UC Press Blog

Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers offer perspective on cultural geography and Black belonging in Oakland on the AAG panel, "Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."

Author Deana Weibel on the ultraview effect and what the recent Artemis II mission shows us about the powerful experience of awe.

Two special sections of "Gastronomica" place the spotlight on microbes to explicitly draw our attention to this invisible layer of life in foods and food systems.

Author Christina Schwenkel on the link between disaster management and regional culture through case studies in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Author Manissa Maharawal on the twin crises of housing and the destructive tech industry, and how everyday citizens are organizing to take back control.

Author Hanna Garth set out to document a radical, grassroots movement of residents fighting for food justice — but encountered a very different reality.

Author and first-gen scholar Samuel Shearer discusses his book, "Kigali," an ethnography exploring the politics of urban design, displacement, and the dual crises of capitalism and ecology in Kigali, Rwanda.

What do doula-supported births reveal about American cultural values?

Authors Birgit Abels and Patrick Eisenlohr ask how can being affected by an atmosphere produce knowledge?

Editors Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller explain what we can learn about Indonesian music from missionary archives.