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PFKNR

HowBadBunnyBecametheGlobalVoiceofPuertoRicanResistance

Vanessa Díaz & Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Global superstar Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, like many other Puerto Ricans, has lived a life marked by public crises – blackouts, hurricanes, political corruption and oppression, among others – that have exposed the ongoing impacts of colonialism in Puerto Rico. Offering a portrait of the past and future of Puerto Rican resistance through one of its loudest and proudest voices, P FKN R draws on interviews with musicians, politicians, and journalists as well as ethnographic research to set Bad Bunny and Puerto Rican resistance in an historical, political, and cultural context. Authors Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau –creators of the “Bad Bunny Syllabus” – demonstrate Bad Bunny’s place in a long tradition of infusing joy and protest into music and honor the many, evolving forms of daily resistance to oppression and colonialism that are part of Puerto Rican life.

27January2026|

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MODERNPERU

ANewHistory

Edited by Paulo Drinot & Alberto

Vergara

Modern Peru: A New History offers a sweeping account of Peru’s history from the wars of independence to the present day. Delving into a history characterized by instability and a series of interrupted national projects, the contributors examine the legacies of Tupac Amaru’s 1780s rebellion and the intense ideological debates between conservatives and liberals about the newly independent nation. Accessible and wideranging, Modern Peru provides a singularly panoramic perspective on Peru’s history.

21October2025|360pp|44illus.

9781478032526|£21.99/$28.95|PB 9781478029175|£96.00/$119.95|HB

DUKEUNIVERSITYPRESS

ABRIEFHISTORYOF VIOLENCEINMEXICO

Pablo Piccato

Translated by Quentin Pope Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução

Political rhetoric often portrays Mexico as an inherently violent nation. Available now for the first time in English, Pablo Piccato's essential work cuts through the noise to contextualize violence as a historical phenomenon. Piccato shows us that violence is not unique to Mexico but, just as anywhere else, has erupted there in many forms. Attending to multiple histories of violence, Piccato reveals how violence emerges as a resource that people mobilize to various ends—not an uncontrollable impulse or the simple result of corrupt political power.

25November2025|240pp|3graphs

9781469689944|£24.99/$32.95|PB

9781469689937|£79.00/$99.00|HB

THEUNIVERSITYOFNORTHCAROLINAPRESS

DISSIDENT ACTS - DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

ACOUSTICCOLONIALISM

ActsofMapucheInterference

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante

Dissident Acts

Examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production over the last two centuries. Cárcamo-Huechante theorizes sound as a territory of racial, patriarchal, and colonial hegemony as well as of Mapuche struggle, agency, and response to what he calls acoustic colonialism.

21October2025|296pp|11illus.

9781478032632|£23.99/$31.95|PB

9781478029298|£96.00/$119.95|HB

DUKEUNIVERSITYPRESS

PERFORMANCES

OFSPIRALTIME

Leda Maria Martins

Translated by Bruna Barros & Jess Oliveira

Foreword by Fred Moten

Dissident Acts

Famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins introduces the notion of “spiral time”—curved and recurrent temporalities materialized in Black corporealities in which the body is the place of the inscription of memory and knowledge.

30September2025|160pp|14illus.

9781478032557|£19.99/$25.95|PB 9781478029182|£83.00/$103.95|HB

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QUEERTRAFFIC

Sex,Panic,FreeTrade

Jennifer Tyburczy

Dissident Acts

This book traces how sexual dissidents move objects, practices, and pleasures across North American borders. Engaging art, activism, and archives, it uncovers the tactics and renegade circuits that challenge trade law logics and imagine alternative, pleasure centered ways of living.

31October2025|304pp|45colourillus.

9781478032236|£25.99/$34.00|PB

9781478028963|£100.00/$125.00|HB

DUKEUNIVERSITYPRESS