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FROM SOUTH CENTRAL TO SOUTHSIDE
Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City
ADAM BAIRD
Foreword by Philippe Bourgois
How longstanding socio-economic vulnerability in Belize City created fertile grounds for embedding deported Bloods and Crips from Los Angeles
When he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once established “back home,” membership in the Bloods and Crips was seen as an aspirational pathway to manhood for the urban underclass. From South Central to Southside charts the genesis and evolution of a transnational gang culture. Baird provides firsthand interviews with gang members and “narco” families and explains the surprising source of Belize City’s severe violence and skyrocketing homicide rates. He identifies gang violence in the U.S. and Belize as stemming from populations blighted by historical, brutal inequality and marginalization. Analyzing the gendered dynamics as young men and women face the temptations, risks, and dangers of gang life, Baird shines a light on “chronic vulnerability" in Belize City.
ADAM BAIRD is a Researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He is the coeditor of Paz, paso a paso: Una mirada a los conflictos colombianos desde los estudios de paz
LAW & CRIMINOLOGY | GENDER STUDIES | LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN STUDIES | SOCIOLOGY
Studies in Transgression series
217 pp. • 6 x 9" • 1 table
$29.95 £25.99 paper 9781439923344
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WOMEN'S STUDIES | ASIAN STUDIES | GENDER STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | LITERATURE & DRAMA
280 pp. • 6 x 9"
$34.95 £29.99 paper 9781439922521
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AVAILABLE MAY 2024
FEMALE BODY IMAGE AND BEAUTY POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN
LITERATURE AND CULTURE
EDITED BY SRIRUPA CHATTERJEE AND SHWETA RAO GARG
Initiates a much-neglected and much-needed discussion of the politics of Indian women’s body image and self-identity
Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture is the first volume to analyze the myriad conceptualizations of South Asian women’s body issues in film, literature, advertising, and other media. Showing how body image and self-identity are constructed in contemporary neoliberal India, the editors and contributors theorize issues of body image vis-à-vis Indian womanhood while touching upon political, socio-economic, and cultural parameters.
Influences from the colonial period through the age of the internet and globalization have reinforced Eurocentric ideals about femininity and womanhood. This long overdue volume addresses the pressures of beautification that Indian women face as they struggle with body acceptance and are often denied pride in their natural bodies.
CONTRIBUTORS: Annika Taneja, Anurima Chanda, Aratrika Bose, Kavita Daiya, Ketaki Chowkhani, Nishat Haider, Samrita Sinha, Shailendra Kumar Singh, Shubhra Ray, Sucharita Sarkar, Sukshma Vedere, Swatie, Tanupriya, Turni Chakrabarti, and the editors.
SRIRUPA CHATTERJEE is Associate Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Body Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
SHWETA RAO GARG is an academic, poet, and artist based in Baltimore, MD. She is a former Associate Professor of English at DA-IICT in Gandhinagar, India. She is the coeditor of English Paradigm in India: Essays in Language, Literature and Culture.
PROPER WOMEN
Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran
FAE CHUBIN
An intersectional analysis of Iran’s feminist activism through an ethnographic study of an NGO-led women’s empowerment program
Proper Women tells the unprecedented story of an NGO-led “women’s empowerment” program in Tehran that was created to serve young, impoverished Iranians and Afghan refugees. Fae Chubin recounts the well-intentioned efforts of cosmopolitan NGO administrators whose loyalty to liberal feminist principles of individualism, sexual autonomy, and anti-traditionalism complicated their objective of empowering marginalized women.
Chubin brings attention to the varying class, ethnic, religious, and national identities of NGO staff and clients that shaped their differing understandings of oppression and justice. Her examination of the tensions within the organization reveals why the efforts of the NGO workers failed to gain purchase among the intended beneficiaries.
Proper Women concludes by encouraging feminist activists to not only examine the role of local politics and transnational connections in shaping their definitions of empowerment, but also consider the advantages of a justice-enhancing practice as opposed to justice monism for their target populations.
FAE CHUBIN is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampa.
WOMEN'S STUDIES | SOCIOLOGY | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS | GENDER STUDIES
208 pp. • 5.5 x 8.25"
$25.95 £21.99 paper 9781439923283
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SPORTS | CULTURAL STUDIES | LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN STUDIES
202 pp. • 5.5 x 8.25" • 7 halftones
$24.95 £21.99 paper 9781439926055
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THAT FUTEBOL FEELING
Sport and Play in Brazil's Heartland
DAVID FAFLIK
Interrogating the emotions of athletes and fans of “soccer” in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Futebol, or soccer for Americans, is the planet’s spectator sport of choice. In the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, nestled in the country’s southeastern heartland, futebol generates powerful, lifelong emotions.
That Futebol Feeling captures the region’s enthrallment with “the beautiful game,” and shows us how and why play is central to the human condition. David Faflik profiles members of the most celebrated local team, Clube Atlético Mineiro (CAM), as well as its passionate, never-say-die fans, to show how futebol and fandom shape their everyday lives and perspectives. He discovers bonds of work and play, as well as pride, identity, and community. Additionally, Faflik’s analysis of Brazil’s futebol culture reflects sports fandom worldwide.
CAM stands as a symbol for a way of life in Minas Gerais, the birthplace of Pelé. Faflik interrogates what playing the game means to those who dedicate their lives to the sport. He writes, “The feelings that football inspires are the best of me.” That Futebol Feeling shares that special feeling with the rest of us.
DAVID FAFLIK is Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860; Melville and the Question of Meaning; Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading; Transcendental Heresies: Harvard and the Modern American Practice of Unbelief; and The Literary Gift in Early America
CROSSING GREAT DIVIDES
City and Country in Environmental and Political Disorder
JOHN D. FAIRFIELD
Forging a path forward toward modes of production and ways of life, less dependent on despoliation and manic consumption, that will be genuinely sustaining
Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at the root of our current environmental and political disorder. This oversimplifying dualism has distorted how we planned cities, our patterns of production and consumption, how we deal with waste, and how urban and rural populations perceive each other. Conventional urban environmental reform has made modern city life possible, but it has done little to limit the despoliation of distant places. Nevertheless, the successes of urban environmental reform remind us of what is possible. John Fairfield concludes with a case study of Phoenix, Arizona to demonstrate this dysfunctional relationship between city and country while developing a sympathetic critique of the Green New Deal. He suggests how we might bridge the “great divide” as we face the daunting challenges the twenty-first century is pressing upon us.
JOHN D. FAIRFIELD is Professor of History at Xavier University. He is the author of The Public and its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City (Temple).
URBAN STUDIES | NATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT | HISTORY | POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY
Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy series
316 pp. • 6 x 9"
$29.95 £25.99 paper 9781439925720
$115.50 £103.00 cloth 9781439925713
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POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | RELIGION | IMMIGRATION
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series
216 pp. • 6 x 9"
32 tables • 1 figure
$29.95
£25.99 paper 9781439925997
$104.50 £94.00 cloth 9781439925980
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2024
CHRISTIAN COSMOPOLITANISM
Faith Communities Talk Immigration
FELIPE AMIN FILOMENO
Empirically explores how Christian congregations can help expand solidarity across boundaries of identity
While religious institutions have been gateways for immigrants into local communities, religion has also coalesced with nationalism to discriminate against foreigners. Felipe Amin Filomeno asks, can “deliberative dialogues” about immigration in Christian congregations play a cosmopolitan role and bridge differences of nationality, race, and culture regarding immigration? To find the answer, he visited numerous Christian congregations in Baltimore with varying demographic makeups to discuss intergroup tensions and similarities in their communities. He developed dialogues to promote mutual understanding and collaboration between immigrants and U.S.-born people in religious spaces.
Christian Cosmopolitanism shows that mutual understanding can result when people share their personal stories, feelings, and thoughts about immigration. They reflect and deliberate on collaborative action to advance common interests and shared values, which can unleash the cosmopolitan potential of the Christian community.
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.
FELIPE AMIN FILOMENO is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Theories of Local Immigration Policy and Monsanto and Intellectual Property in South America.
THE IMPROVISER’S CLASSROOM
Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking
EDITED BY DANIEL FISCHLIN AND MARK LOMANNO
Exploring improvisation as a fundamental practice for teaching and learning
An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser’s Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care.
Demonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning, this volume also outlines how improvisatory techniques offer powerful, if not vital, tools for producing connection, creativity, accompaniment, reciprocity, meaningful revelation, and lifelong curiosity.
The Improviser's Classroom champions activist pedagogies and the public work essential for creating communities bound together by reciprocal care and equity.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sibongile Bhebhe, Judit Csobod, Michael Dessen, jashen edwards, Kate Galloway, Tomie Hahn, Petro Janse van Vuuren, Lauren Michelle Levesque, George Lipsitz, Rich Marsella, Tracy McMullen, Hafez Modirzadeh, Ed Sarath, Joe Sorbara, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Waterman, Carey West, and the editors
DANIEL FISCHLIN is the founding Director of the Critical Studies in Improvisation Graduate program (MA/PhD) at the University of Guelph, as well as the co-founder and Artistic Director of the community artspace Silence.
MARK LOMANNO is a jazz pianist and ethnomusicologist in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.
EDUCATION | MUSIC & DANCE | CULTURAL STUDIES
Insubordinate Spaces series 386 pp • 6 x 9" 4 tables • 4 figures • 8 halftones
$47.95 £43.00 paper 9781439924495
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POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | RELIGION | SOCIOLOGY | URBAN STUDIES | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series
262 pp. • 6 x 9"
47 tables • 14 figures
$37.95 £34.00 paper 9781439925300
$110.50 £99.00 cloth 9781439925294
AVAILABLE JULY 2024
FAITH AND COMMUNITY
How Engagement Strengthens Members, Places of Worship, and Society
REBECCA A. GLAZIER
Showing how community engagement can build stronger congregations and improve democracy
Places of worship are important anchor institutions in communities, helping to create social capital through discussion groups, soup kitchens, and neighborhood clean-ups. While congregations face increasing pressures, from declining attendance to political polarization, community engagement is an overall positive for their members and for democracy.
Faith and Community shows the benefits of religious people taking action in their communities. Through more than a decade of multi-method data collection, Rebecca Glazier surveyed over 4,000 congregants and nearly 500 clergy in Little Rock, Arkansas to gather opinions from members and leaders on community issues and engagement. Together with interviews and case studies, her findings indicate that active congregants are happier and more civically involved.
Faith and Community provides valuable insights into the relationship between religion and community engagement. The data illustrates how community engagement benefits individuals, congregations, and democracy and offers one solution to what ails religion in America today.
REBECCA A. GLAZIER is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the Director of the Little Rock Congregations Study.
RIGHTEOUS SISTERHOOD
The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club
SARAH L. HOILAND
The inner workings of a women's motorcycle club
A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood is Sarah 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.”
Granted unprecedented access to the MC’s initiation rituals, annual ceremonies, and the extensive socialization process, Hoiland investigates this fascinating subculture, why women choose to join, and why, in some cases, they exit or become exiled.
Righteous Sisterhood also reveals complex and contradictory gender and political dynamics within the club and within the larger subculture. The MC provides a unique, liberatory, womanist space within the larger male-dominated MC social world, but these women remain outsiders, with political voices that are lost in the misogyny of alt-right spaces. As Hoiland emphasizes, the quest for righteous sisterhood is about finding individual excellence and camaraderie while seeking recognition and immortality within the MC.
SARAH L. HOILAND is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hostos Community College, City University of New York.
SOCIOLOGY | WOMEN'S STUDIES | LAW & CRIMINOLOGY
193 pp. • 6 x 9" • 1 table
$27.95 £23.99 paper 9781439925935
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DISABILITY STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | HISTORY | LITERATURE & DRAMA
357 pp. • 6 x 9"
$39.95 £36.00 paper 9781439925218
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DISABILITY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND COLONIALISM
EDITED BY TATIANA KONRAD
WITH A FOREWORD BY TSITSI
CHATAIKA
Explores discourses related to gender, race, imperialism, and climate across the colonial era
Drawing on contemporary and historic literary and media examples of Western colonialism and Anglophone writings, Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism traces how the perverse nature of colonialism continues to dominate the globe today.
The editors and contributors provide a careful analysis of the intersection of disability, the environment, and colonialism to understand issues such as eco-ableism, environmental degradation, homogenized approaches to environmentalism, and climate change. They also look at the body as a site of colonial oppression and environmental exploitation.
CONTRIBUTORS: Holly Caldwell, Matthew J. C. Cella, John Gulledge, Memona Hossain, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Iain Hutchison, Andrew B. Jenks, Suha Kudsieh, Gordon M. Sayre, Jessica A. Schwartz, Anna Stenning, Aubrey Tang, Alice Wexler, and the editor.
TATIANA KONRAD is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.
TONI MORRISON AND THE GEOPOETICS OF PLACE, RACE, AND BE/LONGING
MARILYN SANDERS MOBLEY
Connects Toni Morrison's cultural politics and narrative poetics through the lens of spatial literary studies
Toni Morrison’s readers and critics typically focus more on the “what” than the “how” of her writing. In Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, Marilyn Sanders Mobley analyzes Morrison’s expressed narrative intention of providing “spaces for the reader” to help us understand the narrative strategies in her work.
Mobley’s approach is as interdisciplinary, intersectional, nuanced, and complex as Morrison’s. She combines textual analysis with a study of Morrison’s cultural politics and narrative poetics and describes how Morrison engages with both history and the present political moment.
Informed by research in geocriticism, spatial literary studies, African American literary studies, and Black feminist studies at the intersection of poetics and cultural politics, Mobley identifies four narrative strategies that illuminate how Morrison creates such spaces in her fiction; what these spaces say about her understanding of place, race, and belonging; and how they constitute a way to read and re-read her work.
MARILYN SANDERS MOBLEY is Emerita Professor of English and African American Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
LITERATURE & DRAMA | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | AMERICAN STUDIES
254 pp. • 6 x 9"
$30.95 £26.99 paper 9781439924310
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POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | WOMEN'S STUDIES | URBAN STUDIES
318 pp. • 6 x 9"
1 table • 12 figures
$39.95 £36.00 paper 9781439921180
$119.50 £107.00 cloth 9781439921173
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2024
REDEFINING
THE POLITICAL
Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life
ALEX J. MOFFETT-BATEAU
Assessing the political power of low-income Black women
Redefining the Political documents the political life of a community of Black women living below the poverty line. Alex Moffett-Bateau spent a year interviewing residents of a public housing development on the far South Side of Chicago about their politics, political communities, and how they create collective power.
Moffett-Bateau uses radical Black feminist political theory and develops a framework called the political possible-self, which argues that belonging to a community and developing political imagination foment change. These women employ grassroots efforts to subvert oppressive power structures by protesting institutions within their communities, addressing the benign neglect of their housing development, organizing community art shows and meals, volunteering at local public schools, and holding meetings to increase the political confidence of public-housing tenants by educating them on navigating government bureaucracies.
Ultimately, Redefining the Political shows how political engagement at both the individual and community levels can be fruitful for nontraditional political contributions.
ALEX J. MOFFETT-BATEAU is Assistant Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.
BODY FACTORY
Exploiting
University
Athletes' Healthcare for Profit in the Training Room
KAITLIN PERICAK
The role that neoliberalism plays in college athlete healthcare
A university’s athletic training room is meant to care for and heal college athletes and ensure they are receiving the help they need. Although sports medicine staff members are sincere in their goal of centering athletes and providing the best healthcare possible, organizational constraints affect their approach. Chief among them is the pressure sports medicine staff members feel to keep athletes from profit-generating sports healthy enough to perform.
Body Factory enters an NCAA Division I athletic training room to examine the disconnect between what the NCAA states as its goal of athlete healthcare and what is actually happening. Kaitlin Pericak conducts observations in this space and interviews injured athletes and sports medicine staff members to show how institutional control over “best interests” often ends up exploiting the individual athlete. The influences at work are part of a neoliberal paradigm that explains why interest in an athlete’s care is greatly diminished once they are injured and can no longer play.
Body Factory considers how race, gender, and health before and after injury are deciding factors in these university training centers. The bureaucratic organization has a goal of maintaining power to generate profit, and Pericak shows this is almost always at the expense of the athlete.
KAITLIN PERICAK is Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina Wesleyan University.
SPORTS | SOCIOLOGY | HEALTH & HEALTH POLICY | EDUCATION | ANTHROPOLOGY
Sporting series
155 pp. • 5.5 x 8.25"
2 tables • 4 figures
$21.95 £18.99 paper 9781439924945
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SOCIOLOGY | GENDER STUDIES | MASS MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS | YOUTH STUDIES
256 pp. • 6 x 9" • 1 table
$32.95 £27.99 paper 9781439925812
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DIGITAL GIRLHOODS
KATHERINE A. PHELPS
Explores the nuanced and complex relationships that American tween girls have with social media and the meanings they give to it
Tween girls in America today are growing up on social media, posting selfies and sharing “stories.” In Digital Girlhoods, Katherine Phelps emphasizes tween girls’ agency on social media vis-à-vis identity formation, content creation, and community building. When a tween girl posts a video on YouTube asking the world, “Am I pretty or ugly?”, she is also asking, “Who am I?” This content makes visible the pitfalls and potentials of these tweens creating their own digital narratives—and it asks us to take them seriously.
Featuring in-depth interviews with a cross section of tween girls, Phelps allows them to give meanings to their relationships with social media and their peers in their own words. As tween girls embody and negotiate the many contradictions of American girlhoods through social media participation (for example, the “Pretty or Ugly” YouTube trend), Phelps asks, how are tween girls living and experiencing girlhoods in the digital age?
The processes of experiencing and enacting tween-hood and girlhood online are explicitly gendered. Digital Girlhoods thoughtfully considers what tween girlhoods look and feel like in America today.
KATHERINE A. PHELPS is teaching faculty in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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CONTOURS OF ISRAELI POLITICS
Jewish Ethnicity, Religious Nationalism, and Democracy
HANNAH M. RIDGE
Examines the effect of ethnic diversity and privilege within the Jewish Israeli population on public opinion and attitudes about identity and democracy
There is no single Jewish ethnicity, and no single Jewish ethnic group constitutes a clear majority of Jewish Israelis. These intra-Jewish differences permit a social hierarchy within the “in-group”—Jewish Israelis—that privileges the Ashkenazi Jews of European descent over Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews of Middle Eastern backgrounds.
The timely Contours of Israeli Politics focuses on the sociopolitical ramifications of this hierarchy within the upper stratum of Israeli society. Using public opinion studies and qualitative data, Hannah Ridge examines the effects of this social hierarchy to address attitudes on Israeli ethnicity and religious majoritarianism, support for Israeli democracy, and preference for an expanded territorial state and peace with its neighbors.
As various Jewish ethnic groups face greater pressure to assert their in-group membership (their Jewishness), they are more likely to protect the status privileges of that group. This can strengthen their ideas about identity, nationalism, democratic values, and conflict attitudes. Ridge’s findings reveal the ways in which Jewish ethnicity continues to influence the politics of Israel, a Jewish ethno-religious state.
HANNAH M. RIDGE is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Chapman University and the author of Defining Democracy: Democratic Commitment in the Arab World.
POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | JEWISH STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES | RACE & ETHNICITY
210 pp. • 6 x 9"
58 tables • 19 figures
$29.95 £25.99 paper 9781439925843
$99.50 £86.00 cloth 9781439925836
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IMMIGRATION | ASIAN STUDIES | RACE & ETHNICITY | ANTHROPOLOGY | GENDER STUDIES
Global Youth series
190 pp. • 5.25 x 8.5" • 3 figures • 1 map
$16.95 £14.99 paper 9781439914274
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CROSSING THE BORDER TO INDIA
Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal
JEEVAN R. SHARMA
Now in Paperback! How the changing political economy of rural Nepal informs the desire and agency of young male migrants who seek work in cities
“[T]his book is essential reading for scholars, students, and civil society activists who want to better understand the lives of young male migrants, both in Nepal and in other contexts.”—Journal of Asian Studies
Given limited economic opportunities in rural Nepal, the desire of young Nepalese men of all income and education levels, castes, and ethnicities to migrate has never been higher. Crossing the Border to India provides an ethnography of male labor migration from the western hills of Nepal to Indian cities. Jeevan Sharma shows how a migrant’s livelihood and gender, as well as structural violence, impacts his perceptions, experiences, and aspirations.
JEEVAN R. SHARMA is a Professor in South Asia and International Development at the University of Edinburgh.
SHELTER ON THE JOURNEY
Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration
PRISCILLA SOLANO
Foreword by Douglas S. Massey
How migrant shelters in Mexico become launching points for transnational politics of freedom of movement
Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-holding people.
Solano, who volunteered at shelters in Mexico, chronicles the activity in three of the nearly 100 shelters along a unique humanitarian trail that many Central Americans take to reach the United States. She outlines the constraints faced by these sites and their potential to create social transformation and considers how and why migration security is currently framed and managed as both a criminal and humanitarian issue.
Shelter on the Journey explores the politics of the shelters, their social world, and the dynamics of charity and solidarity, as well as the need for humanitarian assistance and advocacy for dignified and free transit migration.
PRISCILLA SOLANO is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Political Studies at Malmö University in Sweden.
IMMIGRATION | LATIN AMERICAN/CARIBBEAN STUDIES | SOCIOLOGY | LAW & CRIMINOLOGY | ANTHROPOLOGY
210 pp. • 6 x 9" • 1 figure • 3 halftones
$29.95 £25.99 paper 9781439921531
$99.50 £89.00 cloth 9781439921524
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AMERICAN STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | LITERATURE & DRAMA | RACE & ETHNICITY | GENDER STUDIES
Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality series
250 pp. • 6 x 9" • 6 color photos
$34.95 £29.99 paper 9781439925515
$125.50 £113.00 cloth 9781439925508
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2024
WORLDS AT THE END
Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination
PACHAREE SUDHINARASET
Explores apocalypse, collapse, and resurgence in literary works by Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx writers
Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles’s infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and consolidation of colonial life. Pacharee Sudhinaraset employs a women-of-color feminist methodology to examine Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx literary works about apocalypse and the end times.
Worlds at the End analyzes destruction, rupture, and continuance through texts ranging from Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, which considers racial colonial infrastructure, to the work of Diné poet Esther Belin, which illuminates how the separation between the Indian reservation and Los Angeles is part of a broader infrastructural network of termination. And she unpacks Octavia Butler’s post-apocalyptic novel, Parable of the Sower, where Los Angeles’s freeways and roadways are routes of forced migration, colonization, and flight.
Tearing down existing institutions that marginalize people of color and moving past them, Worlds at the End highlights the imaginaries of those subjugated, racialized, and made other, for whom modernity, freedom, and progress meant violence, brutality, and relegation to the status of devalued surplus populations. As Sudhinaraset deftly shows, the apocalypse marks moments of historical and spatial transition, offering stories of doomsdays that will give rise to resurgence and regeneration.
PACHAREE SUDHINARASET is Assistant Professor of English at New York University.
THE POLITICS OF HATE
How
the Christian Right Darkened America’s Political Soul
ANGELIA R. WILSON
Examining the tactics of Christian Right political organizations
Christian Right organizations have darkened America’s political soul by strategically constructing a theological justification for hate. Angelia Wilson supports this claim in The Politics of Hate by detailing how Christian Right organizations have pushed voters toward polarization and primed religious conservatives to support Donald Trump.
Based on original research, participant observation at events, and data collection, Wilson follows the money to provide a meticulous analysis of how Christian Right political elites operate. She traces the evolutionary development of the Christian Right’s political professionalism and their allegiance to a grand vision that articulates a grammar of war to fulfill their Biblical worldview.
The Politics of Hate demonstrates how Christian Right organizations educate and train networks of soldiers to tactically engage the enemy in local, state, and national legal and political battles. Wilson carefully documents their history of co-belligerency, their strategies of political warfare, and, importantly, the impact of this war that has, over the past fifty years, forever changed American politics.
ANGELIA R. WILSON is Professor of Politics at the University of Manchester. She has published five books, including Why Europe is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be) and Situating Intersectionality: Politics, Policy and Power.
POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | RELIGION | SOCIOLOGY
Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series 310 pp. • 6 x 9"
9 color photos • 2 tables • 3 figure
$39.95 £36.00 paper 9781439926383
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LABOR STUDIES & WORK | TECHNOLOGY | SOCIOLOGY | BUSINESS/ECONOMICS
238 pp. • 6 x 9"
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PLAY TO SUBMISSION
Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm
TONGYU WU
A critical exploration into the gamification in modern workplaces as a means of control
Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can “play to win” in the competition to succeed. But in studying “Behemoth” (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious.
Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the constant competition made labor organizing difficult. Nonetheless, many workers embraced management’s games as a chance to show off their “gamer” identities and create a workplace culture with privileged insiders and exiled outsiders, with female and migrant workers usually in the latter group. Moreover, Wu indicates this may be the future of work for high- and low-skilled and, creative workers in an environment where capitalists have heightened demands for technology and creativity.
Drawing from 13 months of ethnographic work, Wu presents a persistent reality in which the company reaps the reward of surplus productivity, leaving employees themselves in a highly competitive and sometimes precarious work position.
TONGYU WU is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University in China.
BEYOND LEFT, RIGHT, AND CENTER
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Germany
CHRISTINA XYDIAS
Debunks our assumptions about ideology and women's representation in democracies
Women’s political representation is often expected to be better on “the left.” However, the reality is more complicated. Using Germany’s multi-party system as its central case study, Beyond Left, Right, and Center challenges this conventional wisdom on political ideology.
Christina Xydias shows that some right-leaning parties advocate for women’s rights and interests, while left- and right-leaning parties can be equally indifferent to lack of representation for women from marginalized groups. These findings follow from analyses of election results, transcripts from debates and speeches, and personal interviews, as well as from a close reading of intertwined military and citizenship policies that illustrate how women’s and ethnic minority groups’ rights are constructed.
Beyond Left, Right, and Center concludes with an analysis of women’s representation across OECD countries, showing that right-leaning parties are more likely to support women’s rights and interests in societies that are more egalitarian.
CHRISTINA XYDIAS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bucknell University.
POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | GENDER STUDIES | RACE & ETHNICITY
254 pp. • 6 x 9"
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$34.95 £29.99 paper 9781439923771
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES | AMERICAN STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | RACE & ETHNICITY
Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality series
196 pp. • 6 x 9"
$26.95 £22.99 paper 9781439920404
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CARCERAL ENTANGLEMENTS
Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration
WENDI YAMASHITA
Critiques how Japanese American public memorializations unintentionally participate in maintaining and justifying a neoliberal racial order
Japanese Americans have long contended with settler colonization and mass criminalization by the state, most notably during the WWII era when they were forced into incarceration camps. In Carceral Entanglements, Wendi Yamashita asks, how do narratives of worth and success that make Japanese Americans legible to the state come to be? What are the consequences of such narratives?
Carceral Entanglements features interviews, archival research, and texts to explore racial violence and patriotic masculinity and explain how Japanese American history and identity are publicly memorialized. Yamashita examines museums, digital archives, pilgrimages, and student-run and performed plays to understand how Japanese Americans occupy a “contradictory location” produced by the state. She also addresses historical erasure, race relations and the struggle for redress and reparations.
Carceral Entanglements is about the interlocking relationship Japanese American incarceration memories have to the prison industrial complex and the settler colonial logics that at times unknowingly sustain it.
WENDI YAMASHITA is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento. She is coeditor of Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders: A Historical Community Overview
WHO IS ANTIRACIST?
Beliefs, Motivations, and Politics
GEORGE YANCEY AND HAYOUNG DAVID OH
Documents the demographic makeup and social attitudes of those who support the type of antiracism popularized in the United States
In the summer of 2020 when protests were mobilizing for social justice, the term “antiracist” started getting more traction. It demanded a more active civic orientation and a commitment to uprooting racism from institutions. In Who Is Antiracist? George Yancey and Hayoung David Oh use this flashpoint moment to ask, what are the characteristics of those who support antiracism? Who is most likely to be swayed toward this set of commitments, who is not, and how do they understand each other?
Who Is Antiracist? provides a systematic approach to understanding the motivations and intentions of racial progressives as well as the impact of political ideology on antiracism. The authors discuss the theoretical origins of contemporary antiracism and review key works of antiracism to piece together the characteristics that define it. They also create the Antiracism Attitude Scale to explore the demographic makeup and social views of those who support the type of antiracism popularized in the United States.
Acknowledging that antiracism faces powerful challenges in fully obtaining the goals articulated by its proponents, 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.
GEORGE YANCEY is Professor of Sociology at Baylor University. He is author of Who is White: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide, and coauthor of Transcending Racial Barriers: Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach.
HAYOUNG DAVID OH, MPH, is the Community Affiliate Research Coordinator at the Woodson Center in Washington, DC.
RACE & ETHNICITY | SOCIOLOGY | POLITICAL SCIENCE & PUBLIC POLICY | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
224 pp. • 6 x 9" • 27 tables
$29.95 £25.99 paper 9781439925690
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