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Dreams of the OverworkedLiving, Working, and Parenting in the Digital AgeChristine M. Beckman and Melissa MazmanianIn Dreams of the Overworked, Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian offer vivid sketches of daily life for nine families, capturing what it means to live, work, and parent in a world of impossible expectations, now amplified unlike ever before by smart devices. We are invited into homes and offices, where we recognize the crushing pressure of unraveling plans, and the healing warmth of being together. As tech-nologies empower us to do more, they also promise limitless avail-ability and connection. The stories in this book challenge the seductive myth of the phone-clad individual, by showing that beneath the plastic veneer of technology is a complex, hidden system of support —our dreams being scaffolded by retired in-laws, friendly neighbors, spouses, and paid help. This book makes a compelling case for celebrating these structures by supporting public poli-cies and community organizations, challenging workplace norms, and reimagining family.312 pages, June 2020 9781503602557 Cloth $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

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Manifesto for a DreamInequality, Constraint, and Radical ReformMichelle JacksonAlthough it is well known that the United States has an inequality problem, the social science community has failed to mobilize in response. Social scientists have instead adopted a strikingly insipid approach, ostensibly science-based approach to policy reform, which offers incremental and narrow-gauge “interventions.” This approach assumes that the best that we can do is to contain the problem. It is largely taken for granted that we will never solve it. In Manifesto for a Dream Michelle Jackson asserts that we will never make strides toward equality if we do not start to think radically. It is the structure of social institutions that generates and maintains social inequality, and it is only by attacking that structure that progress can be made. Jackson makes a scientific case for large-scale institutional reform, drawing on examples. She persuasively argues that an emboldened social science has an obligation to develop and test the radical policies that would be necessary for equality to be assured for all.INEQUALITIES, A NEW SERIES EdITEd by dAvId b. GRUSky ANd PAULA ENGLANd

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Queer Palestine and the Empire of CritiqueSa’ed AtshanSolidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians are themselves often subjected to an “empire of critique” that has led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homopho-bia. With this book, Atshan asks how social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing a spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, despite daunting pressures and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia.“Sa’ed Atshan brilliantly weaves together ethnography and personal experience in thoughtful, engaging, and emotionally captivating ways. A tour de force and a remarkable book for both its theoretical and empirical contributions.”

—Amaney A. Jamal, Princeton University

296 pages, May 20209781503612396 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

The Lives and Deaths of Shelter AnimalsKatja M. GuentherMonster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with mar-ginalized humans and assumed to embody certain behaviors because of his breed. And like approximately 1 million shelter animals each year, Monster will be killed.

The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals, takes us inside one of the country’s highest intake animal shelters. Katja M. Guenther met countless animals, including Monster, and saw the dramatic variance in the narratives assigned them and, ultimately, their chances for survival. She argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species. Unlocking the hidden world of shelter politics, this book offers a radical rethinking of confinement and death as it relates to the animals we claim as “best friends.”312 pages, August 20209781503612853 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

Black PrivilegeModern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to SpendCassi Pittman ClaytorCompared to other cities across the country, New York has one of the largest populations of black Americans, and a significant portion earn incomes that place them solidly in the middle-class. In Black Privilege, Cassi Pittman Claytor examines how this group of economically advantaged Blacks experience privilege, having credentials that grant them access to elite spaces and luxuries, often while confronting persistent anti-black bias and racial stigma. Rich qualitative data and original analysis help account for this special kind of privilege Pittman Claytor coins, and the entitlements it affords people—materially in terms of the clothes, homes, and entertainment they consume, as well as symbolically, as they strive to be unapologetically black in a racial consumer hierarchy.“Black Privilege is an important and necessary addition to the literature on consumption and inequality.”

—Patricia A. Banks, Mount Holyoke College

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Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement EraMing Hsu Chen Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforce-ment Era examines the everyday perspectives of immigrants trying to integrate into American society when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion. The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien, but Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, emphasizing continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for im-migrants seeking citizenship. Bring-ing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen argues that formal citizenship matters more than ever during times of enforcement and that constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants.“As much critique as corrective vision, Ming Chen’s powerful book brings us revelatory conversations with immi-grants seeking to become citizens.”

—Ian F. Haney López, University of California, Berkeley

232 pages, August 20209781503612754 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

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Panic CityCrime and the Fear Industries in JohannesburgMartin J. MurrayJohannesburg remains haunted by its history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities. Under these circumstances, the yawning gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ has fueled a turn toward redistribution through crime. Panic City is an exploration of urban fear and its impact on the city’s archi-tecture, policing, and obsession with security. 392 pages, March 20209781503611269 Paper $ 30.00 $24.00 sale

Reclaiming CommunityRace and the Uncertain Future of Youth WorkBianca J. BaldridgeApproximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, and space to develop strategies and tools for activism. Reclaiming Community shows that, with the spread of neoliberal ideology and its reliance on racism these bastions of community support are losing their autonomy. 280 pages, 20199781503607897 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

MigranthoodYouth in a New Era of DeportationLauren HeidbrinkMigranthood chronicles deporta-tion from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the U.S. In com-munities of origin, zones of transit in Mexico, detention centers in the U.S., government facilities receiving returned children in Guatemala, and communities of return, young people share how they negotiate everyday violence and discrimination, how they and their families prioritize limited resources, make difficult decisions, and how young people develop and sustain relationships over time and space. Lauren Heidbrink uncovers the transnational effects of the securitized responses to migration management and development on individuals and families, across space, citizenship status, and generation.“A must-read for anyone who cares about migrant youth, and a wake-up call for policymakers recycling failed immigration and develop-ment policies.”

—Victoria Sanford, City University of New York

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The Immigrant Rights MovementThe Battle over National CitizenshipWalter J. NichollsIn the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, liberal outcry over Donald Trump’s ethnonationalist views espoused a notion deeply embedded in American social life: we are a nation of immigrants. Given the pervasiveness of this rhetoric, it is easy to overlook its genesis in the not-too-distant past. Indeed, before 2010, there was no national im-migrant rights movement equating immigrants to de facto Americans. This book tells the story of the movement’s grassroots origins, through its meteoric rise to the national stage—and reveals tradeoffs made along the way. “Theoretically rich and empirically rigorous, the book will set the terms for the debate about the best way forward for many years to come.”

—Kim Voss, University of California, Berkeley


Here, There, and ElsewhereThe Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized WorldTahseen ShamsChallenging the commonly held perception that immigrants’ lives are shaped exclusively by the sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies—not only the societies of origin and destination but also societies in places beyond. Tahseen Shams theorizes a new concept for thinking about these places that are neither the immigrants’ homeland nor hostland—the “elsewhere.” Drawing on rich ethnographic data, interviews, and analysis of social media activities of South Asian Muslim Americans, Shams uncovers how different dimensions of the immigrants’ ethnic and religious identities connect them to different elsewheres in places as far-ranging as the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Shams traces how the homeland, hostland, and elsewhere combine to affect the ways in which immigrants and their descendants understand themselves and are understood by others. GLobALIzATIoN IN EvERydAy LIfE


Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of RetirementNicole DeJong NewendorpThis book tells the story of Chinese- born senior migrants to the U.S., arguing that they demonstrate the significance of age as a mediating factor that is funda-mentally important for considering how migration is experienced.232 pages, September 20209781503613881 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

Migrant CrossingsWitnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.Annie Isabel FukushimaMigrant Crossings examines the experi-ences and representations of Asian and Latina/o migrants trafficked in the United States into informal economies and service industries. 272 pages, 20199781503609495 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

Borders of BelongingStruggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant FamiliesHeide CastañedaBorders of Belonging investigates the impact of immigration policies and practices on undocumented migrants and their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. 280 pages, 20199781503607910 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

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Giving WayThoughts on Unappreciated DispositionsSteven ConnorIn a world that promotes assertion, agency, and empowerment, this book challenges us to revalue a range of actions and attitudes that have come to be disregarded or dismissed as merely passive. Mercy, resignation, politeness, restraint, gratitude, abstinence, losing well, apologizing, taking care: today, such behaviors are associated with negativity or lack. But the capacity to give way is better understood as positive action, at once intricate and demanding. Moving from intra-human common courtesies, to human-animal relations, to the global civility of human-inhuman ecological awareness, the book’s argument unfolds on progressively larger scales. At a time when it is on the wane, Giving Way offers a powerful defense of civility, the versatile human capacity to deflect aggression into sociability and to exercise power over power itself.“This book gets to the root of what it means to be an ethical human being.”

—David Kishik, Emerson College

248 pages, 20199781503610835 Paper $ 26.00 $20.80 sale

Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx AmericaLong Le-KhacThis book reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Ameri-cans and Latinxs through a shared literary aesthetic. Their transfictional literature creates expansive imagined worlds in which distinct stories coexist, offering artistic shape to their linked political and economic struggles. Read together, Asian American and Latinx literatures convey astonishing diversity and untapped possibilities for coalition within the U.S.’s fastest-growing im-migrant and minority communities. As the U.S. population approaches a minority-majority threshold, we urgently need methods that can look across the divisions and unequal positions of the racial system. Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America leads the way with a vision for the future built on panethnic and cross-racial solidarity.“Long Le-Khac expertly demon-strates how aesthetic form can reveal solidarities within and across ethnic and racial differences.”

—Crystal Parikh, New York University

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264 pages, March 20209781503612181 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

Global BorderlandsFantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, PhilippinesVictoria ReyesThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country’s colonial past. Using Subic Bay (a former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone) as a case study, Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings. These foreign-controlled, semi-autonomous zones of international exchange are what she calls global borderlands. This new unit of globalization provides a window into broader economic and political relations, the consequences of legal ambiguity, and the continuously reimagined identities of the people living there. Rejecting colonialism as merely a historical backdrop, Reyes demonstrates how it is omnipresent in our modern world.“Sociology needs more historical ethnographies like this one.”

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Regulating Human ResearchIRBs from Peer Review to Compliance BureaucracySarah BabbInstitutional review boards (IRBs) are committees that protect human research subjects from ethical abuses. Regulating Human Research provides a fresh look at these influential and sometimes controversial boards, tracing their historic transformation from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies: non-governmental offices where specialized staff oversee, define, and apply ambiguous federal regulations. In opening the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, increasingly orga-nized like an assembly line, author Sarah Babb argues that compliance bureaucracy is an adaptive response to the dynamics and dysfunctions of American governance. Yet this solution of outsourcing has unintended consequences, including the creation of profitable compliance industries.“If you have time for only one piece on IRBs—or indeed on responses to federal regulation—this book should be your hands-down choice. Or you could just read it because it’s a fantastic and elegant piece of scholarship.”

—Carol A. Heimer, Northwestern University

184 pages, January 20209781503611221 Paper $ 22.00 $17.60 sale

The Costs of ConnectionHow Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for CapitalismNick Couldry and Ulises A. MejiasJust about any social need is now met with an opportunity to “connect” digitally. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy back channels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, called “data colonialism,” and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participa-tion. This book provides by far the most detailed and historically rich exploration to date of the colonial dimensions of what is happening with data and capitalism, pushing current debates in a radical new direction and offering a genuinely global perspective on today’s struggles for human freedom.“Challenging, urgent, and bracingly original.”

—Naomi Klein, Rutgers University



The Power of DesertsClimate Change, the Middle East, and the Promise of a Post-Oil EraDan RabinowitzHotter and dryer than most parts of the world, the Middle East could soon see climate change exacerbate food and water shortages, ag-gravate social inequalities, and drive displacement and political destabilization. Amidst these im-minent risks is a call to action for regional leaders. Could countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates harness the region’s immense potential for solar energy and emerge as vanguards of global climate action? The Power of Deserts surveys regional climate models and highlights a potentially brighter future—a recent shift across the Middle East toward renewable energy. With his deep knowledge of the region and knack for pre-senting scientific data with clarity, Dan Rabinowitz makes a sober yet surprisingly optimistic investiga-tion of opportunity arising from a looming crisis.

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The Evolution of the Chinese InternetCreative Visibility in the Digital PublicShaohua GuoDespite the widespread consensus that China’s digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritar-ian regime, in this book Shaohua Guo argues that this dichotomy misses the far more complex reality. The Evolution of the Chinese Internet traces the emergence and matura-tion of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world, through four major technological platforms that have marked trends in internet use over the past two decades: the bulletin board system, the blog, the microblog, and WeChat. Guo transcends typical narratives, structured around the binaries of freedom and control, to argue that Chinese internet culture displays a uniquely sophisticated interplay between multiple extremes, and that its vibrancy is dependent on these complex negotiations. 344 pages, December 20209781503614437 Paper $ 30.00 $24.00 sale

Equity in ScienceRepresentation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate EducationJulie R. PosseltSTEM disciplines are believed to be founded on the idea of meritocracy; recognition earned by the value of the data, which is objective. Such disciplinary cultures resist concerns about implicit or structural biases, and yet, year after year, scientists observe persistent gender and racial inequalities in their labs, depart-ments, and programs. In Equity in Science, Julie Posselt makes the case that understanding how field-specific cultures develop is a crucial step for bringing about real change. She ex-amines existing equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts across astronomy, physics, chemistry, geology, and psychology. These ethnographic case studies reveal the subtle ways that exclusion and power operate in scientific organizations and, sometimes, within change efforts themselves. Ultimately this book is a call for academia to place equal value on expertise and on those who do the work of cultural translation. “An informative blend of theory and case study.”

—Meg Urry, Yale University


Crisis!When Political Parties Lose the Consent to RuleCedric de LeonCedric de Leon analyzes two pivotal crises in the American two-party system: the demise of the Whig party and secession of eleven southern states in 1861, and the present crisis splintering the Democratic and Republican parties and leading to the election of Donald Trump. Crisis! takes us beyond the common explanations of social determinants to illuminate how political parties actively shape national stability and breakdown. Just as the Civil War meant the difference between the survival of a slaveholding republic and the birth of liberal democracy, what political elites and civil society organizations do today can mean the difference between fascism and democracy.“A bold and convincing argument about the sources of political crises and popular disaffection: it is the dynamics of the parties themselves, rather than voters’ economic self-interest or cultural goals, that create moments of political breakdown.”

—Ann Shola Orloff, Northwestern University

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Queer AlliancesHow Power Shapes Political Movement FormationErin Mayo-Adam Queer Alliances investigates coalition formation among LGBTQ, im-migrant, and labor rights activists in the United States, revealing how these new alliances impact the inner workings of each respective political movement. Mayo-Adam examines the extent to which grassroots groups bridged historic divisions based on race, gender, class, and immigration status through the development of coalitions around LGBTQ rights in Washington State and immigrant and migrant rights in Arizona. Detailed, in-depth interviews center local, coalition-based mobilization across and within multiple movements rather than national campaigns and court cases. Mayo-Adam examines the extent to which these coalitions represent and serve intersectionally marginalized communities—groups that are often absent within contemporary accounts of social movement formation.“A must-read for anyone interested in twenty-first century rights formation and the future of the LGBTQ movement.”

—Susan Burgess, Ohio University

240 pages, July 20209781503612792 Paper $ 26.00 $20.80 sale

Nobody’s PeopleHierarchy as Hope in a Society of ThievesAnastasia PiliavskyWhat if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody’s People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats, and resourceful goddesses, she shows that, locally, hierarchy is a potent normative idiom through which Kanjars imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Following Kanjars on their journey between death and hope, Piliavsky invites readers to see in hierarchy—not inequality—a viable ethical frame instead of an archaic system of subjugation. Doing so, she suggests, will help us understand not only rural Rajasthan, but also much of the world, including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to consider hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.SoUTh ASIA IN moTIoN

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Dying to ServeMilitarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan ArmyMaria RashidThe Pakistan Army is a uniquely powerful and influential institution, with deep roots in the colonial armed forces. It relies heavily on certain regions to supply its soldiers, especially parts of rural Punjab, where men have served in the army for generations. In Dying to Serve, Maria Rashid innovatively and sensitively addresses the question: how does the military thrive when so much of its work results in injury, debility, and death? Rashid argues that “spectacles of mourning” are careful manipulations of affect, gen-dered and structured by the military to reinforce its omnipotence. She contends that understanding these affective technologies is crucial to challenging the appeal of the military institution globally.“This highly original study shows that we can learn about the appeal of military service by engaging with those who stand to lose the most from its allure: the women whose sons and husbands die in uniform.”

—Vron Ware, Kingston University

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Politics of EmpowermentDisability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy ReformDavid PettinicchioIn Politics of Empowerment, David Pettinicchio offers a historically grounded analysis of the singular case of U.S. disability policy, countering long-held views of progress that privilege public demand as its pri-mary driver. Beginning in the 1970s, a group of legislators and bureaucrats came to act as “political entrepre-neurs,” and were seen as experts leading the movement within the government. But as they increasingly faced obstacles, nascent disability advocacy and protest groups took the cause to the American people, form-ing the basis of the contemporary disability rights movement. Drawing on extensive archival material, Pettinicchio redefines the relationship between grassroots advocacy and institutional politics, revealing a cycle of progress and backlash embedded in the American political system.“This excellent addition to the policy feedbacks literature shows how federal policy helped disabled activists be-come fully mobilized citizens.”

—Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute

of Technology

280 pages, 20199781503609761 Paper $ 30.00 $24.00 sale

A New American CreedThe Eclipse of Citizenship and Rise of PopulismDavid H. Kamens A new American creed has reconstructed the social contract. Generations from 1890 to 1940 took for granted that citizenship entailed voting, volunteering, religiosity, and civic conscious-ness. Conspicuously, the WWII generation introduced collectivist notions of civic obligations—but such obligations have since become regarded as options. In this book, David H. Kamens takes this basic shift as his starting point for exploring numerous trends in American political culture from the 1930s to the present day. Beyond painting a comprehensive picture of our current political landscape, Kamens offers an invaluable archive documenting the steps that got us here. “This theoretically innovative and well-argued book is a must-read for anyone interested in the present and future of American democracy.”

—Patricia Bromley, Stanford University

320 pages, 20199781503609532 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

Contested EmbraceTransborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century KoreaJaeeun Kim Contested Embrace explores how a state relates to people it views as “external members,” such as emigrants and diasporas. Jaeeun Kim analyzes disputes over the belonging of Koreans in Japan and China, focusing on their contested relationship with the colonial and postcolonial states in the Korean peninsula. STUdIES of ThE WALTER h. ShoRENSTEIN ASIA-PACIfIC RESEARCh CENTER


When Words Trump PoliticsResisting a Hostile Regime of LanguageAdam HodgesThis book takes insights from linguis-tic anthropology and related fields to provide non-expert readers with easily digestible tools to resist the politics of division and hate. Adam Hodges’ short essays break down the specific linguistic techniques and processes that make Trump’s rhetoric successful.

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Beauty DiplomacyEmbodying an Emerging NationOluwakemi M. BalogunEven as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the global south, and Nigeria is one the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertain-ment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to under-stand Nigerian national identity and international relations.GLobALIzATIoN IN EvERydAy LIfE

304 pages, March 20209781503610972 Paper $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

Dark FinanceIlliquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of EuropeFabio MattioliDark Finance is one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialization can empower authoritarian regimes—not by making money accessible to every-one, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolize access to international credit and promote a cascade of exploitative domestic debt relations.

Mattioli reveals how illiquidity stemmed from the reorganization of the European project, and from the postsocialist perversion of socialist financial practices. One bad deal at a time, Dark Finance chronicles how Macedonia’s authoritarian regime rode a wave of financial expansion to deepen its reach into Macedonian society, only to discover that, like other speculative bubbles, its domination was always on the verge of collapsing.248 pages, June 20209781503612938 Paper $ 26.00 $20.80 sale

Normalized Financial WrongdoingHow Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered InequalityHarland PrechelWidespread wrongdoing produced the 2008 financial crisis and under-mined the “bad apples” theory of corporate malfeasance. In its place arose new explanations, centered on the breakdown of corporate ethics. In Normalized Financial Wrongdoing, Harland Prechel examines how social structural arrangements that extended corporate property rights and increased managerial control opened the door for misconduct that contributed to high levels of inequality. His account adopts a multi-level approach that considers the political and legal landscapes in which cor-porations are embedded to answer two questions: First, how did banks and financial firms transition from being providers of capital to financial market actors in their own right? Second, how did new organizational structures cause market participants to engage in high-risk activities? After demonstrating that the roots of inequality lay in social structural conditions, Prechel considers societal pre-conditions to change.368 pages, November 20209781503614451 Paper $ 30.00 $24.00 sale

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Court of InjusticeLaw Without Recognition in U.S. ImmigrationJ.C. SalyerCourt of Injustice reveals how im-migration lawyers work to achieve just results for their clients in a system that has long denigrated the rights of those they serve. J.C. Salyer’s ethnography specifically investigates immigration enforcement in New York City, following individual mi-grants, their lawyers, and the NGOs that serve them into the immigration courtrooms that decide their cases. Combining anthropological and legal analysis, Salyer demonstrates the economic, historical, political, and social elements that go into constructing inequity under law for millions of non-citizens who live and work in the U.S. Salyer provides a new perspective to the study of migration by focusing specifically on the laws, courts, and people involved in U.S. immigration law. “This book is a unique, essential, urgent read for anyone who cares about immigration and immigrants today.”

—Cecilia Menjívar, University of California,

Los Angeles

216 pages, June 20209781503612488 Paper $ 26.00 $20.80 sale

Trading LifeOrgan Trafficking, Illicit Networks, and ExploitationSeán ColumbDrawing on the experiences of African migrants, Trading Life brings together five years of field-work charting the development of the organ trade from an informal economic activity into a structured criminal network operating within and between Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, and Europe. Ground-level analysis provides new insight into the operation of organ trading networks and the impact of current legal and policy measures in response to the organ trade. Columb reveals how investing financial and administrative resources into law enforcement and border securitization at the expense of social services has led to the convergence of illicit smuggling and organ trading networks in the informal economy and the devel-opment of organized crime. “A compelling and powerful look at how law generates violence.”

—Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto


The Color of CreatorshipIntellectual Property, Race, and the Making of AmericansAnjali VatsThe Color of Creatorship examines how copyright, trademark, and patent discourses work together to form American ideals around race, citizenship, and property.

Working through key moments in intellectual property history since 1790, Anjali Vats reveals that even as they have seemingly evolved, American understandings of who is a creator and who is an infringer have remained remarkably racially conservative and consistent over time. Vats argues that once anti-racist activists grapple with the underlying racial structures of intellectual property law, they can better advocate for strategies that resist the underlying drivers of racially disparate copyright, patent, and trademark policy.“Anjali Vats elevates the conversation to important new registers, including concerns of equitable distribution and post-racial identity claims.”

—Jessica Silbey, Northeastern University


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SkimmedBreastfeeding, Race, and InjusticeAndrea FreemanBorn into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medi-cal miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman, became the mother of America’s first surviving set of identical quadruplets. Their White doctor sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company. The girls lived in pov-erty, while Pet Milk’s profits from a previously untapped market of Black families skyrocketed.

Today, baby formula is a seventy-billion-dollar industry and Black mothers have the lowest breastfeed-ing rates in the country. Skimmed tells the riveting story of the Fultz quadruplets while uncovering how feeding America’s youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities. Freeman highlights the making of a modern public health crisis, the four extraordinary girls whose stories encapsulate a nation-wide injustice, and how we can fight for a healthier future.304 pages, 20199781503601123 Cloth $ 28.00 $22.40 sale

Transforming Comparative EducationFifty Years of Theory Building at StanfordMartin CarnoyOver the past fifty years, new theo-retical approaches to comparative and international education have trans-formed it as an academic field. We know that fields of research are often shaped by “collectives” of researchers and students converging at auspicious times throughout history. Part institutional memoir and part intellectual history, Transforming Comparative Education takes the Stanford “collective” as a framework for discussing major trends and contributions to the field from the early 1960s to the present day, and beyond. Carnoy draws on interviews with researchers at Stanford to present the genesis of their key theoretical findings in their own words. Mov-ing through them chronologically, Carnoy situates each work within its historical context, and argues that comparative education is strongly influenced by its economic and political environment. “A magisterial addition to the lit-erature on the history and political economy of fields of knowledge.”

—Robert F. Arnove, Indiana University Bloomington


Education and Intergenera-tional Social Mobility in Europe and the United StatesEdited by Richard Breen and Walter MüllerThis volume examines the role of education in shaping rates and patterns of intergenerational social mobility among men and women during the twentieth century. Focus-ing on the relationship between a person’s social class and the social class of his or her parents, each chapter looks at a different country—the United States, Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. Contributors examine change in absolute and relative mobility and in education across birth cohorts born between the first decade of the twentieth century and the early 1970s. This volume uncovers the factors that drove these shifts, revealing education as significant in promoting social openness. “This book is a must-read for anyone interested in educational policy and social mobility.”

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The Nonprofit SectorA Research Handbook, Third EditionEdited by Walter W. Powell and Patricia BromleyThe nonprofit sector has changed in fundamental ways in recent decades. As the sector has grown in scope and size, both domestically and internation-ally, the boundaries between for-profit, governmental, and charitable orga-nizations have become intertwined. Nonprofits are increasingly challenged on their roles in mitigating or exacer-bating inequality. The Nonprofit Sector takes up these concerns and offers a cutting-edge empirical and theoretical assessment of the state of the field.This book, now in its third edition, brings together leading researchers—economists, historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists along with scholars from communica-tion, education, law, management, and policy schools—to investigate the impact of associational life. Chapters consider the history of the nonprofit sector and of philanthropy; the politics of the public sphere; governance, mission, and engagement; and global perspectives on nonprofit organiza-tions. Across this comprehensive range of topics, The Nonprofit Sector makes an essential contribution to the study of civil society.888 pages, April 20209781503608047 Paper $ 50.00 $40.00 sale

The Last Years of Karl MarxAn Intellectual BiographyMarcello MustoIn the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions—studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression. With The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, high-lighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colo-nialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in non-capitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts, notebooks, and letters emerges an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. “Musto takes us by the hand and invites us to discover a new Marx.”

—Antonio Negri, author of Marx Beyond Marx


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Research Universities and the Public GoodDiscovery for an Uncertain FutureJason Owen-SmithIn a political climate that is skepti-cal of hard-to-measure outcomes, public funding for research uni-versities is under threat. But if we scale back support for these insti-tutions, we also cut off a key source of value creation in our economy and socity. Research Universities and the Public Good offers a unique view of how universities work, what their purpose is, and why they are important.

Countering recent arguments that we should “unbundle” or “disrupt” higher education, Jason Owen-Smith argues that research universities are valuable gems that deserve support. While they are complex and costly, their enduring value is threefold: they simul-taneously act as sources of new knowledge, anchors for regional and national communities, and hubs that connect disparate parts of society. STANfoRd bUSINESS bookS

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Feral AtlasThe More-Than-Human AnthropoceneEdited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei ZhouFeral Atlas offers an original and playful approach to studying the Anthropocene. Focused on the world’s feral reactions to human intervention, the editors explore the structures and qualities that lie at the heart of the feral and make the phenomenon possible.

Black QuotidianEveryday History in African-American NewspapersMatthew F. DelmontBlack Quotidian explores everyday lives of African Americans in the twentieth century. Drawing on an archive of digitized African-American newspapers, Matthew F. Delmont guides readers through a wealth of primary resources that reveal how the Black press popularized African-American history and valued the lives of both famous and ordinary Black people.

The Chinese DeathscapeGrave Reform in Modern ChinaEdited by Thomas S. MullaneyIn the past decade alone, more than ten million corpses have been exhumed and reburied across the Chinese landscape. In this digital volume, three historians of China, Jeffrey Snyder-Reinke, Christian Henriot, and Thomas S. Mullaney, chart out the history of China’s rapidly shifting deathscape. Each essay grapples with a different dimension of grave relocation and burial reform in China over the past three centuries.

Filming RevolutionAlisa LebowFilming Revolution investigates documentary and independent filmmaking in Egypt since 2011, bringing together the collective wisdom and creative strategies of thirty filmmakers, artists, activists, and archivists. Rather than merely building an archive of video interviews, Alisa Lebow constructs a collaborative project, joining her interviewees in conversation to investigate questions about the evolving format of political filmmaking.

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