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GENERAL INTEREST ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, Schulman 1 Transpacific Femininities, Cruz 29
Drugs for Life, Dumit 2 Southeast Asian/American Studies, Ngô & Nguyen 30
Go-Go Live, Hopkinson 3
MP3, Sterne 4 AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES/BLACK DIASPORA
Beyond Shangri-La, Knaus 5 Pictures and Progress, Wallace & Smith 30
In Search of First Contact, Kolodny 6 Transcending Blackness, Joseph 31
Ethics of Liberation, Dussel 7 Sites of Slavery, Tillet 31
Depression, Cvetkovich 8 Against the Closet, Abdur-Rahman 32
Black and Blue, Mavor 9 Black/Queer Diaspora, Allen 32
From Postwar to Postmodern, Arts in Japan 1945–1989, Black France / France Noire, Keaton, Sharpley-Whiting & Stovall 33
Chong, Hayashi, Kajiya & Sumitomo 10
Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora POLITICAL THEORY/SOCIAL THEORY
in the Americas, Lee 11
Wall Street Women, Fisher 11 Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, Gorski 33
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4, Naficy 12 Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Lefebvre & White 34
The Hermetic Deleuze, Ramey 34
C U LT U R A L S T U D I E S
L AT I N A M E R I C A N S T U D I E S
Red Tape, Gupta 13
How Soon is Now? Dinshaw 14 Outlawed, Goldstein 35
The Deliverance of Others, Palumbo-Liu 15 Intimate Indigeneities, Canessa 35
Perpetual War, Robbins 16 Challenging Social Inequality, Carter 36
The Gift of Freedom, Nguyen 17 Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico, Fallaw 36
Animacies, Chen 17 River of Hope, Valerio-Jiménez 37
Always More Than One, Manning 18 Vertical Empire, Mumford 37
Buy It Now, White 18 Trumpets in the Mountains, Frederik 38
Tijuana Dreaming, Kun & Montezemolo 19 A Language of Empire, a Quotidian Tongue, Schwaller 38
Barrio Libre, Rosas 19
Writing across Cultures, Rama 20 AFRICAN STUDIES
Architecture in Translation, Akcan 20 The Other Zulus, Mahoney 39
Seizing the Means of Reproduction, Murphy 21
Feminist Theory Out of Science, Roosth & Schrader 21 HISTORY

Walkers, Voyeurs, and the Politics of Urban Space,

ANTHROPOLOGY Autry & Walkowitz 39
Medical Anthropology at the Intersections, Inhorn & Wentzell 22
Improvising Medicine, Livingston 22 PUBLIC POLICY/POLITICAL SCIENCE
Bodies in Formation, Prentice 23 The Argumentative Turn Revisited, Fischer & Gottweis 40
Medicating Race, Pollock 23
The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Federal Republic
Queer Activism in India, Dave 24 of Germany, Kommers & Miller 40
Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Heller 24
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, Mankekar & Schein 25 T H E AT E R
Digital Dramaturgies, Felton-Dansky & Gallagher-Ross 41
MUSIC & SOUND
Sound and Sentiment, Feld 25 LINGUISTICS
Recording Culture, Scales 26
Pennsylvania German in the American Midwest, Keiser 41
Unfree Masters, Stahl 26

FILM & TV STUDIES selected backlist & bestsellers 42

Prescription TV, Fuqua 27 journals 45
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount, Forman 27
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AMERICAN STUDIES
Aloha America, Imada 28
A New Deal for All? Skotnes 28 www.dukeupress.edu
Fevered Measures, Mckiernan-González 29

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 general interest

Israel/Palestine
and the Queer International
sarah 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.
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

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 also by Sarah Schulman
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.
Stagestruck
Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America
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Drugs for Life

How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
joseph dumit

Joseph Dumit is Director Every year the average number

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 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
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:
TECHNOLOGIC AL LIVES, SCIENTIFIC ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGIC AL VOICES
A Series Edited by Michael M. J. Fischer and Joseph Dumit

“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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Go-Go Live
The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
natalie hopkinson

Go-go is the conga drum–inflected Natalie Hopkinson, a contributing editor

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.
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.
“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 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.
“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

“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
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

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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.
“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 MP 3 s 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 MP 3 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
also by Jonathan Sterne
The Audible Past
Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
paper $27.95/£21.99
978–0–8223–3013–4 / 2002
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MP3
The Meaning of a Format
jonathan 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.
MP 3 s 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, MP 3 :
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.”
Announcing sign, storage, transmission
A 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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Beyond Shangri-La
America and Tibet’s Move
into the Twenty-First Century
john kenneth knaus

Beyond Shangri-La chronicles rela- John Kenneth Knaus has

tions between the Tibetans and continued to support Tibet
throughout his career. He is
the United States since 1908, when
currently a Research Associate
a Dalai Lama first met with U.S.
working on Tibetan affairs at the
representatives. What was initially Fairbank Center for East Asian
a distant alliance became more Research at Harvard University.
intimate and entangled in the late He is the author of Orphans of
1950s, when the Tibetan people the Cold War: America and the
Tibetan Struggle for Survival.
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
President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in the
recognition as an independent entity. Map Room of the White House, July 16, 2011. Official White House Photo by
Pete Souza.
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 “Beyond Shangri-La is a valuable and highly informative con-
tribution to understanding of both Tibet and the history of
occupation have made Tibet’s political and cultural status a pressing issue
American foreign policy in Asia. Benefiting from the author’s
in international affairs. So has the realization by nations including the United
personal experience with America’s Tibet policy, first as
States that their own geopolitical interests would best be served by the defeat a CIA officer and later as an institutional historian, it gives
of the Chinese and the achievement of Tibetan self-determination. Beyond often dramatic insights into the surprisingly crucial role of
Shangri-La provides unique insight into the efforts of the U.S. government individual officials within government in shifts of policy and
and committed U.S. citizens to support a free Tibet. direction. It comes at a time when America’s relations with
China are at a point of unprecedented importance for world
AMERIC AN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS
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A Series Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg
cult issues within that relationship—Tibet chief among them—
is important to understanding and successfully navigating
them.”—ROBERT BARNETT, author of Lhasa: Streets with
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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.
Photo by Susanna Corcoran.
“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
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In Search of First Contact
The 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.
also by Annette Kolodny
The Life and Traditions of the Red Man Failing the Future
A rediscovered treasure of Native American literature A Dean Looks at Higher Education
JOSEPH NICOLAR in the Twenty-first Century
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Ethics of Liberation
In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion
enrique dussel
TR ANSLATION 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 Enrique Dussel

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.
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
Photo by Alejandro Meléndez.
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.
also by Enrique Dussel

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

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

Twenty Theses on Politics Coloniality at Large

paper $21.95/£16.99
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Latin America
and the Postcolonial Debate
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DUSSEL, & CARLOS A. JÁUREGUI,
EDITORS
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Depression
A Public Feeling
ann cvetkovich

Ann Cvetkovich is Ellen In Depression: A Public Feeling,

C. Garwood Centennial Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir
Professor of English and and critical essay in search of ways
Professor of Women’s of writing about depression as a
and Gender Studies at
cultural and political phenomenon that
the University of Texas,
Austin. She is the author
offer alternatives to medical models. She
of An Archive of Feelings: describes her own experience
Trauma, Sexuality, and of the professional pressures, creative
Lesbian Public Cultures, anxiety, and political hopelessness
also published by Duke
that led to intellectual blockage while
University Press, and Mixed Feelings: Feminism,
she was finishing her dissertation
Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism; a coeditor
of Political Emotions; and a former editor of GLQ: and writing her first book. Her criti-
A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. cal essay builds on the insights of the
memoir to consider the idea that feeling
bad constitutes the lived experience

“Depression is a departure from academic business as of neoliberal capitalism.

usual. This is a profoundly inspiring book.”—HEATHER
LOVE, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics
of Queer History
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.

also by Ann Cvetkovich “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
An Archive of Feelings of writing about embodiment, cognition, and affect. Along the way, she offers myriad
Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures prescriptions, small and large, on how to cope with the daily effects of depression and
paper $25.95tr/£19.99
how to heal the world.”—MARIANNE HIRSCH, author of The Generation of Postmemory:
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Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

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 general interest

Black and Blue

The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée,
Sans soleil, and Hiroshima mon amour
carol mavor

Audacious and genre-defying, Black Carol Mavor is Professor

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.
also by Carol Mavor
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.
“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 Becoming Pleasures Taken

Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie,
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel
Proust, and D. W. Winnicott
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978–0–8223–3962–5 / 2007
The Photographs
of Clementina,
Viscountess Hawarden
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978–0–8223–2389–1 / 1999
Performances of Sexuality and
Loss in Victorian Photographs
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 general interest

From Postwar to Postmodern,

Art in Japan 1945–1989
Primary Documents
edited by doryun chong , michio hayashi ,
kenji k ajiya & fumihiko sumitomo

Doryun Chong is Associate Curator of Painting and A trove of primary source materials, From
Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art. Michio Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan 1945–
Hayashi is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at 1989 is an invaluable scholarly resource for
Sophia University in Tokyo. Kenji Kajiya is Associate
readers who wish to explore the fascinating
Professor in the Faculty of Art at Hiroshima City
University. Fumihiko Sumitomo is an accomplished subject of avant-garde art in postwar
independent curator in Tokyo. 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-

also in MoMA Primary Documents
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.

PUBLIC ATION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

M O MA PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

Contemporary Chinese Art

Primary Documents
WU HUNG
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 general interest

Seven Contemporary Plays Wall Street Women

from the Korean Diaspora melissa s . fisher

in the Americas
edited and with an introduction “Detecting gendering in high finance is a long-standing challenge—it is
a domain inhospitable to the main categories of feminist analysis. Melissa
by esther kim lee
S. Fisher goes at it with gusto and gives us a great book.”—SASKIA
SASSEN , author of Territory, Authority, Rights

“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- Wall Street Women tells the
tant anthology gathers together the groundbreaking work of these artists,
story of the first genera-
who are transforming American theater with their energy, innovations, and
tion of women to establish
sheer talent.”—DAVID HENRY HWANG , playwright
themselves as professionals
on Wall Street. Since these
Showcasing the dynamism of women, who began their
contemporary Korean diasporic careers in the 1960s, faced
theater, this anthology features blatant discrimination and
seven plays by second- barriers to advancement, they
generation Korean diasporic created formal and informal
writers from the United States, associations to bolster one
Canada, and Chile. By bring- another’s careers. In this
ing the plays together in this important historical eth-
collection, Esther Kim Lee nography, Melissa S. Fisher
highlights the themes and draws on fieldwork, archival
styles that have enlivened research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of
Korean diasporic theater in first-generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional
the Americas since the 1990s. and political associations, most notably the Financial Women’s
Some of the plays are set in Association of New York City, which was founded in the 1950s,
urban Koreatowns. One takes place in the middle of Texas, while and the Women’s Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to
another unfolds entirely in a character’s mind. Ethnic identity is not promote the election of pro-choice women.
as central as it was in the work of previous generations of Asian Fisher charts the evolution of the women’s careers, the growth
diasporic playwrights. In these plays, experiences of diaspora and of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives
displacement are likely to be part of broader stories, such as the and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of
difficulties faced by a young mother trying to balance family and the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects
career. Running through these stories are themes of assimilation, of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women’s move-
authenticity, family, memory, trauma, and gender-related expecta- ment as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues
tions of success. Lee’s introduction includes a brief history of the that they did produce a “market feminism” which aligned liberal
Korean Peninsula in the twentieth century and of South Korean feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic
immigration to the Americas, along with an overview of Asian of the market.
American theater and the place of Korean American theater within
Melissa S. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
it. Each play is preceded by a brief biography of the playwright Georgetown University. She is a coeditor of Frontiers of Capital:
and a summary of the play’s production history. Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, also published by
Duke University Press.
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.

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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 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
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October 664 pages, 112 illustrations
general interest
A Social History of Iranian Cinema,
Volume 4
The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010
hamid 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.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volumes 1–3
Volume 1: Volume 2: Volume 3:
The Artisanal Era, The Industrializing The Islamicate Period,
1897–1941 Years, 1941–1978 1978–1984
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Red Tape
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence,
and Poverty in India
akhil gupta

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state Akhil Gupta is Professor
developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil of Anthropology and Director
of the Center for India and
Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and
South Asia at the University
widespread poverty in India, the world’s fourth
of California, Los Angeles.
largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation He is the author of Postcolonial
between the state in India and the poor as one Developments: Agriculture in
of structural violence. Every year this violence kills the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture,
Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both
between two and three million people, especially
also published by Duke University Press.
women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous
peoples. Yet India’s poor are not disenfranchised;
they actively participate in the democratic project.
“This long-awaited book is a masterful achievement which
Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the
offers a close look at the culture of bureaucracy in India and
poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs. through this lens, casts new light on structural violence, liber-

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
also by Akhil Gupta
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 Culture, Power, Place

Agriculture in the Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Making of Modern India AKHIL GUPTA & JAMES FERGUSON, EDITORS
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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
Photo by Jayne Burke.
Poetics. Dinshaw is a founding coeditor
©NYU Photoo Bureau. of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay
Studies.
“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
also by Carolyn Dinshaw
Getting Medieval
Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern
paper $25.95/£19.99
978–0–8223–2365–5 / 1999
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cultural studies
How Soon Is Now?
Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers,
and the Queerness of Time
carolyn 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
Illumination from The Book of Tobit, a
fifteenth-century manuscript. ©The British theorists tell us is extant but that often eludes
Library Board, MS Royal 15 D I f. 18.
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.
“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
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The Deliverance of Others

Reading Literature in a Global Age
david palumbo - liu

The Deliverance of Others is a compelling David Palumbo-Liu is Professor

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.
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.
“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

“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- also by David Palumbo-Liu
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
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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.
“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
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cultural studies
Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
bruce 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 Z̆iz̆ek. 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.
also by Bruce Robbins
Immanuel Wallerstein The Servant’s Hand
and the Problem of the World English Fiction from Below
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The Gift of Freedom Animacies

War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
mimi thi nguyen mel y. chen

“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.
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“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 M C RUER, 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
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Always More Than One
Individuation’s Dance
erin manning
With 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-
Scattered Crowd choreographic object by
William Forsythe. Installation at Hôtel Dieu ation, she extends the concepts
Saint-Jacques in Toulouse, France, 2006.
of movement and relation devel-
Photo by Julian Gabriel Richter.
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.
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Buy It Now
Lessons from eBay
michele 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 PA ASONEN , 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.
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 cultural studies
Tijuana Dreaming
Life and Art at the Global Border
josh 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.
Contributors
Tito 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.
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Barrio Libre
Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals
of the New Frontier
gilberto 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 Cultures Architecture in Translation

Narrative Transculturation in Latin America Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House
Á ngel rama esra akcan
Edited and translated by David Frye

“Tracing the surprisingly intertwined twentieth-century histories of German

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

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Seizing the Means of Reproduction Feminist Theory Out of Science

Entanglements of Feminism, sophia roosth & astrid schrader ,
Health, and Technoscience special issue editors
michelle murphy
a special issue of DIFFERENCE S

“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 M C NEIL , 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 Hyperbolic crochet corals and anemones with sea slug by Marianne Midelburg.
the 1970s and 1980s opens into a Photo ©The Institute for Figuring, by Alyssa Gorelick.

sophisticated analysis of the trans-

Attending to the rich entanglements of scientific and critical theory,
national entanglements of American
contributors to this special issue of differences scrutinize phenomena
empire, population control, neolib-
in nature to explore new territory in feminist science studies. With a
eralism, and late-twentieth-century
special focus on relating theory to method, these scholars generate
feminisms. Murphy concentrates
new feminist approaches to scientific practice. Contributors probe
Poster made for Carol Downer when she on the technoscientific means—the
this relationship by way of topics from the poetics of human–jellyfish
was acquitted of the charge of practicing technologies, practices, protocols,
medicine without a license, 1972. interactions to a feminist reconsideration of a well-known thought
and processes—developed by femi-
experiment in thermodynamics. Two contributors analyze plant–insect
nist health activists. She argues that by politicizing the technical details
encounter research to spin their own symbiotically inflected account
of reproductive health, alternative feminist practices aimed at empower-
of “affective ecologies.” Technologies of human memory storage and
ing women were also integral to late-twentieth-century biopolitics.
retrieval lead one writer to interrogate how our understandings of
Murphy traces the transnational circulation of cheap, do-it-yourself memory and amnesia are currently under revision. Another contributor
health interventions, highlighting the uneasy links between economic tracks the lively evolutionary and morphological theories that textile
logics, new forms of racialized governance, U.S. imperialism, family artisans manifest in material models of sea creatures. What emerges
planning, and the rise of NGOs. In the twenty-first century, feminist from these diverse essays is an approach to critical thinking that inhab-
health projects have followed complex and discomforting itineraries. its, elaborates, and feeds on scientific theory, holding feminist theory
The practices and ideologies of alternative health projects have found accountable to science and vice versa.
their way into World Bank guidelines, state policies, and commodified
Contributors
research. While the particular moment of U.S. feminism in the shadow
Karen Barad, Lina Dib, Eva Hayward, Carla Hustak, Vicki Kirby, Natasha Myers,
of Cold War and postcolonialism has passed, its dynamics continue to
Sophia Roosth, Astrid Schrader
inform the ways that health is governed and politicized today.
Sophia Roosth is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard
Michelle Murphy is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
University. Astrid Schrader is Visiting Assistant Professor of Science,
and of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of the Sick
Technology, and Society at Sarah Lawrence College.
Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty, also published by Duke
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 anthropolog y

Medical Anthropology at the Intersections Improvising Medicine

Histories, Activisms, and Futures An African Oncology Ward
marcia c . inhorn & emily a . wentzell , editors in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
julie livingston

“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 D E LVECCHIO GOOD , coeditor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology:
Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities
“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 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
The nurses’ station in Botswana’s only cancer ward. Photo by the author.
of medical anthropology in relation to fields including feminist tech-
noscience, medical history, and international and area studies. Other In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana’s
contributors question the assumptions underlying mental health, global only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone.
public health, and genetics and genomics, areas of inquiry now central This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward
to contemporary medical anthropology. Essays on the field’s engage- staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part
ments with disability studies, public policy, and gender and sexuality of an ongoing surge in cancers across the global south; the stories of
studies illuminate the commitments of many medical anthropologists to Botswana’s oncology ward dramatize the human stakes and intellectual
public–health and human–rights activism. Essential reading for all those and institutional challenges of an epidemic that will shape the future of
interested in medical anthropology, this collection offers productive global health. They convey the contingencies of high-tech medicine in
insight into the field and its future, as viewed by some of the world’s a hospital where vital machines are often broken, drugs go in and out
leading medical anthropologists. of stock, and bed space is always at a premium. They also reveal cancer
as something that happens between people. Serious illness, care, pain,
Contributors
Lawrence Cohen, Didier Fassin, Faye Ginsburg, Marcia C. Inhorn, Arthur Kleinman,
disfigurement, and even death emerge as deeply social experiences.
Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Lynn M. Morgan, Richard Parker, Rayna Rapp, Merrill Livingston describes the cancer ward in terms of the bureaucracy,
Singer, Emily A. Wentzell vulnerability, power, biomedical science, mortality, and hope that shape
contemporary experience in southern Africa. Her ethnography is a
Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology
profound reflection on the social orchestration of hope and futility in
and International Affairs at Yale University. Emily A. Wentzell is Assistant
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. 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.

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 anthropolog y
Bodies in Formation
An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education
rachel 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 performing elbow surgery. Photo by the author.
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.
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Medicating Race
Heart 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.
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 anthropolog y

Queer Activism in India Food, Farms, and Solidarity

A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture
naisargi n . dave and Genetically Modified Crops
chaia heller

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

graphic perspective on queer politics, feminism, and social movements “Chaia Heller makes a compelling argument about a set of very important
in India.”—KAMALA VISWESWARAN , author of Un/common Cultures: topics in the food/environment arena. Given the continued relevance of
Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference those topics, the prominence of the main protagonists of the story in the
international scene, and the engaging writing style, the book should be
EST spine 1”
of interest to a broad audience of students, academics, NGO people, and
In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi activists.”—ARTURO ESCOBAR, author of Territories of Difference: Place,
Dave examines the formation of les- Movements, Life, Redes
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.
Queer Activism in India
A Story in the
Naisargi N. Dave
Anthropology of Ethics
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
Dairy farmers protest the sharp decline in milk prices. Saint-Etienne, France, September,
questions that arise once the activists’ goals have been accomplished. 2009. Photo by Samuel Richard, courtesy of the Confédération Paysanne.
Dave’s book addresses a relevant and timely phenomenon and makes
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France’s largest farmer’s unions,
an important contribution to the anthropology of queer communities,
has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs);
social movements, affect, and ethics.
but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers
Naisargi N. Dave is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller
of Toronto.
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 GMO s 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.

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 anthropolog y
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
purnima mankek ar & 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
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Twin Bracelets with the slogan research into the production, circulation,
“another kind of love,“ 1991.
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.
Contributors
Anne 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.
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music & sound
Thirtieth anniversary edition
with a new introduction
Sound and Sentiment
Birds, Weeping, Poetics,
and Song in Kaluli Expression
THIRD EDITION
steven feld
WINNER OF THE J. I. S TA LE Y 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.
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 music & sound

Recording Culture Unfree Masters

Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Recording Artists and the Politics of Work
Industry on the Northern Plains matt stahl
christopher a . scales

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

“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
Powwow singer Gabriel Desrosiers performing on cultures. Recording Culture
a hand drum, 2010. Photo by the author. 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.
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 M C LEOD , 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.
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 film & T V studies

Prescription TV One Night on TV Is Worth

Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home Weeks at the Paramount
joy v. fuqua Popular Music on Early Television
murray forman

“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
“One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount will be the standard
the historical, material, and cultural dimensions of television’s role in
work on postwar U.S. music and television. Murray Forman gives us a
cultivating the modern consumer-patient. She demonstrates how television
full picture of cultural change in a key period of media transition. Reading
is implicated in professional and colloquial discourses of health, medicine,
his book, we witness the breakup of the big bands, the dismantling of the
and consumer agency, and how it has reconfigured ideas about medical
Hollywood system, the rise of network television, and the tense politics
and therapeutic space in the hospital and the home.”—MIMI WHITE,
of race and ethnicity that marked popular American entertainment in the
author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television
1940s and 1950s.”—WILL STRAW, author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing
Crime in 50s America

Tracing the history of television as

a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua
Elvis Presley’s television debut in
describes how TV s came to make
January 1956 is often cited as the
hospitals seem more like home and,
moment when popular music and tele-
later, “medicalized” the modern home.
vision came together. Murray Forman
She examines the introduction of
challenges that contention, revealing
television into the private hospital
popular music as crucial to television
room in the late 1940s and 1950s and
years before Presley’s sensational
then moves forward several decades
small-screen performances. Drawing
to consider the direct-to-consumer
on trade and popular journalism,
prescription drug commercials legal-
internal television and music industry
ized in 1997. Fuqua explains how, as
documents, and records of audience
hospital administrators and designers
feedback, Forman provides a detailed
sought ways of making the hospital
history of the incorporation of musical
a more inviting, personalized space, TV sets came to figure in the archi-
performances into TV programming
tecture and layout of health care facilities. Television manufacturers
during the medium’s formative years, from 1948 to 1955. He examines
seized on the idea of therapeutic TV, specifying in their promotional
how executives in the music and television industries understood and
materials how TV s should be used in the hospital and positioned in
responded to the convergence of the two media; how celebrity musi-
relation to the viewer. With the debut of direct-to-consumer prescription
cians such as Vaughn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and Fred Waring struggled
drug advertising in the late 1990s, television assumed a much larger
to adjust to television; and how relative unknowns with an intuitive feel
role in the medical marketplace. Taking a case-study approach, Fuqua
for the medium were sometimes catapulted to stardom. Forman argues
uses her analysis of an ad campaign promoting Pfizer’s Viagra to illus-
that early television production influenced the aesthetics of musical
trate how television, and later the Internet, turned the modern home
performance in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly those of emerging
into a clearinghouse for medical information, redefined and redistrib-
musical styles such as rock and roll. At the same time, popular music
uted medical expertise and authority, and, in the process, created the
helped shape the nascent medium of television—its technologies,
contemporary consumer-patient.
program formats, and industry structures. Popular music performances
Joy V. Fuqua is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, were essential to the allure and success of TV in its early years.
City University of New York.
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.

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Aloha America A New Deal for All?

Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire Race and Class Struggles
adria l . imada in Depression-Era Baltimore
andor skotnes

“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- “Andor Skotnes’ argument—that the labor and freedom movements in
tive of colonial relations involving collaboration and resistance. Moreover Baltimore were connected in interesting and complex ways during the
and significantly, ‘hula circuits’ outside of Hawai’i, she suggests, sustained critical period under discussion—is intellectually sound and quite innova-
Hawaiian culture (and hence nationhood) even as they transformed it—an tive. Well-researched and cogently argued, A New Deal for All? details and
astute and provocative contention.”—GARY Y. OKIHIRO , author of Island analyzes the political relationships between these two movements with
World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States 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
Aloha America reveals the role of SHOPES , coeditor of The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History
hula in legitimating U.S. imperial
ambitions in Hawai’i. Hula per-
formers began touring throughout In A New Deal for All?, Andor Skotnes
the continental United States and examines the interrelationships
Europe in the late nineteenth between the Black freedom move-
century. These “hula circuits” ment and the workers’ movement in
introduced hula, and Hawaiians, Baltimore and in Maryland during the
to U.S. audiences, establishing Great Depression and the early years
an “imagined intimacy,” a powerful of World War II. Adding to the growing
fantasy that enabled Americans body of scholarship on the long civil
to possess their colony physically rights struggle, he argues that these
and symbolically. Meanwhile, in “border state” movements helped to
the early years of American impe- resuscitate and transform national free-
Unemployed Hunger Marchers in
rialism in the Pacific, touring hula Baltimore traveling to a demonstration dom and labor struggles. In the wake
in Washington, D.C., 1931. Courtesy
performers incorporated veiled critiques of U.S. expansionism into of Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, of the Crash of 1929, the freedom and
their productions. University of Maryland, Baltimore workers’ movements had to rebuild
County. Reused with permission of the
Baltimore Sun Media Group. All rights themselves, often in new forms. In the
At vaudeville theaters, international expositions, commercial nightclubs,
reserved.
early 1930s with their deepening com-
and military bases, Hawaiian women acted as ambassadors of aloha,
mitments to antiracism, both communists and socialists in Baltimore
enabling Americans to imagine Hawai’i as feminine and benign, and the
launched a number of racially-integrated unemployment, workers
relation between colonizer and colonized as mutually desired. By the
rights, and social justice initiatives. An organization of radicalized
1930s, Hawaiian culture, particularly its music and hula, had enormous
African American youth, the City-Wide Young People’s Forum, emerged
promotional value. In the 1940s, thousands of U.S. soldiers and military
in the Black community and became involved in mass educational,
personnel in Hawai’i were entertained by hula performances, many of
anti-lynching, and “Buy Where You Can Work” campaigns, often in
which were filmed by military photographers. Yet, as Adria L. Imada
multiracial alliances with other progressives. During the later 1930s, the
shows, Hawaiians also used hula as a means of cultural survival and
movements of Baltimore merged into new and renewed national organi-
countercolonial political praxis. In Aloha America, Imada focuses on the
zations, especially the CIO and the NAACP, and undertook mass regional
years between the 1890s and the 1960s, examining little-known perfor-
activism. While this collaboration declined after the war, Skotnes shows
mances and films before turning to the present-day reappropriation of
that the earlier cooperative efforts greatly shaped national freedom
hula by the Hawaiian self-determination movement.
campaigns, including the Civil Rights Movement to come.
Adria L. Imada is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University
of California, San Diego. Andor Skotnes is Professor of History at The Sage Colleges.

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 american studies asian american studies

Fevered Measures Transpacific Femininities

Public Health and Race The Making of the Modern Filipina
at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942 denise cruz
john m c kiernan - gonzález

“Transpacific Femininities is really quite extraordinary. By sustained critical

“Fevered Measures remaps the border as a space where ideas of race and attention on the figure of the transpacific Filipina, Denise Cruz tells a story
nation take on new meanings in relation to the development of the state that not only returns deep and irreducible complexity to the women and
and science. The book serves as a superior model for analyzing and nar- women writers whose lives and work created a network of affiliations and
rating the transnational flow of people, ideas, and policies.”—RAÚL A. intimacies across the Pacific, but also shows us how vital gender was and is
RAMOS , author of Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San to apprehending the incredibly complicated interrelations among the histories,
Antonio, 1821–1861 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
In Fevered Measures, John Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
Mckiernan-González exam-
ines public health campaigns
along the Texas-Mexico In this groundbreaking study,
border between 1848 and Denise Cruz investigates the impor-
1942, revealing the changing tance of the figure she terms the
medical and political frame- “transpacific Filipina” to Philippine
works U.S. health authorities nationalism, women’s suffrage, and
Milton Rosenau, Armed guards surrounding Camp
used to treat the threat of constructions of modernity. Her
Jenner, 1895, in the M. J. Rosenau Papers #4289,
Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, epidemic disease. The medi- analysis illuminates connections
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
cal borders created by these between the rise of Philippine
officials changed with each contagion and sometimes varied from the print culture in English and the
existing national borders. Federal officers sought to distinguish Mexican emergence of new social classes
citizens from American citizens, a process troubled by the deeply inter- of transpacific women during the
connected nature of border communities. Mckiernan-González uncovers early-to-mid-twentieth century.
forgotten or ignored cases where large populations of Mexicans, Through a careful study of multiple
Mexican Americans, African Americans, and other groups were subject texts produced by Filipina and
to quarantines, inspections, detentions, and forced treatment regimes. A Filipina women’s basketball team from 1910. Filipino writers in the United States
These cases illustrate the ways medical encounters shaped border Photo by George E. Carrothers. Courtesy of the
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, and the Philippines—including
identities before the Mexican Revolution. Mckiernan-González also Ann Arbor. novels and short stories, newspa-
maintains that the threat of disease provided a venue to destabilize per and magazine articles, conduct manuals, and editorial cartoons—Cruz
identity at the border, enacted processes of racialization, and re- provides a new archive and fresh perspectives for understanding Philippine
legitimized the power of United States policymakers. He demonstrates literature and culture. She demonstrates that the modern Filipina did not
how this complex history continues to shape and frame contemporary emerge as a byproduct of the American and Spanish colonial regimes, but
perceptions of the Latino body today. rather was the result of political, economic, and cultural interactions among
John Mckiernan-González is Assistant Professor of History at the the Philippines, Spain, the United States, and Japan. Cruz shows how the
University of Texas, Austin. 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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Southeast Asian/American Studies Pictures and Progress

fiona i . b . ngô & mimi thi nguyen , Early Photography and the Making
special issue editors of African American Identity
a special issue of POSITIONS maurice 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
Aunts and Uncle. Photo by Julie Thi Underhill.
to shape perceptions about race
This special issue of positions claims Southeast Asian/American stud- and employed the new medium in
ies as a unique site for scholarly engagements with U.S. empire and its their quest for social and political
professions of liberal humanism, as well as its practices of neoliberal justice. They sought both to counter
violence. Dissolving the disciplinary distinctions between Southeast widely circulating racist imagery and
Asia area studies and Asian American studies, the contributors con- to use self-representation as a means
struct transnational analytic methods to examine new assemblages of empowerment. In this collection
of nations and states, refugees and residents, migrations and returns. of essays, scholars from various
disciplines consider figures includ-
The contributors represent a new generation of scholars, some of
ing Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence
whom are themselves migrants and refugees, who seek to reinvent the
Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists
study of displaced populations and their diasporas. One essay consid-
and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays,
ers the historical production of the refugee soldier during the “secret
or “snapshots,” highlight and analyze the work of four early African
wars” of Laos. An ethnography of post-9/11 protests by Southeast Asian
American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures
American youth reveals how neoliberal rationalization of “personal
and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African
responsibility” created a context for both deportation and the youth
American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racial-
movement against it. Several contributions explore concepts of exile,
ized thinking.
belonging, and the nation-state via media representations of mascu-
linity and the erotic, including the Hmong actors who appear in Clint Contributors
Eastwood’s film Gran Torino, campy pan-Asian boy bands, and Vietnam Michael Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford,
Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith,
Idol, a reality show that, like its British and American counterparts,
Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace
illustrates specific cultural imaginations and national ambitions.
Maurice O. Wallace is Associate Professor of English and African &
Contributors
African American Studies at Duke University. Shawn Michelle Smith
Diem-My T. Bui, Long Bui, Thang Dao, Ly Chong Thong Jalao, Soo Ah Kwon, Mariam
is Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the
B. Lam, Viet Le, Fiona I. B. Ngô, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louisa Schein,
Art Institute of Chicago.
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.

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Transcending Blackness Sites of Slavery

From the New Millennium Mulatta Citizenship and Racial Democracy
to the Exceptional Multiracial in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
ralina l . joseph salamishah tillet

“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
Film still from Mixing Nia, 1998. 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 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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Against the Closet Black/Queer Diaspora

Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race jafari s . allen , special issue editor

aliy yah i . abdur - rahman

a special issue of GLQ

“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
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 .

social repair and political redress from the time of slavery, through post- Contributors
Reconstruction and the civil rights and black power movements, to the Vanessa Agard-Jones, Jafari S. Allen, Lyndon K. Gill, Ana-Maurine Lara,
late twentieth century. Xavier Livermon, Matt Richardson, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Abdur-Rahman brings black feminist, psychoanalytic, critical race, and Jafari S. Allen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American
poststructuralist theories to bear on literary genres from slave narra- Studies at Yale University. He is the author of ¡Venceremos? Sexuality, Gender
tives to science fiction. Analyzing works by African American writers, and Black Self-Making in Cuba, also published by Duke University Press.
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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 african american studies / black diaspora political theory / social theory

Black France / France Noire Bourdieu and Historical Analysis

The History and Politics of Blackness philip s . gorski , editor

trica danielle keaton , t. denean sharpley-

whiting & t yler stovall , editors
“This uncommonly interesting set of essays will contribute to the grow-
ing appreciation—and the productive use—of the resources contained in

“Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthol- Bourdieu’s extraordinarily rich oeuvre for the theoretical analysis of histori-

ogy regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since cal transformations.”—ROGERS BRUBAKER , author of Ethnicity without

Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World. There’s also a salutary combi- Groups

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.
Contributors
Rémy 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.
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.
Contributors
Craig 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.
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Bergson, Politics, and Religion The Hermetic Deleuze

alex andre lefebvre & melanie white , editors Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal
joshua ramey

“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
“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

Henri Bergson is primarily known for

his work on time, memory, and creativ- In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on
ity. His equally innovative interventions a vast array of source material, from
into politics and religion have, how- philosophy and psychoanalysis to sci-
ever, been neglected or dismissed until ence and art. Yet scholars have largely
now. In the first book in English dedi- neglected one of the intellectual cur-
cated to Bergson as a political thinker, rents underlying his work: Western
leading Bergson scholars illuminate esotericism, specifically the lineage
his positions on core concerns within of hermetic thought that extends from
political philosophy: the significance Late Antiquity into the Renaissance
of emotion in moral judgment, the through the work of figures such
relationship between biology and as Iamblichus, Nicholas of Cusa, Pico
society, and the entanglement of della Mirandola, and Giordano Bruno.
politics and religion. Ranging across In this book, Joshua Ramey examines
Bergson’s writings but drawing mainly on his last book, The Two Sources the extent to which Deleuze’s ethics,
of Morality and Religion, the contributors consider Bergson’s relevance metaphysics, and politics were informed by, and can only be fully
to contemporary discussions of human rights, democratic pluralism, and understood through, this hermetic tradition.
environmental ethics.
Identifying key hermetic moments in Deleuze’s thought, including
Contributors his theories of art, subjectivity, and immanence, Ramey argues that
Keith Ansell-Pearson, G. William Barnard, Claire Colebrook, Hisashi Fujita, the philosopher’s work represents a kind of contemporary hermeticism,
Suzanne Guerlac, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Frédéric Keck, Leonard Lawlor, a consistent experiment in unifying thought and affect, percept and
Alexandre Lefebvre, Paola Marrati, John Mullarkey, Paulina Ochoa Espejo,
concept, and mind and nature to engender new relations between
Carl Power, Philippe Soulez, Jim Urpeth, Melanie White, Frédéric Worms
knowledge, power, and desire. By uncovering and clarifying the her-
Alexandre Lefebvre is Lecturer in the Department of Government and metic strand in Deleuze’s work, Ramey offers both a new interpretation
International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Deleuze, particularly his insistence that the development of thought
of Sydney. Melanie White is Senior Lecturer in Social Theory at the School demands a spiritual ordeal, and a framework for retrieving the pre-
of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales.
Kantian paradigm of philosophy as spiritual practice.
Joshua Ramey is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford
College.

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Outlawed Intimate Indigeneities

Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City Race, Sex, and History
daniel m . goldstein in the Small Spaces of Andean Life
andrew canessa

“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
“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

In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein

reveals how indigenous resi- Based on extended ethnographic field-
dents of marginal neighborhoods work conducted over the course of more
in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle than two decades, Intimate Indigeneities
to balance security with rights. explores the multiple identities of a com-
Feeling abandoned to the crime munity of people in the Bolivian highlands
and violence that grip their com- through their own lived experiences
A private security guard in a Cochabamba munities, they sometimes turn and their own voices. Andrew Canessa
neighborhood. Photo by Lisa Berg.
to vigilante practices, includ- examines how gender, race, and ethnic
ing lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein identities manifest themselves in everyday
describes those in this precarious position as “outlawed”: not protected interactions in an Aymara village. Canessa
from crime by the law but forced to comply with legal measures in illustrates that indigeneity is highly
other areas of their lives, their solutions to protection criminalized while contingent; thoroughly imbricated with
People from the community of
their needs for security are ignored. He chronicles the complications Wila Kjarka work together on a gendered, racial, and linguistic identities
new irrigation ditch.
of the government’s attempts to provide greater rights to indigenous and informed by a historical conscious-
peoples, including a new constitution that recognizes “community jus- ness. Addressing how whiteness and indianness are reproduced as
tice.” He also examines how state definitions of indigeneity ignore the hegemonic structures in the village, how masculinities develop as men
existence of marginal neighborhoods, continuing long-standing exclu- go to the mines and army, and how memories of a violent past are used
sionary practices. The insecurity felt by the impoverished residents of to construct a present sense of community, Canessa raises important
Cochabamba—and, more broadly, by the urban poor throughout Bolivia questions about indigenous politics and the very nature of indigenous
and Latin America—remains. Outlawed illuminates the complex inter- identity.
connections between differing definitions of security and human rights
Andrew Canessa is Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies
at the local, national, and global levels. at the University of Essex.
Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at
NARRATING NATIVE HISTORIES
Rutgers University. He is the author of The Spectacular City: Violence and
A Series Edited by K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Florencia E. Mallon, Alcida Rita Ramos,
Performance in Urban Bolivia and a coeditor of Violent Democracies in
and Joanne Rappaport
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

A JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER BOOK

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Challenging Social Inequality Religion and State Formation

The Landless Rural Workers Movement in Postrevolutionary Mexico
and Agrarian Reform in Brazil ben fallaw
miguel carter , editor

“Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico should establish

“Challenging Social Inequality is the most comprehensive study to date itself as a key text in Mexican revolutionary history. The author has done
of the agrarian question in Brazil and of the Movement of Landless Rural a prodigious quantity of research and organized it expertly, producing an
Workers, the social movement that has challenged land concentration, original and convincing analysis of a major theme: Church-state conflict in
social inequality, and poverty in Brazil since the mid-1980s. The contribu- the postrevolutionary period. The issue permeated Mexican politics and its
tors, most of whom are Brazilian, examine the movement’s history, orga- exploration opens a window onto a variety of other themes, including state
nization, and strategies, and its interaction with the state, political parties, building, education, land reform, gender, ethnicity, violence, and local
and other social movements. In addition, Miguel Carter addresses complex politics and elections.”—ALAN KNIGHT, author of The Mexican Revolution
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 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
In Challenging Social Inequailty, Ávila Camacho assumed the presidency in late 1940 and declared his
an international and interdisci- faith, Mexico’s unresolved religious conflict roiled regional politics,
plinary group of scholars and impeded federal schooling, undermined agrarian reform, and flared into
development workers explore sporadic violence, ultimately frustrating the secular vision shared by
the causes, consequences, and Plutarco Elías Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas.
contemporary reactions to Brazil’s
Ben Fallaw argues that previous scholarship has not appreciated the
sharply unequal agrarian struc-
pervasive influence of Catholics and Catholicism on postrevolution-
The landless occupy the Giacometi estate ture. They focus on the Landless
in Paraná State, Brazil, 1996 © Sebastião ary state formation. By delving into the history of four understudied
Rural Workers Movement (MST),
Salgado / Amazonas Images. Mexican states, he is able to show that religion swayed regional politics
Latin America’s largest and most
not just in states such as Guanajuato, in Mexico’s central-west “Rosary
prominent social movement, and the ongoing efforts of the MST to
Belt,” but even in those considered much less observant, including
confront historic patterns of inequality in the Brazilian countryside.
Campeche, Guerrero, and Hidalgo. Religion and State Formation in
Several essays provide essential historical background for understand-
Postrevolutionary Mexico reshapes our understanding of agrarian reform,
ing the MST. They examine Brazil’s agrarian structure, state policies,
federal schooling, revolutionary anticlericalism, elections, the Segunda
and the formation of rural civil-society organizations. Other essays build
(a second Cristero War in the 1930s), and indigenism, the Revolution’s
on a frequently made distinction between the struggle for land and
valorization of the Mesoamerican past as the font of national identity.
the struggle on the land. The first refers to the mobilization undertaken
by landless peasants to demand government land redistribution. Ben Fallaw is Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies
at Colby College. He is the author of Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure
The struggle on the land takes place after the establishment of an
of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán, also published by Duke University
official agricultural settlement. The main efforts during this phase are
Press.
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.

Contributors
José 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.

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River of Hope Vertical Empire

Forging Identity and Nation The General Resettlement
in the Rio Grande Borderlands of Indians in the Colonial Andes
omar s . valerio - jiménez jeremy ravi mumford

“River of Hope not only documents the history of the Rio Grande area in the “Jeremy Ravi Mumford’s gracefully written study is a major contribution
late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, it also provides a model for not only to the history of the Andes and colonial Latin America, but also
integrating the concerns of Chicana/o studies scholars, historians of the to the history of colonialism. The most detailed examination of the project
American West, scholars of gender and ethnicity, theorists of state forma- to date, Vertical Empire adds new depth and dimension to what many
tion, and political scientists who study ‘everyday forms of resistance.’ regard as one of the greatest feats of social engineering in modern his-
An extraordinary contribution, the book opens up a wide-ranging discus- tory: the resettlement of the Andean population ordered by Francisco de
sion about the interplay between local and national discourses, particularly Toledo, fifth viceroy of Peru.”—KAREN SPALDING , author of Huarochirí:
in places located on the peripheries of power, and especially at times of An Andean Society Under Inca and Spanish Rule
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 1569 the Spanish viceroy
Francisco de Toledo ordered
more than one million native
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio- people of the central Andes to
Jiménez examines state formation, move to newly founded Spanish-
cultural change, and the con- style towns called reducciones.
struction of identity in the Lower This campaign, known as the
Rio Grande region during the General Resettlement of Indians,
Anonymous woodcut showing Pikemen,
eighteenth and nineteenth cen- represented a turning point in the
Augsburg, 1533. Courtesy of the Anne S. K.
turies. He chronicles a history of Brown Military Collection, Brown University history of European colonialism:
Library.
School children enacting a patriotic war play, violence resulting from multiple a state forcing an entire con-
circa 1890. Courtesy of Brownsville Historical conquests, of resistance and quered society to change its way of life overnight. But while this radical
Association.
accommodation to state power, restructuring destroyed certain aspects of indigenous society, Jeremy
and of changing ethnic and political identities. The redrawing of borders Ravi Mumford’s Vertical Empire reveals the ways that it preserved
neither began nor ended the region’s long history of unequal power others. The campaign drew on colonial ethnographic inquiries into
relations. Nor did it lead residents to adopt singular colonial or national indigenous culture and strengthened the place of native lords in colo-
identities. Instead, their regionalism, transnational cultural practices, nial society. In the end, the General Resettlement added another layer
and kinship ties subverted state attempts to control and divide the to a complex web of settlement—a web that the Spaniards glimpsed
population. and that the Andeans defended fiercely—rather than displacing or
destroying it.
Diverse influences transformed the borderlands as Spain, Mexico,
and the United States competed for control of the region. Indian slaves Jeremy Ravi Mumford is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at
joined Spanish society; Mexicans allied with Indians to defend river Brown University.
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.

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 latin american studies

Trumpets in the Mountains A Language of Empire, a Quotidian Tongue

Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba The Uses of Nahuatl in Colonial New Spain
laurie a . frederik robert c . schwaller , special issue editor

a special issue of ETHNOHISTORY

“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.
Manuscript, inside cover and page one, 1692, Schøyen Collection.
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.
Contributors
Mark 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.

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 african studies history

The Other Zulus Walkers, Voyeurs

The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity and the Politics of Urban Space
in Colonial South Africa robyn autry & daniel j . walkowitz ,
michael r . mahoney special issue editors

a special issue of RADIC AL HISTORY REVIEW

“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
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
Amateur Photographic Pest, Punch, past more palatable and profitable.
October 4, 1890.
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.
Contributors
Robyn 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.

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 public policy / political science
The Argumentative Turn Revisited
Public Policy as Communicative Practice
frank 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.
Contributors
Giovanni 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.
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The Constitutional Jurisprudence
of the Federal Republic of Germany
Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
donald p. kommers & russell a . miller
Foreword 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.
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 theater linguistics

Digital Dramaturgies Pennsylvania German

miriam felton - dansky & in the American Midwest
jacob gallagher - ross , special issue editors
steven hartman keiser
a special issue of THEATER
P U B L I C AT I O N O F T H E A M E R I C A N D I A L E C T S O C I E T Y ( PA D S )

In recent years, technologies of pro-

In Pennsylvania German in the
duction and communication have
American Midwest, Steven Hartman
multiplied exponentially, creating new
Keiser studies the divisions
modes of expression and storytelling.
separating the Midwestern and
The Internet and cell phones allow
the Pennsylvania varieties of
instantaneous communication across
Pennsylvania German, demonstrat-
global networks; media communities
ing that these dialects are divided
such as YouTube have created venues
by boundaries similar to those that
for amateur performances to reach
distinguish dialects of English
global audiences; and the enforced
in the same geographic regions.
brevity of Facebook status updates,
Keiser provides empirical detail
Twitter posts, and text messages have
on the distribution of key linguistic
created compressed, allusive idioms
variants in several Pennsylvania
out of everyday speech. These and
Hello Hi There, directed by Annie Dorsen, German–speaking communities in
Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, 2010. other rapid technological and cultural
Photo by W. Silveri/Steirischer Herbst. the Midwest and explores the internal changes, patterns of migration,
changes have transformed theater,
and language contact that have led to the current geographic and social
the oldest of “old media.” This special issue of Theater assembles
distribution of these features. In addition, he considers the potential
contributions by scholars and artists that explore this transformation,
for future dialect divergence or convergence as he describes the links
considering both theater’s place in a world conditioned by new media
between these language varieties and the notions of regional identity
and the place of these new media in the theater.
in the attitudes of Pennsylvania German speakers in the Midwest and
Contributors to this issue examine a variety of ways that new technol- those in Pennsylvania toward each other.
ogy can perform, from Twitter plays in 140 characters, to performances
Steven Hartman Keiser is Associate Professor of English at Marquette
from the Avatar Repertory Theater in Second Life, to two computer chat-
University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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.

Contributors
Sarah 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.

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INDEX Dumit, Joseph 2 Hopkinson, Natalie 3 Moraga, Cherríe L. 42 Schwaller, Robert 38

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. 32
Ackerman, Josef 46
Adams, Michael 45
Aers, David 46
Akcan, Esra 20
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Angulo, Yolanda 7
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Autry, Robyn 39
Barker, Adele 43
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Bathrick, David 47
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Carr, Barry 43
Carter, Miguel 36
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Chen, Mel Y. 17
Cholak, Peter 47
Chomsky, Aviva 43
Chong, Doryun 10
Christianson, Aileen 45
Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar 47
Cornett, Michael 46
Creech, Jimmy 42
Crocitti, John J. 43
Cruz, Denise 29
Cvetkovich, Ann 8
Dave, Naisargi N. 24
de la Torre, Carlos 43
Degregori, Carlos Iván 44
Detlefsen, Michael 47
Dinshaw, Carolyn 14
Dussel, Enrique 7
Edwards, Brent 47
Enwezor, Okwui 47
Faculty of the Sage
School of Philosophy 47
Fallaw, Ben 36
Feld, Steven 25
Felton-Dansky, Miriam 41
Ferguson, James 13, 44
Fink, Leon 46
Finucci, Valeria 46
Fischer, Frank 40
Fisher, Melissa S. 11
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