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Books
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species [info/purchase] [library locator] [read the intro]
Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century [info/purchase] [library locator]
The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science (co-edited volume)
Essays
Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare
On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late-Colonial Bengal
Intimate Atmospheres: Queer Theory in a Time of Extinctions
Animal Death as National Debility: Climate, Agriculture, and Syrian War Narrative (Response: Atmospherics of War by Jasbir Puar)
Post-Mortem on Race and Control
The Analogy of Race and Species in Animal Studies
Race, Human Security, and the Climate Refugee
Herd Racialization and the Inequalities of Immunity
Chimpanzee Sanctuary: Surplus Life and the Politics of Transspecies Care (co-written by Julietta Hua)
Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the Anthropocene
Weather as War: Race, Disability, and Environmental Determinism in the Syrian Climate War Thesis
Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar
Visualizing Covid-19 Emergency in India
The Contradictions of Colonial Dependency: Jack London, Leprosy, and Hawaiian Annexation
Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World
Species in a Planetary Frame: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and The Cove
Notes on Medicine, Culture, and the History of Imported Monkeys in Puerto Rico
Rhetorics of Endangerment: Cultural Difference and Development in International Ape Conservation
Interviews, roundtables, and short texts
Beyond Trigger Warnings: Safety, Security, and Queer Left Critique (Social Text Roundtable)
Asking Hard Questions (Interview with the editors of Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food)
More-than-Human and Deeply Human Perspectives on COVID-19 (Antipode Roundtable)
Covid-19 and Capitalism (roundtable)
Review of Animacies by Mel Chen
Review of The Security Archipelago by Paul Amar
Unmodeling Minorities: The Sikh Temple Massacre and the Question of Security
Islamophobia and Antiblackness: A Call to Action at UNC (co-written by Atiya Husain and Pavithra Vasudevan)
Distorting the Study of 9/11 at UNC