American Anthropological Association 2023

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Reading Autobiography Now An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson 2024 Spring: A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative
The Rage of Replacement Far Right Politics and Demographic Fear Michael Feola 2024 Spring: Tracing how the “Great Replacement” narrative has shaped far right extremism and propelled its dangerous political projects and acts of violence
Microbial Resolution Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 2024 Spring: Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails
The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship Race and Revolt in Education Kevin L. Clay and Kevin Lawrence Henry Jr., Editors 2024 Spring: When inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group’s conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us?
Cultivating Livability Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru Camille Frazier 2024 Spring: What urban food networks reveal about middle class livability in times of transformation
American Disgust Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2024 Spring: Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America
The Memory of the World Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology Ted Toadvine 2024 Spring: Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time
Why We Left Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants Brooks 2024 Spring: A grounded, tender, and mournful reckoning with the catastrophes that launched poor, white Anglos into their role as itinerant foot soldiers for modern imperialism—now in paperback with a new preface
Good Boys, Bad Hombres The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools Michael V. Singh 2024 Spring: The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys
Indigenous Archival Activism Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory Rose Miron 2024 Spring: Who has the right to represent Native history?
Knowing Silence How Children Talk about Immigration Status in School Ariana Mangual Figueroa 2024 Spring: Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their school experience
The Apathy of Empire Cambodia in American Geopolitics James A. Tyner 2024 Spring: What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War tells us about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy
Anime's Knowledge Cultures Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 2024 Spring: Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures
Caring for Life A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene Kelly Dombroski 2024 Spring: The transformational possibilities of everyday hygiene and care practices
Producing Sovereignty The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada Karrmen Crey 2024 Spring: Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present
Revenant Ecologies Defying the Violence of Extinction and Conservation Audra Mitchell 2023 Fall: Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction
Naked Fieldnotes A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing Denielle Elliott and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, Editors 2023 Fall: Creative and diverse approaches to ethnographic knowledge production and writing
The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi Elin Anna Labba 2023 Fall: The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
Unsettling Choice Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Ujju Aggarwal 2023 Fall: How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
Horror in Architecture The Reanimated Edition Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing 2023 Fall: A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
The Effluent Eye Narratives for Decolonial Right-Making Rosemary J. Jolly 2023 Fall: Why human rights don’t work
This Is Not My World Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb Adair Rounthwaite 2024 Spring: A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private
Hermes I Communication Michel Serres 2023 Fall: For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher’s groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works
What We Teach When We Teach DH Digital Humanities in the Classroom Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, Editors 2023 Fall: Exploring how DH shapes and is in turn shaped by the classroom
Cash, Clothes, and Construction Rethinking Value in Bolivia’s Pluri-economy Kate Maclean 2023 Fall: A groundbreaking feminist perspective on Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) rule in Bolivia and the country’s radical transformation under Evo Morales
Care without Pathology How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine Christoph Hanssmann 2023 Fall: Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape
The Cactus Hunters Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade Jared D. Margulies 2023 Fall: An exploration of the explosive illegal trade in succulents and the passion that drives it
No More Fossils Dominic Boyer 2024 Spring: Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilization
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
Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall: A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
Creating Our Own Lives College Students with Intellectual Disability Michael Gill and Beth Myers, Editors 2023 Fall: Young adults with intellectual disability tell the story of their own experience of higher education
Terrorism on Trial Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures Nicole Nguyen 2023 Fall: A landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts
In Visible Archives Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s Margaret Galvan 2023 Fall: Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall: Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
Opening Ceremony Inviting Inclusion into University Governance Kathryn J. Gindlesparger 2023 Fall: Explores how university governance is restricted by ceremony and what it must do to survive
Gramsci at Sea Sharad Chari 2023 Fall: Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism
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
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
Crip Negativity J. Logan Smilges 2023 Spring: Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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?