By Aaron Jackson, author of Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities Why did he die?’ My youngest daughter, Winter, asks. I scoop her onto my …
Read More >This week, President Biden signed a bill to make Juneteenth an official federal holiday. The date commemorates the anniversary of Union army general Gordon Granger’s arrival in Texas to proclaim the end …
Read More >We’re proud to share that the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations has awarded Jana Lipman honorable mention, Ferrell Book Prize for In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates! Learn …
Read More >“we ultimately found Kathleen Rugel’s piece particularly compelling, as it clearly conveyed the role of key stakeholders in addressing the incredibly fraught politics of transboundary water management, as well as suggesting lessons that could be applied to similar situations in the future”
Read More >By Lawrence Kramer, author of Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History In his classic study of perception, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes the experience of listening to a classical sonata, which …
Read More >Though we are well past the era of European transitions from communist rule, post-communist states and societies continue to react to the experience of rupture. In politics, these influences persist in the populist revolts against neoliberalism and globalization, or the manipulation of collective memory and myth-making of the communist era.
Read More >Marion Nestle has long been known as a food politics powerhouse, a leader in the field who has been thinking, writing, and teaching about food systems for decades. Her latest book, Let’s …
Read More >For us, taking an “oceanic approach” means to assess novel fields for scientific procedures whose “reality filters” significantly differ from land-based conceptions and modes of operation.
Read More >This year’s JustFood21 conference, organized by ASFS, AFHVS, CAFS, and SAFN, centers on the theme of food justice, highlighting how food is ensconced in systems of exclusion, oppression, and power. We reached …
Read More >The United Nations World Oceans Day on June 8, 2021 focuses the theme The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods. UC Press is spotlighting titles that considers the relationship between people, oceans, and beaches. The …
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