A Displaced Nation
The 1954 Evacuation and Its Political Impact on the Vietnam Wars
Phi-Van Nguyen
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
December 2024 306pp 8 b&w halftones, 6 maps
£29.99/ $34.95 PB
£116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Argues that the displacement of eighty thousand mostly Roman Catholic evacuees from North Vietnam in 1954 had a profound impact on the war opposing Saigon on both Hanoi and on the evacuees themselves.
Beach Politics
Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline
Edited by Setha Low
January 2025 336pp 26 b&w figures
9781479821952 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479821945 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how over the past forty years, privatization of public space has accelerated with the help of both local governments and national corporations. Focused on beaches, access to public space, and social justice, this book brings together powerful contributions illustrating how these issues are inextricably bound with socioeconomic status, racial segregation, and climate justice.
Christian Cosmopolitanism
Faith Communities Talk Immigration
Felipe Amin Filomeno
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics
November 2024 216pp
9781439925997 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781439925980 £94.00/ $104.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Including practical tools for church leaders, Christian Cosmopolitanism promotes dialogue as a cultural practice that can help diverse communities overcome segregation and become socially cohesive.
Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston
Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson
PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities
October 2024 120pp
9781439924402
£12.99/ $14.95 PB
9781439924396 £53.00/ $59.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Recounts how local and multi-level contexts shape the creation, contestation, and implementation of immigrant rights policies and practices in Houston. The case study of Houston provides a bellwether for how other U.S. cities will deal with their growing immigrant populations and underscores the importance of public-private collaborations to advance immigrant rights.
Between Black and Brown Blaxicans and Multiraciality
in Comparative Historical Perspective
Rebecca Romo and J Sterphone
Borderlands and Transcultural Studies
October 2024 342pp 5 tables, index
9781496240552 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780803290181 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
How do individuals with one African American parent and one Mexican American parent identify racially and ethnically? In answer, the authors explore the experiences of Blaxicans, individuals with African American and Mexican American heritage, as they navigate American culture, which often clings to monoracial categorizations.
Collectivization Generation
Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan
Marianne Kamp
December 2024 282pp 2 b&w halftones, 1 map, 2 charts
9781501779503 £32.00/ $36.95 PB
9781501777998 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Collectivization Generation, we meet Uzbeks who were driven from their homes by bandits, whose fathers disappeared in the Stalinist gulag, who suffered starvation and orphanhood. We also meet Uzbeks who told of embracing the project of collectivization, of feeling rewarded with dignity, recognition, pay, association with national triumphs, and with the progress represented by a tractor.
Cosmopolitan Scientists
How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became
Japanese
Nahoko Kameo
Culture and Economic Life
September 2024 182pp
9781503640405 £21.99/ $25.00 PB
9781503639928
£90.00/ $100.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on vivid accounts from bioscientists who experienced and enacted the shift toward commercialization, the book offers an insider's view into the way scientists navigate the complex and shifting landscape of science, innovation, and economic policy.
Crisis by Design
Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico
Jose Atiles
November 2024 312pp
9781503641174 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503640597 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Devastating hurricanes, massive public debt, and a global pandemic make up the continuous plague on Puerto Rico. This disastrous escalation has placed the archipelago more centrally on politicians in the US, Atiles provides insight into the powers in colonized countries and how colonialism is the ongoing catastrophe.
Energy's History
Toward a Global Canon
Edited by Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull
February 2025 232pp
9781503641501 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503640863 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This volume both presents visions of energydriven development beyond the Western capitalist model and provides an expansive account of how energy histories have made an impact.
Creative Instigation
The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement
Fern Tiger
October 2024 328pp 140 color images
9781613322512 £40.00/ $44.95 PB
9781613322529 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
These illustrated case stories in effective community engagement in the United States demonstrate how community participation in policymaking underpins democratic institutions. Describes outreach that is expansive, engagement that is more authentic, and research that delves deeply into qualitative areas to uncover the soul of a community.
Cyberlibertarianism
The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology
David Golumbia
Foreword by George Justice
November 2024 480pp
9781517918149 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781517918132 £125.00/ $140.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, Cyberlibertarianism details how the purportedly democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns.
Fragments of Home
Refugee Housing and the Politics
of Shelter
Tom Scott-Smith
September 2024 250pp
9781503640283 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503639782 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book focuses on seven examples of emergency shelter for refugees, from Germany to Jordan, which emerged after the great "summer of migration" in 2015. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, the book reflects on their political implications and opens up much bigger questions about humanitarian action.
Fraudulent Lives
Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to
the Present
Steven King
States, People, and the History of Social Change
November 2024 368pp 13 diagrams, 1 table
9780228022800 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9780228022794 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tracing a substantial underbelly of fraud from the seventeenth century to today, King finds remarkable continuities and historical parallels in public attitudes towards the honesty of welfare recipients –patterns that hold true across Western welfare states.
Hear Our Stories
Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University
Jessica C. Harris
November 2024 232pp
9781503641051 £21.99/ $26.00 PB
9781503635470 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Hear Our Stories, Harris demonstrates how preventive efforts on campus sexual violence fall short because they lack intersectional perspectives, and obscure how sexual violence is imbued with racial significance. This book challenges dominant approaches to campus sexual violence and response efforts that could offer transformative outcomes for all students.
Historieta Doble
A Graphic History of Participatory Action Research
Joanne Rappaport , Lina Flórez G. and Pablo Pérez “Altais” ethnoGRAPHIC
October 2024 208pp full-colour illus. throughout 9781487555177 £20.99/ $27.50 PB 9781487552855 £52.00/ $65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Traces the roots of participatory action research to the Caribbean coast of Colombia, and to the work of visionary sociologist Orlando Fals Borda with the Colombian Peasant Movement. Beautifully illustrated, this graphic novel shows how Fals Borda combined research and theory with political participation and activism.
Goodbye Religion
The Causes and Consequences of Secularization
Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith
Secular Studies
October 2024 352pp 45 b&w images
9781479825301 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479825295
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
One of the largest changes in American culture over the last fifty years has been the increase in people exiting religion. At a time where more and more individuals are questioning the implications of our increasingly secular society, Goodbye Religion offers an engaging and fascinating analysis into what religious exiting—and secularization broadly— means for American society.
Historical Consciousness and Practical Life
A Theory and Methodology
Paul Zanazanian
December 2024 352pp 17 b&w tables 9781487503833 £52.00/ $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The book provides a glimpse at how humans enter historically embedded thinking problems, seeking to resolve them. Zanazanian draws on a study of the community leaders of English-speaking Quebec to illustrate the practical life methodology’s workings. He argues that community leaders who complicate and problematize their uses of history are the best positioned to make positive transformations for their group.
Homegrown Radicals
A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World
Youcef Soufi
February 2025 272pp 9781479832262 £27.99/ $32.00 HB NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a case study of the complex entanglements of the radical and moderate Muslim in post-9/11 North America. Highlights how post-9/11 Islamophobia has operated through the conceptual blurring of the line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslims, and asks what alternative forms of solidarity may transcend the violent boundaries of the nation-state.
Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost
Russian Desecularization and a Ukrainian Alternative
Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder
January 2025 260pp 1 table
9781978822221 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978822238 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vyacheslav Karpov and Rachel L. Schroeder demonstrate how Russia went from persecuting believers to jailing critics of religion, and why, in contrast, religious pluralism and tolerance have solidified in Ukraine. Icons Axed, Freedoms Lost offers original theoretical and methodological perspectives on desecularization applicable far beyond the cases of Russia and Ukraine.
Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?
Why Red and Blue White People Disagree, and How to Decide in the Gray Areas
Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright
January 2025 248pp
9781503637917 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
How can the judgment calls we make in everyday life create or help eradicate social inequality? In this book, Jessi Streib and Betsy Leondar-Wright offer a new way of understanding these questions and how inequalities persist by focusing on the individual judgment calls that lead us to decide what's racist, what's sexist, and what's not.
Love Across Difference
Mixed Marriage in Lebanon
Lara Deeb
October 2024 296pp
9781503640757 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503640054 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on two decades of interviews and research, Lara Deeb shows how mixed couples in Lebanon confront patriarchy, social difference, and sectarianism. Through the example of Lebanon, we can learn about our own social worlds, and about how people react when forced to change their ideas of who can be made kin through marriage.
Imprisoned Minds
Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison
Erik S. Maloney and Kevin A. Wright
Foreword by Shadd Maruna
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
December 2024 244pp
9781978837263 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978837270 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerated men form his imprisoned mind concept: the men’s unimaginable childhood trauma and neglect set them on a pathway for prison or death.
Laboring in the Shadow of Empire
Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
Celeste Vaughan Curington
Inequality at Work: Perspectives on Race, Gender, Class, and Labor
September 2024 236pp 7 b&w figures and 1 table
9781978827950 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978827967 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire.
Mainstreaming Porn
Sexual Integrity and the Law
Online
Elaine Craig
September 2024 392pp
9780228022398 £29.99/ $34.95 HB
MCGILL-QUEENS UNIVERSITY PRESS
An unflinching, carefully balanced perspective on a divisive topic. Without demonizing pornography or its consumption, Craig makes a powerful argument for applying legal mechanisms to corporate-owned online platforms while offering a sober evaluation of the limits of the law in governing pervasive cultural norms and social understandings of sexuality.
9781978843257
Memorializing Violence
Transnational Feminist Reflections
Edited by Alison Crosby and Heather Evans
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
February 2025 224pp 15 b&w images
£36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978843264 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Brings together feminist and queer reflections to ask what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence.
Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia
Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
December 2024 300pp 1 chart, 3 graphs
9781501778742 £29.99/ $34.95 PB 9781501778735 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing scholarship has overlooked the severity, persistence, and harmful consequences of the social welfare crises affecting the region. Arvid J. Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro fill this gap and put a major asterisk on its economic record.
More-than-Human Aging
Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life
Cristina Douglas and Andrew Whitehouse
Global Perspectives on Aging
October 2024 208pp 28 b&w images
9781978840935 £36.00/ $39.95 PB
9781978840942 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers aging as taking place in relation to other species. This volume aims to start a conversation about aging by taking its more-than-human participants seriously.
Millennial North Korea
Forbidden Media and Living Creatively with Surveillance
Suk-Young Kim
October 2024 256pp
9781503640870 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503614918 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining a close reading of North Korean state media with original interviews with defectors, Kim explores how the tensions between millennial North Korea and North Korean millennials leads to a more nuanced understanding of a fractured and fragmented society that has been frequently perceived as an unchanging, monolithic entity.
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia
Anastasia Shesterinina
November 2024 258pp 5 b&w halftones, 5 b&w line drawings, 5 maps, 6 charts 9781501778964 £28.99/ $33.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
How do ordinary people navigate the intense uncertainty of the onset of war? Different individuals mobilize in different ways—some flee, some pick up arms, and some support armed actors as civil war begins. Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992–1993, Shesterinina explores Abkhaz mobilization decisions during that conflict.
Narrating Justice and Hope
How Good Stories Counter Crime and Harm
Edited by Lois Presser, Jennifer Fleetwood and Sveinung Sandberg
Foreword by Shadd Maruna
February 2025 288pp 9781479824502 £27.99/ $32.00 PB 9781479824496 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
his volume asks: How do people produce good stories in the context of interpersonal harm and the devastating social conditions of the present moment–including climate crisis, political polarization, and interconnected systems of inequality? What types of narratives will create lasting social change?
New Citizenship Studies
Edited by Carrie Hyde and Derrick R. Spires
November 2024 270pp 6 illus.
9781478029991 £12.99/ $15.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include the violent histories and imaginative possibilities of citizenship; theories of citizenship from the perspectives of groups who cannot presume the state’s protections; citizenship at the intersection of Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, and multiethnic U.S. literatures; and the forms of worldmaking and community that writers build as practitioners of political poiesis.
Private Violence
Latin American Women and the Struggle for Asylum
Carol Cleaveland and Michele Waslin
Latina/o Sociology
October 2024 288pp
9781479824335 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479824328 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Examines how immigration laws and policies shape the lives of Latin American women who seek safety in the United States. Paints a damning portrait of America’s broken asylum system. This volume illustrates the difficulties experienced by Latin American women who rely on this broken system for protection in the United States.
Public Catastrophes, Private Losses
Edited by Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein
The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
January 2025 186pp 1 color photo, 1 color and 2 b&w illus.
9781978838758 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781978838765 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
This essay collection explores how the definition of catastrophe might be expanded to include many forms of large-scale structural violence on communities, species, and ecosystems. Using feminist methodologies, the contributors trace the connections between seemingly unrelated forms of violence such as structural racism, environmental degradation, and public health crises.
People, Places, and Belonging
Deepening Our Sense of Community and Identity
William Marsiglio
October 2024 416pp 10 b&w illus., 4 b&w figures
9781487551452 £25.99/ $32.50 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
With an eye on our rapidly changing world, this book explores how social realities at every level are affected by the places we collectively forge across various social domains. The book shows how placerelated circumstances can promote personal empowerment, civic engagement, and social and environmental justice.
Prohibition in Turkey
Alcohol and the Politics of Identity
Emine Ö. Evered
December 2024 288pp 20 b&w illus.
9781477330319 £49.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Historian Evered’s account uniquely chronicles how the Turko-Islamic Ottoman Empire developed strategies for managing its communities’ rights to alcohol. The first author to reveal this experience’s connections with American Prohibition, she demonstrates how drinking practices reflected many of the changes that were underway.
Queering Professionalism
Pitfalls and Possibilities
Edited by Adam Davies and Cameron Greensmith
December 2024 368pp 1 b&w illus.
9781487550929 £31.00/ $39.95 PB
9781487552510 £62.00/ $80.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
With a focus on neoliberalism and its intersection with systems of oppression, inequalities, and the regulation of queer knowledge and subjectivities, this book provides a distinct contribution to the emerging literature on the regulation and professionalization of 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and others marginalized by cisheteronormativity within the helping and social service professions.
9781978840416
Remittance as Belonging
Global Migration Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home
Hasan Mahmud
October 2024 210pp
9781978840409 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork with Bangladeshi migrants in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hasan Mahmud demonstrates that while migrants go abroad for various reasons, they move abroad essentially as members of their family and community and maintain their belonging to home through transnational practices, including remittance-sending.
Righteous Sisterhood
The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club
Sarah L. Hoiland
January 2025 193pp
9781439925935 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781439925928 £80.00/ $89.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hoiland’s insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stories of women bikers for whom riding in an MC is “an act of rebellion” and “liberating” even as it constrains—a reactionary populist version of the American Dream dipped in “girl power.” Hoiland investigates why women choose to join, and why, in some cases, they exit or become exiled.
Sociology Meets Memoir
An
Exploration of
Narrative
and Method
Margaret K. Nelson
December 2024 208pp
9781479827329
£23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781479827312 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Beyond entertainment value, Margaret K. Nelson argues that memoirs hold potential as powerful resources for sociologists to engage with, analyze, and teach. A short and accessible guide to the significance of memoirs for the field of sociology, from their many possible uses to the numerous challenges they pose.
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion
Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago
Jason A. Springs
Religion and Social Transformation
September 2024 272pp
9781479823789 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479823772 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Frames restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice. Looking to Chicago’s restorative justice network as a model, the volume showcases real-life examples of the kinds of initiatives needed to shift the entrenched dynamics that fuel the prisonindustrial complex across the United States.
Sanctuary Everywhere
The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert
Barbara Andrea Sostaita
September 2024 216pp 29 illus.
9781478030607 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478026365 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices that escape the everyday, Barbara Andrea Sostaita shows us how, in the wake of extreme violence and loss, migrants create sanctuaries of their own to care for the living and the dead.
Technoskepticism Between Possibility and Refusal
DISCO Network
Sensing Media: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultures of Media
February 2025 216pp
9781503640634 £13.99/ $16.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create and how refusal of new technologies is an especially powerful mode, particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no.
9781503641532
The Borders of Privilege
1.5-Generation Brazilian Migrants Navigating Power Without Papers
Kara Cebulko
Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism
January 2025 248pp
£23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637177 £99.00/ $110.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tells the stories of a group of 1.5 generation Brazilians to show how their ability to be perceived as white—their power without papers—shaped their everyday interactions.
9781978833784
The Man in the Dog Park
Coming Up Close to Homelessness
Cathy A. Small with Jason Kordosky and Ross Moore
September 2024 200pp 1 b&w line drawing
9781501779046 £14.99/ $16.95 NIP
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Man in the Dog Park offers the reader a rare window into homeless life. Spurred by a personal relationship with a homeless man who became her co-author, Cathy A. Small takes a compelling look at what it means and what it takes to be homeless.
The Sexual Economy of Capitalism
Noam Yuran
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
October 2024 240pp
9781503640733 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503630277 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes. This book argues that exchanges involving sex and intimacy, far from being external or exceptional in relation to the workings of the economy, come closest to the reality of capitalist money.
Third World Studies
Theorizing Liberation
Gary Y. Okihiro
August 2024 328pp 4 illustrations
9781478030676 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478026440 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this revised and expanded second edition, Gary Y. Okihiro emphasizes the work of Third World intellectuals such as M. N. Roy, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Oliver Cromwell Cox, foregrounds the importance of Bandung and the Tricontinental, and adds discussions of eugenics, feminist epistemologies, and religion.
The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas A Comparative Approach
Edited by Nahum Karlinsky
December 2024 344pp 6 b&w illus. 9781477330401 £49.00/ $55.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The collected essays cover such topics as the experiences of Palestinian exiles within Israel, today’s Israeli diaspora, Israeli Jews in the United States, literatures of Palestinian transnationals, and Berlin as a queer Israeli-Jewish immigrant enclave. The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas challenges the very notion of a homeland.
The Verbal Art of Mobility in West Africa
Nikolas Sweet
November 2024 216pp 10 b&w illus., 11 b&w tables
9780253071477 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780253071460 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Through ethnographic research on social interaction, verbal creativity, and mobility in southeastern Senegal, Nikolas Sweet reveals how migrants use language to build social networks and mitigate risk amid socioeconomic and environmental precarity.
Unsettled Families
Refugees, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Kinship
Sophia Balakian Ph.D.
Stanford Studies in Human Rights
February 2025 248pp
9781503641198 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503639652 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis and based on long-term fieldword, Unsettled Families investigates the parameters that Global North governments and international humanitarian organizations use to classify most displaced families as ineligible for resettlement, and often as fraudulent.
9781512826371
9781512826395
Until We're Seen
Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Editd byJoseph Entin and Jeanne Theoharis
Contemporary Ethnography
August 2024 320pp
£25.99/ $29.95 PB
£108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, this book chronicles COVID-19’s devastating, disproportionate effects on workingclass communities of color. This is as the US has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts.
Who Is Antiracist?
Beliefs, Motivations, and Politics
George Yancey and Hayoung Oh
December 2024 222pp
9781439925690 £25.99/ $29.95 PB
9781439925683 £89.00/ $99.50 HB
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Provides a systematic approach to understanding the motivations and intentions of racial progressives as well as the impact of political ideology on antiracism. Who Is Antiracist? enlightens us about the continuing racial conflict in our society and warns against the risk of antiracism becoming just a proxy for ordinary party politics.
9781479831890
9781479831869
Where the Wild Things Were
Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America
Henry Jenkins
Postmillennial Pop
February 2025 368pp 32 b&w and 9 color images
£29.99/ $35.00 PB
£89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
From Peanuts comic strips to Dennis the Menace, the book reveals how childhood and the stories about it became central to Cold War concerns with democracy, citizenship, globalization, the space race, science, race relations, gender, and sexuality. Jenkins demonstrates, the era’s emblematic child was the boy in the striped shirt: white, male, suburban, middle class, Christian, and above all, American.
Why the Church? Self-Optimization or Community of Faith
Hans Joas
Cultural Memory in the Present October 2024 200pp
9781503640795 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638037 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical territory in search of a viable conception of the church adequate to contemporary globalized societies. This book considers the relation of a community of faith to contemporary ideas about the optimization of life.
