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Burnout Market Feminism

Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age

by Ling Tang

ISBN: 9780262051880

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 5, 2026

Why elite Chinese women find themselves caught in a cycle of burnout.

Infrastructuring Assemblies

On Interstices and Agonisms Toward Democratic Futures

Edited by Markus Miessen

ISBN: 9781915609717

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2026

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.

Youth Well-Being by Design

Integrating Research, Critical Perspectives, and Innovation

Edited by Carrie James and Mizuko Ito

ISBN: 9780262052542

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2026

An edited collection with fresh approaches to tech and youth well-being that go beyond blame and simplistic solutions.

Pre/Architecture

by Spyros Papapetros

ISBN: 9783956792847

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2026

How a pre-architectural world became a central object of study by architectural historians and architects in the aftermath of world historical events.

Plant Space

Cultures of the Vegetal

Edited by Carmen Lael Hines, Adam Hudec and Michelle Howard

ISBN: 9781915609809

Publisher: Sternberg Press

Pub Date: April 14, 2026

How plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains.

The Inner Passage

An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway

by Virginia McGee Richards

Introduction by Imani Perry

Foreword by James Estrin

ISBN: 9780262051712

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2026

A deeply moving photographic and narrative history of a southern waterway that the enslaved were forced to build for mercantile shipping—but which they used to escape slavery.

Artificial Religion

On AI, Myth, and Power

by Mark Coeckelbergh

ISBN: 9780262052214

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 7, 2026

How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations—and why we think we need it in the first place.

Expecting Inequity

How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

by Khiara M. Bridges

ISBN: 9780262051552

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 31, 2026

An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in maternal healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.