Sociology 2022-2023
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. This was yet another year of challenges in the world, but we remain steadfast in our dedication to advancing world knowledge focusing on the global, urban, and
contemporary. 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.
There are a few titles in this year’s catalog that resonate with current events. Judith Butler offers
moral lessons from the pandemic. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra critiques quantification in the workplace. Florian Weigand explores legitimacy in Afghan politics. Jonathan Wyrtzen reconsiders the legacy of World War I on Middle East politics. Elaine Schattner delves into changes in public perceptions of cancer.
There are many other authors and subjects that are not to be missed, including Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony on global cities, William Kornblum on Marseille, Martin J. Murray on urbanism,
Katie Gaddini on evangelical women, Kevin Munger on generational politics, and Sylvain Parasie on data journalism. True to our New York home, you will also find Sara Cedar Miller on Central Park
before the park, Nan A. Rothschild et al. on New York City archaeological findings, and Jonathan H. Rees on the Fulton Fish Market.
This is a great group of books and there is much to come. We look forward to continuing to share this intellectually engaging journey with you. As always, 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
Best of the Backlist...............................................16
Guobin Yang
New in Paperback................................................14 Ordering Information..........................................21
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.
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 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20046-2 2022 328 pages
What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology Judith Butler
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world. $17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20829-1 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20828-4 November 2022 144 pages
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Waiting for Dignity
The New Pragmatist Sociology
Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan
Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy
Florian Weigand
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 2022 512 pages
By exploring how different types of authority attempted to legitimize their rule, Waiting for Dignity challenges common assumptions about how to build legitimacy. Florian Weigand shows that what matters in conflict zones is what he terms “interactive dignity”: Citizens judge authorities on the basis of their day-today experiences with them. The extent to which people perceive interactions to be fair, inclusive, and respectful is vital to the construction of lasting order. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20049-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20048-6 2022 384 pages
Exhuming Violent Histories
Worldmaking in the Long Great War
Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past
How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East
Nicole Iturriaga
Jonathan Wyrtzen
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.
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20113-1
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2022 240 pages 25 illus.
2022 336 pages
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Emerging Global Cities
The Quantified Scholar
Origin, Structure, and Significance
How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences
Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony
Juan Pablo PardoGuerra
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators.
This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Lagos, New Orleans, Säo Paulo, and Hong Kong, identifying key features common to these cities.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19781-6
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December 2022 376 pages 50 illus.
The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment
Wine Markets
Horacio Ortiz
Genres and Identities
Giacomo Negro and Michael T. Hannan with Susan Olzak
Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value
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.
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.
$30.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-20119-3
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2021 328 pages
2022 280 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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2022 312 pages
2021 304pages 20 illus.
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Many Urbanisms
Marseille, Port to Port
Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building
William Kornblum
Martin J. Murray
William Kornblum—an eminent urban sociologist and a veteran traveler in the Francophone world—invites readers on an exploration of a changing city. Blending travelogue and social observation, he roams Marseille’s neighborhoods and regions in the company of writers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people. $25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20507-8 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20506-1 2022 200 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. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20407-1 $140.00 /£108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20406-4 2022 392 pages 11 illus.
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The Cage of Days
The Struggle to Stay
K. C. Carceral and Michael G. Flaherty
Katie Gaddini
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison
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 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20345-6
Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church
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.
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20344-9
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2021 320 pages
2022 304 pages
Computing the News
Generation Gap
Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity
Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture
Sylvain Parasie
Kevin Munger
Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that a common “cohort consciousness” binds aging Boomer voters into a bloc—but a shared identity and purpose among Millennials and Gen Z could topple Boomer power. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20087-5
Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20086-8
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19977-3
2022 216 pages 38 illus.
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19976-6
October 2022 312 pages
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Defining the Age
The Long Year
Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours
A 2020 Reader
Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
Edited by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
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 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8
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.
$95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20367-8
2021 560 pages
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2021 344 pages
The Power of Podcasting
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022
Telling Stories Through Sound
Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors;
Siobhán McHugh
Siobhán McHugh dissects what makes a good podcast and outlines how you can create one yourself. She blends practical insights into and critical analysis of the art of audio storytelling. Packed with case studies, history, tips, and techniques, this book introduces readers to the possibilities of the world of sound. $32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20877-2 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20876-5 October 2022 320 pages
Introduction by Jeffrey Goldberg
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 features a selection of articles honored by this year’s National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media. These awards are sponsored and administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. $18.95 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-20891-8 $80.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-20890-1 December 2022 264 pages
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From Whispers to Shouts
Anxious Eaters Why We Fall for Fad Diets
The Ways We Talk About Cancer
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill
Elaine Schattner
Elaine Schattner reveals a sea change—from before 1900 to the present day—in how ordinary people talk about cancer. From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories in newspapers and magazines, social media, and popular culture.
$29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-19226-2
Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters.
February 2023 376 pages
$28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19244-6
2022 360 pages
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
Unequal Cities
The Postwar Economic Order
Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States
National Reconstruction and International Cooperation
Richard McGahey
Albert O. Hirschman
Richard McGahey explores how cities can foster equitable economic growth despite the obstacles in their way. Drawing on extensive experience as well as historical analysis, he examines the failures of public policy and conventional economic wisdom that have led to the neglect of American cities and highlights opportunities for reform.
Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. This book presents a collection of his reports about economic policy, early efforts at intra-European cooperation, and the new U.S.-centered international order.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-17334-6
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20059-2
December 2022 304 pages
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20058-5
November 2022 320 pages
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Buried Beneath the City
Before Central Park
An Archaeological History of New York Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica Striebel MacLean
Sara Cedar Miller
This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history. $30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18194-5 2022 624 pages 170 illus.
Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts, from the first traces of indigenous societies more than ten thousand years ago to the detritus of Dutch and English colonization, through to the burgeoning city’s transformation into a modern metropolis. $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19495-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19494-5 2022 312 pages 196 illus.
The American Stamp
The Fulton Fish Market
Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States
A History
Jonathan H. Rees
Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler
This book is a lively and comprehensive history of the Fulton Fish Market, from its founding in 1822 through its move to the Bronx in 2005. Jonathan H. Rees explores the market’s workings and significance, tracing the transportation, retailing, and consumption of fish.
Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20256-5
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-20824-6
December 2022 312 pages 30 illus.
January 2023 336 pages 74 illus.
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Scripting Defiance
London
Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Amrita Pande, Wiebke Keim, and Nicos Trimikliniotis
Mike Raco and Frances Brill
Four Sociological Vignettes
The Privatised City
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-81-9505591-3
London has become one of the fastest growing cities in Europe and its expansion has generated many planning challenges. This book examines the complexities and difficulties in mobilizing policy agendas, and the market-led development of London that has led to the privatization of the city’s decision-making processes and policy implementation.
2022 496 pages
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-306-6
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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.
October 2022 288 pages
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Maps of Sorrow
Bordertextures
Sumangala Damodaran and Ari Sitas
Edited by Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, and Eva Nossem
Migration and Music in the Construction of Precolonial AfroAsia
A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies
Maps of Sorrow takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes, and interactions that were interconnected through long-distance trade, slavery, and migration. $30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-81-9505599-9 September 2022
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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 2021 350 pages
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Shifts in Mapping
Platformisation of Urban Life
Maps as a Tool of Knowledge Edited by Christine Schranz
Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities Edited by Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl
Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies drive this field and change our view of the world, shaping how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are relevant to cartography’s practices. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6041-8
This book addresses the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange. $30.00 paper 978-3-8376-5964-1 2022 200 pages
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2022 294 pages
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Programming Creativity
Robotic Knitting
Re-Crafting HumanRobot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting
Semantics and Organisation of Creativity Within IT Enterprises
Pat Treusch
Jan Sebastian Zipp
Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today’s prevailing understanding of the concept of creativity.
Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6316-7
2022 166 pages 35 illus.
2022 230 pages
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Functional Differentiation of Society
The Production of Consumer Society
Ernst Mohr
Cultural-Economic Principles of Distinction
Rudolf Stichweh
With this systematic study of functional differentiation in sociology, Rudolf Stichweh fills an astonishing gap in sociological research. To do so, he combines essays and case studies instructive for both practicing social scientists and the general public interested in a sociological understanding of modernity. $35.00 paper 978-3-8376-6119-4
With a novel 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.
September 2022 250 pages
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-5703-6
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2021 340 pages 37 illus.
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Public Space in Transition
Sound Formations
Towards a Sociological Thinking-with Sounds
Co-production and Co-management of Privately Owned Public Space in Seoul and Berlin
Rémy Bocquillon
Dahae Lee
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the processoriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, “feedingback” the sonic experimentations at the core of the research in new and engaging ways.
Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private-sector entities in the form of privately owned public spaces (POPS). Public Space on Transition offers a nmber of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6330-3
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6232-0
2022 212 pages
2022 202 pages 76 illus.
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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.
$24.95 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19995-7
October 2022 296 pages 38 illus.
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September 2022 368 pages 12 illus.
Critique and Praxis
Racism, Not Race
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Bernard E. Harcourt
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. $18.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20067-7 December 2022 320 pages 17 illus.
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. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19573-7 2022 696 pages
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Albert O. Hirschman
A Haven and a Hell
An Intellectual Biography
The Ghetto in Black America
Michele Alacevich
Lance Freeman
WINNER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD
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.
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. $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18461-8 2022 328 pages 25 illus.
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American Resistance
From the Women's March to the Blue Wave Dana R. Fisher
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. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18765-7 2021 216 pages
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To Fulfill These Rights
Downsizing
Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions
Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life David J. Ekerdt
Amaka Okechukwu
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In To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in the context of shifting race and class politics.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David J. Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decision-making process and the effectiveness of different strategies. $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-18981-1 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18980-4 2020 280 pages 2 illus.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18309-3 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-18308-6 2019 328 pages
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
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.
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.
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Trade and Nation
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo
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. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18435-9
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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 eye-opening book for cultural sociologists and literary historians as well as for fans of Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed Blacks forward through the twentieth century—the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements— as well as the many forces that ravaged Black communities, including Haynes’s own. $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18103-7 $30.00 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-18102-0 2017 240 pages 13 illus.
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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. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18877-7 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18876-0 2020 288 pages
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