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Mare Nostrum Group
AIM High
Growing the Motivational Potential of Youth Psychological Assessment
Pei and Daniels combine their decades of theoretical and applied expertise to bring motivation theory alongside the practice of psychological assessment. The book highlights the opportunity to stand with children and their support teams to aim high, offering a picture of children and youth that meaningfully considers growth and movement for goal attainment.
Children as Social Butterflies
Navigating Belonging in a Diverse Swiss Kindergarten
Ursina Jaeger
Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
November 2024 224pp
9781978836983
9781978836990
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
£24.99/ $28.95 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
Children as Social Butterflies examines how kindergarten children experience, negotiate, and claim belonging in a diverse and stigmatized Swiss neighborhood. Schools as formative instances of social belonging are particularly important where children with different migration histories are educated together.
9781978835023
9781978835030
Decentering Epistemologies and Challenging Privilege
Critical Care Ethics Perspectives
Edited by Sophie Bourgault, Maggie FitzGerald & Fiona Robinson
Carework in a Changing World
September 2024 220pp
£34.00/ $37.95 PB
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to decenter ethics; women’s moral experiences were not reflected in the masculinist approaches to ethics. Care ethics challenged this model as it realized through practices rather than principles.
9780295753140
9780295753133
Caring for Caregivers
Filipina Migrant Workers and Community Building during Crisis
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez Series edited by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Critical Filipinx Studies
November 2024 192pp 5 b&w illus.
£25.99/ $30.00 PB
£94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Francisco-Menchavez centers the perspectives of Filipino caregivers in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2013, demonstrating their strategies to help each other navigate the US healthcare system.
Curriculum Studies in Canada
Present Preoccupations
Edited by Anne M. Phelan & William F. Pinar
June 2024 288pp 3 b&w illus., 4 b&w figures
9781487551711
9781487551698
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
£26.99/ $34.95 PB
£66.00/ $85.00 HB
The largest specialization in faculties of education in Canada is curriculum studies. This book represents the present preoccupations of curriculum scholars in Canada. Contributors engage with significant themes, among them ongoing efforts at justice for Indigenous Peoples, the continuing arrival of immigrants and refugees, Canada’s complex relationship to the United States, and issues related to the climate crisis.
Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities
Edited by Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang & Simon Appleford
Debates in the Digital Humanities
December 2024 248pp 2 b&w illus.
9781517916923 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781517916916 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Bringing together a diverse group of scholars and students, Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities invites a reimagining of current models of graduate education to address ongoing challenges to the humanities and to create sustainable and humane pedagogies, classes, and institutions.
Disconnected
Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age
Debbie J. Goldman
Working Class in American History
August 2024 264pp 7 b&w photos, 13 charts, 7 tables
9780252088155 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9780252046056 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Call center workplaces once encouraged camaraderie and job satisfaction, ten years later there is isolation, imposed quotas, and surveillance systems that tracked every call and keystroke. Goldman explores how call center employees and their union fought for humane jobs in the face of degraded working conditions and lowered wages.
Geek Girls
Inequality and Opportunity in Silicon Valley
France Winddance Twine
October 2024 296pp 8 b&w illus.
9781479835157 £16.99/ $19.95 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the hightech industry. Draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are currently employed at tech firms such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, and at various startups in the San Francisco Bay area.
Hollywood Unions
Edited by Kate Fortmueller & Luci Marzola
December 2024 306pp 15 b&w images and 1 table
9781978830585 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978830592 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hollywood Unions is a unique collection that tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized motion picture and television labor: IATSE, the DGA, SAGAFTRA, and the WGA. The Hollywood unions represent a wide swath of the workers making media: from directors and stars to grips and make-up artists.
Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online
Edited by Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Enilda Romero-Hall, Clare Daniel, Niya Bond & Liv Newman
Issues in Distance Education
November 2024 304pp 12 b&w figures, 6 tables
9781771994286 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
This edited volume examines the experiences that global feminist educators have had in infusing feminist pedagogical tenets into their learning practices. By (re)imagining feminist pedagogy providing advice for using technology to enact these tenets in the classroom, this collection will empower educators and learners alike.
Gender Play
Boys and
Girls in School
Barrie Thorne
Introduction by Raewyn Connell & Michael A. Messner
Afterword by C.J. Pascoe
September 2024 360pp
9781978838253 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781978838260 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
When it first appeared in 1993, Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School became an instant classic in the budding fields of feminist sociology and childhood studies. Through detailed first-hand observations of fourth and fifth graders at play, she investigated questions like: Why do girls and boys tend to self-segregate in the schoolyard?
Hope Circuits
Rewiring Universities and Other Organizations for Human Flourishing
Jessica Riddell
March 2024 300pp 7 photos
9780228020677 £22.99/ $26.95
Paperback
9780228020660 £99.00/ $110.00
Hardback
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do we model abundance – in teaching, in learning, in leading organizations, particularly nonprofits – when dealing with fiscal austerity and other forms of scarcity thinking? Hope Circuits explores this question, balancing sophisticated ideas with democratizing higher education for everybody.
Hull-House Maps and Papers
A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions
Jane Addams
Introduction by Rima Lunin Schultz
October 2024 200pp 8 b&w photos 9780252088612 £25.99/ $29.95 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
In addition to Addams’s paper on social settlements in the labor movement, contributors provided analysis of the Chicago area.
Learning to Lead
Undocumented Students
Mobilizing Education
Jennifer R. Nájera
October 2024 192pp 10 illus.
9781478030539 £21.99/ $25.95 PB 9781478026303 £90.00/ $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jennifer R. Nájera explores the intersections of education and activism among undocumented students at the University of California, Riverside. Taking an expansive view of education, Nájera shows how students’ experience in college—both in and out of the classroom—can affect their activism and advocacy work.
Making Republicans
Liberal
Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise
Kristoffer Smemo
Politics and Culture in Modern America
August 2024 312pp
9781512826234 £45.00/ $49.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
As poor and working people organized themselves during the mid-twentieth century, they forced Republicans to consider demands for political and social citizenship in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast. While rightwing Republicans mobilized, this book explores how another wing of the party responded to intensifying mass movement pressure.
Indie Porn
Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance
Zahra Stardust
a Camera Obscura book
October 2024 328pp 39 illus. 9781478031062 £24.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478026815 £97.00/ $107.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Against the backdrop of a global gig economy, Zahra Stardust, herself a porn performer and participant, documents the promises of indie porn to democratize content, revolutionize production, and redistribute wealth while outlining the fantasies of regulators, whose illusions of what porn is and does foreclose possibilities for transformation.
The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over 4 million cooks and food preparation workers employed in America’s restaurants, not everyone makes it to the high-status position of chef. What factors determine who rises the ranks in this fiercely competitive pressure-cooker environment?
Open Admissions
The Poetics and Pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the Era of Free College
Danica Savonick
August 2024 264pp
9781478030614 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026372 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (cuny). Savonick shows how teaching in cuny’s free and open classrooms fundamentally altered their writing and, with it, the course of American literature and feminist criticism.
Óscar Romero and Catholic Social Teaching
Edited by Todd Walatka
October 2024 376pp 4 b&w illus.
9780268208752 £58.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This book explores the life, mission, and writings of martyred Salvadorian archbishop St. Óscar Romero in the light of contemporary work for justice and human development. A timely, engaging collection of the most rigorous scholarly engagement with Romero and Catholic social teaching to date.
Post-Crisis Leadership
Resilience, Renewal, and Reinvention in the Aftermath of Disruption
Ralph A. Gigliotti
November 2024 180pp 3 b&w images and 6 tables
9781978838482 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978838499 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book highlights how attention tends to center on strategies for engaging in leadership both prior to and during crisis, often leaving the post-crisis period as an afterthought. This book introduces a researchinformed framework for this critical, and often neglected, phase of crisis leadership.
Re-membering Culture
Erasure and Renewal in Hmong American Education
Bic Ngo
November 2024 248pp
9781517910754 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517910747 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Based on a high school in an urban center with a considerable Hmong immigrant community, Ngo’s work draws on extensive ethnographic research with Hmong American community leaders, school administrators, parents, teachers, staff, and high school students to understand how they navigate the terrain of Western pedagogy while attempting to retain and preserve Hmong knowledge systems.
Paths Made by Walking
The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
Amina Tawasil
September 2024 342pp 21 b&w illus., 2 b&w tables
9780253070869 £40.00/ $45.00 PB
9780253070852 £85.00/ $95.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
This groundbreaking ethnography on Iranian howzevi (seminarian) women reveals how ideologies of womanhood, and Islamic practices have played a pivotal role in religiously conservative women's mobility in the Middle East. Amina Tawasil invites readers to reconsider their conceptualizations of the women who support the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom
Introduction and edited by Cristina Stanciu & Gary Totten
The contemporary rethinking and relearning of history and racism has sparked creative approaches for teaching the histories and representations of marginalized communities. Stanciu and Totten edit a collection that illuminates race advances and understanding of contemporary and historical US multiethnic literatures for a variety of fields.
Read in the Name of Your Lord
Islamic Literacy Development in Revolutionary Egypt Nermeen Mouftah
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught between revolutionary activism and Islamic reformism in post-Mubarak Egypt. Nermeen Mouftah demonstrates how the rise in modern scripturalism underpinned literacy activism, blurring the binary between secular and religious knowledge.
Reading the Room
Lessons on Pedagogy and Curriculum from the Gender and Sexuality Studies Classroom
Edited by Natalie Kouri-Towe
November 2024 384pp
9781988111537 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Working from a place of coalition building, this volume is a frank, insightful, and pragmatic invitation to share different pedagogical practices with educators in a range of academic disciplines, and shows how teachers and students can navigate the difficulty and discomfort of contentious topics and learn more from each other.
Sex Work in Popular Culture
Lauren Kirshner
July 2024 400pp 33 color illus., 20 b&w illus.
9781487548636 £27.99/ $37.50 PB
9781487507862 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Delves into provocative movies, TV shows, and documentaries about sex work produced in the last fifteen years – a period of debate and change around the meaning of sex work in North American society. The book reveals how sex work is being recognized as real work and an issue of human rights.
Strength through Diversity
Harlem Prep and the Rise of Multiculturalism
Barry M. Goldenberg
January 2025 268pp 30 b&w images
9781978823396 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978823402 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Strength Through Diversity, Barry M. Goldenberg shares the history of this one-of-a-kind multicultural institution from its rise, apex, and decline, revealing the collective stories of hope, struggle, and love from administrators, teachers, community members, and students. Using history as a blueprint, Goldenberg illustrates the untapped potential of multicultural education in the ongoing quest for educational equity.
Reproductive Labor and Innovation
Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype
Jennifer Denbow
November 2024 232pp 3 illus.
9781478030997 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026785 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
By drawing connections between innovation discourse, the rise of neoliberalism, financialized capitalism, and the social and political degradation of reproductive labor, Denbow illustrates what needs to be done to destabilize the overvaluation of innovation and to offer collective support for reproduction.
Shifting Gears
Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics
Stephanie Ross & Larry Savage
September 2024 298pp
9780774870856 £89.00/ $99.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA PRESS
Traces the evolution of the Canadian Auto Workers union’s strategy from transformational activism to transactional politics. Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage explain how and why the union shifted its political tactics, offering a critical perspective on the current state of working-class politics.
Unmentionables
Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class
Stacy Fahrenthold
Worlding the Middle East
December 2024 320pp
9781503641303 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503638082 £108.00/ $120.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentiethcentury transnational textile trade. As migrants and merchants crisscrossed the Atlantic, Syrian textile manufacturing expanded across the hemisphere. Unmentionables offers a history of the global textile industry and those who worked in it.
Unruly Labor
A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea
Andrea Wright
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
October 2024 264pp
9781503639423 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503632578 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working conditions, worker actions, and strikes at these oil projects.
Vitalizing Vocabulary
Doing
Pedagogy
and
Language in Early Childhood Education
Nicole Land & Cristina D. Vintimilla
October 2024 160pp
9781487559397 £20.99/ $27.50 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the antiintellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care. Land and Vintimilla insist that early childhood education in Canada must unsettle our inherited demand for technocratic, instrumental, and accessible relations with language.
Unsettled Labors
Migrant Care Work in Palestine/ Israel
Rachel H. Brown
August 2024 328pp
9781478030591 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026358 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rachel H. Brown draws from interviews with caretakers, public statements, court documents, and first-hand fieldwork to explore the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel’s eldercare industry. Brown argues that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced culturally, economically, and biologically.
Women's Transborder Cinema
Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia
Esha Niyogi De
Women’s Media History Now! December 2024 320pp 24 b&w photos 9780252088285 £27.99/ $32.00 PB 9780252046209 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore this, delving into examples of women holding influential positions as stars, directors, and producers across the film industries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
