November’s new releases from Ideas on Fire authors help us rethink the intimacies, labor systems, and care practices that shape our world.
Ranging from Native American and Mexican American intimacies in the US–Mexico borderlands to the complicated politics of children’s labor and agency in neoliberal Peru to the everyday work of mosquito control across terrains of global health, these books illuminate how different communities navigate shifting local power relations in a global frame while forging connectivities and resistant possibilities.
We’re excited to celebrate these fantastic books and the important interdisciplinary conversations they enable.
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Traces of Intimacy: Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and the Borderlands of Race
Jedediah H. Kuhn
University of California Press
A relational history examining Native and Mexican American intimacies across settler colonialism, racialization, and borderlands survival strategies.
Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Heath
Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun
An ethnographic exploration of mosquito control illuminating collaboration, improvisation, and care within contemporary global health infrastructures.
Growing Up Working: The Public Politics of Children's Labor in Peru
Leigh M. Campoamor
A feminist ethnography challenging simplistic anti-child labor politics through working youth’s agency, caregiving, and survival in neoliberal Lima.
