Cheers to Ideas on Fire authors Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson for the publication of their new book Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, and Collaboration!

Learn more about this performance studies analysis of how Disney parks and their guests co-construct American identity in the 21st century: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666932393

#PerformanceStudies #TouristAsActor #AmericanStudies #JenniferKokai #TomRobson #LexingtonBooks #IoFAuthors #NewBooks #DisneyStudies

We’re thrilled to celebrate the publication of Ideas on Fire author Jess Whatcott’s book Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics, out now from Duke University Press! 🥳

This illuminating history of the eugenicist logics at the heart of prisons and disability institutions would make a great addition to courses about disability history, queer crip activism, prisons and incarceration, and social movements.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/menace-to-the-future

#DisabilityStudies #IoFAuthors

Congrats to Ideas on Fire author Charlotte Biltekoff on her new book Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge, out now from the University of California Press! This book explores scientific authority in consumer critiques of processed food.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520400979/real-food-real-facts

#FoodStudies #IoFAuthors

Happy publication day to Ideas on Fire author Danica Savonick! Her new book Open Admissions: The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College is out now from Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissions

#FeministPedagogy #IoFAuthors

Join us in applauding Ideas on Fire author Lisa Yin Han on her new book Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor! This University of Minnesota Press book analyzes the ecological, cultural, and economic impact of turning the seafloor into an extractable resource. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517915940/deepwater-alchemy/

#OceanStudies #IoFAuthors

Congrats to Ideas on Fire authors Lily Wong, Christopher B. Patterson, and Chien-ting Lin on their new book Transpacific Undisciplined! Out now from the University of Washington Press, this text explores interdisciplinary movements across the Pacific. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752754/transpacific-undisciplined/

#Transpacific #AsianAmericanStudies #NewBooks #IoFAuthors

On the latest episode of Imagine Otherwise, Ideas on Fire author Raven Maragh-Lloyd discusses her new book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age. Listen in to learn how Black digital practices from cancel culture to feminist networks of care are forging new online and offline futures.

https://ideasonfire.net/162-raven-maragh-lloyd

#BlackStudies #MediaStudies #FeministSTS #IoFAuthors #ImagineOtherwise #ImagineOtherwisePodcast #DigitalStudies #UCPress

New episode alert! Join host Cathy Hannabach and media studies scholar and Ideas on Fire author Raven Maragh-Lloyd for episode 162 of Imagine Otherwise as they explore Black resistance in the digital age. From Instagram archiving around Juneteenth to Black women’s online networks of care, they examine how digital spaces are used for resistance and community building.

https://ideasonfire.net/162-raven-maragh-lloyd

#BlackStudies #MediaStudies #FeministSTS #IoFAuthors #ImagineOtherwise #DigitalStudies #UCPress

Happy publication day to Ideas on Fire author Stephanie Canizales! Her new book Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: The Life and Labor of Unaccompanied Youth in the US is out now from the University of California Press. A must-read for August!

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396197/sin-padres-ni-papeles

#IoFAuthors #LatinxStudies #MigrationStudies

Congrats to Ideas on Fire author Eunsong Kim! Her new book The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property is out now from Duke University Press, and it offers a staunch critique of the racial and sexual politics of US museum and art collecting. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics-of-collecting

#IoFAuthors #MuseumStudies #VisualStudies