Cultural Studies in the Interregnum [Paperback]

The editors and contributors toCultural Studies in the Interregnummobilize transnational cultural studies as a tool for politically engaged intellectual critique. Alongside the work of emerging and established scholars and activists, they think through massive cultural shifts and explore the possibilities of the in-between.
Covering queer and feminist studies, critical disability studies, and critical race and ethnic studies, the essays inCultural Studies in the Interregnumreflect on our shared political pasts and futures. Using examples ranging from media and literature to sex work, policing, and university systems, this exciting volume probes what cultural studies means in moments of social transformation.

Contributors include: Sean Johnson Andrews, C.M. Kaliko Baker, Mary Tuti Baker, James Bliss, Jorge E. Cuéllar, John R. Decker, Brian Dolber, Candace Fujikane, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Chris Hall, Rachel Lim, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anna Karthika, Manu Karuka, Najwa Mayer, Kyle Mays, Andrew Ó Baoill, Yumi Pak, Therí A. Pickens, Sami Schalk, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tia Trafford, and the editorsForthcoming Spring 2025“This book must be read!Cultural Studies in the Interregnumgathers as a proposal and an experiment in thinking ‘the moment’—there where the not-yet and the no-longer linger, which is also from where all im/possibilities derive. Thinking in such situations, in which lines cannot be drawn between what was and what is or between here and there, is the task awaiting those with the impetus to halt the social and ecological devastations proliferating in the global present. The essays collected here give invaluable examples of how.”—Denise Ferreira da Silva, Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities at New York University, and author ofUnpayable DebtRobert F. Carleyis Associate Professor of International Al3)