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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.
The Wuhan Lockdown
Guobin Yang
$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.
Underwater
Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States Rebecca Elliott
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19027-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19026-8 2020 296 pages
SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES
Creative Control
The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries Michael L. Siciliano
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19381-8 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19380-1 2021 312 pages Super Polluters
Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of ClimateDisrupting Emissions Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer
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.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19217-0 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19216-3 2020 288 pages
SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT SERIES
Unnerved
Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health
Jason Schnittker
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20035-6 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-20034-9 2021 280 pages
Trade and Nation
How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought 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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18435-9 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18434-2 2021 312 pages
THE MIDDLE RANGE SERIES
Wine Markets
Genres and Identities Giacomo Negro and Michael T. Hannan with Susan Olzak
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20371-5 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20370-8 January 2022 272 pages 40 illus. The Corsairs of Saint-Malo
Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Régime 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.
THE MIDDLE RANGE SERIES
The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment
Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value Horacio Ortiz
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.
$30.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-20119-3 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20118-6 October 2021 312 pages
Selling Nature in the City Kevin Loughran
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19405-1 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19404-4 November 2021 296 pages 20 illus. The Soft City
Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City Terry Williams
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 978-0-231-17795-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-17794-8 April 2022 360 pages
Many Urbanisms
Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building Martin J. Murray
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20407-1 $140.00 /£115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20406-4 January 2022 424 pages 11 illus. Political Exercise
Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment Lawrence D. Brown
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.
$30.00 / 25.00 paper 978-0-231-17351-3 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-17350-6 February 2022 296 pages
Albert O. Hirschman
An Intellectual Biography Michele Alacevich
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. Defining the Age
Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours Edited by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
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 1964 Clermont-Ferrand and 1969 Vincennes Lectures Michel Foucault
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
The New Pragmatist Sociology
Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy Edited by Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship
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
The Long Year
A 2020 Reader Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
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 December 2021 560 pages
PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
The Cage of Days
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison K. C. Carceral and Michael G. Flaherty
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 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20344-9 December 2021 296 pages
Exhuming Violent Histories
Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past Nicole Iturriaga
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20113-1 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20112-4 February 2022 240 pages 25 illus. The Struggle to Stay
Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church Katie Gaddini
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19674-1 March 2022 272 pages
Urban Curating
Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist Elke Krasny
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 January 2022 250 pages 65 illus.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Unlocking Luhmann
A Keyword Introduction to Systems Theory Claudio Baraldi, Giancarlo Corsi, and Elena Esposito
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.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5674-9 2021 276 pages
BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Production of Consumer Society
Cultural-Economic Principles of Distinction Ernst Mohr
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 2021 340 pages 37 illus.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Working Misunderstandings
An Ethnography of Project Collaboration in a Multinational Corporation in India Frauke Mörike
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.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-5867-5 November 2021 300 pages 36 illus.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Scripting Defiance
Four Sociological Vignettes Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Amrita Pande, Wiebke Keim, and Nicos Trimikliniotis
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.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-81-9505591-3 February 2022 496 pages
TULIKA BOOKS
Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan
Youth, Narrative, Nationalism A-chin Hsiau
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.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20053-0 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-20052-3 November 2021 304 pages 2 illus.
GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE
Bordertextures
A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies Edited by Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, and Eva Nossem
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 December 2021 350 pages
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City of Workers, City of Struggle
How Labor Movements Changed New York Edited by Joshua B. Freeman
WINNER, ILHA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, INTERNATIONAL LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION
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.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19193-7 $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19192-0 2019 248 pages
COLUMBIA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF U.S. CAPITALISM
Genealogy of Popular Science
From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality Edited by Jesús Muñoz Morcillo and Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
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.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-4835-5 2021 370 pages 70 illus.
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More Than Machines?
The Attribution of (In) Animacy to Robot Technology Laura Voss
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.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5560-5 2021 240 pages 14 illus.
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[Un]Grounding
Post-Foundational Geographies Edited by Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl, and Nikolai Roskamm
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 2021 300 pages
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Narratives and Comparisons
Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science? Edited by Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens, and Carsten Reinhardt
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.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5415-8 2021 250 pages 32 illus.
