By Bayley Marquez, author of Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space
In the summer of 2023, as I was finishing reviewing the copy edits of my manuscript for Plantation Pedagogy, news sources began reporting on the controversy over Florida’s stat...
By Mario Telo, Editorial Board Chair, Classical Antiquity
We are very proud to publish “Fury and Justice in the Humanities” by Judith Butler in the new issue of Classical Antiquity. The boldest and most compelling thinker, the most influential and inspiring public intellectual, some...
By Joowon Park, author of Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process
In October 2022, the decomposed skeletal remains of a 49-year-old North Korean woman were discovered in an apartment in the Yangcheon district of Seoul. Rent had not been paid ...
By Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih, co-authors of Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France
Our new book, Traces of Violence: Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France, offers a unique collaborative inquiry into various forms and aftereffects of political vi...
by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru
I never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I never planned to write a book that critiqued the chefs credited for transforming Peru—the country ...
By Joachim J. Savelsberg, author of Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles
The past week marked historic recognition of injustice and suffering. In Minneapolis on April 20, a jury found former police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, on...
The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence.
In his new book, The United S...
In their new book, Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire, scholars Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini chronicle the chilling global history of human shields. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standi...