New Books in November and December by Ideas on Fire Authors

by | Nov 1, 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 New Destinations of Empire with a crowd of people on a beach loading up a truck

Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States

Emily Mitchell-Eaton

University of Georgia Press

A perceptive analysis of how US empire shapes migration, racialization, and belonging for Marshallese migrants in Arkansas.

Cover of Intellivision, with a gaming system advertisement from the 1970s

How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie®

Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman

MIT Press

The fascinating untold history of an overlooked video game system and its role shaping the future of gaming.

Cover of Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism, with a darkened hallway looking out onto a parking lot with shipping containers and trucks

South Africa in the Chinese Century

Mingwei Huang

Duke University Press

An astute ethnography of Chinese–South African economic relationships and South–South forms of racial capitalism.

Cover of Experimental Times, with bright multicolored shapes and textures

Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India

Hemangini Gupta

University of California Press

An engaging feminist ethnography of techno-futures and innovation in Bangalore and the role of precarity and experimentation in global cities.

Cover of Constructed Movements, with outstretched hands offering a globe

Extraction and Resistance in Mexican Migrant Communities

Ragini Shah

University of California Press

A sophisticated study of the racialized impact of emigration from Mexico to the US and a stringent call for legal and reparative compensation.

Cover of Black Screens, White Frames, with abstract black and white film images

Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine

Tanya Shilina-Conte

Oxford University Press

A richly theoretical and Deleuzian read of how blank screens, darkness, and non-images function in cinema.

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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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