American Anthropological Association 2023
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- Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
- Being Together in Place Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson 2017 Fall
- How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world
- When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
- The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall
- A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community
- Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
- Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall
- An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
- Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall
- A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity
- Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall
- Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
- UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring
- A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
- Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
- Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall
- Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
- Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall
- Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
- The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall
- An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
- Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak 2017 Spring
- A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada
- A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
- Metagaming Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux 2017 Spring
- A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames
- Queer Game Studies Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw, Editors 2017 Spring
- A landmark anthology opens video game studies to queer culture
- Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
- Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring
- Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
- Curated Decay Heritage beyond Saving Caitlin DeSilvey 2017 Spring
- A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
- Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
- Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
- Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall
- Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
- First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall
- Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
- Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
- The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall
- An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but
- The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall
- The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
- Holidays in the Danger Zone Entanglements of War and Tourism Debbie Lisle 2016 Fall
- A timely and uniquely historical look at how war turns soldiers, and all of us, into tourists
- The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring
- Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration
- What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring
- A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
- Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring
- How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
- Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
- Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall
- How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
- Tongzhi Living Men Attracted to Men in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng 2015 Fall
- A revealing study of men attracted to men trying to create community in a modern Chinese city
- The Value of Homelessness Managing Surplus Life in the United States Craig Willse 2015 Fall
- How social welfare and social science came to reinforce, not combat, racialized housing insecurity
- The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2015 Spring
- How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty
- Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings Mary Siisip Geniusz 2015 Spring
- The first complete resource for the practical use of plants in the Anishinaabe culture and the stories that surround them
- A Geology of Media Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
- A sweeping new ecological take on technology
- HIV Exceptionalism Development through Disease in Sierra Leone Adia Benton 2015 Spring
- Have HIV/AIDS-focused development programs ignored wider health crises in Africa?
- Gaming at the Edge Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture Adrienne Shaw 2014 Fall
- A major new analysis of the representation of marginalized groups in video games
- Aesop’s Anthropology A Multispecies Approach John Hartigan Jr. 2015 Spring
- What can we learn about culture from other species?
- Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 Fall
- Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance
- Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek, Editor 2014 Spring
- The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture—from one of the twentieth century’s most important urban theorists
- Sexuality in School The Limits of Education Jen Gilbert 2014 Spring
- Explores and expands on the role of sexuality in teaching and learning
- Consoling Ghosts Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile Jean M. Langford 2013 Fall
- The ghosts—and varying ideas about death, dying, and the aftereffects of violence—emerging from the stories of emigrants from Laos and Cambodia
- Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall
- The world as we know it has already come to an end
- Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall
- How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
- The Art of Making Do in Naples Jason Pine 2012 Fall
- An American anthropologist traverses the contact zones between organized crime and everyday life in Naples
- Swamplife People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden 2011 Spring
- Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades
- Red Lights The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China Tiantian Zheng 2009 Spring
- A revealing and intimate study of rural Chinese women working in an urban sex trade
- Ghostly Matters Haunting and the Sociological Imagination Avery F. Gordon 2008 Spring
- A new edition of this widely influential and innovative work of social theory—with a new introduction and foreword
- When Species Meet Donna J. Haraway 2007 Fall
- Whom do we touch when we touch a dog? How does this touch shape our multispecies world?
- A Postcapitalist Politics J. K. Gibson-Graham 2006 Spring
- Presents compelling alternatives to capitalism—and strategies for achieving them
- The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
- The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics