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an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life by Sharon Patricia Holland 9781478020097
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals... -
The Politics of Vibration: Music as a Cosmopolitical Practice by Marcus Boon 9781478015765
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In The Politics of Vibration Marcus Boon explores music as a material practice of vibration. Focusing on the work of three contemporary musicians-Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath,... -
Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century by Kaysha Corinealdi 9781478015895
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In Panama in Black, Kaysha Corinealdi traces the multigenerational activism of Afro-Caribbean Panamanians as they forged diasporic communities in Panama and the United States throughout the twentieth... -
Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa by Jovan Scott Lewis 9781478016014
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to... -
A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art by Catherine Grant 9781478018841
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In A Time of One's Own Catherine Grant examines how contemporary feminist artists are turning to broad histories of feminism ranging from political organizing and artworks from the 1970s to queer art... -
The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America by Gwendolyn L. Wright 9781478015888
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02As COVID-19 made inroads in the United States in spring 2020, a common refrain rose above the din: "We're all in this together." However, the full picture was far more complicated-and far less... -
Cocaine: From Coca Fields to the Streets by Enrique Desmond Arias 9781478013723
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on... -
Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973 by Ayala Levin 9781478015260
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the "golden age" of... -
Listening in the Afterlife of Data: Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication by David Cecchetto 9781478015291
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and... -
Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes by Emma Cervone 9780822351757
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Long Live Atahualpa is an innovative ethnographic study of indigenous political movements against discrimination in modern Ecuador. Exploring the politicizing of Indianness-the right of indigenous... -
China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision by Ban Wang 9781478009801
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and... -
Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile by Elizabeth Quay Hutchison 9781478014898
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Workers Like All the Rest of Them, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison recounts the long struggle for domestic workers' recognition and rights in Chile across the twentieth century. Hutchison traces the... -
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets by Stefan Ecks 9781478015048
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.46In Living Worth Stefan Ecks draws on ethnographic research on depression and antidepressant usage in India to develop a new theory of value. Framing depressive disorder as a problem of value, Ecks... -
Gay Liberation after May '68 by Guy Hocquenghem 9781478015451
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In Gay Liberation after May '68, first published in France in 1974 and appearing here in English for the first time, Guy Hocquenghem details the rise of the militant gay liberation movement alongside... -
Uncomfortable Television by Hunter Hargraves 9781478016939
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.30From The Wire to Intervention to Girls, postmillennial American television has dazzled audiences with novelistic seriality and cinematic aesthetics. Yet this television is also more perverse: it... -
Juggling by Stewart Lawrence Sinclair 9781478019602
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.46In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair-who learned to juggle as a child and paid his... -
Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives by Mejdulene Bernard Shomali 9781478016649
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In Between Banat Mejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film. Moving from The Thousand and One... -
The Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship after Fascism by Jennifer V. Evans 9781478017110
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of... -
Working Musicians: Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production by Timothy D. Taylor 9781478019879
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Working Musicians Timothy D. Taylor offers a behind-the-scenes look at the labor of the mostly unknown composers, music editors, orchestrators, recording engineers, and other workers involved in... -
Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe by Brianne Cohen 9781478016816
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In Don’t Look Away Brianne Cohen considers the role of contemporary art in developing a public commitment to end structural violence in Europe. Cohen focuses on art activism of the early twenty-first... -
Crip Genealogies by Mel Y. Chen 9781478016588
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They... -
The Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics by Carol Vernallis 9781478019060
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44From fan-generated content on TikTok to music videos, the contemporary media landscape is becoming ever more vast, spectacular, and intense. In The Media Swirl Carol Vernallis examines short-form... -
Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt by Atef Shahat Said 9781478025504
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In Revolution Squared Atef Shahat Said examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on... -
Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire by Mel Y. Chen 9781478020561
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £65.19In Intoxicated Mel Y. Chen explores the ongoing imperial relationship between race, sexuality, and disability. They focus on nineteenth-century biopolitical archives in England and Australia to show... -
The Long War on Drugs by Anne L. Foster 9781478020646
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.76Since the early twentieth century, the United States has led a global prohibition effort against certain drugs in which production restriction and criminalization are emphasized over prevention and... -
At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China by Ban Wang 9781478024729
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41In this special supplement edited by Ban Wang, an ecocritical lens is used to examine anthropocentrism, technoscientific hubris, and ecologically destructive modes of production in modern China... -
Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body by Riché Richardson 9781478009917
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States... -
Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity by Sarah B. Horton 9781478007944
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Across the globe, states have long aimed to control the movement of people, identify their citizens, and restrict noncitizens' rights through official identification documents. Although states are... -
The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance by Mark Rifkin 9781478021049
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57What if we understood the idea of family as central to representing alternative forms of governance as expressions of racial deviance? In The Politics of Kinship, Mark Rifkin shows how ideologies of... -
Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics by jennifer susanne leath 9781478020165
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44In Black, Quare, and Then to Where jennifer susanne leath explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maât the... -
Counterlife: Slavery after Resistance and Social Death by Christopher Freeburg 9781478010418
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77In Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and domination weren't the overarching terms used for thinking... -
At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts by Michael M. J. Fischer 9781478017189
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44In At the Pivot of East and West, Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking and literature from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture,... -
Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-1992 by Tim Lawrence 9780822344667
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York's downtown music scene during the 1970s... -
Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere by Omar Kasmani 9781478020325
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32Drawing on history, anthropology, literature, law, art, film, and performance studies, the contributors to Pakistan Desires invite reflection on what meanings adhere to queerness in Pakistan. They... -
Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary by Leigh Claire La Berge 9781478016618
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that "all history is the history of cat struggle." Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline... -
Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling by Jaya Keaney 9781478020554
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £66.76In Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and... -
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture by Julie Avril Minich 9781478025252
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of... -
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Emma Kowal 9781478020592
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by... -
Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia by Emma Kowal 9781478025375
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In Haunting Biology Emma Kowal recounts the troubled history of Western biological studies of Indigenous Australians and asks how we now might see contemporary genomics, especially that conducted by... -
Black, Quare, and Then to Where: Theories of Justice and Black Sexual Ethics by jennifer susanne leath 9781478025146
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In Black, Quare, and Then to Where jennifer susanne leath explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maât the...