Sociology Fall 2020
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Sociology
A Complex Exile
Acid Revival
Homelessness and Social Exclusion in Canada Erin Dej
The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort
November 2020 232pp 1 table 9780774865111 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
July 2020 232pp 10 B-W Illustrations 9781517906726 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781517906719 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
How the homelessness sector reinforces the social exclusion of people who are homeless. Goes beyond bio-medical and psychological perspectives on homelessness, mental illness & addiction, calls for a change in how we respond to homelessness in Canada. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Examines how a new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Arc of the Journeyman
Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence
Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan
Muslim International January 2021 288pp 2 b&w Illus. 9781517909628 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909611 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Canadian Case Edited by David Lyon & David Murakami Wood
December 2020 256pp 9780774864176 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
In this first full-scale ethnography of Afghan migrants in England, Nichola Khan examines the imprint of violence, displacement, kinship obligations, and mobility on the lives and work of Pashtun journeyman taxi drivers in Britain. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Critical analysis of the profound shift to big data practices among intelligence agencies, this volume highlights the challenges for civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement
Confronting Desire
Psychoanalysis and International Development Ilan Kapoor
September 2020 324pp 2 b&w halftones 9781501751752 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781501751721 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nicole DeJong Newendorp
September 2020 256pp 9781503613881 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781503611726 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ilan Kapoor offers prescriptions for applying psychoanalysis to development theory and practice and demonstrates how psychoanalysis can provide fertile ground for radical politics and the transformation of international development.
Newendorp sheds light on Chinese-born senior migrants’ strategies for achieving later-life goals within a context of rapidly aging population demographics and global neoliberal trends that have rendered seniors’ lifeways more precarious.
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Feeding the Hungry
Fluid Jurisdictions
Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight against Hunger Michelle Jurkovich
Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia Nurfadzilah Yahaya
September 2020 180pp 3 b&w halftones, 1 halftone, 1 figure, 5 charts 9781501751783 £16.99 / $21.95 PB 9781501751165 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 264pp 5 b&w halftones, 3 maps, 2 graphs 9781501750878 £41.00 / $49.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Draws on material from international archives to demonstrate the interplay between colonial projections of order and their realities, Arab navigation of legally plural systems in SE Asia and beyond, and the fraught human struggles that played themselves out between family, religious, contract, and commercial legal orders.
Investigates advocacy around the right to food and challenges existing understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and laws. Provides an expanded conceptual toolkit with which we can examine and understand the social and moral forces at play in rights advocacy.
Gestures of Concern
Getting Wise about Getting Old
Chris Ingraham
a Cultural Politics book August 2020 272pp 18 illustrations 9781478009511 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478008583 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Debunking Myths about Aging Edited by Véronique Billette, Patrik Marier & Anne-Marie Séguin
Shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.
November 2020 288pp 4 charts 9780774880626 £15.99 / $24.95 PB UBC PRESS
A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and economic havoc. Here contributors address this myth and others, painting a more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Immigrant California
Island Futures
Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Policy Edited by David FitzGerald & John D. Skrentny
January 2021 256pp 9781503614390 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781503613485 £74.00 / $90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contributors cover topics ranging from education systems to healthcare initiatives and unravel the sometimes-contradictory details of California’s immigration history.
Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene Mimi Sheller
November 2020 208pp 19 illus. 9781478011187 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478010128 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the Caribbean region, showing how vulnerability to ecological collapse and the quest for a “just recovery” in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics.
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Manifesto for a Dream
Marriage Without Borders
Inequality, Constraint, and Radical Reform Michelle Jackson
Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal Dinah Hannaford
Inequalities October 2020 208pp 9781503614154 £19.99 / $25.00 PB 9781503611924 £70.00 / $85.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contemporary Ethnography November 2020 180pp 9780812224740 £22.99 / $29.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Manifesto for a Dream asserts that we will never make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that generates and maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that structure that progress can be made.
With a focus on Senegalese migrants in Europe and their wives who are left behind, Dinah Hannaford illustrates how new understandings of intimacy, gender, and class are forged in a culture of migration.
Medicine and Morality
Militarized Global Apartheid
Crises in the History of a Profession Helen Kang
Catherine Besteman
Global Insecurities November 2020 216pp 9781478011507 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478010432 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2020 168pp 9780774862134 £18.99 / $32.95 NIP UBC PRESS
The first historical study of morality and science in Canadian medicine, Medicine and Morality shows how moments of doubt in doctors’ impartiality resulted in changes to how medicine was done, and even to the very definition of medical practice itself. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global North are reproducing South Africa’s apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global South.
Motherlands
North of El Norte
How States Push Mothers Out of Employment Leah Ruppanner
Illegalized Mexican Migrants in Canada Paloma E. Villegas
September 2020 194pp 9781439918661 £18.99 / $24.95 PB 9781439918654 £74.00 / $93.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 232pp 3 charts, 4 tables 9780774863377 £60.00 / $89.95 HB UBC PRESS
North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that of contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Argues that states should look to each other to fill their policy voids. Leah Ruppanner advocates for reducing the institutional barriers mothers face when re-entering the workforce. As a result, women would have greater autonomy in making employment decisions following childbirth. Excludes Asia Pacific
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Nostalgia after Apartheid
Paper Trails
Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity Edited by Sarah B. Horton & Josiah Heyman
Disillusionment, Youth, and Democracy in South Africa Amber R. Reed
Global Insecurities July 2020 264pp 9781478008453 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781478007944 £83.00 / $99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development November 2020 258pp 9780268108779 £50.00 / $60.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Examines migrants’ relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status. Cases include immigration policies in the UK and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programs.
Reed offers a unique approach on how attempted post-apartheid reforms have failed rural Black South Africans, and how this has led to nostalgia for the conditions that once oppressed them.
Perspectives on Fair Housing
Queer and Trans Migrations
Edited by Vincent J. Reina, Wendell E. Pritchett & Susan M. Wachter
Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation Edited by Eithne Luibheid & Karma R. Chavez
The City in the Twenty-First Century October 2020 240pp 11 illus. 9780812252750 £36.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Dissident Feminisms October 2020 312pp 9780252043314 £100.00 / $125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Perspectives on Fair Housing provides historical, sociological, economic, and legal perspectives on the critical and continuing problem of housing discrimination and offers insight on the tools required to address it.
Examines how LGBTQ migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique illegalization, detention & deportation processes. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Radiation and Revolution
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China Roberta Zavoretti
Sabu Kohso
Thought in the Act September 2020 216pp 9781478011002 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009948 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 224pp 1 map 9780295748085 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions about migrant workers in China.
Political theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state, showing how nuclear power has become the organizing principle of the global order.
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Taking Care of Our Own
Teen Spirit
When Family Caregivers Do Medical Work Sherry N. Mong
How Adolescence Transformed the Adult World Paul Howe
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work October 2020 204pp 9781501751455 £16.99 / $21.95 PB 9781501751448 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
September 2020 256pp 13 graphs 9781501749827 £23.99 / $29.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a novel and provocative perspective on how we came to be living in an age of political immaturity and social turmoil. Award-winning author Paul Howe argues it’s because a teenage mentality has slowly gripped the adult world.
Interviews with family caregivers, home and community health care nurses, and others. Analyzes the types of skilled work that caregivers do, how they learn and negotiate these skills, and the meanings they attach to their care work.
The Juggling Mother
The Evening of Life
The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well Edited by Joseph E. Davis & Paul Scherz
Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety Amanda D. Watson
September 2020 210pp 9780268108021 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9780268108014 £83.00 / $100.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
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September 2020 148pp 5 colour photos 9780774864626 £18.99 / $27.95 PB 9780774864619 £50.00 / $75.00 HB
Makes the controversial case that unfair labour distributions are publicly celebrated, intentionally performed, and intimately felt. Mothers with the most power are thus complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones – and in their own undoing. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked.
The Laziness Myth
The Misunderstood History of Gentrification
Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa Christine Jeske
People, Planning, Preservation, and Urban Renewal, 1915-2020 Dennis E. Gale
December 2020 240pp 3 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings 9781501752513 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781501752506 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy February 2021 250pp 9781439920435 £24.99 / $32.95 PB 9781439920428 £83.00 / $104.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers evidence of the laziness myth’s harsh consequences and insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life. Will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere.
Provides a recontextualization of American gentrification, planning, and policymaking. Excludes Asia Pacific
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The Smell of Risk
The World Is Our Classroom
Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics Hsuan L. Hsu
Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling Jennie Germann Molz
December 2020 272pp 13 b&w illus. 9781479810093 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479807215 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Critical Perspectives on Youth February 2021 288pp 1 b&w illus. 9781479834075 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479891689 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
From nineteenth-century miasma theory theory to the synthetic chemicals that pervade twentyfirst century air, Hsu takes smell at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Increasingly, families are taking children out of school to educate them while traveling the globe. Explores the hopes & anxieties that drive parents. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence
Undermining Intersectionality
Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler & Bonnie Honig, Edited by Timothy J. Huzar & Clare Woodford
The Perils of Powerblind Feminism Barbara Tomlinson
August 2020 284pp 9781439916513 £22.99 / $29.95 PB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
January 2021 192pp 9780823290093 £18.99 / $25.00 PB 9780823290086 £72.00 / $90.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this provocative book, esteemed scholar Barbara Tomlinson asserts that intersectionality— the idea that categories such as gender, race, and Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings class create overlapping systemsof oppression—is together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence consistently misinterpreted in feminist argument. and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Excludes Asia Pacific
Unraveling
We Walk
Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
Life with Severe Autism Amy S. F. Lutz
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work October 2020 200pp 9781501751394 £20.95 / $24.95 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2020 296pp 9781517909147 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909130 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Lutz writes openly about her experience as the mother of a son with severe autism. In a world where public perception of autism is largely shaped by the “quirky geniuses” of television shows like The Big Bang Theory, We Walk demands that we center our debates about this disorder on those who are most impacted by it.
A novel cybernetic theory of subjectivity in which the nervous system is connected to the world it inhabits rather than being walled off inside the body, moving beyond neuroscientific, symbolic, and materialist approaches to the self to focus instead on animation, modularity, and facilitation. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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White Reconstruction
Black Food Matters
Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Edited by Hanna Garth & Ashanté M. Reese
November 2020 256pp 9780823289394 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780823289387 £84.00 / $105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dylan Rodríguez counternarrates the long “post–civil rights” half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being toxifies the formal disassembly of U.S. (Jim/Jane Crow) apartheid and permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and “multiculturalist white supremacy.”
October 2020 256pp 6 b&w Illus. 9781517908140 £21.99 / $28.00 PB 9781517908133 £93.00 / $112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Analyzes how Blackness in the US is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes sustenance “healthy,” and Black individuals’ own beliefs about what their cuisine should be. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Dear Science and Other Stories
Do Right by Me
Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces Valerie I. Harrison & Kathryn Peach D’Angelo
Katherine McKittrick Errantries
January 2021 208pp 7 photographs 9781478011040 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478010005 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2020 194pp 9781439919958 £14.99 / $20.00 PB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies, exploring how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness.
Through back-and-forth exchanges, authors share information, research, and resources that orient parents and other community members to the ways race and racism will affect a black child’s life and how to raise healthy and happy children. Excludes Asia Pacific
Evading International Norms
Identity Capitalists
The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality Nancy Leong
Race and Rights in the Shadow of Legality Zoltan Buzas
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights December 2020 352pp 13 tables 9780812252699 £68.00 / $85.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Providing rich case studies of the Roma in France and the Czech Republic, Búzás sheds light on the ways in which states are able to circumvent international human rights norms without violating the laws designed to protect them.
February 2021 256pp 9781503610132 £22.99 / $28.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Identity Capitalists, legal scholar Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond—and do better.
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Race
Dylan Rodríguez
In the Balance of Power NEW EDITION
Outsiders Within
Writing on Transracial Adoption Edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah & Sun Yung Shin
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States Omar H. Ali, Foreword by Eric Foner, Other primary creator Jacqueline Salit
December 2020 336pp 13 b&w illus. 9781517910532 £15.99 / $19.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 304pp 9780821424346 £21.99 / $29.00 PB OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
Transracial adoption often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and economic toll on those who directly experience it. Outsiders Within addresses this in essays, fiction, poetry, and art. Excludes Japan & ANZ
A history of how African Americans have created independent and third-party movements to expand democracy.
Protecting Whiteness
Relative Races
Whitelash and the Rejection of Racial Equality Edited by Cameron D. Lippard, J. Scott Carter & David G. Embrick, Foreword by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America Brigitte Fielder
October 2020 320pp 25 illus. 9781478011156 £21.99 / $27.95 PB 9781478010104 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 304pp 4 charts, 3 tables 9780295747996 £22.99 / $30.00 PB 9780295747989 £76.00 / $95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Fielder reads nineteenth-century personal narratives, literature, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century literary culture.
In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the US.
Scammer’s Yard
The Ecology of Homicide
The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica
Race, Place, and Space in Postwar Philadelphia Eric C. Schneider
Jovan Scott Lewis October 2020 216pp 9781517909987 £20.99 / $27.00 PB 9781517909970 £89.00 / $108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
September 2020 264pp 9780812252484 £32.00 / $39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair. The story of Omar, Junior, and Dwayne. Young and poor, they strive to make a living in Montego Bay, where call centers and tourism are the two main industries in the struggling economy. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Examining the transcripts of nearly two hundred murder trials, Schneider presents the voices of victims and perpetrators of crime, as well as the enforcers of the law, to show how the combined effects of poverty and disinvestment accumulated to sustain and deepen an “ecology of violence.”
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The Sense of Brown
The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven
José Esteban Muñoz Edited by Joshua ChambersLetson & Tavia Nyong’o
Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection Mark Driscoll
Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe October 2020 224pp 14 illus. 9781478011033 £19.99 / $24.95 PB 9781478009979 £79.00 / $94.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2020 352pp 22 illus. 9781478011217 £22.99 / $28.95 PB 9781478010166 £87.00 / $104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Nineteenth-century Western imperialism in East Muñoz’s treatise on brownness and being as well Asia as deleterious “climate caucasianism”—the as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. West’s racialized pursuit of capital at the expense Analyzes ethnicity as a structure of feeling, and of people of color, women, and the environment. brown feelings as they emerge in, through, and beside art and performance.
The World Colonization Made
From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging
The Racial Geography of Early American Empire Brandon Mills
How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain Dominic D. Wells
Early American Studies October 2020 288pp 7 illus. 9780812252507 £36.00 / $45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
November 2020 220pp 9781439919590 £20.99 / $27.95 PB 9781439919583 £83.00 / $104.50 HB TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recent Highlights
Brandon Mills chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement—an ideology that enabled Americans to envision a world of selfgoverning republics that harmonized with the racialized political institutions at home.
Uses more than five decades of state-level data to analyze the expansion and restriction of public employees’ collective bargaining rights. Excludes Asia Pacific
A Recipe for Gentrification
Despotism on Demand
How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace Alex J. Wood
Food, Power, and Resistance in the City Edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato & Joshua Sbicca
May 2020 192pp 1 chart 9781501748882 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781501748875 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 384pp 26 hts, 4 figs 9781479811373 £27.99 / $35.00 PB 9781479834433 £82.00 / $99.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Alex J. Wood draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace.
The ways in which food & gentrification are deeply, and often controversially, intertwined. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
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Dreams of the Overworked
Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age Christine M. Beckman & Melissa Mazmanian
June 2020 312pp 9781503602557 £21.99 / $28.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices.
Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times Edited by Deborah R. Brock February 2020 328pp 9780774860918 £21.99 / $35.95 PB UBC PRESS
Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized—it is us. This volume’s contributors reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
Home Care Fault Lines
The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances Cynthia J. Cranford
The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work June 2020 240pp 2 b&w line drawings 9781501749261 £20.99 / $26.95 PB 9781501749254 £95.00 / $115.00 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women who provide their home help develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, races, nationalities, and socio-economic backgrounds generate tension.
Racialized Modernity and the Global Color Line José Itzigsohn & Karida L. Brown
March 2020 304pp 1 halftone 9781479804177 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479856770 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
First comprehensive understanding of Du Bois, providing a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
The Trouble with Snack Time
Workers in Hard Times
A Long View of Economic Crises Edited by Leon Fink, Joan Sangster & Joseph A. McCartin
Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting Jennifer Patico
August 2020 250pp 9781479845989 £23.99 / $30.00 PB 9781479835331 £74.00 / $89.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observation, studies the dilemma for parents stuck between a commitment to social inclusion and a desire for control of their children’s eating. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Working Class in American History March 2020 320pp 9780252085123 £22.99 / $30.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Connects the Great Recession of 2007–2009 to economic crises that took place in various industrialized nations across the globe. Excludes SE Asia, Indian SC & ANZ
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