UC Press Blog

The editor team of "Environmental Sociology Now" on the future of the discipline, the goal of this exciting new volume, and how to use it in classrooms and research agendas.

Authors Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr celebrate the 2026 AAG Annual Meeting leading a first-ever “mini-tour" based on their book, a collective history of resistance and survival in the face of ongoing oppression.

Author Christina Schwenkel on the link between disaster management and regional culture through case studies in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Author Manissa Maharawal on the twin crises of housing and the destructive tech industry, and how everyday citizens are organizing to take back control.

Author Hannah Shepherd on urban growth between Japan and Korea and how this project came to be.

As new film adaptations bring Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë back into the spotlight, explore scholarship that examines the unsettling power of these nineteenth-century novels.

An exclusive look at Charlotte Brooks's THE MOYS OF NEW YORK AND SHANGHAI with an intro by the author.

Author Laura Horak on the power and possibility of trans-made cinema today.

Recent scholarship from UC Press journals shows why opera and ballet still matter.

With the release of Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" in theaters, author Surekha Davies celebrates the "monstrous feminine."