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The Social Acceptance of Inequality

The Social Acceptance of Inequality examines the primary logics people use in support of economic inequalities: market/economic, moral, cultural/institutional, and group/ethnic logics. With contributors f…

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Mara Kardas-Nelson
We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky

Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas PrizeA deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrowers in …

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Berna Turam
The Geopolitics of Fear

"The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the mo…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Jelani Cobb
Three or More Is a Riot

A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From one of the definitive journalists of this era---acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia's Graduate …

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Timothy Thurston,
Satirical Tibet

What does comedy look like when the wrong punchline can land you in jail? Humor has long been a vital, if underrecognized, component of Tibetan life. In recent years, alongside well-publicized struggles f…

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Michelle Jackson
The Division of Rationalized Labor

Specialization should make workers perform an ever-narrower range of tasks. Yet evidence shows that many specialized occupations have grown more complex. Michelle Jackson untangles this paradox, arguing t…

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Elana Resnick
Refusing Sustainability

"Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism's excess: waste. Refusing Sustainability presents a fundamentally …

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Chang Kyung-Sup
The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

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Chang Kyung-Sup
The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion - not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. Thi…

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Anand Pandian
Something Between Us

An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them.In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's h…

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Angela Dew
Refugee Journeys to Australia

This book highlights the experiences of people with disability and their family members from Syrian and Iraqi refugee backgrounds who have resettled in Australia over the past decade. Based on in-depth li…

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Alfie Bown
Post-Comedy

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal cu…

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Kate Lockwood Harris
Transforming Trauma

Just like people can be traumatized, so too can organizations. Transforming Trauma not only notices how responses to trauma show up in organizational practices and processes, but how to change them. Altho…

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James Welker
Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

"Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who chal…

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The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas

A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades. Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to various parts of the wor…

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Rebecca M Rodriguez Carey
Birth Behind Bars

"Birth Behind Bars provides a rare yet intimate portrait into the lives of pregnant women in prison providing critical insight into how incarceration transforms pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, show…

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Kathleen Tierney
Disasters

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This im…

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George Lipsitz
Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads

Reckoning with the current state of ethnic studies.Ethnic studies is more visible than ever. A project that once struggled at the margins of academic and public life has now achieved significant levels of…

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Monique Couvson
Black STATS

A completely revised and updated handbook of eye-opening---and frequently myth-busting---facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today, called "a gift of knowledge" by Susan Ta…

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