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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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  • The Theological Metaphors of Marx by Enrique Dussel

    “Drawing from Marx’s less-known and mature work, Dussel reveals how theology became a cog of capitalism and colonial domination, and, relatedly, how theology-based criticism becomes a critique of politics and human existence past-present. A crucial text for understanding the rapid rise of the Christian Right . . .”—Catherine E. Walsh

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  • Disability Worlds by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp

    “A remarkable book, and the world will be a better place for it. . . . Ginsburg and Rapp are already major figures in the field, standing for decades at the still-too-sparsely-trafficked crossroads of disability studies and anthropology, and this book will become a standard reference point.”— Michael Bérubé

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  • The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

    “The essays in The Art of Remembering show Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw to be a sophisticated thinker with a capacious interest in American art and culture and how it represents Black people. Her voice is both hard-hitting and subtle, unafraid of tackling meaningful and challenging topics.”—Cherise Smith

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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
The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists - New

The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists

Anaïs Maurer

“Maurer brings together an impressive archive of primary and secondary sources to highlight the underexamined field of Pacific literature through two of the most urgent and profound issues: nuclearism and climate change.”—Craig Santos Perez
The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos - New

The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos

Laura U. Marks

“Marks offers a radical new way of understanding aesthetics and our affective encounter with the world. Through her unique and inspiring voice and the evolution of her larger intellectual project over the decades, she takes readers to a different place from which to reconceive their quotidian engagement with art and life more broadly.”—David Martin-Jones
Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies - New

Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies

Max Cavitch and Brian Connolly, editors

“What an edifying delight to think along with the scholars gathered in Situation Critical, whose objects of analysis range from Puritan annoyance to Melvillean justice, queer possibility to secular rectitude, cultures of abolition to settler colonial fantasy. Cavitch and Connolly have convened essays that are surpassingly lively, nimble, exacting, and generous in their engagement with the amplest possibilities of critique.”—Peter Coviello
The Shape of Trans Yet to Come - New

The Shape of Trans Yet to Come

Abe Weil, Francisco J. Galarte, Jules Gill-Peterson, issue editors

This special double issue celebrates the tenth anniversary of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly by reflecting on the journey from the inaugural issue, “Postposttranssexual,” to now. In this current issue, “The Shape of Trans Yet to Come,” contributors meditate on the current state of the trans studies field and speculate on the directions and conversations in our future.
Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us - New

Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us

Christopher B. Patterson and Tara Fickle, editors

“[A] truly vital intervention into the study of race, power, and play by turning much-needed attention to the narratives of racialization that surround games. It insightfully lays bare the many ways in which Asia, America, and gaming have long been intertwined. Simultaneously, it pushes the study of games in exciting new directions by bridging theory and practice, foregrounding dynamic conversations between game designers.”—Bo Ruberg
Labor and Science - New

Labor and Science

Seth Rockman, Lissa Roberts, Alexandra Hui, issue editors

This special issue of Labor covers the intimate connections between labor history and the history of science, from the “labor” in laboratory to the “science” in scientific management. Given the pressing scholarly and political questions these two historical subfields share, contributors seek to approach scientific knowledge production as a variety of work—one effectively analyzed through the methodologies and questions of labor history.
Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social - New

Making Value: Music, Capital, and the Social

Timothy D. Taylor

“Providing the first systematic account of music from the perspective of a theorization of value, Taylor draws on a deep knowledge of North American music industries, world musics, and independent music scenes to show how value accrues to musical commodities as they move among complex scenes of exchange.”—Martin Stokes
Indigenous Feminisms Across the World, Part 1 - New

Indigenous Feminisms Across the World, Part 1

Basuli Deb, issue editor

Rooted in activism, creative works, and epistemic innovation within and across hemispheric Indigenous politics, economies, histories, and peoples, the articles in this special issue expose, challenge, and resist contemporary (i.e., settler) colonial realities. Keeping with Meridians' mission, the contributors explore forms and meanings of resistance and activist strategies within contemporary feminisms.

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

inetta 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

Trans Asia Photography - Featured Journals

Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, Thy Phu, editors

Trans Asia Photographyis the first and only open-access international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary exploration of historic and contemporary photography from Asia and across the Asian diaspora.
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.
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies - Featured Journals

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies

Alessandra Raengo, Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

The open-access journal liquid blackness seeks to carve out a place for aesthetic theory and the most radical agenda of Black studies to come together in productive ways, with the goal of attending to the aesthetic work of blackness and the political work of form.

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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