AVAILABLE BOOKS – 1 November 2026
Africa
Akcay. Transnational African Identities in contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality, and Friendship
Brankam. Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya
Cassell. Liberia, 1900-1950: Accounts of the First African Republic.
das Nair, Klaaren, and Roberts, eds. Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes.
Koroma. Freetown Echoes: Tales from Along the Odokoko.
Langwick. Medicines that Feed US: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World [Tanzania].
Kuna. The Upright Farmer: Racial Capitalism and Agricultural Modernization in Burkina Faso.
Managa, Achu, and Mjimba. Considering Peace and Development in Africa.
Rijke-Epstein. Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty
Simelane, Zaca, Moyo, Dube, and Mphambukeli, eds. Trade and sustainability under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
ASIA
Fuhrmann, In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City
Morton, Enchanted Modernities: ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong.
MENA
Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Baar and Soliman, eds. Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Denoeux, Springborg, and Alaoul. Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa
Moaddel, Mansoor. Cracks in Tradition: Liberal Trends in the Middle East.
Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
AMERICAS
Beck and Stephen. Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence: Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala.
Britt, I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity & Displacement in Sao Paulo
Carillo, The Business of Racism: labor and Environment in Brazil’s Racial Capitalism
Edwards, Fueling Development: how Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago
Gautam, Pinheiro, and Wilson. Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gerber, Archival Interruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.
McDonald. Peripheral Citizenship: Popular Movements and the Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil.
GENERAL
Gunel, Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations
Mahler, A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe
Ogunnaike, Formas of Worship: How Orisha Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil.
Rodin, Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate Change & Great Power Conflict.
Walker-Crawford, The Climate Trial
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