American Anthropological Association 2022

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Trauma Sponges Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response Jeremy Norton 2023 Spring: Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis firefighter reveals the significant toll of emergency response
Star Wars after Lucas A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy Dan Golding 2023 Spring: Politics, craft, and cultural nostalgia in the remaking of Star Wars
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring: A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring: Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring: A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring: A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring: An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
American Indians and the American Dream Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota Kasey R. Keeler 2023 Spring: Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities
Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring: A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
White Burgers, Black Cash Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2023 Spring: The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
Rough Metaphysics The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts Peter Skafish 2023 Spring: A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas
Settling Nature The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel 2023 Spring: Studying nature conservation in Palestine-Israel through the lens of settler colonialism
Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring: A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic Charlotte Wrigley 2023 Spring: Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
Natives against Nativism Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France Olivia C. Harrison 2023 Spring: Examining the intersection of Palestine solidarity movements and antiracist activism in France from the 1970s to the present
Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring: A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Spring: A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall: Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall: A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring: A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall: Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
African Meditations Felwine Sarr 2022 Fall: An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on his native Senegal after years of study abroad
The Unteachables Disability Rights and the Invention of Black Special Education Keith A. Mayes 2022 Fall: How special education used disability labels to marginalize Black students in public schools
The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall: A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
Imagination and Invention Gilbert Simondon 2022 Fall: A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall: The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
Native Agency Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Valerie Lambert 2022 Fall: What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?
The Silence of the Miskito Prince How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized Matt Cohen 2022 Fall: Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies
Castoffs of Capital Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh Lamia Karim 2022 Fall: Dispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry
Meaningless Citizenship Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State Sally Wesley Bonet 2022 Fall: A searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation
Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall: An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution
Statelessness On Almost Not Existing 2022 Fall: A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness
Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall: A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
Opioid Reckoning Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State Amy C. Sullivan 2022 Fall: Examines the complexity and the humanity of the opioid epidemic
Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall: The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals
South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall: The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America
The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall: An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry
Afro-Sweden Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country Ryan Thomas Skinner 2022 Fall: A compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diaspora
Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall: An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
The Horror of Police Travis Linnemann 2022 Spring: Unmasks the horrors of a social order reproduced and maintained by the violence of police
Webbed Connectivities The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Vrushali Patil 2022 Fall: Constructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference
Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall: A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
A Voice but No Power Organizing for Social Justice in Minneapolis David Forrest 2022 Fall: Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession
Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring: Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring: What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring: Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring: A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring: Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond
By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends Emilie Demant Hatt 2022 Fall: The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century
The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall: Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
Sensory Futures Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India Michele Ilana Friedner 2022 Spring: Revealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical markets
Exceptionally Queer Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism K. Mohrman 2022 Spring: How perceptions of Mormonism from 1830 to the present reveal the exclusionary, racialized practices of the U.S. nation-state
Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring: Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall: A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring: How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring: An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring: How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
The Life Worth Living Disability, Pain, and Morality Joel Michael Reynolds 2022 Spring: A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain
The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring: A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring: A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring: A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring: A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring: A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work
The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall: Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring: How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
Studious Drift Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education Tyson Lewis and Peter B. Hyland 2022 Fall: What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?
Out of Breath Vulnerability of Air in Contemporary Art Caterina Albano 2022 Fall: Explores the intrinsic relation of life to air, and breathing, through contemporary art
Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring: An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring: Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring: A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring: A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring: Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall: Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring: How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring: Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall: A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall: What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall: An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall: How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall: Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now 2022 Spring: A call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world
Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring: How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall: How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall: A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall: Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
Magical Realism for Non-Believers A Memoir of Finding Family Anika Fajardo 2021 Fall: A young woman from Minnesota searches out the Colombian father she’s never known in this powerful exploration of what family really means
An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall: An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall: A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
Commodities of Care The Business of HIV Testing in China Elsa L. Fan 2021 Fall: How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve
Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall: What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall: A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface
Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall: Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind Vinciane Despret 2021 Fall: An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall: Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
Tolerance and Risk How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims Mitra Rastegar 2021 Fall: How apparently positive representations in U.S. media cast Muslims as a racial population
Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall: Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall: An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
Lemon Jail On the Road with the Replacements Bill Sullivan 2021 Fall: A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall: A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall: Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory Vinciane Despret 2021 Spring: A groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory
Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2020 Fall: An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design