AVAILABLE BOOKS – 1 February 2026
Africa
Akinbola, Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art
Cruz, The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa: Cuba and the Independence War on Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Dovey, et. al., eds. Contemporary African Screen Worlds
das Nair, et.al., Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes
Langwick, Medicines that Feed US: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World [Tanzania]
Pieri & Fridy, Governance, Grievance & Violent Extremism in West Africa: From the Caliphates to Great Power Competition
Rijke-Epstein, Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
Ripert, ed., Senghor: Writings on Politics
Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty
Americas
Bell, Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America
Davidson, Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Derby, Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian Dominican Borderlands
Edwards, Fueling Development: how Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago
Gautam et. al., Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gerber, Archival Interruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Marinez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Ravindran, The Social Life of Indianism: Politics and Indigeneity in 21st-Century Bolivia
Asia
Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
Fuhrmann, In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City
Martinez, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines
Peters, ed., Latin American Exports to China: Local Experiences and Challenges
Middle East and North Africa
Baar and Soliman, eds. Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Denoeux, et. al, Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa
Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
General
Mahler, A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe
Quinton-Brown, Intervention Before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy
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