New Books in Public Policy

Ihnji Jon, "Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics" (Pluto Press, 2021)

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and su...

Aleksandra Bartoszko, "Treating Heroin Addiction in Norway: The Pharmaceutical Other" (Routledge, 2021)

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Focusing on the world of Norwegian Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) in the aftermath of significant reforms, Aleksandra Bartoszko's book Treating...

Gene Slater, "Free to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America" (Heyday Books, 2021)

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gene Slater's book Free to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America (Heyday Books, 2021) uncovers realtors' defi...

Postscript: The Changing Landscape of Abortion Politics

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s Postscript (a special series that allows scholars to comment on pressing contemporary issues) engages the latest chapter in American abort...

Julia Brannen, "Social Research Matters: A Life in Family Sociology" (Bristol UP, 2019)

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing from forty years of experience, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research in family studies is conducted and 'matters' at par...

Jeanne Sheehan, "American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government" (Palgrave Macmillian, 2021)

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Public disenchantment with and distrust of American government is at an all-time high and who can blame them? In the face of widespread challenges--ev...

Ursula Hackett, "America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Political Scientist Ursula Hackett’s new book, America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State (Cambridge UP, 2020), is the winne...

Juha Kaakinen: Homelessness, a Solvable Problem

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Howard speaks to Juha Kaakinen, CEO of Y-Foundation, a global leader in implementing the "Housing First principle" and a clear example of how genuine ...

Cynthia J. Cranford, "Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" (ILR Press, 2020)

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we think about care. Care work has long been devalued – the daily labors of sustaining the well-being of indiv...

Jeffrey Kuhlman and Daniel Peach, "Transformative Healthcare: A Physician-Led Prescription to Save Thousands of Lives and Millions of Dollars" (Advent Health, 2021)

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today's guests are Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman and Dr. Daniel Peach. Dr. Kuhlman is a former White house physician. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Chief of t...

Ken Meter, "Building Community Food Webs" (Island Press, 2021)

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm prod...

Teresa Irene Gonzales, "Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment" (NYU Press, 2021)

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing ...

Charles C. Camosy, "Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality" (New City Press, 2021)

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Despite, or perhaps because of, the fact that an enormous proportion of medical care worldwide is provided under the auspices of religious organizatio...

Hillary Kaell, "Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States" (Princeton UP, 2020)

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Child sponsorship, originally a project of nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries, has become one of today’s most profitable private fund-raisin...

Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can consumers, nations, and international organizations work together to improve food systems before our planet loses its ability to sustain itsel...

Emilie Hafner-Burton, “Improving Human Rights” (Open Agenda, 2021)

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Improving Human Rights is based on an in-depth, filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Emilie Hafner-Burton, the John D. and Catherine T. MacAr...

Anthony S. Rausch, "Resolving the Contemporary Tensions of Regional Places: What Japan Can Teach Us" (2021)

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Resolving the Contemporary Tensions of Regional Places: What Japan Can Teach Us offers a fresh and unique view of regional society, regional economie...

Christopher R. Martin, "No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class" (Cornell UP, 2019)

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of Ameri...

Herbert M. Kritzer, "Judicial Selection in the States: Politics and the Struggle for Reform" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Herbert “Bert” Kritzer, the Marvin J. Sonosky Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota Law School, has a new book that explor...

Judith Levine and Erica Meiners, "The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence" (Verso, 2020)

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the sta...

Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (U California Press, 2021)

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past five years, medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United States, and is now legally availabl...

Josephine Ensign, "Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Home to over 730,000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population in t...

Donald A. Barr, "Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why is there such a deep partisan division within the United States regarding how health care should be organized and financed and how can we encourag...

Rohit Khanna, "Misunderstanding Health: Making Sense of America's Broken Health Care System" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why...

Michael Dennis, "The Full Employment Horizon in 20th-Century America: The Movement for Economic Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of the unfulfilled goals of the American left during the 1930s was that of an economy in which every American would enjoy the opportunity for gain...

LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, "Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics (U Chicago Press, 2020), LaFleur Stephens-Dougan argues that we focus on the use...

Tom Mould, "Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America" (Indiana UP, 2020)

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is a familiar story: A recipient of public assistance funds is caught buying expensive steaks, seafood, or other luxury foods with food stamps at t...

Amy J. Rutenberg, "Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance" (Cornell UP, 2019)

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance (Cornell University Press, 2019) draws the curtain on...

David E Campbell et al., "Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics" (Cambridge UP. 2020)

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

American society is rapidly secularizing – a radical departure from its historically high level of religiosity–and politics is a big part of the r...

Justin Marceau, "Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice ...

Lee McIntyre, "How to Talk to a Science Denier" (MIT Press, 2021)

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change is a hoax--and so is coronavirus. Vaccines are bad for you. These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and pre...

Camillia Kong, "Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mental Capacity in Relationship: Decision-Making, Dialogue, and Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2017), challenges the current legal landscape ...

Hanno Jentzsch, "Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Agriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and cha...

Aaron Passell, "Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn" (Columbia UP, 2021)

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for afflu...

Mai Hassan, "Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When trying to understand how to help countries escape poverty, economists initially focused on macro topics like inflation, government deficits, trad...

Leo Casey, "The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In The Teacher Insurgency: A Strategic and Organizing Perspective (Harvard Education Press, 2020), Leo Casey addresses how the unexpected wave of re...

Shelby Grossman, "The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: How the State Shapes Private Governance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Property rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don't protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by provid...

Sailen Routray, "Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi" (Routledge, 2017)

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Set in the eastern state of Odisha in a district known as the “Somalia of India,” Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyar...

Lani Watson, "The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them" (Routledge, 2021)

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We often talk as if individuals have entitlements to certain kinds of information: medical test results, political representatives’ voting records, ...

Hillary Angelo, "How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are dev...

Martin Reynolds and Sue Holwell, "Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide" (Springer, 2020)

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Practitioners from all professional domains are increasingly confronted with incidences of systemic failure, yet poorly equipped with appropriate tool...

Eszter Varsa, "Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the 'Gypsy Question' in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956" (Central European UP, 2020)

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Eszter Varsa’s new book Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the 'Gypsy Question' in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1...

Jeffery A. Jenkins and Justin Peck, "Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Jenkins and Justin Peck’s new book Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861-1918 (U Chicago Press, 2021) explores how Congressional ...

Chris A. Barcelos, "Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health" (U California Press, 2020)

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (U California Press, 2020) is a feminist ethnographic account of how yo...

Meena Bose and Andrew Rudalevige, "Executive Policymaking: The Role of the OMB in the Presidency" (Brookings, 2020)

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is sometimes described as “the most important governmental office no one has ever heard of” and it certa...

Jacob Lederman, "Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circula...

Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human natu...

David Scott, "For Abolition: Essays on Prisons and Socialist Ethics" (Waterside Press, 2020)

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

According to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) 'Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.' Connecting the ...

Steven Klein, "The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (Cambridge University Press 2020) advances a new understanding of how democratic social movem...

Megan D. McFarlane, "Militarized Maternity: Experiencing Pregnancy in the U. S. Armed Forces" (U California Press, 2021)

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United St...

Mallory E. SoRelle, "Democracy Declined: The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Americans rely on credit to provide for their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and other daily necessities and the 2008 financial crisis demon...

Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance" (U Washington Press, 2021)

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other coun...

William Walters, "State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary" (Routledge, 2021)

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary (Routledge, 2021), William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central plac...

Nicoletta Batini, "The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet" (Island Press, 2021)

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet (Island Press, 2021), Dr. Nicoletta Batini, and co-authors, unpack t...

Gert Biesta, "Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society" (Brill, 2019)

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society (Brill, 2019) argues that education...

Nafiseh Ghafournia, "Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence" (Melbourne UP, 2019)

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence (Melbourne University Press, 2019), Nafiseh Ghafournia explores que...

Elizabeth Hinton, "America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since The 1960s" (Liveright, 2021)

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellions since the 1960s (Liveright, 2021) Dr. Elizabeth Hinton asserts the s...

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (...

Yanzhong Huang, "Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Popular discussions of China’s growth prospects often focus on the success or failure specific industries. They might address the challenges rising ...

Ashley T. Rubin, "Rocking Qualitative Social Science: An Irreverent Guide to Rigorous Research" (Stanford UP, 2021)

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Unlike other athletes, the rock climber tends to disregard established norms of style and technique, doing whatever she needs to do to get to the next...

Joseph Gfroerer, "War Stories from the Drug Survey: How Culture, Politics, and Statistics Shaped the National Survey on Drug Use and Health" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Gfroerer spent nearly 40 years working as a statistician for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Hea...

Heather Douglas, "Women, Intimate Partner Violence, and the Law" (Oxford UP, 2021)

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every year, millions of women turn to law to help them escape intimate partner violence. The legal processes are complex and varied, often enmeshing w...

J. Laite, "Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. J. Laite's book Commo...

Sophie L. Gonick, "Dispossession and Dissent: Migrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid" (Stanford UP, 2021)

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasing...

Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is the future for the museum? In The Museum as a Space of Social Care (Routledge, 2020), Nuala Morse, a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the Un...

Alec Karakatsanis, "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System" (New Press, 2019)

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the lega...

No Choice: Why Is It So Hard to Get an Abortion in the South?

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are talking with Becca Andrews, a journalist at Mother Jones, where she writes about reproductive rights and gender. The story we discuss is ...

Raven Bowen, "Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex As a Side-Hustle" (Policy Press, 2021)

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Raven Bowen's Work, Money and Duality: Trading Sex As a Side-Hustle (Policy Press, 2021) is a rare and valuable exploration of work duality. It cal...

Natalie West and Tina Horn, "We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival" (Feminist Press, 2021)

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there's never been a better time to fight for justice. Respondi...

William G. Tierney, "Get Real: 49 Challenges Confronting Higher Education" (SUNY, 2020)

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to this interview of William Tierney, University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Uni...

Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs, "From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria Canning and Steve Tombs' book From Social Harm to Zemiology: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2021) outlines key developments in underst...

Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine, "Campus Carry: Confronting a Loaded Issue in Higher Education" (Harvard Education Press, 2020)

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Campus Carry: Confronting a Loaded Issue in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2020), editors Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine lead an ...

François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)

16 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation ...

Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux, "Challenging Choices: Canada's Population Control in the 1970s" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a landmark decade in the st...

Martin Halliwell, "American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics" (U California Press, 2021)

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in Amer...

Amaka Okechukwu, "To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions" (Columbia UP, 2019)

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2014 and 2015, students at dozens of colleges and universities held protests demanding increased representation of Black and Latino students and ca...

C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019) both d...

Jamila Lyiscott, "Black Appetite. White Food. Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom" (Routledge, 2019)

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One year to the day after George Flloyd’s murder, Dr. Jamila Lyiscott discusses her book on racial justice in education: Black Appetite. White Fo...

Katrinell M. Davis, "Tainted Tap: Flint's Journey from Crisis to Recovery" (UNC Press, 2021)

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After a cascade of failures left residents of Flint, Michigan, without a reliable and affordable supply of safe drinking water, citizens spent years d...

George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The laws that govern psychiatric treatment under coercion have remain largely unchanged since the eighteenth century. But this is not because of their...

David Skarbek, "The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in...

George Klosko, "Why Should We Obey the Law?" (Polity Press, 2018)

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In his new book Why Should We Obey the Law? (Polity Press, 2018), George Klosko, the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics at the Univer...

Rachel Stuart on the Unmet Health Needs of London Sex Workers

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Doctors of the World, also known as Médecins du Monde, is an international network of more than 400 programmes across 80 different countries, providi...

Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage...

Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, "Discrimination and Delegation: Explaining State Responses to Refugees" (Oxford UP, 2021)

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

States face choices when people forced to leave their states due to persecution or violence seek refuge. They may assert their sovereignty by either g...

Andrea Wenzel, "Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust" (U Illinois Press, 2020)

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

At a time when trust in the media is low and "news deserts" are increasing across the United States, engaged journalism offers a framework for connec...

Maneesha Deckha, "Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders (University of Toronto Press, 2021), Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Can...

Francine Tremblay, "Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal: Resistance and Advocacy" (Lexington Books, 2020)

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Francine Tremblay's book Organizing for Sex Workers’ Rights in Montréal: Resistance and Advocacy (Lexington Books, 2020) is based on a case study...

Lesley Lavery, "A Collective Pursuit: Teachers' Unions and Education Reform" (Temple UP, 2020)

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A Collective Pursuit: Teachers' Unions and Education Reform (Temple UP, 2020) focuses on the idea that individuals, in this case, teachers, are multi...

Eva Rosen, "The Voucher Promise: 'Section 8' and the Fate of an American Neighborhood" (Princeton UP, 2020)

02 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eve Rosen's The Voucher Promise: 'Section 8' and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Princeton UP, 2020) examines the Housing Voucher Choice Prog...

Democracy and Social Critique with Cornel West

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor at Union Theological Seminary. Professor West is among the nation’s most distinguished philosophers...

Gregg D. Caruso, "Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

According to an intuitive view, those who commit crimes are justifiably subject to punishment. Depending on the severity of the wrongdoing constitutiv...

Ellen Peters, "Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers" (Oxford UP, 2020)

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

To many mathematicians and math enthusiasts, the word "innumeracy" brings to mind popular writing like that of John Allen Paulos. But inequities in ou...

Michelle Miller-Adams, "The Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In The Path to Free College: In Pursuit of Access, Equity, and Prosperity (Harvard Education Press, 2021), Michelle Miller-Adams argues that tuition...

Joanne Meyerowitz, "A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit" (Princeton UP, 2021)

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit (Princeton UP, 2021) provides a fresh account of US involveme...

Matthew Thompson, "Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives" (Liverpool UP, 2020)

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How can we develop solutions to the housing crisis? In Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpo...

Tom Barker, "Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aggressors in Blue: Exposing Police Sexual Misconduct (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) presents a powerful and thorough investigation into police deviance ...

Christoph Brumann, "The Best We Share: Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena" (Berghahn, 2021)

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely cov...

Jennifer Sherman, "Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream" (U California Press, 2021)

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining,...

Aaron Shapiro, "Design, Control, Predict: Logistical Governance in the Smart City" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The “smart” city of today looks little like what experts of yesteryear expected them to. In this book, Aaron Shapiro, Ph.D. takes readers on a b...