by Greg Beckett, author of There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince On March 31, 2019, a small twin-engine outboard boat full of Haitian migrants capsized off the …
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by Jon Holtzman, author of Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond How do we make sense of the horrific things people do to one another? And how …
by Emily Yates-Doerr, author of The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala This guest post is published to coincide with the joint 2016 Society for Social Studies of Science/European Association …
by Arlene Dàvila, author of El Mall: The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in …
By Joshua O. Reno, author of Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill We’re celebrating University Press Week #UPWeek by taking part in their scholarly press blog tour through …
Every year, the United Nations dedicates May 15th, the International Day of Families, to bringing attention to the rights of families across the world and society as a whole, with a particular focus on …
Susan Schaller, author of A Man Without Words, recently appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab for a show about language. Fans of Radiolab will love this episode, which examines the conundrums of language in …