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Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin
Strategies for Collective Survival
Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire
Published April, 2026
Black Light
Revealing the Hidden History of Photography and Cinema
Christophe Wall-Romana
Published February, 2026
Piano Decompositions
The Ecology of Destroyed and Decaying Instruments
Heidi Hart, Beate Schirrmacher
Published January, 2026
Indigenous Inhumanities
California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse
Mark Minch-de Leon
Published November, 2025
Spectropolis
The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore
Joshua Comaroff
Published November, 2025
Drama of Democracy
Political Representation in Mumbai
Lisa Björkman
Published September, 2025
The Little Database
A Poetics of Media Formats
Daniel Scott Snelson
Published June, 2025
Dreaming Down the Track
Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema
William Lempert
Published June, 2025
Hustle Urbanism
Making Life Work in Nairobi
Tatiana Thieme
Published March, 2025
The Silence of the Miskito Prince
How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized
Matt Cohen
Published November, 2022
Sensory Futures
Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India
Michele Ilana Friedner
Published June, 2022
Cut/Copy/Paste
Fragments from the History of Bookwork
Whitney Trettien
Published January, 2022
Sounds from the Other Side
Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music
Elliott H. Powell
Published November, 2020
Olfactory Worldmaking
Hsuan L. Hsu
Published March, 2026
Skating Away from the Binary
Erica Rand
Published February, 2026
The Prettiest Woman
Grant Farred
Published November, 2025
Pipeline Noir
Seeing Oil through Chinatown
Michael Rubenstein
Published October, 2025
Three Economies of Transcendence
Andrea Righi
Published September, 2025
The Racial Cage
Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, Amade Aouatef M’charek, et al.
Published July, 2025
Proposals for a Caring Economy
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Published June, 2025
Ungendering Menstruation
Ela Przybyło
Published May, 2025
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Surface Encounters
Thinking with Animals and Art
Ron Broglio
Published December, 2011
Humanesis
Sound and Technological Posthumanism
David Cecchetto
Published June, 2013
Native Intelligence
Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature
Deepika Bahri
Published August, 2003
In Search of a New Image of Thought
Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism
Gregg Lambert
Published October, 2012
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Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 9, No., 1
Published March, 2025
Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 8, No., 2
Published February, 2024
Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 8, No., 1
Published August, 2023
Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 7, No., 2
Published August, 2022
Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 7, No., 1
Published January, 2022
Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 6, No., 2
Published July, 2021
Critical Ethnic Studies
Vol., 6, No., 1
Published January, 2021
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IJS Coda
Vol., 3, No., 1
Published March, 2026
IJS Coda
Vol., 2, No., 2
Published November, 2025
IJS Coda
Vol., 2, No., 1
Published April, 2025
IJS Coda
Vol., 1, No., 2
Updated December, 2025
IJS Coda
Vol., 1, No., 1
Updated December, 2025
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