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World literature for the wretched of the earth
This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery w...
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Women and religiosity in orthodox christianity
This volume engages women’s lifeworlds, practices, and experiences in relation to Orthodox Christianity in multiple, varied localities, discussing both contemporary and pre-1989 developments. It critically engages the pluralist and changing character of Orthodox forms of institutional and social ...
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Mapping memory
Interweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of p...
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Totality inside out
However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically oppressed and marginalized on the basis of race, gender, sexual identity, sexual preference, and/or ability,...
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Exterranean
Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifti...
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Filipino time
This book examines how a variety of immaterial labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines and around the world generate and explore vital affects, multiple networks, and other worlds. These forms of living capture life-making capacities within the capitalist world of disruptions and circulat...
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Infrapolitics
Infrapolitics: A Handbook elaborates conditions of existence that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It offers a general critique of the political apparatus and seeks to establish an imperative horizon for existential self-understanding. The book provides a genealo...
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Orphaned landscapes
This book examines the proliferation of monumental Christian street art in a Muslim/Christian conflict to show how ephemeral phenomena are inherent to sociopolitical change.
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A true american
This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection...
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The book of negroes
Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition salutes The Book of Negroes by using the original title of this famous accounting of Black freedom. O...
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Shattering biopolitics
Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.
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Toward a feminist ethics of nonviolence
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero,...
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Eros
This book elaborates the political and intimate possibilities of going beyond the tendency toward destruction that Freud identified in human nature. Martínez argues that Eros is the force that can help us resist this destructive drive, and that resistance must take the form of unceasing ethical v...
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Class acts
Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them, that is, the question of what one is doing when one speaks in public in these ways.
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A is for asylum seeker: words for people on the move / a de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento
A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisisAs millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a result of political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia have led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circ...
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Common goods
In the face of globalized ecological and economic crisis, what role does political theology play in formulating the shared good and the sharing of goods? This remarkable collection of essays by philosophers, theologians and religion scholars together rethinks the common, experimentally assemblin...
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Freedoms gained and lost
Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as ...
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Couch city
Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors’ spee...
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Hijras, lovers, brothers
This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia’s third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires. The book shows how hijras trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.
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Vertigo
Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. In doing so, Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity.
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Nostalgia
Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with p...
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Filipinx american studies
This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajecto...
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A reader in early franciscan theology
This Reader presents translations of key passages from the Summa Halensis. This text was collaboratively authored mostly between 1236-45 by the founding members of the Franciscan school at the University of Paris, who sought to lay down their own distinctive intellectual tradition for the first t...
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Ten thousand central parks
A visionary look at Central Park’s creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and floods displacing millions, many wonder: What can I do? Ten Thousand Central Parks challenges...
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Reading better states
Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms and climate catastrophe.
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Witnessing a wounded world
A crucial intervention at the intersection of ecotheology and trauma theology We are in the midst of a global ecological crisis. At times, the scale of the suffering involved can be hard to fully comprehend. The whole planetary ecosystem feels out of kilter. Meanwhile, trauma theorists, and socie...
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Singing with the mountains
Winner, Carolina's Outstanding Contribution to Middle East and Islamic Studies Book AwardAn illuminating story of a Sufi community that sought the revelation of GodIn the Afghan highlands of the sixteenth century, the messianic community known as the Roshaniyya not only desired to find God’s wor...
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Grace of the ghosts
A profound new volume that reckons with the history of an American Catholic Church embedded in and drawing benefits from White supremacyFor the Church to become a truly anti-racist institution, we must first understand how today’s racial challenges are embedded in the theo-logic of American Chris...
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Sonic icons
A vivid, artfully crafted, and deeply hopeful account of one community’s struggle to rediscover and reinvent itself after a century of genocidal loss, dispossession, and displacementTo the extent that Middle Eastern Christians register in Euro-American political imaginaries, they are usually invo...
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Young reds in the big apple
The tale of New York’s Young Reds—a riveting journey through the YPA’s rise and influenceYoung Reds in the Big Apple: The New York YPA, 1923–1934 by Jack Hodgson is a compelling historical account that delves into the heart of American communism through the lens of New York City’s Young Pioneers ...
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Wonder city
Reimagining our cities for a sustainable and human-centric futureIn her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes sweeping through cities like New York. This compelling journey into the wor...
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The battle for boston
How Mayor Ray Flynn’s leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance The Battle for Boston captures the remarkable era under Mayor Ray Flynn, whose election in 1983 marked the beginning of a profound shift...
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Unforgettable sacrifice
2026 ASALH BOOK PRIZE FINALISTRediscover the Civil War through the voices that refused to be silencedUnforgettable Sacrifice offers a groundbreaking exploration into the heart of African American memory of the Civil War, challenging conventional narratives and revealing a rich history preserved t...
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Giving an account of oneself
A pathbreaking account of ethics beyond the classically imagined subject, reissued with a new preface.
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Resurgent commons
Resurgent Commons shows how a reconsideration of a supposedly obsolete mode of shared ownership can enable new modes of inhabiting the earth.
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Arts of the border
Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.
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Movement
WINNER, 2025 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZEInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This NovemberA gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recoveryIn 1969, as all students of New York City history think they ...
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Transmedial resonance
Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern writer In Transmedial Resonance, Robert A. Rushing addresses the remarkable and ongoing responses to the imagination of Italo Calvino, Italy’s most important modern writer. Since ...
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Soul woundedness
SILVER WINNER OF THE 2026 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDSA profound exploration into the spiritual beliefs and practices of Seattle’s unhoused youthSoul Woundedness is an intimate, piercing book about everyday life for young adults living on the streets of Seattle. Based on over five years of research and a...
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Join the conspiracy
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and dissent in American history: the late 1960s. A...
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Blur
Technological failure or essential element of film aesthetics? From auteur cinema to horror to experimental film, Martine Beugnet shows the powerful effects blur can produce.
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Conflicts
Conflicts engages Hebrew and Arabic literature to critically reassess the concept of conflict, both in Palestine–Israel and in general. Drawing on a diverse archive, ranging from the 1930s to the present and from prose and poetry to film and television, it reveals indigenous literary concepts tha...
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Embracing emancipation
WINNER, 2024 LAWRENCE J. McCAFFREY PRIZE FOR BEST BOOK ON IRISH AMERICAChallenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedomEmbracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Iris...
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Law, justice, and society in the medieval world
This coursebook is the first full-length study of cinematic “legal medievalism,” or the modern interpretation of medieval law in film and popular cultureFor more than a century, filmmakers have used the “Middle Ages” to produce popular entertainment and comment on contemporary issues. Each of the...
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The world war ii bond campaign
How America’s greatest marketing triumph in World War II shaped race, ethnicity, and class in modern AmericaThe World War II Bond Campaign is a history of the World War II bond drive led by the federal government, an effort called the most successful marketing operation in history. By the war’s e...
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Our onward march
Provides vital new evidence that Union veterans remained stubbornly opposed to the nation’s reconciliationist tendencies and unwilling to surrender the causes for which they foughtUnion soldiers’ service to the nation did not end in 1865. Instead, it persisted well into the twentieth century as h...
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At the margins of nihilism
Documenting senses of life and practices of refusal hidden at the edges of Black literature and thought.
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Creative ozone
A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists’ residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York’s cultural landscape for over fifty years In 1970, the former Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan was transformed into Westbeth, an ambitious experiment in urban renewal ...
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Twenty-nine goodbyes
An engrossing, witty introduction to classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine translations of a single poem
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Energy emergency repair kit
A fictional manual to help disrupt today’s all-too-real energy and climate emergenciesThe Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation intervention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its tit...
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