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Kieran Bonner
Euphoria and Symposia

Informed by a Socratic interrogation, hermeneutic perspectives drawn from post-phenomenological thinkers, and distinctive perspectives found in the tradition of reflexive sociology, Euphoria and Symposia …

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Eviatar Zerubavel
Small Steps and Giant Leaps

In Small Steps and Giant Leaps, Eviatar Zerubavel explores how categorizing affects our perception of distance through "The Neil Armstrong Effect," the cognitive tendency to exaggerate perceived…

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Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

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Edward M. Epstein
Race, Real Estate and Education

Philadelphia's urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, which re-envisioned the city as a residential enclave, were an early example of gentrification. In West Philadelphia in the 1960s, a coalition of univers…

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Lisa Ross
School Shootings in American Culture

Explores the psychosocial causes of school shootings as a cultural trend and society's strategies to maintain order in their aftermath.The tragedies at Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, have shown tha…

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Abril Liberatori
Transnational Italians and the Culture of Everyday Life

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History

Departing from conventional community-based histories, this innovative work examines how immigrant identities are transformed into transnational ones. Focusing on families from the Campania region of Ital…

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Lucy M. Long
Sweet, Tart, and Golden

Heartland Foodways

Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype of their culture and heritage. Lucy M. Long examines the ubiquitous fruit's place in reg…

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Yoshio Sugimoto
An Introduction to Japanese Society

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides an engaging introduction to Japanese society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. The text examines the diverse nature of contemporary Japanese…

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Donatella Della Porta, Stella Christou
The Contentious Politics of Global Health Movements

While much research has addressed the regressive anti-vax protests, this Element focuses on campaigns by progressive social movements to promote the development of vaccines for Covid-19 and ensure their e…

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Jackson Pind
Students by Day

McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

The atrocities of the residential school system in Canada are amply documented. Less well-known is the history of day schools, which some two hundred thousand Indigenous youth attended.The Curve Lake Indi…

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Renee Laurel Pastel
War in Pieces

War in Pieces considers media representations of the first phase of the "War on Terror," set between 2001 and 2013. The book argues that the central figures around which narratives of the confli…

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Warscapes

War Culture

What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of co…

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Damon Root
Emancipation War

Speaking to a fractured country for the first time as president, Abraham Lincoln endorsed a constitutional amendment designed to permanently safeguard slavery in every state in which the institution alrea…

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Daniel Gross
Unions of Our Own

An actionable, inviting, and confidence-boosting philosophy on how to tackle problems in your workplace and win.Our workplaces urgently need to get better, but change can feel murky, daunting, or even imp…

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Living Roots

From buffalo prairies to urban orchards, an introduction to a diverse movement redefining how we grow, eat, and live with the landJust four annual crops---corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans---account for 75%…

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Understanding Poverty Through Lived Experiences

Within the last few years, COVID-19, environmental disasters, the housing affordability crisis, increased homelessness, and inflation have brought poverty in the United States into sharper focus. Gaining …

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Raewyn Connell, Tristan Bridges
Gender

How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global po…

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Public Interest in Criminal Prosecution in the Modern Era

Contributors from across the globe investigate how criminal justice systems grapple with the tension between procedural fairness, institutional efficiency, and the general welfare of the public. Drawing o…

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The Spectacle of Online Life

The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age's most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance.Edited by…

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Sona Kazemi
Disabling Relations

D/C: Dis/color

How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations , Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, …

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