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In anticipation of tomorrow we have composed a recommended reading list focused around #voting, politics, history, rights, law, and social movements.

Return to Ruin author Zainab Saleh has a new paper, The Human Cost Of U.S. Interventions in Iraq, on The Costs of War

Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel by Haggai Ram is out now! "Vividly written and drawing on a wide array of sources, Intoxicating Zion is packed with colorful characters, from Palestinian coffeehouse and Israeli bohemian tokers, to traffickers, to corrupt politicians profiting from the trade, to the Palestinian and Israeli police who fought to contain it. A fascinating and revelatory tale." Ted R. Swedenburg, University of Arkansas

Last month, we hosted an online discussion with Equity in Science author Julie R. Posselt, Gibor Basri and Natasha Warikoo Because attendees of the talk posted more questions than could be answered in a short amount of time, we invited Julie to continue the conversation on the SUP blog

Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai by Todd Reisz is out today! "Showpiece City is a meticulous reconstruction of the 'creation' of Dubai. With impeccable timing, Todd Reisz presents one of the key stories of the history of globalizationat the moment of its uncertain future." Rem Koolhaas

The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) interviewed Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins about her book Waste Siege My goal was to offer an introduction to everyday experience in Palestine that will help readers see some aspects of life they may share with Palestinians, specifically experiences of waste, toxicity, consumption, morality and obsolescence

Are you excited about the newly released SUP Digital project #FeralAtlas? If so then don’t miss tomorrow’s conversation with Anna Tsing, Co-Editor of Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene. RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, October 28th to receive Zoom link and password. Hosted by the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies

ICYMI The Polis Project podcast spoke to Ravinder Kaur about her book Brand New Nation and featured an excerpt on their website. "In a seminal case study of India, Kaur’s book explores the emergent idea of India as an investment destination and how this image is a carefully crafted product of a sustained brand-building campaign which does not always reflect the complexities of politics on the ground in India."

Oluwakemi M. Balogun discusses her brand-new book Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation. Zine Magubane (Boston College), Ashley Mears (Boston University), and Eileen Otis (University of Oregon) are the discussants, and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (University of Southern California; the co-editor of the Globalization in Everyday Life series) is the moderator.

Even before the pandemic, it was clear that there was a need to disrupt our traditional strategies in human rights to address the drivers of scandalous inequalities across global health. Alicia Ely Yamin wrote on the SUP blog about the COVID-19 pandemic and her book When Misfortune Becomes Injustice.

New on the SUP Digital blog, a celebration of our latest digital project: Playful, political, and insistently attuned to more-than-human histories, Feral Atlas does more than catalog sites of imperial and industrial ruin. Stretching conventional notions of maps and mapping, it draws on the relational potential of the digital to offer new ways of analyzingand apprehendingthe Anthropocene

New viewing! Pat Giersch spoke about his new book Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China to the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University

Our newest digital project Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene is out today! Start exploring: