Wang explores how Asian<br />

Americans use music to construct narratives of self, race, class, and<br />

belonging in national and transnational spaces. She highlights how they<br />

navigate racialization in different genres by considering the experiences<br />

of Asians and Asian Americans in Western classical music, U.S. popular<br />

music, and Mandopop (Mandarin-language popular music). Her study<br />

encompasses the perceptions and motivations of middle-class Chinese<br />

and Korean immigrant parents intensely involved in their children’s classical<br />

music training, and of Asian and Asian American classical musicians<br />

whose prominence in their chosen profession is celebrated by some and<br />

undermined by others. Wang interviews young Asian American singersongwriters<br />

using YouTube to contest the limitations of a racialized U.S.<br />

media landscape, and investigates the transnational modes of belonging<br />

forged by Asian American pop stars pursuing recording contracts and<br />

fame in East Asia. Foregrounding musical spaces where Asian Americans<br />

are particularly visible, Wang examines how race matters and operates<br />

in the practices and institutions of music making.<br />

Grace Wang is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University<br />

of California, Davis.<br />

Elisabeth R. Anker is Assistant Professor of American Studies and<br />

Political Science at George Washington University.<br />

AMERICAN STUDIES/POLITICAL THEORY<br />

August 344 pages, 14 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5697–4, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5686–8, $94.95/£62.00<br />

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES/MUSIC<br />

January 288 pages, 4 photographs<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5784–1, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5769–8, $84.95/£55.00<br />

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american studies<br />

Staging the Blues<br />

From Tent Shows to Tourism<br />

paige a. mcginley<br />

Desire and Disaster in New Orleans<br />

Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory<br />

lynnell l. thomas<br />

“This beautifully written and engaging account of how blues has been<br />

staged will change for good how theater scholars think of musical performance,<br />

and how music scholars think of theater. Paige A. McGinley’s observation<br />

that ‘authenticity is produced theatrically, on stage, in the context of<br />

the performance event’ deconstructs the binary between authenticity and<br />

inauthenticity, allowing her to focus on black agency and subjectivity as it<br />

is produced in and through performance.”—GAYLE WALD, author of Shout,<br />

Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta<br />

Tharpe<br />

“This highly original book fills a significant gap in the literature on New<br />

Orleans and on tourism in general by offering a rare look at African American<br />

tourism within the dominant (white) tourism narrative. Desire and Disaster<br />

in New Orleans will be vital reading for scholars working on New Orleans<br />

and those examining representations of African Americans in modern<br />

American culture. It is filled with astute analyses based on Lynnell L.<br />

Thomas’s impressive interpretations of sources ranging from websites to<br />

interviews.”—ANTHONY J. STANONIS, author of Creating the Big Easy:<br />

New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918–1945<br />

Singing was just one element of blues<br />

performance in the early twentieth<br />

century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith,<br />

and other classic blues singers also<br />

tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant<br />

costumes on tent show and black<br />

vaudeville stages. The press even<br />

described these women as “actresses”<br />

long before they achieved worldwide<br />

fame for their musical recordings. In<br />

Staging the Blues, Paige A. McGinley<br />

shows that even though folklorists,<br />

record producers, and festival promoters<br />

set the theatricality of early blues<br />

aside in favor of notions of authenticity, it remained creatively vibrant<br />

throughout the twentieth century. Highlighting performances by Rainey,<br />

Smith, Lead Belly, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sonny Terry, and Brownie<br />

McGhee in small Mississippi towns, Harlem theaters, and the industrial<br />

British North, this pioneering study foregrounds virtuoso blues artists<br />

who used the conventions of the theater, including dance, comedy,<br />

and costume, to stage black mobility, to challenge narratives of racial<br />

authenticity, and to fight for racial and economic justice.<br />

Staging<br />

the Blues<br />

TO TOURISM<br />

FROM TENT SHOWS<br />

PAIGE A. MCGINLEY<br />

Paige A. McGinley is Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at<br />

Washington University in St. Louis.<br />

Most of the narratives packaged for<br />

New Orleans’s many tourists cultivate<br />

a desire for black culture—jazz, cuisine,<br />

dance—while simultaneously targeting<br />

black people and their communities<br />

as sources and sites of political, social,<br />

and natural disaster. In this timely<br />

DESirE &<br />

book, the Americanist and New Orleans<br />

DiSAStEr in nEw orLEAnS native Lynnell L. Thomas delves into<br />

the relationship between tourism,<br />

cultural production, and racial politics.<br />

She carefully interprets the racial narratives<br />

embedded in tourist websites,<br />

tourism, race, and Historical Memory Lynnell L. thomas<br />

travel guides, business periodicals,<br />

and newspapers; the thoughts of tour guides and owners; and the<br />

stories told on bus and walking tours as they were conducted both<br />

before and after Katrina. She describes how, with varying degrees<br />

of success, African American tour guides, tour owners, and tourism<br />

industry officials have used their own black heritage tours and tourismfocused<br />

businesses to challenge exclusionary tourist representations.<br />

Taking readers from the Lower Ninth Ward to the White House, Thomas<br />

highlights the ways that popular culture and public policy converge to<br />

create a mythology of racial harmony that masks a long history of racial<br />

inequality and structural inequity.<br />

Lynnell L. Thomas is Associate Professor of American Studies at the<br />

University of Massachusetts, Boston.<br />

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AMERICAN STUDIES/MUSIC<br />

September 296 pages, 28 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5745–2, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5731–5, $89.95/£59.00<br />

AMERICAN STUDIES/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

August 272 pages, 32 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5728–5, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5714–8, $84.95/£55.00


american studies<br />

Fighting for Recognition<br />

Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence<br />

in Professional Wrestling<br />

r. tyson smith<br />

Wandering<br />

Philosophical Performances<br />

of Racial and Sexual Freedom<br />

sarah jane cervenak<br />

african american studies<br />

“Behind the hypermacho performance of pro wrestling, R. Tyson Smith<br />

reveals a backstage where hard aggressive bodies are actually soft and<br />

yielding, hypersensitive as lovers so that they don’t cripple each other.<br />

It is more akin to ballet than battle, except that all the effort goes into<br />

giving the opposite impression. This is one of the great ethnographies of<br />

the backstage of occupations, of athletes, of show business, of the bodily<br />

self—and of social performance itself.”—RANDALL COLLINS, author of<br />

Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory<br />

“The rigorous turns and supple overturnings in Wandering illuminate and<br />

extend meditative resistance to the racial and sexual pathologization of<br />

the irregular, antiregulative, social, and aesthetic movement animating<br />

the history of black thought. Sarah Jane Cervenak’s devoted study of the<br />

disruption of linearity, from David Walker to Gayl Jones, from Harriet Jacobs<br />

to William Pope.L challenges and allows us to understand that the errand<br />

of blackness is a wandering whose origin and end are dislocation, where<br />

the new thing awaits.”—FRED MOTEN, author of B Jenkins<br />

FIGHTING FOR <br />

RECOGNITION<br />

In Fighting for Recognition, R. Tyson<br />

Smith enters the world of independent<br />

professional wrestling,<br />

a community-based entertainment<br />

staged in community centers, highschool<br />

gyms, and other modest<br />

venues. Like the big-name, televised<br />

pro-wrestlers who originally inspired<br />

them, indie wrestlers engage in choreographed<br />

fights in character. Smith<br />

IDENTITY, MASCULINITY, AND THE ACT OF<br />

VIOLENCE IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING details the experiences, meanings,<br />

and motivations of the young men<br />

R. TYSON SMITH<br />

who wrestle as “Lethal” or “Southern<br />

Bad Boy,” despite receiving little-tono<br />

pay and risking the possibility of serious and sometimes permanent<br />

injury. Exploring intertwined issues of gender, class, violence, and<br />

the body, he sheds new light on the changing sources of identity in<br />

a postindustrial society that increasingly features low wages, insecure<br />

employment, and fragmented social support. Smith uncovers the<br />

tensions between strength and vulnerability, pain and solidarity, and<br />

homophobia and homoeroticism that play out both backstage and in<br />

the ring as the wrestlers seek recognition from fellow performers and<br />

devoted fans.<br />

R. Tyson Smith is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brown<br />

University.<br />

WANDER I NG<br />

Philosophical Performances of<br />

Racial and Sexual Freedom<br />

Sarah Jane Cervenak<br />

Combining black feminist theory,<br />

philosophy, and performance studies,<br />

Sarah Jane Cervenak ruminates<br />

on the significance of physical and<br />

mental roaming for black freedom.<br />

She is particularly interested in the<br />

power of wandering or daydreaming<br />

for those whose mobility has been<br />

under severe constraint, from the<br />

slave era to the present. Since the<br />

Enlightenment, wandering has been<br />

considered dangerous and even criminal<br />

when associated with people of<br />

color. Cervenak engages artist-philosophers<br />

who focus on wayward movement and daydreaming, or mental<br />

travel, that transcend state-imposed limitations on physical, geographic<br />

movement. From Sojourner Truth’s spiritual and physical roaming to the<br />

rambling protagonist of Gayl Jones’s novel Mosquito, Cervenak highlights<br />

modes of wandering that subvert Enlightenment-based protocols<br />

of rationality, composure, and upstanding comportment. Turning to the<br />

artists William Pope.L, Adrian Piper, and Carrie Mae Weems, Cervenak<br />

argues that their work produces an otherworldly movement, an errant<br />

kinesis that exceeds locomotive constraints, resisting the straighteningout<br />

processes of post-Enlightenment, white-supremacist, capitalist,<br />

sexist, and heteronormative modernity. Their roaming animates another<br />

terrain, one where free, black movement is not necessarily connected<br />

to that which can be seen, touched, known, and materially valued.<br />

Sarah Jane Cervenak is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender<br />

Studies and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina,<br />

Greensboro.<br />

SOCIOLOGY/SPORTS/AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

August 240 pages, 27 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5722–3, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5709–4, $84.95/£55.00<br />

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/PERFORMANCE STUDIES<br />

September 232 pages, 10 photographs<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5727–8, $23.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5715–5, $84.95/£55.00<br />

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african american studies<br />

Skin Acts<br />

Race, Psychoanalysis,<br />

and the Black Male Performer<br />

michelle ann stephens<br />

Black Atlas<br />

Geography and Flow in<br />

Nineteenth-Century African American Literature<br />

judith madera<br />

“Michelle Ann Stephens has written a book that anyone interested in race<br />

and psychoanalysis will want to pay attention to, and one that even those<br />

who do not consider themselves interested in the topic will have to pay<br />

attention to. She has taken the most immediate and seemingly obvious site<br />

of racialization, the skin, and given it a revelatory new genealogy. She sets<br />

the standard for all future engagements with what Frantz Fanon termed<br />

‘epidermalization.’ Through arresting readings of modern and contemporary<br />

art and performance, Stephens unfolds the racializing and engendering<br />

of skin within modernity, and makes a powerful argument for reading<br />

it through the lens of feminist, antiracist, and haptic visuality.”—TAVIA<br />

NYONG’O, author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and<br />

the Ruses of Memory<br />

In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens<br />

Skin Acts<br />

michelle ann stephens<br />

race, psychoanalysis,<br />

and the black male performer<br />

explores the work of four iconic<br />

twentieth-century black male performers—Bert<br />

Williams, Paul Robeson,<br />

Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to<br />

reveal how racial and sexual difference<br />

is both marked by and experienced<br />

in the skin. She situates each figure<br />

within his cultural moment, examining<br />

his performance in the context of<br />

contemporary race relations and<br />

visual regimes. Drawing on Lacanian<br />

psychoanalysis and performance<br />

theory, Stephens contends that while<br />

black skin is subject to what Frantz Fanon called the epidermalizing<br />

and hardening effects of the gaze, it is in the flesh that other—intersubjective,<br />

pre-discursive, and sensuous—forms of knowing take place<br />

between artist and audience. Analyzing a wide range of visual, musical,<br />

and textual sources, Stephens shows that black subjectivity and performativity<br />

are structured by the tension between skin and flesh, sight<br />

and touch, difference and sameness.<br />

“In Black Atlas Judith Madera shows how the shifting territory comprising<br />

the nation and the even more fluid relation of African Americans to that<br />

evolving terrain enabled the writing of such key figures such as Martin<br />

Delany, William Wells Brown, and Pauline Hopkins. In so doing, Madera<br />

provides an important contribution to African American literary criticism;<br />

the expanding corpus of material focused on territoriality, transnationalism,<br />

and empire; and our understanding of the rise of the novel in the<br />

Americas.”—CAROLINE F. LEVANDER, author of Where is American<br />

Literature<br />

Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography.<br />

It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and<br />

African American literature during the long nineteenth century,<br />

a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War,<br />

Reconstruction, Pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera<br />

argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era’s<br />

black writers, especially in response to legacies of containment and<br />

territorialization. But she also demonstrates how the possibility for<br />

new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting<br />

of space.<br />

In a series of impressive readings, Madera reveals how crucial geography<br />

was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells<br />

Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles<br />

Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major<br />

nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian<br />

deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan-American expansionism,<br />

and hemispheric circuitry. They staged spaces as multimodal, as sites<br />

for creative dissent and invention. Black geographies stood in for what<br />

was at stake in negotiating a shared world. Black Atlas shows how the<br />

rethinking of place and scale can galvanize the study of black literature.<br />

Judith Madera is Associate Professor of English and Environmental<br />

Studies at Wake Forest University.<br />

Michelle Ann Stephens is Associate Professor of English and Latino and<br />

Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is<br />

the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean<br />

Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, also published by Duke<br />

University Press.<br />

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES<br />

August 304 pages, 55 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5677–6, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5668–4, $89.95/£59.00<br />

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

January 320 pages, 12 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5811–4, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5797–1, $89.95/£59.00


indigenous & native american studies<br />

A Nation Rising<br />

Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty<br />

noelani goodyear-ka‘ōpua, ikaika hussey<br />

& erin kahunawaika’ala wright, editors<br />

Photographs by Edward W. Greevy<br />

Colonial Genocide in<br />

Indigenous North America<br />

andrew woolford, jeff benvenuto<br />

& alexander laban hinton, editors<br />

With a Foreword by Theodore Fontaine<br />

“These are the voices of the beating heart of Kanaka Maoli resistance to the<br />

usurpation of Hawaiian land and nationhood. Strong words by good minds,<br />

the book is at once an honest reflection on the Hawaiian struggle and<br />

a motivating call to action to protect the land and waters and heritage. It<br />

is history, it is culture, it is wisdom, it is art, and it is an invaluable contribution<br />

to the literature of Indigenous resurgence.”—TAIAIAKE ALFRED<br />

(Kahnawà:ke Mohawk), Professor of Indigenous Governance, University of<br />

Victoria<br />

“Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America is one of the best anthologies<br />

I have read in the field of American Indian and Indigenous studies.<br />

Within North American history, few have seriously tackled the central question<br />

of this anthology: to what extent were Indigenous-settler relations<br />

genocidal The failure of U.S. and Canadian scholars to address this question<br />

in a deep and sustained way makes this insightful collection particularly<br />

timely and important.”—NED BLACKHAWK, author of Violence over<br />

the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West<br />

A NAtioN RisiNg<br />

A Nation Rising chronicles the political<br />

struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively<br />

known as the Hawaiian sovereignty<br />

movement. Scholars, community organizers,<br />

journalists, and filmmakers contribute<br />

essays that explore Native Hawaiian<br />

resistance and resurgence from the 1970s<br />

to the early 2010s. Photographs and<br />

vignettes about particular activists further<br />

HAwAiiAN MoveMeNts for Life, LANd, and soveReigNty<br />

Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, Ikaika Hussey,<br />

bring Hawaiian social movements to life.<br />

and Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright, editors<br />

Photographs by Edward W. Greevy<br />

The stories and analyses of efforts to<br />

protect land and natural resources, resist community dispossession, and<br />

advance claims for sovereignty and self-determination reveal the diverse<br />

objectives and strategies, as well as the inevitable tensions of the broadtent<br />

sovereignty movement. The collection explores the Hawaiian political<br />

ethic of ea, which both includes and exceeds dominant notions of statebased<br />

sovereignty. A Nation Rising raises issues that resonate far beyond<br />

the Hawaiian archipelago, issues such as Indigenous cultural revitalization,<br />

environmental justice, and demilitarization.<br />

Contributors<br />

Noa Emmett Aluli, Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Kekuni Blaisdell, Joan Conrow, Noelani Goodyear-<br />

Ka‘ōpua, Edward W. Greevy, Ulla Hasager, Pauahi Ho‘okano, Micky Huihui, Ikaika Hussey,<br />

Manu Ka‘iama, Le‘a Malia Kanehe, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Anne Keala Kelly, Jacqueline<br />

Lasky, Davianna Pōmaika‘i McGregor, Nālani Minton, Kalamaoka‘āina Niheu, Katrina-Ann<br />

R. Kapā‘anaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira, Jonathan Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio, Leon No‘eau<br />

Peralto, Kekailoa Perry, Puhipau, Noenoe K. Silva, D. Kapua‘ala Sproat, Ty P. Kāwika<br />

Tengan, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Kūhiō Vogeler, Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright<br />

Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua is Associate Professor of Political Science<br />

at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Ikaika Hussey is the Founder and<br />

Publisher of the award-winning news magazine the Hawai‘i Independent.<br />

Erin Kahunawaika‘ala Wright is the Director of Native Hawaiian Student<br />

Services in the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University<br />

of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Edward W. Greevy is a freelance photographer whose<br />

career spans more than forty years.<br />

NARRATING NATIVE HISTORIES<br />

A Series Edited by K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos,<br />

and Joanne Rappaport<br />

INDIGENOUS STUDIES/AMERICAN STUDIES/HAWAII<br />

September 416 pages, 83 photographs<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5695–0, $27.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5683–7, $99.95/£65.00<br />

This important collection of essays expands the geographic, demographic,<br />

and analytic scope of the term genocide to encompass<br />

the effects of colonialism and settler colonialism in North America.<br />

Colonists made multiple and interconnected attempts to destroy<br />

Indigenous peoples as groups. The contributors examine these efforts<br />

through the lens of genocide. Considering some of the most destructive<br />

aspects of the colonization and subsequent settlement of North<br />

America, several essays address Indigenous boarding school systems<br />

imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to<br />

“civilize” or “assimilate” Indigenous children. Contributors examine<br />

some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and<br />

the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the<br />

spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced political<br />

restructuring of Indigenous communities. Assessing the record of<br />

these appalling events, the contributors maintain that North Americans<br />

must reckon with colonial and settler colonial attempts to annihilate<br />

Indigenous peoples.<br />

Contributors<br />

Jeff Benvenuto, Robbie Ethridge, Theodore Fontaine, Joseph P. Gone, Alexander Laban<br />

Hinton, Tasha Hubbard, Kiera L. Ladner, Tricia E. Logan, David B. MacDonald, Benjamin<br />

Madley, Jeremy Patzer, Julia Peristerakis, Christopher Powell, Colin Samson, Gray H.<br />

Whaley, Andrew Woolford<br />

Andrew Woolford is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and<br />

Social Justice Research Coordinator at the University of Manitoba.<br />

Jeff Benvenuto is a Ph.D. student in the Division of Global Affairs<br />

at Rutgers University, Newark. Alexander Laban Hinton is the Director<br />

of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights; Professor<br />

of Anthropology and Global Affairs; and the UNESCO Chair on Genocide<br />

Prevention at Rutgers University, Newark. Theodore Fontaine is the<br />

author of Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools:<br />

A Memoir.<br />

INDIGENOUS STUDIES/HISTORY<br />

October 392 pages, 13 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5779–7, $26.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5763–6, $94.95/£62.00<br />

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latin american studies<br />

Portrait of a Young Painter<br />

Pepe Zúñiga and Mexico City’s Rebel Generation<br />

mary kay vaughan<br />

“Portrait of a Young Painter is one of the most original and engaging books<br />

I have read in a long time. It is dazzling in its layers of perception, its<br />

textures, and its intimate insights. It is genuinely original in both argument<br />

and methodology, a remarkable work and a pleasure to read.”—BARBARA<br />

WEINSTEIN, coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a<br />

Transnational History<br />

In Portrait of a Young Painter, the<br />

distinguished historian Mary Kay<br />

Vaughan adopts a biographical<br />

approach to understanding the<br />

culture surrounding the Mexico<br />

City youth rebellion of the 1960s.<br />

Her chronicle of the life of painter<br />

Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature<br />

that portrays post-1940 Mexican<br />

history as a series of uprisings<br />

against state repression, injustice,<br />

and social neglect that culminated<br />

in the student protests of<br />

1968. Rendering Zúñiga’s coming<br />

José Zúñiga, Self-portrait, 1968. Courtesy of<br />

of age on the margins of formal<br />

the artist.<br />

politics, Vaughan depicts midcentury<br />

Mexico City as a culture of growing prosperity, state largesse,<br />

and a vibrant, transnationally informed public life that produced a<br />

multifaceted youth movement brimming with creativity and criticism<br />

of convention. In an analysis encompassing the mass media, schools,<br />

politics, family, sexuality, neighborhoods, and friendships, she subtly<br />

invokes theories of discourse, phenomenology, and affect to examine<br />

the formation of Zúñiga’s persona in the decades leading up to 1968.<br />

By discussing the influences that shaped his worldview, she historicizes<br />

the process of subject formation and shows how doing so offers new<br />

perspectives on the events of 1968.<br />

Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History Emerita at the University<br />

of Maryland. She is the author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers,<br />

Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–40, winner of both the Conference<br />

on Latin American History’s Bolton Prize and the Latin American Studies<br />

Association’s Bryce Wood Award, and a coeditor of Sex in Revolution:<br />

Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico and The Eagle and the Virgin:<br />

Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940, both also published<br />

by Duke University Press.<br />

The Great Depression in Latin America<br />

paulo drinot & alan knight, editors<br />

“In The Great Depression in Latin America, leading Latin Americanists<br />

address an important and timely topic from new perspectives, paying more<br />

attention to the cultural and social repercussions of the Depression in Latin<br />

America than have previous studies. A number of the essays take strong<br />

revisionist stands that will garner a lot of attention, and Paulo Drinot’s<br />

introduction and Alan Knight’s conclusion do a wonderful job of framing<br />

and enhancing the already strong essays.”—STEVEN TOPIK, coeditor of<br />

From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building<br />

of the World Economy, 1500–2000<br />

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the<br />

United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s<br />

had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this<br />

book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role<br />

of the state, party-political competition, and the formation of workingclass<br />

and other social and political movements. Going beyond economic<br />

history, they chart the repercussions and policy responses in different<br />

countries, while noting common cross-regional trends, in particular,<br />

a mounting critique of economic orthodoxy and greater state intervention<br />

in the economic, social, and cultural spheres, both trends crucial<br />

to the region’s subsequent development. The book also examines<br />

how regional transformations interacted with and differed from global<br />

processes. Taken together, these essays deepen our understanding of<br />

the Great Depression as a formative experience in Latin America and<br />

provide a timely comparative perspective on the recent global economic<br />

crisis.<br />

Contributors<br />

Marcelo Bucheli, Carlos Contreras, Paulo Drinot, Jeffrey L. Gould, Roy Hora,<br />

Alan Knight, Gillian McGillivray, Luis Felipe Sáenz, Angela Vergara, Joel Wolfe,<br />

Doug Yarrington<br />

Paulo Drinot is Senior Lecturer in Latin American History at the Institute<br />

of the Americas, University College London. He is the author of The Allure<br />

of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State and editor<br />

of Che’s Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America,<br />

both also published by Duke University Press. Alan Knight is Professor<br />

of the History of Latin America at the University of Oxford. He is the author<br />

of Mexico: The Colonial Era; Mexico: From the Beginning to the Spanish<br />

Conquest; and The Mexican Revolution (two volumes).<br />

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

December 328 pages, 52 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5781–0, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5765–0, $89.95/£59.00<br />

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

September 376 pages<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5750–6, $26.95/£17.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5738–4, $94.95/£62.00


latin american studies<br />

The Vanguard of the Atlantic World<br />

Creating Modernity, Nation, and Democracy<br />

in Nineteenth-Century Latin America<br />

james e. sanders<br />

We Are Left without a Father Here<br />

Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration<br />

in Postwar Puerto Rico<br />

eileen j. suárez findlay<br />

“The Vanguard of the Atlantic World is a fundamental contribution not<br />

only to our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America, but also<br />

to the broader scholarly debate about the origins of modern democratic<br />

republicanism. James E. Sanders argues that in the nineteenth century<br />

Spanish America was the most democratic region of the world. In so<br />

doing, he rejects claims that Latin America has always stood on the<br />

margins of democratic culture and modernity, and he speaks directly to<br />

current debates about the relationship between capitalism, modernity,<br />

and democracy.”—REBECCA EARLE, author of The Return of the Native:<br />

Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810–1930<br />

“In this fascinating study, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay reinterprets Puerto<br />

Rican history in the mid-twentieth century by placing labor migration,<br />

populist politics, and gender at the heart of her narrative. Thousands of<br />

Puerto Rican migrant workers, seeking modernity and an escape from<br />

the harsh colonialism on their home island, journeyed to sugar beet fields<br />

in Michigan. There they found exploitation harsher than they had known.<br />

Findlay eloquently explores their travels and travails and shows how<br />

they reshaped both U.S. colonialism and Puerto Rican populism.”—JULIE<br />

GREENE, author of The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the<br />

Panama Canal<br />

The Vanguard<br />

of the atlantic World<br />

Creating Modernity, n ation, and d e M o C raC y<br />

in n ineteenth-Century Latin aMeriC a<br />

James e. sanders<br />

In the nineteenth century, Latin<br />

America was home to the majority<br />

of the world’s democratic republics.<br />

Many historians have dismissed<br />

these political experiments as<br />

corrupt pantomimes of governments<br />

of Western Europe and the United<br />

States. Challenging that perspective,<br />

James E. Sanders contends that Latin<br />

America in this period was a site of<br />

genuine political innovation and popular<br />

debate reflecting Latin Americans’<br />

visions of modernity. Drawing on<br />

archival sources in Mexico, Colombia,<br />

and Uruguay, Sanders traces the circulation of political discourse and<br />

democratic practice among urban elites, rural peasants, European immigrants,<br />

slaves, and freed blacks to show how and why ideas of liberty,<br />

democracy, and universalism gained widespread purchase across the<br />

region, mobilizing political consciousness and solidarity among diverse<br />

constituencies. In doing so, Sanders reframes the locus and meaning of<br />

political and cultural modernity.<br />

James E. Sanders is Associate Professor of History at Utah State<br />

University. He is the author of Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics,<br />

Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia, also published by Duke<br />

University Press.<br />

We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working<br />

people’s struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism<br />

in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are the thousands of<br />

agricultural workers who, at the behest of the Puerto Rican government,<br />

migrated to Michigan in 1950 to work in the state’s sugar beet fields.<br />

The men expected to earn enough income to finally become successful<br />

breadwinners and fathers. To their dismay, the men encountered<br />

abysmal working conditions and pay. The migrant workers in Michigan<br />

and their wives in Puerto Rico soon exploded in protest. Chronicling<br />

the protests, the surprising alliances that they created, and the Puerto<br />

Rican government’s response, Eileen J. Suárez Findlay explains that<br />

notions of fatherhood and domesticity were central to Puerto Rican<br />

populist politics. Patriarchal ideals shaped citizens’ understandings<br />

of themselves, their relationship to Puerto Rican leaders and the state,<br />

as well as the meanings they ascribed to U.S. colonialism. Findlay<br />

argues that the motivations and strategies for transnational labor<br />

migrations, colonial policies, and worker solidarities are all deeply<br />

gendered.<br />

Eileen J. Suárez Findlay is Associate Professor of Latin American and<br />

Caribbean History at American University. She is the author of Imposing<br />

Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920, also<br />

published by Duke University Press.<br />

AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS<br />

A Series Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg<br />

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

October 352 pages, 10 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5780–3, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5764–3, $94.95/£62.00<br />

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES/U.S. HISTORY<br />

December 328 pages, 39 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5782–7, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5766–7, $89.95/£59.00<br />

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latin american studies<br />

The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast<br />

durval muniz de albuquerque jr.<br />

With a Foreword by James N. Green<br />

Translated by Jerry Dennis Metz<br />

“In this modern classic of Brazilian cultural history, Durval Muniz de<br />

Albuquerque Jr. provides a richly documented and theoretically illuminating<br />

exploration of how the most ‘regional’ of all Brazilian regions has<br />

been imagined, indeed ‘invented,’ as a space of alterity, poverty, and<br />

authenticity during the past century. In doing so, he reveals the discursive<br />

production of regions, the relations of power that produce them, and<br />

the stereotypes that make them recognizable to a national audience.”<br />

— CHRISTOPHER DUNN, coeditor of Brazilian Popular Music and<br />

Citizenship<br />

Rhythms of the Pachakuti<br />

Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia<br />

raquel gutiérrez aguilar<br />

With a Foreword by Sinclair Thomson<br />

Translated by Stacey Alba D. Skar<br />

“This wonderful book is both a detailed historical account of the 2000–2005<br />

uprisings in Bolivia and a significant theoretical intervention into central<br />

contemporary questions about political action and revolution. In particular,<br />

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar emphasizes the profound significance of indigenous<br />

social organization and worldviews for the contemporary political<br />

struggles in Bolivia and elsewhere.”—MICHAEL HARDT, coauthor of<br />

Empire, Multitude, Commonwealth, and Declaration<br />

Brazil’s Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the country’s<br />

poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work,<br />

the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates<br />

why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by<br />

inhabitants of other parts of Brazil but also by nordestinos themselves.<br />

His broader question, though, is how “the Northeast” came into existence.<br />

Tracing the history of its invention, he finds that the idea of<br />

the Northeast was formed in the early twentieth century when elites<br />

around Brazil became preoccupied with building a nation. Diverse<br />

phenomena—from drought policies to messianic movements, banditry<br />

to new regional political blocs—helped to consolidate this novel concept,<br />

the Northeast. Politicians, intellectuals, writers, and artists, often<br />

nordestinos, played key roles in making the region cohere as a space of<br />

common references and concerns. Ultimately, Albuqerque urges historians<br />

to question received notions, such as regions and regionalism, to<br />

reveal their artifice and abandon static categories in favor of new, more<br />

granular understandings.<br />

Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. is Professor of Brazilian History at the<br />

Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. An award-winning author, he is<br />

considered one of Brazil’s leading historians. James N. Green is Professor<br />

of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University. He is the author of<br />

We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship<br />

in the United States, also published by Duke University Press. Jerry Dennis<br />

Metz is translator and independent scholar, has a PhD in Latin American<br />

History from the University of Maryland, College Park.<br />

LATIN AMERICA IN TRANSLATION/EN TRADUCCIÓN/EM TRADUÇÃO<br />

RHYTHMS OF THE PACHAKUTI<br />

Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia<br />

RAQUEL GUTIÉRREZ AGUILAR<br />

with a foreword by sinclair thomson<br />

In the indigenous Andean language<br />

of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the<br />

subversion and transformation<br />

of social relations. Between 2000<br />

and 2005, Bolivia was radically<br />

transformed by a series of popular<br />

indigenous uprisings against the country’s<br />

neoliberal and antidemocratic<br />

policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti,<br />

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar documents<br />

these mass collective actions, tracing<br />

the internal dynamics of such disruptions<br />

to consider how motivation and<br />

execution incite political change.<br />

“In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary<br />

historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the<br />

twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar’s<br />

political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican<br />

nationality, [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years<br />

and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense, brilliant activist<br />

and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document.<br />

. . . Rhythms of the Pachakuti deserves to stand as a key text in the<br />

international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new<br />

century.”—SINCLAIR THOMSON, from the foreword<br />

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous<br />

University of Puebla. Sinclair Thomson is Associate Professor of History<br />

at New York University. Stacey Alba D. Skar is Associate Professor of<br />

Spanish at Western Connecticut State University.<br />

NEW ECOLOGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY<br />

A Series Edited by Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau<br />

LATIN AMERICA IN TRANSLATION/EN TRADUCCIÓN/EM TRADUÇÃO<br />

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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

October 312 pages, 6 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5785–8, $24.95/£15.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5770–4, $89.95/£59.00<br />

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES<br />

August 336 pages<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5604–2, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5599–1, $94.95/£62.00


•<br />

Prostitution and the Ends of Empire<br />

Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India<br />

stephen legg<br />

“Prostitution and the Ends of Empire deftly reveals that the attack on the<br />

brothel in interwar Delhi was more than just a city-specific act, but rather<br />

demonstrated the power of international, imperial, and local networks.<br />

Using Foucault’s and Agamben’s work Stephen Legg persuasively shows<br />

the reimagining of the brothel as a space of danger that required its<br />

suppression. Legg’s use of scalar analysis is carefully constructed and<br />

brilliantly conclusive. This is an important and original reading of colonial<br />

prostitution.”—PHILIPPA LEVINE, author of The British Empire: Sunrise<br />

to Sunset<br />

•<br />

scale, governmentalities, and interwar india<br />

stephen legg<br />

prostitution and<br />

the e nds of e mpire<br />

geography<br />

Officially confined to red-light<br />

districts, brothels in British India were<br />

tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by<br />

this time, prostitution reform campaigns<br />

led by Indian, imperial, and<br />

international bodies were combining<br />

the social scientific insights of<br />

sexology and hygiene with the moral<br />

condemnations of sexual slavery and<br />

human trafficking. These reformers<br />

identified the brothel as exacerbating<br />

rather than containing “corrupting<br />

prostitutes” and the threat of<br />

venereal diseases, and therefore<br />

encouraged the suppression of brothels rather than their urban segregation.<br />

In this book, Stephen Legg tracks the complex spatial politics<br />

surrounding brothels in the interwar period at multiple scales, including<br />

the local, regional, national, imperial, and global. Campaigns and state<br />

policies against brothels did not just operate at different scales but<br />

made scales themselves, forging new urban, provincial, colonial, and<br />

international formations. In so doing, they also remade the boundary<br />

between the state and the social, through which the prostitute was,<br />

Legg concludes, “civilly abandoned.”<br />

Stephen Legg is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at the<br />

University of Nottingham. He is the author of Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s<br />

Urban Governmentalities and the editor of Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl<br />

Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos.<br />

German Colonialism in a Global Age<br />

bradley naranch & geoff eley, editors<br />

“This landmark collection showcases the latest research in many areas<br />

of German colonialism. As a state-of-the-art expression of a vibrant field,<br />

German Colonialism in a Global Age will set a new benchmark and become<br />

a standard reference.”—A. DIRK MOSES, author of German Intellectuals<br />

and the Nazi Past<br />

history<br />

This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial<br />

empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the<br />

colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics<br />

during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also<br />

how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during<br />

the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Bradley Naranch and Geoff<br />

Eley survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial<br />

imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then<br />

examine diverse particular aspects, from science and the colonial state<br />

to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for<br />

German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperialism<br />

on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial<br />

imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and<br />

the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection<br />

concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader<br />

impact of the German imperial experience.<br />

Contributors<br />

Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff<br />

Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill,<br />

Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen,<br />

Andrew Zimmerman<br />

Bradley Naranch is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the<br />

University of Montana. Geoff Eley is the Karl Pohrt Distinguished<br />

University Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Michigan.<br />

He is the author of Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground<br />

of Consent in Germany, 1930–1945, and A Crooked Line: From Cultural<br />

History to the History of Society.<br />

POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE<br />

A Series Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz<br />

SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES/GEOGRAPHY<br />

September 304 pages, 8 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5773–5, $25.95/£16.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5759–9, $94.95/£62.00<br />

HISTORY<br />

January 480 pages, 25 illustrations<br />

paper, 978–0–8223–5723–0, $29.95/£19.99<br />

cloth, 978–0–8223–5711–7, $99.95/£65.00<br />

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history<br />

Body and Nation<br />

The Global Realm of U.S. Body Politics<br />

in the Twentieth Century<br />

emily s. rosenberg &<br />

shanon fitzpatrick, editors<br />

“This unusually synthetic and well-conceived volume covers historical and<br />

contemporary situations in which the bodies of civilians, combatants, and<br />

those defined as outsiders are managed, mobilized, and politically tethered<br />

to broad nationalist and imperial projects ‘at home’ and ‘abroad.’ In attending<br />

to the details of bodily care and coercion, the contributors ask why,<br />

how, and when bodies matter, demonstrating the blur between technologies<br />

of war and ever more sophisticated forms of peacetime surveillance.<br />

Taken together, their essays show that we need to know more about whose<br />

bodies count in the changing landscape of national security and imperial<br />

governance and in the embattled space between ‘care’ and ‘control.’”<br />

—ANN LAURA STOLER, editor of Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination<br />

Body and Nation interrogates the connections<br />

among the body, the nation, and the<br />

world in twentieth-century U.S. history.<br />

The idea that bodies and bodily characteristics<br />

are heavily freighted with values that<br />

body and nation<br />

The Global Realm of<br />

U.S. body PoliTicS in The<br />

are often linked to political and social<br />

TwenTieTh cenTURy<br />

spheres remains underdeveloped in the<br />

histories of America’s relations with the<br />

rest of the world. Attentive to diverse state<br />

Emily S. Rosenberg and<br />

Shanon Fitzpatrick, editors<br />

and nonstate actors, the contributors provide<br />

historically grounded insights into the<br />

transnational dimensions of biopolitics. Their subjects range from the<br />

regulation of prostitution in the Philippines by the U.S. Army to Cold War<br />

ideals of American feminine beauty, and from “body counts” as metrics<br />

of military success to cultural representations of Mexican migrants in<br />

the United States as public health threats. By considering bodies as<br />

complex, fluctuating, and interrelated sites of meaning, the contributors<br />

to this collection offer new insights into the workings of both soft and<br />

hard power.<br />

Contributors<br />

Frank Costigliola, Janet M. Davis, Shanon Fitzpatrick, Paul A. Kramer, Shirley Jennifer<br />

Lim, Mary Ting Yi Lui, Natalia Molina, Brenda Gayle Plummer, Emily S. Rosenberg,<br />

Kristina Shull, Annessa C. Stagner, Marilyn B. Young<br />

Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire<br />

Creating an Imperial Commons<br />

antoinette burton & isabel hofmeyr, editors<br />

“The new critical history of empire and the freshly theorized transnational<br />

history of the book are together at last, each enhancing the other in a<br />

superb collection edited by the leading scholars in studies of the British<br />

world. Neither ‘book’ nor ‘empire’ is a straightforward idea. Focusing<br />

on ten influential works, the editors and contributors show how readers<br />

appropriated ideas as they circulated—often without regard for intellectual<br />

property—in periodical, pamphlet and volume forms.”—LESLIE HOWSAM,<br />

author of Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain 1850–1950<br />

Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book<br />

history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields<br />

through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book.<br />

Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire,<br />

including Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Thomas Macaulay’s History of<br />

England, Charles Pearson’s National Life and Character, and Robert<br />

Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. They explore anticolonial texts in<br />

which authors such as C. L. R. James and Mohandas K. Gandhi chipped<br />

away at the foundations of imperial authority, and they introduce books<br />

that may be less familiar to students of empire. Taken together, the<br />

essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an “imperial commons,”<br />

a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire<br />

nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize<br />

the other.<br />

Contributors<br />

Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Antoinette Burton, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr,<br />

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The<br />

ChILe<br />

ReadeR<br />

History, Culture, PolitiCs<br />

The<br />

dominican republic<br />

reader<br />

History, Culture, PolitiCs<br />

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison,<br />

Thomas Miller Klubock,<br />

Nara B. Milanich,<br />

and Peter Winn, editors<br />

Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González, editors<br />

The Argentina Reader:<br />

History, Culture, Politics<br />

Gabriela Nouzeilles and<br />

Graciela Montaldo, editors<br />

2002<br />

978–0–8223–2914–5<br />

paper, $27.95tr/£17.99<br />

The Chile Reader:<br />

History, Culture, Politics<br />

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison,<br />

Thomas Miller Klubock, Nara B.<br />

Milanich, and Peter Winn, editors<br />

2013<br />

978–0–8223–5360–7<br />

paper, $29.95tr/£19.99<br />

The Cuba Reader:<br />

History, Culture, Politics<br />

Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and<br />

Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, editors<br />

2004<br />

978–0–8223–3197–1<br />

paper, $29.95tr/£19.99<br />

The Dominican Republic Reader:<br />

History, Culture, Politics<br />

Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby,<br />

and Raymundo González, editors<br />

2014<br />

978–0–8223–5700–1<br />

paper, $27.95tr/£17.99<br />

tHis reader brings togetHer more than 200 texts and images in a<br />

broad introduction to Guatemala’s history, culture, and politics. In choosing<br />

the selections, the editors sought to avoid representing the country only in<br />

terms of its long experience of conflict, racism, and violence. And so, while<br />

offering many perspectives on that violence, this anthology portrays Guatemala<br />

as a real place where people experience joys and sorrows that cannot<br />

be reduced to the contretemps of resistance and repression. It includes<br />

not only the opinions of politicians, activists, and scholars, but also poems,<br />

songs, plays, jokes, novels, short stories, recipes, art, and photographs that<br />

capture the diversity of everyday life in Guatemala. The editors introduce<br />

all of the selections, from the first piece, an excerpt from the Popol vuh, a<br />

mid-sixteenth-century text believed to be the single most important source<br />

documenting pre-Hispanic Maya culture, through the final selections, which<br />

explore contemporary Guatemala in relation to neoliberalism, multiculturalism,<br />

and the dynamics of migration to the United States and of immigrant<br />

life. Many pieces were originally published in Spanish, and most of those appear<br />

in English for the first time.<br />

“The Guatemala Reader is captivating both because Guatemalan history is so<br />

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the texts and images to include. Their selections offer great variety in terms<br />

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but also as a reference source for scholars.”—beatriz Manz, author<br />

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of History at Boston College and the author of Trade Unionists against Terror:<br />

Guatemala City, 1954–1985 and Adiós Niño: Political Violence and the Gangs of Guatemala<br />

City, forthcoming from Duke University Press. elizabetH oglesby<br />

is Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development and the<br />

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worked as the editor of Central America Report and the associate editor<br />

for NACLA Report on the Americas.<br />

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Travel / Latin<br />

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latin<br />

aMeriCa<br />

readers<br />

A Series<br />

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and<br />

Orin Starn<br />

Grandin,<br />

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&<br />

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editors<br />

The GuaTemala ReadeR<br />

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duke<br />

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The Guatemala Reader:<br />

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The<br />

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reAder<br />

The Sri Lanka Reader is a sweeping introduction to the epic history of the<br />

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History, Culture, PolitiCs<br />

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the The<br />

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and<br />

Orin Starn editor<br />

The<br />

SRI Lanka<br />

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history, Culture, PolitiCs<br />

“The Sri Lanka Reader is unprecedented. Never before has there been a book<br />

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Studies and Religion, Carleton College<br />

“John Holt’s The Sri Lanka Reader gives many insights into contemporary Sri<br />

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John Clifford holt is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities<br />

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The Peru Reader:<br />

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and Robin Kirk, editors<br />

2005<br />

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The Bangladesh Reader:<br />

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Meghna Guhathakurta and<br />

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The South Africa Reader:<br />

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Cruel Optimism<br />

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Denise Brennan<br />

Life Interrupted<br />

A Matter of Rats<br />

a short biography<br />

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amitava kumar<br />

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural<br />

Logic of Late Capitalism<br />

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1991<br />

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Rights: World, excluding Europe<br />

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Fear of Small Numbers:<br />

An Essay on the Geography<br />

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Arjun Appadurai<br />

2006<br />

978–0–8223–3863–5<br />

paper, $21.95tr/£13.99<br />

Life Interrupted:<br />

Trafficking into Forced Labor<br />

in the United States<br />

Denise Brennan<br />

2014<br />

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paper, $23.95tr/£15.99<br />

A Matter of Rats:<br />

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Rights: World except South Asia<br />

R E N A T O R O S A L D O<br />

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Alternative Medicine<br />

RAFAEL CAMPO<br />

THE<br />

DAY OF<br />

SHELLY’S<br />

che<br />

on<br />

my<br />

mind<br />

che<br />

on<br />

my<br />

mind<br />

DEATH<br />

THE POETRY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF GRIEF<br />

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Matt Sakakeeny<br />

ArtwOrk By<br />

willie Birch<br />

Alternative Medicine<br />

Rafael Campo<br />

2014<br />

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paper, $19.95tr/£12.99<br />

The Day of Shelly’s Death:<br />

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Renato Rosaldo<br />

2014<br />

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Che on My Mind<br />

Margaret Randall<br />

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Roll With It:<br />

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Matt Sakakeeny<br />

2013<br />

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paper, $23.95tr/£15.99<br />

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Vibrant Matter:<br />

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World–Systems Analysis:<br />

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Legendary:<br />

Inside the House Ballroom Scene<br />

Gerard H. Gaskin<br />

2013<br />

978–0–8223–5582–3<br />

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Wangechi Mutu:<br />

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cloth, $39.95tr/£25.99<br />

tony allen<br />

An Autobiography of the<br />

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david grubbs<br />

John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording<br />

Archibald Motley:<br />

Jazz Age Modernist<br />

Richard J. Powell, editor<br />

2013<br />

978–0–938989–37–0<br />

paper, $39.95tr/£25.99<br />

Tony Allen:<br />

An Autobiography of the<br />

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paper, $23.95tr/£15.99<br />

Records Ruin the Landscape:<br />

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Feminism without Borders:<br />

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Precarious JaPan<br />

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The Queer Art of Failure<br />

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Karen Ho<br />

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INDEX<br />

Ackerman, Josef 44<br />

Adams, Michael 43<br />

Aers, David 44<br />

Ahmed, Sara 9<br />

Aizura, Aren 27<br />

Albuquerque Jr.,<br />

Durval Muniz de 38<br />

Allen, Tony 48<br />

Allison, Anne 48<br />

Anker, Elisabeth R. 31<br />

Appadurai, Arjun 7, 47<br />

Armitage, John 43<br />

Armstrong, Ann L. 16<br />

Armstrong, Nancy 45<br />

Balzer, Carsten/Carla LaGata 27<br />

Barlow, Tani 45<br />

Barnes, Jessica 22<br />

Barnett, Robert 2<br />

Bathrick, David 41, 45<br />

Behar, Ruth 15<br />

Bennett, Jane 48<br />

Benvenuto, Jeff 35<br />

Berlant, Lauren 47<br />

Bishop, Ryan 43<br />

Bové, Paul A. 43<br />

Brereton, Bridget 12<br />

Brennan, Denise 47<br />

Brown, Marshall 44<br />

Burton, Antoinette 40<br />

Cai, Zong-Qi 44<br />

Callison, Candis 19<br />

Campbell, Ian M. 43<br />

Campo, Rafael 47<br />

Cape, Roy 28<br />

Cargill, Angus 2<br />

Carr, Barry 46<br />

Cervenak, Sarah Jane 33<br />

Cholak, Peter 45<br />

Chomsky, Aviva 46<br />

Christianson, Aileen 43<br />

Cohn, Richard 44<br />

Cooper, J. Andrew G. 1<br />

Cornett, Michael 44<br />

Cotton, Trystan 27<br />

Crais, Clifton 46<br />

Creech, Jimmy 15<br />

Currah, Paisley 45<br />

Dean, Tim 24<br />

Degregori, Carlos Iván 46<br />

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