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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Took a break from #4S2025 to visit Elliott Bay Books. It’s always fun to see @dukepress.bsky.social books out in the wild! 🧊🔥

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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski with their fabulous new book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen. 💖 #4S2025
@dukepress.bsky.social @nassimparvin.bsky.social

Two authors holding a copy of their book in front of a book exhibit

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Jodi A Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social · Aug 21

Indigenomicon is set to release in November but you can now read the introduction online at Duke University Press: www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

Indigenomicon

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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Still buzzing after my tour of Superfine! 🤩

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tour the @metmuseum.org‬ "Superfine" exhibit with Executive Editor @ccberg.bsky.social‬ and curator Monica Miller: buff.ly/mYXNG7k

A white woman with short white hair, wearing jeans and a casual top stands next to a Black woman with chin length hair in a black polka dot dress and black cardigan. The word Superfine appears in script on the wall behind them.

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Harvard Book Store @harvardbookstore.bsky.social · Apr 15

The latest in our publisher focus window is Duke University Press, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher best known for its publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Check out the display in person or view the featured titles online here: buff.ly/NzmKSG7

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · Feb 13

I am thankful @urbanstudiesonline.com @acuto.bsky.social for the forum on For a Lib Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social

Interventions @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Ash Amin @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social

www.urbanstudiesonline.com/review/book-...

Excerpts 👇

Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home - Urban Studies

Urban Studies book review forum of 'For a Liberatory Politics of Home' with an author response from Michele Lancione.

www.urbanstudiesonline.com

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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · Feb 14

For Valentine’s Day I donated to the Trans Youth Emergency Fund. Here’s another way you can send support and love to queer and trans youth even if you don’t have money to give. 🩷🤍🩵🩷🤍🩵

Campaign for Southern Equality @southernequality.bsky.social · Feb 12

Trans youth need some extra love right now – and we need your help to send it 💌🏳️‍⚧️

Every year, we send hundreds of care packages to queer youth across the South, and each package includes a kind and thoughtful message from supporters like you. Share yours ⬇️ southernequality.org/sendsupport/

Send a message of love & support to trans youth

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Maia Gil’Adí @maiagiladi.bsky.social · Jan 24

Excited that my book, Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations & the Aesthetics of Violence, is officially under production with @dukepress.bsky.social! I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who helped made this book possible. Thank you to @ccberg.bsky.social & the production team. Coming spring 2025! 🎉🙏🏻😭🧛🏻‍♀️🧟‍♀️

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Nov 9

"How the Earth Feels" by @danaluci.bsky.social examines how the impacts of geology on 19th-century US culture catalyzed transformative conversations about the intersections between humans & the nonhuman world. Read the introduction for free now: ow.ly/QLU250Q5vln

Cover of How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano. Cover is a landscape painting. An individual and an alpaca walk in the foreground of the painting underneath tall, green trees. A river runs through the landscape before flowing into a waterfall over a rugged cliff. Black smoke plumes into a large, orange-hued cloud as a volcano erupts in the background.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Nov 3

Congratulations to Neferti Tadiar, whose book "Remaindered Life" has won the John Hope Franklin prize from the American Studies Association!
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Cover of Remaindered Life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Cover is After Amorsolo’s Planting Rice by Lyra Garcellano, an abstract representation of women planting rice, using beige and green tones.

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Laurie Shannon @shannonical.bsky.social · Oct 14

A major conference ahead on the legacies of #LaurenBerlant: BERLANT’S AMERICA at Northwestern U., 26-27 October. @dukepress.bsky.social Details & registration ➡️ cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/berlants-ame...

Berlant's America - Center for Global Culture and Communication

Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) Department of English & Center for Transcultural Studies jointly pre...

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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · Oct 12

Looks fabulous! Perhaps of interest: www.dukeupress.edu/nimrods

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Courtney Berger @ccberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just listened to Carlson on the Getting Curious podcast. What a cool book!

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