New Books in August by Ideas on Fire Authors

by | Aug 5, 2024

Fascinating new interdisciplinary titles by ​Ideas on Fire authors​! Grab your copies at our Bookshop storefront to support these scholars, IoF, and your local bookstore.

Cover of Open Admissions with Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich

The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College

Danica Savonick

Duke University Press

The untold story of the radical pedagogical practices of 4 canonical feminist scholars at the City University of New York (CUNY).

Cover of Sin Padres, No Papeles with 4 young people walking toward the Los Angeles skyline

Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States

Stephanie L. Canizales

University of California Press

A groundbreaking account of how undocumented and unaccompanied migrant youth build new futures for themselves and their families.

Cover of Bottoms Up, with a closeup on the bottom of a person lying on their stomach

Queer Mexicanness and Latinx Performance

Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez

NYU Press

A vibrant queer of color read of the imbrications of sexual and political power and ethics in the making of Mexican and Latinx identities.

Cover of Deepwater Alchemy, with a robotic arm reaching toward the sea floor

Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor

Lisa Yin Han

University of Minnesota Press

Traces how oceanic media represents the sea bed and its role in mediating climate change and extractivism.

Cover of Unsettled Labors with a red outline of Israel and Palestine

Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel

Rachel H. Brown

Duke University Press

The role of migrant laborers in Israel’s elder care industry in the context of occupation, globalization, and settler colonialism.

Cover of The Politics of Collecting with a hand reaching over skin

Race and the Aestheticization of Property

Eunsong Kim

Duke University Press

A staunch critique of the racial and sexual politics of US museum and art collecting.

Cover of Transpacific Undisciplined, with a multicolored underwater scene with faces and fish

Lily Wong, Christopher B. Patterson, and Chien-ting Lin

University of California Press

A transnational, trans-genre, boundary-breaking exploration of interdisciplinary movements across the Pacific.

Cover of Real Food, Real Facts with various processed foods arranged in a grid

Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

Charlotte Biltekoff

University of California Press

How scientific authority shapes consumer critiques of processed food as well as industry responses.

Cover of Making Republicans Liberal with protesters in suits at a political rally

Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise

Kristoffer Smemo

University of Pennsylvania Press

How certain wings of the Republican Party reckoned with the social justice movements of the twentieth century.

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Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire as well as the host of the Imagine Otherwise podcast.

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