It welcomes studies of governance and politics, particularly concerning forms of statecraft and political mobilization. It encourages studies of society and its discontents, especially in the context of traditions of social thought and protest and their role in framing patterns of sociality, inequality, and resistance. And it supports studies of culture in these transformations, and of culture as a discrete realm with its own institutions, forms, and conventions.

The series is a part of the Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA), a program of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, in partnership with the University of California Press and California Digital Library. GAIA is committed to fostering a rich online and print environment for emerging areas of research on political life worldwide, as well as for the ongoing revitalization of area studies.

Each book in the series will be available in an innovative dual format: as a free digital edition, which will allow the work to reach a broad international audience, and as a reasonably priced paperback published by the University of California Press. We welcome research-based monographs, interpretive syntheses and interventions, and occasionally collections of essays.

Editors

Mark Bevir
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley

James Vernon
Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley


Advisory board

Kirstie McClure
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles

David Simpson
Professor of English
University of California, Davis

Mrinalini Sinha
Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History
University of Michigan

Dror Wahrman
Ruth N. Halls Professor of History
Indiana University


For more information, including on submission, contact