New Books in October by Ideas on Fire Authors

by | Oct 1, 2024

Book covers for Postconflict Utopias; Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line; and On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human

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 Postconflict Utopias with Black women sitting in boats on a river and a woman rising from the water

Postconflict Utopias

Performing Everyday Survival in Chocó, Colombia

Tania Lizarazo

University of Illinois Press

A compelling exploration of Black women’s peace activism in the Colombian Black Pacific.

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Indie Porn

Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance

Zahra Stardust

Duke University Press

A brilliant analysis of the production, representational, and labor politics of queer feminist indie porn.

Cover of Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line, with musicians and dancers playing instruments and dancing in a city street.

Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line

Rachel Carrico

University of Illinois Press

A vibrant celebration of the Black New Orleans dance and music culture of the Second Line.

Cover of On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human, with a celestial-painted person flying through the air

On Blackness, Liveliness, and What It Means to Be Human

Toward Black Specificity in Higher Education

Wilson Kwamogi Okello

SUNY Press

An incisive call for reframing higher education practices and policy around Black specificity and Black humanity.

Cover of Drill Rap, Sex Work, and the Digital Underground, showing a person's tattooed stomach and a gun stuck into the waistband of their pants

Drill Rap, Sex Work, and the Digital Underground

(Clout)Chasing on Chicago’s South Side

Jabari M. Evans

Rowman & Littlefield

An interdisciplinary ethnography of the social media performances and digital practices of drill rappers in Chicago.

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Author: Cathy Hannabach

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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