My Brother, My Land by
@HermezSami
is out now
A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family's care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation.
#ReadUP
A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet by E. J. White is out today!
"I read the book
I must applaud
Some parts I ate
Some parts I clawed"
—
@CuriousZelda
, author of The Adventures of a Curious Cat
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat by
@AU_Qasmi
paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state.
#ReadUP
Out today!
Based on extensive empirical research in local colony and national archives, Colonizing Palestine by
@areejsabbagh26
offers a microhistory of frontier interactions between Zionist settlers and indigenous Palestinians within the British imperial field.
#ReadUP
Unknown Past by Hanan Hammad is out today!
#ReadUP
A biography of Layla Murad—the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinema—the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society.
We are utterly thrilled to congratulate six SUP authors for their success in the 2021 MESA Book Awards! For the full SUP list check out our MESA blog entry or stay tuned to this Twitter feed.
#MESA2021
Happy
#EarthDay2020
! We have assembled a recommended reading list of titles about sustainability, nature, and the environment.
#ReadUP
Our first book is Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care by
@g_kallis
New listening: Rashid Khalidi interviewed
@4noura
about her new book, Justice for Some, and her argument regarding law, politics, and how they apply to a history of “the Palestinian present.” The interview is a collaboration between Palestine Square(
@PalStudies
) and
@jadaliyya
.
Bedouin Bureaucrats is out today!
Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making.
#ReadUP
*drumroll* and the winner of the Academic award goes to....
@4noura
! Congratulations 😁 This brilliant book won for its unique exposition of how international law has failed Palestine
#PBA19
Epidemic Orientalism by
@A1RWhite
is out!
Proposing a modified reinterpretation of Edward Said's concept of orientalism, White invites us to consider "epidemic orientalism" as a framework within which to explore the imperial and colonial roots of modern epidemic disease control
Birth of the Geopolitical Age is out!
@ShellenX
demonstrates how global examples of frontier settlements refracted through China's unique history and informed the making of the modern Chinese state.
Life Beyond Waste by
@whbutt
is out today!
This historical and ethnographic account examines how waste work has been central to organizing and transforming the city of Lahore across historical moments, from the colonial period to the present.
#ReadUP
New on the SUP blog: The Stanford University Press Digital Publishing Initiative receives $1.15 million to implement phase 2 of the program.
#SUPDigital
Congratulations to
@nedasoc
whose book on Iranian Americans and the politics of race has just received an Honorable Mention in the
#PROSEawards
(Cultural Anthropology & Sociology category)! 🎉
“[Poor people] are surveilled and imprisoned, monitored and fined. They are trapped within a social panopticon that permits and encourages their constant observation.”
@thebafflermag
reviews Khiara Bridges’ The Poverty of Privacy Rights
How Sanctions Work by Narges Bajoghli,
@vali_nasr
, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and
@AliVaez
is out today!
#ReadUP
"A vital study of the most tragic case in the recent history of economic sanctions."
—Nicholas Mulder, author of The Economic Weapon
The Antechamber by Helmut Puff invites readers to visit past societies & spaces through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature, memoirs, manuals, & other documents, Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers
Thanks,
@victoriadreyes
, for stopping by at
#ASA2023
! We're proud to have published your award-winning books Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (2019) and, shown here, Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope (2022).
Happy book birthday to The Right to Dignity by
@mperezahu
!
By scrutinizing how Chilean pobladores constitute themselves as political subjects, this book reveals the mechanisms through which housing activists develop new imaginaries of citizenship.
#ReadUP
Congratulations to
@thomroulet
for The Power of Being Divisive winning Silver in the Networking (social media, communication skills, etc.) Category!
5/5
Huge congratulations to
@nedasoc
, whose
@stanfordpress
book "The Limits of Whiteness" received an Honorable Mention, 2019 Thomas & Znaniecki Award for Best Book from the ASA Section on International Migration!
We’re celebrating
#MESA2021
by looking back at SUP MES titles that have won 2021 awards!
The Missing Pages by
@HeghnarW
won the Gold Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History-Oversized category, sponsored by
@IPPYmag
A House in the Homeland by Carel Bertram is out today!
A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.
#ReadUP
We're excited that
@4noura
's book
#JusticeforSome
is out today! Justice for Some offers a new approach to understanding the Palestinian struggle for freedom, told through the power and control of international law. The book launch is today 6:30 at George Mason Uni., Research 163
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky next to a banner image of his forthcoming book Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State at
#AHA24
We mourn the passing of Bernard Stiegler, one of the preeminent philosophers of our time. He wrote five books for our Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series in addition to his role as the head of the Institut de recherche et d'innovation (IRI) at the Centre Georges-Pompidou.
Happy publication day to Love against Substitution by
@ericbsong
!
Eric Song offers a new account of how notions of unique personhood became embedded in a literary way of thinking and feeling about marriage.
#ReadUP
Balancing academic rigor with popular readability, The American Yawp offers a multi-layered, democratic alternative to the American past. And did we mention that it's free?
#OAH18
With On Salafism, Azmi Bishara critically deconstructs claims of continuity between early Islam and modern militancy and makes a counterargument: Salafism is a wholly modern construct informed by specific sociopolitical contexts.
#ReadUP
Rights Refused is out now!
In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman (
@_e_pf_
) documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma and shows how Burmese subaltern politics compel us to reconsider how rights frameworks operate everywhere
#ReadUP
We’re all set up at
#MESA2019
here in New Orleans! Can’t wait to show everyone our new and noteworthy titles starting tomorrow at 9 AM. All of our titles are 30% off here at the conference.
Do you need context on the recent House resolution recognizing the
#ArmenianGenocide
and why it’s important? We have some reading recommendations:
Goodbye, Antoura: A Memoir of the Armenian Genocide by Karnig Panian
#HR296
1/4
Congratulations to the following SUP authors for their books being named Outstanding Academic Titles of 2021 by
@Choice_Reviews
:
@DrCassiaRoth
for A Miscarriage of Justice
Rosie Bsheer for Archive Wars
@aaronjakes
for Egypt's Occupation
@NatanMeir
for Stepchildren of the Shtetl
Sufi Civilities by
@AnnikaAneko
offers a rare on-the-ground view into how Sufi leaders react to moments of transition within a highly insecure environment, and how humanity shines through the darkness during times of turmoil.
#ReadUP
Congrats to The Eureka Myth author
@JSilbey
, who has been awarded a
#GuggenheimFellowship
in Law! The fellowship will support her research on her forthcoming book on intellectual property and social justice. Details:
Identity Investments is out now!
"[Joel Phillip] Stillerman is a leader in his field and this book shows why. A must-read for Chile scholars."
—Peter Winn, Tufts University
#ReadUP
@JoelStillerman1
It's not too late to receive an 80% discount on over 1000 of our greatest titles!
Now through August 1st!*, you can take advantage of this limited-time offer by using the code BIGSALE22 at checkout.
#ReadUP
*While supplies last. Sale ends at 11:59 P.M. on August 1, 2022.
It's a shame space is limited in conference exhibits. Some great books have to be left out. We weren't able to display the award-winning Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World at
#ASA2023
. But we were glad to see
@TahseenShams
Our summer sale is happening now! Over 1,000 selected titles are 80% off. Use promo code BIGSALE22 to access the discount on eligible books (while supplies last). Sale runs June 3- August 1.
*Only applicable to orders in North and South America
Manufacturing Militarism by
@ccoyne1
&
@Abigail_R_Hall
is out today!
This book details how military propaganda has targeted Americans since 9/11 & how The U.S. government has purposefully inflated the actual threat of terrorism and the necessity of a proactive military response.
Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair is out today!
In this expansive and provocative new work,
@michaeldango
theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis—and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously.
#ReadUP
@Post_45
Data Cartels is out!
Sarah Lamdan (
@greenarchives1
) brings us into the underworld of "data cartels", demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, & selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities & threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge
Are you interested in the Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Culture series? Join us this Wednesday (7/22) 10 AM PDT for a virtual event about the series — featuring Joel Beinin,
@LalehKhalili
,
@dcli
, and
@nahid8
#ReadUP
Out today! The Russian Way of Deterrence by Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky investigates Russia's approach to coercion (both deterrence and compellence), comparing and contrasting it with the Western conceptualization of this strategy.
#ReadUP
Black Culture, Inc. by
@PatriciaABanks
is out today!
A surprising and fascinating look at how Black culture has been leveraged by corporate America.
#ReadUP
Dream Super-Express by
@DrJessamynAbel
is out now!
The multi-layered dreams surrounding
#Japan
's Tōkaidō Shinkansen—the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"— tell a history not only of nation-building but of resistance and disruption.
#ReadUP
Hello
#ISA2022
! Please enjoy our Virtual Book Exhibit and receive a 30% discount & free North American shipping on the listed books using the discount code S22XISA-FM through May 2, 2022.
@isanet
Find the exhibit here:
The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France is out today!
@S_Parageau
tells the history of the moral, cognitive and epistemological virtues attributed to ignorance in the long seventeenth century (1580s-1700) in England and in France.
#readUP
In less than two weeks we will be returning to the office after having worked remotely for 15 months! Ahead of our return, we sent in a recon team to check things out; apparently the plants have taken over…
Famine Worlds by
@_Khayyat_
is out!
WWI was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, & with famine came unspeakable suffering. Tylor Brand draws on memoirs, diaries, & correspondence to explore how people negotiated the famine and its traumas
Rocking Qualitative Social Science is out today!
@ashleytrubin
provides an entertaining treatise, corrective vision, and rigorously informative guidebook for qualitative research methods that have long been dismissed in deference to traditional scientific methods.
Hot topic of conversation here at our booth at
#AAS2019
:
#supdigital
’s brand-new project The Chinese Deathscape. Stop by our booth to check out our display of this cutting-edge resource.
@tsmullaney
Wartime North Africa edited by
@sarahastein
and
@aomar_boum
is out today!
This book, the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved.
#ReadUP
Please give a hearty welcome to SUP's own
@ericawetter
, who has just joined Twitter! She is the Executive Editor for Literature and Philosophy, and is (virtually) attending
#MLA22
.
This Friday (11/15) 6 PM join
@BaskinJon
for a discussion of his new book “Ordinary Unhappiness: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace.” Jon Baskin will be in conversation with
@BenWKJ
, followed by a Q&A and a signing.
Presented by
@SeminaryCoop
and
@the_point_mag
Egypt's Occupation by
@aaronjakes
is out today! This book offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in
#Egypt
and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation.
#ReadUP
Writing the Mind is out today!
Through readings of authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Mark Twain,
@hkpmw
explains how experimental models of cognition lead to some of the strangest formal features of canonical American texts
#ReadUP