Year in Books 2022

by Cathy Hannabach | Dec 2, 2022

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As the year comes to a close and we look back on the past 12 months, we want to take this opportunity to congratulate all of our Ideas on Fire authors who published books this year!

These fantastic interdisciplinary books would make great additions to your spring syllabi, winter reading plan, and gift lists.

Cover of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment, with a child eating an ice cream cone
Cover of Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, with illustrations of sexual technologies and fossils
Cover of Behind the Big House: Reconciling Slavery, Race, and Heritage in the US South, with a wood-framed room with a simple metal bed and white sheets
Cover of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in LA, with overhead shot of suburban homes in a valley
Cover of Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice, with underwater riverbed rocks overlaid with blue and purple and wavy white lines
Cover of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930, with numbers written on graph paper
Cover of The Militant Intellect: Critical Theory's Conceptual Personae, with a torn photograph of a chalkboard on a wall and light shining through the photographic tear
Cover of Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century, with networks represented with teal and yellow dots and lines on teal background
Cover of Conjured Bodies: Queer Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad, with abstract yellow, red, and dark green shapes
Cover of Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives, with painted landscape of rock formation under sunset skies
Cover of The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, with text in pixelated font and video game icons
Cover of Plastic Matter, with a deer in a field with plastic rope and an orange balloon stuck in their antlers
Cover of Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in the Making of the North American West, with a rusted oil drum in a field under stormy skies
Cover of Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation, with two people dancing
Cover of New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair, with the doubled image of a person in an elaborate hairstyle resting their chin on their hands
Cover of Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century, with a collage of newspaper articles, students sitting at desks, and people posing for group photos
Cover of Networked Feminism: How Digital Media Makers Transformed Gender Justice Movements, with a phone screen overlaid on a protest crowd
Cover of Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media, with a group performance overlaid with symbols
Cover of Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions, with 5 popular Mexican and Chicanx saints surrounded by floral garland
Cover of Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America, with crowd of people in 17th-century attire outside a building with a person with raised arms addressing them
Cover of Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form, with two people kissing under a sheet
Cover of The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment, with pink and orange writing on black background
Cover of Human-Centered Data Science: An Introduction, with faceless profile illustrations in octagons
Cover of Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet, with black and red text on parchment paper with fold creases
Cover of The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, with white broken heart on black background
Cover of Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, with map of fields and buildings
Cover of Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction, with yellow leaf on yellow background
Cover of Left to Our Own Devices: Coping with Insecure Work in a Digital Age, with silhouettes of two people on their phones shaking hands
Cover of Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer, with yellow wall of writing on lavender background
Cover of Feminism in Coalition
Cover of Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City, with multicolored artwork of a person's head wearing a baseball cap
Cover of Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment, with two dancers on stage with metal technologies on their bodies
Cover of In Case of Emergency: How Technologies Media Crisis and Normalize Inequality, with bullhorn emergency alarm system on bright yellow background
Cover of A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, with title in dramatic oversized font jumbled together
Cover of Families We Keep: LGBTQ People and Their Enduring Bonds with Parents, with an embroidered rainbow heart broken down the middle heart
Cover of Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures, with abstract yellow and orange diamonds and circles on white background
Cover of Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines, with green financial ledger paper
Cover of Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art, with artwork of blue triangles on pink and white background
Cover of Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh, with abstract wave made up of dots on a dark background
Cover of A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, with Chicago buildings on city street

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Author: Cathy Hannabach

Dr. Cathy Hannabach is the founder and CEO of Ideas on Fire where she helps interdisciplinary academics transform vibrant ideas into powerful books and public projects that can spark meaningful social change.

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