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Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, Schulman 1

Drugs for Life, Dumit 2

Go-Go Live, Hopkinson 3

MP3, Sterne 4

Beyond Shangri-La, Knaus 5

In Search of First Contact, Kolodny 6

Ethics of Liberation, Dussel 7

Depression, Cvetkovich 8

Black and Blue, Mavor 9

From Postwar to Postmodern, Arts in Japan 1945–1989, Chong, Hayashi, Kajiya & Sumitomo 10

Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas, Lee 11

Wall Street Women, Fisher 11

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4, Naficy 12

C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S

Red Tape, Gupta 13

How Soon is Now? Dinshaw 14

The Deliverance of Others, Palumbo-Liu 15

Perpetual War, Robbins 16

The Gift of Freedom, Nguyen 17

Animacies, Chen 17

Always More Than One, Manning 18

Buy It Now, White 18

Tijuana Dreaming, Kun & Montezemolo 19

Barrio Libre, Rosas 19

Writing across Cultures, Rama 20

Architecture in Translation, Akcan 20

Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Murphy 21

Feminist Theory Out of Science, Roosth & Schrader 21

A N T H R O P O L O G Y

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections, Inhorn & Wentzell 22

Improvising Medicine, Livingston 22

Bodies in Formation, Prentice 23

Medicating Race, Pollock 23

Queer Activism in India, Dave 24

Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Heller 24

Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, Mankekar & Schein 25

M U S I C & S O U N D

Sound and Sentiment, Feld 25

Recording Culture, Scales 26

Unfree Masters, Stahl 26

F I L M & T V S T U D I E S

Prescription TV, Fuqua 27

One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount, Forman 27

A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S

Aloha America, Imada 28

A New Deal for All? Skotnes 28

Fevered Measures, Mckiernan-González 29

A S I A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S

Transpacific Femininities, Cruz 29

Southeast Asian/American Studies, Ngo & Nguyen 30

A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S / B L A C K D I A S P O R A

Pictures and Progress, Wallace & Smith 30

Transcending Blackness, Joseph 31

Sites of Slavery, Tillet 31

Against the Closet, Abdur-Rahman 32

Black/Queer Diaspora, Allen 32

Black France / France Noire, Keaton, Sharpley-Whiting & Stovall 33

P O L I T I C A L T H E O R Y / S O C I A L T H E O R Y

Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, Gorski 33

Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Lefebvre & White 34

The Hermetic Deleuze, Ramey 34

L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S

Outlawed, Goldstein 35

Intimate Indigeneities, Canessa 35

Challenging Social Inequality, Carter 36

Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Fallaw 36

River of Hope, Valerio-Jiménez 37

Vertical Empire, Mumford 37

Trumpets in the Mountains, Frederik 38

A Language of Empire, a Quotidian Tongue, Schwaller 38

A F R I C A N S T U D I E S

The Other Zulus, Mahoney 39

H I S T O R Y

Walkers, Voyeurs, and the Politics of Urban Space, Autry & Walkowitz 39

P U B L I C P O L I C Y / P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E

The Argumentative Turn Revisited, Fischer & Gottweis 40

The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany, Kommers & Miller 40

T H E AT E R

Digital Dramaturgies, Felton-Dansky & Gallagher-Ross 41

L I N G U I S T I C S

Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest, Keiser 41

selected backlist & bestsellers 42

journals 45

order form 48

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FRONT COVER ART: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Niles Clutching Chuck, 2008.

From Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City, by Natalie Hopkinson, page 3.

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g e n e r a l i n t e r e s t

QUEER ACTIV ISM/ISRAEL/PALESTINE

October 232 pages paper, 978–0–8223–5373–7, $22.95tr/£14.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5358–4, $79.95/£60.00

Israel/Palestine and the Queer Internationalsarah schulman

In this chronicle of political

awakening and queer solidarity,

the activist and novelist Sarah

Schulman describes her dawning

consciousness of the Palestinian

liberation struggle. Invited to Israel

to give the keynote address at

an LGBT studies conference at Tel

Aviv University, Schulman declines,

joining other artists and academics

honoring the Palestinian call for

an academic and cultural boycott

of Israel. Anti-occupation activ-

ists in the United States, Canada,

Israel, and Palestine come together

to help organize an alternative

solidarity visit for the American

activist. Schulman takes us

to an anarchist, vegan cafe in Tel Aviv, where she meets anti-occupation

queer Israelis, and through border checkpoints into the West Bank, where

queer Palestinian activists welcome her into their spaces for conversations

that will change the course of her life. She describes the dusty roads through

the West Bank, where Palestinians are cut off from water and subjected to

endless restrictions while Israeli settler neighborhoods have full freedoms

and resources.

As Schulman learns more, she questions the contradiction between Israel’s

investment in presenting itself as gay friendly—financially sponsoring gay film

festivals and parades—and its denial of the rights of Palestinians. At the same

time, she talks with straight Palestinian activists about their position in relation

to homosexuality and gay rights in Palestine and internationally. Back in the

United States, Schulman draws on her extensive activist experience to organize

a speaking tour for some of the Palestinian queer leaders whom she had met

and trusted. Dubbed “Al Tour,” it takes the activists to LGBT community centers,

conferences, and universities throughout the United States. Its success solidi-

fies her commitment to working to end Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and

kindles her larger hope that a new “queer international” will emerge and join

other movements demanding human rights across the globe.

Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS

and queer activist, and a cofounder of the

MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History

Project. She is a playwright and the

author of seventeen books, including

the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer,

Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People

in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification

of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American

History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years,

Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences,

and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay

America, which is also published by Duke University Press.

She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City

University of New York, College of Staten Island.

“The transformation of my own personal relationship to the state

of Israel has been a long, subtle, slow, stubborn journey that has

taken a lifetime. One of the strangest things about willful ignorance

regarding Israel and Palestine is how often ‘progressive’ people,

like myself, with histories of community activism and awareness,

engage in it. It this way it somewhat parallels the history

of homophobia, in that there are emotional blocks that keep

many straight people from applying their general value systems

to human rights for all. The irony, in my case, of being a lifelong

activist and not doing the work to ‘get it’ about Israel is deep and

hard to both understand and convey. But I have come to learn that

this insistent blindness is pervasive, and I want to use the oppor-

tunity of this book to confront and expose my own denial in a way

that I hope will be helpful to others.”—from Israel/Palestine and

the Queer International

StagestruckTheater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America

paper $21.95/£16.99

978–0–8223–2264–1 / 1998

also by Sarah Schulman

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Joseph Dumit is Director

of Science and Technology

Studies and Professor

of Anthropology at the

University of California,

Davis. He is the author

of Picturing Personhood:

Brain Scans and Biomedical

Identity and editor, with

Regula Valérie Burri, of Biomedicine as Culture:

Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge,

and New Modes of Life.

Drugs for LifeHow Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Healthjoseph dumit

Every year the average number

of prescriptions purchased by

Americans increases, as do health-

care expenditures, which are

projected to reach one fifth of the

U.S. gross domestic product by

2020. In Drugs for Life, Joseph Dumit

considers how our burgeoning

consumption of medicine and cost

of healthcare not only came to be,

but came to be taken for granted.

For several years, Dumit attended

pharmaceutical industry confer-

ences; spoke with marketers,

researchers, doctors, and patients;

and surveyed the industry’s litera-

ture regarding strategies to expand

markets for prescription drugs.

He concluded that underlying the continual growth in medications, disease

categories, costs, and insecurity is a relatively new perception of ourselves

as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment. This perception is based on

clinical trials that we have largely outsourced to pharmaceutical companies.

Those companies in turn see clinical trials as investments and measure the value

of those investments by the size of the market and profits that it will create.

They only ask questions for which the answer is more medicine. Drugs for Life

challenges our understanding of health, risks, facts, and clinical trials, the very

concepts used by pharmaceutical companies to grow markets to the point

where almost no one can imagine a life without prescription drugs.

EXPERIMENTAL FUTURES:

TECHNOLOGICAL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGICAL VOICES

A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

HEALTH/ANTHROPOLOGY OF MEDICINE

November 272 pages, 29 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–4871–9, $23.95tr/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–4860–3, $84.95/£64.00

“Drugs for Life is simply superb, a major accomplishment

in the study of pharmaceuticals and their expanding rela-

tion to life itself. There is no recent scholarly work that

attempts or accomplishes what Joseph Dumit does here,

tackling the relation between big pharma and clinical

epistemology in such a comprehensive and satisfying

way. He deftly links critical debates across the life and

human sciences, making an important and compelling

argument on a matter central to contemporary public

debate.”—LAWRENCE COHEN, author of No Aging in

India: Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern

Things

“Drugs for Life shocks the reader into seeing health, med-

icine, pharmaceuticals, and the pharmaceutical industry

and drug research for what they are from a cultural

standpoint: a new framing of the future world for all of

us. And that future is now and troubling and transfor-

mative of human conditions. A remarkable contribution

that will perturb and disturb professional and general

readers.”—ARTHUR KLEINMAN, coeditor of Global

Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices

“In this provocative and important book, Joseph Dumit brings a new approach to bear

on critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and U.S. health care, showing how, over the

past few decades, we have come to live by ‘the numbers’ and ‘risk factors’ that make

embracing lifelong pharmaceutical regimes seem like common sense. But is it? Dumit

explores the pharmaceuticalization of American culture and consciousness with a light,

accessible touch that belies the depth of his knowledge.”—RAYNA RAPP, author of

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

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Natalie Hopkinson, a contributing editor

to the online magazine The Root, teaches

journalism at Georgetown University and

directs the Future of the Arts and Society

project as a fellow of the Interactivity

Foundation. A former writer and editor

at the Washington Post, she is the author,

with Natalie Y. Moore, of Deconstructing

Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity

in the Hip-Hop Generation.

Go-Go LiveThe Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate Citynatalie hopkinson

Go-go is the conga drum–inflected

black popular music that emerged

in Washington, D.C., during the

1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown,

the “Godfather of Go-Go,” created

the music by mixing sounds

borrowed from church and the

blues with the funk and flavor

that he picked up playing for a

local Latino band. Born in the inner

city, amid the charred ruins of the

1968 race riots, go-go generated

a distinct culture and an economy

of independent, almost exclusively

black-owned businesses that sold

tickets to shows and recordings

of live go-gos. At the peak of its

popularity, in the 1980s, go-go

could be heard around the capital every night of the week, on college cam-

puses and in crumbling historic theaters, hole-in-the-wall nightclubs, backyards,

and city parks.

Go-Go Live is a social history of black Washington told through its go-go

music and culture. Encompassing dance moves, nightclubs, and fashion, as

well as the voices of artists, fans, business owners, and politicians, Natalie

Hopkinson’s Washington-based narrative reflects the broader history of race

in urban America in the second half of the twentieth century and the early

twenty-first. In the 1990s, the middle class that had left the city for the suburbs

in the postwar years began to return. Gentrification drove up property values

and pushed go-go into D.C.’s suburbs. The Chocolate City is in decline, but its

heart, D.C.’s distinctive go-go musical culture, continues to beat. On any given

night, there’s live go-go in the D.C. metro area.

URBAN STUDIES/AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/MUSIC

Available 232 pages, 34 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5211–2, $22.95tr/£14.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5200–6, $79.95/£60.00

“Natalie Hopkinson knows the music, the heartbeat, and the

people of Washington well, but Go-Go Live is much more than

a book about D.C.’s indigenous sound. It is a vital, lively, and

ultimately inspiring look at the evolution of an American city.”

—GEORGE PELECANOS

“Black Washington, D.C., has a famously rich history and culture.

Natalie Hopkinson has an established reputation as one of the

most sophisticated commentators on contemporary black culture

in the capital city. Go-Go Live is not only a fascinating account

of a musical culture, but also a social and cultural history of black

Washington in the post–civil rights era.”—MARK ANTHONY

NEAL , author of New Black Man

“Go-Go Live is a terrific and important piece of work. Music, race,

and the city are three key pivot points of our society, and Natalie

Hopkinson pulls them together in a unique and powerful way.

I have long adored Washington, D.C.’s go-go music. This book

helped me understand the history of the city and the ways that

it reflects the whole experience of race and culture in our society.

It puts music front and center in the analysis of our urban experi-

ence, something which has been too long in coming.”—RICHARD

FLORIDA , author of The Rise of the Creative Class and direc-

tor of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of

Management, University of Toronto

“Go-Go Live is not just a fantastic read, but THE definitive

study of D.C.’s most overlooked and unheralded art form.

Natalie Hopkinson captures the soul of the city.”—DANA FLOR ,

codirector of The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

“Taking us into the little-studied terrain of go-go, the cousin of hip-hop born and bred

in Washington, D.C. Natalie Hopkinson reveals go-go as a lens for seeing, in stark

colors, how the economy, politics, and especially the drug trade have traduced black

communities around the world.”—HENRY LOUIS GATES JR., Alphonse Fletcher

University Professor, Harvard University

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Jonathan Sterne teaches in the Department of Art

History and Communication Studies, and the History

and Philosophy of Science Program at McGill University.

He is the author of the award-winning book The Audible

Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction, also pub-

lished by Duke University Press, and the editor of The

Sound Studies Reader. Sterne has written for Tape Op,

Punk Planet, Bad Subjects, and other alternative press

venues. He also makes music and other audio works.

Visit his website at http://sterneworks.org.

MP3The Meaning of a Formatjonathan sterne

MP3: The Meaning of a Format

recounts the hundred-year history

of the world’s most common format

for recorded audio. Understanding

the historical meaning of the MP3

format entails rethinking the place

of digital technologies in the larger

universe of twentieth-century

communication history, from

hearing research conducted by the

telephone industry in the 1910s,

through the mid-century develop-

ment of perceptual coding (the

technology underlying the MP3),

to the format’s promiscuous social

life since the mid-1990s.

MP3s are products of compression,

a process that removes sounds

unlikely to be heard from recordings. Although media history is often character-

ized as a progression toward greater definition, fidelity, and truthfulness, MP3:

The Meaning of a Format illuminates the crucial role of compression in the devel-

opment of modern media and sound culture. Taking the history of compression

as his point of departure, Jonathan Sterne investigates the relationship between

sound, silence, sense, and noise; the commodity status of recorded sound and

the economic role of piracy; and the importance of standards in the governance

of our emerging media culture. He demonstrates that formats, standards, and

infrastructures—and the need for content to fit inside them—are every bit as

central to communication as the boxes we call “media.”

MEDIA STUDIES/SOUND STUDIES/HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY

August 368 pages, 31 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5287–7, $24.95/£16.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5283–9, $89.95/£67.00

“MP3: The Meaning of a Format is packed with great

stories. It’s a brilliant book about how we listen and how

we make music. It traces the way MP3s have been key to

the way technology is revolutionizing music.”—LAURIE

ANDERSON, artist/musician

“As we continue to inhabit the digital universe created

by the invention of the computer, Jonathan Sterne pro-

vides us with an important cultural history and theory

of the pervasive MP3 audio format. His insights go deep

into our basic ideas of hearing and listening, as well

as of information, showing how these ideas are tied

to twentieth-century media.”—PAULINE OLIVEROS,

composer and improviser, founder of the Deep Listening

Institute, and Distinguished Research Professor of Music,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The Audible PastCultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

paper $27.95/£21.99

978–0–8223–3013–4 / 2002

also by Jonathan Sterne

Announcing sign, storage, transmissionA New Series Edited by Jonathan Sterne and Lisa Gitelman

Sign, Storage, Transmission will gather work by scholars

who are rethinking what have traditionally been called

“media,” and, in the process, are offering new ways of thinking through the

interconnectedness of knowledges, technologies, subjectivities, and cultures.

Whatever their topics—be they media history, digital culture, or matters not

yet named—books in the series will ask new kinds of questions or define

new problems, situate their subjects across—and not just within—fields

of knowledge, and connect materials to theory and theory to materials.

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John Kenneth Knaus has

continued to support Tibet

throughout his career. He is

currently a Research Associate

working on Tibetan affairs at the

Fairbank Center for East Asian

Research at Harvard University.

He is the author of Orphans of

the Cold War: America and the

Tibetan Struggle for Survival.

Beyond Shangri-LaAmerica and Tibet’s Move into the Twenty-First Centuryjohn kenneth knaus

Beyond Shangri-La chronicles rela-

tions between the Tibetans and

the United States since 1908, when

a Dalai Lama first met with U.S.

representatives. What was initially

a distant alliance became more

intimate and entangled in the late

1950s, when the Tibetan people

launched an armed resistance

movement against the Chinese

occupiers. The Tibetans fought

to oust the Chinese and to main-

tain the presence of the current

Dalai Lama and his direction

of their country. In 1958, John

Kenneth Knaus volunteered to

serve in a major CIA program

to support the Tibetans. For

the next seven years, as an operations officer working from India, Colorado,

and Washington, D.C., he cooperated with the Tibetan rebels as they utilized

American assistance to contest Chinese domination and to attain international

recognition as an independent entity.

Since the late 1950s, the rugged resolve of the Dalai Lama and his people

and the growing respect for their efforts to free their homeland from Chinese

occupation have made Tibet’s political and cultural status a pressing issue

in international affairs. So has the realization by nations including the United

States that their own geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat

of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond

Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government

and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet.

AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS

A Series Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg

ASIAN STUDIES/U.S. H ISTORY

October 384 pages, 23 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5234–1, $25.95tr/£16.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5219–8, $94.95/£71.00

“Beyond Shangri-La is a valuable and highly informative con-

tribution to understanding of both Tibet and the history of

American foreign policy in Asia. Benefiting from the author’s

personal experience with America’s Tibet policy, first as

a CIA officer and later as an institutional historian, it gives

often dramatic insights into the surprisingly crucial role of

individual officials within government in shifts of policy and

direction. It comes at a time when America’s relations with

China are at a point of unprecedented importance for world

affairs and when understanding the deep history of the diffi-

cult issues within that relationship—Tibet chief among them—

is important to understanding and successfully navigating

them.”—ROBERT BARNETT, author of Lhasa: Streets with

Memories

President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House, July 16, 2011. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

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Annette Kolodny is College of

Humanities Professor Emerita of

American Literature and Culture at

the University of Arizona. She is the

author of Failing the Future: A Dean

Looks at Higher Education in the

Twenty-first Century and the editor

of The Life and Traditions of the Red

Man, by Joseph Nicolar, both also

published by Duke University Press.

In Search of First ContactThe Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

annette kolodny

In Search of First Contact is a monumental

achievement by the influential literary critic

Annette Kolodny. In this book, she offers a

radically new interpretation of two medieval

Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas.

She contends that they are the first known

European narratives about contact with North

America. After carefully explaining the evidence

for that conclusion, Kolodny examines what

happened after 1837, when English translations

of the two sagas became widely available and

enormously popular in the United States. She

assesses their impact on literature, immigration

policy, and concepts of masculinity.

Kolodny considers what the sagas reveal about the Native peoples encountered by

the Norse in Vinland around the year A.D. 1000, and she recovers Native American

stories of first contacts with Europeans, including one that has never before been

shared outside of Native communities. These stories contradict the dominant

narrative of “first contact” between Europeans and the New World. Kolodny rethinks

the lingering power of a mythic American Viking heritage and the long-standing

debate over whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited

as the first discoverer. With this paradigm-shattering work, Kolodny shows what

literary criticism can bring to historical and social scientific endeavors.

INDIGENOUS & NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES/AMERICAN STUDIES

Available 448 pages, 10 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5286–0, $27.95tr/£18.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5282–2, $99.95/£75.00

“In Search of First Contact is a tour de force. Annette Kolodny

unravels the mythology around Viking contact with North

America and she brings a penetrating perspective to bear

on the notion of first contact and what it might have meant

both to Native Americans and to the Norse. This brilliantly

written book is bound to become a classic.”—BIRGITTA

LINDEROTH WALLACE , archaeologist and author of

Westward Vikings: The Saga of L’Anse aux Meadows

“Annette Kolodny makes the case that North American literary

history begins not with the European exploration narratives

customarily taken as its start, but with ‘contact texts’ culled

from the pictographic materials of tribes in the Algonquian-

speaking Wabanaki Confederacy and from the Norse sagas

with which she suggests they intersect. In Search of First

Contact is exciting, fresh, and more ambitious and synthetic

than any previous effort to explore contact narratives.”

—SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN, Joseph S. Atha Professor of

Humanities and Director of the American Studies Program,

Stanford University

“In Search of First Contact contributes a great deal to schol-

arly knowledge of the Vinland narratives. Annette Kolodny

explains what those stories help us to comprehend about

the indigenous peoples of the northern Atlantic coast,

and she illuminates the process by which people in Anglo-

America have come to understand their own history on

this continent. This is an outstanding and important work.”

—ROBERT WARRIOR , Director of the American Indian

Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

and author of The People and the Word: Reading Native

Nonfiction

The Life and Traditions of the Red Man A rediscovered treasure of Native American literature

JOSEPH NICOLAR

Edited, Annotated, and with a History of the Penobscot Nation and an Introduction by Annette Kolodny

paper $22.95/£17.99

978–0–8223–4028–7 / 2007

Failing the Future A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century

paper $24.95tr/£18.99

978–0–8223–2470–6 / 1998

also by Annette Kolodny

Photo by Susanna Corcoran.

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Enrique Dussel teaches philosophy at the

Universidad Autónoma

Metropolitana, Iztapalapa,

and at the Universidad

Nacional Autónoma de

México in Mexico City.

He is the author of many

books, including Beyond

Philosophy: Ethics, History,

Marxism, and Liberation Theology and The Invention of the

Americas: Eclipse of the “Other” and the Myth of Modernity.

His books Twenty Theses on Politics and Coloniality at Large:

Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (edited with Mabel

Moraña and Carlos A. Jáuregui) are both also published by

Duke University Press. Alejandro A. Vallega is Assistant

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon.

PHILOSOPHY/RELIGIOUS STUDIES

January 800 pages, 23 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5212–9, $34.95/£22.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5201–3, $124.95/£94.00

“Enrique Dussel is the towering figure in liberation philosophy. This long-awaited

translation confirms his unique position in contemporary philosophy.”—CORNEL WEST

Failing the Future A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century

paper $24.95tr/£18.99

978–0–8223–2470–6 / 1998

Twenty Theses on Politicspaper $21.95/£16.99

978–0–8223–4328–8 / 2008

Coloniality at LargeLatin America and the Postcolonial Debate

MABEL MORAÑA, ENRIQUE

DUSSEL, & CARLOS A. JÁUREGUI,

EDITORS

paper $34.95/£26.99

978–0–8223–4169–7 / 2008

also by Enrique Dussel

Ethics of LiberationIn the Age of Globalization and Exclusion

enrique dusselTRANSLATION EDITED BY ALEJANDRO A. VALLEGA

Translated by Eduardo Mendieta, Camilo Pérez Bustillo, Yolanda Angulo, and Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Available in English for the first time, this

much anticipated translation of Enrique

Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation marks a mile-

stone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one

of the world’s foremost philosophers.

This treatise, originally published in 1998,

is his masterwork and a cornerstone of the

philosophy of liberation, which he helped

to found and develop.

Throughout his career, Dussel has sought

to open a space for articulating new

possibilities for humanity out of, and in light

of, the suffering, dignity, and creative drive

of those who have been excluded from

Western modernity and neoliberal rationalism. Grounded in engagement with

the oppressed, his thinking has figured prominently in philosophy, political

theory, and liberation movements around the world. In Ethics of Liberation,

Dussel provides a comprehensive world history of ethics, demonstrating that

our most fundamental moral and ethical traditions did not emerge in ancient

Greece and develop through modern European and North American thought.

The obscured and ignored origins of modernity lie outside the Western

tradition. Ethics of Liberation is a monumental rethinking of the history,

origins, and aims of ethics, and the critical orientation of ethical theory.

LATIN AMERICA OTHERWISE

A Series Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull

Photo by Alejandro Meléndez.

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Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen

C. Garwood Centennial

Professor of English and

Professor of Women’s

and Gender Studies at

the University of Texas,

Austin. She is the author

of An Archive of Feelings:

Trauma, Sexuality, and

Lesbian Public Cultures,

also published by Duke

University Press, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism,

Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor

of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ:

A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

DepressionA Public Feelingann cvetkovich

In Depression: A Public Feeling,

Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir

and critical essay in search of ways

of writing about depression as a

cultural and political phenomenon that

offer alternatives to medical models. She

describes her own experience

of the professional pressures, creative

anxiety, and political hopelessness

that led to intellectual blockage while

she was finishing her dissertation

and writing her first book. Her criti-

cal essay builds on the insights of the

memoir to consider the idea that feeling

bad constitutes the lived experience

of neoliberal capitalism.

Cvetkovich draws on an unusual archive, including accounts of early Christian

acedia and spiritual despair, texts connecting the histories of slavery and colo-

nialism with their violent present-day legacies, and utopian spaces created from

lesbian feminist practices of crafting. She herself seeks to craft a queer cultural

analysis that accounts for depression as a historical category, a felt experience,

and a point of entry into discussions about theory, contemporary culture, and

everyday life. Depression: A Public Feeling suggests that utopian visions can

reside in daily habits and practices, such as writing and yoga, and it highlights

the centrality of somatic and felt experience to political activism and social

transformation.

CULTURAL STUDIES/QUEER THEORY

December 296 pages, 38 illustrations (including 14 in color) paper, 978–0–8223–5238–9, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5223–5, $84.95/£64.00

“Like all my favorite bands, Ann Cvetkovich disregards trends in favor of fearlessness.

While tackling the tough issues of today, she still gives us a book that feels totally time-

less. Depression: A Public Feeling fills a gap that has morphed into a crater. The book is

as invaluable as it is enjoyable. I found myself sighing throughout, thinking ‘Phew, some-

one finally said that!’”—KATHLEEN HANNA, member of the bands Le Tigre, Bikini Kill,

and the Julie Ruin

“A provocative addition to Ann Cvetkovich’s eloquent writings on the archives of public

feelings, this book takes depression out of the space of the private into the complex poli-

tics of our time. Weaving together memoir, cultural and medical history, and literary and

theoretical discussion, Cvetkovich experiments with and reflects on unconventional ways

of writing about embodiment, cognition, and affect. Along the way, she offers myriad

prescriptions, small and large, on how to cope with the daily effects of depression and

how to heal the world.”—MARIANNE HIRSCH, author of The Generation of Postmemory:

Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

An Archive of Feelings Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

paper $25.95tr/£19.99

978–0–8223–3088–2 / 2003

also by Ann Cvetkovich

“Depression is a departure from academic business as

usual. This is a profoundly inspiring book.”—HEATHER

LOVE, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics

of Queer History

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Carol Mavor is Professor

of Art History and Visual

Studies at the University

of Manchester. She is the

author of Reading Boyishly:

Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie,

Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel

Proust, and D. W. Winnicott;

Becoming: The Photographs

of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden; and Pleasures

Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian

Photographs, all published by Duke University Press.

Black and BlueThe Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amourcarol mavor

Audacious and genre-defying, Black

and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in

the feeling of being blue, or, rather,

black and blue, with all the literality of

bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel

Proust are inspirations for and subjects

of Carol Mavor’s exquisite, image-filled

rumination on efforts to capture fleet-

ing moments and to comprehend the

incomprehensible. At the book’s heart

are one book and three films—Roland

Barthes’s Camera Lucida, Chris Marker’s

La Jetée and Sans soleil, and Marguerite

Duras’s and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima

mon amour—postwar French works that

register disturbing truths about loss and

regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement.

Personal recollections punctuate Mavor’s dazzling interpretations of these and

many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust’s

“small-scale contrivances,” tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor’s

mother lost her memory to Alzheimer’s, and Black and Blue is framed by the

author’s memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to

not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.

CULTURAL STUDIES/ART HISTORY/PHOTOGRAPHY

September 232 pages, 113 illustrations (including 18 in color) paper, 978–0–8223–5271–6, $24.95/£16.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5252–5, $89.95/£67.00

“In Black and Blue, Carol Mavor lives with the wounding

memories of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and the regime of

hate in American racial history. She looks at herself through

a kaleidoscope of texts and images whose pain her own

writing seeks to alleviate. The reader witnesses conflicted

emotions circulating within a gallery of figures defining the

melancholic tenor of critical and creative labors of the last

three decades.”—TOM CONLEY, author of An Errant Eye:

Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

“Carol Mavor has developed a unique way of responding to

images and to their uses by artists and writers: with appetite

and fastidious delicacy, she brings the full sensorium synes-

thetically into play. Black and Blue is a highly wrought mon-

tage, an original attempt to open up the meanings of visual

objects in relation to experience, and a startlingly daring

account of a symbolic field. It resonates with—and pays

tribute to—such key art historical works as Aby Warburg’s

Mnemosyne Atlas and William Gass’s prose poem, On Being

Blue.”—MARINA WARNER , author of Stranger Magic:

Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

Reading Boyishly Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott

paper $29.95/£22.99

978–0–8223–3962–5 / 2007

Becoming The Photographs

of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden

paper $23.95tr/£18.99

978–0–8223–2389–1 / 1999

Pleasures Taken Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

paper $22.95/£17.99

978–0–8223–1619–0 / 1995

also by Carol Mavor

g e n e r a l i n t e r e s tg e n e r a l i n t e r e s t

Doryun Chong is Associate Curator of Painting and

Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Michio Hayashi is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at

Sophia University in Tokyo. Kenji Kajiya is Associate

Professor in the Faculty of Art at Hiroshima City

University. Fumihiko Sumitomo is an accomplished

independent curator in Tokyo.

From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–1989Primary Documentsedited by doryun chong, michio hayashi, kenji kajiya & fumihiko sumitomo

A trove of primary source materials, From

Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–

1989 is an invaluable scholarly resource for

readers who wish to explore the fascinating

subject of avant-garde art in postwar

Japan. In this comprehensive anthology,

an array of key documents, artist manifestos,

critical essays, and roundtable discussions

are translated into English for the first

time. The pieces cover a broad range of

artistic mediums—including photography,

film, performance, architecture, and design—

and illuminate their various points of

convergence in the Japanese context.

The collection is organized chronologically and thematically to highlight sig-

nificant movements, works, and artistic phenomena, such as the pioneering

artist collectives Gutai and Hi Red Center, the influential photography periodical

Provoke, and the emergence of video art in the 1980s. Interspersed throughout

the volume are more than twenty newly commissioned texts by contemporary

scholars. Including Bert Winther-Tamaki on art and the Occupation, and Reiko

Tomii on the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, these pieces supplement and

provide a historical framework for the primary source materials. From Postwar

to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–1989 offers an unprecedented look at more

than four decades of Japanese art—both as it unfolded and as it is seen from

the perspective of the present day.

PUBLICATION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

MOMA PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

10 ART/ASIAN STUDIES

November 464 pages, 125 illustrations (including 50 in color) paper, 978–0–8223–5368–3, $40.00tr/£24.99

Contemporary Chinese Art Primary Documents

WU HUNG

paper $40.00tr/£31.00

978–0–8223–4943–3 / 2010

also in MoMA Primary Documents


Wall Street Womenmelissa s. fisher

“Detecting gendering in high finance is a long-standing challenge—it is

a domain inhospitable to the main categories of feminist analysis. Melissa

S. Fisher goes at it with gusto and gives us a great book.”—SASKIA

SASSEN, author of Territory, Authority, Rights

Wall Street Women tells the

story of the first genera-

tion of women to establish

themselves as professionals

on Wall Street. Since these

women, who began their

careers in the 1960s, faced

blatant discrimination and

barriers to advancement, they

created formal and informal

associations to bolster one

another’s careers. In this

important historical eth-

nography, Melissa S. Fisher

draws on fieldwork, archival

research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of

first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional

and political associations, most notably the Financial Women’s

Association of New York City, which was founded in the 1950s,

and the Women’s Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to

promote the election of pro-choice women.

Fisher charts the evolution of the women’s careers, the growth

of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives

and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of

the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects

of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women’s move-

ment as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues

that they did produce a “market feminism” which aligned liberal

feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic

of the market.

Melissa S. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at

Georgetown University. She is a coeditor of Frontiers of Capital:

Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, also published by

Duke University Press.

Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americasedited and with an introduction by esther kim lee

“For over a decade now, some of our nation’s most impressive new plays

have been written by Korean American dramatists. Esther Kim Lee’s impor-

tant anthology gathers together the groundbreaking work of these artists,

who are transforming American theater with their energy, innovations, and

sheer talent.”—DAVID HENRY HWANG , playwright

Showcasing the dynamism of

contemporary Korean diasporic

theater, this anthology features

seven plays by second-

generation Korean diasporic

writers from the United States,

Canada, and Chile. By bring-

ing the plays together in this

collection, Esther Kim Lee

highlights the themes and

styles that have enlivened

Korean diasporic theater in

the Americas since the 1990s.

Some of the plays are set in

urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Texas, while

another unfolds entirely in a character’s mind. Ethnic identity is not

as central as it was in the work of previous generations of Asian

diasporic playwrights. In these plays, experiences of diaspora and

displacement are likely to be part of broader stories, such as the

difficulties faced by a young mother trying to balance family and

career. Running through these stories are themes of assimilation,

authenticity, family, memory, trauma, and gender-related expecta-

tions of success. Lee’s introduction includes a brief history of the

Korean Peninsula in the twentieth century and of South Korean

immigration to the Americas, along with an overview of Asian

American theater and the place of Korean American theater within

it. Each play is preceded by a brief biography of the playwright

and a summary of the play’s production history.

Esther Kim Lee is Associate Professor of Theatre and Asian American

Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the

author of A History of Asian American Theatre.

11ANTHROPOLOGY/WOMEN’S STUDIES/BUSINESS

July 240 pages, 3 illustrations

paper, 978–0–8223–5345–4, $22.95/£14.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5330–0, $79.95/£60.00

DRAMA/ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

September 384 pages, 13 illustrations

paper, 0–8223–5274–7, $26.95/£17.99

cloth, 0–8223–5253–2, $94.95/£71.00

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Hamid Naficy is Professor

of Radio-Television-Film and

the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani

Professor in Communication

at Northwestern University.

He is the author of An Accented

Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic

Filmmaking and The Making

of Exile Cultures: Iranian

Television in Los Angeles.

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010hamid naficy

Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social

History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth

century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres,

and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as

the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national iden-

tity in Iran. This comprehensive social history unfolds across four volumes, each

of which can be appreciated on its own.

The extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film, TV, and new media since the

consolidation of the Islamic Revolution animates Volume 4. During this time,

documentary films proliferated. Many filmmakers took as their subject the revo-

lution and the bloody eight-year war with Iraq; others critiqued postrevolution

society. The strong presence of women on screen and behind the camera led

to a dynamic women’s cinema. A dissident art-house cinema—involving some of

the best Pahlavi-era new-wave directors and a younger generation of innovative

postrevolution directors—placed Iranian cinema on the map of world cinemas,

bringing prestige to Iranians at home and abroad. A struggle over cinema, media,

culture, and, ultimately, the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic, emerged and

intensified. The media became a contested site of public diplomacy as the Islamic

Republic, as well as foreign governments antagonistic to it, sought to harness

Iranian popular culture and media toward their own ends, within and outside

of Iran. The broad international circulation of films made in Iran and its diaspora,

the vast dispersion of media-savvy filmmakers abroad, and new filmmaking

and communication technologies helped globalize Iranian cinema.

F ILM/MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

October 664 pages, 112 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–4878–8, $29.95/£19.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–4866–5, $99.95/£75.00

“A Social History of Iranian Cinema is essential reading

not only for the cinephile interested in Iran’s unique

and rich cinematic history but also for anyone

wanting a deeper understanding of the cataclysmic

events and metamorphoses that have shaped Iran.”

—SHIRIN NESHAT, director of Women Without Men

“Hamid Naficy is already established as the doyen

of historians and critics of Iranian cinema. Based

on his deep understanding of modern Iranian politi-

cal and social history, this detailed critical history

of Iran’s cinema since its founding is his crowning

achievement.”—HOMA KATOUZIAN, author of

The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

“This magisterial four-volume study of Iranian cinema

will be the defining work on the topic for a long time

to come.”—ANNABELLE SREBERNY, coauthor of

Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran

“Only a skilled historian who is on the inside of his

story could convey so vividly the cinema’s symbolic

significance for twentieth-century Iran and the depth

with which it is interwoven with its national culture

and politics.”—LAURA MULVEY, author of Death 24×

a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image

Volume 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897–1941paper $27.95/£21.99

978–0–8223–4775–0 / 2011

Volume 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978paper $27.95/£21.99

978–0–8223–4774–3 / 2011

Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978–1984paper $24.95/£18.99

978–0–8223–4877–1 / 2012

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volumes 1–3

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c u l t u r a l s t u d i e s

ANTHROPOLOGY/SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES

August 392 pages paper, 978-0-8223-5110-8, $26.95/£17.99 cloth, 978-0-8223-5098-9, $94.95/£71.00

Akhil Gupta is Professor

of Anthropology and Director

of the Center for India and

South Asia at the University

of California, Los Angeles.

He is the author of Postcolonial

Developments: Agriculture in

the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture,

Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both

also published by Duke University Press.

Red TapeBureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in Indiaakhil gupta

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state

developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil

Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and

widespread poverty in India, the world’s fourth

largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation

between the state in India and the poor as one

of structural violence. Every year this violence kills

between two and three million people, especially

women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous

peoples. Yet India’s poor are not disenfranchised;

they actively participate in the democratic project.

Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the

poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs.

Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged with coordinat-

ing development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Drawing on that research, he

offers insightful analyses of corruption; the significance of writing and written

records; and governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses

underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences, and that arbi-

trariness is systematically produced by the very mechanisms that are meant to

ameliorate social suffering. What must be explained is not only why government

programs aimed at providing nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and

education to poor people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when

they do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically.

A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK

“This long-awaited book is a masterful achievement which

offers a close look at the culture of bureaucracy in India and

through this lens, casts new light on structural violence, liber-

alization, and the paradox of misery in the midst of explosive

economic growth. Akhil Gupta’s sensitive analysis of the

everyday practices of writing, recording, filing, and reporting

at every level of the state in India joins a rich literature on

the politics of inscription and marks a brilliant new bench-

mark for political anthropology in India and beyond.”—ARJUN

APPADURAI, author of Fear of Small Numbers

“This is a landmark study of bureaucratic practices through

which the state is actualized in the lives of the poor in India.

Akhil Gupta’s theoretical sophistication and the ethnographic

depth in this book demonstrate how South Asian studies

continues to challenge and shape the direction of social

theory. This book is a stunning achievement.”—VEENA DAS,

author of Life and Words

“Whether exploring corruption, literacy, or population policy,

Akhil Gupta provides an utterly original account of the deadly

operations of state power associated with the ascendancy

of new industrial classes and of neoliberal practice in contem-

porary India. A tour de force.”—MICHAEL WATTS, author of

Silent Violence

Postcolonial Developments Agriculture in the

Making of Modern India

paper $26.95/£20.99

978–0–8223–2213–9 / 1998

Culture, Power, Place Explorations in Critical Anthropology

AKHIL GUPTA & JAMES FERGUSON, EDITORS

paper $25.95/£19.99

978–0–8223–1940–5 / 1997

also by Akhil Gupta


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Carolyn Dinshaw is Professor

of English, and Social and Cultural

Analysis at New York University.

She is the author of Getting Medieval:

Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and

Postmodern, also published by Duke

University Press, and Chaucer’s Sexual

Poetics. Dinshaw is a founding coeditor

of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay

Studies.

How Soon Is Now?Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Timecarolyn dinshaw

How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful cri-

tique of modernist temporal regimes through

its revelatory exploration of queer ways of

being in time and the potential queerness

of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on

medieval tales of asynchrony and on engage-

ments with these medieval temporal worlds by

amateur readers centuries later. In doing so,

she illuminates forms of desirous, embodied

being that are out of sync with ordinarily linear

measurements of everyday life, that involve

multiple temporalities, that precipitate out of

time altogether. Dinshaw claims the possibil-

ity of a fuller, denser, more crowded now that

theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes

our temporal grasp.

Whether discussing Victorian men of letters who parodied the Book of John

Mandeville, a fictionalized fourteenth-century travel narrative, or Hope Emily

Allen, modern coeditor of the early-fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe,

Dinshaw argues that these and other medievalists outside the academy inhabit

different temporalities than modern professionals operating according to the

clock. How Soon Is Now? clears space for amateurs, hobbyists, and dabblers

who approach medieval worlds from positions of affect and attachment, from

desires to build other kinds of worlds. Unruly, untimely, they urge us toward

a disorderly and asynchronous collective.

QUEER STUDIES/MEDIEVAL STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES

January 272 pages, 7 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5367–6, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5353–9, $84.95/£64.00

“Entering into an elegant slipstream of generative, generous,

rigorous thought, Carolyn Dinshaw proves again her exqui-

site power to enchant her readers. Uniquely attractive

as a theorist of time, she brilliantly addresses a temporal

spread, from the seeming irrationality of medieval tempo-

rality to modernity’s ‘stingy’ outlook on the senses.

As I read How Soon Is Now? I found her signal emphases—

reading, temporality, nonlinearity, queer historicity, and

medieval mysticism—mattering to me, a queer theorist

and nonmedievalist, in the novel ways she said they

would.”—KATHRYN BOND STOCKTON, author of The

Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century

Getting Medieval Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern

paper $25.95/£19.99

978–0–8223–2365–5 / 1999

also by Carolyn Dinshaw“How do queers relate to the distant past and experience time? Carolyn Dinshaw’s answer

to this question in How Soon Is Now? ranges through astute literary criticism, cogently

argued theory, and snippets of autobiography. The result is a provocative essay about

the value and presence of the past that is also at times profoundly moving. Her account

of the amateur scholar’s privileged relation to asynchrony and affective engagement with

the object of study should give all in the academy pause for thought.”—SIMON GAUNT,

author of Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature

Illumination from The Book of Tobit, a fifteenth-century manuscript. ©The British Library Board, MS Royal 15 D I f. 18.

Photo by Jayne Burke. ©NYU Photoo Bureau.

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David Palumbo-Liu is Professor

and Director of Comparative

Literature at Stanford University.

He is the author of Asian/American:

Historical Crossings of a Racial

Frontier; the editor of The Ethnic

Canon: Histories, Institutions,

and Interventions; and a coeditor

of Immanuel Wallerstein and the

Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published

by Duke University Press.

The Deliverance of OthersReading Literature in a Global Agedavid palumbo-liu

The Deliverance of Others is a compelling

reappraisal of the idea that narrative

literature can expand readers’ empathy.

What happens if, amid the voluminous

influx of otherness facilitated by globaliza-

tion, we continue the tradition of valorizing

literature for bringing the lives of others

to us, admitting them into our world, and

valuing the difference that they introduce

into our lives? In this new historical situa-

tion, are we not forced to determine how

much otherness is acceptable, as opposed

to how much is excessive, disruptive,

and disturbing?

The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive

at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of

sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings

of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki,

he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurabil-

ity between ourselves and others—ideas of rationality, the family, the body,

and affect—become less stable as they try to accommodate more radical types

of otherness. For Palumbo-Liu, the reading of literature is an ethical act, a way

of thinking through our relations to others.

L ITERARY STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES

June 248 pages, 6 illustrations paper, 978–0–8223–5269–3, $23.95/£15.99 cloth, 978–0–8223–5250–1, $84.95/£64.00

“Certain to be an important and influential book, The Deliverance of Others examines the

profound challenges that the ‘contemporary’ historical moment poses to literary novel-

writing in the early twenty-first century, when the fine line between a ‘sufficient’ and

an ‘excessive’ measure of otherness seems to have been trespassed, when, as David

Palumbo-Liu puts it in his extraordinary reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, read-

ers of the novel are asked to imagine themselves confronting a ‘tidal wave of difference’

that exceeds the specific capacities of realist form and the more general compact that

literary writing offers to strike between historical conditions and the liberal, sympathetic

imagination.”—IAN BAUCOM , author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery,

and the Philosophy of History

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World System, Scale, Culture

DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, BRUCE ROBBINS,

AND NIRVANA TANOUKHI, EDITORS

paper $23.95/£18.99

978–0–8223–4848–1 / 2011

also by David Palumbo-Liu

“In The Deliverance of Others, the distinguished critic David

Palumbo-Liu tackles broad questions of aesthetics and ethics

in this ‘age of otherness and virtual proximity.’ By contrasting

utilitarian notions of political economy with those of a system

based on interdependent and ethically connected communities,

he goes to the essential: How do we define truth in relation to

reason and ethics and how do we understand the ways that

literature and literary composition resonate differently in differ-

ent global spaces, each with varying notions of rationality and

choice?”—FRANÇOISE LIONNET, coeditor of The Creolization

of Theory

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Bruce Robbins is the

Old Dominion Foundation

Professor in the Humanities

at Columbia University.

He is the author of Upward

Mobility and the Common

Good: Toward a Literary

History of the Welfare State

and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and a

coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond

the Nation and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of

the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke

University Press.

Perpetual WarCosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violencebruce robbins

For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a

theorist of and participant in the movement for

a “new cosmopolitanism,” an appreciation of the

varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as

peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War

he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his

own commitment and reflecting on the respon-

sibilities of American intellectuals today. In this

era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins

contends that the declining economic and politi-

cal hegemony of the United States will tempt it

into blaming other nations for its problems and

lashing out against them.

Under these conditions, cosmopolitanism in the traditional sense—primary loyalty

to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the inter-

ests of one’s own nation—becomes a necessary resource in the struggle against

military aggression. To what extent does the “new” cosmopolitanism also include

or support this “old” cosmopolitanism? In an attempt to answer this question,

Robbins engages with such thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Anthony

Appiah, Immanuel Wallerstein, Louis Menand, W. G. Sebald, and Slavoj Zizek. The

paradoxes of detachment and belonging they embody, he argues, can help define

the tasks of American intellectuals in an era when the first duty of the cosmopoli-

tan is to resist the military aggression perpetrated by his or her own country.

CULTURAL STUDIES

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Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World System, Scale, Culture

DAVID PALUMBO-LIU, BRUCE ROBBINS,

AND NIRVANA TANOUKHI, EDITORS

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The Servant’s Hand English Fiction from Below

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also by Bruce Robbins

“Apart from the significant contribution that Perpetual War

will make to the literature on cosmopolitanism, it is a richly

elaborated work of intellectual and cultural history in its

own right. Bruce Robbins is a superb writer and critic, and

his analyses are incisive, deeply informed, and refreshingly

blunt. Perhaps because he has for so many years been think-

ing about the vicissitudes of political thought and feeling,

and in particular about cosmopolitanism, Robbins has a

quite unusual ability to zero in not only on the analytic

but also the emotional or psychological core of his object

of study. His deep and wide-ranging treatment of cosmopoli-

tanism will advance debate on the topic immeasurably.”

—AMANDA ANDERSON, author of The Powers of Distance:

Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment

“Over the past twenty years, no one has done more than

Bruce Robbins to elaborate an ideal of cosmopolitanism that

grapples productively with local attachments (including those

of nationalism and patriotism) while aspiring toward a critical

internationalism. In these rigorously scrupulous, relentlessly

challenging essays, Robbins shows why that project is so

important, and why intellectuals on the left need to defend

the provisions of the social welfare state while promoting

a supranational standard of international justice—a project

that entails the difficult recognition that the domestic welfare

state is also the international warfare state. Perpetual War is

an exemplary attempt to come to terms with that recognition,

and pursue its implications wherever they lead.”—MICHAEL

BÉRUBÉ , author of The Left at War


17CULTURAL STUDIES/ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

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The Gift of FreedomWar, Debt, and Other Refugee Passagesmimi thi nguyen

“The Gift of Freedom is a dazzling book. Focusing on the figure of the

Vietnamese refugee as a key to comprehending how the rhetoric of

U.S. liberalism and freedom became hegemonic during the Cold War and

in the contemporary post–9/11 period, Mimi Thi Nguyen offers an original

approach to rethinking Cold War politics and U.S. liberal freedom.”

—DAVID L. ENG , author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism

and the Racialization of Intimacy

In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi

Nguyen develops a new understand-

ing of contemporary United States

empire and its self-interested claims

to provide for others the advantage

of human freedom. Bringing together

critiques of liberalism with postco-

lonial approaches to the modern

cartography of progress, Nguyen

proposes “the gift of freedom” as

the name for those forces that avow

to reverence aliveness and beauty,

and to govern an enlightened human-

ity, while producing new subjects

and actions—such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war—in an age of

liberal empire. From the Cold War to the global war on terror, the United

States simultaneously promises the gift of freedom through war and

violence, and administers the debt that follows. Focusing here on the

figure of the Vietnamese refugee as the twice-over target of the gift of

freedom—first through war, second through refuge—Nguyen suggests

that the imposition of debt precludes the subjects of freedom from

escaping those colonial histories that deemed them “unfree.” To receive

the gift of freedom then is to be indebted to empire, perhaps without

end.

Mimi Thi Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies,

and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

She is a coeditor of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, also

published by Duke University Press.

NEXT WAVE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES

A Series Edited by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, and Robyn Wiegman

AnimaciesBiopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affectmel y. chen

“Animacies is a book about ‘reworldings,’ as Mel Y. Chen traces the myriad

ways that objects and affects move through and reshape zones of possibil-

ity for political transformation and queer resistance to neoliberal biopoli-

tics. At the same time, Animacies itself generates such transformations:

grounded in a generous, expansive understanding of queer of color and

disability/crip critique, Chen’s study reworlds or reorients disability studies,

gender and sexuality studies, critical race theory, animal studies, affect

studies, and linguistics. In all of these critical spaces, Animacies might be

described as the breathtaking and revivifying book we have been waiting

for.”—ROBERT MCRUER, coeditor of Sex and Disability

In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on

recent debates about sexuality, race,

and affect to examine how matter

that is considered insensate, immo-

bile, or deathly, animates cultural

lives. Toward that end, Chen investi-

gates the blurry division between the

living and the dead, or that which is

beyond the human or animal. Within

the field of linguistics, animacy has

been described variously as a quality

of agency, awareness, mobility,

sentience, or liveness. Chen turns

to cognitive linguistics to stress

how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate.

Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much

that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from

animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns.

Chen’s book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with

queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory.

Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness,

animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead toy

panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies

illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and abil-

ity. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing

agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness—

and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter

challenges commonsense orderings of the world.

Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies

at the University of California, Berkeley.

PERVERSE MODERNITIES

A Series Edited by Judith Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

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CULTURAL STUDIES/SOCIAL THEORY/PERFORMANCE STUDIES

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Always More Than OneIndividuation’s Danceerin manningWith a foreword by Brian Massumi

“Erin Manning’s book offers a philosophy of neurodiverse perception,

encouraging us ‘not to begin with the pre-chunked.’ How ironic, then, that

the impulse to categorize and to pathologize is generally seen as evidence

of the normate’s proper functioning. In Manning’s splendid book, autism

comes to signify not a disorder but a relational ‘dance of attention,’

one that refuses to strand any entity at the margin of our concern.”

—RALPH JAMES SAVARESE, coeditor of “Autism and the Concept

of Neurodiversity,” a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly

In Always More Than One, the phi-

losopher, visual artist, and dancer

Erin Manning explores the concept

of the “more-than human” in the

context of movement, perception,

and experience. Working from

Whitehead’s process philosophy

and Simondon’s theory of individu-

ation, she extends the concepts

of movement and relation devel-

oped in her earlier work toward

the notion of “choreographic thinking.” Here, she uses choreographic

thinking to explore a mode of perception prior to the settling of experi-

ence into established categories. Manning connects this to the concept

of “autistic perception,” described by autistics as the awareness of a

relational field prior to the so-called “neurotypical” tendency to “chunk”

experience into predetermined subjects and objects. Autistics explain

that rather than immediately distinguishing objects—such as chairs and

tables and humans—from one another on entering a given environment,

they experience the environment as gradually taking form. Manning

maintains that this mode of awareness underlies all perception. What

we perceive is never first a subject or an object, but an ecology. From

this vantage point, she proposes that we consider an ecological politics

where movement and relation take precedence over predefined catego-

ries, such as the neurotypical and the neurodiverse, or the human and

the nonhuman. What would it mean to embrace an ecological politics

of collective individuation?

Erin Manning is Research Chair in Philosophy and Relational Art and

Associate Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University.

She is the author of Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy and Politics

of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty and coauthor, with Brian Massumi,

of Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (forthcoming).

Brian Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect,

Sensation, also published by Duke University Press, and Semblance and

Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts.

Buy It NowLessons from eBaymichele white

“Michele White explores eBay as a brand community of monetary and affec-

tive circulation that encourages certain uses and, indeed, configures its

users as certain kinds of consumers. By doing so, she makes a compelling

argument for how identity categories and historical layers of representation

are played out on eBay as an assemblage of sellers, buyers,

lurkers, information architecture, interface design, business concepts,

acts of branding, and item depiction. Critical and astute, Buy It Now pulls

the rug out from under those who consider online marketplaces as the

instrumental means to an end.”—SUSANNA PAASONEN, author of

Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography

In Buy It Now, Michele White exam-

ines eBay and its emphasis on

community and social norms, reveal-

ing the cultural assumptions about

gender, race, and sexuality that are

reinforced throughout the site. She

shows how instructional texts, rule

systems, and advertisements “con-

figure the user,” allowing eBay to

indicate how the site is supposed to

function while also upholding particu-

lar values and practices. White details

how eBay reinforces stereotypes

about gender and sexuality, looking,

for example, at the descriptions included in wedding dress listings, and

how eBay directs individuals to the “Adult Only” part of the website

when they use the search terms “gay” and “lesbian.” She discloses the

ways that eBay promises a caring community but its “Black Americana”

category reproduces racism by allowing sellers’ narratives that excuse

and romanticize slavery and insult African Americans. White also looks

at how participants challenge eBay’s categories, rules, and values,

examining widely used strategies of resistance by sellers and buyers

in the lesbian and gay interest listings. By analyzing the organiza-

tional and cultural logics present in eBay, White emphasizes how other

Internet settings, including Craigslist, are not as transparent, commu-

nity-oriented, and empowering as they claim. She proposes methods

for researching and reconceptualizing new media sites.

Michele White is Associate Professor of Communication at Tulane

University. She is the author of The Body and the Screen: Theories of

Internet Spectatorship.

Scattered Crowd choreographic object by William Forsythe. Installation at Hôtel Dieu Saint-Jacques in Toulouse, France, 2006. Photo by Julian Gabriel Richter.


19ANTHROPOLOGY/CULTURAL STUDIES/BORDER STUDIES


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Tijuana DreamingLife and Art at the Global Borderjosh kun & fiamma montezemolo, editors

With a foreword by Iain Chambers

“Tijuana Dreaming stages an international dialogue about issues of over-

whelming importance. It will enable supremely talented Spanish-language

writers to reach Anglophone audiences, compel scholars to rethink

why culture matters now, and lead readers around the world to consider

the responsibilities and obligations that we incur in the face of rapidly

changing configurations of capital, culture, violence, and the nation state.”

—GEORGE LIPSITZ , author of How Racism Takes Place

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprec-

edented introduction to the arts,

culture, politics, and economics

of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico.

With many pieces translated from

the Spanish for the first time, the

anthology features contributions

by prominent scholars, journalists,

bloggers, novelists, poets, curators,

and photographers from Tijuana

and greater Mexico. They explore

urban planning in light of Tijuana’s

unique infrastructural, demographic,

and environmental challenges. They

delve into its musical countercultures, architectural ruins, cinema, and

emergence as a hot spot on the international art scene. One contributor

examines fictional representations of Tijuana’s past as a Prohibition-era

“city of sin” for U.S. pleasure seekers. Another reflects on its present

as a city beleaguered by kidnappings and drug violence. In an inter-

view, Nestor García Canclini revisits ideas that he advanced in Culturas

híbridas (1990), his watershed book about Latin America and cultural

hybridity. Taken together, the selections present a kaleidoscopic por-

trait of a major border city in the age of globalization.

ContributorsTito Alegría, Humberto Félix Berumen, Roberto Castillo, Iain Chambers, Luis Humberto

Crosthwaite, Teddy Cruz, Ejival, Tarek Elhaik, Guillermo Fadanelli, Ingrid Hernández,

Jennifer Insley-Pruitt, Kathryn Kopinak, Josh Kun, Jesse Lerner, Fiamma Montezemolo,

Rene Peralta, Rafa Saavedra, Lucía Sanromán, Michelle Téllez, Santiago Vaquera-

Vásquez, Heriberto Yépez

Josh Kun is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and

Journalism and the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the

University of Southern California. Fiamma Montezemolo is an anthro-

pologist and artist currently teaching in the Department of Art Practice at

the University of California, Berkeley. Iain Chambers teaches cultural and

postcolonial studies at the Orientale University of Naples.

Barrio LibreCriminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontiergilberto rosas

“Gilberto Rosas’s exploration of the seamy underbelly of neoliberal state

sovereignty in the sewer tunnels beneath the U.S.–Mexico border takes us

to a vexed and murky place, both ethnographically and theoretically. His

work invites us to consider provocative and urgent questions about the

deep complicity between policing and criminality, and the racialized relega-

tion of human life to abjection and unnatural death on the new frontier.

Rosas’s insistence on directing our critical gaze to a dark and dank place of

subjection, power, and violence ought to instigate vital new lines of debate

in the study of border enforcement and subjectivity within the wild zones

of state power.”—NICHOLAS DE GENOVA , coeditor of The Deportation

Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement

The city of Nogales straddles the

border running between Arizona and

Sonora, Mexico. On the Mexican

side, marginalized youths calling

themselves Barrio Libre (Free ‘Hood)

employ violence, theft, and bribery

to survive, often preying on undocu-

mented migrants who navigate the

city’s sewer system to cross the U.S.-

Mexico border. In this book, Gilberto

Rosas draws on his in-depth ethno-

graphic research among the members

of Barrio Libre to understand why its

members have embraced criminality,

and how neoliberalism and security policies on both sides of the border

have affected the youths’ descent into Barrio Libre.

Rosas argues that although these youth participate in the victimiza-

tion of others, they should not be demonized. They are complexly and

adversely situated. The effects of NAFTA have forced many of them,

as well as other Mexicans, to migrate to Nogales. Moving fluidly with

the youth through the spaces that they inhabit and control, he shows

how the militarization of the border actually destabilized the region

and led Barrio Libre to turn to increasingly violent activities, includ-

ing drug trafficking. By focusing on these youth and their delinquency,

Rosas demonstrates how capitalism and criminality shape perceptions

and experiences of race, sovereignty, and resistance along the U.S.–

Mexico border.

Gilberto Rosas is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology

and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Writing across CulturesNarrative Transculturation in Latin AmericaÁngel ramaEdited and translated by David Frye

“In a sense, modern Latin American literary and cultural criticism has

been in a dialogue with Ángel Rama’s notion of ‘narrative transculturation,’

first advanced in these essays. It is good to have them available

in a superb English translation.”—JOHN BEVERLEY, author of

Latinamericanism after 9/11

Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century

Latin America’s most distinguished men

of letters. Writing across Cultures is his

comprehensive analysis of the varied

sources of Latin American literature.

Originally published in 1982, the book

links Rama’s work on Spanish American

modernism with his arguments about the

innovative nature of regionalist literature,

and it foregrounds his thinking about

the close relationship between literary

movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends

in social and economic development.

In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist

Fernando Ortiz’s theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing

it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cul-

tural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and

European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies

this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropolo-

gist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and

Quechua, Peru’s two major languages and, by extension, cultures.

Rama considered Arguedas’s novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers)

to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in

Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama’s books

to be translated into English.

Ángel Rama (1926–1983) was a noted literary critic, journalist, editor,

publisher, and educator. He left his native Uruguay after the military take-

over in 1973 and subsequently taught at the University of Venezuela and

the University of Maryland. He is the author of many books, including

The Lettered City, also published by Duke University Press. David Frye

is a writer and translator who teaches Latin American studies courses at

the University of Michigan. He is the translator of Guaman Poma’s The First

New Chronicle and Good Government (1615), Fernández de Lizardi’s The

Mangy Parrot (1816), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.

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A Series Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull


Architecture in TranslationGermany, Turkey, and the Modern Houseesra akcan

“Tracing the surprisingly intertwined twentieth-century histories of German

and Turkish residential housing and urban planning from the garden

city via the urban Siedlung to the national house, Esra Akcan brilliantly

deploys lingual translation theory as a flexible template to analyze zones

of asymmetrical exchange in architecture and urban planning. Architecture

in Translation moves compellingly beyond modernist universalism and

nationalist regionalism toward a cosmopolitan ethics as a goal for a global

architecture.”—ANDREAS HUYSSEN, editor of Other Cities, Other Worlds:

Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

In Architecture in Translation, Esra

Akcan offers a way to understand

the global circulation of culture that

extends the notion of translation

beyond language to visual fields.

She shows how members of the

ruling Kemalist elite in Turkey further

aligned themselves with Europe by

choosing German-speaking archi-

tects to oversee much of the design

of modern cities. Focusing on the

period from the 1920s through

the 1950s, Akcan traces the geo-

graphical circulation of modern

residential models, including the

garden city—which emphasized green spaces separating low-density

neighborhoods of houses surrounded by gardens—and mass housing

built first for the working-class residents in industrial cities and, later,

more broadly for mixed-income residents. She shows how the concept

of translation—the process of change that occurs with transportation

of people, ideas, technology, information, and images from one or

more countries to another—allows for consideration of the sociopolitical

context and agency of all parties in cultural exchanges. Moving beyond

the indistinct concepts of hybrid and transculturation and avoiding

passive metaphors such as import, influence, or transfer, translation

offers a new approach relevant to many disciplines. Akcan advocates

a commitment to a new culture of translatability from below for a truly

cosmopolitan ethics in a globalizing world.

Esra Akcan is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois,

Chicago. She is the author of (Land)Fill Istanbul: Twelve Scenarios for a

Global City.

Image of a new and modern Ankara from the journal La Turquie Kemaliste published by the Turkish government, August 1938.


21FEMINIST THEORY/SCIENCE STUDIES/CULTURAL STUDIES

October Vol. 23, no. 3 205 pages, 13 illustrations

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Seizing the Means of ReproductionEntanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technosciencemichelle murphy

“Seizing the Means of Reproduction offers a sophisticated, original, unro-

mantic, and challenging account of feminist reproductive politics in the USA

in the 1970s and 1980s, both in its national context and as it helped to

shape international development programs and strategies. Teasing out the

racial politics and embedded features of white privilege which many others

scholars and activists have neglected, Michelle Murphy forges a very

distinctive trajectory.”—MAUREEN MCNEIL , author of Feminist Cultural

Studies of Science and Technology

In Seizing the Means of

Reproduction, Michelle Murphy’s

initial focus on the alternative health

practices developed by radical

feminists in the United States during

the 1970s and 1980s opens into a

sophisticated analysis of the trans-

national entanglements of American

empire, population control, neolib-

eralism, and late-twentieth-century

feminisms. Murphy concentrates

on the technoscientific means—the

technologies, practices, protocols,

and processes—developed by femi-

nist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details

of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empower-

ing women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics.

Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself

health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic

logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family

planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist

health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries.

The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found

their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified

research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow

of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to

inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.

Michelle Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies

and of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the Sick

Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke

University Press.




Feminist Theory Out of Sciencesophia roosth & astrid schrader, special issue editors

a special issue of DIFFERENCES

Attending to the rich entanglements of scientific and critical theory,

contributors to this special issue of differences scrutinize phenomena

in nature to explore new territory in feminist science studies. With a

special focus on relating theory to method, these scholars generate

new feminist approaches to scientific practice. Contributors probe

this relationship by way of topics from the poetics of human–jellyfish

interactions to a feminist reconsideration of a well-known thought

experiment in thermodynamics. Two contributors analyze plant–insect

encounter research to spin their own symbiotically inflected account

of “affective ecologies.” Technologies of human memory storage and

retrieval lead one writer to interrogate how our understandings of

memory and amnesia are currently under revision. Another contributor

tracks the lively evolutionary and morphological theories that textile

artisans manifest in material models of sea creatures. What emerges

from these diverse essays is an approach to critical thinking that inhab-

its, elaborates, and feeds on scientific theory, holding feminist theory

accountable to science and vice versa.

Contributors Karen Barad, Lina Dib, Eva Hayward, Carla Hustak, Vicki Kirby, Natasha Myers,

Sophia Roosth, Astrid Schrader

Sophia Roosth is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard

University. Astrid Schrader is Visiting Assistant Professor of Science,

Technology, and Society at Sarah Lawrence College.

Poster made for Carol Downer when she was acquitted of the charge of practicing medicine without a license, 1972.

Hyperbolic crochet corals and anemones with sea slug by Marianne Midelburg. Photo ©The Institute for Figuring, by Alyssa Gorelick.

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Improvising MedicineAn African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemicjulie livingston

“Improvising Medicine is a luminous book by a highly respected Africanist

whose work creatively bridges anthropology and history. A product

of intense listening and observation, deep care, and superb analytical

work, it will become a canonical ethnography of medicine in the global

south and will have a big impact across the social sciences and medical

humanities.”—JOÃO BIEHL , author of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and

the Politics of Survival and Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana’s

only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone.

This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward

staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part

of an ongoing surge in cancers across the global south; the stories of

Botswana’s oncology ward dramatize the human stakes and intellectual

and institutional challenges of an epidemic that will shape the future of

global health. They convey the contingencies of high-tech medicine in

a hospital where vital machines are often broken, drugs go in and out

of stock, and bed space is always at a premium. They also reveal cancer

as something that happens between people. Serious illness, care, pain,

disfigurement, and even death emerge as deeply social experiences.

Livingston describes the cancer ward in terms of the bureaucracy,

vulnerability, power, biomedical science, mortality, and hope that shape

contemporary experience in southern Africa. Her ethnography is a

profound reflection on the social orchestration of hope and futility in

an African hospital, the politics and economics of healthcare in Africa,

and palliation and disfigurement across the global south.

Julie Livingston is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

She is the author of Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana and

a coeditor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics

of Medicine’s Simple Solutions and A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the

Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship.

Medical Anthropology at the IntersectionsHistories, Activisms, and Futuresmarcia c. inhorn & emily a. wentzell, editors

“Imagining the future of medical anthropology, this collection vigorously

conveys the theoretical roots and engaged social activisms committed

to equity, rights, and sociopolitical change in mental health and humani-

tarianism, feminist projects on technoscience and reproduction; HIV and

sexuality; and social bodies, global health, and local biologies.”—MARY-

JO DELVECCHIO GOOD, coeditor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology:

Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities

In this important collection, prominent

scholars who helped to establish med-

ical anthropology as an area of study

reflect on the field’s past, present,

and future. In doing so, they demon-

strate that medical anthropology has

developed dynamically, through its

intersections with activism, with other

subfields in anthropology, and with

disciplines as varied as public health,

the biosciences, and studies of race

and ethnicity. Each of the contributors

addresses one or more of these inter-

sections. Some trace the evolution

of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist tech-

noscience, medical history, and international and area studies. Other

contributors question the assumptions underlying mental health, global

public health, and genetics and genomics, areas of inquiry now central

to contemporary medical anthropology. Essays on the field’s engage-

ments with disability studies, public policy, and gender and sexuality

studies illuminate the commitments of many medical anthropologists to

public–health and human–rights activism. Essential reading for all those

interested in medical anthropology, this collection offers productive

insight into the field and its future, as viewed by some of the world’s

leading medical anthropologists.

Contributors Lawrence Cohen, Didier Fassin, Faye Ginsburg, Marcia C. Inhorn, Arthur Kleinman,

Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Lynn M. Morgan, Richard Parker, Rayna Rapp, Merrill

Singer, Emily A. Wentzell

Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology

and International Affairs at Yale University. Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant

Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa.

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY/AFRICAN STUDIES


paper, 978–0–8223–5342–3, $23.95/£15.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5327–0, $84.95/£64.00

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

August 344 pages, 9 illustrations

paper, 978–0–8223–5270–9, $25.95/£16.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5251–8, $94.95/£71.00

a n t h r o p o l o g y

The nurses’ station in Botswana’s only cancer ward. Photo by the author.

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Medicating RaceHeart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference anne pollock

“Anne Pollock is trained in science and technology studies and is sensitive

to the complexities of knowledge, politics, markets, and social categories.

In this original study, she reveals how the modern history of heart disease

is intertwined not only with the emergence and growth of the field of cardi-

ology but also with civil rights struggles, pharmaceutical drug development

and marketing, and changing notions of the biological and social

meanings of race.”—STEVEN EPSTEIN, author of Inclusion: The Politics

of Difference in Medical Research

In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses

of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over

the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA’s

approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.

She examines wide-ranging aspects of the dynamic interplay of race

and heart disease: articulations, among the founders of American

cardiology, of heart disease as a modern, and therefore white, illness;

constructions of “normal” populations in epidemiological research,

including the influential Framingham Heart Study; debates about the

distinctiveness of African American hypertension, which turn on dispa-

rate yet intersecting arguments about genetic legacies of slavery and

the comparative efficacy of generic drugs; and physician advocacy for

the urgent needs of black patients on professional, scientific, and social

justice grounds. Ultimately, Pollock insists that those grappling with

the meaning of racialized medical technologies must consider not only

the troubled history of race and biomedicine but also its fraught yet

vital present. Medical treatment should be seen as a site of, rather than

an alternative to, political and social contestation. The aim of scholarly

analysis should not be to settle matters of race and genetics, but to

hold medicine more broadly accountable to truth and justice.

Anne Pollock is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies

at Georgia Tech.




Bodies in FormationAn Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Educationrachel prentice

“In this exceptional work, Rachel Prentice attends to the practices of surgi-

cal training and mastery, as well as the ethical problems posed by techno-

logical innovation. Given these problems, she suggests that our conceptu-

alizations of the ethical in surgery might be productively rethought. There

is no other book like this one; Prentice effectively places bodily practice

at the center of questions of reason, innovation, technique, and ethics

in science studies.”—LAWRENCE COHEN, author of No Aging in India:

Alzheimer’s, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

Surgeons employ craft, cunning, and technology to open, observe,

and repair patient bodies. In Bodies in Formation, anthropologist Rachel

Prentice enters surgical suites increasingly packed with new medical

technologies to explore how surgeons are made in the early twenty-

first century. Prentice argues that medical students and residents learn

through practice, coming to embody unique ways of perceiving, acting,

and being. Drawing on ethnographic observation in anatomy laborato-

ries, operating rooms, and technology design groups, she shows how

trainees become physicians through interactions with colleagues and

patients, technologies and pathologies, bodies and persons. Bodies

in Formation foregrounds the technical, ethical, and affective formation

of physicians, demonstrating how, even within a world of North

American biomedicine increasingly dominated by technologies for

remote interventions and computerized teaching, good care remains

the art of human healing.

Rachel Prentice is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies

at Cornell University.





RACE & ETHNICITY/SCIENCE STUDIES/MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY


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MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY/SCIENCE STUDIES

January 312 pages

paper, 978–0–8223–5157–3, $24.95/£16.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5143–6, $89.95/£67.00

Surgeons performing elbow surgery. Photo by the author.

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Food, Farms, and SolidarityFrench Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Cropschaia heller

“Chaia Heller makes a compelling argument about a set of very important

topics in the food/environment arena. Given the continued relevance of

those topics, the prominence of the main protagonists of the story in the

international scene, and the engaging writing style, the book should be

of interest to a broad audience of students, academics, NGO people, and

activists.”—ARTURO ESCOBAR, author of Territories of Difference: Place,

Movements, Life, Redes

The Confédération Paysanne, one of France’s largest farmer’s unions,

has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs);

but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers

rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller

analyzes the group’s complex strategies and campaigns, including

a call for a Europe-wide ban on GM crops and hormone-treated beef,

and a protest staged at a McDonald’s. Her study of the Confédération

Paysanne shows the challenges small farms face in a postindustrial

agricultural world. Heller also reveals how the language the union uses

to argue against GMOs goes beyond the risks they pose; emphasizing

solidarity has allowed farmers to focus on food as a cultural practice

and align themselves with other workers. Heller’s examination of the

Confédération Paysanne’s commitment to a vision of alter-globalization,

the idea of substantive alternatives to neoliberal globalization, demon-

strates how ecological and social justice can be restored in the world.

Chaia Heller is Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at

Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of The Ecology of Everyday Life:

Rethinking the Desire for Nature.

NEW ECOLOGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

A Series Edited by Arturo Escobar and Dianne Rocheleau

Queer Activism in IndiaA Story in the Anthropology of Ethicsnaisargi n. dave

“A beautifully written ethnography, offering a passionately detailed ethno-

graphic perspective on queer politics, feminism, and social movements

in India.”—KAMALA VISWESWARAN, author of Un/common Cultures:

Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference

In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi

Dave examines the formation of les-

bian communities in India from the

1980s to the early 2000s. Based on

ethnographic fieldwork conducted

with activist organizations in Delhi,

a body of letters written by lesbian

women, and research with lesbian

communities and queer activist

groups across the country, Dave

studies the everyday practices that

constitute queer activism in India.

Dave argues that activism is an

ethical practice comprised of cri-

tique, invention, and relational practice. Her analysis investigates the

relationship between the ethics of activism and the existing social

norms and conditions from which activism emerges. Through her study

of different networks and institutions, Dave documents how activism

oscillates between the potential for new social arrangements and the

questions that arise once the activists’ goals have been accomplished.

Dave’s book addresses a relevant and timely phenomenon and makes

an important contribution to the anthropology of queer communities,

social movements, affect, and ethics.

Naisargi N. Dave is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University

of Toronto.

FOOD STUDIES/ANTHROPOLOGY

January 360 pages

paper, 978–0–8223–5127–6, $25.95/£16.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5118–4, $94.95/£71.00

ANTHROPOLOGY/QUEER STUDIES/SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

December 272 pages, 9 illustrations

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cloth, 978–0–8223–5305–8, $84.95/£64.00

EST spine 1”

Naisargi N. DaveA Story in the

Anthropology of Ethics

Queer Activism in India

Dairy farmers protest the sharp decline in milk prices. Saint-Etienne, France, September, 2009. Photo by Samuel Richard, courtesy of the Confédération Paysanne.

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Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asiapurnima mankekar & louisa schein, editors

“Poised at the intersection of Asian studies, media studies, and sexuality

studies, Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia recasts those fields. The

book is an outstanding selection for any course focusing on globalization

or sexual modernity.”—ARA WILSON, author of The Intimate Economies

of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City

Drawing on methods and approaches from

anthropology, media studies, film theory,

and cultural studies, the contributors to

Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia exam-

ine how mediated eroticism and sexuality

circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas

both reflect and shape the social practices

of their producers and consumers. The

essays in this volume cover a wide geo-

graphic and thematic range, and combine

rigorous textual analysis with empirical

research into the production, circulation,

and consumption of various forms of media.

Judith Farquhar examines how health magazines serve as sources

of both medical information and erotic titillation to readers in urban

China. Tom Boellstorff analyzes how queer zines produced in Indonesia

construct the relationship between same-sex desire and citizenship.

Purnima Mankekar investigates the rearticulation of commodity affect,

erotics, and nation on Indian television. Louisa Schein describes how

portrayals of Hmong women in videos shot in Laos create desires

for the homeland among viewers in the diaspora. Taken together, the

essays offer fresh insights into research on gender, erotics, media,

and Asia, transnationally conceived.

ContributorsAnne Allison, Tom Boellstorff, Nicole Constable, Heather Dell, Judith Farquhar,

Sara L. Friedman, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Purnima Mankekar, Louisa Schein,

Everett Yuehong Zhang

Purnima Mankekar is Associate Professor of Asian American

Studies and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Louisa Schein is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s

and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

Thirtieth anniversary edition with a new introduction

Sound and SentimentBirds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression THIRD EDITION

steven feld

WINNER OF THE J . I . STALEY PRIZE

“A landmark in first presenting in detail the idea of an ethnography of sound.”

—BRUNO NETTL, American Ethnologist

“Sound and Sentiment is one of the greatest ethnographies ever written.”

—CHARLES L. BRIGGS, author of Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial

Profiling during a Medical Nightmare

“An indisputable success and a masterpiece.”—ROY WAGNER , Language

in Society

“A compelling account of how music and culture are inextricably wedded

to one another.”—DANIEL M. NEUMAN, Ethnomusicology

“It penetrates with clarity a musical and linguistic maze to bring to life processes

through which individual emotions become the wellspring for social and cultural

structures, and social and cultural structures become the bedrock of the experi-

ential world.”—JOHN SHEPHERD, Popular Music

“A new departure point for ethnomusicology that reopens central questions . . .

of the meaning of musical sound; of the presence of theory in nonliterate societ-

ies; of the importance of the use of the local language and appropriate modes

of investigation in fieldwork.”—ALLAN THOMAS, American Anthropologist

“One of the first books to successfully integrate ethnographic, musical, and lin-

guistic analysis, Sound and Sentiment remains a model for such integration.

In addition, it undergirds acoustemology, or the anthropology of sound, a schol-

arly tack that is accelerating, with no ritardando in sight.”—BONNIE C. WADE ,

author of Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

“Sound and Sentiment continues to animate debates about sound, listening,

and aesthetics across cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnomusicology,

performance studies, media studies, history, and folklore.”—LOUISE MEINTJES,

author of Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio

Steven Feld is a musician, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of

Anthropology and Music at the University of New Mexico. His books include

Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana, also published

by Duke University Press.

ANTHROPOLOGY/SOUND STUDIES

September 300 pages, 28 illustrations (including 2 in color)

paper, 978–0–8223–5365–2, $24.95/£16.99

ANTHROPOLOGY/ASIAN STUDIES/MEDIA STUDIES

February 392 pages, 25 illustrations

paper, 978–0–8223–4577–0, $27.95/£18.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–4559–6, $99.95/£75.00

a n t h r o p o l o g y m u s i c & s o u n d

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“another kind of love,“ 1991.

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Recording CulturePowwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plainschristopher a. scales

“Recording Culture is an exceptional contribution to knowledge about con-

temporary Native American cultural initiatives. Within studies of powwow

music, it is unique in its focus on aspects of CD production and issues

related to the commodification of Native culture. It also provides original

insights into matters such as the subtleties of drum beats, the evolving

distinctions between song forms, and the criteria for judging powwow

music. Christopher A. Scales’s experience as a producer, as well as an

ethnomusicologist, is particularly significant, since the material that he

analyzes is not easily accessible outside the recording studio.”—BEVERLEY

DIAMOND, author of Native American Music in Eastern North America:

Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Recording is central to the

musical lives of contemporary

powwow singers, yet until

now, their aesthetic practices

when recording have been

virtually ignored in the study

of Native American expressive

cultures. Recording Culture

is an exploration of the

Aboriginal music industry and the powwow social world that supports

it. For twelve years, Christopher A. Scales attended powwows—large

intertribal gatherings of Native American singer-drummers, dancers, and

spectators—across the northern Plains. For part of that time, he worked

as a sound engineer for Arbor Records, a large Aboriginal music label

based in Winnipeg. Drawing on his ethnographic research at powwow

grounds and in recording studios, Scales examines the ways that

powwow drum groups have utilized recording technology in the late

twentieth century and early twenty-first, the unique aesthetic principles

of recorded powwow music, and the relationships between drum groups

and the Native music labels and recording studios. Turning to “competi-

tion powwows,” popular weekend-long singing and dancing contests,

Scales analyzes their role in shaping the repertoire and aesthetics of

drum groups in and out of the recording studio. He argues that the rise

of competition powwows has been critical to the development of the

powwow recording industry. Recording Culture includes a CD featuring

powwow music composed by Gabriel Desrosiers and performed by the

Northern Wind Singers.

Christopher A. Scales is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at

Michigan State University.

REFIGURING AMERICAN MUSIC

A Series Edited by Ronald Radano and Josh Kun

Unfree MastersRecording Artists and the Politics of Workmatt stahl

“Unfree Masters is an informative, intellectually engaging book. What really

impressed me is how much I learned about copyright law, recording con-

tracts, and music industry labor practices—subjects I thought I already

knew a great deal about.”—KEMBREW MCLEOD, coauthor of Creative

License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling

The widespread perception of sing-

ers and musicians as free individuals

doing enjoyable and fulfilling work

obscures the realities of their occupa-

tion. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl

examines recording artists’ labor in

the music industry as a form of cre-

ative work. He begins by considering

the television show American Idol and

the 2004 rockumentary Dig!, tracing

the ways that popular music making

is narrativized in contemporary

America and showing how such narra-

tives highlight musicians’ negotiations

of the limits of freedom and autonomy in creative cultural-industrial

work. Turning to struggles between recording artists and record compa-

nies over laws that govern their working and contractual relationships,

he reveals further tensions and contradictions in this form of work.

Stahl argues that media narratives of music making, as well as contract

and copyright disputes between musicians and music industry execu-

tives, contribute to American socioeconomic discourse and expose a

foundational tension between democratic principles of individual auton-

omy and responsibility and the power of employers to control labor

and appropriate its products. Stahl asserts that the labor issues that he

discloses in music can stimulate insights about the political-economic

and imaginative challenges currently facing working people of all kinds.

Matt Stahl is Assistant Professor of Information and Media Studies

at the University of Western Ontario.

REFIGURING AMERICAN MUSIC

A Series Edited by Ronald Radano and Josh Kun

m u s i c & s o u n d

CULTURAL STUDIES/MUSIC

November 304 pages

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INDIGENOUS & NATIVE STUDIES/MUSIC

October 360 pages, 18 illustrations, includes CD

paper, 978–0–8223–5338–6, $24.95/£16.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5323–2, $89.95/£67.00

Powwow singer Gabriel Desrosiers performing on a hand drum, 2010. Photo by the author.

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Prescription TVTherapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Homejoy v. fuqua

“After reading Prescription TV, you’ll never watch ads for Viagra—or any

other prescription drug—in the same way again. Joy V. Fuqua navigates

the historical, material, and cultural dimensions of television’s role in

cultivating the modern consumer-patient. She demonstrates how television

is implicated in professional and colloquial discourses of health, medicine,

and consumer agency, and how it has reconfigured ideas about medical

and therapeutic space in the hospital and the home.”—MIMI WHITE,

author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television

Tracing the history of television as

a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua

describes how TVs came to make

hospitals seem more like home and,

later, “medicalized” the modern home.

She examines the introduction of

television into the private hospital

room in the late 1940s and 1950s and

then moves forward several decades

to consider the direct-to-consumer

prescription drug commercials legal-

ized in 1997. Fuqua explains how, as

hospital administrators and designers

sought ways of making the hospital

a more inviting, personalized space, TV sets came to figure in the archi-

tecture and layout of health care facilities. Television manufacturers

seized on the idea of therapeutic TV, specifying in their promotional

materials how TVs should be used in the hospital and positioned in

relation to the viewer. With the debut of direct-to-consumer prescription

drug advertising in the late 1990s, television assumed a much larger

role in the medical marketplace. Taking a case-study approach, Fuqua

uses her analysis of an ad campaign promoting Pfizer’s Viagra to illus-

trate how television, and later the Internet, turned the modern home

into a clearinghouse for medical information, redefined and redistrib-

uted medical expertise and authority, and, in the process, created the

contemporary consumer-patient.

Joy V. Fuqua is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College,

City University of New York.

One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the ParamountPopular Music on Early Televisionmurray forman

“One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard

work on postwar U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a

full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading

his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the

Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics

of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the

1940s and 1950s.”—WILL STRAW, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing

Crime in 50s America

Elvis Presley’s television debut in

January 1956 is often cited as the

moment when popular music and tele-

vision came together. Murray Forman

challenges that contention, revealing

popular music as crucial to television

years before Presley’s sensational

small-screen performances. Drawing

on trade and popular journalism,

internal television and music industry

documents, and records of audience

feedback, Forman provides a detailed

history of the incorporation of musical

performances into TV programming

during the medium’s formative years, from 1948 to 1955. He examines

how executives in the music and television industries understood and

responded to the convergence of the two media; how celebrity musi-

cians such as Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Waring struggled

to adjust to television; and how relative unknowns with an intuitive feel

for the medium were sometimes catapulted to stardom. Forman argues

that early television production influenced the aesthetics of musical

performance in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly those of emerging

musical styles such as rock and roll. At the same time, popular music

helped shape the nascent medium of television—its technologies,

program formats, and industry structures. Popular music performances

were essential to the allure and success of TV in its early years.

Murray Forman is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at

Northeastern University. He is the author of The ’Hood Comes First: Race,

Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop and a coeditor, with Mark Anthony

Neal, of That’s the Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader.

CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS: TELEVISION AND CULTURAL POWER

A Series Edited by Lynn Spigel

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A New Deal for All?Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimoreandor skotnes

“Andor Skotnes’ argument—that the labor and freedom movements in

Baltimore were connected in interesting and complex ways during the

critical period under discussion—is intellectually sound and quite innova-

tive. Well-researched and cogently argued, A New Deal for All? details and

analyzes the political relationships between these two movements with

enormous skill. Skotnes demonstrates that it was the most radical mem-

bers of the workers’ movement who pressed a principled antiracist agenda,

thereby creating a wedge in the pervasive racism of the time.”—LINDA

SHOPES, coeditor of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History

In A New Deal for All?, Andor Skotnes

examines the interrelationships

between the Black freedom move-

ment and the workers’ movement in

Baltimore and in Maryland during the

Great Depression and the early years

of World War II. Adding to the growing

body of scholarship on the long civil

rights struggle, he argues that these

“border state” movements helped to

resuscitate and transform national free-

dom and labor struggles. In the wake

of the Crash of 1929, the freedom and

workers’ movements had to rebuild

themselves, often in new forms. In the

early 1930s with their deepening com-

mitments to antiracism, both communists and socialists in Baltimore

launched a number of racially-integrated unemployment, workers

rights, and social justice initiatives. An organization of radicalized

African American youth, the City-Wide Young People’s Forum, emerged

in the Black community and became involved in mass educational,

anti-lynching, and “Buy Where You Can Work” campaigns, often in

multiracial alliances with other progressives. During the later 1930s, the

movements of Baltimore merged into new and renewed national organi-

zations, especially the CIO and the NAACP, and undertook mass regional

activism. While this collaboration declined after the war, Skotnes shows

that the earlier cooperative efforts greatly shaped national freedom

campaigns, including the Civil Rights Movement to come.

Andor Skotnes is Professor of History at The Sage Colleges.

RADICAL PERSPECTIVES: A Radical History Review Book Series

Edited by Daniel J. Walkowitz and Barbara Weinstein

Aloha AmericaHula Circuits through the U.S. Empireadria l. imada

“Attentive to global forces of U.S. imperialism and to the agency of discrete

cultural producers, Adria L. Imada conceives of Hawaiian hula as constitu-

tive of colonial relations involving collaboration and resistance. Moreover

and significantly, ‘hula circuits’ outside of Hawai’i, she suggests, sustained

Hawaiian culture (and hence nationhood) even as they transformed it—an

astute and provocative contention.”—GARY Y. OKIHIRO, author of Island

World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States

Aloha America reveals the role of

hula in legitimating U.S. imperial

ambitions in Hawai’i. Hula per-

formers began touring throughout

the continental United States and

Europe in the late nineteenth

century. These “hula circuits”

introduced hula, and Hawaiians,

to U.S. audiences, establishing

an “imagined intimacy,” a powerful

fantasy that enabled Americans

to possess their colony physically

and symbolically. Meanwhile, in

the early years of American impe-

rialism in the Pacific, touring hula

performers incorporated veiled critiques of U.S. expansionism into

their productions.

At vaudeville theaters, international expositions, commercial nightclubs,

and military bases, Hawaiian women acted as ambassadors of aloha,

enabling Americans to imagine Hawai’i as feminine and benign, and the

relation between colonizer and colonized as mutually desired. By the

1930s, Hawaiian culture, particularly its music and hula, had enormous

promotional value. In the 1940s, thousands of U.S. soldiers and military

personnel in Hawai’i were entertained by hula performances, many of

which were filmed by military photographers. Yet, as Adria L. Imada

shows, Hawaiians also used hula as a means of cultural survival and

countercolonial political praxis. In Aloha America, Imada focuses on the

years between the 1890s and the 1960s, examining little-known perfor-

mances and films before turning to the present-day reappropriation of

hula by the Hawaiian self-determination movement.

Adria L. Imada is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University

of California, San Diego.

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Unemployed Hunger Marchers in Baltimore traveling to a demonstration in Washington, D.C., 1931. Courtesy of Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Reused with permission of the Baltimore Sun Media Group. All rights reserved.

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Fevered MeasuresPublic Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942john mckiernan-gonzález

“Fevered Measures remaps the border as a space where ideas of race and

nation take on new meanings in relation to the development of the state

and science. The book serves as a superior model for analyzing and nar-

rating the transnational flow of people, ideas, and policies.”—RAÚL A.

RAMOS, author of Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San

Antonio, 1821–1861

In Fevered Measures, John

Mckiernan-González exam-

ines public health campaigns

along the Texas-Mexico

border between 1848 and

1942, revealing the changing

medical and political frame-

works U.S. health authorities

used to treat the threat of

epidemic disease. The medi-

cal borders created by these

officials changed with each contagion and sometimes varied from the

existing national borders. Federal officers sought to distinguish Mexican

citizens from American citizens, a process troubled by the deeply inter-

connected nature of border communities. Mckiernan-González uncovers

forgotten or ignored cases where large populations of Mexicans,

Mexican Americans, African Americans, and other groups were subject

to quarantines, inspections, detentions, and forced treatment regimes.

These cases illustrate the ways medical encounters shaped border

identities before the Mexican Revolution. Mckiernan-González also

maintains that the threat of disease provided a venue to destabilize

identity at the border, enacted processes of racialization, and re-

legitimized the power of United States policymakers. He demonstrates

how this complex history continues to shape and frame contemporary

perceptions of the Latino body today.

John Mckiernan-González is Assistant Professor of History at the

University of Texas, Austin.

Transpacific FemininitiesThe Making of the Modern Filipinadenise cruz

“Transpacific Femininities is really quite extraordinary. By sustained critical

attention on the figure of the transpacific Filipina, Denise Cruz tells a story

that not only returns deep and irreducible complexity to the women and

women writers whose lives and work created a network of affiliations and

intimacies across the Pacific, but also shows us how vital gender was and is

to apprehending the incredibly complicated interrelations among the histories,

cultures, and politics of the Philippines, the United States, and Japan. Where

many are apt to declare the significance of empire, race, nation, and gender,

Cruz shows their linked importance.”—KANDICE CHUH, author of Imagine

Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique

In this groundbreaking study,

Denise Cruz investigates the impor-

tance of the figure she terms the

“transpacific Filipina” to Philippine

nationalism, women’s suffrage, and

constructions of modernity. Her

analysis illuminates connections

between the rise of Philippine

print culture in English and the

emergence of new social classes

of transpacific women during the

early-to-mid-twentieth century.

Through a careful study of multiple

texts produced by Filipina and

Filipino writers in the United States

and the Philippines—including

novels and short stories, newspa-

per and magazine articles, conduct manuals, and editorial cartoons—Cruz

provides a new archive and fresh perspectives for understanding Philippine

literature and culture. She demonstrates that the modern Filipina did not

emerge as a byproduct of the American and Spanish colonial regimes, but

rather was the result of political, economic, and cultural interactions among

the Philippines, Spain, the United States, and Japan. Cruz shows how the

complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped

shape, and was shaped by, conceptions of the transpacific Filipina.

Denise Cruz is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Indiana

University.

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a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s a s i a n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s

Milton Rosenau, Armed guards surrounding Camp Jenner, 1895, in the M. J. Rosenau Papers #4289, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A Filipina women’s basketball team from 1910. Photo by George E. Carrothers. Courtesy of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Pictures and ProgressEarly Photography and the Making of African American Identitymaurice o. wallace & shawn michelle smith, editors

“Pictures and Progress offers a new understanding of visual representations

of black Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through

its compelling essays, this work reframes the archive of images of death,

beauty, and suffering of black subjects in photography.”—DEBORAH

WILLIS, author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the

1890s to the Present

Pictures and Progress explores how,

during the nineteenth century and

the early twentieth, prominent African

American intellectuals and activists

understood photography’s power

to shape perceptions about race

and employed the new medium in

their quest for social and political

justice. They sought both to counter

widely circulating racist imagery and

to use self-representation as a means

of empowerment. In this collection

of essays, scholars from various

disciplines consider figures includ-

ing Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence

Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists

and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays,

or “snapshots,” highlight and analyze the work of four early African

American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures

and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African

American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racial-

ized thinking.

ContributorsMichael Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford,

Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith,

Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace

Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African &

African American Studies at Duke University. Shawn Michelle Smith

is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the

Art Institute of Chicago.

Southeast Asian/American Studiesfiona i. b. ngô & mimi thi nguyen, special issue editors

a special issue of POSITIONS

This special issue of positions claims Southeast Asian/American stud-

ies as a unique site for scholarly engagements with U.S. empire and its

professions of liberal humanism, as well as its practices of neoliberal

violence. Dissolving the disciplinary distinctions between Southeast

Asia area studies and Asian American studies, the contributors con-

struct transnational analytic methods to examine new assemblages

of nations and states, refugees and residents, migrations and returns.

The contributors represent a new generation of scholars, some of

whom are themselves migrants and refugees, who seek to reinvent the

study of displaced populations and their diasporas. One essay consid-

ers the historical production of the refugee soldier during the “secret

wars” of Laos. An ethnography of post-9/11 protests by Southeast Asian

American youth reveals how neoliberal rationalization of “personal

responsibility” created a context for both deportation and the youth

movement against it. Several contributions explore concepts of exile,

belonging, and the nation-state via media representations of mascu-

linity and the erotic, including the Hmong actors who appear in Clint

Eastwood’s film Gran Torino, campy pan-Asian boy bands, and Vietnam

Idol, a reality show that, like its British and American counterparts,

illustrates specific cultural imaginations and national ambitions.

ContributorsDiem-My T. Bui, Long Bui, Thang Dao, Ly Chong Thong Jalao, Soo Ah Kwon, Mariam

B. Lam, Viet Le, Fiona I. B. Ngô, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louisa Schein,

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Va-Megn Thoj, Khatharya Um, Julie Thi Underhill, Bee Vang,

Ma Vang

Fiona I. B. Ngô and Mimi Thi Nguyen are Assistant Professors of

Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University

of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Nguyen is the author of The Gift of Freedom:

War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages and a coeditor of Alien Encounters:

Popular Culture in Asian America, both also published by Duke University

Press.

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/PHOTOGRAPHY

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August Vol. 20, no. 3 291 pages, 21 illustrations

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a s i a n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s a f r i c a n a m e r i c a n s t u d i e s / b l a c k d i a s p o r a

Aunts and Uncle. Photo by Julie Thi Underhill.

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Transcending BlacknessFrom the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracialralina l. joseph

“Transcending Blackness is unique in the field of multiracial studies and a

truly groundbreaking and brilliant book. It is also a pleasure to read. Ralina

L. Joseph is a rigorous interdisciplinarian, well versed in a number of fields,

and she meticulously analyzes and cites these literatures throughout this

important work.”—IMANI PERRY, author of More Beautiful and More

Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United

States

Representations of multiracial

Americans, especially those

with one black and one white

parent, appear everywhere in

contemporary culture, from

reality shows to presidential

politics. Some depict mul-

tiracial individuals mired in

painful confusion; others

equate them with progress,

as the embodiment of a postracial utopia. In Transcending Blackness,

Ralina L. Joseph critiques both depictions as rooted in—and still

defined by—the racist notion that blackness is a deficit that must be

overcome.

Analyzing emblematic representations of multiracial figures in popular

culture—Jennifer Beals’s character in the The L Word; the protagonist

in Danny Senza’s novel Caucasia; the title character in the independent

film Mixing Nia; and contestants in a controversial episode of the reality

show America’s Next Top Model, who had to “switch ethnicities”

for a photo shoot—Joseph identifies the persistence of two widespread

stereotypes about mixed-race African Americans: those of “new mil-

lennium mulattas” and “exceptional multiracials.” The former inscribes

multiracial African Americans as tragic figures whose blackness pre-

destines them for misfortune; the latter rewards mixed-race African

Americans for successfully erasing their blackness. Addressing ques-

tions of authenticity, sexuality, and privilege, Transcending Blackness

refutes that idea that in American society, race no longer matters.

Ralina L. Joseph is Associate Professor of Communication at the

University of Washington.

Sites of SlaveryCitizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imaginationsalamishah tillet

“Sites of Slavery is a meticulously researched, persuasively argued, beauti-

fully written, and intellectually daring study of contemporary narratives of

slavery. Through her dazzling readings of fiction, drama, dance, cinema,

visual art, heritage tourism, reparations legal cases, and critical race histori-

ographies, Salamishah Tillet demonstrates how a range of African American

artists, writers, and intellectuals respond to the contemporary ‘crisis of citi-

zenship’ by foregrounding a ‘democratic aesthetic’ in their representations of

slavery. This book will transform the way we think about the place of African

American cultural production in relation to ‘post–civil rights era’ political

discourse.”—VALERIE SMITH, author of Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral

Imagination

More than forty years after the major

victories of the civil rights movement,

African Americans have a vexed rela-

tion to the civic myth of the United

States as the land of equal opportunity

and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery,

Salamishah Tillet examines how con-

temporary African American artists

and intellectuals—including Annette

Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud,

Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems,

and Kara Walker—turn to the sub-

ject of slavery to understand and

challenge the ongoing exclusion of

African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.

She explains how they reconstruct “sites of slavery”—contested figures,

events, memories, locations, and experiences related to chattel

slavery—such as the allegations of a sexual relationship between

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the characters Uncle Tom and

Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, African

American tourism to slave forts in Ghana and Senegal, and the legal

challenges posed by reparations movements. By claiming and recasting

these sites of slavery, contemporary artists and intellectuals provide

slaves with an interiority and subjectivity denied them in American his-

tory, register the civic estrangement experienced by African Americans

in the post–civil rights era, and envision a more fully realized American

democracy.

Salamishah Tillet is Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies

at the University of Pennsylvania.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/F ILM & TV

November 264 pages, 20 illustrations

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Film still from Mixing Nia, 1998.

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Black/Queer Diasporajafari s. allen, special issue editor

a special issue of GLQ

In this special double issue of GLQ,

queer theory meets critical race

theory, transnationalism, and Third

World feminisms in analyses of the

Black queer diaspora. Contributors

apply social science methodologies

to theories born out of the humani-

ties to produce innovative, humane,

and expansive readings of on-the-

ground social conditions around

the world.

The contributors to this issue draw

on radical Black and women-of-color

feminisms to examine the embodied

experience of the Black queer diaspora. One contributor elaborates on

the work of Black Atlantic scholarship to imagine a story of the Black

Pacific experience and how shipboard life shapes the relationships

formed during travel and migration. Ethnographic fieldwork among Black

queer citizens in postapartheid South Africa, read through the lens of

a popular local radio show, illustrates the distinction between citizen-

ship and belonging. In Trinidad, where men who have sex with men have

faced particular hostility, the bonds of friendship and affection emerge

as crucial tools of activism and survival in a community threatened by

HIV/AIDS.

ContributorsVanessa Agard-Jones, Jafari S. Allen, Lyndon K. Gill, Ana-Maurine Lara,

Xavier Livermon, Matt Richardson, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Jafari S. Allen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American

Studies at Yale University. He is the author of ¡Venceremos? Sexuality, Gender

and Black Self-Making in Cuba, also published by Duke University Press.

Against the ClosetBlack Political Longing and the Erotics of Racealiyyah i. abdur-rahman

“Against the Closet is an important and much-needed book, a significant

contribution to African American literature, cultural studies, sexuality stud-

ies, and critical race theory. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman’s close readings of

fictional representations of race and sex are nuanced and illuminating,

and the history of racial thought and sexual science that she presents is

indispensable.”—MAURICE O. WALLACE , author of Constructing the

Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature

and Culture, 1775–1995

In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-

Rahman interrogates and challenges

cultural theorists’ interpretations of

sexual transgression in African American

literature. She argues that, from the mid-

nineteenth century through the twentieth,

black writers used depictions of erotic

transgression to contest popular theories

of identity, pathology, national belong-

ing, and racial difference in American

culture. Connecting metaphors of sexual

transgression to specific historical periods,

Abdur-Rahman explains how tropes such

as sadomasochism and incest illuminated

the psychodynamics of particular racial injuries and suggested forms of

social repair and political redress from the time of slavery, through post-

Reconstruction and the civil rights and black power movements, to the

late twentieth century.

Abdur-Rahman brings black feminist, psychoanalytic, critical race, and

poststructuralist theories to bear on literary genres from slave narra-

tives to science fiction. Analyzing works by African American writers,

including Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, Harriet Jacobs, James

Baldwin, and Octavia Butler, she shows how literary representations

of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans

for individual and collective freedom. Abdur-Rahman contends that

those representations were fundamental to the development of African

American forms of literary expression and modes of political interven-

tion and cultural self-fashioning.

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis

University.

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BLACK DIASPORA

Available Vol. 18, no. 2/3 220 pages

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/QUEER THEORY

September 224 pages

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Black France / France NoireThe History and Politics of Blacknesstrica danielle keaton, t. denean sharpley- whiting & tyler stovall, editors

“Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthol-

ogy regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since

Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World. There’s also a salutary combi-

nation of scholarly and personal narratives in this book, which elevates it

to the stature of a groundbreaking manifesto, the controversial nature of

which will be discussed for years to come.”—MANTHIA DIAWARA , author

of African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics

In Black France / France Noire, schol-

ars, activists, and novelists from

France and the United States address

the untenable paradox at the heart of

French society. France’s constitutional

and legal discourses do not recognize

race as a meaningful category. Yet the

lived realities of race and racism are

ever-present in the nation’s suppos-

edly race-blind society. The vaunted

universalist principles of the French

Republic are far from realized. Any

claim of color-blindness is belied by

experiences of anti-black racism, which

render blackness a real and consequential historical, social, and politi-

cal formation. Contributors to this collection of essays demonstrate that

blackness in France is less an identity than a response to and rejection

of anti-black racism. Black France / France Noire is a distinctive and

important contribution to the increasingly public debates on diversity,

race, racialization, and multicultural intolerance in French society and

beyond.

ContributorsRémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Allison Blakely, Jennifer Boittin, Marcus Bruce,

Fred Constant, Mamadou Diouf, Arlette Frund, Michel Giraud, Bennetta Jules-Rosette,

Trica Danielle Keaton, Jake Lamar, Patrick Lozès, Alain Mabanckou, Elisabeth Mudimbe-

Boyi, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Tyler Stovall, Christiane Taubira, Dominic Thomas,

Gary Wilder

Trica Danielle Keaton is Associate Professor of African American and

Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of African

American and Diaspora Studies and French at Vanderbilt University.

Tyler Stovall is Professor of French History at the University of California,

Berkeley.

Bourdieu and Historical Analysisphilip s. gorski, editor

“This uncommonly interesting set of essays will contribute to the grow-

ing appreciation—and the productive use—of the resources contained in

Bourdieu’s extraordinarily rich oeuvre for the theoretical analysis of histori-

cal transformations.”—ROGERS BRUBAKER , author of Ethnicity without

Groups

The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda

than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection

of essays, Philip S. Gorski argues that Bourdieu’s reputation as a theo-

rist of social reproduction is the misleading result of his work’s initial

reception among Anglophone readers, who focused primarily on

his midcareer thought. Bourdieu’s entire body of work reveals him

as a theorist of social transformation as well as reproduction. Gorski

maintains that Bourdieu was initially engaged with the question of

social transformation, that the question of historical change never

disappeared from his view, and that it reemerged with great force at

the end of his career.

The contributors to Bourdieu and Historical Analysis explore this

expanded understanding of Bourdieu’s thought and its potential contri-

butions to analyses of large-scale social change and historical crisis.

In their essays, they offer a primer on his concepts and methods,

and put those into conversation with alternative approaches, including

rational choice, Lacanian psychoanalysis, pragmatism, Latour’s actor-

network theory, and the new sociology of ideas. Several contributors

examine Bourdieu’s work on subjects such as literature and sports.

Others extend his thinking in new directions, applying it to nationalism

and social policy. Taken together, the essays initiate an important

conversation about Bourdieu’s approach to sociohistorical change.

ContributorsCraig Calhoun, Charles Camic, Christophe Charle, Jacques Defrance, Mustafa

Emirbayer, Ivan Ermakoff, Gil Eyal, Chad Alan Goldberg, Philip S. Gorski, Robert Nye,

Erik Schneiderhan, Gisèle Shapiro, George Steinmetz, David L. Swartz

Philip S. Gorski is Professor of Sociology and of Religious Studies at Yale

University, where he directs the European and Russian Studies Program and

co-directs the Center for Comparative Research and the MacMillan Initiative

on Religion, Politics, and Society.

POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

A Series Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz

POLITICAL THEORY

January 416 pages

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Bergson, Politics, and Religionalexandre lefebvre & melanie white, editors

“The strength of this book is the way that it remedies the scholarly neglect

of Henri Bergson’s political and religious thought, especially as found in his

last book, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. Together, these essays

provide a more well-rounded view of Bergson’s complete project and show

how he can contribute to rethinking a number of current issues in sociologi-

cal, political, and religious thought.”—JOHN PROTEVI, author of Political

Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic

Henri Bergson is primarily known for

his work on time, memory, and creativ-

ity. His equally innovative interventions

into politics and religion have, how-

ever, been neglected or dismissed until

now. In the first book in English dedi-

cated to Bergson as a political thinker,

leading Bergson scholars illuminate

his positions on core concerns within

political philosophy: the significance

of emotion in moral judgment, the

relationship between biology and

society, and the entanglement of

politics and religion. Ranging across

Bergson’s writings but drawing mainly on his last book, The Two Sources

of Morality and Religion, the contributors consider Bergson’s relevance

to contemporary discussions of human rights, democratic pluralism, and

environmental ethics.

ContributorsKeith Ansell-Pearson, G. William Barnard, Claire Colebrook, Hisashi Fujita,

Suzanne Guerlac, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Frédéric Keck, Leonard Lawlor,

Alexandre Lefebvre, Paola Marrati, John Mullarkey, Paulina Ochoa Espejo,

Carl Power, Philippe Soulez, Jim Urpeth, Melanie White, Frédéric Worms

Alexandre Lefebvre is Lecturer in the Department of Government and

International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University

of Sydney. Melanie White is Senior Lecturer in Social Theory at the School

of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales.

The Hermetic DeleuzePhilosophy and Spiritual Ordealjoshua ramey

“This inspired and rigorous engagement with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of

immanence raises fresh new problems and questions. Joshua Ramey reads

Deleuze as a philosopher who both causes thought to happen and inquires

how it happens; he philosophizes about philosophizing. As such, Ramey

presents Deleuze as a philosophical demiurge, which is both exciting and

provoking. This is an important book and a valuable contribution to the

field.”—IAN BUCHANAN, editor of the journal Deleuze Studies

In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on

a vast array of source material, from

philosophy and psychoanalysis to sci-

ence and art. Yet scholars have largely

neglected one of the intellectual cur-

rents underlying his work: Western

esotericism, specifically the lineage

of hermetic thought that extends from

Late Antiquity into the Renaissance

through the work of figures such

as Iamblichus, Nicholas of Cusa, Pico

della Mirandola, and Giordano Bruno.

In this book, Joshua Ramey examines

the extent to which Deleuze’s ethics,

metaphysics, and politics were informed by, and can only be fully

understood through, this hermetic tradition.

Identifying key hermetic moments in Deleuze’s thought, including

his theories of art, subjectivity, and immanence, Ramey argues that

the philosopher’s work represents a kind of contemporary hermeticism,

a consistent experiment in unifying thought and affect, percept and

concept, and mind and nature to engender new relations between

knowledge, power, and desire. By uncovering and clarifying the her-

metic strand in Deleuze’s work, Ramey offers both a new interpretation

of Deleuze, particularly his insistence that the development of thought

demands a spiritual ordeal, and a framework for retrieving the pre-

Kantian paradigm of philosophy as spiritual practice.

Joshua Ramey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford

College.

NEW SLANT: RELIGION, POLITICS, ONTOLOGY

A Series Edited by Creston Davis, Philip Goodchild, and Kenneth Surin

p o l i t i c a l t h e o r y / s o c i a l t h e o r y

PHILOSOPHY/RELIGIOUS STUDIES/POLITICAL THEORY

September 312 pages

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POLITICAL THEORY/PHILOSOPHY

August 360 pages

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OutlawedBetween Security and Rights in a Bolivian Citydaniel m. goldstein

“This is a terrific work, lively and engaging. It adds to the anthropological

understanding of the law in practice in several ways. First, the book dem-

onstrates that while the state does not protect those in Cochabamba’s poor

urban settlements from crime, it is present in their lives as a set of onerous

bureaucratic and legal requirements. Second, it challenges legal pluralist

arguments that there is an entirely separate legality operating in city slums.

It reveals the legal systems of the urban poor not as entirely separate from

the state but as fractured conjunctures of state and other legalities. Third,

the book emphasizes the creative ways—from vigilantism to selective reli-

ance on state services and local leaders—that marginalized communities

handle legal problems. Taken together, its arguments are a major contribu-

tion to the field.”—SALLY ENGLE MERRY, author of Gender Violence: A

Cultural Perspective

In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein

reveals how indigenous resi-

dents of marginal neighborhoods

in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle

to balance security with rights.

Feeling abandoned to the crime

and violence that grip their com-

munities, they sometimes turn

to vigilante practices, includ-

ing lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein

describes those in this precarious position as “outlawed”: not protected

from crime by the law but forced to comply with legal measures in

other areas of their lives, their solutions to protection criminalized while

their needs for security are ignored. He chronicles the complications

of the government’s attempts to provide greater rights to indigenous

peoples, including a new constitution that recognizes “community jus-

tice.” He also examines how state definitions of indigeneity ignore the

existence of marginal neighborhoods, continuing long-standing exclu-

sionary practices. The insecurity felt by the impoverished residents of

Cochabamba—and, more broadly, by the urban poor throughout Bolivia

and Latin America—remains. Outlawed illuminates the complex inter-

connections between differing definitions of security and human rights

at the local, national, and global levels.

Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at

Rutgers University. He is the author of The Spectacular City: Violence and

Performance in Urban Bolivia and a coeditor of Violent Democracies in

Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press.

THE CULTURES AND PRACTICE OF VIOLENCE

A Series Edited by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, and Leigh Payne


Intimate IndigeneitiesRace, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Lifeandrew canessa

“Andrew Canessa makes superb use of more than twenty years of ethno-

graphic experience with Andean villagers of Wila Kjarka to give us a beauti-

fully detailed and intellectually stimulating account of the changing mean-

ings of ‘indian,’ ‘indigenous,’ and jaqi (the Aymara term) in Bolivia. His dual

focus on the intimate and the public spaces of everyday life, and on the

local and the translocal flows of people, ideas, and things provides a won-

derfully engaging picture of how villagers in the Andes think of themselves

and others. Canessa’s deep commitment to the people of the village gives

us a refreshing and important perspective on the concept of ‘indigenous,’

which is too often taken for granted in today’s identity politics. His book

intrigued me and made me laugh out loud. It will prove very attractive to

students and scholars alike.”—PETER WADE , author of Race and Sex in

Latin America

Based on extended ethnographic field-

work conducted over the course of more

than two decades, Intimate Indigeneities

explores the multiple identities of a com-

munity of people in the Bolivian highlands

through their own lived experiences

and their own voices. Andrew Canessa

examines how gender, race, and ethnic

identities manifest themselves in everyday

interactions in an Aymara village. Canessa

illustrates that indigeneity is highly

contingent; thoroughly imbricated with

gendered, racial, and linguistic identities

and informed by a historical conscious-

ness. Addressing how whiteness and indianness are reproduced as

hegemonic structures in the village, how masculinities develop as men

go to the mines and army, and how memories of a violent past are used

to construct a present sense of community, Canessa raises important

questions about indigenous politics and the very nature of indigenous

identity.

Andrew Canessa is Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies

at the University of Essex.

NARRATING NATIVE HISTORIES

A Series Edited by K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos,

and Joanne Rappaport

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A private security guard in a Cochabamba neighborhood. Photo by Lisa Berg.

People from the community of Wila Kjarka work together on a new irrigation ditch.

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Challenging Social InequalityThe Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazilmiguel carter, editor

“Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date

of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural

Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration,

social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contribu-

tors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement’s history, orga-

nization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties,

and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex

and controversial issues in the introduction and conclusion, further expand-

ing our understanding of contemporary Brazil.”—LESLIE BETHELL , St.

Antony’s College, University of Oxford

In Challenging Social Inequailty,

an international and interdisci-

plinary group of scholars and

development workers explore

the causes, consequences, and

contemporary reactions to Brazil’s

sharply unequal agrarian struc-

ture. They focus on the Landless

Rural Workers Movement (MST),

Latin America’s largest and most

prominent social movement, and the ongoing efforts of the MST to

confront historic patterns of inequality in the Brazilian countryside.

Several essays provide essential historical background for understand-

ing the MST. They examine Brazil’s agrarian structure, state policies,

and the formation of rural civil-society organizations. Other essays build

on a frequently made distinction between the struggle for land and

the struggle on the land. The first refers to the mobilization undertaken

by landless peasants to demand government land redistribution.

The struggle on the land takes place after the establishment of an

official agricultural settlement. The main efforts during this phase are

geared toward developing productive and meaningful rural communi-

ties. The last essays in the collection are wide-ranging analyses of the

MST which delve into the movement’s relations with recent governments

and its impact on other Brazilian social movements. In the conclusion,

Miguel Carter appraises the future of agrarian reform in Brazil.

ContributorsJosé Batista Gonçalves Afonso, Sonia Maria P. P. Bergamasco, Sue Branford, Elena

Calvo-González, Miguel Carter, Horacio Martins de Carvalho, Guilherme Costa Delgado,

Bernardo Mançano Fernandes, Leonilde Servolo de Medeiros, George Mészáros, Luiz

Antonio Cabello Norder, Gabriel Ondetti, Ivo Poletto, Marcelo Rosa, Lygia Maria Sigaud,

Emmanuel Wambergue, Wendy Wolford

Miguel Carter is Scholar in Residence in the International Development

Program in the School of International Service at American University.

Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexicoben fallaw

“Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico should establish

itself as a key text in Mexican revolutionary history. The author has done

a prodigious quantity of research and organized it expertly, producing an

original and convincing analysis of a major theme: Church-state conflict in

the postrevolutionary period. The issue permeated Mexican politics and its

exploration opens a window onto a variety of other themes, including state

building, education, land reform, gender, ethnicity, violence, and local

politics and elections.”—ALAN KNIGHT, author of The Mexican Revolution

The religion question—the place of the Church in a Catholic country after

an anticlerical revolution—profoundly shaped the process of state for-

mation in Mexico. From the end of the Cristero War in 1929 until Manuel

Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his

faith, Mexico’s unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics,

impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into

sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by

Plutarco Elías Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas.

Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not appreciated the

pervasive influence of Catholics and Catholicism on postrevolution-

ary state formation. By delving into the history of four understudied

Mexican states, he is able to show that religion swayed regional politics

not just in states such as Guanajuato, in Mexico’s central-west “Rosary

Belt,” but even in those considered much less observant, including

Campeche, Guerrero, and Hidalgo. Religion and State Formation in

Postrevolutionary Mexico reshapes our understanding of agrarian reform,

federal schooling, revolutionary anticlericalism, elections, the Segunda

(a second Cristero War in the 1930s), and indigenism, the Revolution’s

valorization of the Mesoamerican past as the font of national identity.

Ben Fallaw is Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies

at Colby College. He is the author of Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure

of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, also published by Duke University

Press.


LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES/HISTORY

January 328 pages

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River of HopeForging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlandsomar s. valerio-jiménez

“River of Hope not only documents the history of the Rio Grande area in the

late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, it also provides a model for

integrating the concerns of Chicana/o studies scholars, historians of the

American West, scholars of gender and ethnicity, theorists of state forma-

tion, and political scientists who study ‘everyday forms of resistance.’

An extraordinary contribution, the book opens up a wide-ranging discus-

sion about the interplay between local and national discourses, particularly

in places located on the peripheries of power, and especially at times of

rapid social, cultural, legal, and political change. This is a genuinely origi-

nal piece of scholarship.”—SUSAN LEE JOHNSON, author of Roaring

Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush

In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-

Jiménez examines state formation,

cultural change, and the con-

struction of identity in the Lower

Rio Grande region during the

eighteenth and nineteenth cen-

turies. He chronicles a history of

violence resulting from multiple

conquests, of resistance and

accommodation to state power,

and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders

neither began nor ended the region’s long history of unequal power

relations. Nor did it lead residents to adopt singular colonial or national

identities. Instead, their regionalism, transnational cultural practices,

and kinship ties subverted state attempts to control and divide the

population.

Diverse influences transformed the borderlands as Spain, Mexico,

and the United States competed for control of the region. Indian slaves

joined Spanish society; Mexicans allied with Indians to defend river

communities; Anglo Americans and Mexicans intermarried and collabo-

rated; and women sued to confront spousal abuse and secure divorces.

Drawn into multiple conflicts along the border, Mexican nationals and

Mexican Texans (tejanos) took advantage of their transnational social

relations and ambiguous citizenship to escape criminal prosecution,

secure political refuge, and obtain economic opportunities. To confront

the racialization of their cultural practices and their increasing criminal-

ization, tejanos claimed citizenship rights within the United States

and, in the process, created a new identity for themselves.

Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez is Assistant Professor of History at the

University of Iowa.

Vertical EmpireThe General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andesjeremy ravi mumford

“Jeremy Ravi Mumford’s gracefully written study is a major contribution

not only to the history of the Andes and colonial Latin America, but also

to the history of colonialism. The most detailed examination of the project

to date, Vertical Empire adds new depth and dimension to what many

regard as one of the greatest feats of social engineering in modern his-

tory: the resettlement of the Andean population ordered by Francisco de

Toledo, fifth viceroy of Peru.”—KAREN SPALDING , author of Huarochirí:

An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule

In 1569 the Spanish viceroy

Francisco de Toledo ordered

more than one million native

people of the central Andes to

move to newly founded Spanish-

style towns called reducciones.

This campaign, known as the

General Resettlement of Indians,

represented a turning point in the

history of European colonialism:

a state forcing an entire con-

quered society to change its way of life overnight. But while this radical

restructuring destroyed certain aspects of indigenous society, Jeremy

Ravi Mumford’s Vertical Empire reveals the ways that it preserved

others. The campaign drew on colonial ethnographic inquiries into

indigenous culture and strengthened the place of native lords in colo-

nial society. In the end, the General Resettlement added another layer

to a complex web of settlement—a web that the Spaniards glimpsed

and that the Andeans defended fiercely—rather than displacing or

destroying it.

Jeremy Ravi Mumford is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at

Brown University.


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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES/CHICANO STUDIES

February 392 pages, 22 illustrations

paper, 978–0–8223–5185–6, $26.95/£17.99

cloth, 978–0–8223–5171–9, $99.95/£75.00

School children enacting a patriotic war play, circa 1890. Courtesy of Brownsville Historical Association.

Anonymous woodcut showing Pikemen, Augsburg, 1533. Courtesy of the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.

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Trumpets in the MountainsTheater and the Politics of National Culture in Cubalaurie a. frederik

“Engagingly written, theoretically astute, and based on extensive ethno-

graphic work, Laurie A. Frederik’s new book provides important insights

into underexplored aspects of Cuban revolutionary culture. She considers

the dynamics of socially engaged theater from the perspective of actors

and audiences themselves and explores debates over national identity and

the goals of the revolutionary project as negotiated far from the centers

of state control. An important contribution.”—ROBIN MOORE , author of

Music in the Hispanic Caribbean: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture

Trumpets in the Mountains is

a compelling ethnography about

Cuban culture, artistic perfor-

mance, and the shift in national

identity after 1990, when the loss

of Soviet subsidies plunged Cuba

into a severe economic crisis.

The state’s response involved

opening the economy to foreign

capital and tourism, and promot-

ing previously deprecated cultural

practices as quintessentially Cuban.

Such contradictions of Cuba’s

revolutionary ideals elicited an

official preoccupation with how

twenty-first-century cubanía, or Cubanness, was to be understood by

its citizens and creatively interpreted by its artists. The rural campesino

was reenvisioned as a key symbol of the future; the embodiment of

socialist humility, cultural pureness, and educated refinement; poten-

tially the Hombre Novísimo (even newer man) to replace the Hombre

Nuevo (new man) of Cuban communist philosophy.

Campesinos inhabit some of the island’s most isolated areas, includ-

ing the mountainous regions in central and eastern Cuba where Laurie

A. Frederik conducted research among rural communities and profes-

sional theater groups. Analyzing the ongoing dialogue of cultural

officials, urban and rural artists, and campesinos, Frederik provides

an on-the-ground account of how visions of the nation are developed,

manipulated, dramatized, and maintained in public consciousness.

She shows that cubanía is defined, and redefined, in the interactive

movement between intellectual, political, and everyday worlds.

Laurie A. Frederik is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and

Anthropology at the University of Maryland.

A Language of Empire, a Quotidian TongueThe Uses of Nahuatl in Colonial New Spainrobert c. schwaller, special issue editor

a special issue of ETHNOHISTORY

This special issue of Ethnohistory highlights new aspects of the use

of Nahuatl as a lingua franca during the colonial period. The language

of the Aztecs, Nahuatl was also spoken by mestizos, mulatos, and

Spaniards. By emphasizing interethnic communication in largely

quotidian contexts, this issue breaks new ground in the examination

of colonial language, investigating the many ways in which Nahuatl

shaped the lives of all inhabitants of New Spain.

One essay shows how the bilingual ability of many mestizos and mula-

tos, which resulted from acculturation to both indigenous and Hispanic

society, facilitated cultural and linguistic transfer across ethnic boundar-

ies. One contributor considers the use of Nahuatl by clerics, including

early-colonial creole clergy, while another uses inquisitorial records

to argue that the Church frequently lacked the translators required

to conduct its investigations. The issue also reproduces a unique

Nahuatl-language sermon, demonstrating the influence of Nahua aides

in modifying the messages conveyed by catechistic documents. Another

contributor argues that classical Nahuatl’s utility as an imperial lingua

franca was limited and influenced by Pipil, a form of Nahuatl spoken in

the region prior to the Nahua-Spanish invasions of the sixteenth century.

ContributorsMark Z. Christiansen, Laura B. Matthew, Martin Austin Nesvig, Caterina Pizzigoni,

Sergio Romero, John F. Schwaller, Robert C. Schwaller, Yanna Yannakakis

Robert C. Schwaller is Assistant Professor of History at the University

of Kansas.



October Vol. 59 no. 4 200 pages

paper, 978–0–8223–6775–8, $15.00/£9.99



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The Other ZulusThe Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africamichael r. mahoney

“Michael R. Mahoney’s synthetic history of how Natal Africans became

Zulu is bold and provocative. It is bound to spur debate and discussion

of an issue that is at once historically important and vitally relevant in the

present.”—PAUL LA HAUSSE , Centre of African Studies, University of

Cambridge

In 1879, the British colony of Natal

invaded the neighboring Zulu king-

dom. Large numbers of Natal Africans

fought with the British against the

Zulus, enabling the British to claim

victory and ultimately annex the

Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years

later, in 1906, many of those same

Natal Africans, and their descendants,

rebelled against the British in the

name of the Zulu king. In The Other

Zulus, a thorough history of Zulu

ethnicity during the colonial period,

Michael R. Mahoney shows that the

lower classes of Natal, rather than its elites, initiated the transformation

in ethnic self-identification, and they did so for multiple reasons.

The resentment that Natal Africans felt toward the Zulu king dimin-

ished as his power was curtailed by the British. The most negative

consequences of colonialism may have taken several decades to affect

the daily lives of most Africans. Natal Africans are likely to have expe-

rienced the oppression of British rule more immediately and intensely

in 1906 than they had in 1879. Meanwhile, labor migration to the gold

mines of Johannesburg politicized the young men of Natal. Mahoney’s

fine-grained local history shows that these young migrants constructed

and claimed a new Zulu identity, both to challenge the patriarchal

authority of African chiefs and to fight colonial rule.

Michael R. Mahoney is Adjunct Professor of History at Ripon College and

Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Lawrence University.

POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE

A Series Edited by Julia Adams and George Steinmetz

Walkers, Voyeurs and the Politics of Urban Spacerobyn autry & daniel j. walkowitz, special issue editors

a special issue of RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW

Walking, seeing, and being seen in

the city—as voyeur or as the subject

of surveillance—have a long and

contested history. City planning

in the last half century has been

increasingly fraught with contradic-

tory desires to promote commerce

as well as ostensibly progressive

initiatives such as greening, the

re-pedestrianization of cities, and

the rehabilitation of historic neigh-

borhoods as sites to make the

past more palatable and profitable.

This special issue of Radical History

Review historicizes and reconsiders the flaneur—the city stroller—as

the iconic bystander to the spectacle of urban life and change, drawing

perspectives from urban and public history, museum studies, geogra-

phy, and sociology.

One article analyzes Australian frontier towns, where notions of indige-

neity are commodified for white consumers while Aborigines themselves

are unwelcome. Another examines the “funereal flanerie” of protestors

in Guatemala who stage scenes of public mourning to engage the radi-

cal power of dead bodies in public spaces. Flanerie and drifting are

explored as pedagogical tools to draw students out of the controlled

settings of college campuses. Contributors to this issue examine the

physical experience of city walking—determined by architecture, street

signs, traffic lights, and each walker’s differently abled body—alongside

the subtler class, racial, and historical markers that define who in city

spaces is imagined to be respectable and who is dangerous.

ContributorsRobyn Autry, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Bruce Doran, Eva Giloi, Catherine Holmes,

Ralph Kingston, Tess Lea, Francis Markham, Hillary Miller, Don Mitchell,

Natalia Onyshchenko, Elihu Rubin, Anastasiya Ryabchuk, Barbara Schmucki,

David Serlin, Jennifer Tucker, Heather Vrana, Daniel J. Walkowitz, Martin Young

Robin Autry is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University.

Daniel J. Walkowitz holds a joint appointment as Professor of History

and Metropolitan Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis

and the Department of History at New York University. Autry and Walkowitz

are members of the Radical History Review editorial collective.

HISTORY

September #114 232 pages, 47 illustrations

paper, 978–0–8223–6779–6, $14.00/£9.99

AFRICAN STUDIES

August 312 pages

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a f r i c a n s t u d i e s h i s t o r y

Amateur Photographic Pest, Punch, October 4, 1890.

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The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of GermanyThird Edition, Revised and Expanded

donald p. kommers & russell a. millerForeword to the Third Edition by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“In the endeavor to gain knowledge from the problems confronted and reso-

lutions reached by our counterparts abroad, the work of Donald P. Kommers,

now joined by Russell A. Miller, is a rich resource. Offering far more than

excellent English-language translations of the decisions of a renowned

tribunal, Professors Kommers and Miller supply incisive analyses and com-

mentary. I am pleased to herald the publication of this third edition of a

masterful text. . . . Brought right up to the moment . . . The Constitutional

Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany is an engaging, enlighten-

ing, indispensable source for those seeking to learn from the text and

context of German constitutional jurisprudence.”—from the foreword by

RUTH BADER GINSBURG , Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United

States

First published in 1989, The Constitutional

Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic

of Germany has become an invaluable

resource for scholars and practitioners

of comparative, international, and con-

stitutional law, as well as of German and

European politics. The third edition of this

renowned English-language reference has

now been fully updated and significantly

expanded to incorporate both previously

omitted topics and recent decisions of

the German Federal Constitutional Court.

Compared to previous editions of The Constitutional Jurisprudence of

the Federal Republic of Germany, this third edition more closely tracks

Germany’s Basic Law and, therefore, the systematic approach reflected

in the most respected German constitutional law commentaries. Entirely

new chapters address the relationship between German law and

European and international law; social and economic rights, including

the property and occupational rights cases that have emerged from

Reunification; jurisprudence related to issues of equality, particularly

gender equality; and the tension between Germany’s counterterrorism

efforts and its constitutional guarantees of liberty. Kommers and Miller

have also updated existing chapters to address recent decisions involv-

ing human rights, federalism, European integration, and religious liberty.

Donald P. Kommers is Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political

Science and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.

Russell A. Miller is a Professor at Washington and Lee University School

of Law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

of the United States.

The Argumentative Turn RevisitedPublic Policy as Communicative Practicefrank fischer & herbert gottweis, editors

“The argumentative turn in policy analysis has taken another major turn

for the better. Whether one accepts the arguments presented here or not,

they cannot be ignored and this book contains an impressive collection

of essays advancing this approach to policy.”—B. GUY PETERS, coauthor

of Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm

Rejecting the notion that policy analysis

and planning are value-free technical

endeavors, an argumentative approach

takes into account the ways that policy

is affected by other factors, including

culture, discourse, and emotion. The

contributors to this new collection

consider how far argumentative policy

analysis has come during the past two

decades and how its theories continue

to be refined through engagement

with current thinking in social theory

and with the real-life challenges facing

contemporary policy makers.

The approach speaks in particular to the limits of rationalistic, techno-

scientific policy making in the complex, unpredictable world of the

early twenty-first century. These limits have been starkly illustrated by

responses to events such as the environmental crisis, the near collapse

of the world economy, and the disaster at the nuclear power plant in

Fukushima, Japan. Addressing topics including deliberative democracy,

collaborative planning, new media, rhetoric, policy frames, and trans-

formative learning, the essays shed new light on the ways that policy

is communicatively created, conveyed, understood, and implemented.

Taken together, they show argumentative policy inquiry to be an

urgently needed approach to policy analysis and planning.

ContributorsGiovanni Attili, Hubertus Buchstein, Stephen Coleman, John S. Dryzek,

Frank Fischer, Herbert Gottweis, Steven Griggs, Mary Hawkesworth, Patsy Healey,

Carolyn M. Hendriks, David Howarth, Dirk Jörke, Alan Mandell, Leonie Sandercock,

Vivien A. Schmidt, Sanford F. Schram

Frank Fischer is Professor of Politics and Global Affairs at Rutgers

University. He also teaches at the university’s E. J. Bloustein School of

Planning and Public Policy and is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the University

of Kassel in Germany. Herbert Gottweis is Professor of Political Science

at the University of Vienna and Visiting Professor at the United Nations

University in Tokyo and in the Sociology Department at Kyung Hee

University in Seoul.

p u b l i c p o l i c y / p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e

LEGAL STUDIES/GERMAN STUDIES/POLITICAL SCIENCE

November 864 pages

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PUBLIC POLICY/POLITICAL SCIENCE

Available 400 pages

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Pennsylvania German in the American Midweststeven hartman keiser

PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY (PADS)

In Pennsylvania German in the

American Midwest, Steven Hartman

Keiser studies the divisions

separating the Midwestern and

the Pennsylvania varieties of

Pennsylvania German, demonstrat-

ing that these dialects are divided

by boundaries similar to those that

distinguish dialects of English

in the same geographic regions.

Keiser provides empirical detail

on the distribution of key linguistic

variants in several Pennsylvania

German–speaking communities in

the Midwest and explores the internal changes, patterns of migration,

and language contact that have led to the current geographic and social

distribution of these features. In addition, he considers the potential

for future dialect divergence or convergence as he describes the links

between these language varieties and the notions of regional identity

in the attitudes of Pennsylvania German speakers in the Midwest and

those in Pennsylvania toward each other.

Steven Hartman Keiser is Associate Professor of English at Marquette

University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Digital Dramaturgiesmiriam felton-dansky & jacob gallagher-ross, special issue editors

a special issue of THEATER

In recent years, technologies of pro-

duction and communication have

multiplied exponentially, creating new

modes of expression and storytelling.

The Internet and cell phones allow

instantaneous communication across

global networks; media communities

such as YouTube have created venues

for amateur performances to reach

global audiences; and the enforced

brevity of Facebook status updates,

Twitter posts, and text messages have

created compressed, allusive idioms

out of everyday speech. These and

other rapid technological and cultural

changes have transformed theater,

the oldest of “old media.” This special issue of Theater assembles

contributions by scholars and artists that explore this transformation,

considering both theater’s place in a world conditioned by new media

and the place of these new media in the theater.

Contributors to this issue examine a variety of ways that new technol-

ogy can perform, from Twitter plays in 140 characters, to performances

from the Avatar Repertory Theater in Second Life, to two computer chat-

bots “restaging” debates between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky.

Tackling questions of what is considered live theater in a digital age

and how new media will share the stage with more traditional forms

of performance, this issue establishes theater as a unique medium and

meeting place for other media as it moves irreversibly into the digital

domain.

ContributorsSarah Bay-Cheng, Annie Dorsen, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Jacob Gallagher-Ross,

Christopher Grobe, Martin Harries, John H. Muse, Nick Salvato, Matthew Wilson Smith,

Alexis Soloski

Miriam Felton-Dansky and Jacob Gallagher-Ross are DFA candidates

in the Department of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the Yale School

of Drama.

L INGUISTICS

Available PADS #96 197 pages

cloth, 978–0–8223–6769–7, $20.00/£12.99

THEATER

June Vol. 42, no. 2 173 pages, 46 illustrations

paper, 978–0–8223–6780–2, $12.00/£9.99

t h e a t e r l i n g u i s t i c s

Hello Hi There, directed by Annie Dorsen, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, 2010. Photo by W. Silveri/Steirischer Herbst.

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CULTURAL STUDIES

Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late CapitalismFredric Jameson1991978–0–8223–1090–7paper $26.95tr/£17.99Rights: World, excluding Europe and British Commonwealth (except Canada)

Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of AngerArjun Appadurai2006978–0–8223–3863–5paper $21.95tr/£13.99

Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, SensationBrian Massumi2002978–0–8223–2897–1paper $24.95/£15.99

Cruel OptimismLauren Berlant2011978–0–8223–5111–5paper $24.95/£15.99

A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010Cherríe L. Moraga2011978–0–8223–4977–8paper $22.95tr/£14.99

The Gloria Anzaldúa ReaderGloria Anzaldúa2009978–0–8223–4564–0paper $24.95tr/£15.99

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The Weather in ProustEve Kosofsky Sedgwick2012978–0–8223–5158–0paper, $23.95tr/£18.99

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Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the IceErica Rand2012978–0–8223–5208–2paper, $23.95tr/£18.99

The Queer Art of FailureJudith Halberstam2011978–0–8223–5045–3 paper $22.95tr/£14.99

Adam’s Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church’s Persecution of Lesbians and GaysJimmy Creech2011978–0–8223–4885–6cloth $29.95tr/£19.99


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The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, PoliticsMaria Shaa Tláa Williams, editor2009978–0–8223–4480–3paper $26.95tr/£17.99

The Czech Reader: History, Culture, PoliticsJan Bazant, Nina Bazantová, and Frances Starn, editors2010978–0–8223–4794–1paper $26.95tr/£15.99

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INDEX

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. 32Ackerman, Josef 46Adams, Michael 45Aers, David 46Akcan, Esra 20Allen, Jafari S. 32Angulo, Yolanda 7Anzaldúa, Gloria 42Appadurai, Arjun 42Armitage, John 45Armstrong, Nancy 47Autry, Robyn 39Barker, Adele 43Barlow, Tani 47Bathrick, David 47Bazant, Jan 43Bazantová, Nina 43Berlant, Lauren 42Bishop, Ryan 45Bové, Paul A. 45Brown, Marshall 46Campbell, Ian M. 45Canessa, Andrew 35Carlyle, Jane Welsh 45Carlyle, Thomas 45Carr, Barry 43Carter, Miguel 36Chambers, Iain 19Chen, Mel Y. 17Cholak, Peter 47Chomsky, Aviva 43Chong, Doryun 10Christianson, Aileen 45Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar 47Cornett, Michael 46Creech, Jimmy 42Crocitti, John J. 43Cruz, Denise 29Cvetkovich, Ann 8Dave, Naisargi N. 24de la Torre, Carlos 43Degregori, Carlos Iván 44Detlefsen, Michael 47Dinshaw, Carolyn 14

Dumit, Joseph 2Dussel, Enrique 7Edwards, Brent 47Enwezor, Okwui 47Faculty of the Sage School of Philosophy 47Fallaw, Ben 36Feld, Steven 25Felton-Dansky, Miriam 41Ferguson, James 13, 44Fink, Leon 46Finucci, Valeria 46Fischer, Frank 40Fisher, Melissa S. 11Forman, Murray 27Frederik, Laurie A. 38Freeman, Elizabeth 46French, John 46Frye, David 20Fu, Daiwie 45Fuchs, Rachel G. 46Fuqua, Joy V. 27Gallagher-Ross, Jacob 41Ginsberg, Ruth Bader 40Goldstein, Daniel M. 35Gopalan, Lalitha 45Gorski, Philip S. 33Gottweis, Herbert 40Grandin, Greg 43Grant, Bruce 43Grogan, Colleen 46Gupta, Akhil 13Gyoja, Akihiko 46Halberstam, Judith 42Hardt, Michael 47Harkin, Michael 46Hassan, Salah M. 47Hastie, Amelie 45Hayashi, Michio 10Heller, Chaia 24Hellwig, Tineke 43Henderson, Timothy J. 43Ho, Karen 44Holberg, Jennifer L. 47Holt, John Clifford 43Hoover, Kevin D. 46

Hopkinson, Natalie 3Huyssen, Andreas 47Imada, Adria L. 28Inhorn, Marcia C. 22Izumi, Masaki 46Jameson, Fredric 42Jáuregui, Carlos A. 7Joseph, Gilbert M. 43Joseph, Ralina L. 31Joyrich, Lynne 45Kajiya, Kenji 10Keaton, Trica Danielle 33Keiser, Steven Hartman 41Kellner, Douglas 45King, Homay 45Kinser, Brent E. 45Kirk, Robin 44Klinenberg, Eric 47Knaus, John Kenneth 5Kolodny, Annette 6Kommers, Donald P. 40Kun, Josh 19Lawrence, Tim 44Lee, Esther Kim 11Lefebvre, Alexandre 34Lerner, Michael 47Levenson, Deborah 43Levine, Robert M. 43Livingston, Julie 22Lowy, Benjamin 44Mahoney, Michael R. 39Maldonado-Torres, Nelson 7Mankekar, Purnima 25Manning, Erin 18Massumi, Brian 18, 42Mavor, Carol 9McCants, Anne 47McCarthy, Anna 47Mckiernan-González, John 29Mendieta, Eduardo 7Miller, Russell A. 40Mohanty, Chandra Talpade 42Molina, Iván 43Montaldo, Graciela 43Montezemolo, Fiamma 19Moon, Michael 44

Moraga, Cherríe L. 42Moraña, Mabel 7Mumford, Jeremy Ravi 37Murphy, Michelle 21Murphy, Timothy 46Naficy, Hamid 12Nair, Parvati 44Namikawa, Yoshinori 46Ngô, Fiona I. B. 30Nguyen, Mimi Thi 17, 30Nicolar, Joseph 6Nordloh, David J. 45Nouzeilles, Gabriela 43Oglesby, Elizabeth 43Okeke-Agulu, Chika 47Olcott, Jocelyn 46Palmer, Steven 43Palumbo-Liu, David 15, 16Penley, Constance 45Pérez Bustillo, Camilo 7Perl, Jeffrey M. 45Pilkey, Keith C. 44Pilkey, Orrin H. 44Pollock, Anne 23Prentice, Rachel 23Quinn, Ian 46Rabinbach, Anson 47Radical History Review editorial collective 47Rama, Ángel 20Ramey, Joshua 34Rand, Erica 42Restall, Matthew 46Reverand II, Cedric D. 45Robbins, Bruce 15, 16Roberts, Jane 45Rooney, Ellen 45Roosth, Sophia 21Rosas, Gilberto 19Rowe, George E. 45Rubin, Gayle S. 42Scales, Christopher A. 26Scharnhorst, Gary 45Schein, Louisa 25Schrader, Astrid 21Schulman, Sarah 1

Schwaller, Robert 38Scott, David 47Sedgwick, Eve Kososky 42Sellar, Tom 47Shah, Nayan 46Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean 33Sigal, Pete 46Skotnes, Andor 28Smith, Shawn Michelle 30Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria 43Sorensen, David R. 45Stahl, Matt 26Starn, Frances 43Starn, Orin 44Sternberg, Meir 47Sterne, Jonathan 4Stovall, Tyler 33Striffler, Steve 43Sumitomo, Fumihiko 10Sutherland, Liz 45Tadiar, Neferti 47Tagliacozzo, Eric 43Takahashi, Tess 45Tanoukhi, Nirvana 15, 16Taylor, Charles 44Taylor, Marcy 47Tillet, Salamishah 31Valerio-Jiménez, Omar S. 37Vallega, Alejandro A. 7Wahl, Jonathan 45Wald, Priscilla 45Walkowitz, Daniel J. 39Wallace, Maurice O. 30Wallerstein, Immanuel 44Watson, Janell 46Weed, Elizabeth 45Wentzell, Emily A. 22White, Melanie 34White, Michele 18White, Patricia 45Wild, Jonathan 45Williams, Maria Shaa Tláa 43Willis, Sharon 45Wright, Kent 46Wu Hung 10

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