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The Experts’ War on Poverty Social Research and the Welfare Agenda in Postwar America Romain D. Huret tr ansl ated by John Angell

In the critically acclaimed La Fin de la Pauverté, Romain D. Huret identifies a network of experts who were dedicated to the post-World War II battle against poverty in the United States. John Angell’s translation of Huret’s work illuminates for an English-speaking audience this critical set of intellectuals working in federal government, academic institutions, and think tanks. Their efforts to create a policy bureaucracy to support federal socio-economic action spanned from the last days of the New Deal to the late 1960s when President Richard M. Nixon implemented the Family Assistance Plan. Often toiling in obscurity, this cadre of experts waged their own war on poverty and the American political establishment. Their policy recommendations, as Huret shows, often militated against the unscientific prejudices and electoral calculations that ruled Washington DC politics. The Experts’ War on Poverty highlights the metrics, research, and economic and social facts these social scientists employed, and reveals the unstable institutional foundation of successive executive efforts to grapple with gross social and economic disparities in the United States. Huret argues that this internal war, at a time of great disruption due to the Cold War, undermined and fractured the institutional system officially directed at ending poverty. The official War on Poverty was thus fomented and maintained by a group of experts determined to fight poverty in radical ways that outstripped both the operational capacity of the federal government and the political will of a succession of presidents. Romain D. Huret is Professor at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (France) and director of the Center for North American Studies (Mondes Américains). He is the author, most recently, of American Tax Resisters. John Angell is a translator for Vice Versa Language Services and teaches English at Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle.

AMERIC AN INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIET Y

$49.95 978-0-8014-5048-8 hardcover 264 pages, 6 x 9, 15 b&w halftones

“The Experts’ War on Poverty is a fascinating book. Romain Huret offers a refreshing perspective on a time when the U.S. and its economists cared a lot about poverty and inequality. This is a great combination of political, economic, and intellectual history.” —Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century “This unique, carefully researched book looks at experts who used empirical methods to measure the extent of poverty in America during the fifties and early sixties. Working in disparate places—foundations, government bureaus, and universities— they formed an intellectual network with considerable influence over the nation’s approach to poverty. The Experts' War on Poverty adds a great deal to our understanding of the war on poverty and should command the attention of policy historians on both sides of the Atlantic.” —Edward Berkowitz, Professor Emeritus, George Washington University “Romain Huret offers a compelling take on the politics of drawing attention to inequality in the proverbial age of affluence.” —Alice O’Connor, author of Social Science for What?

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Dark Pasts Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan Jennifer M. Dixon

Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands to recognize and apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses. While some states have apologized for past crimes, others continue to silence, deny, and relativize dark pasts. What explains the tremendous variation in how states deal with past crimes? When and why do states change their stories about their dark pasts? Dark Pasts argues that international pressures increase the likelihood of change in official narratives about dark pasts, but domestic considerations determine the content of such change. Rather than changing with the passage of time, persistence, or rightness, official narratives of dark pasts are shaped by interactions between political factors at the domestic and international levels. Unpacking the complex processes through which international pressures and domestic dynamics shape states’ narratives, Jennifer M. Dixon analyzes the trajectories over the past sixty years of Turkey’s narrative of the 1915–17 Armenian Genocide and Japan’s narrative of the 1937–38 Nanjing Massacre. While both states’ started from similar positions of silencing, relativizing, and denial, Japan has come to express regret and apologize for the Nanjing Massacre, while Turkey continues to reject official wrongdoing and deny the genocidal nature of the violence. Dark Pasts unravels the complex processes that construct and contest narratives, and offers an innovative way to analyze narrative change. Dixon’s book highlights the persistent presence of the past and reveals how domestic politics shape the ways states’ narratives change—or do not—over time. Jennifer M. Dixon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Villanova University. She has published articles in Perspectives on Politics, South European Society and Politics, and International Journal of Middle East Studies.

$55.00 978-1-5017-3024-5 hardcover 282 pages, 6 x 9, 3 b&w line drawings, 1 chart

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“The quality of Dark Pasts is excellent. Dixon’s work is unique in its comparison of the denial of violence in both Turkey and Japan, and in its analytical rigor. Well conceived, based on a wealth of resources, this book is a significant contribution.” —Fatma Göçek, author of Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against Armenians

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics under the Influence Vodka and Public Policy in Putin’s Russia Anna L. Bailey

The state is supposed to make policy in the national interest, to preserve the nation’s health against the ravages inflicted by widespread alcohol abuse. In fact, Bailey shows, the Russian state is deeply divided, and policy is commonly a result of the competitive interactions of stakeholders with vested interests. Politics under the Influence turns a spotlight on the powerful vodka industry whose ties to Putin’s political elite have grown in influence since 2009. She details how that lobby has used the anti-alcohol campaign as a way to reduce the competitiveness of its main rival—the multinational beer industry. Drawing on a wide range of sources including fieldwork interviews, government documents, media articles, and opinion polls, Bailey reveals the many ambivalences, informal practices, and paradoxes in contemporary Russian politics. Politics under the Influence exhibits the kleptocratic nature of the Putin regime; as a result, analysis of vested interests and informal sources of power is essential to understanding public policy in contemporary Russia. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on policy and corruption in Putin’s Russia. Anna L . Bailey worked for the UK civil service for four years and then as an English teacher in Kazan before graduate study at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She has published papers in the volumes of the International Scientific-Practical Conference on Alcohol in Russia.

“Anna Bailey’s book is relaxed and readable. Her concepts are clear, there is no unnecessary jargon, and she provides the reader with substantively rich, well-documented insights into the realm of Russian alcohol-policymaking.” —Mark Schrad, Villanova University “Anna Bailey’s high-quality book helps us understand how formal and informal sources of power combine to produce the outcomes we see in the world. Her insights are relevant to courses on post-communist politics, economic development, and policy making and implementation.” —Andrew Barnes, Kent State University

$24.95 978-1-5017-2440-4 paperback 264 pages, 6 x 9, 6 graphs

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Waste Consuming Postwar Japan Eiko Maruko Siniawer

In Waste, Eiko Maruko Siniawer innovatively explores the many ways in which the Japanese have thought about waste—in terms of time, stuff, money, possessions, and resources—from the immediate aftermath of World War II to the present. She shows how questions about waste were deeply embedded in the decisions of everyday life, reflecting the priorities and aspirations of the historical moment, and revealing people’s ever-changing concerns and hopes. Over the course of the long postwar, Japanese society understood waste variously as backward and retrogressive, an impediment to progress, a pervasive outgrowth of mass consumption, incontrovertible proof of societal excess, the embodiment of resources squandered, and a hazard to the environment. Siniawer also shows how an encouragement of waste consciousness served as a civilizing and modernizing imperative, a moral good, an instrument for advancement, a path to self-satisfaction, an environmental commitment, an expression of identity, and more. From the late 1950s onward, a defining element of Japan’s postwar experience emerged: the tension between the desire for the privileges of middle-class lifestyles made possible by affluence and dissatisfaction with the logics, costs, and consequences of that very prosperity. This tension complicated the persistent search for what might be called well-being, a good life, or a life well lived. Waste is an elegant history of how people lived—how they made sense of, gave meaning to, and found value in the acts of the everyday. Eiko Maruko Siniawer is Professor of History at Williams College. She is the author of Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860–1960.

$49.95 978-1-5017-2584-5 hardcover 412 pages, 6 x 9, 18 b&w halftones

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“Waste is an original, brilliantly conceived analysis of the protean forms and formations of waste in Japan—from the aftermath of WWII to today. Ranging across a multiplicity of genres, Eiko Maruko Siniawer insightfully demonstrates how waste’s many meanings constituted a potent signifier for the society’s ambivalence about scarcity and prosperity, frugality and affluence, wealth and well-being.” —William W. Kelly, author of The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers “Siniawer’s Waste explores the cultural and social meanings of waste in post–WWII Japanese society. This is a groundbreaking social history of the essential but often overlooked aspects of modern middle-class living.” —Yoshikuni Igarashi, author of Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Good Governance Gone Bad How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess Darius Ornston

If we believe that the small, open economies of Nordic Europe are paragons of good governance, why are they so prone to economic crisis? In Good Governance Gone Bad, Darius Ornston provides evidence that adapting flexibly to rapid, technological change and shifting patterns of economic competition may be a great virtue, but it does not prevent countries from making strikingly poor policy choices and suffering devastating results. Home to three of the “big five” financial crises in the twentieth century, Nordic Europe in the new millennium has witnessed a housing bubble in Denmark, the collapse of the Finnish ICT industry, and the Icelandic financial crisis. Ornston argues that the reason for these two seemingly contradictory phenomena is one and the same. The dense, cohesive relationships that enable these countries to respond to crisis with radical reform render them vulnerable to policy overshooting and overinvestment. Good Governance Gone Bad tests this argument by examining the rise and decline of heavy industry in postwar Sweden, the emergence and disruption of the Finnish ICT industry, and Iceland’s impressive but short-lived reign as a financial powerhouse as well as ten similar and contrasting cases across Europe and North America. Ornston demonstrates how small and large states alike can learn from the Nordic experience, providing a valuable corrective to uncritical praise for the “Nordic model.” Darius Ornston is Assistant Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He is the author of When Small States Make Big Leaps. His work has also been published by Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Governance, Review of Policy Research, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the OECD, and the World Bank.

“In this well-written and ambitious book, Darius Ornston situates the experience of economic governance in the Nordic countries, and argues persuasively that these small states have, on several occasions, engaged in radical restructuring of their economies. Ornston’s corrections of the conventional wisdom are important.” —Jonas Pontusson, University of Geneva “Darius Ornston breaks through the stereotypes and provides new insights into the Nordic economies, whose qualities—high levels of trust in dense socio-economic networks—deliver rapid innovation but also ‘over-shooting’ and crisis. Networked governance, often lauded in theory, can have a real-world downside, as Ornston ably demonstrates.” —Martin Rhodes, co-editor of The Political and Economic Dynamics of the Eurozone Crisis.

CO R N E L L S T U D I E S I N P O L I T I C A L ECO N O M Y

$31.95 978-1-5017-3017-7 paperback 272 pages, 6 x 9

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Nation-Empire Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies Sayaka Chatani

By the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and Korea, had expressed their loyalty to the empire by volunteering to join the army. Why and how did so many colonial youth become passionate supporters of Japanese imperial nationalism? And what happened to these youth after the war? Nation-Empire investigates these questions by examining the long-term mobilization of youth in the rural peripheries of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Personal stories and village histories vividly show youth’s ambitions, emotions, and identities generated in the shifting conditions in each locality. At the same time, Sayaka Chatani unveils an intense ideological mobilization built from diverse contexts—the global rise of youth and agrarian ideals, Japan’s strong drive for assimilation and nationalization, and the complex emotions of younger generations in various remote villages. Nation-Empire engages with multiple historical debates. Chatani considers metropole-colony linkages, revealing the core characteristics of the Japanese Empire; discusses youth mobilization, juxtaposing the Japanese seinendan (village youth associations) with the Boy Scouts and the Hitlerjugend; and examines society and individual subjectivities under totalitarian rule. Her book highlights the shifting state-society transactions of the twentieth-century world through the lens of the Japanese Empire, inviting readers to contend with a new approach to, and a bold vision of, empire study. Sayak a Chatani is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore.

S T U D I E S O F T H E W E AT H E R H E A D E A S T A S I A N I N S T I T U T E , CO LU M B I A UNIVERSIT Y

$55.00 978-1-5017-3075-7 hardcover 366 pages, 6 x 9, 10 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 4 maps

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“Nation-Empire redirects the scholarly focus from urban toward rural society and offers a persuasive analysis of sociopolitical change and subjectivity formation across the Japanese empire. Rigorous in its framing and effective in its comparisons, this book is a substantial contribution and reminder that modernity was not simply an urban affair.” —David Ambaras, author of Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan “Chatani answers a vexing question of colonialism: why rural youth in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea actively engaged in colonial and wartime initiatives, including military service. This history transforms our understanding of Japan as a “nation-empire” and makes a valuable contribution to the world history of youth.” —Lori Watt, author of When Empire Comes Home

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Migrant Passage Clandestine Journeys from Central America Noelle K ateri Brigden

At the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage analyzes how people from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala navigate the dangerous and uncertain clandestine journey across Mexico to the United States. However much advance planning they do, they survive the journey through improvisation. Central American migrants improvise upon social roles and physical objects, leveraging them for new purposes along the way. Over time, the accumulation of individual journeys has cut a path across the socioeconomic and political landscape of Mexico, generating a social and material infrastructure that guides future passages and complicates borders. Tracing the survival strategies of migrants during the journey to the North, The Migrant Passage shows how their mobility reshapes the social landscape of Mexico, and the book explores the implications for the future of sovereignty and the nation-state. To trace the continuous renewal of the transit corridor, Noelle Kateri Brigden draws upon over two years of in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along human smuggling routes from Central America across Mexico and into the United States. In so doing, she shows the value of disciplinary and methodological border crossing between international relations and anthropology, to understand the relationships between human security, international borders, and clandestine transnationalism. Noelle K ateri Brigden is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University.

“The Migrant Passage is an excellent ethnographic work, sure to be a major contribution to the literature on international migration. Noelle Brigden vividly details the lived experiences of migrants transiting Mexico towards the United States with nuanced, non-sensationalists accounts.” —David Spener, author of Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border “Noelle Brigden has produced the sort of book I have long thought should be written—an insightful account of the ways migrants navigate their identities as they travel to the United States. Brigden fills in unknown spaces, spaces of uncertainty, oases of previously untapped information.” —Susan Bibler, author of Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States

$24.95 978-1-5017-3055-9 paperback 252 pages, 6 x 9, 10 b&w halftones, 1 map

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

National Secession Persuasion and Violence in Independence Campaigns Philip G. Roeder

How do some national-secessionist campaigns get on the global agenda whereas others do not? Which projects for new nation-states give rise to mayhem in the politics of existing states? National secession has been explained by reference to identities, grievances, greed, and opportunities. With the strategic constraints most national-secession campaigns face, the author argues, the essential element is the campaign’s ability to coordinate expectations within a population on a common goal—so that independence looks like the only viable option. Philip G. Roeder shows how in most well-known national-secession campaigns, this strategy of programmatic coordination has led breakaway leaders to assume the critical task of propagating an authentic and realistic nation-state project. Such campaigns are most likely to draw attention in the capitals of the great powers that control admission to the international community, to bring the campaigns’ disputes with their central governments to deadlock, and to engage in protracted, intense struggles to convince the international community that independence is the only viable option. In National Secession, Roeder focuses on the goals of national-secession campaigns as a key determinant of strategy, operational objectives, and tactics. He shifts the focus in the study of secessionist civil wars from tactics (such as violence) to the larger substantive disputes within which these tactics are chosen, and he analyzes the consequences of programmatic coordination for getting on the global agenda. All of which, he argues, can give rise to intractable disputes and violent conflicts. Philip G. Roeder is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Roeder has published books on Kremlin politics, the Soviet state, and national-secession disputes and conflicts around the world. His articles have appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and International Studies Quarterly.

$49.95 978-1-5017-2598-2 hardcover 342 pages, 6 x 9, 7 maps, 3 charts

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“Philip G. Roeder has produced a novel argument that serves as an important corrective to the general tendency to over-focus on structural factors in analyzing popular mobilization. His theoretical contribution greatly advances our understanding of how campaigns for independence develop and are sustained. As a result, National Secession will appeal to scholars in all branches of the social sciences.” —Dmitry Gorenburg, author of Nationalism for the Masses: Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation “Roeder’s highly original analysis examines conditions that give rise to significant and often protracted campaigns for separatism. As he shows, separatists can win against the odds through persistent efforts aimed at demonstrating the impracticality of the status quo and the viability of sovereign statehood.” —Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University “Inspired by Lenin’s political theory of revolution, Philip Roeder, focusing on the challenge of programmatic coordination, offers an equally compelling political theory of national secession.” —David D. Laitin, Watkins Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

ENVIRONMENT

Communicating Climate Change A Guide for Educators Anne Armstrong, Marianne E. Krasny, and Jonathon Paul Schuldt

The complexity of climate change science and the political and cultural contexts in which people live create formidable challenges for environmental educators. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not translated into meaningful action. Communicating Climate Change provides educators with an understanding of how their audiences engage with climate change information as well as with concrete, empirically tested communication tools they can use to enhance their climate change program. Starting with the basics of climate science and climate change public opinion, Armstrong, Krasny, and Schuldt synthesize research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book. Each chapter covers a separate topic, from how environmental psychology explains the complex ways in which people interact with climate change information to communication strategies with a focus on framing, metaphors, and messengers. This broad set of topics will aid educators in formulating program language for their classrooms at all levels. Communicating Climate Change uses fictional vignettes of climate change education programs and true stories from climate change educators working in the field to illustrate the possibilities of applying research to practice, and ably demonstrates that environmental education can foster positive climate change dialogue and action. Anne K. Armstrong is a PhD Student in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University. Marianne E. Krasny is Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University. Jonathon P. Schuldt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. COMSTOCK PUBLISHING A SSOCIATES

“Communicating Climate Change provides a coherent explanation of effective climate change communication for practitioners. The vignettes offer excellent examples of environmental educators using these strategies to develop more helpful programs, share information about climate science, and empower people to adopt strategies to mitigate and adapt to change.” —Martha Monroe, University of Florida “Our climate is changing faster than scientists ever predicted. Communicating Climate Change explores the critical role education plays in addressing threats posed by climate change and the importance of understanding audience values, needs, knowledge, and identities. Educators will find a wealth of ideas, including two essential insights: information is not enough to catalyze action and people need hope!” —Judy Braus, editor of NatureScope, Windows on the Wild, Tools of Engagement, and Diversity and the Conservation Movement

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$19.95 978-1-5017-3079-5 paperback 174 pages,6 x 9, 2 b&w halftones, 1 figure, 9 charts

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Making Morocco Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity Jonathan Wyrtzen

WINNER, SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT’S BOOK AWARD

How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912–1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging top-down processes of colonial state formation or bottom-up processes of local resistance, the analysis in Making Morocco focuses on interactions between state and society. Jonathan Wyrtzen demonstrates how, during the Protectorate period, interactions among a wide range of European and local actors indelibly politicized four key dimensions of Moroccan identity: religion, ethnicity, territory, and the role of the Alawid monarchy. This colonial inheritance is reflected today in ongoing debates over the public role of Islam, religious tolerance, and the memory of Morocco’s Jews; recent reforms regarding women’s legal status; the monarchy’s multiculturalist recognition of Tamazight (Berber) as a national language alongside Arabic; the still-unresolved territorial dispute over the Western Sahara; and the monarchy’s continued symbolic and practical dominance of the Moroccan political field. Jonathan Wyrtzen is Associate Professor of Sociology, History, and International Affairs at Yale University.

“In Making Morocco, Jonathan Wyrtzen takes a refreshing approach within the realm of sociological histories. This book’s organization around issues of identity provides a distinctive entry point into the wider debates on state formation.” —Gurminder K. Bhambra, author of Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination

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“This book is a compelling account of struggles over identity during French colonization in Morocco. It is a must-read for anyone in search of a greater understanding of interactions between those in power in the colonial state and marginalized subaltern local groups. Making Morocco is a major contribution to the study of French colonialism in North Africa.” —Mounira M. Charrad, author of the award-winning States and Women’s Rights

$27.95 978-1-5017-3122-8 paperback 352 pages, 6 x 9, 15 halftones, 6 maps, 3 tables

“Making Morocco is a work of stunning erudition, drawing on a vast range of archival and original sources, including Berber oral poetry and Arab-language newspapers.” —George Steinmetz, University of Michigan

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M I G R AT I O N S T U D I E S

Migration and Integration in Flanders Multidisciplinary Perspectives edited by Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, François Levrau, Lore Van Pra ag, and Dirk Vanheule

Across the world, and due to ongoing globalization, migration is increasingly becoming a part of daily life. But more than ever, migration can no longer be viewed as a simple linear trajectory from A to B. The emergence of transnational communities and intense interactions between regions of origin and of destination have led to new forms of social–cultural praxis and (sub) cultures which exert an important influence on the integration of immigrants. The case of Flanders, the northern part of Belgium and at the centre of EU policymaking, is presented as a case study in this book. The growing complexity of migration leads the contributing authors to look beyond borders, both of national frontiers—as migration by definition implies cross-border research— and of disciplines and research methods. In doing so, the present volume offers thought-provoking essays on topical issues that stir public and political debates across Europe, and contributes to fundamental discussions on changing societies. Christiane Timmerman is professor and head of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp. Noel Clycq is visiting professor at the University of Antwerp. He is a member of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS). Fr ançois Levr au is currently a postdoctoral assistant at the Centre Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp. Lore Van Pr a ag is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp. Dirk Vanheule is professor of law, dean of the Faculty of Law, and chairperson of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp.

Contributors: Didier Boost (University of Antwerp), Noel Clycq (University of Antwerp), David De Coninck (KU Leuven), Godfried Engbersen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Steven Groenez (KU Leuven), Kenneth Hemmerechts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Dries Lens (University of Antwerp), François Levrau (University of Antwerp), Ive Marx (University of Antwerp), Joris Michielsen (University of Antwerp), Ward Nouwen (University of Antwerp), Edith Piqueray (University of Antwerp), Christiane Timmerman (University of Antwerp), Falke Tibax (University of Antwerp), Rut Van Caudenberg (University of Antwerp/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Anneloes Vandenbroucke (KU Leuven), Sanne Van de Pol (University of Antwerp), Dirk Vanheule (University of Antwerp), Gert Verschraegen (University of Antwerp), Sunčica Vujić (University of Antwerp)

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$79.50 978-94-6270-145-8 paperback 278 pages, 6 x 9

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States Bozena C. Welborne, Aubrey L. Westfall, Özge Çelik Russell, and Sarah A. Tobin

The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim identity in uniquely American ways. Transcending contemporary political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy, exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women themselves. The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, smoothly integrating the results of nearly two thousand survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine states. Seventy-two in-depth interviews help to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating topic. Bozena C. Welborne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Smith College. Aubrey L . Westfall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wheaton College. Özge Çelik Russell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Gazi University. Sar ah A. Tobin is a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She is the author of Everyday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan.

$22.95 978-1-5017-1537-2 paperback 262 pages, 6 x 9, 7 tables, 2 figures, 1 chart, 7 graphs

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan Mat thew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed

Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan. Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese politics for more than half a century and attempts to show how reforms have evolved to counter the problems. What causes political corruption to become more or less serious over time? they ask. The authors examine major political corruption scandals beginning with the early postwar period until the present day as one way to make sense of how the nature of corruption changes over time. They also consider bureaucratic corruption and scandals, violations of electoral law, sex scandals, and campaign finance regulations and scandals. In the end, Carlson and Reed write, though Japanese politics still experiences periodic scandals, the political reforms of 1994 have significantly reduced the levels of political corruption. The basic message is that reform can reduce corruption. The causes and consequences of political corruption in Japan, they suggest, are much like those in other consolidated democracies. Mat thew M. Carlson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is author of Money Politics in Japan. Steven R. Reed is Professor of Policy Studies at Chuo University. He is author of many books, including Making Common Sense of Japan.

$39.95 978-1-5017-1565-5 hardcover 200 pages, 6 x 9, 5 tables, 2 graphs

“Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan breaks ground in new and interesting areas of analysis in Japanese politics and comparative corruption. Carlson and Reed have a practicality and clarity in both their writing and their insights that make the book refreshing to read.” —Raymond Christensen, Brigham Young University “Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan is a very creative analysis of political scandals and corruption in a country with a bad reputation for them. The authors make a convincing case that different means are needed to combat each type of scandal or corruption. Carlson and Reed have produced an excellent systematic study of corruption and scandal and how to deal with it.” —Ellis Kraus, University of California, San Diego “Carlson and Reed have an important argument here: even as scandals have become more prominent in Japanese politics, corruption has been reduced as politicians and parties learn to avoid scandal-provoking behavior.” —Robert J. Pekkanen, University of Washington

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A NTH RO P O LOGY

School of Europeanness Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia Dace Dzenovska

In School of Europeanness, Dace Dzenovska argues that Europe’s political landscape is shaped by a fundamental tension between the need to exclude and the requirement to profess and institutionalize the value of inclusion. Nowhere, Dzenovska writes, is this tension more glaring than in the former Soviet Republics. Using Latvia as a representative case, School of Europeanness is a historical ethnography of the tolerance work undertaken in that country as part of postsocialist democratization efforts. Dzenovska contends that the collapse of socialism and the resurgence of Latvian nationalism gave this Europe-wide logic new life, simultaneously reproducing and challenging it. Her work makes explicit what is only implied in the 1977 Kraftwerk song, Trans-European Express: hierarchies prevail in European public and political life even as tolerance is touted by politicians and pundits as one of Europe’s chief virtues. School of Europeanness shows how post–Cold War liberalization projects in Latvia contributed to the current crisis of political liberalism in Europe, providing deep ethnographic analysis of the power relations in Latvia and the rest of Europe, and identifying the tension between exclusive polities and inclusive values as foundational of Europe’s political landscape. Dace Dzenovsk a is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society.

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“School of Europeanness has enough originality, as well as empirical data, to appeal to a wide range of scholars from different disciplines, including anthropology, politics, and international relations.” —Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, University of Manchester “School of Europeanness is certainly an innovative and well-conceived book and has a considerable capacity to impact how we think about postsocialist societies, their directions of past and future social change.” —Timofey Agarin, Queens University, Belfast “School of Europeanness is written with intellectual verve and imagination. Dzenovska argues that the frames of European belonging, national community, tolerance, and liberalism that have been applied in Latvia in the postsocialist decades have reproduced structures of exclusion and dominance in the relationship between a ‘good European core’ and a ‘not European enough’ periphery.” —Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania

N AT U R E

Grassroots to Global Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology edited by Marianne E. Krasny foreword by Keith G. Tidball

Addressing participatory, transdisciplinary approaches to local stewardship of the environment, Grassroots to Global features scholars and stewards exploring the broad impacts of civic engagement with the environment. Chapters focus on questions that include: How might faithbased institutions in Chicago expand the work of church-community gardens? How do volunteer “nature cleaners” in Tehran attempt to change Iranian social norms? How does an international community in Baltimore engage local people in nature restoration while fostering social equity? How does a child in an impoverished coal mining region become a local and national leader in abandoned mine restoration? And can a loose coalition that transforms blighted areas in Indian cities into pocket parks become a social movement? From the findings of the authors’ diverse case studies, editor Marianne Krasny provides a way to help readers understand the greater implications of civic ecology practices through the lens of multiple disciplines. Marianne E. Kr asny is Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Director of the Civic Ecology Lab at Cornell University. She is the coeditor or coauthor of numerous books, most recently, Urban Environmental Education Review and Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up.

“Across the globe, people in urban communities are developing new ethics and cultures around their evolving relationship with nature. This book takes on the crucial task of exploring those new perspectives. The authors examine numerous practical examples of environmental stewardship and consider to what extent these movements may shape and create new alliances and movements and how they will help define the urban environment.” —Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm Resilience Center

Contributors: Aniruddha Abhyankar, Martha Chaves, Louise Chawla, Dennis Chestnut, Nancy Chikaraishi, Zahra Golshani, Lance Gunderson, Keith E. Hedges, Robert E. Hughes, Rebecca Jordan, Karim-Aly Kassam, Laurel Kearns, Marianne E. Krasny, Veronica Kyle, David Maddox, Mila Kellen Marshall, Elizabeth Whiting Pierce, Rosalba Lopez Ramirez, Michael Sarbanes, Philip Silva, Traci Sooter, Erika S. Svendsen, Keith G. Tidball, Arjen E. J. Wals, Rebecca Salminen Witt, Jill Wrigley

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ASIAN STUDIES

From Miracle to Mirage The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960–2015 Myungji Yang

Myungji Yang’s From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century. Yang’s book offers a compelling story of the reality behind the myth of middle-class formation. Capturing the emergence, reproduction, and fragmentation of the Korean middle class, From Miracle to Mirage traces the historical process through which the seemingly successful state project of building a middle-class society resulted in a mirage. Yang argues that profitable speculation in skyrocketing prices for Seoul real estate led to mobility and material comforts for the new middle class. She also shows that the fragility inherent in such developments was embedded in the very formation of that socioeconomic group. Taking exception to conventional views, Yang emphasizes the role of the state in producing patterns of class structure and social inequality. She demonstrates the speculative and exclusionary ways in which the middle class was formed. Domestic politics and state policies, she argues, have shaped the lived experiences and identities of the Korean middle class. From Miracle to Mirage gives us a new interpretation of the reality behind the myth. Yang’s analysis provides evidence of how in cultural and objective terms the country’s rapid, compressed program of economic development created a deeply distorted distribution of wealth. Myungji Yang, a Brown alumna, is Assistant Professor in the political science department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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“From Miracle to Mirage makes an important contribution to our understanding of social class formation and contemporary Korean society by bringing together structural and socio-cultural analysis into the study of the middle class. Yang’s book carefully traces the making and unmaking of the Korean middle class, a subject that has traditionally received less scholarly attention than the working class or large conglomerates in the field of Korean political economy.” —Yoonkyung Lee, University of Toronto

LABOR STUDIES

Labor in Israel Beyond Nationalism and Neoliberalism Jonathan Preminger

Using a comprehensive analysis of the wave of organizing that swept the country starting in 2007, Labor in Israel investigates the changing political status of organized labor in the context of changes to Israel’s political economy, including liberalization, the rise of non-union labor organizations, the influx of migrant labor, and Israel’s complex relations with the Palestinians. Through his discussion of organized labor’s relationship to the political community and its nationalist political role, Preminger demonstrates that organized labor has lost the powerful status it enjoyed for much of Israel’s history. Despite the weakening of trade unions and the Histadrut, however, he shows the ways in which the fragmentation of labor representation has created opportunities for those previously excluded from the labor movement regime. Organized labor is now trying to renegotiate its place in contemporary Israel, a society that no longer accepts labor’s longstanding claim to be the representative of the people. As such, Preminger concludes that organized labor in Israel is in a transitional and unsettled phase in which new marginal initiatives, new organizations, and new alliances that have blurred the boundaries of the sphere of labor have not yet consolidated into clear structures of representation or accepted patterns of political interaction. Jonathan Preminger is a lecturer in employment and labor relations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

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“I applaud this book for its case studies of organizing and NGO activities and the analysis of the limits of those activities, as well as the author’s point about the increasingly individualistic and legalistic nature of labor actions. Most importantly, the central point that citizen and labor interests no longer align in Israel and the many illustrations of that point are valuable and appreciated.” —Harry C. Katz, Cornell University “Labor in Israel performs an important service in reporting case studies and contextual data, based on a comprehensive analysis of about thirty interviews, mass media sources, and secondary literature, doing much to fill this informational gap. It also goes beyond mere description by providing a conceptual framework that justifies a multidimensional view of unions and quasi-union organizations that helps organize the book. And it utilizes concepts and frequently borrows insights from relevant international literature.” —Michael Shalev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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No Path Home Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at Indiana University–Bloomington. She is the author of Privatizing Poland, also from Cornell.

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“No Path Home is an extremely interesting, engaging, and well-written book. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn’s fluid and clear prose paints a very evocative picture of life for internally displaced persons as well as presenting a clear theoretical account.” —Laura Hammond, SOAS University of London, author of This Place Will Become Home

CURRENT EVENTS

I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won Susan L. Marquis

I am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situation in the United States into one of the best. Susan Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new legislation, regulation, or government participation, these farmworkers have dramatically improved their work conditions. Marquis credits this success to the immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala who formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers,a neuroscience major who takes great pride in the watermelon crew he runs, a leading farmer/grower who was once homeless, and a retired New York State judge who volunteered to stuff envelopes and ended up building a ground-breaking institution. Through the “Fair Food Program” that they have developed, fought for, and implemented, these people have changed the lives of more than thirty thousand field workers. I Am Not a Tractor! offers a range of solutions to a problem that is rooted in our nation’s slave history and that is worsened by ongoing conflict over immigration. Susan L . Marquis is Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School and Vice President of Innovation at the RAND Corporation. She is the author of Unconventional Warfare.

“I Am Not A Tractor! explores what today's corporate giants fear the most: democracy. Marquis tells the extraordinary story of how some of the poorest people in America overcame some of the most powerful to obtain justice. If immigrant farm workers in Florida can do it, so can other workers throughout the United State—and this fine book shows how.” —Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation

“How on earth did a ragtag group of impoverished and marginalized farm workers bring true labor justice to the nation's fields? Susan L. Marquis's masterful investigation—detailed, academically rigorous— is impossible to put down.” —Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland “A solid work of labor history that offers valuable lessons for other activists and organizers.” —Kirkus Reviews

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$29.95 978-1-5017-1308-8 hardcover 304 pages, 22 halftones, 6 x 9

“This is a moving story at a time when the capitalist class typically fights, rather than negotiates with, labor organizations.” —Choice “Uplifting. You will not put this book down until you hit the final word.” —Paul C. Light, New York University C O R N E L L P R E S S .C O R N E L L . E D U

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Sex, Love, and Migration Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic Alexia Bloch

Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women’s exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women’s emotional worlds and aspirations. Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres—sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. She redirects our attention to the aspirations and lives of women who, despite myriad impediments, move between global capitalist centers and their home communities. Alexia Bloch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Red Ties and Residential Schools and The Museum at the End of the World.

“Sex, Love, and Migration offers essential insight on a widely observed but rarely studied form of mass migrant labor between Turkey and the densely populated Russian Federation. Gender and affect are at the foundation of this finely tuned analysis, and the ethnographic voice is eminently human.” —Bruce Grant, author of The Captive and the Gift “This book is an absolute pleasure to read. Alexia Bloch offers a terrific ethnographic treatment of the interrelated aspects of mobility, intimacy, gender, and capitalism— all of which are central to globalization and identity change.” —Douglas W. Blum, author of National Identity and Globalization “Sex, Love, and Migration is accessible yet provides depth and a complex picture of the economic, symbolic, social, and moral shifts that accompany transnational migration.” —Jennifer Suchland, author of Economies of Violence

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LABOR STUDIES

High Tech and High Touch Headhunting, Technology, and Economic Transformation James E. Coverdill and William Finlay

In High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters, personnel professionals who acquire talent for businesses and other organizations on a contingent-fee basis. In a high-tech world where social media platforms have simplified direct contact between employers and job seekers, Coverdill and Finlay acknowledge, it is relatively easy to find large numbers of apparently qualified candidates. However, the authors demonstrate that headhunters serve a valuable purpose in bringing hightouch search into the labor market: they help parties on both sides of the transaction to define their needs and articulate what they have to offer. As well as providing valuable information for sociologists and economists, High Tech and High Touch demonstrates how headhunters approach practical issues such as identifying and attracting candidates; how they solicit, secure, and evaluate search assignments from client companies; and how they strive to broker interactions between candidates and clients to maximize the likelihood that the right people land in the right jobs. James E. Coverdill is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. William Finl ay is Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Work on the Waterfront and coauthor of The Sociology of Work. Finlay and Coverdill are coauthors of Headhunters, also from ILR Press.

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$21.95 978-1-5017-0281-5 paperback 200 pages, 6 x 9

“A must-read for anyone interested in careers and executives.” — Peter Cappelli, author of Talent on Demand “High Tech and High Touch tells a captivating story about how we are all such complicated creatures that not all jobs can be easily replaced by robots or search algorithms.” —Ilana Gershon, editor of A World of Work “As Coverdill and Finlay very convincingly argue, the role of headhunters is both undergoing transformation and deeply implicated in changing employment practices.” —David Bills, author of The Sociology of Education and Work “High Tech and High Touch draws on rich qualitative data to tell the fascinating story of an occupation in turmoil. The authors show that despite the rise of LinkedIn and electronic job portals, hiring is a complex courtship in which cultural capital, emotional labor, inside information, and interpersonal trust still matter. The book should be on the reading list of anyone interested in labor markets, recruitment and hiring processes, occupational change, or the effects of recessions or of social media.” —Jeremy Reynolds, Purdue University C O R N E L L P R E S S .C O R N E L L . E D U

MEDICINE

India and the Patent Wars Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime Murphy Halliburton

India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses of globalization within the fields of anthropology, sociology, law, and public health by drawing on interviews and ethnographic work with pharmaceutical producers in India and the United States. India has been at the center of emerging controversies around patent rights related to pharmaceutical production and local medical knowledge. Halliburton shows that Big Pharma is not all-powerful, and that local activists and practitioners of ayurveda, India’s largest indigenous medical system, have been able to undermine the aspirations of multinational companies and the WTO. Halliburton traces how key drug prices have gone down, not up, in low-income countries under the new patent regime through partnerships between US- and India-based companies, but warns us to be aware of access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries going forward. Murphy Halliburton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Mudpacks and Prozac.

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$24.95 978-1-5017-1347-7 paperback 168 pages, 4 halftones, 6 x 9

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“In India and the Patent Wars, Murphy Halliburton addresses the question of how IP law and trade agreements should deal with sophisticated knowledge systems organized by principles quite unlike those of the West. Halliburton convincingly challenges the conventional view that pits Big Pharma and allopathic medicine against local knowledge-keepers and holistic healing.” —Michael F. Brown, author of Who Owns Native Culture?

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Thinking beyond the State Marc Abélès

The French scholar Marc Abélès is one of the leading political and philosophical anthropologists of our time. He is perhaps the leading anthropologist writing on the state and globalization. Thinking beyond the State, a distillation of his work to date, is a superb introduction to his contributions to both anthropology and political philosophy. Abélès observes that while interdependence and interconnection have become characteristic features of our globalized era, there is no indication that a concomitant evolution in thinking about political systems has occurred. The state remains the shield—for both the Right and the Left—against the turbulent effects of globalization. According to Abélès, we live in a geopolitical universe that, in many respects, reproduces alienating logics. His book, therefore, is a primer on how to see beyond the state. It is also a testament to anthropology’s centrality and importance in any analysis of the global human predicament. Thinking beyond the State will find wide application in anthropology, political science and philosophy courses dealing with the state and globalization. Marc Abélès is Full Professor of Anthropology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of Quiet Days in Burgundy and The Politics of Survival.

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“With panache and elegance, Marc Abélès assumes a position of ‘intersectional subjectivity’ to strike a fine balance between ethnographic encounter and theoretical adventure. This book mobilizes a critical political anthropology that makes an important intervention in the shifting scales and states of global power.” —Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University “Thinking beyond the State is a compelling analysis—prescient in its critical attention to national states in global contexts, and welcome as a comprehensive statement from a major theorist regarding not only the future of political anthropology but also the future of the idea of a shared world.” —Carol J. Greenhouse, author of A Moment’s Notice “[Abélès's] message is that social scientists need to broaden their organizing perspective in order to capture the dynamics of all the local, national, and international forces at play in contemporary society. In elevated but precise language, Abélès challenges contemporary social scientists to develop this inclusive framework, which mirrors more accurately the contemporary 21st-century world.” —Choice C O R N E L L P R E S S .C O R N E L L . E D U

H I S TO RY

Rural Radicals Righteous Rage in the American Grain With a New Preface

Catherine McNicol Stock

Through its history, populism has meant hope and progress, as well as hate and a desire to turn back the clock on American history. In her new preface, Catherine McNicol Stock provides an update and overview of the conservative face of rural America. She paints a comprehensive portrait of a long line of rural activists whose crusades against big government, big business, and big banks sometimes spoke in a language of progressive populism and sometimes in a language of hate and bigotry. Rural Radicals breaks down the populism expressed by activists, confronts our conventional notions of right and left, and allows us to understand political factionalism differently. Catherine McNicol Stock is Barbara Zaccheo Kohn ’72 Professor of History at Connecticut College. She is coeditor of The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, also from Cornell, and the author of Main Street in Crisis.

“Catherine McNicol Stock traces the lineage of extremist white rural politics. She draws clear links between contemporary hate groups and a long tradition of rural political movements characterized by a fierce commitment to the rights of small landowners and family farmers, and by a culture of vigilantism. Rural Radicals is a wild ride.” —Publishers Weekly “A first-rate and highly accessible history of radicalism in rural America.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Singlewide Chasing the American Dream in a Rural Trailer Park Sonya Salamon and K atherine MacTavish

In Singlewide, Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish explore the role of the trailer park as a source of affordable housing. America’s trailer parks, most in rural places, shelter an estimated 12 million people, and the authors show how these parks serve as a private solution to a pressing public need. Singlewide considers the circumstances of families with school-age children in trailer parks serving whites in Illinois, Hispanics in New Mexico, and African Americans in North Carolina. By looking carefully at the daily lives of families who live side by side in rows of manufactured homes, Salamon and MacTavish draw conclusions about the importance of housing, community, and location in the families’ dreams of opportunities and success as signified by eventually owning land and a conventional home. Working-poor rural families who engage with what Salamon and MacTavish call the “mobile home industrial complex” may become caught in an expensive trap starting with their purchase of a mobile home. A family that must site its trailer in a land-lease trailer park struggles to realize any of the anticipated benefits of homeownership. Seeking to break down stereotypes, Salamon and MacTavish reveal the important place that trailer parks hold within the United States national experience. In so doing, they attempt to integrate and normalize a way of life that many see as outside the mainstream, suggesting that families who live in trailer parks, rather than being “trailer trash,” culturally resemble the parks’ neighbors who live in conventional homes. Sonya Sal amon is Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Prairie Patrimony and Newcomers to Old Towns. K atherine MacTavish is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science at Oregon State University.

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“Singlewide is an important and muchneeded contribution to our understandings of rural poverty. Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish do an excellent job of situating the demand for trailer park housing in the larger context of rural economic changes and housing policies.” —Lyn C. Macgregor, University of Wisconsin–Madison “In Singlewide, distinguished ethnographers Sonya Salamon and Kate MacTavish tell an extraordinary story of trailer people— segregated, stigmatized, and cut off from mainstream society and the rural communities in which they live.” —Daniel T. Lichter, Cornell University “In Singlewide Sonya Salamon and Kate MacTavish provide a fascinating study of the meanings and implications of trailer park life. Readers will find a thoughtful analysis of the industry as well as a comprehensive and policy-rich account of the difficulties encountered by low-income families ‘chasing the American dream’ through mobile home ownership.” —Ann R. Tickamyer, Pennsylvania State University

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Protest Politics in the Marketplace Consumer Activism in the Corporate Age Caroline Heldman

Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreaking book, Caroline Heldman emphasizes that consumer activism is a democratizing force that improves political participation, self-governance, and the accountability of corporations and the government. She also investigates the use of these tactics by conservatives. Heldman analyzes the democratic implications of boycotting, socially responsible investing, social media campaigns, and direct consumer actions, highlighting the ways in which such consumer activism serves as a countervailing force against corporate power in politics. In Protest Politics in the Marketplace, she blends democratic theory with data, historical analysis, and coverage of consumer campaigns for civil rights, environmental conservation, animal rights, gender justice, LGBT rights, and other causes. Using an inter-disciplinary approach applicable to political theorists and sociologists, Americanists, and scholars of business, the environment, and social movements, Heldman considers activism in the marketplace from the Boston Tea Party to the present. In doing so, she provides readers with a clearer understanding of the new, permanent environment of consumer activism in which they operate. Caroline Heldman is Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College. She is the coeditor of Rethinking Madame President.

“Protest Politics in the Marketplace is a valuable study of contemporary consumer activism in the United States, one which is more comprehensive than any that I know of. It is an important book.” — Lawrence B. Glickman, author of Buying Power “Caroline Heldman persuasively demonstrates that consumer activism has become a major component of American politics. Protest Politics in the Marketplace will be very appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate courses in American government, interest groups, social movements, democratic theory, political sociology, and related fields.” —Mark B. Brown, author of Science in Democracy “Heldman builds on studies by historians and sociologists to look at market activism as a political phenomenon.... A fruitful area for political science research, and her book should be widely read.” —Choice

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LABOR STUDIES

Building Power from Below Chilean Workers Take On Walmart Carolina Bank Muñoz

A story that involves as its main players “workers” and “Walmart” does not usually have a happy ending for labor, so the counternarrative offered by Building Power from Below is must reading for activists and union personnel as well as scholars. In 2008 Walmart acquired a controlling share in a large supermarket chain in Santiago, Chile. As part of the deal Walmart had to accept the unions that were already in place. Since then, Chilean retail and warehouse workers have done something that has seemed impossible for labor in the United States: they have organized even more successful unions and negotiated unprecedented contracts with Walmart. In Building Power from Below, Carolina Bank Muñoz attributes Chilean workers’ success in challenging the world’s largest corporation to their organizations’ commitment to union democracy and building strategic capacity. Chilean workers have spent years building grassroots organizations committed to principles of union democracy. Retail workers’ unions have less structural power, but have significant associational and symbolic power. Their most notable successes have been in fighting for respect and dignity on the job. Warehouse workers by contrast have substantial structural power and have achieved significant economic gains. While the model in Chile cannot necessarily be reproduced in different countries, we can gain insights from the Chilean workers’ approaches, tactics, and strategies. Carolina Bank Muñoz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College. She is the author of Transnational Tortillas, also from ILR Press.

“Carolina Bank Muñoz’s analysis of a success story in Chile’s retail industry, which is known to be particularly antiunion, is fascinating and important. The comparison of retail and logistics is particularly novel. Building Power from Below will draw interest from a wide range of readers both inside and outside the academy.” —Joel Stillerman, author of The Sociology of Consumption “Building Power from Below is a timely, fascinating, and highly readable book that provides insight into how it is possible to ‘beat the bully.’ It provides a well written, well documented, and theoretically informed account as to how, even under neoliberalism, workers are able to deploy their power to overcome incredible odds.” —Fernando Leiva, author of Latin American Neostructuralism

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$22.95 978-1-5017-1289-0 paperback 192 pages, 1 halftone, 4 charts, 6 x 9

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MEDICINE

Achieving Access Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism Joseph Harris

At a time when the world’s wealthiest nations struggle to make health care and medicine available to everyone, why do resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy? Joseph Harris explores the dynamics that made landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. Drawing on firsthand accounts of the people wrestling with these issues, Achieving Access documents efforts to institutionalize universal healthcare and expand access to life-saving medicines in three major industrializing countries. In comparing two separate but related policy areas, Harris finds that democratization empowers elite professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, to advocate for universal health care and treatment for AIDS. Harris’s analysis is situated at the intersection of sociology, political science, and public health and will speak to scholars with interests in health policy, comparative politics, social policy, and democracy in the developing world. In light of the growing interest in health insurance generated by implementation of the Affordable Care Act (as well as the coming changes poised to be made to it), Achieving Access will also be useful to policymakers in developing countries and officials working on health policy in the United States. Joseph Harris is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University.

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“Through an in-depth analysis of three countries from different continents, this excellent book deepens scholarly understanding of the health care improvements resulting from democratization. Joseph Harris highlights how heightened political competition empowers progressive professional movements.” —Kurt Weyland, author of Making Waves “Joseph Harris has written a masterful account about achieving access to health services and to AIDS medications in three countries—Thailand, Brazil, and South Africa. Achieving Access offers both theoretical and practical lessons, and will be welcomed by policymakers, academics, and activists.” —Michael R. Reich, coauthor of Getting Health Reform Right “The excellent Achieving Access is very timely, and it helps us understand how specific policies came about (or didn’t) in Brazil, Thailand, and South Africa. The reader feels intimately connected to the events that Joseph Harris describes. This is not just an account of lawyers and doctors, but of individual people.” —Joseph Wong, author of Betting on Biotech

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Development Dance How Donors and Recipients Negotiate the Delivery of Foreign Aid Haley J. Swedlund

In a book full of directly applicable lessons for policymakers, Haley J. Swedlund explores why foreign aid is delivered in different ways at different times, and why various approaches prove to be politically unsustainable. She finds that no aid-delivery mechanism has yet resolved commitment problems in the donor-recipient relationship; bargaining compromises break down and have to be renegotiated; frustration grows; new ways of delivering aid gain traction over existing practices; and the dance resumes. Swedlund draws on hundreds of interviews with key decision makers representing both donor agencies and recipient governments, policy and archival documents in Ghana, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, and an original survey of top-level donor officials working across twenty countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This wealth of data informs Swedlund’s analysis of fads and fashions in the delivery of foreign aid and the interaction between effectiveness and aid delivery. The central message of The Development Dance is that if we want to know whether an aid delivery mechanism is likely to be sustained over the long term, we need to look at whether it induces credible commitments from both donor agencies and recipient governments over the long term. Haley J. Swedlund is Assistant Professor in the Nijmegen School of Management at Radboud University.

“The Development Dance is clearly written, always smart, and a real pleasure to read. Haley J. Swedlund interviewed hundreds of aid officials on both the government and donor sides, and she makes remarkably adept use of the interviews to illustrate aid dynamics.” —Nicolas van de Walle, coeditor of Democratic Trajectories in Africa “Interesting, important, and well-conceived, The Development Dance explains why donors select the aid modalities and delivery mechanisms that they do, and why they so frequently and readily drop one and take up another.” —Jonathan Fisher, coauthor of Africa’s New Authoritarians

$24.95 978-1-5017-0940-1 paperback 200 pages, 2 line figures, 3 graphs, 6 x 9

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Sacrifice My Life in a Fascist Militia Alessandro Orsini Tr ansl ated from the Italian by Sar ah Jane Nodes

Alessandro Orsini is one of Italy’s premier analysts of political extremism. His investigation of the beliefs and mind-sets of Europe’s political fringe has largely focused on anarchist and far-left groups, but in Sacrifice he turns his inquiry to the rapidly expanding neofascist movement. He joined local groups of a neofascist organization he names Sacrifice in two neighboring cities with very different political cultures. In this gripping, “insider” book, which features dialogues with various militia members, Orsini shows how fascists live day to day, how they understand their world, and how they build a parallel universe in which the correctness and probity of their attitudes are clear. Orsini describes the long, troubled process by which these two groups slowly accepted him as an investigatoractivist and later expelled him for his ideologically uncommitted stance and refusal to subject his observations to censorship. His activities as a fascist were often mundane: leafleting, distributing food parcels to the indigent, and attending public rallies. In Sacrifice, Orsini describes from within the masculine ethos of the militias, the groups’ relations with local police and politicians, and the central role of violence and anticommunist actions in building a sense of fascist community.

“A stunning rendering of life inside a fascist militia, exposing the raw exhilaration of violence that lies at this heart of this frightening world.” —Kathleen Blee, author of Inside Organized Racism “Vivid reporting and suspense as an Italian professor joins a militant fascist gang. This is social science in action—a page-turner for sure!” —Clark McCauley, coauthor of Friction

Alessandro Orsini is Director of the Observatory on International Security at LUISS University of Rome, Department of Political Science, and Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Anatomy of the Red Brigades, also from Cornell. Sar ah Jane Nodes is a translator who lives in Rome.

“The dynamics of a single cell of fanaticism are uniquely revealed in a way that makes the vast ideological monsters generating political violence in the modern world all the more intelligible, all the more human, and all the more disturbing.” —Roger Griffin, author of Terrorist’s Creed

$26.95 978-1-5017-0983-8 hardcover 240 pages, 6 x 9

"At the end, Orsini writes that part of his motivation for the book came from when he was young and witnessed a childhood friend grow disaffected. After failing exams and feeling adrift, the friend went from an easygoing joker to a Fascist group member. Orsini concludes that, for himself, ‘The most effective way to fight violence is to get to know it.’” —Washington Independent Review of Books

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URBAN STUDIES

Cities for Profit The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics Gavin Shatkin

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing. Shatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents’ feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkin’s comprehensive research. Cities for Profit contains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, and data from government and nongovernmental organization reports and data, urban plans, architectural renderings, annual reports and promotional materials of developers, and newspaper and other media accounts. Gavin Shatkin is Associate Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University.

“In this meticulously researched, methodologically elegant study, Gavin Shatkin offers an essential guide to state-led but profit-driven transformations of urban land, property, governance, and space in Asian cities.” —Neil Brenner, Harvard University, author of Critique of Urbanization “Cities for Profit breaks new conceptual ground in the study of global urbanism at the start of the new millennium. The writing is clear, the analysis is pathbreaking, and the approach is innovative.” —Martin Murray, Taubman College, author of Taming the Disorderly City “This excellent comparative study of real-estate-based urban development in Asia is essential reading for all urbanists. This book should change how urban scholars and practitioners, residents and policymakers think about and engage in the politics of making urban futures.” —Jennifer Robinson, University College London, author of Ordinary Cities

$27.95 978-1-5017-1113-8 paperback 290 pages, 16 halftones, 3 maps, 3 charts, 6 x 9

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MEDICINE

Fat-Talk Nation The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat Susan Greenhalgh

In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant “fat talk” aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today’s epidemic of fat talk to individuals and society at large. The human trauma caused by the war on fat is disturbing—and it is virtually unknown. In Fat-Talk Nation, Susan Greenhalgh tells the story of today’s fight against excess pounds by giving young people, the campaign’s main target, an opportunity to speak about experiences that have long lain hidden in silence and shame. Featuring forty-five autobiographical narratives of personal struggles with diet, weight, “bad BMIs,” and eating disorders, Fat-Talk Nation shows how the war on fat has produced a generation of young people who are obsessed with their bodies and whose most fundamental sense of self comes from their size. Greenhalgh argues that attempts to rescue America from obesity-induced national decline are damaging the bodily and emotional health of young people and disrupting families and intimate relationships. Susan Greenhalgh is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. She is the author of Under the Medical Gaze, Cultivating Global Citizens, and Just One Child and coauthor of Governing China’s Population.

“It is not an exaggeration to suggest that Fat-Talk Nation is relevant for everyone in North America. Susan Greenhalgh does not let anyone off the hook.” —Fat Studies “In a down-to-earth style, this book systematically details the many costs and unintended consequences of America’s ‘War on Obesity.’ Greenhalgh’s smart, accessible text gives us an easy, clear vocabulary that can be used dynamically to problematize the war on fat in the public sphere and in public health.” —Anthropological Quarterly “This book promises to become a classic in its field.” —Esther D. Rothblum, coeditor of The Fat Studies Reader “Fat-Talk Nation is an extremely rich book: well-written, well-resarched, provocative. The essays by young people are a gold mine.” —Amy Farrell, author of Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture

$19.95 978-1-5017-0076-7 paperback 280 pages, 11 tables, 6 x 9

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“Fat-Talk Nation is a powerful and absorbing expose of the unintended consequences of America’s war on fat.” —Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size and Body Respect

POLITICAL SCIENCE

The NGO Game Post-Conflict Peacebuilding in the Balkans and Beyond Patrice C. McMahon

In most post-conflict countries nongovernmental organizations are everywhere, but their presence is misunderstood. In The NGO Game Patrice McMahon investigates the unintended outcomes of what she calls the NGO boom in Bosnia and Kosovo. Using her years of fieldwork and interviews, McMahon argues that when international actors try to rebuild and reconstruct post-conflict countries, they often rely on and look to NGOs. Although policymakers and scholars tend to accept and even celebrate NGO involvement in post-conflict and transitioning countries, they rarely examine why NGOs have become so popular, what NGOs do, or how they affect everyday life. For many in the Balkans and other post-conflict environments, NGOs are not an aid to building a lasting peace but are part of the problem because of the turmoil they foster during their life cycles in a given country. The NGO Game will be useful to practitioners and policymakers interested in improving peacebuilding, the role of NGOs in peace and development, and the sustainability of local initiatives in post-conflict countries. Patrice C. McMahon is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska. She is the author of Taming Ethnic Hatred, coauthor of American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World, and coeditor of State Responses to Human Security.

“A detailed, tough-minded study of what happened when a swarm of nongovernmental organizations rushed into Bosnia and Kosovo in the wake of conflicts during the 1990s.” —Foreign Affairs “The NGO Game is a major contribution to our understanding of post-conflict interventions, democratization, and peacebuilding, as well as the specific cases of Bosnia and Kosovo. Patrice C. McMahon looks beyond what international NGOs and peacebuilding efforts claim to accomplish to get at what is actually happening on the ground.” —V. P. Gagnon, author of The Myth of Ethnic War “Patrice McMahon has written a spectacular book. Anyone interested in post-conflict peace-building and efforts at democratization, especially in the context of Bosnia–Herzegovina and Kosovo, will be richly rewarded by this fascinating study.” —Sabrina P. Ramet, author of The Three Yugoslavias

$24.95 978-1-5017-0924-1 paperback 224 pages, 5 tables, 13 charts, 6 x 9

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LABOR STUDIES

The City Is the Factory New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age Edited by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis

Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city. We see examples of the city as factory in new place-based political alliances, as workers and the unemployed find common cause with "right to the city" struggles. Demands for jobs with justice are linked with demands for the urban commons—from affordable housing to a healthy environment, from immigrant rights to “urban citizenship” and the right to streets free from both violence and racially biased policing. The case studies and essays in The City Is the Factory provide descriptions and analysis of the form, substance, limits, and possibilities of these timely struggles. Miriam Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Branding New York and coauthor of Crisis Cities. Penny Lewis is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY. She is the author of Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks, also from Cornell. Contributors: Melissa Checker, Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY; Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania; Els de Graauw, Baruch College, CUNY; Kathleen Dunn, Loyola University ChicagoShannon Gleeson, Cornell University; Miriam Greenberg, University of California, Santa Cruz; Alejandro Grimson, Universidad de San Martín (Argentina); Andrew Herod, University of Georgia; Penny Lewis, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY; Stephanie Luce, Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, CUNY; Lize Mogel, artist and coeditor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography; Gretchen Purser, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

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$29.95 978-1-5017-0554-0 paperback 264 pages, 9 halftones, 8 line figures, 1 map, 2 tables, 1 chart, 6 x 9

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“This book makes clear the importance of community- or city-based unionism and social movements. The future of organizing is going to have to take into account the centrality of the urban in capital accumulation processes. The city is now indeed the factory.” —Don Mitchell, author of The Right to the City “The City Is the Factory brings together and updates the interdisciplinary scholarly research on urban politics, critical geography, neoliberalism, and social and labor movements. The editors and contributors examine and theorize about how contemporary social and labor activists form alliances that respond to neoliberal urban politics in novel ways and how they relate to urban spaces through collective action.” —Ellen Reese, author of They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back! Welfare Activism in an Era of Retrenchment

LABOR STUDIES

Informal Workers and Collective Action A Global Perspective Edited by Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen

Informal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Cases from a diverse set of countries focus on “waged” workers (including port workers, beer promoters, hospitality and retail workers, domestic workers, low-skilled public sector workers, and construction workers) and self-employed workers (including street vendors, waste recyclers, and minibus drivers). These cases demonstrate that workers and labor organizations around the world are rediscovering the lessons of early labor organizers to achieve a level of power that can yield important changes in their work and lives. Informal Workers and Collective Action makes a strong argument that informal workers, their organizations, and their campaigns represent the leading edge of the most significant change in the global labor movement in more than a century. Adrienne E. Eaton is Associate Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations and Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is coauthor of Healing Together, also from Cornell. Susan J. Schurman is Distinguished Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is coauthor of Teaching for Change. Martha A. Chen is Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, an affiliated professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Cofounder and International Coordinator of the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network. She is coauthor of The Progress of the World’s Women 2005.

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“Informal Workers and Collective Action is a wonderful and extremely rich collection of case studies of informal workers’ movements that covers an impressive range of countries and industries.” —Rina Agarwala, author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India Contributors: Gocha Aleksandria, Georgian Trade Union Confederation; Martha A. Chen, Harvard University and WIEGO; Sonia Maria Dias, WIEGO and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Mary Evans, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Janice Fine, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Mary Goldsmith, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco; Daniel Hawkins, National Trade Union School of Colombia; Elza Jgerenaia, Labor and Employment Policy Department for the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Republic of Georgia; Stephen J. King, Georgetown University; Allison J. Petrozziello, UN Women and the Center for Migration Observation and Social Development; Pewee Reed, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Republic of Liberia; Sahra Ryklief, International Federation of Workers' Education Associations; Susan J. Schurman, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Vera Alice Cardoso Silva, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; Milton Weeks, Devin Corporation

$29.95 978-1-5017-0557-1 paperback 296 pages, 4 tables, 1 chart, 6 x 9

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Insider Threats Edited By Mat thew Bunn and Scot t D. Sagan

High-security organizations around the world face devastating threats from insiders—trusted employees with access to sensitive information, facilities, and materials. From Edward Snowden to the Fort Hood shooter to the theft of nuclear materials, the threat from insiders is on the front page and at the top of the policy agenda. In Insider Threats, Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan outline cognitive and organizational biases that lead organizations to downplay the insider threat, and they synthesize “worst practices” from these past mistakes, offering lessons that will be valuable for any organization with high security and a lot to lose. This is the first book to offer in-depth case studies across a range of industries and contexts, from biological research laboratories, to nuclear power plants, to the U.S. Army, allowing entities such as nuclear facilities and casinos to learn from each other. It also offers an unprecedented analysis of terrorist thinking about using insiders to get fissile material or sabotage nuclear facilities. Mat thew Bunn is Professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is coeditor of Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation. Scot t D. Sagan is Caroline S. G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is coeditor of Planning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Weapons, also from Cornell, among other books. Contributors: Matthew Bunn, Harvard University; Andreas Hoelstad Dæhli, Oslo; Kathryn M. Glynn, IBM Global Business Services; Thomas Hegghammer, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Oslo; Austin Long, Columbia University; Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University; Ronald Schouten, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Jessica Stern, Harvard University; Amy B. Zegart, Stanford University

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$22.95 978-1-5017-0517-5 paperback 216 pages, 1 halftone, 3 tables, 6 charts, 6 x 9

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“Matthew Bunn and Scott D. Sagan have produced a landmark study that redefines our understanding of safety and security when it comes to both the civilian and military nuclear complex. The organizational pathologies they identify are simply too dangerous to be ignored.” —James J. Wirtz, Dean, School of International Graduate Studies, Naval Postgraduate School, coeditor of Strategy in the Contemporary World “This compendium of research on insider threats is essential reading for all personnel with accountabilities for security; it shows graphically the extent and persistence of the threat that all organizations face and against which they must take preventive measures.” —Roger Howsley, Executive Director, World Institute for Nuclear Security “Insider Threats is well-written, even literary. Its chief lesson: organizations are rarely designed to catch the insider, and much work needs to be done to protect them.” —Security Management

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Killing Others A Natural History of Ethnic Violence Mat thew Lange

In Killing Others, Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, Lange provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past two hundred years. He offers evidence that a modern ethnic mindset is the ultimate and most influential cause of ethnic violence. Throughout most of human history, people perceived and valued small sets of known acquaintances and did not identify with ethnicities. Through education, state policy, and other means, modernity ultimately created broad ethnic consciousnesses that led to emotional prejudice. Modern social transformations also provided a variety of organizational resources that put these motives into action. Yet modernity takes many forms and is not constant, and past trends in ethnic violence are presently transforming. Over the past seventy years, the earliest modernizers have transformed from champions of ethnic violence into leaders of intercommunal peace, and Killing Others offers evidence that the emergence of robust rights-based democracy—in combination with effective states and economic development—weakened the motives and resources that commonly promote ethnic violence. Mat thew L ange is Professor of Sociology at McGill University. He is the author of Comparative-Historical Methods; Educations in Ethnic Violence: Identity, Educational Bubbles, and Resource Mobilization; and Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State and States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance.

“Killing Others is a bold and powerful book that restates the modernist approach to ethnicity and violence with renewed clarity and rigor.” —Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University, author of Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World “This theoretically rich, well illustrated, and engagingly written book is based on sound empirical evidence. It is a must-read for anybody interested in the study of violent conflicts and cultural difference.” —Siniša Malešević, University College Dublin, author of The Sociology of War and Violence

$24.95 978-1-5017-0488-8 paperback 256 pages, 4 halftones, 11 charts, 6 x 9

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