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New Books Network , June 16th, 2022
Çigdem Çidam, Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College, has a new book titled In the Street: Democratic Action, Theatricality, and Political Friendship (Oxford UP, 2021) that examines political…
New Books Network , June 15th, 2022
Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (NYU Press, 2022) reveals the importance of citywide celebrations like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for LGBTQIA+ communities in the US South….
New Books Network , June 15th, 2022
In Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard UP, 2022), Holger Droessler provides a novel history of the impact of globalization on Sāmoa and vice versa. Using a series of…
New Books Network , June 14th, 2022
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer…
New Books Network , June 14th, 2022
Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics (Utah State University Press, 2020) explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly educational—spaces. In it, Louis M. Maraj theorizes how Black identity operates with/against…
Lin Song, “Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China” (Hong Kong UP, 2021)
New Books Network , June 10th, 2022
China has one of the largest queer populations in the world, but what does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties,…
New Books Network , June 10th, 2022
Edward Anthony Avery-Natale’s book Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho-Punk Identifications: Punk and Anarchy in Philadelphia (Lexington, 2016) explores the ways in which those who identify as punks and anarchists living in the…
New Books Network , June 10th, 2022
A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism…
New Books Network , June 10th, 2022
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press, 2022) is a mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics…
New Books Network , June 10th, 2022
In today’s episode of How To Be Wrong we welcome Dr. Khytie Brown, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin….
New Books Network , June 9th, 2022
Trina Nileena Banerjee’s book Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal (Oxford UP, 2021) addresses the absence of a sustained and critical engagement with the gender politics…
New Books Network , June 9th, 2022
Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere’s history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine…
New Books Network , June 8th, 2022
Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations between Worlds (Routledge, 2022) examines the germination and growth of jazz under communist rule—perceived as the “music of the enemy” and “ideologically decadent”—in the…
New Books Network , June 8th, 2022
In Militarized Global Apartheid, Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa’s apartheid system on a worldwide scale…
New Books Network , June 8th, 2022
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa (Cambridge, 2022). Schouten mapped more than 1000…
New Books Network , June 7th, 2022
A new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by…
New Books Network , June 7th, 2022
In Media Culture in Nomadic Communities (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), author Allison Hahn examines the ways that new communications technologies have changed how nomadic and mobile communities engage in political advocacy,…
New Books Network , June 6th, 2022
The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston’s “hidden shores.” While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers and harbor seals, others resemble manicured…
Andrew Bickford, “Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military” (Duke UP, 2021)
New Books Network , June 3rd, 2022
In Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military (Duke UP, 2021), Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military’s attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological “supersoldiers” capable of withstanding…
New Books Network , June 2nd, 2022
What happens when the written words of biblical scripture are transformed into experiential, choreographed environments? To answer this question, anthropologist James Bielo explores a diverse range of practices…
New Books Network , June 1st, 2022
Andrew Leon Hanna’s book 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge UP, 2022) takes readers inside the Za’atari refugee camp to follow the stories of three courageous…
New Books Network , June 1st, 2022
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children,…
New Books Network , May 31st, 2022
What drives and sustains participation in unemployed workers’ movements in Argentina? Today’s guest, Marcos Perez, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and…
New Books Network , May 31st, 2022
In Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine (Duke UP, 2020), Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and…