Save 30% on #NewBook "Archival Irruptions," by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. #LatAmStudies #BlackStudies buff.ly/da0hJg3

In "Sweatshop Capital," @bethdrobinson.bsky.social examines the sweatshop labor practices that produced American consumer products from the late nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, and the labor and social movements that contested them. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/Zr3tNKK

My co-author Neda Atanasoski and I will be in Michigan (myumi.ch/R3N28) next week, discussing our recent book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, published by Duke University Press. Join us if you are around!

Thanks for mentioning our Singles series as a nice thing to come out of poptimism, whatever it is! www.dukeupress.edu/series/singles

Check out William Craft Brumfield discussing his photographs of Soviet avant-garde architecture, currently on display at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis. His book of photos of Russia's wooden buildings, "From Forest to Steppe," is out now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2kb...

You can read some of Prof. Guerra's work on Cuban history in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Mediating Modernisms," a collection of essays edited by Ruth B. Phillips & Norman Vorano which explores exchanges between Indigenous artists living in colonial societies and the mid-twentieth mediators. buff.ly/iBNFf0i

Nothing quite like opening an unexpected package and finding your own book inside! The official pub date isn't until mid-Oct, but Archival Irruptions @dukepress.bsky.social is now real and in 3D!

so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A piece by Tom Boellstorff ("Coming of age in second life" [2008]) "Pronoun Trouble: Notes on Radical Gender Inclusion" is out via @dukepress.bsky.social! He makes a queer, feminist, and linguistic argument for "they" in English as an Epicene language. read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

Ethnohistory, the journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory, reflects a wide range of current scholarship inspired by anthropological and historical approaches to the human condition. Issue 72:3 is now available: buff.ly/HVPyoAB

Save 30% on #NewBook "Homesick," by Nicholas Shapiro, which examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change. #EnvStudies #FEMA buff.ly/YDhRXx0

You can read more of Prof. Nesvig's work on Latin American history in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Driven by string figures, science fact, science fiction, and speculative feminism, this work further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring thinkers of our time. 📚 mngbookshop.co.uk/978082236224... Browse Sociology: mngbookshop.co.uk/mng-subject-... @dukepress.bsky.social

Duke University Press. In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now!

Duke University Press. The Weekly Read is “Marco Polo Meets Postcolonial Theory: Challenges and Opportunities of the Global Middle Age” by Sharon Kinoshita in a JMEMS special issue edited by Marcel Elias. Access it for free until 11/30:

The Weekly Read is “Marco Polo Meets Postcolonial Theory: Challenges and Opportunities of the Global Middle Age” by Sharon Kinoshita in a JMEMS special issue edited by Marcel Elias. Access it for free until 11/30: buff.ly/deIZbN9

This is an important book and young scholar!

You want to read this book.

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

What happens when your landlord turns your home into a surveillance zone? From facial recognition cameras to automated fines, tenants are finding their daily lives policed in new ways. Hear Erin McElroy on Against the Grain unpack the rise of “landlord tech.” Full interview → kpfa.org #KPFA #BayArea

Save 30% on #NewBook "Fernando" by Kay Dickinson. The latest in our Singles series, it outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song could express support with anti-capitalist and Third World liberation while simultaneously becoming an icon of global capital. buff.ly/lfEAK8o

***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History (@illinoispress.bsky.social ), fill volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information or email [email protected]. iehs.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Thanks to @hyperallergic.com for including books by Okwui Enwezor, @naylandblake.bsky.social & Bimbola Akinbola in your fall books round up! hyperallergic.com/1043154/12-a...

"Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Global Rise of Right-Wing Politics," a curated reading list of journal articles and issues published by Duke University Press, has been made freely available through October 31. Access here: buff.ly/zplaDVr

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Elsewhere Is Black" by Marisa Solomon, which examines how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. buff.ly/9QT71r8

Durham! Join jazz great Nnenna Freelon and friends for the launch of her new memoir, "Beneath the Skin of Sorrow" next month at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The event is free, but tickets are required, so get yours now. buff.ly/iYf1tzw

America has recently joined a large group of countries led by nakedly corrupt tinpot dictators; how do brilliant, creative, ambitious, ethically minded human beings in such countries survive and in fact sometimes win under those conditions? Stop by to join the conversation.

If yt interested in SE Asia, music, and activism, it's just the talk for you! But likewise, if you'd like to know how young activists as well as musicians have maneuvered, either for survival or dissent, in the face of dictatorship, for many decades in other countries, we've got you covered!

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics. It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all. www.nysean.org/events/songs...

Read the new review by Joshua Grace of Tasha Rijke-Epstein’s “Children of the Soil” (@dukepress.bsky.social). #Madagascar #Architecture #UrbanHistory bit.ly/3JZVEc2

Enjoy this poetic conversation between Alison Kafer and Eli Clare, author of "Unfurl." via @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/on-t...

In "Cleansing the Nation," Raka Shome explores the logics of governmentality of contemporary Hindu Nationalism in India and the ways it inscribes Indian modernity as a purified Hindu modernity. Read the preface for free now: buff.ly/krOKHGt

Something (techno)creepy this way comes👻. Join us Wed October 8 @ 4 PM to celebrate the release of Neda Atanasoski and @nassimparvin.bsky.social 's book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen from @dukepress.bsky.social. RSVP at go.umd.edu/technocreep 🌈🎓 #academicsky #CriticalEthnicStudies

Save 30% on #NewBook "Geographies of the Ear" by Tania Gentic, which examines the language and soundscape of post-Franco Barcelona to listen for the remnants of a globalized colonial ear. #SpanishStudies #SoundStudies

Great to see @thomasbeller.bsky.social's essay collection "Degas at the Gas Station" reviewed in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. "A penetrating meditation on the human condition."

In After Transformation, @maiakotro.bsky.social offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Read the intro for free now. buff.ly/TNIwz7k

Realizing Better Futures Now: @jennahanchey.bsky.social reviews Joseph M. Pierce's SPECULATIVE RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS WORLDBUILDING AND REPAIR (@dukepress.bsky.social)

www.dukeupress.edu/reparations-... @dukepress.bsky.social is currently offering a 30% discount on David Eng's "Reparations and the Human" Use this code: E25DLENG

Just sent the manuscript for my third book to @dukepress.bsky.social to send out for review. It feels wonderful to have something done and off my plate for a bit. Eager to get the reader reports in a few months though!

Remember to register for tonight's talk! bit.ly/reparations-...

We're looking forward to hearing from Steve, @michelleurberg.bsky.social and Dean Smith (@dukepress.bsky.social) tomorrow in this timely session about aggregator usage reporting!

Save 30% on #NewBook "Beautiful Mystery," a memoir in which @danilynrutherford.bsky.social proves that we do not need to understand someone to love them. #Memoir #DisabilityStudies buff.ly/sFsZq5c

Many thanks for this!

Thanks @dukepress.bsky.social for the shoutout! For Latinx Heritage Month, check out these titles in Latinx studies. So cool to be in such good company!

I wrote about @naylandblake.bsky.social's new book for Art in America www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15-October 15. Check out our latest titles in Latinx studies including work by @emmaamador.bsky.social, @maiagiladi.bsky.social, @annegarlandmahler.bsky.social, & @arlenedavila.bsky.social. buff.ly/tT3FQJb

Hot off the press! Out Oct 16, featuring two new chapters, Against the Romance of Police Reform and Futures Beyond Policing. Hoping this study of anti-Black criminalization is helpful as we face the rise in fascistic authoritarian rule, and the policing used to enforce and enable it.

Benjamin Tausig uses Rocco’s intriguing story to trace the history of transnational nightlife encounters between Thais and Americans during the long American war in Vietnam. Find us at the #ASEASconference2025 today! buff.ly/OWCJXci @dukepress.bsky.social

#APSA2025 is drawing to a close, but our conference discount lasts through October 30! Save 30% on all books and journal issues in #PoliticalScience or any other discipline when you use code APSA25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. buff.ly/yp8Kn4Q