Sociology 2021/2022
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LUMBIA UNIVE R SI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
Letter from the editor: It is with great pleasure that, on behalf of my colleagues at Columbia University Press, I introduce this year’s sociology catalog. The books in this catalog exemplify the quality of scholarship that we prize, and they reflect the interdisciplinary and thematic approach that we take to publishing.
We remain in interesting times in the wider world, and a number of titles in this year’s catalog
resonate with current events. Racism, Not Race by Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan Goodman provides a clear scientific foundation for antiracism practice. Guobin Yang in The Wuhan Lockdown takes us inside Wuhan as it responds to the soon-to-be global pandemic. Our colleagues Thomas J. Sugrue
and Caitlin Zaloom at Public Books present The Long Year: A 2020 Reader, a necessary overview of an incredible year.
This is also a significant year for theory, including Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer on the legacy of Daniel Bell; Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship on pragmatism in sociology;
newly translated lectures on sexuality by Michel Foucault; and a biography of Albert O. Hirschman by Michele Alacevich.
There are many other authors and subjects that are not to be missed, including Giacomo Negro and Michael T. Hannan on wine markets; Horacio Ortiz on valuation; Jason Schnittker on anxiety;
Kevin Loughran on postmodern parks; Michael Siciliano on creatives; K.C. Carceral and Michael Flaherty on prison time; Nicole Iturriaga on forensics and history; and Terry Williams on sex in New York’s recent past.
This is a great group of books and there is still much to come. We look forward to continuing to share this intellectually engaging journey with you. Thank you for your support.
Sincerely, Eric I. Schwartz, Ph.D. Editorial Director
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NEW AND FORTHCOMING
New and Forthcoming...........................................3
The Wuhan Lockdown
New in Paperback................................................12 Best of the Backlist...............................................13
Guobin Yang
Of Related Interest..............................................16
Ordering Information..........................................18
Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to Eric I. Schwartz (es3387@columbia.edu).
For a complete listing of Columbia’s titles or for more information about any book in this catalog, visit our website, cup.columbia.edu. Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press. If no UK price appears for a title, it is most likely available from Columbia only in the United States, its possessions, and Canada. Titles published by Transcript Publishing and Bielefeld University Press are available from Columbia only in North America. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly.
This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20047-9 $115.00 / £95.00 cloth 978-0-231-20046-2 February 2022 304 pages
Racism, Not Race
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman
In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman show readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science. $27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-20066-0 December 2021 312 pages 17 illus.
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Underwater
Super Polluters
Rebecca Elliott
Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer
Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States
Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of ClimateDisrupting Emissions
In Underwater, Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth account of the politics and social effects of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which provides flood insurance protection for virtually all homes and small businesses that require it. Elliott follows controversies over the NFIP from its establishment in the 1960s to the present.
Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes.
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2020 288 pages
2020 296 pages
SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES
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SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES
Creative Control
Unnerved
The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries
Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health
Michael L. Siciliano
Jason Schnittker
Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participate in their own exploitation.
Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.
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2021 280 pages
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20035-6
2021 312 pages
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The Corsairs of Saint-Malo
Trade and Nation
How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought
Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime
Emily Erikson
In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked the origins of classical political economy and provided the foundation for the contemporary discipline of economics. Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation.
Henning Hillmann
Combining rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century, The Corsairs of Saint-Malo offers a new understanding of the local organizational foundations of early modern capitalist development. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18039-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18038-2 2021 336 pages 42 illus.
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Wine Markets
The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment
Genres and Identities
Giacomo Negro and Michael T. Hannan with Susan Olzak
Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value Horacio Ortiz
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Italy and France as well as interviews with critics and data analysis, this book provides an unprecedented sociological account of the dynamics of wine markets. It shows how the concepts of genre and collective identity explain producers’ choices, whether they are selling traditional or nonconventional wines.
Horacio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among financial professionals in New York and Paris, this book shows how the political imaginaries that underpin financial markets legitimize global inequalities.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20371-5
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October 2021 312 pages
January 2022 272 pages 40 illus.
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Parks for Profit
The Soft City
Selling Nature in the City
Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City
Kevin Loughran
Terry Williams
Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals.
In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects of the “perverse space” of the city: porn theaters, sex shops, peep shows, restroom cruising, sadomasochism clubs, swingers’ events, and many more.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19405-1
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April 2022 360 pages
November 2021 296 pages 20 illus.
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Many Urbanisms
Political Exercise
Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building
Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment
Martin J. Murray
Lawrence D. Brown
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20407-1
Lawrence D. Brown presents five case studies of cities that have promoted active living with varying success through a range of approaches. He shows how and why the transformation of a call for public intervention into projects, programs, and policies is inescapably political.
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January 2022 424 pages 11 illus.
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February 2022 296 pages
Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.
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Albert O. Hirschman
Defining the Age
An Intellectual Biography
Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours
Michele Alacevich
Edited by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman’s approach to social-scientific questions. He traces the many strands of Hirschman’s thought and their place in his multifaceted body of work, considering their limitations as well as their strengths. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19982-7 2021 352 pages 16 illus.
In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished contributors to consider how Daniel Bell’s ideas captured their historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into today’s world. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20367-8 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20366-1 December 2021 344 pages
Sexuality
The New Pragmatist Sociology
The 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures
Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy
Michel Foucault
Edited by Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship
Edited by Claude-Olivier Doron
General Editor: François Ewald English Series Editor: Bernard E. Harcourt Translated by Graham Burchell Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt
Michel Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on sexuality for the first time in English. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19507-2 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19506-5 2021 440 pages
FOUCAULT LECTURE SERIES
In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism. $40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-20379-1 $160.00 / £132.00 cloth 978-0-231-20378-4 March 2022 512 pages
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The Cage of Days
The Long Year
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison
A 2020 Reader
Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
K. C. Carceral and Michael G. Flaherty
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. $22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1
This book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience, to examine how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20345-6
December 2021 560 pages
$140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20344-9
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December 2021 296 pages
Exhuming Violent Histories
The Struggle to Stay
Nicole Iturriaga
Katie Gaddini
Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church
Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past
Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, reshape collective memory, and create new forms of transitional justice. Exhuming Violent Histories sheds new light on how science and technology intersect with human rights and collective memory.
The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20113-1
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$120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20112-4
March 2022 272 pages
February 2022 240 pages 25 illus.
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Urban Curating
Unlocking Luhmann
Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist
A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory
Elke Krasny
Claudio Baraldi, Giancarlo Corsi, and Elena Esposito
Urban Curating explores the interconnectedness of economy, ecology, and labor in urban history as well as practices of remembrance. Drawing on the author’s work as an urban curator, the focus is on caring repair, refusal, and resistance—fighting the spatialization of injustice by building feminist solidarities and emancipatory imaginaries. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-3848-6
Niklas Luhmann’s theory is fascinating and complex. Using the reticular form of the glossary, this book makes the theory accessible while maintaining its complexity. Without being obstructed by knowledge gaps or oblique references, readers inside and outside sociology receive support to explore and engage with sociological systems theory.
January 2022 250 pages 65 illus.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5674-9
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2021 276 pages
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The Production of Consumer Society
Working Misunderstandings
Cultural-Economic Principles of Distinction
An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India
Ernst Mohr
Frauke Mörike
With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic system of society and analyzes their encounters. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-5703-6
As exemplified by project collaboration across three offices of a multinational consulting firm in India, Frauke Mörike explores how misunderstandings shape the organizational system and why they prove not only necessary but even productive for organizational functioning. In doing so, she offers new ways to think about collaboration and establishes ‘misunderstanding’ as key factor for an insight into the field of organizational research.
2021 340 pages 37 illus.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5867-5
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November 2021 300 pages 36 illus.
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Scripting Defiance
Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan
Four Sociological Vignettes Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Amrita Pande, Wiebke Keim, and Nicos Trimikliniotis
Youth, Narrative, Nationalism A-chin Hsiau
This book uncovers scripts through which notions of deviance as well as acts of defiance unravel. It considers an archive made up of significant scripts or narratives of defiance that endure through subaltern people’s cultural formations despite and in response to dominant ideas and ideologies.
In recent decades Taiwan has increasingly come to see itself as a modern nation-state. A-chin Hsiau traces the origins of Taiwanese national identity to the 1970s, when a surge of domestic dissent and youth activism transformed society, politics, and culture in ways that continue to be felt.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-81-9505591-3
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20053-0
February 2022 496 pages
$140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20052-3
TULIKA BOOKS
November 2021 304 pages 2 illus.
GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE
City of Workers, City of Struggle
Bordertextures
A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies
How Labor Movements Changed New York
Edited by Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, and Eva Nossem
Edited by Joshua B. Freeman WINNER, ILHA BOOK
OF THE YEAR AWARD, INTERNATIONAL LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION
This book proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands. $50.00 paper 978-3-8376-3895-0
City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have built formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be.
December 2021 350 pages
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19193-7
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2019 248 pages COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM
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Genealogy of Popular Science
More Than Machines?
Edited by Jesús Muñoz Morcillo and Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Laura Voss
The Attribution of (In) Animacy to Robot Technology
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality
This volume considers the popularization of science as a recurrent cultural technique. Classicists, archaeologists, medievalists, art historians, sociologists, and historians of science provide a multilayered approach to the rhetorics, aesthetics, and social conditions that have shaped the dissemination and reception of scientific knowledge.
We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this phenomenon from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-4835-5
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5560-5
2021 370 pages 70 illus.
2021 240 pages 14 illus.
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[Un]Grounding
Narratives and Comparisons
Post-Foundational Geographies
Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science?
Edited by Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl, and Nikolai Roskamm
Edited by Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens, and Carsten Reinhardt
This edited volume puts contemporary debates arising from the “spatial turn” in cultural and social sciences in a dialogue with postfoundational theories of space and place to devise postfoundationalism as a radical approach to urban studies. $60.00 paper 978-3-8376-5073-0
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparison.
2021 300 pages
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5415-8
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2021 250 pages 32 illus.
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American Resistance
Judge Thy Neighbor
From the Women's March to the Blue Wave
Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
Dana R. Fisher
Patrick Bergemann
Who are the millions of people marching against the Trump administration? American Resistance traces activists from the streets back to the communities and congressional districts around the country where they live, work, and vote. Using innovative data, Dana R. Fisher analyzes how resistance groups have channeled outrage into activism.
From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.
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2021 216 pages
2021 288 pages
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International Express
Retirement and Its Discontents
New Yorkers on the 7 Train
Why We Won't Stop Working, Even If We Can
Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum
Michelle Pannor Silver
Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority’s 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. The French ethnographer Stéphane Tonnelat and his collaborator William Kornblum, a native New Yorker, ride the 7 line to better understand the intricacies of this phenomenon. Their portrait of integrated mass transit, including a discussion of the relationship between urban density and diversity, is invaluable for social scientists and urban planners.
Michelle Pannor Silver considers how we confront the mismatch between idealized and actual retirement. She follows doctors, CEOs, elite athletes, professors, and homemakers during their transition to retirement as they struggle to recalibrate their sense of purpose and self-worth. $24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18857-9 $32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18856-2 2020 296 pages
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Measuring Culture
Critique and Praxis Bernard E. Harcourt
John W. Mohr, Christopher A. Bail, Margaret Frye, Jennifer C. Lena, Omar Lizardo, Terence E. McDonnell, Ann Mische, Iddo Tavory, and Frederick F. Wherry
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18029-0
Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Bernard E. Harcourt has written a magnum opus.
$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-18028-3
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2020 256 pages
2020 696 pages
Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both a definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.
Ascent to Glory
Doctors’ Orders
Álvaro Santana-Acuña
Tania M. Jenkins
The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession
How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic
Álvaro Santana-Acuña follows the path of One Hundred Years of Solitude in more than seventy countries on five continents and explains how thousands of people and organizations have helped it to become a global classic. Shedding new light on the novel’s imagination, production, and reception, Ascent to Glory is an eyeopening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians before, during, and after residency training. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms that are taken for granted and that lead to hierarchies among supposed equals.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18433-5
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2020 384 pages 12 illus.
2020 352 pages
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Working for Respect
A Haven and a Hell
Adam Reich and Peter Bearman
Lance Freeman
Community and Conflict at Walmart
The Ghetto in Black America
WINNER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD
Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how Walmart workers make sense of their jobs in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present for social and economic justice. Working for Respect makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality.
Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane. $32.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-18460-1 2019 328 pages 25 illus.
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The Death of Idealism
Preserving Neighborhoods
Development and AntiPolitics in the Peace Corps
How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman
Aaron Passell
The Death of Idealism uses the case of the Peace Corps to explain why and how participation in a bureaucratic organization changes people’s ideals and politics. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman offers an innovative institutional analysis of the role of idealism in development organizations. Based on interviews with over 140 current and returned Peace Corps volunteers, field observations, and a largescale survey, this deeply researched, theoretically rigorous book offers a novel perspective on how people lose their idealism and why that matters. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18969-9
Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell explores how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change. He argues that this form of regulation is one of the few remaining urban policy interventions that enable communities to exercise some control over the changing built environments of their neighborhoods. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19407-5
$120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19406-8 January 2021 272 pages
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-18968-2 2020 320 pages 15 illus.
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Artificial Whiteness
Ambitious and Anxious
Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence
How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education
Yarden Katz
Yingyi Ma
Yingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American higher education based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. colleges. Ma argues that experiences of these students embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that has arisen due to the transformative social changes in China. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18458-8
Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 2020 336 pages
2020 264 pages
Research Exposed
How Empirical Social Science Gets Done in the Digital Age
Edited by Eszter Hargittai
Better Data Visualizations
A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks Jonathan Schwabish
By focusing attention on the concrete details seldom discussed in final project write-ups or traditional research guides, Research Exposed helps equip junior and senior scholars alike with essential information that is all too often left with no outlet for sharing. This volume offers important insights into how empirical social science research can be both innovative and rigorous when dealing with the opportunities and challenges presented by digital media.
Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do’s and don’ts of data visualization, the principles of visual perception, and how to make subjective style decisions around a chart’s design. $28.95 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19311-5 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19310-8
January 2021 320 pages 533 illus.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18877-7 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18876-0 2020 288 pages
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy
The Way Out
Aubrey Clayton
Peter T. Coleman
Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.
The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country.
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Why Trust Matters
World as Family
Benjamin Ho
Vishakha N. Desai
An Economist’s Guide to the Ties That Bind Us
A Journey of Multi-Rooted Belongings
Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and proceeding through the evolution of the modern economy, he explores its role across an astonishing range of institutions and practices.
Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities.
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Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser Neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel Prize in 2000. He takes readers through his lab’s scientific advances as well as his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art into conversation.
Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.
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