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  • The Ethnographer's Way by Kristin Peterson and Valerie Olson

    “Offering an agenda for contemporary ethnographic research design that finally brings our disciplinary methods in line with current ethnographic theory, The Ethnographer’s Way provides a radically transformed cartography for research.”—Emilia Sanabria

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  • Tomorrowing by Terry Bisson

    “Much like Samuel Beckett's, Terry Bisson’s fiction got more and more compressed as he aged, until it came to these short stories, which are amazing, hilarious, deep. Tomorrowing is one of the greatest story collections in American literature. Read it and see what I mean.”—Kim Stanley Robinson

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  • Aníbal Quijano: Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power by Aníbal Quijano

    “[There] is an urgent need for the works of Aníbal Quijano to be available in English. His work is essential for the study of colonial cultures and societies and also for the analysis of contemporary times, which are marked by the perpetuation of colonial systems of domination.”—Mabel Moraña

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  • Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature by Yan Lianke

    “Sound and Silence contains a dozen informative essays that reveal a fascinating mind and original sensibility. Yan Lianke speaks with candor and penetrating insights. His is a jarring, distinct voice from the vast silent landscape of contemporary Chinese letters.”—Ha Jin

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Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life - New

Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life

Margaret Price

“In this highly anticipated analysis of disabled academics’ experiences, Price weaves critical disability theory with qualitative research to analyze the material and discursive textures of accessibility. This book will be essential reading.”—Aimi Hamraie
Apartheid Remains - New

Apartheid Remains

Sharad Chari

“Sharad Chari traces the palimpsest of apartheid rule by giving us a chilling analysis of liberal formations of biopolitical subjection and their enduring power. And yet, Chari ensures that this is a book about political hope, illuminating movements, struggles, and insurgencies that constitute a genealogy of revolution.”—Ananya Roy
Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures - New

Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures

Margot Weiss, editor

“If you think you know queer anthropology, think again: Margot Weiss and the contributors to this volume shake up, mess with, and reinvigorate conversations about the possibilities and limits of queer anthropology for the twenty-first century. Unsettling Queer Anthropology is a timely, vital, and very necessary read for anyone engaged in queer and/or anthropological studies.”—David A.B. Murray
Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race - New

Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race

Kathryn Yusoff

“This is a ground-breaking book of anticolonial praxis that brilliantly excavates the long racialized history of white geology as well as the ghost geologies that are critical foundations to our current and historical practices of extraction.”—Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey
Archipelagic Memory and Literatures of the Indian Ocean World - New

Archipelagic Memory and Literatures of the Indian Ocean World

Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Luca Raimondi, issue editors

Bringing together archipelagic theory, memory studies, and literary critical scholarship on the Indian Ocean world, this special issue of Monsoon features leading writers from Africa, the Mascarenes, and South Asia, a conversation between eminent scholars of memory and heritage, and a translated lecture by one of Japan’s foremost cultural critics.
Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South - New

Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South

Nivedita Menon

“Nivedita Menon is the leading feminist political science scholar in the Indian subcontinent.”—Achille Mbembe
War Makes Monsters - New

War Makes Monsters

Christine Haynes, Jennifer Ngaire Heuer, issue editors

Through case studies from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, contributors to this special issue of French Historical Studies explore how crime and war are connected both materially and imaginatively.
Developments in Russian Politics 10 - New

Developments in Russian Politics 10

Henry E. Hale, Juliet Johnson, and Tomila V. Lankina, editors

“Written by renowned scholars in the field, this book provides readers with a comprehensive analysis of the key issues shaping political developments in Russia. It is an invaluable publication for students who wish to understand how Russia’s domestic politics and foreign policy are intertwined.”—Peter Vermeersch
Expanding Devised Theater - New

Expanding Devised Theater

Tom Sellar, Ryan Adelsheim, issue editors

Contributors to this special issue of Theater contemplate "a widened definition and enlarged vision for ensemble-created and physical theater," writes Tom Sellar in an opening essay of the issue. The authors call for the field of theater to " build on but move beyond the sometimes Eurocentric artistic criteria of past decades, first to include work from other regions, and also to acknowledge that alternative models of collective creativity have been excluded from view and ought rightfully to be seen in this context."

Best Sellers

Black Disability Politics - Best Sellers

Black Disability Politics

Sami Schalk

“Black Disability Politics bravely and humanely confronts shortcomings in social movements beyond the dualism of romanticizing them or throwing them away from a presentist perspective. Challenging myriad assumptions about disability activism and Black social movements, this book is an essential and overdue bridge between how we think about Blackness and how we think about disability.”—Kimberly Springer
Raving - Best Sellers

Raving

McKenzie Wark

“Passionately exploring queer rave culture, Raving is the fantasy and the moment. There are drugs and sex, tangled love affairs, rejection, the highs and lows of the dance floors, and all the messiness that makes up a rave evening. A potent book.”—madison moore
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Mosaic - Best Sellers

Mosaic

Ginetta E. B. Candelario, editor

Bringing together scholarship and creative writing that exemplify Meridian's commitment to knowledge production by and about women-of-color feminists addressing feminism, race, and transnationalism, contributors to this special issue present an intellectually engaging, global scholarly and artistic mosaic.
Cruel Optimism - Best Sellers

Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant

“This is Berlant at her most revolutionarily queer, questioning what would happen if we stopped thinking of ourselves in terms of identity categories, and instead reorganized our sense of self around the specific objects and ideas to which we are attached and the affects that they produce in us.” — Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review
Transnational Queer Materialism - Best Sellers

Transnational Queer Materialism

Rana M. Jaleel, Evren Savci, issue editors

Contributors to this special issue of SAQ explore “queer of color,” a category first formulated in the United States that is now used in scholarship across the world. Posing questions such as “What racial or other orders can be captured and missed by an indiscriminate application of this term?” and “What histories, theorizations, and reconfigurations of racial capitalism are necessitated and enacted by such travel?,” the authors seek to co-mobilize and retheorize queer of color critique and global racial capitalism.
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Best Sellers

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Shannen Dee Williams

“Sweeping in its scope, exhaustively researched, and balanced in presentation,Subversive Habits is a seminal history of Black Catholic Nuns and their struggle for equality and justice in the Catholic Church.” —Bettye Collier-Thomas
At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China - Best Sellers

At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China

Ban Wang, issue editor

In this special supplement of Prism, an ecocritical lens is used to examine anthropocentrism, technoscientific hubris, and ecologically destructive modes of production in modern China. Analyzing modern discourse, literature, film, and science fiction, Ban Wang asserts that the domination of nature and labor under capitalism and technocrats is the culprit of ecological crises and human alienation.
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman

Featured Journals

QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion - Featured Journals

QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

Joseph A Marchal, Melissa M. Wilcox, editors

QTR: A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion is an open-access journal dedicated to expanding both scholarly and public knowledge about the rich and complex connections between religion, gender, and sexuality.
Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim - Featured Journals

Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf and Jeremy Prestholdt, editors

Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim a new interdisciplinary journal, publishes original and innovative research that analyzes the cultural, historical, and political circumstances that have shaped—and currently affect—the coastal societies of the Indian Ocean.
positions: asia critique - Featured Journals

positions: asia critique

Suzy Kim, editor

Offering a fresh approach to Asia scholarship, positions develops theoretical, philosophical, historical, and critical approaches in a forum open to debate.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Alexander Kiselev, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Curtis Franks and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Critical University Studies Syllabus

The syllabus provides insight into critical inquiries of the university system and its histories, and reflects on directions for future frameworks for higher education.
Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus - Syllabi

Conceptualizing COVID Syllabus

Early attempts to conceptualize how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the discourse in the humanities and social sciences in 2021.
Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus - Syllabi

Asian/Pacific American Cultures and Histories Syllabus

These resources help contextualize the experiences of Asian & Pacific Americans amid anti-Asian racism in the US, while also exploring community formation, solidarity between marginalized groups, and worldmaking possibilities.
Elections in Global History Syllabus - Syllabi

Elections in Global History Syllabus

This syllabus features scholarship on historical elections. Topics include the study of past election events, voting inequity, election quotas, media politics, protests during election times, and more.
Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus - Syllabi

Political Protests and Movements of Resistance Syllabus

These articles, books, and journal issues tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.
Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus - Syllabi

Revisiting Queer Studies Syllabus

This syllabus lists articles and books that revisit queer studies topics, including decolonizing queerness, queerness and antinormativity, queer migration, and contemporary coming-out stories.
Labor and Precarity Syllabus - Syllabi

Labor and Precarity Syllabus

These books and articles consider the many faces of precarity around the world, including roles such as gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, and sanitation workers.
Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus - Syllabi

Catastrophe and Its Aftermath Syllabus

This syllabus explores the ways disasters affect us and how we emerge from them changed. These lessons might help us conceptualize potential shapes for a post-COVID-19 world.
Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus - Syllabi

Care in Uncertain Times Syllabus

As we collectively deal with the implications of a global pandemic, care and self-care have become ever more important. These books, issues, and articles investigate different ways that care can bind together individuals and communities where larger institutions or governments fail to intervene.
Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus - Syllabi

Navigating the Threat of Pandemic Syllabus

Amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19, it’s a challenging time, and our thoughts are with those affected by this disease. In support and solidarity, we present books and journal articles that help build knowledge and understanding of how we navigate the spread of communicable diseases.
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