New Books in Sociology
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Jonathan Branfman, "Millennial Jewish Stars: Navigating Racial Antisemitism, Masculinity, and White Supremacy" (NYU Press, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jewish stars have longed faced pressure to downplay Jewish identity for fear of alienating wider audiences. But unexpectedly, since the 2000s, many mi...
Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global...
Austin Knuppe, "Surviving the Islamic State: Contention, Cooperation, and Neutrality in Wartime Iraq" (Columbia UP, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did ordinary Iraqis survive the occupation of their communities by the Islamic State? How did they decide whether to stay or flee, to cooperate or...
Rosemary Pennington, "Pop Islam: Seeing American Muslims in Popular Media" (Indiana UP, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Muslim American representation becomes more prominent in popular culture, how are they continued to be portrayed? Rosemary Pennington's new boo...
Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of pow...
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed ...
Muslim Literacies in China
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of ...
Francine Banner, "Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems" (U California Press, 2024)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Francine Banner is a fascinating cultural...
Ujju Aggarwal, "Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What do universal rights to public goods like education mean when codified as individual, private choices? Is the “problem” of school choice actua...
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For over thirty years, modern Italy was plagued by ransom kidnappings perpetrated by bandits and organised crime syndicates. Nearly 700 men, women, an...
Sören Schoppmeier, "Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American Culture" (De Gruyter, 2023)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an a...
Michelle Moffat, "Scottish Society in the Second World War: Tradition, Tension, Transformation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Surprisingly little is known about Scottish experiences of the Second World War. Scottish Society in the Second World War (Edinburgh University Pres...
Reid B. Locklin, "Hindu Mission, Christian Mission: Soundings in Comparative Theology" (SUNY Press, 2024)
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For some four hundred years, Hindus and Christians have been engaged in a public controversy about conversion and missionary proselytization, especial...
Kevin Loughran, "Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City" (Columbia UP, 2022)
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into dist...
Sarah Milton, "Ageing and New Intimacies: Gender, Sexuality and Temporality in an English Salsa Scene" (Manchester UP, 2024)
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy ...
Mark R. Beissinger, "The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion" (Princeton UP, 2022)
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (Pr...
Jill A. Fisher, "Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals" (NYU Press, 2020)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,...
Paula Bialski on Middletech, Software Work, and the Culture of Good Enough
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Paula Bialski, an Associate Professor for Digital Sociology at the University of St. Gallen in St. Gallen,...
Walaa Quisay, "Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this very exciting book that I couldn’t put down - Neo-Traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality, and Politics (Edinburgh U...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, "Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism" (Lexington, 2023)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism (Lexington Books, 2022), Danielle Antoinette ...
Maya Pagni Barak, "The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial" (NYU Press, 2023)
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved through immigration court. With a national backlog surpassing one million cases, court hearings...
Monika Krause, "Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Dr. Monika Krause asks about the concrete material rese...
Life in a New Language, Part 5: Monolingual Mindset
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Paul Rekret, "Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis" (Goldsmiths Press, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The emergence of the popular music industry in the early twentieth century not only drove a wedge between music production and consumption, it also un...
Angela Garcia, "The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos" (FSG, 2024)
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Based on over a decade of research, a powerful, moving work of narrative nonfiction that illuminates the little-known world of the anexos of Mexico Ci...
Natasha L. Mikles, "Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America" (Columbia UP, 2024)
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to hospi...
Jonathan Tran, "Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach...
Jonathan Judaken, "Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism" (Columbia UP, 2024)
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite its persistence and viciousness, anti-Semitism remains undertheorized in comparison with other forms of racism and discrimination. How should ...
Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023)
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who ...
Jessie Abrahams, "Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Bristol UP, 2024)
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite a mass expansion of the higher education sector in the UK since the 1960s, young people from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds rema...
Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024)
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. ...
Amanda McMillan Lequieu, "Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt" (Columbia UP, 2024)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still cal...
Samira Mehta, "The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging" (Beacon Press, 2023)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging (Beacon Press, 2023) is an unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings...
Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion ...
Eve Herold, "Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's...
Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford UP, 2023)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, pr...
Racism as Power Relation: A Discussion with Adaner Usmani (EF, JP)
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we understand racism as the primary driving engine of American inequality? Or do we focus instead on the indirect ways that frequently hard-to-disc...
Life in a New Language, Part 4: Parenting
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva, "Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva’s Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia (Palgrave MacMil...
Jason Hannan, "Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media" (Oxford UP, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We commonly think of trolls as anonymous online pranksters who hide behind clever avatars and screen names. In Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy...
Nimmagadda Bhargav, "Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India" (Routledge, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic...
Souvik Mukherjee, "Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
While there has been considerable research on digital cultures in the Indian Subcontinent, video games have received scant attention so far. Yet, they...
Meaghan Stiman, "Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves" (Princeton UP, 2024)
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities an...
Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capi...
David Zeitlyn, "An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Professor Zietlyn's words, anthropology “has had enough of the big ideas already” -especially theories with a big ‘T’. In a discipline that...
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does ...
Michelle Gordon and Rachel O ́Sullivan, "Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing" (Wallstein, 2022)
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s "boomerang thesis" – the "coming home" of European colonialism as genocide on European s...
Work-from-Home is Here to Stay: Call for Flexibility in Post-pandemic Work Policies
29 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this interview of Darja Smite, Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, and also research scientist at...
Erin Lin, "When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia" (Princeton UP, 2024)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman,...
Sean Redmond, "The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness" (Manchester UP, 2024)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Dr. Sean Remond is a remarkably unique book takes th...
Frederick Klaits et al., "Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Pentecostal Insight in a Segregated US City: Designs for Vitality (Bloomsbury, 2022), Frederick Klaits compares how members of one majority white...
Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Saqib Khan, "Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura" (Routledge, 2024)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura (Routledge, 2023) is a historical study of the development of ag...
Thomas Hendriks, "Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession" (Duke UP, 2021)
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are joined by Thomas Hendriks, an anthropologist studying capitalism and resource extraction in the Democratic Republic of Congo. H...
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings i...
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it? What narratives do they come up with to deal with the daily and all-encom...
Christopher T. Conner and David R. Dickens, "Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) explores the subculture’s emergence as a deviant ...
Pinky Hota, "The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Violence of Recognition: Adivasi Indigeneity and Anti-Dalitness in India (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) offers an unprecedented firsthand account o...
Adrian Johnston, "Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital" (Columbia UP, 2024)
22 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible intersect...
Anahit Behrooz, "BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship" (404 Ink, 2023)
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friendships can be the foundation of our earliest memories and most formative moments. But why are they often seen as secondary to romantic, or famili...
Life in a New Language, Part 2: Work
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language (Oxford UP, 2024) is a new ...
Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years,...
Kira Huju, "Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cosmopolitan Elites: Indian Diplomats and the Social Hierarchies of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Kira Huju narrates the birth,...
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the Data & Society Research Institute, an...
Lisa M. P. Munoz, "Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity" (Columbia UP, 2023)
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic pr...
Daniel Scott Souleles et al., "People before Markets: An Alternative Casebook" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
People before Markets:: An Alternative Casebook (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents twenty comparative case studies of important global questions, such as ...
Michael V. Singh, "Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The unintended consequences of youth empowerment programs for Latino boys Educational research has long documented the politics of punishment for boys...
Andrew M. Gardner, "The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar" (Cornell UP, 2024)
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Andrew M. Gardner explains in The Fragmentary City: Migration, Modernity, and Difference in the Urban Landscape of Doha, Qatar (Cornell UP, 2024)...
Jessica Calarco, "Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net" (Portfolio, 2024)
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do unequal societies function? In Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net (Portfolio, 2024), Jesscia Calarco, an Associate ...
Allison J. Pugh, "The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work ha...
Stephen Marr and Patience Mususa, "DIY Urbanism in Africa: Politics and Practice" (Zed Books, 2023)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Protracted economic crises, accelerating inequalities, and increased resource scarcity present significant challenges for the majority of Africa's urb...
Gordon C. Chang, "Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ideas influence people. In particular, extremely well-developed sets of ideas shape individuals, groups, and societies in far-reaching ways. In Revol...
More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology ...
Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...
Duana Fullwiley, "Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science" (U California Press, 2024)
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science (University of California Press, 2024), Duana Fullwiley has penned an ...
Casey James Miller, "Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the end of the Maoist era in the People's Republic of China, the rise of queer communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has generat...
Andrew McDowell, "Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India" (Stanford UP, 2024)
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The co...
Margaret A. Hagerman, "Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump's America" (NYU Press, 2024)
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kids are at the center of today's "culture wars"--pundits, politicians, and parents alike are debating which books they should be allowed to read, whi...
Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022) joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of femini...
Gizem Zencirci, "The Muslim Social: Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since coming to power in 2002, Turkey’s governing party, the AKP, has made poverty relief a central part of their political program. In addition to ...
Sergio M. González, "Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Wisconsin has always been my home. It’s not a place, however, where I’ve always felt at home,” (ix) declares Dr. Sergio M. González in the f...
Mark Robert Rank, "The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us" (U California Press, 2024)
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly ...
Eleanor Medhurst, "Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion" (Hurst, 2024)
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eleanor Medhurst joins us today to talk about Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion (Hurst & Company, 2024). Clothes are integral to lesbian his...
Jennifer Hart on African Mobility and Infrastructure
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks to Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the History Department at Virginia Tech, about her work on the history...
Richard E. Ocejo, "Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City" (Princeton UP, 2024)
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Li...
Weh Yeoh, "Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence" (Koan Press, 2023)
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weh Yeoh's Redundant Charities: Escaping the Cycle of Dependence (Koan Press, 2023) presents a transformative approach to charitable work. Drawing o...
Ronald R. Sundstrom, "Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction" (Oxford UP, 2024)
01 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is widely acknowledged that the United States is in the grip of an enduring housing crisis. It is less frequently recognized that this crisis amoun...
Aslı Zengin, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World" (Duke UP, 2024)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creativel...
Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li, "Social Mobility" (Polity Press, 2024)
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is social mobility? In Social Mobility (Polity Press, 2023), Anthony Heath, an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford an...
Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, "Disability Worlds" (Duke UP, 2024)
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Disability Worlds (Duke UP, 2024), Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging...
The Social Acceptance of Inequality
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of International Horizons, Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College and Luca Storti, Associate Profess...
M. Ramirez and D. Peterson, "Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Although Latinos are now the largest non-majority group in the United States, existing research on white attitudes toward Latinos has focused almost e...
Ears Racing
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode, we talk with Jennifer Lynn Stoever–editor of the influential sound studies blog Sounding Out!–about her new book, The Sonic Color...
Lamia Karim, "Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh (U Minnesota Press, 2022) examines how female garment workers experience thei...
Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans, "The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels" (Crown, 2024)
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, people who died destitute or alone were buried in potters’ fields—a Dickensian end that even the most hard-pressed families tried t...
Netta Avineri and Patricia Baquedano-López, "An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be" (Routledge, 2023)
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be (Routledge, 2023) is designed to provide the who, what, whe...
Premilla Nadasen, "Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2023)
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During the COVID pandemic, billions of dollars in relief aid was sent out to help us ride out the storm, although many people who struggled through it...
Nicholas Hoover Wilson and Damon Mayrl, "After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology" (Columbia UP, 2024)
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty straightforward: you start with a hypothesis, figure ...
Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" (Routledge, 2023)
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For 40 years, this classic text has taken the issue of economic inequality seriously and asked: Why are our prisons filled with the poor? Why aren't t...
Cathy Stanton, "Food Margins: Lessons from an Unlikely Grocer" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An anthropologist walks into a grocery store—no that’s not the start of a joke, that’s the true story of how Cathy Stanton came to be involved w...