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"Are You Calling Me a Racist?"
Why We Need to Stop Talking about Race and Start Making Real Antiracist Change
Sarita Srivastava
March 2024 352pp 3 b&w images
9781479815258 £23.99/ $28.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Despite decades of anti-racism workshops and diversity policies in corporations, schools, and nonprofit organizations, racial conflict has only increased in recent years. “Are You Calling Me a Racist?” reveals why these efforts have failed to effectively challenge racism and offers a new way forward as a much-needed challenge to the status quo of diversity training.
Belonging without Othering How We Save Ourselves and the World
john a. powell & Stephen Menendian
April 2024 480pp
9781503638846 £25.99/ $30.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
A profound exploration arguing that the struggles faced by marginalized groups can only be fully grasped through the lenses of othering and belonging. Social justice lion and scholar John a. Powell, and acclaimed researcher Stephen Menendian, the main champions of these ideas, unearth the mechanisms of othering, drawing on examples from around the world and throughout history.
Brutalism
Achille Mbembe
Theory in Forms
January 2024 200pp
9781478025580 £21.99/ $25.95 PB
9781478020875 £90.00/ $99.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, eminent social and critical theorist Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence.
May 2024 480pp
Aníbal Quijano
Foundational Essays on the Coloniality of Power
Aníbal Quijano
Edited by Walter D. Mignolo, Rita Segato & Catherine E. Walsh
On Decoloniality
9781478030324 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781478026099 £107.00/ $119.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The essays in this volume encompass nearly thirty years of influential Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano’s work on coloniality, coloniality of power, and colonial matrix of power, bringing it to an English reading audience for the first time.
Broken City
Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis
Patrick Condon
May 2024 250pp 54 b&w photos, 8 charts, 3 maps, 1 table
9780774869553 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
UBC PRESS
Many immigrants, racialized minorities, young people, and service workers are barred from joining the middle classes as they cannot build wealth through home ownership. Wages for workers stay flat, while housing costs multiply. What can be done? Condon offers several examples of how cities have reclaimed land wealth from speculators and individuals for the common good and proposes a range of solutions.
Capitalism and Classical Social Theory
Fourth Edition
John Bratton & David Denham
May 2024 448pp
9781487556310 £38.00 / $54.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The fourth edition of this critical text offers a concise and accessible survey of early social theorists, with updates that link classical theories to current events. From 1st April 2024
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Challenged Sovereignty
The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
March 2024 344pp 3 b&w photos, 5 maps
9780252087776 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780252045660 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
The drug trade. Crime. Terrorism. Cyber threats. In the Caribbean, these cross-border Problems Without Passports (PWPs) have shaken the very foundation of nation states. Blending case studies with regional analysis, Griffith examines the regionwide impact of PWPs and the complex security and sovereignty issues in play.
Children of a Troubled Time
Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America
Margaret A. Hagerman
May 2024 256pp 3 b&w images
9781479815111 £23.99/ $27.95 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Children of a Troubled Time, award-winning sociologist Hagerman amplifies the voices of children and explores how they learn about race in America today. Hagerman interviewed nearly fifty children between the ages of ten to thirteen in Mississippi and Massachusetts who describe what it was like to come of age during Trump’s presidency.
Coerced Liberation
Muslim Women in Soviet Tajikistan
Zamira Abman
May 2024 232pp
9781487553180 £29.99 / $42.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book offers unique insights into the shifts in behaviour and attitudes surrounding the Soviet emancipation of women in the Muslim periphery, Tajikistan.
From 1st April 2024
Chaos and the Automaton
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi
e-flux
May 2024 320pp 10 b&w illus.
9781517917111 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781517917104 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Chaos and the Automaton is the first volume to collect Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s extensive collaboration with e-flux. The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi’s prescient interventions into more than a decade of social turmoil, as well as bizarre new cultural occurrences that were consequences.
China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Thomas White
Series edited & foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
June 2024 248pp 11 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295752433 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752426 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Alasha now styles itself as “China’s Camel Country,” where the domestic camel has special status, exempted from many grassland conservation policies that apply to other types of livestock. This study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and a work of political ecology addressing critical questions of conservation, state power, and rural livelihoods.
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain
Edited by Susan Larson
July 2024 400pp
9781487529109 £69.00 / $100.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain examines the evolution of domestic space through an analysis of the media-driven concept of comfort.
From 1st April 2024
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Conspiracy/Theory
Edited by Joseph Masco & Lisa Wedeen
January 2024 512pp 2 illus.
9781478025559 £28.99/ $33.95 PB
9781478020813 £112.00/ $124.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational response to an obviously decipherable reality, Conspiracy/Theory identifies important affinities between conspiracy theory and critical theory. It recognizes the motivation people have to search for patterns in events, to uncover what is covert and attend to dimensions of life that might be hiding in plain sight.
Counting Matters Policy, Practice, and the Limits of Gender Equality Measurement in Canada
Edited by Christina Gabriel & L. Pauline Rankin
April 2024 288pp 6 tables, 4 charts
9780774870160 £124.00/ $138.00 HB
UBC PRESS
Considers the ways in which the rise in gender equality measurement contributes to, and falls short of, effective gender equality policy implementation. Gabriel, Rankin, et al. pose critical questions of the ways in which measurement tools manifest within the field of gender equality, pulling from their varied experiences as feminist legal scholars, social science researchers, frontline workers, and more.
Everything is Police
Tia Trafford
Forerunners: Ideas First
January 2024 112pp
9781517916862 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Policing is constitutive of colonial modernity: normalizing, internalizing, and legalizing antiBlack violence as the ongoing condition for white life and freedom. From the plantation to the prison, global apartheid, and pandemic control, author Tia Trafford examines why and how policing has become the most ingrained, commonsense—and insidious— way of managing our world.
Constant Disconnection
The Weight of Everyday Digital Life
Kenzie Burchell
August 2024 296pp
9781503639799 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503632356 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The weight of constant digital connection is the default condition of life – driving us to engage more with platforms than with people. Burchell examines how individuals try to manage connection as participation in everyday life and how the everexpanding knowledge, communication, and datadriven economies depend on the very pressures that result from our disparate communication needs.
Dream Car
Malcolm Bricklin’s Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity
Dimitry Anastakis
April 2024 450pp
9781487555825 £27.99 / $39.95 PB
9781487555825 £62.00 / $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Dream Car is the tale of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s sporty, sexy Safety Vehicle-1, a legendary failure in automotive history yet one that reveals much about postwar North America’s economic, political, and cultural evolution.
From 1st April 2024
Get Involved!
Stories of Bahamian Civil Society
Kim Williams-Pulfer
Critical Caribbean Studies
June 2024 204pp 1 table
9781978834446 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781978834453 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Using the Caribbean as a rich site of observance and concentrating on the island nationstate of The Bahamas, Get Involved! uncovers the hidden and under-documented activities of “philanthropy from below,” revealing a broader conception of philanthropy and civil society, especially within Black and other historically marginalized populations.
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UBC PRESS
Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers
Gender Inequality in the Canadian Academy
Edited by Rachael Johnstone & Bessma Momani
May 2024 344pp 17 tables, 20 illus.
9780774869249 £114.00/ $127.00 HB
A cross-disciplinary, data-driven investigation of gender inequality in Canadian universities. Research presented in this book reveals, for example, that women are more likely to hold sessional teaching positions and to face difficulties obtaining funding.
Hosting States and Unsettled Guests
Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence
Jennifer Riggan & Amanda Poole
Worlds in Crisis: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration
February 2024 214pp 6 b&w illus.
9780253067999 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780253067982 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Riggan and Poole deftly shift the focus of refugee studies away from Europe to regions in the Global South to understand the violence of emerging forms of migration deterrence.
Mortimer and the Witches
A History of Nineteenth-Century
Fortune Tellers
Marie Carter
March 2024 208pp 25 b&w illus.
9781531506247 £25.99/ $29.95 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers new insight into the neglected histories of 19thcentury NYC’s maligned working-class fortune tellersm, the creative ways that they tried to make a living when options were limited for them, and the man who set out to discredit them.
Guiding God's Marriage
Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling
Courtney Ann Irby
May 2024 272pp 4 b&w images
9781479822157 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479822140 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Guiding God’s Marriage offers an examination of Christian marriage preparation programs, exploring their efforts to stabilize the institution of marriage and highlighting the tension with individualism. Featuring archival research as well as first hand observations of four marriage preparation courses, the book offers a rare view of visions about how to realize a successful and faith-filled relationship.
Language Brokers
Children of Immigrants
Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families
Hyeyoung Kwon
Articulations: Studies in Race, Immigration, and Capitalism
August 2024 232pp
9781503639461 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638686 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
How successfully families in the U.S. navigate various institutional contexts frequently relies on a parent's ability to be capable of supporting their children. But what happens when parents are immigrants who have limited English proficiency? Kwon shines a light on these lived realities for working-class Mexican- and Korean-American youth in Southern California.
Music Making Community
Edited by Tony Perman & Stefan Fiol
May 2024 312pp 22 b&w photos, 1 map, 1 music example
9780252045806 £67.00/ $75.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Making music offers enormous possibilities--and faces significant limitations--in its power to generate belonging and advance social justice. Tony Perman and Stefan Fiol edit essays focused on the forms of interplay between musicmaking and community-making as mutually creative processes.
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Mutuality in El Barrio
Stories of the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service
Edited
by
Carey Kasten & Brenna Moore
Foreword by Norma Benítez Sánchez
May 2024 192pp
9781531506438 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781531506421 £81.00/ $90.00 HB
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Opening a window into the world of New York’s Spanish-speaking newcomers, Mutuality in El Barrio tells stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York’s deeply-rooted organizations.
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society
Social Histories of Accommodation
Neil Roos
February 2024 264pp 17 b&w photos
9780253068033 £36.00/ $40.00 PB
9780253068026 £72.00/ $80.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did they contribute to it? In Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society, historian Neil Roos traces the lives of ordinary white people in South Africa during the apartheid years, beginning in 1948 when the National Party swept into power on the back of its catchall apartheid slogan.
Portraits of Persistence
Inequality and Hope in Latin America
Edited
by
Javier Auyero
March 2024 304pp 20 b&w photos
9781477328996 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477328989 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America. Through multiple accounts, the writers explore issues that are common throughout today's world: precarious work situations, gender oppression, state violence, and more. Ultimately, this book offers unique and personal windows into the region’s complex and multilayered reality.
My Race Is My Gender
Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color
Edited by Stephanie Hsu & Ka-Man Tse
Q+ Public
August 2024 146pp 13 color
9781978823945 £21.99/ $24.95 PB
9781978823952 £54.00/ $59.95 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. While informed by queer theory and critical race theory, the authors share their personal stories in accessible language.
Passionate Work
Choreographing a Dance Career
Ruth Horowitz
August 2024 304pp
9781503639607 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781503638860 £116.00/ $130.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Corps de ballet refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. The ways that they stitch together careers, through dedication, grit, and no small amount of skill are telling of broader trends that shape the precarious labor of professional dance, and creative careers more generally. Dance hobbyist and sociologist, Ruth Horowitz captures their stories.
Pot for Profit
Cannabis Legalization, Racial Capitalism, and the Expansion of the Carceral State
Joseph Mello
The Cultural Lives of Law
June 2024 192pp
9781503639218 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503612280 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The United States has experienced a dramatic shift in attitudes towards marijuana use from the 1970s to today. What once had been a counterculture drug supplied for the black market by socially marginal figures has become a big business. Mello traces the cultural, historical, political, and legal roots of these changing attitudes towards marijuana.
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Practising Social Work Research
Case Studies for Learning, Third Edition
Rick Csiernik & Rachel Birnbaum
April 2024 pp
9781487568672 £42.00 / $59.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
The third edition of Practising Social Work Research introduces real-world research issues and, through case study descriptions, places readers within the environment to resolve the problem.
From 1st April 2024
Reconfiguring Global Societies in the PreVaccination Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Edited by Jack Fong
May 2024 432pp
9781487527082 £37.00 / $52.95 PB
9781487527075 £76.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
This book examines how COVID-19 resulted in traumatic changes in society around the world before the arrival of vaccines, specifically during the 2020 year.
From 1st April 2024
Sex in Canada
The Who, Why, When, and How of Getting Down Up North
Tina Fetner
Sexuality Studies
February 2024 216pp 73 graphs
9780774869515 £31.00/ $35.95 PB
9780774869508 £74.00/ $83.00 HB
UBC PRESS
In applying the tools of social science to a formerly taboo topic, Sex in Canada offers the most accurate picture to date not just of Canadians’ sex lives but of why we act the way we do. Sex in Canada pulls the covers off, breaking through myths with frank talk and hard facts.
Queering Reproductive Justice
An Invitation
Candace Bond-Theriault
August 2024 272pp
9781503639584 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503638716 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Bond-Theriault asserts that for reproductive justice to be truly successful, we must acknowledge that members of the LGBTQIA+ community often face distinct, specific, and interlocking oppressions when it comes to these rights. She presents incisive new recommendations for queer reproductive justice theory, organizing, and advocacy.
Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here
The Paradox of Protection in Canada
Azar Masoumi
Law and Society
July 2024 228pp 3 charts/diagrams
9780774868723 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UBC PRESS
Explores how refugee claims are processed within a complex and contradictory regime that is stretched between the separate fields of law and bureaucracy. Masoumi draws on archival and media sources to map the arrangements that allow the Canadian system to sustain itself. In doing so, she explains why statecontrolled refugee protection persists despite its many failures to protect refugees.
Silicon Valley Imperialism
Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Erin McElroy
March 2024 296pp 16 illus.
9781478030218 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478025962 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley techno-capitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents and generating extreme income inequality, in order to expand its reach
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Sociology of Corruption
Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary
David Jancsics
April 2024 174pp 10 diagrams, 1 chart
9781501774324 £39.00/ $43.95 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jancsics provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of the ex-communist bloc nations to catch up to the West and is, according to many experts and scholars, a country with a highly corrupt dynamic. What fostered corruption in Hungary? What do Hungarians think about it?
Sticky, Sexy, Sad
Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps
Treena Orchard
Foreword by Wednesday Martin
April 2024 224pp
9781487549305 £20.99 / $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Jane Goodall meets Carrie Bradshaw in Sticky, Sexy, Sad – an insightful, empowering memoir by an anthropologist who lays her own life bare as she explores the cultural matrix of digital courtship.
From 1st April 2024
The Maternalists
Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Shaul Bar-Haim
Intellectual History of the Modern Age
May 2024 304pp
9781512826050 £25.99/ $29.95 NIP
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project.
States of Return
Rethinking Migration and Mobility
Edited by Deborah A. Boehm & Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar
July 2024 272pp 1 b&w figure
9781479823352 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479823345 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
States of Return addresses the many cultural transitions that have accelerated and transformed return during the first decades of the twenty-first century. This book highlights the ways in which different migrants’ returns reflect conditions of power, capturing movement across borders in the world today.
Tent City, Seattle
Refusing Homelessness and Making a Home
Tony Sparks
June 2024 200pp 9 b&w illus.
9780295752617 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9780295752600 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Tent City 3 provides Seattle’s unhoused people with a place to create and sustain not just shelter but a home. In 2000 it became one of the first organized, peer-operated tent encampments in the city, a type of community that has become more common throughout the West Coast and the United States in the intervening years.
The Politics of Perverts
The Political Attitudes and Actions of Non-Traditional Sexual Minorities
Charles Anthony Smith, Shawn R. Schulenberg & Connor B. S. Strobel
LGBTQ Politics
June 2024 288pp 49 b&w images
9781479822744 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479822737 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Delves into the political attitudes and activities of individuals who identify with non-traditional sexual orientations and practices, such as Polyamory, BDSM, the Furry Fandom and Nudism.
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The Social Lives of Land
Edited by Michael R. Goldman, Nancy Lee Peluso & Wendy Wolford
June 2024 372pp
9781501771248 £35.00/ $38.95 PB
9781501771231 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Weaves together novel theoretical and empirical insights to analyze how people are living on, with, and from their land. From Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, and the colonial United States, the scholars in this collection uncover histories and re-tell stories with a focus on the lived experiences of rural and urban land dispossession and repossession.
Throw Your Voice
Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhoods
Meghanne Barker
August 2024 234pp 23 b&w halftones
9781501776465 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
9781501776458 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater, Meghanne Barker shows how children, and puppets, as proxies, bring to life ideologies of childhood and visions of a rosy future. The heart of this story is about living in displacement and about the fragile intimacies achieved amidst conditions of missing.
Utopia of the Uniform Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army
Tanja Petrovic
Theory in Forms
March 2024 256pp 55 illus.
9781478025689 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478020943 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Tanja Petrović draws on interviews with dozens of veterans of the Yugoslav People’s Army to show how their experiences in the military provided a framework for bringing the key political ideas of collectivity, solidarity, egalitarianism, education, and comradeship into being.
The Structure of Ideas
Mapping a New Theory of Free Expression in the AI Era
Jared
Schroeder
June 2024 296pp
9781503639898 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781503633230 £108.00/ $120.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
In his historic 1919 dissent, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes named, and thus catalyzed the creation of, the marketplace of ideas. Schroeder takes on the task of mapping the various iterations of the marketplace, from its early foundations in Enlightenment beliefs, to its increasingly expansive parameters for protecting expression in the arenas of commercial, corporate, and online speech.
Trapped
Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It
Mark Maguire & Setha Low
March 2024 160pp
9781503632967 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Calls to stop brutal police violence, argue Maguire and Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who take comfort in security capitalism. Angela Davis has written of the challenge of persuading people that "safety, safeguarded by violence, is not really safety." Maguire and Low provide a common language to discuss security capitalism and offering ways to escape its clutches.
Vibes Up
Reggae and Afro-Caribbean Migration from Costa Rica to Brooklyn
Sabia McCoy-Torres
August 2024 304pp 5 b&w images
9781479827176 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479827114 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Vibes Up offers an exploration of Caribbean culture as an expression of cultural, racial, and gender empowerment in the West Indian Diaspora. Through an examination of elements of the Black outdoors, this book shows the important role that reggae plays in articulating the frustrations of migration, and forming transnational relationships.
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Voices from Nepal
Uncovering Human Trafficking through Comics Journalism
Dan Archer
July 2024 240pp
9781487555016 £20.99 / $29.95 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
From graphic journalist Dan Archer comes an eye-opening investigation into human trafficking and a compelling account of how to tell stories in ways that educate and empower.
From 1st April 2024
Born of War in Colombia
Reproductive Violence and
Memories
of Absence
Tatiana Sanchez Parra
Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
April 2024 224pp 7 b&w images
9781978832466 £37.00/ $40.95 PB
9781978832473 £134.00/ $150.00 HB
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Born of War in Colombia addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas. In Colombia, there are generations of children born of conflict-related sexual violence across the country. Whispers of their presence have traveled outside their communities.
Denial
How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems
Jared Del Rosso
May 2024 312pp
9781479847884 £18.99/ $22.00 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In a highly readable style that draws on current events, politics, and pop culture, Del Rosso teases out the phenomenon of denial in our society. Drawing on classic studies in the social sciences and his own research of the denial of torture, Del Rosso builds a fascinating typology of the forms and meanings of denial.
When Animals Die Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice
Edited by Katja M. Guenther & Julian Paul Keenan
Animals in Context
May 2024 272pp 2 b&w images
9781479818891 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9781479818884 £89.00/ $99.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and otherthan-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans.
Burnt by Democracy
Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life
Jacqueline Kennelly
November 2024 248pp
9781487551643 £23.99 / $34.95 248PB
9781487548476 £56.99 / $85.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Drawing on interviews with young activists and young people who have experienced homelessness, Burnt by Democracy illustrates how growing wealth inequality has weakened democracy across five Western nations.
From 1st April 2024
Disability Studies
Crip Spacetime
Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
Margaret Price
May 2024 248pp 4 illus.
9781478030379 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478026136 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on more than 300 interviews, survey responses, and everyday experiences of disabled academics, Price demonstrates that the primary ways universities address accessibility actually impede access rather than enhancing it.
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Disability Works
Performance After Rehabilitation
Patrick McKelvey
Performance and American Cultures
July 2024 336pp 9 b&w images
9781479824878 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9781479824861 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Using previously unexplored archives, this book highlights an unexpected alliance of rehabilitation professionals, who championed performance’s rehabilitative potential and portrays the history of disabled Americans’ performance labor as both a national aspiration and a national problem.
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism
Lisa Diedrich
Forerunners: Ideas First
March 2024 150pp 6 b&w illus.
9781517917340 £9.00/ $10.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. She argues that illness politics is central to both mainstream and radical politics, as she investigates the dynamic intersection of media and health and how it effects our understanding of illness.
Health
An Archive of Possibilities
Healing and Repair in Democratic Republic of Congo
Rachel Marie Niehuus
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
January 2024 216pp 15 illus.
9781478025757 £22.99/ $26.95 PB
9781478021018 £92.00/ $102.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black death and chronic war.
Disability Worlds
Faye Ginsburg & Rayna Rapp
May 2024 296pp 11 illus.
9781478030409 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478026181 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wideranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.
Sites of Conscience Place, Memory, and the Project of Deinstitutionalization
Edited by Elisabeth Punzi & Linda Steele
Disability Culture and Politics
March 2024 302pp 17 photos
9780774869324 £98.00/ $109.00 HB
UBC PRESS
Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people were confined to residential institutions. The closure of these sites and integration of former residents into the community has become increasingly commonplace. But this project is unfinished.This volume proposes that acknowledging the lived experiences of former residents –rather than simply closing sites – holds the greatest potential for recognition, accountability, and action.
Breaking Canadians
Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19
Nili Kaplan-Myrth Foreword by Brian Goldman Afterword by Sue Robins
March 2024 314pp
9781487548124 £18.99 / $27.95 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Bringing together physicians, health care workers, and community advocates, Breaking Canadians shares firsthand stories about the personal, professional, and political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
From 1st April 2024
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Breathless
Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
Andrew McDowell
South Asia in Motion
April 2024 264pp
9781503638778 £23.99/ $28.00 PB
9781503637955 £99.00/ $110.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. McDowell tells the stories of socially marginalized Dalit ("exuntouchable") farming families afflicted by TB, and the nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums, and mystics who care for them.
Constructing Health How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health
Tye Farrow
May 2024 304pp
9781487557225 £45.00 / $65.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Illuminating how our brain and body engage with our surroundings, Constructing Health answers urgent questions about the role of architecture in creating and maintaining health.
From 1st April 2024
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Letters from the Asian American Abyss
Mimi Khúc
March 2024 272pp 19 illus., including 8 in color
9781478025672 £23.99/ $27.95 PB
9781478020936 £94.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In an intimate series of letters, Mimi Khúc traces the contemporary Asian American mental health crisis from the university into the maw of the COVID-19 pandemic, reenvisioning mental health through a pedagogy of unwellness—the recognition that we are all differentially unwell.
Caring for Life
A Postdevelopment Politics of Infant Hygiene
Kelly Dombroski
Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
March 2024 224pp 9 b&w illus.
9781517901608 £22.99/ $27.00 PB
9781517979850 £97.00/ $108.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Caring for Life examines the remarkable evolution in Asia-Pacific hygiene practices and amplifies the creative work of ordinary people guarding human and more-than-human life in their everyday practices of care. Caring for Life shows how experiments in personal care can lead to widespread change, providing hopeful of environmental action.
COVID-19 and Public Health
Global Responses to the Pandemic
Edited by Caroline Kingori
May 2024 384pp 13 figures; 14 tables
9780821425329 £27.99/ $32.95 PB
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
This valuable resource for public health students and professionals examines COVID-19’s impact on underserved and resource-limited communities, sheds light on important social justice issues, and provides insight into the challenges and opportunities associated with vaccine distribution and the pandemic’s environmental impact.
Global Health Security in China, Japan, and India
Assessing Sustainable Development Goals
Edited by Lesley A. Jacobs, Yoshitaka Wada & Ilan Vertinsky
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization
February 2024 296pp 18 charts, 28 tables
9780774867719 £34.00/ $37.95 PB
UBC PRESS
Investigates how global health security is evolving in three major Asian countries that have committed to adhering to the international health standards and targets in accordance with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Good Intentions in Global Health
Medical Missions, Emotion, and Health Care across Borders
Nicole S. Berry
Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
April 2024 208pp
9781479825370 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479825363 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
A ground-breaking exploration of the growing realm of informal global health engagement. Drawing on fieldwork in Guatemala, Berry investigates volunteers for short-term medical missions, revealing how their intent of goodness and actions in the global health domain.
Incommunicable
Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine
Charles L. Briggs
March 2024 336pp 16 illus.
9781478026006 £24.99/ $28.95 PB
9781478025788 £97.00/ $107.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Building on efforts by social movements and coalitions of health professionals and patients to craft more just and equitable futures, Briggs helps imagine health systems and health-care discourses beyond the oppressive weight of communicability and the stigma of incommunicability.
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet
Katharine Zywert
May 2024 344pp
9781487548667 £38.00 / $54.95 PB
9781487548032 £76.00 / $110.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet considers what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change.
From 1st April 2024
Green Rush
The Rise of Medical Marijuana in the United States
Daniel J. Mallinson & A. Lee Hannah
July 2024 256pp 36 b&w images
9781479827930 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479827923 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Green Rush, Daniel J. Mallinson and A. Lee Hannah offer a fascinating history of cannabis legalization in America, highlighting the people, states, and policies that made these victories possible. Mallinson and Hannah explore the backdrop to this sea change in policy, including public opinion, the War on Drugs, new revenue streams, and more.
Physicians of the Future
Doctor-Influencers, PatientConsumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
Rosalynn A. Vega
May 2024 336pp 3 b&w illus.
9781477328682 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781477328675 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Interrogates the hidden logics of inclusion and exclusion in functional medicine (FM), a holistic form of personalized medicine that targets chronic disease. Using data culled from online support groups, conferences, docuseries, and more, Vega argues that FM practices prioritize the individual while inadvertently reinscribing inequities based on race and class.
The Third Net
The Hidden System of Migrant Health Care
Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Erin Hoekstra & Anthony M. Jimenez
Health, Society, and Inequality
May 2024 256pp 12 b&w images
9781479821563 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479821556 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The US health care system not only consists of a formal safety net, but also an informal and disjointed network of organizations that offer basic care to millions of migrants. This groundbreaking study sheds light on the Third Net and its implications for the overall inequalities in the US health care system.
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Essays on Capitalism and Worker Resistance
David W. Montgomery
Shelton Stromquist & James R. Barrett
Working Class in American History
July 2024 464pp 15 b&w photos
9780252088001 £29.99/ $35.00 PB
9780252045905 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Labor History and the History of Science
Edited by Seth Rockman
March 2024 158pp 6 illus.
9781478027935 £11.99/ $14.00 PB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Topics covered include the practices of scientific research as sites of labor conflict, the role of unfree and invisibilized workers in scientific labor, the political economy of automation and labor-saving technology, the science of statistics, and colonial science in the global South.
From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Shuxuan Zhou
May 2024 184pp 6 b&w illus., 2 maps
9780295752679 £27.99/ $32.00 PB
9780295752662 £94.00/ $105.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Socialist China’s state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urbanindustrial space. In considering how sawmill and forest farmworkers creatively reconfigured state projects and challenged authority, this book opens a conversation among the fields of gender studies, labor studies, and environmental studies.
Perilous Wagers
Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo
Klaus K. Y. Hammering
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
August 2024 288pp 10 b&w halftones
9781501776427 £29.99/ $34.95 PB
9781501776410 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Takes place in the squalor of Tokyo's old day-laborer district, San'ya, where the men can be found eking out a living from occasional construction work and welfare handouts, permanently displaced from their hometowns. Explores how one group of day-laborers created dignity and sociality under abject conditions of life.
Pregnant at Work
Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice
Elise Andaya
Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
March 2024 208pp 6 b&w images
9781479817597 £25.99/ $30.00 PB
9781479817580 £80.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pregnant at Work examines the experiences of pregnant service sector workers in New York City as they try to navigate precarious low-wage service labor and safety net prenatal care. Through interviews and fieldwork in a prenatal clinic of a public hospital, Elise Andaya vividly describes workers’ struggles to maintain expected tempos of labor as their pregnancies progress.
What Work Means
Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic Claudia Strauss
June 2024 372pp 4 b&w halftones, 1 diagram, 2 charts
9781501775512 £31.00/ $35.95 PB
9781501775505 £112.00/ $125.00 HB
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Strauss observes that Americans are often described as workaholics driven by a Puritan work ethic. Drawing upon the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations Strauss shows that this Puritan ethic cultural description homogenizes diverse work motivations. This book inspires discussions about current work in current contexts of teleworking, greater automation, and nonstandard employment.
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