
"The essays in Proctor and Schiebinger's spectacular new collection make the concept of agnotology, the creation of ignorance, relevant to the most basic political and scientific battles of the day—from the controversies over the Israeli destruction of Gaza through climate science and food production. This should be read by all social scientists interested in our modern world."
—David Rosner, Columbia University

"This ambitious rethinking of modernist art highlights several of its concepts—including assemblage, totality, interdisciplinarity, system, collectivity, and of course network—that prefigure contemporary interdisciplinary art."
—Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago

"This is a deeply intelligent and strikingly original book. The erudition on which it is based is world-class, extremely impressive, and the position defended is bold, fresh, and bound to attract a great deal of attention."
—Robert Pippin, University of Chicago

"Impasse is far-reaching, compelling, and daringly pessimistic. It confronts what we don't know about the future with unusual honesty and clarity."
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

"From Athens to Palermo, Berna Turam takes the reader on a journey to the front lines of resistance to Europe's racial borders. Deeply researched and artfully written, The Geopolitics of Fear shows how everyday solidarity work can contest violence at the border."
—Reece Jones, author of White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall

"Latin America and the Caribbean have seen the fastest rise in immigration, globally, over the last 15 years. On the Move is essential for grasping the complex interactions of the Caribbean, South America, Central America, and Mexico—previously distinct migration systems—and how these shape their migration policies."
—Diego Acosta, University of Bristol

"At last, a leading scholar who truly 'gets' realism and knows how to convey that wisdom in an engagingly combative treatise. Patrick Porter serves up bracing, brisk, and learned defense of the realist tradition of statecraft and scholarship. He slices through decades of criticism and misunderstandings to reveal realism for what it is: an indispensable approach to action and explanation in a pitiless world."
—William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College

"Domestic Nationalism thinks anew the history of gender and modernity in Indonesia. Based on impressive, original research, Formichi provokes readers to adjust their understandings of the place of both feminized carework and public health in the nation's history. Exciting and timely."
—Chie Ikeya, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

"This book is destined to become an authority on blackness and gender. Engendering Blackness rigorously inhabits the interstice between Afro-pessimism and gender theory, unlike any text preceding it. It will make an indelible mark on contemporary thought."
—Calvin Warren, Emory University

"Yasemin İpek offers a nuanced and theoretically rich ethnography of activism in Lebanon, foregrounding the lived experience of crisis as both constraint and catalyst. Crisiswork brilliantly advances critical debates on political agency, affect, and decolonial knowledge production. A vital, inspiring book that redefines political agency and the everyday labor of hope."
—Akram Khater, North Carolina State University

"This brilliant biography of Xi Zhongxun, revolutionary politician and father of China's current leader, reveals the human dramas and intrigue behind the curtain in Chinese politics. Joseph Torigian is a prodigious researcher whose interviews with the Dalai Lama and others are worth the price of the book. A vividly written page-turner and a major scholarly accomplishment."
—Susan Shirk, University of California, San Diego

"In Making Do, Mardi Reardon-Smith offers a truly gripping account of care and its complexities across place, people, animals, plants, elements, and ancestors. Complicity and culpability in environmental injustices come to life in this ethnographically rich and conceptually innovative work, making it essential reading for scholars and students in environmental anthropology, the environmental humanities, and conservation science."
—Sophie Chao, The University of Sydney

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