Beyond the Margins: The University of California Press Podcast
Episodes
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría, "Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico" (U California Press, 2020)
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice, and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (University of California Press), ...
Shankar Nair, "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia" (U California Press, 2020)
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Shankar Nair’s new book Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia (University of California Press, 2020)...
Amelia Moore, "Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas" (U California Press, 2019)
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Despite being a minor contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, like many other small island nations, The Bahamas’s ecology and society are es...
G. S. Rosenthal, "Beyond Hawai‘i: Native Labor in the Pacific World" (U California Press, 2018)
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Haw...
David G. Atwill, "Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960" (U California Press 2018)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Centering on the Tibetan Muslims (the Khache) from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lha...
David G. Atwill, "Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa’s Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960" (U California Press 2018)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Centering on the Tibetan Muslims (the Khache) from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century, Islamic Shangri-La: Inter-Asian Relations and Lha...
Greg Beckett, "There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince" (U California Press, 2019)
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Beckett, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western University, about his richly grounded book There is...
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion" (U California Press, 2020)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although it has largely been erased from the collective memory of American Christianity, the debate over eugenics was a major factor in the history of...
Aliya Hamid Rao, "Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment" (U California Press, 2020)
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment (University of California Press, 2020), Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with coll...
Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sandie Holguín speaks with Jennifer L. Holland about her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement (University of California ...
Ismael Garcia-Colon, "Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colonial Migrants at the Heart of Empire: Puerto Rican Workers on U.S. Farms (University of California Press, 2020) is the first in-depth look at the ...
Macabe Keliher, "The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China" (U California Press, 2019)
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing attention to the importance of li (an articulated system of social domination and political legitimization, consisting of rituals, ceremonies...
Rebecca Hanson and Patricia Richards, "Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research" (U California Press, 2019)
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, and harassment as they conduct fieldwork. These experiences are oft...
Scott Laderman, "Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing" (U California Press, 2014)
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2020 has been such a horrifying year (and it’s only June!), it would be nice to relax a bit this summer and talk about something fun and apoli...
R. Farrugia and K. D. Hay, "Women Rapping Revolution: Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit" (U California Press, 2020)
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of the New Books Network, Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay of Oakland University on their new book Women...
Jennifer Holland, "Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement" (U California Press, 2020)
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although much has been written about the anti-abortion movement in the United States, Jennifer Holland (Assistant Professor of U.S. History, Universit...
Robert A. Karl, "Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia" (U California Press 2017)
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence and the Making of Contemporary Colombia (University of California Press 2017), Robert Karl explores how Colombian...
Howard Friedman, "Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life" (U California Press, 2020)
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Howard Friedman's new book Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life (University of California Press, 2020) should be required reading for anyone sit...
Carlo Caduff, "The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger" (U California Press, 2015)
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carlo Caduff’s The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger (University of California Press, 2015) is an ethnographic inquiry...
Lina Britto, "Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise" (U California Press, 2020)
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In her recently published book Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press 2020), Lina Britto ...
David G. Garcia, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (U California Press, 2018)
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most Americans have a limited understanding of the history of segregation in the United States. While many are taught that segregation was as an insti...
Christopher Houston, "Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, and Memory in Turkey" (U California Press, 2020)
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, Christopher Houston's new book Istanbul, City of the Fearless: Urban Activism, Coup D’Etat, a...
Jatin Dua, "Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2019)
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2019) is a pirate story of a different kind. Based on year...
Erin Hatton, "Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment" (U California Press, 2020)
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all...
Norman A. Kutcher, "Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule" (U California Press, 2018)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eunuchs. Nobody liked them, everybody seems to have hated them, but, even so, they were an essential part of many states – even in the Qing. Norman...
Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Ollett, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, argues in his book, Langua...
Josh Seim, "Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering" (U California Press, 2020)
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critical...
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools" (U California Press, 2019)
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation’s school cooks by supplying cafeterias with ch...
Joseph O. Baker, "Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters" (U California Press, 2019)
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher D. Bader and Joseph O. Baker's book Deviance Management: Insiders, Outsiders, Hiders, and Drifters (University of California Press, 2019) ...
Orly Clergé, "The New Noir: Race, Identity and Diaspora in Black Suburbia" (U California Press, 2019)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How has the expansion of the Black American middle class and the increase in the number of Black immigrants among them since the Civil Rights period t...
Andrea Boyles, "You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-Ferguson America" (U California Press, 2019)
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Black lives matter before death.” (p.132) In her powerful new book, You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties in Post-F...
Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproduc...
Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples (University of California Press, 2018; paperback edition, 2019) is the first book-length st...
Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (U California Press, 2019)
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With a name associated with the famous university in Palo Alto, Leland Stanford is among the best-known of the famous “robber barons” of the 19th ...
Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America" (U California Press, 2018)
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Noelle Giuffrida’s book, Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America (University of California Press, ...
Stuart Schrader, "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing" (U California Press, 2019)
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Following World War II, in the midst of global decolonization and intensifying freedom struggles within its borders, the United States developed a wor...
L. A. Kauffman, "How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance" (U California Press, 2018)
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were...
Rachel Laudan, "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History" (U California Press, 2015)
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With Al Zambone this week is Rachel Laudan, author of the fascinating Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (University of California Press, 20...
Ussama Makdisi, "Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World" (U California Press, 2019)
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Building on nearly two decades of scholarship about sectarianism and communal relations in the Modern Middle East, Ussama Makdisi’s latest book, Age...
Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet" (U California Press, 2018)
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet (University of California Press, 2018) discusses the position of the monasteri...
Sabine Frühstück, "Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan" (U California Press, 2017)
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (University of California Press, 2017), Sabine Frühstück shows how children...
Harshita M. Kamath, "The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance" (U California Press, 2019)
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Harshita M. Kamath's new book The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (University of California Press, 2019) features an investigati...
Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality" (U California Press, 2019)
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/A...
Laura Alice Watt, "The Paradox of Preservation: Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore" (U California Press, 2016)
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Wilderness,” “nature,” and their “preservation” are concepts basic to how the National Park Service organizes our relationship to America...
Genevieve Carpio, "Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race" (U California Press, 2019)
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019), Professor Genevieve Carpio con...
Laura R. Barraclough, "Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity" (U California Press, 2019)
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity (University of California Press, 2019), Dr. Laura R. Barraclough tells a surp...
Emily Wilcox, "Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy" (U California Press, 2018)
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is “Chinese dance,” how did it take shape in during China’s socialist period, and how has this socialist form continued to influence Post-M...
Manu Karuka, "Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad" (U California Press, 2019)
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does anti-imperialism look like from the vantage point of North America? In Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Trans...
Kris Lane, "Potosí: The Silver City That Changed the World" (U California Press, 2019)
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1545, a native Andean prospector hit pay dirt on a desolate red mountain in highland Bolivia. There followed the world's greatest silver bonanza, m...
Houri Berberian, "Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian and Ottoman Worlds" (U California Press, 2019)
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In her newest book, Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian and Ottoman Worlds (University of Californ...
Alex Colas et al., "Food, Politics, and Society Social Theory and the Modern Food System" (U California Press, 2018)
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The consumption of food and drink is much more than what we put in our mouth. Food and drink have been a focal point of modern social theory since the...
Leigh Goodmark, "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" (U California Press, 2018)
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to the efforts of activists concerned that the problem of “battered women” was being ignored -- and treated as a private, family matter rat...
Brannon D. Ingram, "Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam" (U California Press, 2018)
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam (University of California Press, 2018) by Brannon D. Ingram is a timely study of the Deoband...
Jamal Elias, "Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies" (U California Press, 2018)
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In his groundbreaking new book, Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies (University of California Press, 2018),...
Alexander S. Dawson, "The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs" (U California Press, 2018)
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Peyote occupies a curious place in the United States and Mexico: though prohibited by law, its use remains permissible in both countries for ceremonia...
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology aro...
Patrick Eisenlohr, "Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World" (U California Press, 2018)
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World(University of California Press, 2018) by Patrick Eisenlohr is an exciting...
Randy Shaw, “Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America?” (U California Press, 2018)
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why is housing so expensive in so many cities, and what can be done about it? Join us as we speak with long-time San Francisco housing activist Randy ...
Ronald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary” (U California Press, 2017)
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has become the largest domestic construction project i...
Shenila Khoja-Moolji, “Forging an Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia” (U California Press, 2018)
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s Forging an Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia (University of California Press, 20...
Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, “Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy” (U California Press, 2017)
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Benny was one of the first crossover stars in broadcast comedy, rising from the vaudeville circuit to star in radio, film, and television. Kathry...
Michael Koncewicz, “They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power” (U California Press, 2018)
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible for a president’s political appointees to rein in a president with a penchant for abusing power? Yes. Michael Koncewicz, who listened...
Charlotte Greenhalgh, “Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain” (U California Press, 2018)
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What role did elderly Britons have in shaping the twentieth-century welfare state? In her new book, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (University of ...
Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)
19 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The North American Free Trade Agreement—or NAFTA, as we Americans call it—is very much in the news of late, primarily because President Trump has ...
Gary Fields, “Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror” (U California Press, 2017)
16 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Inspired by the usage of the term ‘enclosure’ to describe the Separation Wall in Israel-Palestine on a visit he made to the West Bank, Gary Fields...
Andrew B. Kipnis, “From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat” (U California Press, 2016)
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“When I first went to Zouping in 1988,” writes Andrew B. Kipnis in From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat (Universit...
Casey Walsh, “Virtuous Waters: Mineral Springs, Bathing, and Infrastructure in Mexico” (U California Press, 2018).
02 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Water politics have long figured prominently in Mexico, and scholars have addressed such critical topics as irrigation, dam and canal building, and re...
Kate McDonald, “Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan” (U California Press, 2017)
01 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate McDonald‘s Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 2017) is a thoughtful and pro...
Kelsy Burke, “Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet” (U California Press, 2016)
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do we conceptualize religious conservatives and their relationship with sex? And how do Christians use digital media for sexual knowledge and plea...
Laura Robson, “States of Separation: Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East” (U California Press, 2017)
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The First World War ended over four centuries of Middle East rule by the expansive, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual Ottoman Empire. In i...
Pamela Potter, “Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts” (U California Press, 2016)
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts (University of California Press, 2016), ...
Nicole Von Germeten, “Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico” (U California Press, 2018)
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico (University of California Press, 2018), Nicole Von Germeten explains the most important c...
Patrick Lopez-Aguado, “Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity” (U California Press)
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do systems of incarceration influence racial sorting inside and outside of prisons? And how do the social structures within prisons spill out into...
Rosina Lozano, “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States” (U California Press, 2018)
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (University of California Press, 2018), Rosina Lozano details the entangled rela...
Simeon Man, “Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific” (U California Press, 2018)
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Simeon Man‘s book Soldiering through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific (University of California Press, 2018) focuses on the ...
Elaine Fisher, “Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South Asia” (U California Press, 2017)
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Elaine Fisher’s Hindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South Asia (University of California Press, 2017) sheds light on t...
Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico (University of California Press, 2017) explores the definitive changes that the justice syst...
Aidan Forth, “Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903” (U California Press, 2017)
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book, Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (University of California Press, 2017), Aidan Forth employs a compar...
Anna Zeide, “Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry” (U California Press, 2018)
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most everything Americans eat today comes out of cans. Some of it emerges from the iconic steel cylinders and much of the rest from the mammoth proces...
Chad Montrie, “The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism” (U California Press, 2018)
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin didn’t start the Civil War and Silent Spring didn’t start the environmental movement. In The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking...
Mira Balberg, “Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature” (U California Press, 2017)
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mira Balberg‘s Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature (University of California Press, 2017) delves into a rel...
Mara Buchbinder, “All in Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain” (U California Press, 2015)
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As physicians, we cannot image or measure it, we can only try to locate within the lives and (sometimes) bodies of our patients. In All in Your Head: ...
Peter A. Kopp, “Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley” (U California Press, 2016)
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Environmental historian Peter A. Kopp‘s book Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (University of California Pre...
Claudio Sopranzetti, “Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok” (U California Press, 2017)
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When the army brutally dispersed Red Shirts protestors in Bangkok’s busy commercial district in May 2010, motorcycle taxi drivers emerged as a key f...
Jerry Flores, “Caught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wrap-Around Incarceration” (U California Press, 2016)
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What are the lives of young incarcerated Latinas like? And what were their lives like before and after their incarceration? In his new book, Caught Up...
Mark Padoongpatt, “Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America” (U of California Press, 2017)
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), Mark Padoongpatt weaves together histories of food, ...
Jean Beaman, “Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France” (U California Press, 2017)
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be a citizen? Every country has its own legal codes that confer a set of rights on official members. But full citizenship is ofte...
Joel Blecher, “Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary Across a Millennium” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In his marvelous new book Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary Across a Millennium (University of California Press, 2017), Joel Blecher, Assista...
Kathryn A. Sloan, “Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In her recent book Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico (University of California Press, 2017), Kathryn A. Sloan explo...
Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans” (UC Press, 2016)
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about Black Republicans that makes them fodder for comedy? How do Black Republicans view their participation in their political group? Core...
Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans” (UC Press, 2016)
24 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about Black Republicans that makes them fodder for comedy? How do Black Republicans view their participation in their political group? Core...
Kevan Harris, “A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
11 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kevan Harris is the author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (University of California Press, 2017). Harris is assistant ...
Carolyn Sufrin, “Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
01 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In 1976, the landmark supreme court case Estelle v. Gamble, established that under the Eighth Amendment “deliberate indifference” to the health ne...
Kathryn Lofton, “Consuming Religion” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) off...
Steve Viscelli, “The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
There may not be a more ubiquitous presence on American highways than the truck. The images are iconic: eighteen-wheelers with muddy steel and chrome,...
Hugh Urban, “Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
09 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Many contemporary spiritual movements are characterized by denial of material pleasures, subjugation of the self, and focus on transcendence. A spirit...
Ruth Braunstein, “Prophets an Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide” (U. California Press, 2017)
20 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Braunstein is the author of Prophets and Patriots: Faith in Democracy across the Political Divide (University of California Press, 2017). Braunst...
Victor Tan Chen, “Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy” (U. California Press, 2015)
24 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are nearly a decade removed from the start of the Great Recession, and many indicators show that the economy is doing relatively well. But during t...
Sarah Eltantawi, “Shari’ah on Trial: Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Revolution” (U. California Press, 2017)
12 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Few images attached to Islam and to the Islamic legal tradition (the Sharia) in particular are more often and more disturbingly sensationalized than t...
Tom Adam Davies, “Mainstreaming Black Power” (U. Cal Press, 2017)
14 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What is Black Power? Does it still exist in the so-called post-racial 21st Century? How does Black Power relate to similar movements, like Black Lives...