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Society for Social Studies of Science 2026

October 07, 2026 / Toronto, ON

Society for Social Studies of Science 2026

Ken Wissoker and Kate Mullen are joining you in person in Seattle, and you can find our table in the exhibit hall. Check out highlights of new and forthcoming science studies titles below, or browse our complete list in the field here.

Use coupon code 4S25 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through November 18, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from Mare Nostrum Group.

If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.


Cover of Ice Geographies features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt titled Beluga Hunting. It depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
Ice Geographies

The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic

Jen Rose Smith

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Winner of the 2026 Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science; Winner of the 2026 CAPE Outstanding Book Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

Cover of DeepAesthetics features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.
DeepAesthetics

Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning

Anna Munster

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Ludwick Fleck Award, 4S; Winner of the 2026 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, SCMS

A small white mobile home is at the center of cover image, with a single window and a pipe protruding from its base. The scene is quiet and minimal, with gravel and asphalt in the foreground and large trees in the background.
Homesick

Nicholas Shapiro

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Rachel Carson Award, 4S

Cover of Interface Frictions has a black background with iridescent pastel graphics and text. Four digital interface icons appear vertically: a sun symbol, a play button, a circular arrow, and an accessibility figure with outstretched arms.
Interface Frictions

How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies

Neta Alexander

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Camera Geologica cover image
Camera Geologica

An Elemental History of Photography

Angus, Siobhan

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Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen has a contemporary art installation with black-and-white images projected onto cylindrical surfaces.
Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, editors

Book

Crip Screens cover image
Crip Screens

Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies

Olivia Banner

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Excited Delirium cover image
Excited Delirium

Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

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Cover of Homeplaces shows a person dressed warmly swinging an axe overhead while in the process of chopping wood. There is a building with boarded up windows and wooden housing debris laying around.
Homeplaces

Dwelling and Habitability in Critical Times

João Biehl and Federico Neiburg, editors

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Cover photo on Media Rurality depicts mountains in the far background, behind a city, and winding roads leading to rural fields in the foreground.
Media Rurality

Patrick Brodie and Darin Barney, editors

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At the bottom of the cover of Wild Tides there is a photograph of three empty houses in disrepair with abandon building materials and gravel in the foreground. The sky is dark and stormy. Above this, the cover is a solid dark teal green.
Wild Tides

Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland

Patrick Brodie

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Cover of Indigenomicon features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in
Indigenomicon

American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, NAISA

Cover of Land of Famished Beings features a photograph, taken by the author, of dried betel nuts in a plastic bag. The bag also contains what appear to be green pods. A finger belonging to a person with Black skin points at the dried nuts.
Land of Famished Beings

West Papuan Theories of Hunger

Sophie Chao

Book

The Cybernetic Border cover image
The Cybernetic Border

Drones, Technology, and Intrusion

Iván Chaar López

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Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material.
Worlds Beyond Bios

The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life

Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg, editors

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Intoxicated

Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire

Mel Y. Chen

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Honorable Mention, 2025 AAAS Award for Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Work

Cover of Disaster Nationalism is an abstract image of swirling black lines that resemble an oncoming storm, with a background that has a gradient of a brown yellow at the top and burnt orange at the bottom.
Disaster Nationalism

Tsunami and Civil War in Sri Lanka

Vivian Y. Choi

Book

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Unfurl

Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming

Eli Clare

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Cover of Into the Loop features the book’s title and subtitle repeated in concentric spirals, creating a hypnotic, looping visual effect. The text varies in color—white, red, and teal—against a dark green background.
Into the Loop

An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Samuele Collu

Book

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Indifference

On the Praxis of Interspecies Being

Naisargi N. Davé

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Cover of Inventing Nadar features a sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script.
Inventing Nadar

A History of Photographic Firsts

Emily Doucet

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Oceaning

Governing Marine Life with Drones

Adam Fish

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Cover of Archives of the Anthropocene is a mixed media graphic featuring different textures and colors such as maps, photographs, text, and images.
Archives of the Anthropocene

Visual Grammars of Deep Time

Yuriko Furuhata

Book

Cover of Matterphorics features a dense, colorful abstract design made of pixel‑like dots in bright green, blue, pink, orange, and black. Below the artwork, the title appears in large yellow text, with the subtitle in smaller pink text.
Matterphorics

On the Laws of Theory

Daniela Gandorfer

Book

Cover of Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing is white with a light pink spray-painted area at the top. Below are five hands in different art styles all reaching towards a central heart sculpture that is made from cut out hands.
Feminist Making, Doing, and Sensing

Experiments in Philosophy

Lauren Guilmette and Ada S. Jaarsma, editors

Book

Cover of Floating Power is a solid navy blue with a line drawing resembling a ship in white. The line drawing also features a plug.
Floating Power

Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations

Gökçe Günel

Book

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Unmaking Botany

Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez

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Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being cover image
Pierre Bourdieu′s Political Economy of Being

Ghassan Hage

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Residual Governance

How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Gabrielle Hecht

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Winner, 2024 African Studies Association Best book Award

The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

Book

Cover of Racial Beings shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type.
Racial Beings

Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms

Michelle N. Huang

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The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

The Postmodernism Essay

Fredric Jameson

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Mosquito Work

Vectors of Global Health

Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun

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Cover of Protein is black featuring a jar at the bottom with a golden brown powder exploding from it. The powder extends from the top of the cover down to the jar. There is a measuring scoop filled with powder that rests on the bottle’s opening
Protein

The Making of a Nutritional Superstar

Samantha King and Gavin Weedon

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Haunting Biology

Science and Indigeneity in Australia

Emma Kowal

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Honorable Mention, 2024 Ludwick Fleck Prize

Cover of Marx for Cats is pale yellow and at its center is the title information. Surrounding the title information are patterns of drawn cartoon cats, including a tiger, a housecat, a cheetah, and a panther.
Marx for Cats

A Radical Bestiary

Leigh Claire La Berge

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Cover of Medicines That Feed Us features a vibrant, detailed illustration of various plants and flowers in shades of green, yellow, orange, blue, and red.
Medicines That Feed Us

Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey A. Langwick

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Cover of Personal Demons features a painting of a beige cat-like creature caught in branches against a painted black background.
Personal Demons

Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

Grace Lavery

Book

Cover of Revolutions of Capitalism features a grainy color gradient of purple, orange, and a warm grey. The title appears at the top of the cover in white.
Revolutions of Capitalism

The Politics of the Event

Maurizio Lazzarato

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Pollution Is Colonialism

Max Liboiron

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Co-Winner, 2025 AAG Presidential Achievement Award

Cover of We Live with the Sea features a photograph of a town in the mountains next to the sea. There are tall concrete walls that are sloped on the sea facing side and separate the town from the water.
We Live with the Sea

Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan

Andrew Littlejohn

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Cover of The Upright Farmer shows a photograph of individuals loading cotton onto an orange truck in a rural field covered in cotton.
The Upright Farmer

Racial Capitalism and Agricultural Modernization in Burkina Faso

Jessie K. Luna

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The Future of Futurity cover image
The Future of Futurity

Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City

Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta

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Conspiracy/Theory

Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen, editors

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The background of the cover of The Personality of Power is black and has images of dozens of tiny individual people in different poses.
The Personality of Power

A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

Brian Massumi

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Silicon Valley Imperialism

Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times

Erin McElroy

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Honorable Mention, 2024 Labor Tech Research Network Award

In the Land of the Unreal cover image
In the Land of the Unreal

Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles

Lisa Messeri

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Cover of The Connector has a black background featuring a white, abstract illustration resembling two branching, neuron‑like forms connected by a web of fine filaments.
The Connector

Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics

Alexandra Middleton

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Eating Is an English Word

Annemarie Mol

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Fear of a Dead White Planet cover image
Fear of a Dead White Planet

More Worlds Collective, Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Kosek, Jake, and M. Murphy

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Cover of A Thousand Paper Cuts features a textured background in shades of pink, orange, and green with faint abstract floral and geometric patterns.
A Thousand Paper Cuts

US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

Anjali Nath

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Cover of How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent features an aerial shot of a large smoke cloud billowing upwards from the forest below. A brown river snakes its way through the trees. The smoke cloud reaches the clouds in the sky.
How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent

Timothy Neale

Book

Cover of Love in the Time of Zika features a red photograph of an individual wearing a hazmat suit, gas mask, and boots and carrying an insecticide sprayer.
Love in the Time of Zika

Environmental Crisis and the Future of Reproduction

Paige Marie Patchin

Book

Cover of Miracle Road shows angular historical and modern photographs on an orange background with a faded map.
Miracle Road

The Story of Research Triangle Park

Allen Paul and Mack Paul

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Speculative Relations

Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Joseph M. Pierce

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Winner of the 2026 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, NAISA

Cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism features a piece of art made with paint and oil pastels. There is a black figure against a deep red circle which is outlined in multiple colors.
Inside the Body of Black Feminism

Science, Race, Culture

Samantha Pinto

Book

A Resonant Ecology cover image
A Resonant Ecology

Max Ritts

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Coming October 2024

Cover of California Futures features the silhouette of a bear with colorful cosmos inside, bold blue-and-white text, and a peach background.
California Futures

Haunted Ecologies, Decolonial Relations

Daniel Lanza Rivers

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Decentralizing Knowledges

Essays on Distributed Agency

Leandro Rodriguez Medina and Sandra Harding, editors

Book

Sick Work cover image
Sick Work

Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness

Emily Lim Rogers

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Cover of The Absent Stone features a photograph of part of the Piedra de los Tecomates, a large stone monument. The photo shows three holes in the stone in a horizontal line as well as the letters 'EM' and 'D' carved into the stone.
The Absent Stone

Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft

Sandra Rozental

Book

Cover of Resurgency is a grainy photograph of red crumpled paper planes stuck into the ground nose down. The land is beige and the sky is grey.
Resurgency

Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq

Kali Rubaii

Book

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Speaking of America

Great Conversations at the Library of Congress

David M. Rubenstein

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Cover of Insufferable Tools features an emoji face on the body of a man in a suit. The emoji is wearing sunglasses and laughing.
Insufferable Tools

Feminism Against Big Tech

Sarah Sharma

Book

Cover of Tension is a saturated image featuring fog in a valley between mountains in shades of yellow oranges and peachy reds. The trees and mountains peak through in purple. The title is centered on the cover in all caps.
Tension

Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas

Nikita Kaur Simpson

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Cover of The Elsewhere Is Black features a sculpture by Curtis Cuffie. The sculpture is tall and eclectic. It is made of colorful, found materials stacked and draped over a pole in an outdoor urban setting under a cloudy sky.
The Elsewhere Is Black

Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Marisa Solomon

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Cover of How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play has a bright purple background with polyhedral dice. The title is in yellow, green, and white in a fantasy font.
How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play

Aaron Trammell

Book

Cover of Sex Isn't Real features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background.
Sex Isn′t Real

The Invention of an Incoherent Binary

Beans Velocci

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Cover of The Climate Trial features a photograph of a person looking out at icy mountains and a bright icy blue lake. The individual wears dark pants, a navy blue jacket, and a tan hat.
The Climate Trial

Law and Justice on a Melting Planet

Noah Walker-Crawford

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Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

Book

On Addiction cover image
On Addiction

Insights from History, Ethnography, and Critical Theory

Darin Weinberg

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Menace to the Future cover image
Menace to the Future

A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics

Jess Whatcott

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Cover of Cisgender is a teal blue with navy blue loops and curls tangled across it. They have the texture of brush strokes.
Cisgender

Disorienting a Category

Perry Zurn

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Critical AI

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, editor

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Demography

Hedwig (Hedy) Lee, M. Giovanna Merli, and Marcos A. Rangel, editors

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Environmental Humanities

Marianna R. Dudley and Colin Hoag, editors

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History of the Present

A Journal of Critical History

Joan Wallach Scott and Brian Connolly, editors

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History of Political Economy

Kevin D. Hoover, editor

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Sarah E. Gollust, editor

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Labor

Studies in Working-Class History

Julie Greene, editor

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liquid blackness

journal of aesthetics and black studies

Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

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Open-Access Publication

Cover of <I>New Political Science: A Journal of Politics &amp; Culture</I>, Volume 47, Number 1, March 2025. The background is a solid maroon color with the journal title in large, bold, light orange text aligned top-left. The subtitle and issue info
New Political Science

A Journal of Politics and Culture

Andy Scerri and Gregory P. Williams, editors

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Public Culture

Brian T. Edwards and Vyjayanthi Rao, editors

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Qui Parle

Critical Humanities and Social Sciences

Editorial Board of Qui Parle, editor

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South Atlantic Quarterly

Michael Hardt, editor

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Social Text

Jonathan Beller and Amber Jamilla Musser, editors

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TSQ cover with bull-like sculpture and text on trans studies in nineteenth century Americas
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Dylan McCarthy Blackston, micha cardenás, Ciara Cremin, PJ DiPietro, Cole Rizki, and Jeanne Vaccaro, editors

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