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The University of Chicago Press Getting Justice and Getting Even Legal
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The University of Chicago Press Social Adaptation to Food Stress A Prehistoric
Book SynopsisCombining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe Tonga of South Africa. Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages, nonstratified societies survive by employing a series of responses that are increasingly effective but also are increasingly costly and demand increasingly larger cooperative efforts. The model Minnis develops allows him to infer, from evidence of such factors as population size, resource productivity, and climate change, the occurrence of food crises in the past. Using the Classic Mimbres society as a test case, he summarizes the regional archeological sequence and analyzes the effects of environmental fluctuations on economic and social organization. He concludes that th
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The University of Chicago Press Inside Science
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The University of Chicago Press On Feeling Knowing and Valuing Selected Writings
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The University of Chicago Press Alfred Schutz on Phenomenology and Social
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The University of Chicago Press The Constitution of Society Heritage of Sociology
Book SynopsisEdward Shils's attempt to work out a macrosociological theory which does justice both to the spiritual and intellectual dispositions and powers of the mind and to the reality of the larger society is an enterprise that has spanned several decades. In his steps toward the development of this theory he has not proceeded deductively; rather he has worked from his own concrete observations of Western, Asian, and African societies. Thus, despite the inevitable abstractness of marcrosociological theory, the papers in this volumewhich have been published separately since the Second World Warhave a quality of vivid substantiality that makes the theoretical statements they present easier to comprehend. Professor Shils has attempted to develop a theory that has a place for more than those parts of society that are generated from the biological nature of human beings and those parts that are engendered by the desires of individuals, acting for themselves or for groups and categories of individual
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The University of Chicago Press Empowering Education Critical Teaching for Social
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The University of Chicago Press Anonymous
Book SynopsisA rich sociological analysis of how and why we use anonymity. In recent years, anonymity has rocked the political and social landscape. There are countless examples: An anonymous whistleblower was at the heart of President Trump's first impeachment, an anonymous group of hackers compromised more than 77 million Sony accounts, and best-selling author Elena Ferrante resolutely continued to hide her real name and identity. In Anonymous, Thomas DeGloma draws on a fascinating set of contemporary and historical cases to build a sociological theory that accounts for the many faces of anonymity. He asks a number of pressing questions about the social conditions and effects of anonymity. What is anonymity, and why, under various circumstances, do individuals act anonymously? How do individuals accomplish anonymity? How do they use it, and, in some situations, how is it imposed on them? To answer these questions, DeGloma tackles anonymity thematically, dedicating each chapter to a distinct type of anonymous action, including ones he dubs protective, subversive, institutional, and ascribed. Ultimately, he argues that anonymity and pseudonymity are best understood as performances in which people obscure personal identities as they make meaning for various audiences. As they bring anonymity and pseudonymity to life, DeGloma shows, people work to define the world around them to achieve different goals and objectives. Trade Review“Anonymous does what sociology does best: to take a concept (in this case anonymity and pseudonymity) and explore it as a performative practice, a practice of sociality, and as linked to institutional structures. This book is a major addition to the sociological canon.” -- Gary Alan Fine, author of Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance"Attention must be paid! In this performance, grounded in the traditions of symbolic interaction, Thomas DeGloma has produced a foundational book for an emerging field, a field badly in need of one. As digital technologies continue to alter the, meaning, discovery, hiding and validation of identity, understanding anonymity and its’ extended family (e.g. pseudonymity, pseudo-anonymity, secrecy, privacy, surveillance and so much more), is ever more important. The book’s useful concepts bring coherence and integration to a plentitude of engaging empirical examples across cultures and time periods. Most welcome!" -- Gary T. Marx, author of Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High TechnologyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Anonymous Acts The Social Dynamics of Anonymous Acts Naming, Namelessness, and Pseudo-Names Freedom and Constraint in the Breach of Personal Identity The Exhibitionist and the Voyeur: Anonymity and Information Control Impersonal Agencies: Someone, Anyone, Everyone, and No One Culture and Meaning in the Performance of Anonymity Outline of the Book Chapter 2. Protective Anonymity Concealed Authorship and the Performance of Elena Ferrante Social Ethics of Anonymity Anonymous Altruism and Charity The Screened Confession and the Masquerade The Impartiality of Impersonality and the Performance of Academic Evaluation Anonymous Communities and Forums Anonymous Therapeutics and the Case of Alcoholics Anonymous Computer-Mediated Anonymous Forums Anonymous Consumption and Exchange Exploiting Protective AnonymityChapter 3. Subversive Anonymity Subversive Art and Literature Masked Social Movements and Anonymous Rebellion The Religious, Theatrical, and Festive Roots of Masked Social Protest Masked Movements and Their Subversive World Orders The Anonymous Performances of Ku Klux Klan Terror Performing the Digital Guerrilla Insurgency: The Hacker Networks of Anonymous The Klan and Anonymous: Shared Characteristics of Subversive Anonymity FBI Counterintelligence and the Anonymous Subversion of Subversive Activity Chapter 4. The Anonymity of Social Systems Institutions and Systems as Cover Representations Wall Street and the Financial Crisis Corporate Personhood and Electoral Politics The NSA, Big Tech, and Electronic Surveillance Distance Killing and the Nation at War The Modern State as “Humane” Executioner Anonymous Labor and Systems of ProductionChapter 5. The Anonymity of Types and Categories Typification and Social Performance Anonymous Others in Situated Encounters The Anonymity of Class and Occupation Anonymous Sex Racial Typification, Law Enforcement, and Police Violence Cisgaender Typification and the Segregation of Public Restrooms Analytic Typifications Chapter 6. The Social Contradictions of Our Hidden Identities Unmasking Acts Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press On the Practice of Sociology
Book SynopsisPitirim Sorokin rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become a major figure in the history of sociology. However, he was considered both a pioneer and an outcast. This text includes essays by this controversial thinker which range from his early Russian years to his final work in the 1960s.
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The University of Chicago Press Policing Welfare
Book SynopsisMeans-tested government assistance in the United States requires recipients to meet certain criteria and continue to maintain their eligibility so that benefits are paid to the truly needy. Welfare is regarded with such suspicion in this country that considerable resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and regulations. Even minor infractions of the many rules can cause people to be dropped from these programs, and possibly face criminal prosecution. In this book, Spencer Headworth offers the first study of the structure of fraud control in the welfare system by examining the relations between different levels of governmental agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices. Policing Welfare shows how the enforcement regime of welfare has been constructed to further stigmatize those already living in poverty and deepens disparities of class, race, and gender in our society.Trade Review“This highly original, insightful, and carefully researched book takes us into the inner workings of welfare fraud investigation units, revealing how the obsessions of policymakers with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse are expressed in ways that at once ‘police welfare’ and the people who count on it to feed and house their children and extend the logics of policing into the administration of poverty policy in the United States. The analysis of the ‘welfare police’ and theory of ‘punitive adversarialism’ Headworth advances in these pages will shape political and urban sociology, the broad and interdisciplinary punishment and society literature, and work in legal theory and the life of the law for decades to come. This is precisely the book we’ve needed to grasp the work of the administrative state in what is shaping up to be the long twenty-first century.” -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of?Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration“Policing Welfare is a breakthrough book, a close-up examination of how welfare fraud investigation units institutionalize surveillance and punishment as the chief imperatives of contemporary welfare bureaucracies in the United States. Spencer Headworth’s rich empirical study skillfully integrates insights from the sociology of law, stratification, and organizations to show how welfare enforcement erodes the dignity of impoverished citizens literally struggling to purchase a simple loaf of bread. It is a remarkable accomplishment that shows how debates on inequality and policing must be broadened to include welfare agents and the criminalization of poverty.” -- Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, author of Dying Inside: The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison"Countless studies have documented how the deeply problematic distinction between the 'deserving' and the 'undeserving' poor undermines and distorts programs to relieve poverty and deprivation. This important book builds on and extends these findings by examining how welfare agencies are organized to identify and prevent fraudulent claims to social assistance. Ostensibly, it would seem essential to ascertain whether an individual requesting social assistance meets the criteria for receiving such services, an obviously rational requirement of achieving the goal of the social program, not unlike the requirement to demonstrate that one can drive safely in order to get a driver’s license. By examining the self-understandings of those who work in fraud investigation units and their relationships to others charged with administering welfare programs and law enforcement, Headworth shows how the policing of welfare creates a culture of 'punitive adversarialism' that exacerbates the social conditions that create deprivation and undermines the equal status of citizens. This is a work of real significance. The writing is clear and accessible, and draws effectively on the extensive literature in this area. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Through an in-depth organizational ethnography of welfare fraud bureaus in five states, Policing Welfare provides a meticulous portrait of the painstaking ways that the bureaucracies managing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and their employees attempt to distinguish who does and does not deserve aid... Headworth provides an incredibly thorough, well-researched, and meticulously analyzed contribution to the scholarly literature on just how difficult it is to be poor, and the people and structures that make it so." * Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books *"In the US, welfare is regarded with suspicion, and considerable resources are spent policing the boundaries of eligibility, which are delineated by an often confusing and baroque set of rules and regulations. Headworth studies the structure of fraud control in the welfare system by examining the relations between different levels of governmental agencies, from federal to local, and their enforcement practices. He concludes that the enforcement regime has been constructed to further stigmatize those already living in poverty and that it deepens disparities of class, race, and gender." * Law & Social inquiry *"In Policing Welfare: Punitive Adversarialism in Public Assistance, Spencer Headworth describes how designated welfare fraud units police the boundary between 'deserving' and 'underserving' poor Americans, and he makes a compelling case for the centrality of surveillance and categorization in contemporary public assistance programs." -- Victoria Mayer * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. The Strings Attached Chapter 2. One Nation, Finding Fraud Chapter 3. The Mill and the Grist Chapter 4. The Welfare Police Chapter 5. Occupational Frames and Identities in Fraud Control Work Chapter 6. Fraud Control as Performance Chapter 7. The Blame Game Chapter 8. Finding Welfare Rule Violators Chapter 9. Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Model Cases
Book SynopsisIn Model Cases, Monika Krause asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods, and regions in the social sciences and humanities. It is well known that biologists focus on particular organisms, such as mice, fruit flies, or particular viruses when they study general questions about life, development, and disease. Krause shows that scholars in the social sciences and humanities also draw on some cases more than others, selecting research objects influenced by a range of ideological but also mundane factors, such as convenience, historicist ideas about development over time, schemas in the general population, and schemas particular to specific scholarly communities. Some research objects are studied repeatedly and shape our understanding of more general ideas in disproportionate ways: The French Revolution has profoundly influenced our concepts of revolution, of citizenship, and of political modernity, just like studies Trade Review“Krause has written a powerful, illuminating argument about how the social sciences should work. It is a worthy successor to Max Weber's Science as a Vocation.” -- Richard Sennett, Urban Initiatives, United Nations Habitat“Model Cases is an ambitious and compelling contribution to our understanding of the practice of scholarship, whose inner logic Krause perceptively dissects across different disciplines and methodologies. Her account of how scholars relate to the objects they study offers foundational insights into how we argue and perform research within the humanities." -- Carlos Spoerhase, professor of German literature, Bielefeld University"If the book didn’t already have a subtitle, On Canonical Research Objects and Sites, Monika Krause could have titled it Model Cases: On the Metaphysics of the Syllabus. Her fascinating book is an examination–even a deconstructive analysis–of the two- or three-page document traditionally handed out in the first class on a university program but now usually posted on class management systems like Blackboard." * University World News *"What do we as scholars look at when we do research? That is the simple but effective question that underlies Monika Krause’s highly instructive new book, Model Cases... It is a book that makes us think about the collective research patterns that we are a part of." * LSE Review of Books *"Model Cases would be excellent for a graduate seminar on the philosophy, theory, or methodology of a number of social science disciplines." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Material Research Objects and Privileged Material Research Objects 2. How Material Research Objects Are Selected 3. Model Cases and the Dream of Collective Methods 4. How Subfield Categories Shape Knowledge 5. The Schemas of Social Theory 6. The Model Cases of Global Knowledge Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy Revolution and
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The University of Chicago Press BrainsPracticesRelativism Social Theory After
Book SynopsisIn a series of tightly argued essays, Turner traces out implications that discarding the notion of shared frameworks has for relativism, social constructivism, normativity and a number of other concepts.
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The University of Chicago Press Terms of Exchange
Book SynopsisA collective intellectual biography that sheds new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracy. Would the most recognizable ideas in the French social sciences have developed without the influence of Brazilian intellectuals? While any study of Brazilian social sciences acknowledges the influence of French scholars, Ian Merkel argues the reverse is also true: the French social sciences were profoundly marked by Brazilian intellectual thought, particularly through the University of São Paulo. Through the idea of the cluster, Merkel traces the intertwined networks of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Fernand Braudel, Roger Bastide, and Pierre Monbeig as they overlapped at USP and engaged with Brazilian scholars such as Mário de Andrade, Gilberto Freyre, and Caio Prado Jr.. Through this collective intellectual biography of Brazilian and French social sciences, Terms of Exchange reveals connections that shed new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracyTrade Review"An essential contribution for reflecting on what is at stake in academic exchange based on empirical research." * Brésil(s) *"What Merkel proposes is a subversion of what are seen as the traditional logics of intellectual history, an approach whose importance derives from the names involved. Even the most firmly established figures in Brazilian intellectual history, unanimously recognized in their country of origin as seminal in their respective areas of specialization, ultimately could not manage to escape erasure. That is the state of things that Terms of Exchange proposes to reverse." * Revista de História (São Paulo) *“A rich examination of the intriguing crossings between Brazilian and French social sciences from the 1930s to the 1950s, Terms of Exchange offers the first history of the interactions among such characters as Roger Bastide, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Arthur Ramos, Caio Prado Jr., Florestan Fernandes, Paul Rivet, Gilberto Freyre, and Fernand Braudel.” * Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, University of Chicago *“This book reconsiders the intellectual itineraries of the French professors who came to São Paulo to found USP. Challenging traditional geographies of knowledge, Merkel situates the Brazilian experience of social scientists such as Braudel and Lévi-Strauss at the center of important epistemological inflections of the mid-twentieth century.” * Gabriela Pellegrino Soares, University of São Paulo *“Merkel explores with brio a little-known episode of transatlantic intellectual history: the prewar dialectics of exchange between a small group of not-yet-famous French visiting professors at the University of São Paulo and their Brazilian hosts. The great merit of the book is to highlight the weight of their Brazilian experience on those who later deeply transformed the French social sciences.” * Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture *"Merkel's work is a welcome addition to both Brazilian history and to the charting of the twentieth-century social sciences." * The Latin Americanist *"Attempts to show the close relationship of Northern social sciences to Southern thinkers have been reduced in scope and impact so far. This is why the book Terms of Exchange by Ian Merkel is more than welcome." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Terms of Exchange is a relevant contribution to the history of the intellectuals and an important global history exercise that shows, through at least two superposed ‘mana circulation systems’, how entangled the relations among intellectuals from different parts of the world could be if well analyzed." * Storia della Storiografia *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Chapter 1: São Paulo, the New Metropolis with a French University Chapter 2: Atlantic Crossings and Disciplinary Reformulation Chapter 3: Getting to Know Brazil: The New Country behind the Methodology Chapter 4: Four Approaches to Global and Social-Scientific Crisis Chapter 5: Brazil and the Reconstruction of the French Social Sciences Chapter 6: Racial Democracy, Métissage, and Decolonization between Brazil and France En Guise de Conclusion Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations and Archives Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Wasted Education
Book SynopsisAn urgent reality check for America's blinkered fixation on STEM education. We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while complaining of STEM shortages, but we also need scientific solutions to impending crises. As a society, we have poured enormous resourcesincluding billions of dollarsinto cultivating young minds for well-paid STEM careers. Yet despite it all, we are facing a worker exodus, with as many as 70% of STEM graduates opting out of STEM work. Sociologist John D. Skrentny investigates why, and the answer, he shows, is simple: the failure of STEM jobs. Wasted Education reveals how STEM work drives away bright graduatesas a result of burn and churn management practices, lack of job security, constant training for a neverending stream of newand often socially harmfultechnologies, and the exclusion of women, people of color, and older workers. Wasted Education shows that if we have any hope of improving the return on our STEM education investments, we have to change the way we're treating the workers on whom our future depends.Trade Review"[Wasted Education] asks important questions that encourage readers to think more deeply about what a meaningful education is (and is for) and the nature of meaningful work." * Science *"For Skrentny, the purpose of [Wasted Education] is not to deny the need for STEM skills but rather to ‘rebalance a debate’ that is dominated by what he calls the ‘STEM education industrial complex’—namely, large corporations that lobby for more STEM workers but make little effort to retain staff by stamping out the toxic work cultures that push so many staff to leave." * Times Higher Education *“With research rigor and bracing clarity, Wasted Education reveals America’s real STEM problem—and the real costs of a hustling, relentless corporate culture.” -- Margaret O’Mara | author of "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America"“This important book highlights how the unprecedented effort to push students into STEM degrees is both misguided and wasted by the lack of opportunity when they hit the job market. The STEM effort to do economic planning with students should be the biggest issue in economic policy. ” -- Peter Cappelli | author of "Our Least Important Asset: How the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting Hurts Workers and Business"“Wasted Education is a welcome and crucially important perspective on American education and workforce policy. Skrentny’s argument—that employers must share responsibility with schools for nurturing and rewarding STEM talent throughout their lives—must become a mantra if we're to see anything more than minimal improvement in our national human-capital system.” -- Mitchell Stevens | Stanford UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction: The Great Investment in STEM Education 2 The Exodus from STEM Jobs 3 Burn and Churn: How Management Strategies Can Drive Away STEM Workers 4 The Precariousness of the STEM Job 5 Training and the STEM-Skills Treadmill 6 How STEM Employers Contribute to Their Own Diversity Problems 7 STEM Education for What? Investors, Employers, and the Purpose of STEM Work Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Moral Minefields How Sociologists Debate Good
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Important. . . We live in an era in which scholarly debates, inside and outside the classroom, are increasingly viewed through a moral or political lens. As Dromi and Stabler quite rightly maintain, we must navigate through a scholarly landscape strewn with moral land mines." * Inside Higher Ed *"This book makes a significant contribution to sociology with its well-supported thesis that explains how sociologists can engage in heated debate about their research. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Moral Minefields offers an explosion of insight into how to approach the seemingly always politically charged project of conducting sociological research. Throughout its history, the discipline has stood between commitments to scientific inquiry and the pursuit of truth, and commitments to addressing social inequality, socio-economic disadvantage, and other moral concerns. Rather than try to resolve the push and pull emanating from both sides of this divide, readers are guided to think more critically and carefully about what constitutes the pursuit of good research that is indelibly tied to visions—either by the sociologists producing their work or the audiences receiving it—of morally sound research. Dromi and Stabler seek not to resolve the tension, but rather expose readers to sociology’s courageous embracing of it and, therefore, guide readers to think more effectively about how it can be managed going forward.” -- Alford Young, Jr., University of Michigan“Dromi and Stabler skillfully puncture a stalled debate between the value-free and deliberately activist camps of contemporary sociology, showing how scholars within our methodologically and substantively diverse field form judgments about what counts as ‘good research.’ Weaving together a range of powerful examples—from secularism to breastfeeding, cosmopolitanism, and racial inequality—their framework of moral repertoires shines new light on the field. Equally valuable to both the seasoned sociologist and the young researcher.” -- Jenny Trinitapoli, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface: Eternity in Cincinnati Introduction: Rules of the Road 1: Navigating in a Minefield Moral Repertoires and Sociological Research 2: Academic No-Go Zones On Social-Gene Interactions, Cultures of Poverty, and Forbidden Knowledge Claims in Sociology 3: Moral Highways and Byways Connecting New Critiques with Old Insights in the Study of Nationalism 4: Chartered Trips Remapping Controversy and the Renewal of Research on the Family Conclusion: On Moral Grounds Afterword: Researching the Good in Research Justifications Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Anonymous The Performance of Hidden Identities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Anonymous does what sociology does best: to take a concept (in this case anonymity and pseudonymity) and explore it as a performative practice, a practice of sociality, and as linked to institutional structures. This book is a major addition to the sociological canon.” -- Gary Alan Fine, author of Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance"Attention must be paid! In this performance, grounded in the traditions of symbolic interaction, Thomas DeGloma has produced a foundational book for an emerging field, a field badly in need of one. As digital technologies continue to alter the, meaning, discovery, hiding and validation of identity, understanding anonymity and its’ extended family (e.g. pseudonymity, pseudo-anonymity, secrecy, privacy, surveillance and so much more), is ever more important. The book’s useful concepts bring coherence and integration to a plentitude of engaging empirical examples across cultures and time periods. Most welcome!" -- Gary T. Marx, author of Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High TechnologyTable of ContentsChapter 1. Anonymous Acts The Social Dynamics of Anonymous Acts Naming, Namelessness, and Pseudo-Names Freedom and Constraint in the Breach of Personal Identity The Exhibitionist and the Voyeur: Anonymity and Information Control Impersonal Agencies: Someone, Anyone, Everyone, and No One Culture and Meaning in the Performance of Anonymity Outline of the Book Chapter 2. Protective Anonymity Concealed Authorship and the Performance of Elena Ferrante Social Ethics of Anonymity Anonymous Altruism and Charity The Screened Confession and the Masquerade The Impartiality of Impersonality and the Performance of Academic Evaluation Anonymous Communities and Forums Anonymous Therapeutics and the Case of Alcoholics Anonymous Computer-Mediated Anonymous Forums Anonymous Consumption and Exchange Exploiting Protective AnonymityChapter 3. Subversive Anonymity Subversive Art and Literature Masked Social Movements and Anonymous Rebellion The Religious, Theatrical, and Festive Roots of Masked Social Protest Masked Movements and Their Subversive World Orders The Anonymous Performances of Ku Klux Klan Terror Performing the Digital Guerrilla Insurgency: The Hacker Networks of Anonymous The Klan and Anonymous: Shared Characteristics of Subversive Anonymity FBI Counterintelligence and the Anonymous Subversion of Subversive Activity Chapter 4. The Anonymity of Social Systems Institutions and Systems as Cover Representations Wall Street and the Financial Crisis Corporate Personhood and Electoral Politics The NSA, Big Tech, and Electronic Surveillance Distance Killing and the Nation at War The Modern State as “Humane” Executioner Anonymous Labor and Systems of ProductionChapter 5. The Anonymity of Types and Categories Typification and Social Performance Anonymous Others in Situated Encounters The Anonymity of Class and Occupation Anonymous Sex Racial Typification, Law Enforcement, and Police Violence Cisgaender Typification and the Segregation of Public Restrooms Analytic Typifications Chapter 6. The Social Contradictions of Our Hidden Identities Unmasking Acts Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Art of Surrender Decomposing Sovereignty at
Book SynopsisExplores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.
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The University of Chicago Press Unpopular Culture The Ritual of Complaint in a
Book SynopsisJohn R. Weeks based his study on long-term observations made at the British Armstrong Bank in the UK. Not one person, from the CEOs to the junior clerks had anything good to say about its corporate culture, yet the way things were done never seemed to alter.
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The University of Chicago Press Unpopular Culture The Ritual of Complaint in a
Book SynopsisJohn R. Weeks based his study on long-term observations made at the British Armstrong Bank in the UK. Not one person, from the CEOs to the junior clerks had anything good to say about its corporate culture, yet the way things were done never seemed to alter.
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The University of Chicago Press Canvases and Careers Institutional Change in the
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The University of Chicago Press Acts of Hope
Book SynopsisThis study aims to teach the reader how to read and judge claims of authority made by others and how to decide to which institutions and practices should authority be granted. Thinkers such as Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela and Lincoln are incorporated into the discussion.
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The University of Chicago Press Time Maps Collective Memory and the Social Shape
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McGill-Queen's University Press Just One Rain Away
Book SynopsisRivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.Trade Review“A fascinating, lively, and intimate portrait of a complex technical issue, Just One Rain Away evokes the complexity of flood control through a sprawling appreciation of geology, politics, technology, and metrology, as well as ethnography and literature. Ambitious and impressive, both the technical rigour and the imaginative scope of materials and descriptions makes this a major achievement.” Kregg Hetherington, author of The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops“This book provides an apt starting point for those who wish to better understand these pressing issues, and perhaps even move toward the decolonization of flood control itself.” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
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Columbia University Press Programmed to Learn An Essay on the Evolution of
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Columbia University Press The Psychiatric Society
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the American mental health care system and its relationship with society and government."
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Columbia University Press From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth analysis of the link between politicians' behavior and opinion polls. Exploring political action within a broad historical context, the book develops a theory to show how the behavior of politicians, and the unfolding of political change, have been irrevocably altered since the advent of opinion polling in the 1930s.
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Columbia University Press The Holy Family and Its Legacy Religious
Book SynopsisRanging over two millennia of history and culture, Koschorke considers such thinkers as Freud, Weber, Rousseau, and Kleist in an exploration that illuminates issues of historical, religious, artistic, psychological, and cultural importance.Trade ReviewAn interesting dance of signs going back through the epochs Die Zeit This book demands a careful read. -- Linda J. Strozdas Family Ministry Theologians can find some help in this book for the history and the cannons of their on discipline. -- Mary Ann Donovan Theological StudiesTable of ContentsPreface to the American Edition Part I Dispositions 1. Around the Year Zero 2. Faith and Code 3. Positions I: Jesus and His Fathers 4. Positions II: Mary and the Trinity 5. From the Jewish Birth Family to the Christian Destination Family 6. The Man Joseph and Monotheistic Religion 7. The Inimitable Model 8. Combinatorics I: The Mother-Son Axis 9. Combinatorics II: The Sacred Marriage 10. Combinatorics III: The Father-Son Axis 11. The Dissolution of Distinctions Part II Theories 12. The Family Novel of Religions 13. Beyond Gender 14. The Question of Power Part III Consequences 15. Christianity: On the Road to Becoming the Religion of the Empire 16. The Church's Marriage Policy in the Middle Ages 17. The Protestant Holy Family 18. The Return of Joseph 19. Joseph, Abelard, Saint-Preux 20. Holy Family, Bourgeois Family 21. Christ and Oedipus: Freud's Coup 22. Remnant Families in the Welfare State 23. Theology and Family in George Lucas's Star Wars Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Intimacies
Book SynopsisExamines how different cultures rationalize the expression of passionate and comfort love and physical sex. This book maps out the intricacies of the love/sex conundrum and the psychological dilemma of reconciling these competing forces.Trade ReviewRecommended. Choice
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Columbia University Press Men to Boys
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Cary Grant (mature) to Hugh Grant (not)--and then tells us what it means. -- Dan Zak Washington Post [A] thoughtful journey through the male-strom of modern masculinity. -- Kay Hymowitz Wall Street Journal An interesting take on the history and development of boy-men... Highly recommended. Library Journal A thought-provoking read for men and women of all walks of life. Futurist Cross contributes important lessons to gender and masculinity studies in this roller coaster ride through an intersection of biography and history... Essential. Choice [This] copiously researched, subtly argued, and lucidly written account of modern immaturity... serves as a needed hair shirt for the regressive adult. -- Christopher Benson Weekly Standard An important contribution to our understanding of major shifts in cultural values in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Lisa Jacobson H-Childhood [E]xtremely readable, informative The Family in AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Where Have All the Men Gone? 1. When Fathers Knew Best (or Did They?) 2. Living Fast, by (Sometimes) Dying Young 3. Talking About My Generation 4. My Generation Becomes the Pepsi Generation 5. New Stories, by New Rebels 6. Endless Thrills 7. Life Beyond Pleasure Island Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press Youth Gangs and Community Intervention
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Columbia University Press Hiroshima After Iraq
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRosalyn Deutsche argues for a certain modesty-or perhaps, I should say, a modest uncertainty-with regard to the demands placed upon art in response to war. She brings a deep knowledge of both contemporary art and the psychoanalytic literature on war to her study, as well as the careful exposition and lucid prose we've come to expect from her work. -- Douglas Crimp, author of Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Silvia Kolbowski 2. Leslie Thornton 3. Krzysztof Wodiczko Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press In Translation
Book SynopsisCelebrated practitioners speak on the creative, critical, political, and historical aspects of their work.Trade ReviewIn Translation promises to be an essential part of any translation library. Allen and Bernofsky have assembled a collection of thoughtful essays by a wide-ranging group of translators whose opinions about the knotty art of translation are varied, fascinating, and eminently intelligent -- Edith Grossman, Translator, author of Why Translation Matters In Translation is an essential addition to the canon of translation studies, offering fascinating insights about the role and the work of the translator. Anyone interested in the making of literature will want this book. -- John Biguenet, coeditor of The Craft of Translation and Theories of Translation Serious and witty by turns, and sometimes both at once, these informative essays illuminate what matters in translation and why translation matters. -- Motoyuki Shibata, University of Tokyo A panoramic view of the craft of translation. An impressive gathering of the expertise of the finest translators working in English today from a wide range of languages and literatures. -- Peter Constantine, winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for Benjamin Lebert's novel, The Bird Is a Raven The essays in In Translation, exploring both the larger, complex questions of translation's role and function in the world of literature and the more detailed, word-by-word dilemmas faced by every translator, are consistently stimulating, engaging, and eye-opening, not to speak of eloquent and occasionally even dramatic and/or funny. I came away from reading them with a host of new ideas and insights. -- Lydia Davis, translator of Swann's Way and Madame Bovary A strong introduction to the field. Publishers Weekly Knowledgeable and articulate... the book raises and clarifies a variety of significant issues about the many decisions translators must contend with. Kirkus Reviews An obvious choice for writers and readers interested in translation; challenging but also accessible to the nonacademic reader. Library Journal I loved this book. I felt I was introduced to a new universe, and not only translation, but language itself, will never look the same again. San Francisco Book Review Translators, academics, students, editors, and publishers will want torecommend In Translation to anyone with a curiosity about who translators are,what translators do, how they do it, and why. Publishing Research QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Culture of Translation, by Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky Part I: The Translator in the World 1. Making Sense in Translation: Toward an Ethics of the Art, by Peter Cole 2. Anonymous Sources (On Translators and Translation), by Eliot Weinberger 3. Fictions of the Foreign: The Paradox of "Foreign-Soundingness", by David Bellos 4. Beyond, Between: Translation, Ghosts, Metaphors, by Michael Emmerich 5. Translation as Scholarship, by Catherine Porter 6. Translation: The Biography of an Artform, by Alice Kaplan 7. The Will to Translate: Four Episodes in a Local History of Global Cultural Exchange, by Esther Allen Part II: The Translator at Work 8. The Great Leap: Cesar and the Caesura, by Forrest Gander 9. Misreading Orhan Pamuk, by Maureen Freely 10. On Translating a Poem by Osip Mandelstam, by Jose Manuel Prieto, translated by Esther Allen 11. Are We the Folk in This Lok?: Translating in the Plural, by Christi A. Merrill 12. Choosing an English for Hindi, by Jason Grunebaum 13. As Translator, as Novelist: The Translator's Afterword, by Haruki Murakami, translated by Ted Goossen 14. Haruki Murakami and the Culture of Translation, by Ted Goossen 15. Translating Jacopone da Todi: Archaic Poetries and Modern Audiences, by Lawrence Venuti 16. "Ensemble discords": Translating the Music of Sceve's Delie, by Richard Sieburth 17. Translation and the Art of Revision, by Susan Bernofsky 18. The Art of Losing: Polish Poetry and Translation, by Clare Cavanagh
£82.80
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Survivors of Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMurphy has allowed the victims of contemporary bondage to speak for themselves. These often heart-wrenching accounts do more than reveal the tragic stories of contemporary abuse and suffering; they often reveal patterns of behavior and resistance that can inform our understanding of historic slavery in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This collection clearly establishes the international dimensions and persistence of slavery. -- Paul E. Lovejoy, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute Survivors of Slavery invites the reader not only to consider the actual words on the page, but also to question context, voice, and what is not being said. -- Sandra Morgan, Director, Global Center for Women and Justice at Vanguard University As awareness of modern slavery explodes, the least heard but most important voices we need to hear belong to slavery survivors. It is a simple fact that if you have always lived in freedom the lived truth of slavery is unimaginable. For the slaves and ex-slaves this creates a deep gap, a sense that they will never be understood. Laura T. Murphy's superlative Survivors of Slavery bridges that gap and opens the door to understanding and healing. There are plenty of books to read if you want to understand modern slavery in your head, but if you want to understand the truth of slavery in your heart, read this book. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves An "open condemnation" of modern slavery that builds powerfully by testimony. Kirkus ... this collection gives voice to the desire of the enslaved to express their humanity. Booklist Graduate and undergraduate students can benefit from inclusion of this book as a text through which they can understand slavery in the voices of people who have experienced it... a critical book... few readers will be unchanged. PsycCRITIQUES Murphy's book provides an essential collection of narratives that everyone involved in the prevention of trafficking should read. Journal of Human Trafficking A welcome addition to our understanding of trafficking. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsForeword by Kevin Bales and Minh Dang Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Allure of Work 2. Slaves in the Family 3. Case Study: Interviews from a Brothel 4. Painful Defiance and Contested Freedom 5. Community Response and Resistance 6. Case Study: Mining Unity 7. The Voice and the Silence of Slavery 8. Becoming an Activist 9. Case Study: Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking, Survivor Advisory Caucus Epilogue: Twenty-First-Century Abolitionists-What You Can Do to End Slavery Appendix A: Antislavery Organizations Appendix B: Signs of Enslavement Appendix C: Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Rural Poverty in the United States
Book SynopsisIn a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. It take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and uses their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans.Trade ReviewThis book covers the historical development of rural poverty research and policy, brings together the core theoretical literature, and addresses significant substantive issues including food insecurity, race, migration, and housing. The breadth is remarkable. No other volume exists today that draws the literature together so comprehensively and engagingly. -- Linda Lobao, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Geography and Demography of Rural America1. Where Is Rural America and Who Lives There?, by Kenneth M. Johnson2. Poverty in Rural America Then and Now, by Bruce Weber and Kathleen MillerPart II. Key Concepts and Issues for Understanding Rural Poverty3. Measures of Poverty and Implications for Portraits of Rural Hardship, by Leif Jensen and Danielle Ely4. How to Explain Poverty?, by Ann R. Tickamyer and Emily J. WornellPart III. Vulnerable Populations in Rural Places5. Changing Gender Roles and Rural Poverty, by Kristin SmithCase Study: In re Bow, Nevada Supreme Court (1997), by Lisa R. Pruitt6. Racial Inequalities and Poverty in Rural America, by Mark H. HarveyCase Study: Engaging Black Geographies—How Racism Continues to Produce Poverty within the Black Belt South, by Rosalind P. Harris7. Immigration Trends and Immigrant Poverty in Rural America, by Shannon M. Monnat and Raeven Faye ChandlerCase Study: Immigration and New Rural Residents, by J. Celeste LayPart IV. Community and Societal Institutions8. Rural Poverty and Symbolic Capital: A Tale of Two Valleys, by Jennifer ShermanCase Study: Symbolic Capital and Sources of Division in “Golden Valley,” California, and “Paradise Valley,” Washington, by Jennifer Sherman9. The Old Versus the New Economies and Their Impacts, by Brian Thiede and Tim SlackCase Study: Buoyancy on the Bayou—Louisiana Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization, by Jill Ann Harrison10. Food Insecurity and Housing Insecurity, by Alisha Coleman-Jensen and Barry SteffenCase Study: Food Insecurity and Hunger in the Rural West, by Sarah Whitley11. The Environment and Health, by Danielle Christine Rhubart and Elyzabeth W. EngleCase Study: The Environment and Health, by Michael Hendryx12. Education and Information, by Catharine Biddle and Ian MetteCase Study: Education, Economic Disadvantage, and Homeless Students in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale Gas Region, by Kai A. Schafft13. Crime, Punishment, and Spatial Inequality, by John M. Eason, L. Ash Smith, Jason Greenberg, Richard D. Abel, and Corey SparksCase Study: Violence Against Women in America’s Heartland, by Walter S. DeKeseredy and Amanda Hall-SanchezPart V. Programs, Policy, and Politics14. The Safety Net in Rural America, by Jennifer Warlick15. The Opportunities and Limits of Economic Growth, by Gary Paul Green16. Politics and Policy: Barriers and Opportunities for Rural Peoples, by Ann R. Tickamyer, Jennifer Sherman, and Jennifer WarlickContributorsIndex
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Corsairs of SaintMalo
Book SynopsisHenning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed light on the local networks that linked commerce and conflict in early modern Europe. He combines rich descriptions of privateering campaigns with quantitative network analysis of partnership ties over more than a century.Trade ReviewHillmann’s book is a fascinating analysis of the networks of merchants and investors who traded overseas and launched privateering expeditions from the bustling Atlantic port of Saint-Malo. Based on extensive archival research, it is historical sociology at its best and will appeal to readers from history to economics and beyond. -- Philip T. Hoffman, Axline Professor of Business Economics and History, California Institute of TechnologyWith his unique combination of mastery of detailed historical material, rigorous network analysis, and a compelling theoretical vision, Hillmann offers us a remarkable view of the nexus of economic, social, and political relations in the early modern period. A landmark in historical sociology. -- John Levi Martin, author of Social StructuresThis is a terrific book. Full of historical detail about an interesting hybrid form of commercial-military 'market'—the early modern French privateers. Plus network analysis of the evolution of voyage partnership networks over one hundred years. The dynamic duality of market and city elite is thereby highlighted. -- John F. Padgett, coauthor of The Emergence of Organizations and MarketsIn this multilayered book, Hillmann combines a rollicking tale of colorful privateers plying the high seas with detailed evidence revealing temporal overlaps in trade networks. It's a great read, filled with deep sociological insights about the relational basis of elite cohesion and social mobility. -- Katherine Stovel, University of WashingtonThis book was a pleasure to read. It tells the fascinting story of French privateers (corsaires, in French) who were legaly sanctioned by the French government during wartime. * Economic Growth in History *I can definitely recommend adding it to your reading list. Hillman offers a captivating sociological take on over 100 years of conflict, trade, and personal fortune with this enjoyable study. * East India Blogging Co. *Breaks new ground as an organizational and network analysis with broad implications for the evolution and cohesion of economic activity during mercantile capitalism. * Social Forces *Hillmann’s contribution is an important one: he highlights the diversity of the merchant class, and describes a possible way in which a specialized local type of trade could help structure a local merchant community. Beyond its study of the course and of Saint-Malo, the book raises a host of questions regarding early modern economies, and thus should be widely read and discussed. * Economic History Review *Hillmann provides an exceptionally well researched examination and perhaps an example of how to model future research on privateering partnerships throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. * Mariners Mirror *The book raises a host of questions regarding early modern economies, and thus should be widely read and discussed. -- Pierre Gervais, University Sorbonne-Nouvelle * The Economic History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Saint-Malo in the French Atlantic Economy3. Social Sources of Economic Growth4. The Course: Its Origins and Organization5. Returns to Privateering6. Dynamics of Partnership Networks7. The Rise of New Men8. The Coming of the RevolutionAppendix TablesNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press What Slaveholders Think
Book SynopsisDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the SlavesThe exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityChoi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy—and human rights campaigners—a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamThe book offers a detailed account and analysis of how and to what extent perpetrators adapt, accommodate, and profit from this social phenomenon. Moreover, What Slaveholders Think makes a great contribution to the literature on social movements, human rights, political sociology, labor movements, and other fields of study. * American Journal of Sociology *Provides readers with many truly unique and largely overlooked insights into the world of contemporary slavery. . . . Path-breaking. * International Sociology *A rich treatment of a compelling (albeit troubling) topic, one that makes an important contribution to social movement theory. * Mobilization *A rich, theoretically interesting work that should be taken seriously by scholars of social movement activity. . . . Well-written, engaging, and theoretically insightful. * Contemporary Sociology *Choi-Fitzpatrick’s work is an essential contribution to the literature on slavery and bonded labor. * Journal of Human Trafficking *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and ReappraisalNotesReferencesIndex
£20.90
Columbia University Press When the State Winks
Book SynopsisWhen the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the nation-state.Trade ReviewEasily the best recent ethnography of state bureaucratic practice (and state-sponsored conversion) in Israel. Kravel-Tovi's work is grounded in significant ethnographic fieldwork and moves beyond accounts that treat 'the State' as a monolithic and inimical entity. Real people-rabbis, converts and state workers-emerge from these pages, not stick figures of the sociological imagination. -- Don Seeman, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv’s BeachesIntroduction: Taking Winking SeriouslyPart 1. The Conversion Mission1. National Mission2. State WorkersPart 2. The Conversion Performance3. Legible Signs4. Dramaturgical Entanglements5. Biographical ScriptsEpilogue: Winking Like a StateGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press When the State Winks
Book SynopsisWhen the State Winks traces the performance of state-endorsed Orthodox conversion in Israel. Michal Kravel-Tovi complicates the popular perception that it is a "wink-wink" relationship in which both sides agree to treat pretenses of faith as real, developing new ways to think about the connection between religious conversion and the nation-state.Trade Review[This] book is well organized ... it is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a deeper understanding of how the conversion process really operates. -- Alan Rosenbaum * The Jerusalem Post *This book is required reading for students and scholars who are interested in religion and state in contemporary Israel, reproduction, gender, and of course, conversion -- Michal Raucher, Rutgers University * Religious Studies Review *In addition to its contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion, When the State Winks is a model of a methodologically and theoretically rigorous ethnography written in an accessible language. * American Ethnologist *Important, challenging book. -- Shlomo Brody * Jewish Review of Books *This is a masterpiece to recommend to all those concerned about research into political states and the related concepts of governmentality and biopolitics. -- Avihu Shoshana * Quest: Issues in Contemporary Jewish History *This study is well-written and readable. It combines academic professional writing with relevant, informative stories from the field. The result is an informative and beautifully written book. * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *When the State Winks is written in an engaging style that will instantly draw in both a specialist and a non-specialist reader. It can be recommended to a wide range of academic audiences and is a must-read in anthropology of religion at the intersection with political anthropology and anthropology of the state. -- Yulia Egorova * LSE Review of Books *[A] stunning ethnographic study...Highly recommended. * Choice *A beautifully written and engaged ethnography of the overlooked topic of state-sponsored conversion to Judaism. Kravel-Tovi illustrates how the complicated playing field of conversion is constrained with tensions between state secularism and religion; Zionism and Judaism; and bureaucracy and sincerity. -- Esra Ozyurek, London School of EconomicsIn addition to its contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of religion, When the State Winks is a model of a methodologically and theoretically rigorous ethnography written in an accessible language that would make an excellent addition to undergraduate- and graduate-level syllabi. * American Ethnologist *This book is highly recommended. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *When the State Winks is a superb ethnography of state-run conversion to Judaism in Israel. -- Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar * Ethnos *The book offers a wonderful synthesis between an animated ethnographic description and a sharp analytical account. [It] makes an important contribution to both the anthropology of the state and the ethnography of communication. -- Tamar Katriel * Israeli Sociology *When the State Winks is a milestone, or even a breakthrough, in the understanding of the state. Kravel-Tovi directs her look at the generally overlooked bodily part of the state: its face; not at the way in which the state “sees” or “hears” but at the way in which its shifting gestures and expressions create a double entendre. -- Haim Hazan * Israeli Sociology *In her stimulating and engrossing book, Michal Kravel-Tovi deploys the classic anthropological concept of ‘winking’ . . . Kravel-Tovi is to be congratulated for a political ethnography that achieves a satisfying balance among macro-contextual analysis, mobilization of social science, vivid and detailed vignettes of the objects of her study, and authorial self-reflection. -- Ian S., Lustick University of Pennsylvania * Israel Studies Review *In this probe of state-religion relations in Israel, Michal Kravel-Tovi brings the critical but sympathetic curiosity of a skilled ethnographer to explore the use of religious conversion for the purpose of creating national belonging. Addressing the substantial divergence between rabbinical practice and theological ideals and portraying converts whose reasons for choosing Judaism are often practical rather than spiritual, she shows how officials of state as well as rabbinical judges wink collusively at the short shrift given to doctrinal requirements in favor of well-trained performances of sincerity. -- Michael Herzfeld, Harvard UniversityThe question of who is allowed to convert to Judaism in Israel, and how and when, is deeply charged with both spiritual and political commitments. Kravel-Tovi’s insightful, thoughtful book helps us to understand the nature of these contradictions and their consequences and the way that converts themselves come to experience their conversion. -- Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford UniversityWhen the State Winks is an excellent, original work that uniquely situates its analysis not just within an anthropological framework but also within a broad, humanistic one. Kravel-Tovi tells a compelling story about the political and personal complexities of conversion in Israel, and it will be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, and historians as well as scholars of Judaism and religion more generally. -- Leora Batnitzky, Princeton UniversityThe best recent ethnography of state bureaucratic practice in Israel and the best ethnography of state-assisted conversion more broadly. With clarity of prose, pathbreaking ethnography, and a humanizing argument, Kravel-Tovi’s work moves beyond accounts that treat ‘the state’ as a monolithic and inimical entity. Real people—rabbis, converts, and state workers—emerge from these pages, not stick figures of the sociological imagination. -- Don Seeman, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Naked Truth on Tel Aviv’s BeachesIntroduction: Taking Winking SeriouslyPart 1. The Conversion Mission1. National Mission2. State WorkersPart 2. The Conversion Performance3. Legible Signs4. Dramaturgical Entanglements5. Biographical ScriptsEpilogue: Winking Like a StateGlossaryNotesReferencesIndex
£22.00
Columbia University Press Trade and Nation
Book SynopsisIn the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation.Trade ReviewIn Trade and Nation, Emily Erikson traces the rise of economic nationalism to efforts by seventeenth-century British merchants to sway the Crown with tracts on the nation and prosperity. An outstanding historical sociologist as well as a computational scientist, Erikson presents a fresh, compelling perspective on mercantilism and the foundations of modern economic thought. -- Frank Dobbin, author of Inventing Equal OpportunityIn our age of egregious inequality, why is economic policy devoted to national aggregate growth that increasingly channels wealth and income upward while trivializing distributional equity as irrelevant to economic efficiency? In this remarkable study Emily Erikson points not to modern Reaganomics but to the invention of a radical new economic doctrine by corporate merchants in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century England. Mixing sophisticated computational methods with deep historical archival research, Erikson demonstrates how a mutually advantageous 'courtship' between commerce and the Crown, one marked by an explosion of literary discourse in the newly emerging public sphere, triggered a novel justificatory framework focused on the exigencies of national prosperity over and against the long-prevailing 'moral economy' of economic justice. Trade and Nation is a book of uncommon brilliance as well as an utterly necessary one for understanding the entrenched roots of today’s uncommon meanness. -- Margaret R. Somers, author of Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have RightsTrade and Nation bridges the divide between social science and history, asking why modern western economic theory first developed in England rather than elsewhere. Emily Erikson uses a methodologically innovative approach, deploying data and computational methods to link discourse and authorship to institutional politics and positionality. -- Phil Withington, author of Society in Early Modern England: The Vernacular Origins of Some Powerful IdeasA fascinating romp through the history of economics in Early Modern England. If you like money, history, and/or a combination of the two, you should pick it up. * East India Blogging Co. *[A] lucidly written and thoughtfully conceived book. * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *Erikson’s book is a major contribution to the field concerned with the evolution of economic thought in the early modern period. Erikson’s analysis, based on a methodology originating from sociology, is a cutting edge addition to economic history literature. * International Journal of Maritime History *A pleasant and very solid read, showing how a wide range of statistical methods can be very elegantly articulated. Such an approach based on transparency regarding data-collection, exploitation, and results interpretation should be praised. * Journal of Social Structure *[A] tour de force....This fantastic book will join and enliven recent work on what might be called the practical politics of economic thought. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Declining Importance of Fair Exchange2. Transformative Debates3. Key Actors, Institutions, and Relations4. Authors and Their Networks5. Representation, Companies, and Publications6. Why Not the Dutch?ConclusionBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Psychiatric Casualties
Book SynopsisThe trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. The book offers actionable prescriptions for change and a comprehensive approach to significantly improving military mental health.Trade ReviewMark C. Russell and Charles Figley provide a thorough and thoughtful analysis of how the U.S. military has historically failed to adequately manage the mental health problems that inevitably occur during and in the aftermath of military action, and they suggest potential solutions to prevent repeating such failures in the future. -- Brian Bride, former editor in chief of Traumatology: An International JournalAs promised, Russell and Figley once again deliver a thorough history of a neglected but critical topic. The authors continue to highlight what is most needed in behavioral health treatment for our military warriors who serve our country. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of Maryland and principal investigator, Family Informed Trauma Treatment CenterRussell and Figley provide a blood-stirring and much needed examination of the many reasons that behavioral health concerns continue to affect the ranks of the military. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the care and well-being of America’s forces, from indoctrination to discharge and beyond. -- Col. Jeffrey S. Yarvis, PhD, U.S. Army (retired)Russell and Figley provide a stark yet riveting investigation into the history and current status of behavioral health care in the military. Psychiatric Casualties is a must-read for all senior military and civilian leaders who have the responsibility of putting men and women in combat. -- Col. M. C. Boone, United States Marine CorpsAn impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. * Library Bookwatch *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Genesis of the Military’s Mental Health Dilemma1. A War to Die For: Casualty Trends of Modern Warfare2. The Dark Side of Military Mental Health: A History of Self-Inflicted Wounds3. Cruel and Inhumane Handling: The First Dark-Side Strategy4. Legal Prosecution, Incarceration, and Executions of Mental Illness: The Second Dark-Side Strategy5. Humiliate, Ridicule, and Shame into Submission: The Third Dark-Side Strategy6. Denying the Psychiatric Reality of War: The Fourth Dark-Side Strategy7. Purging Weakness: The Fifth Dark-Side Strategy8. Delay, Deceive, and Delay Again: The Sixth Dark-Side Strategy9. Faulty Diagnosis and Backdoor Discharges: The Seventh Dark-Side Strategy10. Avoiding Responsibility and Accountability: The Eighth Dark-Side Strategy11. Inadequate, Experimental, or Harmful Treatment: The Ninth Dark-Side Strategy12. Perpetuating Neglect, Indifference, and Self-Inflicted Crises: The Tenth Dark-Side Strategy13. Toward a Resilient and Mentally Healthy Military14. Transforming Military Mental Healthcare: Three Options for ChangeAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Creative Control The Ambivalence of Work in the
Book SynopsisMichael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participate in their own exploitation.Trade ReviewFilm and media scholars who study industries must read Creative Control. Siciliano leverages cultural sociology and meticulous ethnography to masterfully unpack the considerable contradictions of media creation in the platform era. His focus on creative routinization exposes film studies' exceptionalism as a strawman, ill-equipped to make sense of online media. -- John T. Caldwell, author of Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film/TelevisionSome scholars argue that creative work enlivens local economies, while others emphasize that it exemplifies the precarious employment spreading across national economies. Siciliano deftly navigates those divergent depictions by turning to the workers themselves—illuminating the attraction that creativity holds for them, as well as the challenges it brings. As a result, he rightfully moves us from abstract notions of creative work to the embodied and everyday activity that it actually entails. -- Timothy J. Dowd, Emory UniversityWith Creative Control, Michael Siciliano joins the finest of ethnographic traditions—the study of labor in our times. This fresh perspective on cultural work unpacks the reality behind our algorithmically defined entertainment future, the content treadmill that seduced the emotional and professional repertoire of a generation. -- Melissa Gregg, author of Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge EconomySiciliano’s thoughtful, compelling book deserves to be a major reference point in studies of creative labor and in research on work in an age of digital platforms. It combines careful ethnography with an impressive range of reading to provide fresh perspectives on longstanding problems of alienation, exploitation, and control. -- David Hesmondhalgh, University of LeedsMichael Siciliano's book is a must-read for anyone interested in the culture industries. This ethnography documents firsthand how various actors within culture-producing firms grapple over power, profits, and final products. What we create and consume, Creative Control convincingly demonstrates, derives as much from collective control as it does individual creativity. -- Jeffrey J. Sallaz, author of Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World's Call Center CapitalThe book is well researched, well written, and very timely to better understand subordination and attractions to jobs in the platform economy and creative production...I hope this ambitious and detailed study finds a wide readership; it is a required reading for scholars interested in contemporary creative labor in platform economies and cultural production more generally. * Acta Sociologica *The case studies in Creative Control capture the changing nature of information-age creative labor and operationalize sociological concepts to describe its new modes of managerial control and increased alienation and precarity, providing a framework for further research into a wider array of creative contexts. * Critical Studies in Media Communication *Has important and wide-ranging implications for how we think about creative labor, and I expect the findings to be of great interest to sociologists of culture, work, and technology. * Contemporary Sociology *A rich empirical account of precarious work in the culture industries and crafts a novel framework connecting the affective rewards to the costs of contemporary creative labor. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Introductions1. Creative Control?2. Conflicting CreativitiesPart II: SoniCo’s Social Regime3. SoniCo’s Positive Pole: Aesthetic Subjectivities and Control4. SoniCo’s Negative Pole: Mitigating Precarity and Alienated JudgmentPart III: The Future’s Quantified Regime5. The Future’s Positive Pole: Platform Discipline, Transience, and Immersion6. The Future’s Negative Pole: Compound Precarity and the (Infra)structure of Alienated JudgmentPart IV: Conclusion7. Toward a Theory of Creative Labor and a Politics of JudgmentMethodological Appendix: Attending to Difference in Similarity and Gender’s AccessNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Preserving Neighborhoods
Book SynopsisHistoric 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.Trade ReviewHistoric preservation is a movement focused on preserving the physical past. In Preserving Neighborhoods, Aaron Passell deftly illustrates the ways preservation is actually used as a catalyst for changing a neighborhood’s physical and social dimensions. Preserving Neighborhoods is a nuanced and detailed look at historic preservation as a force for neighborhood change and should be in the library of anyone with an interest in the physical and social fabric of urban communities. -- Lance Freeman, author of A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black AmericaPreserving Neighborhoods is a powerful book about how people and organizations work the system to advance parochial projects, a vivid demonstration of how the "social" shapes "social policy" and, with it, urban form. There are far too few comparative ethnographies in urban studies, and Passell has produced an exemplary work. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeSo-called neighborhood preservation lands very differently from one place to another; here we learn just why. There is a radical specificity that determines why the effect in Brooklyn is so different than in Baltimore. Replete with insight and irony, Passell’s book makes a genuine contribution to urban analysis more generally. -- Harvey Molotch, New York UniversityAaron Passell’s Preserving Neighborhoods is a must-read for anyone interested in urban preservation. With case studies from Baltimore and Brooklyn, Passell reveals preservation as a malleable strategy that facilitates different ends across varied contexts, from neighborhoods facing gentrification and development pressure to those crumbling under the weight of entrenched vacancy and abandonment. -- Stephanie Ryberg-Webster, Cleveland State UniversityPreserving Neighborhoods draws on a comparison between two distinct contexts to show how historic designation unfolds differently across different places. In doing so, Aaron Passell engages with a critical urban policy area of vital public importance that has received insufficient scholarly attention. -- Jeremy Levine, University of MichiganIt offers many new insights, as well as challenges to conventional wisdom about neighborhood preservation andgentrification. The book is a good candidate to assign in urban sociology or urban studies undergraduate or graduate courses, particularly on research methods. * Social Forces *Passell’s contribution to urban studies and mixed methodology is loud and clear, and the book does the work of a great sociological account by dispelling—or at least complicating—conventional wisdom about an issue in a way that moves us forward and affords us better comprehension of the world around us. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Explaining Change in Baltimore’s Historic Neighborhoods3. Mitigating Gentrification Through Preservation in Central Brooklyn4. Vacancy, Abandonment, Demolition by Neglect, and Project CORE in Baltimore5. Struggling to Preserve in the Context of Aggressive Development Pressure6. ConclusionAppendix: Data, Methods, and MeasuresNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press A Spark in the Smokestacks
Book SynopsisDelving into the online and offline conversations of Beijing communities affected by waste incinerator projects slated for their backyards, Jean Yen-chun Lin demonstrates how a rising middle class acquires the capacity for organizing in an authoritarian context.Trade ReviewBy offering a textured account of the way space enables civic life to flourish in China, this beautiful book urgently reminds us that even in nondemocratic contexts, people can do great things when they join together to put their hands on the levers of change. -- Hahrie Han, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, Inaugural Director, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins UniversityTranscending conventional depictions of environmental justice politics, A Spark in the Smokestacks provides a rich and compelling portrait of how three communities in Beijing were able to mobilize their civic capacity to fight environmental harms. Lin’s impressive study deserves broad attention in sociology, political science, environmental studies, and beyond. -- Edward T. Walker, author of Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants in American DemocracyBy systematically examining the intersection of environmental activism and the development of middle-class communities in China, A Spark in the Smokestacks offers fresh evidence and original insights on a very important topic. Lin’s extensive and systematic comparative analysis and prolonged fieldwork have produced rich empirical evidence and in-depth analysis. This book will be a welcome and valuable addition to the fields of China studies and contentious politics. -- Xi Chen, author of Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in ChinaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Stench on Success: Urban Middle-Class Homeowners and Rising Environmental Challenges2. Gated Communities as Schools of Democracy3. Making Sense of External Threats: Individual, Collective, and Representative Responses4. Mobilizing and Organizing for Environmental Collective Action5. Trajectories of Citizen Science6. Consequences of Community Environmental OrganizingConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Quantified Scholar
Book SynopsisJuan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators.Trade ReviewIn this important and captivating book, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra applies his brilliant sociological and narrative talent to dissecting the social and intellectual consequences of the implementation of quantified measures in the evaluation of British social-scientific research. The outcome is dispiriting. We witness the capitulation of institutions of higher learning to monetary logics; the fragmentation of scholarly communities and the erosion of solidarity; and the flattening of knowledge and the depletion of creativity. The Quantified Scholar is an urgent, essential read by one the most imaginative and skilled scholars of his generation. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s-1990sThe Quantified Scholar is a landmark study on how research evaluations affect the scholarly vocation. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra's book is as immersive as it is rigorous in showing how efforts to quantify the value of the social sciences influence academic careers and homogenize knowledge production. An extremely insightful book! -- Julian Hamann, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinThis book is simply fantastic, characterized by its careful and focused analysis that employs some of the most cutting-edge techniques available to social scientists, deeply sociological but easily accessible to many interested audiences. Pardo-Guerra shows how evaluative frameworks of subjective and creative forms of production shape our work and, ultimately, our careers. -- Charles J. Gomez, City University of New York, Queens CollegeWith brevity, wit, and humanity, The Quantified Scholar shows how the formal, national research assessment process has changed the social sciences in the United Kingdom. Combining historical and quantitative data with qualitative interviews, Pardo-Guerra offers a compelling portrayal of the whole assessment process and its consequences, as well as concrete suggestions for what academics could do differently, without overpromising about our collective ability to roll back decades of austerity and audit culture. -- Daniel Hirschman, Brown UniversityA crisply written, engaging, and thought-provoking contribution to the sociology of science. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *A compelling and timely analysis of a topic that is of great importance to scholars, policymakers, and society as a whole. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Chains of Knowledge2. Measures of Austerity3. Sorted by Work4. Shifting Words5. Hierarchies of Quantification6. SolidaritiesAppendix: Studying Social ScientistsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Quantified Scholar
Book SynopsisJuan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators.Trade ReviewIn this important and captivating book, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra applies his brilliant sociological and narrative talent to dissecting the social and intellectual consequences of the implementation of quantified measures in the evaluation of British social-scientific research. The outcome is dispiriting. We witness the capitulation of institutions of higher learning to monetary logics; the fragmentation of scholarly communities and the erosion of solidarity; and the flattening of knowledge and the depletion of creativity. The Quantified Scholar is an urgent, essential read by one the most imaginative and skilled scholars of his generation. -- Marion Fourcade, author of Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain and France, 1890s-1990sThe Quantified Scholar is a landmark study on how research evaluations affect the scholarly vocation. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra's book is as immersive as it is rigorous in showing how efforts to quantify the value of the social sciences influence academic careers and homogenize knowledge production. An extremely insightful book! -- Julian Hamann, Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinThis book is simply fantastic, characterized by its careful and focused analysis that employs some of the most cutting-edge techniques available to social scientists, deeply sociological but easily accessible to many interested audiences. Pardo-Guerra shows how evaluative frameworks of subjective and creative forms of production shape our work and, ultimately, our careers. -- Charles J. Gomez, City University of New York, Queens CollegeWith brevity, wit, and humanity, The Quantified Scholar shows how the formal, national research assessment process has changed the social sciences in the United Kingdom. Combining historical and quantitative data with qualitative interviews, Pardo-Guerra offers a compelling portrayal of the whole assessment process and its consequences, as well as concrete suggestions for what academics could do differently, without overpromising about our collective ability to roll back decades of austerity and audit culture. -- Daniel Hirschman, Brown UniversityA crisply written, engaging, and thought-provoking contribution to the sociology of science. * H-Sci-Med-Tech *A compelling and timely analysis of a topic that is of great importance to scholars, policymakers, and society as a whole. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Chains of Knowledge2. Measures of Austerity3. Sorted by Work4. Shifting Words5. Hierarchies of Quantification6. SolidaritiesAppendix: Studying Social ScientistsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Programming the Future
Book SynopsisProgramming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.Trade ReviewFrom the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy. -- Gerry Canavan, Marquette UniversityBy way of a vigorous engagement with the problematics and the politics of form, Vint and Alexander mobilize the generic operations of the utopian and dystopian imaginaries in order to decisively explicate the ways in which a selection of recent science fictional television series challenge the operations of the neoliberal order even as they refuse nihilistic resignation by way of figuring radical utopian alternatives. In doing so, they provide readers and viewers with a deep interpretive interrogation of our contemporary social order that generates a standpoint and politics of hope emerging from our dark times. -- Tom Moylan, author of Becoming Utopian: The Politics and Culture of Radical TransformationTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion4. American Civil Wars5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. RobotConclusion: Democracy in CrisisNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
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