Last month, the UC Press staff was thrilled to host Professor Drew Harvell at our headquarters. Throughout the year, UC Press invites authors to visit us in Oakland for an ongoing “Lunchtime …
Read More >“Creating incentives that support sustainability-focused farmers requires acknowledging and compensating farmers for more than the food they produce.”
Read More >We’re marking the annual conference of the Modern Language Association, which is being held in Seattle from January 9-12, 2020, by offering limited-time, free online access to the current issues of a …
Read More >Journal of Autoethnography is a refereed, international, and interdisciplinary journal devoted to the purposes, practices, and principles of autoethnography.
Read More >The opening hours of the new year—of the new decade—have been wrought worldwide by feelings of confusion, outrage, and a pervasive and tactile anxiety of escalating violence between the United States and …
Read More >“What determines the worth of an academic idea in any field is controlled by its gatekeepers, and in disciplines in the West, they have always been white.”
Read More >In the face of recent political changes resulting from the Arab Spring and its continuing impact on the Arab political landscape, the future of Arab countries and peoples still remains subject to …
Read More >Ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong will read excerpts from her new book, Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko, at several University of California campuses during the winter …
Read More >The story of Potosí, a virtual mountain of silver whose revelation made world news and became a secular icon after an Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa struck pay dirt high on its flanks in 1545.
Read More >Many people think of the great Silk Road as a mirage in the shifting sands of time; however, the ideas and goods that once moved across Eurasia directed the course of human history.
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