Duke University Press, internationally recognized as a prominent publisher of books and journals, publishes approximately 120 books annually and over 40 journals, as well as offering five electronic collections.
The Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and is known as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional and interdisciplinary publications. The Press seeks to pursue its objectives with vision and integrity and a commitment to the highest standards of both critical scholarly review and professional publishing judgment.
Key subject areas
Anthropology
Social Theory
Queer Theory
Affect Theory
Left/Marxist Politics
Latin American Studies
Asian Studies
Film & TV
Duke Catalogues
Duke Featured Titles
Tomorrowing
14 May 2024
Feminism against Cisness
3 May 2024
Disability Worlds
30 April 2024
Crip Spacetime
Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
19 April 2024
Making Value
Music, Capital, and the Social
19 April 2024
Camera Geologica
An Elemental History of Photography
22 March 2024
Fractal Repair
Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
22 March 2024
Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition
22 March 2024
At the Vanguard of Vinyl
A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz
15 March 2024
Fire Dreams
Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
5 March 2024
Unspooled
How the Cassette Made Music Shareable
5 March 2024
Oceaning
Governing Marine Life with Drones
23 February 2024
Violent Intimacies
The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
23 February 2024
Nonhuman Witnessing
War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World
9 February 2024
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital
6 February 2024
Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet
Ten Queer Stories
6 February 2024
Deathlife
Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness
12 January 2024
The Trauma Mantras
A Memoir in Prose Poems
9 January 2024
Brutalism
9 January 2024
Struggles for the Human
Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
5 January 2024
Get Shown the Light
Improvisation and Transcendence in the Music of the Grateful Dead
17 November 2023
Marx for Cats
A Radical Bestiary
3 November 2023
Making Gaybies
Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling
3 November 2023
Feenin
R&B Music and the Materiality of BlackFem Voices and Technology
3 November 2023
The Affect Theory Reader 2
Worldings, Tensions, Futures
13 October 2023
Black Enlightenment
15 September 2023
Together, Somehow
Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor
8 August 2023
The Girl in the Yellow Poncho
A Memoir
8 August 2023
The Pulse of the Earth
Political Geology in Java
4 August 2023
The Cunning of Gender Violence
Geopolitics and Feminism
2 August 2023
The Sovereign Self
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
2 August 2023
Raving
14 March 2023
Running
14 March 2023
Fly-Fishing
14 March 2023
Juggling
14 March 2023
Wake Up, This Is Joburg
6 January 2023
Duke Featured Series
Practices
Series editor: Margret Grebowicz
Books in the Practices series are for real-life hobbyists, devotees, and enthusiasts. They are by and about amateurs in the original sense—those who engage in pursuits out of sheer love and fascination. Practices books show how an ordinary activity like fishing, running, or juggling helps us come to understand ourselves and the world around us. Sleek and incisive, they reveal the pleasures of losing oneself in doing anything that holds sway over us, no matter how common or minor it might seem. They map new places inside us. Practices books will intrigue and challenge an activity’s most ardent practitioners as well as those who never considered their appeal.
Fly-Fishing
Juggling
Raving
Running
Tomorrowing
Experimental Futures
Series editors: Michael M. J. Fischer & Joseph Dumit
Experimental Futures brings together theoretically innovative, ethnographically rich interdisciplinary work that is emerging in response to the uneven networks and differentiating cultures brought about by globally extended, as well as locally produced, biotechnologies, information technologies, digital humanities, bio and electronic arts. Experimental Futures is home to scholarship produced at the intersection of anthropology, science and technology studies, medicine, political economy, and studies of new media and arts.
Laboratory Epistemologies
A Hands-On Perspective
The Ends of Research
Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods
Haunting Biology
Science and Indigeneity in Australia
Virgin Mary and the Neutrino
Reality in Trouble
At the Pivot of East and West
Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts
Artifactual
Forensic and Documentary Knowing
Eating in Theory
Virulent Zones
Animal Disease and Global Health at China's Pandemic Epicenter
Avian Reservoirs
Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts
Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene
The Latin American Readers
Series editors: Robin Kirk & Orin Starn
This series, founded by Valerie Millholland, provides readers with a deep, human view of Latin America’s many faces. Each volume will focus on a single country and cover the main themes in its history and contemporary life, including migration and urbanization, racial and ethnic diversity, art and culture, war and political strife, women’s rights, the environment, economic reform, and democracy.
The Mexico Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Jamaica Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Haiti Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Cuba Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Bolivia Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Lima Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Colombia Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Rio de Janeiro Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Dominican Republic Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Chile Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Paraguay Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Guatemala Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Ecuador Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Peru Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Costa Rica Reader
History, Culture, Politics
The Brazil Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Theory in Forms
Series editors: Nancy Rose Hunt & Achille Mbembe
Theory in Forms presents new writing showcasing the import of new political contours in our planetary times of crisis, racializations, and securitization. The books address temporal and spatial scales—whether global, transnational, or intimate—and emphasize movement, borders, enclaves, and impasses in (post)colonies, global South(s), and beyond. Inciting experimentation with structure, methods, and the practice of writing, the series argues that form enables theory.
Wake Up, This Is Joburg
Markets of Civilization
Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria
Students of the World
Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo
In the Skin of the City
Spatial Transformation in Luanda
The Surrounds
Urban Life within and beyond Capture
The Doctor Who Would Be King
Elementary Aspects of the Political
Histories from the Global South
The Colonizing Self
Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Genetic Afterlives
Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
At Penpoint
African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War
The Wombs of Women
Race, Capital, Feminism
History 4° Celsius
Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
Revolution and Disenchantment
Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Naked Agency
Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa
The Complete Lives of Camp People
Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity
Beneath the Surface
A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners
Necropolitics
Colonial Transactions
Imaginaries, Bodies, and Histories in Gabon
The Fixer
Visa Lottery Chronicles
Experiments with Empire
Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic
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