Out today, The Trouble with Passion probes the ominous side of career advice to “follow your passion.” This data-driven study explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, …
Read More >By Rashmi Sadana, author of The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure One of the first people I interviewed for my new book, The Moving …
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Read More >By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds I was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an …
Read More >Series editor Rickie Solinger joined us for an interview on how the Reproductive Justice Series came about, the impact and continued relevance of the series, and the defining motivations in her own work. Rickie …
Read More >Our authors reflect on what twenty years of war has meant and how American militarism impacts both our wars abroad and conflicts and ideologies at home.
Read More >By Jenny Stuber, author of Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification In communities across the American West, the COVID-19 pandemic revealed new social …
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Read More >UC Press is proud to celebrate this year’s ASA award-winning authors! Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news. Don’t forget to visit our #ASA2021 virtual exhibit to get …
Read More >We’re proud to share that author Danielle Raudenbush has won the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, Health Care Off the Books! This honor, awarded annually by the Society for …
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