TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) titles

Faier, Lieba: The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight against Human Trafficking, 2024
Abstract: In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member-state governments....

Potts, Shaina: Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire, 2024
Abstract: In Judicial Territory, Shaina Potts reveals how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments. Introducing the term “judicial territory”...

Blackwell, Maylei: Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism, 2023
Abstract: Maylei Blackwell tells the story of how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and California moves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales....

Korkman, Zeynep K.: Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey, 2023
Abstract: Zeynep K. Korkman examines Turkey’s commercial fortune-telling cafes where secular Muslim women and LGBTIQ individuals can navigate the precarities of twenty-first-century life....

Berry, Michael: Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke, 2022
Abstract: Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke is an extended dialogue between film scholar Michael Berry and the internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker. Drawing from extensive interviews and public talks, this volume offers a portrait of Jia’s life,...

Herrera, Juan: Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space, 2022
Abstract: Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano Movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space....

Lee, Namhee: Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea, 2022
Abstract: Namhee Lee explores how social memory and neoliberal governance in post-1987 South Korea have disavowed the revolutionary politics of the past....

Levin, Ayala: Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination, 1958-1973, 2022
Abstract: In Architecture and Development Ayala Levin charts the settler colonial imagination and practices that undergirded Israeli architectural development aid in Africa. Focusing on the “golden age” of Israel’s diplomatic relations in and throughout the continent...

Schwartz, Jessica A.: Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences, 2021
Abstract: On March 1, 1954, the US military detonated “Castle Bravo,” its most powerful nuclear bomb, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Two days later, the US military evacuated the Marshallese to a nearby atoll...

Venkat, Bharat J: At the Limits of Cure, 2021
Abstract: Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just...

Redmond, Shana L.: Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson, 2020
Abstract: From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson's continuing cultural...

Appel, Hannah: The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea, 2019
Abstract: The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist...

Camacho, Keith L.: Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam, 2019
Abstract: Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L....

Clarke, Kamari M: Affective Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Pan-Africanist Pushback, 2019
Abstract: Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control....

DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M.: Allegories of the Anthropocene, 2019
Abstract: In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In...

Mathur, Saloni: A Fragile Inheritance: Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art, 2019
Abstract: In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual...

Moore, Adam: Empire’s labor: the global army that supports U.S. wars, 2019
Abstract: In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire's Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds...

Eidsheim, Nina Sun: The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, 2018
Abstract: In The Race of Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which sonic attributes that might seem natural, such as the voice and its qualities, are socially produced. Eidsheim illustrates how listeners measure race through...

Knapp , Raymond: Making light : Haydn, musical camp, and the long shadow of German idealism, 2018
Abstract: In Making Light Raymond Knapp traces the musical legacy of German Idealism as it led to the declining prestige of composers such as Haydn while influencing the development of American popular music in the nineteenth...

Panagia, Davide: Rancière’s Sentiments, 2018
Abstract: In Rancière’s Sentiments Davide Panagia explores Jacques Rancière’s aesthetics of politics as it informs his radical democratic theory of participation. Attending to diverse practices of everyday living and doing—of form, style, and scenography—in Rancière’s writings,...