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Congratulations to Daniel Widener, whose book "Third Worlds Within" has won the John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association!
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Cover of Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity by Daniel Widener, with foreword by Vijay Prashad. Cover resembles a political poster, with a red banner across the top which has the title. Below the banner is a cartoonish depiction of a crowd, with five figures distinguished at the front. One has a mustache and wears a white hat, and they all appear to be in the middle of speaking.
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Congratulations to @lmesseri.bsky.social whose book "In the Land of the Unreal" by has been named the winner of the Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth.bsky.social!
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Cover of In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual & Other Realities in Los Angeles by Lisa Messeri. Cover features an individual with a virtual reality headset strapped on their face. The individual and headset is tinted in purple, blue, and pink. Their head is angled upwards, and the background depicts an image of a beach with palm trees that is edited to have a pink hue on top of it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Congratulations to Aslı Zengin, whose book "Violent Intimacies" has won the Middle East Section Book Prize sponsored by @americananthro.bsky.social. #Anthropology
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Cover of Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World by Asli Zengin. The cover features an abstract painting with an off-white background. Abstract black shapes are scattered throughout the painting, and some have light gray detailing overlaid on top of the black shapes. Cover letters are black and red. Author name is in red ink.
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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You can read more of @paulodrinot.bsky.social's work on the history of Peru and APRA in HAHR via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...
November 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Today on the blog:

A Q&A with Sarah Gollust, editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law in celebration of 50 years of the journal: buff.ly/5rp6FVJ
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Headshot of a smiling woman with shoulder length dark hair wearing green earrings and a dark top against a softly blurred background. Cover of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Volume 50, Number 6, December 2025. The special issue is titled JHPPL at 50. The design features a simple gradient background transitioning from dark to light brown, with white and dark brown text aligned to the right and a small tan square accent near the center.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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#AAA2025 has been its usual whirlwind of fun and overwhelm. But I can’t underscore how much it has meant for ‘in the land of the unreal’ to be recognized as the winner of the Bateson book prize, and to celebrate the news w my ever growing anthro fam. @dukepress.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
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November 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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FREE weekly read from @dukepress.bsky.social
intro to new special issue FILMING CAPITAL

Pietro Bianchi+Joshua Harold Wiebe, "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image"
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also includes "Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century"
Lexicon for a Capitalist Image | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
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November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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#ASA2025 ends today, but our 40% conference discount lasts through January 1! Save on all books and journal issues in #AmericanStudies or any other discipline when you use code ASA25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. buff.ly/qKlJ459
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November 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#AAA2025 ends today! Never fear, our 40% conference discount lasts through December 31. Save on all books and journal issues with code AAA25 when you order on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #Anthropology
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November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Our #AfricanStudies conference discount lasts through January 1, 2026. Save 40% on all books and journal issues when you use code AFSA25 at checkout on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #ASA2025 buff.ly/qxthg8y
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November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This special issue examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. Buy this issue and use code SAVE30 at checkout for a 30% discount: buff.ly/3hm4QW8
Filming Capital
An issue of: South Atlantic Quarterly
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November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu
Cover of The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 124, Number 4, October 2025. Features the theme “Filming Capital” with minimalist artwork showing a black square and a tilted red square on a white background against a black and red layout.
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
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Interview with Neil Lewis,
Health policy professors Michael Shepherd (University of Michigan) and Miranda Yaver (University of Pittsburgh) interview Professor Neil Lewis (Cornell University) about his forthcoming article in the
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November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Jakko Kemper examines how generative AI makes aesthetic production seem frictionless while relying on extractive infrastructures, linking everyday creative work to the “imperial mode of living.”
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AI Snake Oil: What AI Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
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November 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Michael Goldman's "Hidden Empire of Finance" investigates the dark arts of global finance that muscle into everyday life and city government, profiting from racialized dispossession and undermining the right to the city. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/A09zJCV
Cover of Hidden Empire of Finance: How Wall Street Profits from Our Cities and Fuels Global Inequality by Michael Goldman. The cover features a concrete apartment building in disrepair. Six of the balconies have life size photos that feature people on balconies at nicer residences. The title is at an angle following the lines of the building in a pale yellow serif font. The author's name is above. The subtitle is in a sans serif font over one of the empty balconies.
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Here’s how to get all of your awesome Duke University Press
books and even QTR issues at conference discount rates for #AARSBL25
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November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Whether you're attending in person or following along at home, you can browse and save on our latest books and journal issues in #ReligiousStudies. Through Jan 2, 2026, get 40% off with code AAR25 on our website or that of our UK partner, MNG. #AARSBL2025 buff.ly/jewabnc
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November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Excited to read this, especially since it reminds me so much of the Zoom reading group I had with fellow grad students in our department at the height of the pandemic!
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The newest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies features "Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies," a special forum section. Read it online: buff.ly/X5puSiG

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Cover of The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 84, Number 3, August 2025. The design features large blue and yellow text on a dark green textured background with the subtitle Published for the Association for Asian Studies at the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The newest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies features "Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies," a special forum section. Read it online: buff.ly/X5puSiG

Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz
Cover of The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 84, Number 3, August 2025. The design features large blue and yellow text on a dark green textured background with the subtitle Published for the Association for Asian Studies at the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Congratulations to @beliso-dejesus.bsky.social, whose book "Excited Delirium" has won the Association for Latina and Latino Anthropology Senior Book Award! And congrats to Petra Rivera-Rideau, whose book "Fitness Fiesta" received honorable mention.
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Cover of Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús. Cover is black with an inverted black and white image of several figures in an urban setting behind police tape. Trees behind the figures appear to be glowing brightly. The title appears in orange on the top half of the design and the subtitle and author name are smaller and in white. Cover of Fitness Fiesta: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. Cover features blue, translucent lettering over a pink-tinted photo over a Zumba class. The lettering is too large to read; however, the actual title text is legible, centered on the cover in white.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Round table of NDN all stars Friday at ASA
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The Introduction to my book OCCUPIED REFUGE is now freely available online: bit.ly/482e3i1

Book will be out 17 Feb 2026 but you can pre-order now:

In the Americas: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

Outside of America: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313...

Get 30% off with this promo code: E26BRNKM
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM