March 1, 2020

Join Us In Celebrating Women’s History Month 2020

It’s the first day of Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating with a diversity of guest posts from authors and editors in various fields of study. Join the conversation by following and commenting on our blog or social media channels...

February 27, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Dream Revisited, Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil

“[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool.” ~Anne B. Shlay, Georgia State University, Journal of...

February 26, 2020

The Struggle for Equal Access to Neighborhood Resources and Opportunities Shifts to the State and Local Level

By Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil

“[The Dream Revisited] is probably the most intelligent and thoughtful read on segregation in recent years. Despite highlighting so many debates and differences, I consider it a hopeful and useful policy tool.” ~Anne B. Shlay, Georgia State University, Journal of...

February 25, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Making Worlds and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Making Worlds Affect and Collectivity in Contemporary European Cinema Claudia Breger Claudia Breger argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge the twenty-first...

February 24, 2020

Becoming Stuck: Residential Segregation and Upward Mobility in American Cities

By Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

February 21, 2020

Book Excerpt! Uneven Innovation, by Jennifer Clark (preface)

“Written by one of the world’s foremost experts, Uneven Innovation is a must-have book for everyone interested in the potential and the pitfalls of the smart cities narrative. It provides both a critical review of the main debates surrounding smart...

February 20, 2020

Q&A: Jennifer Clark on Uneven Innovation

“Uneven Innovation problematizes the smart city project, showing us the many ways that it continues—rather than disrupts—underlying patterns of inequality, precariousness, and powerlessness. Clark’s insightful critique is not only a call for action, her work draws to light the ‘operational standards’...

February 19, 2020

Erasing History: A Conspiracy Against Equality

By Alex George and S. Anand

“Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is that rare achievement, a work that combines meticulous historical scholarship. . . with a passionate, persuasive call to action.” ~Wendy Doniger, author of The Hindus: An Alternative History B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and...

February 19, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Design with Nature Now Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming In 1969, Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature set forth a new...

February 19, 2020

Jennifer Clark on the Paths Toward Smart Cities

“A superb, original, and informative intervention into ongoing debates about what a smart city is and its implications across all cities. Grounded in significant original and secondary research, Clark links smart cities to urban innovation and the production of markets,...

February 18, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Becoming Guanyin and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Premodern East Asia: New Horizons series Becoming Guanyin Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China Yuhang Li Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial...

February 14, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Outside Thing, By Hannah Roche (introduction)

“This theoretically sophisticated reading of three lesbian writers—Stein, Hall, and Barnes—is at once playful and serious. Roche’s insistence on the queerness of desire, romance, and love between women takes feminist modernist studies in an exciting new direction.” ~Laura Doan, author...