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American Amazigh: Remaking North African Indigeneity and Belonging in the Diaspora (NYU Press, 2026) by Dr. Heide Castañeda examines the com...
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an...
What underpins the legitimacy of the prison system in the twenty-first century? Despite numerous challenges and setbacks, there is still a w...
What can shared sacred sites tell us about religious coexistence in South Asia? Political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot joins Shreya Urvash...
What happens to foreign aid (and to women’s status) when the global development landscape shifts away from U.S. dominance? In this episode o...
Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi e...
Who has the “right” to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language (U Minnesota Press, 2026), D...
How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a...
As overdose deaths continue to mount and debates rage over harm reduction, drug policy, and homelessness, Hit Doctors: Care, Harm, and the A...
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slau...
How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs...
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given th...
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century America In March...
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian soci...
With his riveting chronicle of the New York Mets baseball team, AM Gittlitz is emerging as a rising star in the field of popular social hist...
This timely and original book challenges readers to see themselves not just as implementers, but as architects capable of reshaping learning...
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland...
What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to liv...
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing...
Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice (Temple University Press, 2026) investigates how communities in Central...