Global Studies

22

Apr

A Look Inside Sea Change, a Stunning New Atlas for Our Times

“A stunning atlas of the present and future.”—Rebecca Solnit

07

Apr

UC Press March Award Winners

UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our March 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the …

14

Mar

Global Communications in the Age of AI: A Q & A with Terry Flew

We need to recognize the degree to which what appears to us as AI is in fact an aggregation of data and images that are already circulating in the public domain, and hence it is a socially spayed technology: it is not appearing as magic before us.

08

Mar

The role of “real but fake” passports in Asian migration and labor precarity

By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations Since the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most …

25

Jan

Q&A with Musab Younis, author of On the Scale of the World

On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Black intellectuals in Europe, …

08

Dec

UC Press Titles Awarded CHOICE ’s Outstanding Academic Title for 2022

UC Press is pleased to share that five of our titles have been designated Outstanding Academic Titles for 2022 by CHOICE. CHOICE editors consider several factors in their decisions, including: More information about the list of …

10

Oct

Editor Spotlight: Meet the New Editorial Team for the Journal of Vietnamese Studies

We are delighted to introduce the new editorial team for the Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Peter Zinoman is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is …

07

Aug

Feature: An Interview with Helmut K. Anheier, Editor-in-Chief of Global Perspectives

“The debate about methodological nationalism has clearly influenced our approach, and the possibility of a social science less bound by national traditions and the nation state as the seemingly ‘natural’ unit of analysis”

25

Jul

The Civic Lives of Cities Around the World

“The global and local are closely intertwined, and the multi-functional features of civic society organizations are best understood in the local context where global issues are manifest and addressed in distinctive fashion.”

08

Jul

Darra Goldstein: What Russian Food Reveals About the Country’s History and Politics

A much celebrated author and food scholar, Darra Goldstein has devoted her career to interpreting Russian culture, and presents a new look into how Russian cuisine has developed in response to economic …