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29
Sep

What Fragments Tell Us About Cities

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 …

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09
Feb

Going Home Again

Gordon Young has focused his journalism work on his hometown in Michigan as it deals with the Flint Water Crisis When I traveled to my hometown of Flint, Michigan in the summer of …

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18
Aug

Live from ASA

UC Press staff and editors are having a great time at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s annual meeting, Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals. Here are some of …

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15
Aug

Anxious Times in an American Suburb

by Rachel Heiman One afternoon, while working as an “ethnographic babysitter” during fieldwork on middle class anxieties amid the lead up to the economic crisis, I was driving 11-year old Doug to …

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