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Free article for Environment, Place, Space: "The Matter of Relations: A Critical Materialist Perspective on Place Attachment and Regeneration through a Danish Social Housing Estate" by My Madsen and Malou Ryborg (muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...)

Free article for Cultural Critique Special Issue: Mourning Without End: "Mourning Without End: A Start" by Cesare Casarino, Frieda Ekotto, Maggie Hennefeld, John Mowitt, and Simona Sawhney (muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...)

Cultural Critique 129 cover featuring the journal title running off the edges of the cover. The C's are written in red. The special issue title "Mourning Without End" and issue information appear below on a red background.

Cover for Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 with the journal's title arranged vertically and horizontally in a plus shape. Qilou shophouses in Chikan, Guangdong Province, China are shown underneath.

Cover for Environment, Space, Place 16.2. The journal's title is written on a blue background. A diagonal line cuts between the words "Environment" and "Space."

Three recent journal issues:
-@culturalcritique.bsky.social 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social

All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:

Check out Patrick Gamez (@notredame.bsky.social)’s review of Aden Evens (Dartmouth College)’s book _The Digital and Its Discontents_, pub 2024 @uminnpress.bsky.social

Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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Holiday Catalog 2025 Holiday Catalog 2025

Drooling over the @ebbooksellers.bsky.social holiday catalog! So many goodies here (including several of ours!)
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University of Minnesota Press booth at the book exhibit at the American Studies Association conference

Good morning, ASA! Stop by the Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social booth today to check out new American Studies books and sign up for our newsletter to get a free book! #2025ASA #ASA2025

It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at ASA! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at z.umn.edu/amst25 for 30% off! #2025ASA #ASA2025

Tiny Book BIG impact #scifibooks #nonfiction #bookreview #speculativefiction #hugoawards TikTok video by Ram's Rambles 📚

Ram's Rambles on Speculative Whiteness

Two human headshots up top; below, book cover of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone. (X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white.) At right, text: Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation. Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At bottom, text: A conversation between Becca Monteleone and Ashley Shew.

🎧 Fantastic new podcast episode: Rebecca Monteleone and @ashleyshoo.bsky.social in conversation about medical technologies, bodily authority, and how users navigate complicated constraints.
share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be

New Books, by Dan Piepenbring

"Humankind will always make ghosts faster than we can make peace with them." Joshua Comaroff's SPECTROPOLIS reviewed in @harpers.bsky.social
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Mixed-Blood Histories An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous history Historical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry...

Today is publication day for my book, Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, through the University of Minnesota Press!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792034...

Finding Unique Beauty In A Town Made Of Leaves

"A perfect example of the spirit of childhood when it's set free to explore the vast, open spaces of the imaginable." Constant Wonder interviews LEAF TOWN FOREVER authors @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social and @bethrooney.bsky.social

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The Double Bind of Disability Exposing the ableism underlying medical innovation   As medical advancements continue to shape the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of disability and il...

Congrats to Rebecca Monteleone whose book, The Double Bind of Disability, came out today!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791768...

I got to ask her questions about it for this podcast (which also came out today): share.transistor.fm/s/a581e7be
(UMinn Press does some really cool things.)

Book cover of Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest by Jameson R. Sweet. Background of stained brown textured paper. Title in brown at top, subtitle in white in middle, author name in maroon below.

Book cover of The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism by Grant Farred. Brown background with title, subtitle, author in fore and Forerunners series elements in detail throughout, in white.

Book cover of Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul: Three Cases Featuring Shadwell Rafferty by Larry Millett. Rear view of man in top hat and frock coat against painterly image of city street in yellow, brown, and green. Title in black, author in red.

More beautiful releases today! (2/2)

-Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest / Jameson R. Sweet
-The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism / Grant Farred
-Now in PB: Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul / Larry Millett

​Book cover of The Double Bind of Disability: How Medical Technology Shapes Bodily Authority by Rebecca Monteleone. X-ray of hand from which a piece is torn to reveal syringe, ampoule, IV drip, EKG, and BP meter where finger bones should be. Title in white.

Book cover of Place-Keepers: Latina/x Art, Performance, and Organizing in the Twin Cities, by Jessica Lopez Lyman. Color graphic blending musical bars behind two people smiling and gesturing toward the Taco Taxi restaurant’s marquee over a spray-painted facade.

Book cover of States of Defeat: US Imaginaries of Revolutionary Central America by Eric A. Vázquex. Title in capital letters in white and yellow arranged as a stacked set of descending stairs against a green background.

Book cover of The Eurabia Myth: Countercolonization and Masculine Fragility in France by Mehammed Amadeus Mack. Green Islamic geometric pattern in background with the shape of France cut out from it at center. Title appears in black and green within the cutout.

Many new releases today! (1/2)

-The Double Bind of Disability / @beccamonteleone.bsky.social
-Place-Keepers / Jessica Lopez Lyman, on Latina/x women artists in the Twin Cities
-States of Defeat / @fritamoreno.bsky.social
-The Eurabia Myth / Mehammed Amadeus Mack

A flyer with information for an "Author Meets Critics" panel at the 2025 American Studies Association conference. The book in focus is "Abolition Time: Grammars of Law, Poetics of Justice" by Jess A. Goldberg. The flyer has headshots of the six participants: Brigitte Fielder, Marquis Bey, Christopher Paul Harris, Almas Khan, Sasha Ann Panaram, Jess A. Goldberg The session will take place on Thursday Dec 20th from 9:45 to 11:15 AM in Salon A of Ballroom A in the Puerto Rico Convention Center.

If you're attending the American Studies Association conference this week, come join us for a roundtable on my @uminnpress.bsky.social book! I'm excited to be in conversation with these brilliant scholars & everyone who attends!

Thurs Nov 20th
9:45 to 11:15 AM
Convention Center Ballroom A
Salon A

Where Is My Sister? A poignant resource for helping children and families through the loss of a siblingSalome was going to be a big sister. Her brother, Gerald, told her so. The...

My new children’s PB, about a young girl moving through her mother’s stillbirth and illustrated by Huy Voun Lee, is now available for preorder at @uminnpress.bsky.social

Pubs on May 19, 2026

Interview at @thesocietypages.bsky.social
on newly released volume with @uminnpress.bsky.social addressing bullying. We need to change how queer bullying is understood in order to create more effective interventions and policy.

Everyday Ecofascism (Vandal Live at 2025 Quarry Farm Symposium) with April Anson, Alexander Menrisky, & Jeffrey Insko

Among several reasons to recommend this episode is the lengthy good faith discussion of what fascism is, both during my convo with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alex Menrisky, & during the Q&A that followed.

Inspired in part by Alex’s great book, published this year by @uminnpress.bsky.social

YouTube video by Book Cougars Friday Reads 3 October 2025 #VICTOBER

Big thanks to the @bookcougars.bsky.social for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social in their October 3rd episode!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8XS...

These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press @uminnpress.bsky.social

Happy University Press week!

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I'm really interested in this double-edged sword of access to digital materials . . . which feels different in 2025." —Danny Snelson

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "A lot of the friction that can happen in chains of information . . . it's not really about the tools being used, it's about our agency." —Vicki Bennett

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "I never would have dreamed of 'language not equal.' So the absence of metadata is one of the things I'm most proud of on (Eclipse)." —Craig Dworkin

​In fore at left, book cover for The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats by Daniel Scott Snelson (Colliding clumps of digital static in shades of pink and green form the background. Title in black at top, subtitle repeated vertically on the left). Up top, headshots of four humans: Daniel Scott Snelson, Vicki Bennett, Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra. At bottom, headphones graphic with sans-serif all-caps: Listen: University of Minnesota Press podcast. At right, quote: "(This book) excavates that tradition of sharing that later generations weren't necessarily exposed to." —Luca Messarra

🎧 Fantastic new conversation on our podcast! Featuring Danny Snelson, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) / @vickiwfmu.bsky.social , Craig Dworkin, and Luca Messarra on the digitized afterlives of cultural objects. share.transistor.fm/s/d0afdbc0

Headline: Holiday list picks. Three rows of four book covers each under the headers "for the foodie," "for the film, music, pop-culture buff," "for the history buff." Fading pink gradient background and diamond elements at top right.

Headline: Holiday list picks. Three rows of four book covers each under the headers "for the mystery and adventure reader," "for the memoir fan," "for the picture-book reader." Fading pink gradient background and diamond elements at top right.

Kick your personalized holiday shopping up a notch, or fill your own shelves with Minnesota treasures: This week's e-newsletter spotlights our Read Minnesota book sale!
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Celebration and Struggle: On the Life and Work of Alice Childress I was born into a country where people with uteruses had the right to choose if, when, and how they would carry a fetus to full term. I don’t live in that country anymore. I grew up in a world wher…

"I turn to literature for guidance and models of how to navigate this strange world . . . black writers, especially black women writers, have always served as models for me." lithub.com/celebration-... via @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

Read my sister's book www.upress.umn.edu/978145295943...

Economies and Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism by Christina Jerne* In April 2020, a truck transporting half a million euros in cash was stopped at Italy’s eastern border, testifying that the ’Ndrangheta, one of the world’s largest and richest m…

Economies and Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia #Activism and Resistance @uminnpress.bsky.social economicsociology.org/2025/11/10/e...

​Book cover for Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis by Larry Millett. Antique perspective map of river city upon which is a large bloodstain in which the title and author appear.

Book cover for By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, coedited by Joanna Hearne and Karrmen Crey. Stop-motion figure of a person with long dark hair, wearing a sleeved leather wrap and pants; they carry a bowl among trees with violet foliage.

Book cover for Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by Cameron Kunzelman. Dark gray background with image of a loose-woven white fabric fluttering below the title block, which mimics the style of the Assassin’s Creed video game.

Excellent new titles releasing today:
-Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett
-Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by @ckunzelman.bsky.social
-By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and @karrmencrey.bsky.social

Drawing on the Boggs’ cybercultural analysis, our book of the week reveals how Black radical thinkers traced automation’s roots to colonialism and slavery, seeing cyberculture as a site where labor, ecology, and race collide.

By Brian Bartell on @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Finding Each Other and the Stakes of Public Education What opportunities do our present combined crises—of austerity and intensified facism—present us with in considering how we struggle over…

Finding Each Other and the Stakes of Public Education: A zoom discussion Nov. 11th, 8pm Eastern, with Ujju Aggarwal, hosted by @debtcollective.bsky.social
debtcollective.org/event/findin...

Left to right: Book cover for Along Lake Michigan: Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss by Michael Schumacher (Painting in muted blues of a steamship cruising under the banner “Eastland.” The image is pitched sharply downward, suggesting peril.); book cover for Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher (watercolor rendering of large ship on stormy grey seas. Coral-colored strip across the vertical middle, with title in white all-caps, and subtitle and author at bottom.); and at right, text against black background: BOOK SALE: On the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. University of Minnesota Press logo at bottom right.

Eye-opening books on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975, and other shipwreck stories of life and loss. Select titles now 30% off with code MN94100.
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