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University of Washington Press Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The results of the long-term fieldwork presented within this volume is invaluable: Schedneck has offered a truly commendable window into not only the relationship ofreligion and tourism in Chiang Mai, but more broadly into Thai Buddhist monastic culture." * Religious Studies Review *"Brooke Schedneck writes terrific books. Her latest offering... proves religious tourism and cultural exchange programmes to be worthy of serious scholarly attention." * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"With Schedneck’s expertise in religious studies and drawing from her own encounters with Buddhism in Chiang Mai, the book offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the subject...Moreover, the lucid writing style of the author makes the book easy to follow and thus useful to readers with some interest in Chiang Mai." * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *"[Schedneck] has crafted an extremely novel and insightful perspective on the creation of Buddhism’s continuing global influence." * H-Net *"Brooke Schedneck's monograph is a timely publication, providing rich descriptions of 'modern' Thai Buddhism, temple spaces, and monk behavior in a changing Thailand." * Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment *
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University of Washington Press The Borders of AIDS
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[I]mmediately urgent and immensely creative monograph." * Peitho Journal *"In this important monograph, Chávez eloquently interrogates the concept of national belonging as it relates to race, disease, power, and morality in the US. She clearly and articulately expresses her core thesis of the alienizing logic of exclusion and offers a fresh and insightful contribution to existing histories of the early years of the ongoing AIDS crisis by repositioning themes of race and immigration into the central frame of this narrative." * Connections *"[P]rovides a multifaceted narrative analysis of the dual policy frameworks of quarantine and immigration-related bans and detention as the United States coped with the rise of HIV/AIDS in the last quarter of the twentieth century. [Chávez’s]work represents an admirable effort to integrate relevant voices from a variety of strata. Naturally, all historical work in the contemporary era should endeavor to do the same, but the tapestry Chávez weaves through her diverse employment of sources proffers truly unique perspectives in her field." * H-Net Reviews *"This book made me hopeful about what scholarship can be and do. Chávez plays with time, drawing connections between the Reconstruction era, the AIDS epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, but always carefully. Chávez is confident about her political commitments, while not afraid to admit what she and we do not yet know. And perhaps most importantly, she allows oppressed people's freedom dreams to live on." -- Andrea Bolivar * American Ethnologist *
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University of Washington Press Love for Liberation
Book SynopsisCHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title Illuminates how global solidarity defined African American politics and invigorated the African diasporaDuring the height of the Cold War, passionate idealists across the US and Africa came together to fight for Black self-determination and the antiracist remaking of society. Beginning with the 1957 Ghanaian independence celebration, the optimism and challenges of African independence leaders were publicized to African Americans through community-based newspapers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Inspired by African independenceand frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms in the USa new generation of Black Power activists embarked on nonviolent direct action campaigns and built alternative institutions designed as spaces of freedom from racial subjugation. Featuring interviews with activists, extensive archival research, and media analysis, Robin Hayes reveals how Black Power and African independence activists cTrade Review"With accessible writing that will engage both general readers and scholars, Hayes’s finely crafted book effectively shows that civil rights require sustained collective action and solidarity." * Library Journal *"My kind of book!" -- Opal Tometti, co-founder of Black Lives Matter"[Hayes's] work is truly transnational, crossing many borders, and interdisciplinary, grounded in history, sociology, and politics...Highly recommended." * Choice *"Love for Liberation provides an accessible and usable playbook of transnational histories and movement stories in a dynamic format. It presents new ways of thinking about and applying research on the globalization of race, Black culture, and the diaspora underground's relationship to social change." * Peace and Change: Journal of Peace Research *
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University of Washington Press The 16 Taco
Book SynopsisConfronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving discovered the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of authentic eateries run byand forimmigrants and people of color. Fueled by media attention and capitalized on by developers, this interest in ethnic food and places contributes to gentrification, and the very people who produced these vibrant foodscapes are increasingly excluded from them. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, geographer Pascale Joassart-Marcelli traces the transformation of three urban San Diego neighborhoods whose foodscapes are shifting from serving the needs of longtime minoritized residents who face limited food access to pleasing the tastes of wealthier and whiter newcomers. The $16 Taco illustrates how food can both emplace and displace immigrants, shedding light on the larger process of gentrification and the emotional, Trade Review"Joassart-Marcelli explores high-level theories about race, ethnicity, economics, systemic racism, and other factors that shape the food system, and then situates those theories within the city of San Diego... And part of the power of this book comes from the reality that every city is home to the same kinds of stories that Joassart-Marcelli uncovered in San Diego." * Civil Eats *"The book offers a contextualized and complex account of the making and remaking of urban spaces through food, and avoids romanticizing or dismissing the everyday practices of local residents." * The AAG Review of Books *"Jossart-Marcelli’s work makes a useful contribution to the literature on urban evolution and the processes—demographic, political, and financial—that perpetuate cycles of neighborhood ascension, decline, and gentrification... As the geography and culture of urban foodscapes continue to grow and change, Jossart-Marcelli has given readers plenty to chew on." * The Journal of Urban Affairs *"The $16 Taco reflects the best of food-related research and writing today, as it links the foods that sustain each of us with social and cultural practices that shape the material spaces we inhabit." * California History *
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University of Washington Press Making Livable Worlds
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With memories and stories at the forefront, the book is a magisterial contribution to the discipline of anthropology." * North American Congress on Latin America *"For those designing undergraduate and graduate courses in Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies and seeking readings that present innovative methodological and epistemological contributions, Hilda Lloréns’ Making Livable Worlds is highly recommended. The work invites spirited and engaging classroom discussions that promote expanded thinking in written work. Beyond the classroom, Lloréns’s methodology and nuanced treatment of too often simplified contested concepts make all-important contributions to these fields of study. Her serious attention to the daily work and interventions of Black and Afro-Puerto Rican women to make livable worlds in the here and now and for coming generations addresses gaping holes in environmental justice-minded Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies" * Latinx Project, New York University *"The primary strength of Lloréns’s book rests in the intimacy that she brings to excavating the troubling environmental injustices Black Puerto Rican women have to live under even as they struggle against marginalization...Making Livable Worlds is a timely and necessary examination of the growing crisis in environmental justice and other cultural issues such as gender, race, and the effects of colonialism." * Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Powerful and beautifully written, Making Livable Worlds opens an ecofeminist archive that invites researchers to extend this kind of study to other islands. It also provides inspiration on how to undertake this task with such methods as autoethnography, which will hopefully become more ingrained in the toolbox of young Caribbeanist scholars. One of the most important attributes of this work is that we hear through Lloréns myriad voices presented not as heroines or victims but as women making the best out of their imposed dispossession." * H-Environment *"Lloréns’ ambitious book skillfully weaves her personal and her family history with the histories of other Black Puerto Rican women in the coastal southeast part of Puerto Rico." * Latino Studies *"Scholars of social reproduction and the solidarity economy will find Lloréns’s case study useful for understanding how alternative economic logics develop and flourish under adversity." * H-Caribbean *"[P]rovides valuable insight on how capitalism, slavery, matriarchal dispossession, ecological crises, and colonization relate to Afro-Puerto Rican women’s lives, and models liberatory responses to these oppressive circumstances, empowering the reader to engage in further action toward similar goals of collective liberation." * Feminist Pedagogy *
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University of Washington Press Ordering the Myriad Things From Traditional
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A useful glossary of names, places, and botanical terms in Chinese and English, along with the detailed index, make this work valuable for researchers but the story is accessible to general readers. This book will fascinate anyone interested in botany and the geopolitical dimensions of modern science." * Choice *"This is a well-researched and well-written study of an important part of the history of botany, and of the resourcefulness and determination of Chinese botanists. It belongs in botanical and horticultural libraries everywhere, and as a story, it is recommended to anyone with an interest in plants and how they are studied." * The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries *"An indispensable addition to our still rather limited knowledge of scientific development in late Imperial and Republican China. Books such as this one are instrumental in putting together the complicated and at times complexing puzzle of the emergence and development of modern scientific practice in China, a process, which has consequences up to the present day." * Social History of Medicine *"Ordering the Myriad Things sets out to show how two knowledge systems—one that preoccupied itself by trying to understand how processes of change generated and manifested themselves through things such grasses, trees, and grains and another that sought understanding by making encountered objects the object of study themselves—interacted and ultimately became intertwined." * Journal of Chinese History *"Menzies presents a process-focused chronicle of how one newly emergent scientific discipline—botany—was introduced to China and developed by successive generations of Chinese botanists...Excellent, engaging, and well-written." * H-Net Reviews *"In this scrupulously researched monograph, Nicholas K. Menzies narrates personal, institutional, and scientific stories in astonishing and vivid detail to create a sweeping narrative of the establishment of the modern science of botany in China." * Isis, a Journal of the History of Science Society *"A fascinating and well-researched inquiry into the development of modern Chinese botany." * Monumenta Serica *"[A] welcome presentation of the history of modern botany in China. . . . The thought-provoking questions raised by Menzies and his analytical approach are sure to make this book instructive reading for historians of natural history." * Archives of Natural History *
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University of Washington Press New Lives in Anand
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sanderien Verstappen’s wonderful new book New Lives in Anand tells us that the story of Gujarati Muslims does not end with violence and displacement...[T]he book shows us how new lives and connections are made by communities who have deep ties to a region and a way of life that cannot be reduced to the word 'Muslim.'" -- Moyukh Chatterjee * The Wire *"Verstappen...holds herself accountable to the often-contradictory stories that her interlocutors tell about their relationship to communal violence. The threat of violence is still present as a binding force, but processes of social change are made livable by a new aesthetics of mobility and connectedness." -- Nikita Simpson * Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology *"The book is instrumental in charting a new paradigm to theorize segregated Muslim spaces and Muslim middle-class formations." * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Underflows
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Covering an impressive swath of ground, this book presents insightful and challenging departures in theory and methodology and is a worthwhile read for ecological scientists and social theorists alike." -- Dani Slabaugh * LSE Review of Books *"In insightful, inviting, and compelling ways, Underflows brings attention to possibilities beneath and beyond the surface flows of straight/settler science…[I]nnovative, collaborative approaches like Wölfle Hazard’s, particularly where they support and align with Indigenous-led stewardship and maintenance, are more crucial than ever." * H-Net Reviews *"Underflows will be deeply relevant to thinkers across and beyond academic disciplines. At various times addressed to practitioners of the ecological sciences, river workers, queer and trans theorists, ecocritics, and queer and trans folks outside academia, Wölfle Hazard’s exciting and thought-provoking study offers much-needed insight into queer and trans ecology and its affinities with Indigenous science, environmental justice, ecopoetics, and river ecosystems." * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *
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University of Washington Press Mumbai Taximen
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A landmark book across a range of disciplines, and it makes for compelling and enjoyable reading." * Asian Studies Review *"Mumbai Taximen accomplishes several things. While it offers an ethnographic account of an automobility that is part of a distinctively non-Western mode of capitalism, first and foremost it constitutes an intriguing case study of how a vehicle may be appropriated as a metaphor of social identity and moral agency. . . [T]he book includes sharply drawn vignettes that bring us into the practices and concerns of daily life. These will make the volume especially useful in the classroom." * Ethnos *"[T]heoretically and empirically rich. . . This book is an important contribution to work on the critical occupation of taxi-driving (related to urban mobility), which is currently undergoing a rapid transformation driven by technology and the aspirations of post-colonial citizens and the state." * Pacific Affairs *"Mumbai Taximen’s narrative genius lies in the author’s “sensuous approach” which effectively transports the reader into the embodied, lived worlds of Indian automobility. . . [B]y inviting (indeed impelling) the reader into the lives of Mumbai’s taximen, in all its material messiness, palpable precariousness, quiet comforts, and dignified dangers, Bedi’s narrative puts up a roadblock to the charting of any easy path from social critique to straightforward solutions. This book unsettles. Which is why it needs to be read." * Journal of Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Upland Geopolitics Postwar Laos and the Global
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michael Dwyer’s engaging analysis of upland geopolitics shows that Laos has been the mother of many outlandish ideas, but these ideas have had real, material, environmental and political consequences." * Journal of Peasant Studies *"This book and its focus not only raise critical questions about the stories of Laos but about how scholars can contribute to a lineage of attempts at understanding Southeast Asia in the world. This book and the questions it raises will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on natural resource governance, land grabbing, transnational investment, political ecology, and geopolitics, within and beyond Southeast Asia." * Eurasian Geography and Economics *"With an innovative methodology which accepts complexity rather than obliterating it, Upland Geopolitics epitomizes the difficulties and the struggles that state administrators face in their strive to project state power on a territory over which they proclaim sovereignty." * Asia Major *
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University of Washington Press The Swedish Theory of Love
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University of Washington Press The Camphor Tree and the Elephant
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In its contents and methods, this captivating case study has far broader relevance beyond its regional focus." * Choice *"While historians have produced studies of individual polities in the region before and after the imposition of imperial rule, The Camphor Tree and the Elephant is the first to situate this transition in a much larger environmental and religious perspective, thus providing a vibrant reevaluation of approaches to the Southeast Asian past." * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary look into doubt, denial, and distrustAs wildfires rip across the western United States and sea levels rise along coastal cities from Louisiana to Alaska, some people nevertheless reject the mainstream scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. What leads people to doubt or outright denial? What leads skeptics to change their minds? Drawing from a rich collection of interviews and surveys with self-identified climate change skeptics (and some former ones), sociologists Kristin Haltinner and Dilshani Sarathchandra delve into the underlying dynamics of climate skepticism in the United States. In probing how ideas about science, religion, politics, and media affect perceptions of climate change, they find a far greater diversity of attitudes and beliefs than one might expectincluding some pro-environmental views. With this nuanced understanding of climate change skepticism, Inside the World of Climate Change Skeptics offers m
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University of Washington Press Taiwan Lives
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University of Washington Press Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales
Book SynopsisA guide to discovering the fascinating natural history beneath your feetFrom trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old. In Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales, renowned paleontologist Elizabeth A. Nesbitt teams up with popular science writer David B. Williams to offer a fascinating, richly illustrated tour through more than a half billion years of natural history. Following an introduction to key concepts, twenty-four profileseach featuring a unique plant, animal, or environmenttell the incredible stories of individual fossils, many of which are on display in Washington museums. The spectacular paleontology of WashinTrade Review"The ultimate guide to Washington fossils." * KING 5 - Evening *
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MV - University of Washington Press Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures
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MV - University of Washington Press Chinas Camel Country
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University of Washington Press Alaska Native Resilience
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MV - University of Washington Press Good Wife Wise Mother
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MV - University of Washington Press From Forest Farm to Sawmill
Book SynopsisA worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformationSocialist China's state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. These features make forestry a unique case with which to investigate how state policies constructed and reinforced intertwined and co-constitutive dualisms between humanity and nature, urban and rural places, production and reproduction, and male and female labor. Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolutionary socialist reforms through China's rapid economic development after the 1990s. Zhou shows how, in response to state development projects that exploited female labor, immigrants, rurality, and forests, workers created a space for their personal and political dema
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MV - University of Washington Press The Dong World and Imperial Chinas Southwest Silk
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MV - University of Washington Press The Xi Jinping Effect
Book SynopsisAssesses the broad impact of China''s influential leaderThe Xi Jinping Effect explores the relationship between the People''s Republic of China''s current paramount leaderarguably the most powerful figure since Mao Zedong (18931976)and multiple areas of political and social transformation. It illuminates not just policy arenas in which his leadership of China has had an outsized impact but also areas where his initiatives have faltered due to unintended consequences, international pushback, or the divergence of local priorities from those of the central government. Collectively, the book''s chapters document the ways in which Xi''s neo-totalitarianism has dismantled Reform Era legacies, while reconfiguring governance and rewiring China''s global connections. Contributions by anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and political scientists consider such issues as Xi''s anticorruption campaign and obsession with ideological governance, state surveillance, th
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University of Washington Press Unrecognized in California
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MV - University of Washington Press Chinese Characters across Asia
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MV - University of Washington Press Satirical Tibet
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MV - University of Washington Press Caring for Caregivers
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MV - University of Washington Press Kernels of Resistance
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MV - University of Washington Press Necropolitics of the Ordinary Death and Grieving
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MV - University of Washington Press Crafting a Tibetan Terroir
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MV - University of Washington Press Reenvisioning Histories of American Art
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MV - University of Washington Press Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe
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MV - University of Washington Press Ethnic Branding in Contemporary China
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MV - University of Washington Press The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun
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MV - University of Washington Press Contaminated Country
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MV - University of Washington Press The NotQuite Child
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MV - University of Washington Press Back East
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MV - University of Washington Press Amphibious Anthropologies
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MV - University of Washington Press Contested Taiwan
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MV - University of Washington Press The Beach Cure
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MV - University of Washington Press Remaking the Earth Exhausting the People
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MV - University of Washington Press Women Writers of Huizhou
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MV - University of Washington Press The Predicament of Privilege
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MV - University of Washington Press Village Contracts in Tokugawa Japan
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