“Anxiety and rebellion are rooted in a variety of social, cultural, political, and economic displacements: inequality and loss of economic status, changing cultural maps, demands for gender or ethnic equality, and fears of uncontrolled migration.”
Read More >By W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections This post was originally published on The Conversation, and is reposted here with permission. Election polling …
Read More >Anirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and …
Read More >For this year’s virtual MESA conference, UC Press author Nicola Pratt joined us to talk about her book Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordon, and Lebanon and what the …
Read More >by Robert C. Bartlett, author of Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy, New Translations of the Acharnians and the Knights It’s …
Read More >by Corey D. Fields, author of Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans The 2020 Republican National Convention featured a diverse line-up of speakers, including many Black …
Read More >We are delighted to welcome Current History to UC Press’s portfolio of journals. Current History‘s September 2020 issue—the first issue to be published by UC Press—has just released, and, in celebration, we …
Read More >Not for the first time in Belarus, the future of Aleksandr Lukashenka’s regime hinges on its response to mass protests following fraudulent elections.
Read More >” …with the advent of datafication we are confronted with a number of specific values and logics that run counter to those that have commonly been associated with the welfare state, such as social solidarity, universal access, and decommodification”
Read More >By Carole Joffe, author of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America I was recently asked to write a blog piece on abortion care during the pandemic for …
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