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Guerrilla democracy
The liberating promise of big data and social media to create more responsive democracies and workplaces is overshadowed by a nightmare of election meddling, privacy invasion, fake news and an exploitative gig economy. Yet, while regressive forces spread disinformation and hate, 'guerrilla democr...
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Sixty miles upriver
An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, i...
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Generational encounters with higher education
The 21st century has witnessed significant changes to the structures and policies framing Higher Education. But how do these changes in norms, values, and purpose shape the generation now coming of age? Employing a generational analysis, this book offers an original approach to the study of educa...
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12 angry men
Finalist, 2021 Wall Award (Formerly the Theatre Library Association Award)The untold story behind one of America’s greatest dramas.In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a dozen men arguing in a dingy room, it was a failur...
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The new pragmatist sociology
In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism.
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Buried beneath the city
Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.
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Peripheral creativities
Peripheral Creativities examines the intersection of urban segregation, creative practices, and public policy in understanding marginalised youth living in peripheral territories.
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Just universities
Third Place, Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching Gerald J. Beyer’s Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to embody Catholic social teaching in their campus policies and practices. Beyer argues that the corpora...
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Exhuming violent histories
Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, reshape collective memory, and create new forms of transitional justice. Exhuming Violent Histories sheds new light on how science and technology interse...
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Cracks in tradition
Cracks in Tradition is a bold, data-driven account of the rise of liberal values in the Middle East.
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Educating young people for a sustainable future
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Focusing on issues affecting young people in educational contexts using an inclusivity lens, chapters delve into causes, consequences & proposed interventions of inequal...
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The clash of values
Mansoor Moaddel provides groundbreaking empirical data to demonstrate how the collision between Islamic fundamentalism and liberal nationalism explains the Middle East and North Africa’s present and will determine its future. Offering a rigorous perspective on social change, The Clash of Values d...
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Those who remain
A vivid portrait of rural and working-class life that links the dynamics of social ties to far-right political alignments Rural and working-class voters in France have increasingly supported the politics—and the worldview—of the country’s far right. What accounts for this realignment? In Those Wh...
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Many urbanisms
Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.
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Emerging global cities
This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.
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Doctors' orders
Doctors’ Orders offers a groundbreaking examination of the construction and consequences of status distinctions between physicians. Tania M. Jenkins spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals to reveal the unspoken mechanisms...
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Chasing independence
How independence works as an unquestioned ideal for aging in America—and why it is never quite realizedIn twenty-first-century America, as people live longer than ever before, it’s taken for granted that older adults should be active and self-reliant. News stories describe nonagenarians who run m...
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People get ready
WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY 2024 BEST BOOK AWARDWhat does it mean to be a community of difference?St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national, and international migrations has shaped and reshape...
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Academics in exile
This volume addresses the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opportunities they use. These issues are highly relevant to discussions about the moral economies of higher education institutions and support programs.
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The columbia documentary history of religion in america since 1945
Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing U.S. politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional testimonies, speeches, articles, book excerpts, pastoral letters, interviews, song lyrics...
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Drug assemblages – policies, counternarratives, and local experiences
A transdisciplinary critique of global drug regimes, exploring how power, policy, and inequality intertwine across the Americas.
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(dis)obedience in digital societies
This book argues that algorithms should not be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon—they embed themselves, currently still very subtly, into political and social systems. It considers the prospects of active disobedience and the need for tools and methods that can be used ...
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It’s all been there before
Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, our lives have completely changed, yet these scenes are also strangely familiar. Science fiction films and series have always speculated on possible futures. Denis Newiak reconsiders pandemic movies and series to bring out ideas for how to cope with ...
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Women and religion
This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understa...
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Cultural diversity in motion
What does migration-generated diversity mean for cultural policy and the performing arts scene in Germany and how is it promoted? Bridging theory and practice, Özlem Canyürek introduces the concept of “thinking and acting interculturally” and proposes ways to achieve a fair and accessible perform...
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South bronx rising
Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chron...
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Faith communities and the fight for racial justice
The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? In Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice, Robert Wuthn...
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Sound formations
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, »feeding-back« the sonic experimentations at the core of...
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Vital village
Due to global processes of transformation and the social challenges posed by demographic change, rural areas increasingly demand attention from politics and the public sphere. The contributions in this volume demonstrate how in different European countries it is mainly the cultural players who of...
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Temporality in mobile lives
Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for midd...
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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 1 explores design-based, reflexive, qualitative, experience-based, archival and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Southern craft food diversity
Driven by consumers’ desire for slow and local food, craft breweries, traditional butchers, cheese makers and bakeries have been popping up across the US in the last twenty years. Typically urban and staffed predominantly by white middle class men, these industries are perceived as a departure fr...
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A dharma reader
A Dharma Reader traces the definition, epistemology, procedure, and process of Indian law from the third century B.C.E. to the middle ages. Its breadth captures the centuries-long struggle by Indian thinkers to theorize law in a multiethnic and pluralist society.
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Preserving neighborhoods
Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change.
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The vital illusion
Aren’t we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity. Peppered with Baudrillard’s signature...
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The reformation of welfare
Western culture has ‘faith’ in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual. For those who are out of work, welfare is now less of a support than a means of purification and redemption. Continuously reformed by the left and right in politics, the contemporary welfare state attempts...
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Measuring culture
Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.
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Psychoanalysis and the human sciences
Can psychoanalysis expand our comprehension of social and political life?
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Platformization of urban life
This book addresses the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Learning to labor
A landmark work in sociology, cultural studies, and ethnography since its publication in 1977, Paul Willis's Learning to Labor is a provocative and troubling account of how education links culture and class in the reproduction of social hierarchy. Willis observed a working-class friendship group ...
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The public and their platforms
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It recon...
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Down the up staircase
In Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling thr...
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Charm
The utilization—and weaponization—of charm in contemporary global politicsPolitics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person—perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical perform...
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Bombay hustle
Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic history of early Bombay cinema and its consolidation in the 1930s. Bombay Hustle provides vital insight into practices of modernity and political, social, and technological change in late colonial India.
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Imagining unequals, imagining equals
Why did “equality” become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? This book explores concepts of equality from the perspectives of history and law, showing how practices of comparing were essential when it came to imagining others as equal, fighting discrimina...
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Figurations of childhood
How class, urban space, and security shape childhoods – and why intergenerational spatial justice matters.
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Reworking the computer age
A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.
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Marseille, port to port
William Kornblum—an eminent urban sociologist and a veteran traveler in the Francophone world—invites readers on an exploration of a changing city. Blending travelogue and social observation, he roams Marseille’s neighborhoods and regions in the company of writers, scholars, activists, and ordina...
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Borders, migration and class in an age of crisis
This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises commonplace distinctions between ‘migrant...
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When a woman becomes a religious dynasty
In the fifteenth century, the princess Chokyi Dronma was told by the leading spiritual masters of her time that she was the embodiment of the ancient Indian tantric deity Vajravarahi, known in Tibetan as Dorje Phagmo, the Thunderbolt Female Pig. After suffering a great personal tragedy, Chokyi Dr...
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