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Maisam Alomar
Carceral Care

Abolition: Emancipation from the Carceral

How care and criminalization became entangled--and why abolition medicine matters Medicine likes to tell an altruistic story. Maisam Alomar shows how that story masks an enduring partnership with racism a…

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Monica Patrice Barra
Good Sediment

When saving wetlands imperils Black futures, restoration demands reimagination Coastal Louisiana is losing land at an unprecedented rate, and in response, scientists and policymakers have turned to massiv…

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Ramona Bennett Bill
Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe

A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the NorthwestA relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwes…

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Flannery Burke
Back East

Western imaginations of "Back East" rewrote America's cultural identity, shaping myths and realities alikeJust as easterners imagined the American West, westerners imagined the American East, re…

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Vindhya Buthpitiya
A Volatile Picture

Global South Asia

Photography as witness and weapon amid civil war This groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka's protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound …

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Xan S Chacko,
The Last Seed

Often celebrated as humanity's last defense against ecological collapse, seed banks are meant to preserve plant life against extinction. The Last Seed offers a striking reassessment of that promise. Drawi…

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Ron Chew
My Unforgotten Seattle

An insider's look at the making of a city's Asian American communityThird-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian Americ…

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Miriam Chusid
The Ill-Fated Afterlife

In thirteenth-century Japan, death was fraught with spiritual uncertainty. Salvation depended on dying with perfect concentration on the Buddha--an ideal that was seemingly unattainable amid political uph…

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Tomas Cole
Possessed Landscapes

Culture, Place, and Nature

When spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution - and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry …

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Susan Conway
Tai Magic

Lavishly illustrated and deeply researched, this volume opens a window into the rich supernatural traditions of the Tai peoples of Southeast Asia. Centered on manuscripts, textiles, and talismans, it expl…

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Meghan Crnic
The Beach Cure

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

How sun and sea air were prescribed as medicine on America's Eastern coastFor centuries, the ocean was seen as a place of danger and work, but by the late nineteenth century, northeastern shores of the Un…

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Dada Docot
Town of Dollars

Colonial aftermaths linger quietly, revealing violence woven into the fabric of daily life What does violence look like when it is not spectacular but quiet and routine? In this intimate ethnography, anth…

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Lynn Fujiwara
Refusing Normativity

Queer theorists of color have illuminated the extensive and pervasive ways sexuality and race are interconnected. In Refusing Normativity Lynn Fujiwara draws on this body of work to offer a bold rethinkin…

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Brendan A. Galipeau
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

Culture, Place, and Nature

How wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed "Shangri-La" by the Chinese government for tourism promotion, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers h…

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Vinay Gidwani, Priti Ramamurthy
City Lives, Rural Ties

India's cities depend on millions of rural migrants whose labor sustains urban life. City Lives, Rural Ties brings their overlooked stories into focus through vivid portraits of migrants who have forged f…

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Aaron Goings
Red Harbor

Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. While thousands of lumber and maritime workers …

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Nisa Goksel
Kurdish Women's Transnational Resistance

Decolonizing Feminisms

Reveals how Kurdish women mobilize political resistance within and beyond the boundaries of nation-state politics In January 2013, the assassination of three Kurdish militant women in Paris brought global…

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Timothy A Grose,
Settling Xinjiang

Mass detention camps and forced labor in Xinjiang have garnered global attention. Settling Xinjiang reveals a broader--and less visible--system of control shaping everyday life in the Uyghur homeland. Dra…

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Kristina Gupta,
Acing Science

Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal Compulsory sexuality---where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience - not only pervades popular culture but is foundatio…

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R. Kent Guy
Three Impeachments

A probe into corruption in late Imperial China At the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under th…

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