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<“We cannot afford to <i>not</i> think about our responsibility as social scientists” — A Q&A with <i>Civic Sociology</i> Associate Editor Elisabeth Becker

“We cannot afford to not think about our responsibility as social scientists” — A Q&A with Civic Sociology Associate Editor Elisabeth Becker

Elisabeth Becker is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, where her research focuses on …

<Recommended Reading in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings

Recommended Reading in the Aftermath of Mass Shootings

Understanding the history and motives for the United States’s deeply embedded, systematic, and institutionalized racism against minorities and immigrants, and the acts of brutal violence that have ensued over and over again, …

<LASA 2019 Award Winners

LASA 2019 Award Winners

Congratulations to Megan Rhyburn, Maite Conde, Andrew Konove, and Alyshia Galvez for their awards at the 2019 Latin American Studies Association Congress! #LASA2019 2019 LASA Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize Megan …

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Destination Anthropocene by Amelia Moore

Destination Anthropocene

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Made in Baja

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Meat Planet by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

Meat Planet

Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness by Becky Yang Hsu, Richard Madsen

The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness

Becky Yang Hsu, Richard Madsen

Getting Wrecked by Kimberly Sue

Getting Wrecked

Kimberly Sue

Making Global MBAs by Andrew Orta

Making Global MBAs

Andrew Orta

Uberland by Alex Rosenblat

Uberland

Alex Rosenblat

A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4 by Melvyn C. Goldstein

A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4

Melvyn C. Goldstein

Adventure Capital by Julie Kleinman

Adventure Capital

Julie Kleinman

The Streets Are Talking to Me by Maria Frederika Malmström

The Streets Are Talking to Me

Maria Frederika Malmström

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The Land of Open Graves

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Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

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The Book of Yokai

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Generation Priced Out

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Righteous Dopefiend

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Veiled Sentiments

Lila Abu-Lughod

Threshold by Ieva Jusionyte

Threshold

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Japan by Nancy K. Stalker

Japan

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Mama Lola by Karen McCarthy Brown

Mama Lola

Karen McCarthy Brown

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco

Paul Rabinow

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The Place of Devotion

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Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion

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Making Things Stick

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Discrimination at Work

Marie Mercat-Bruns

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Imperial Matter

Lori Khatchadourian

Scale by E. Summerson Carr, Michael Lempert

Scale

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Luxury and Rubble

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Finding Jerusalem by Katharina Galor

Finding Jerusalem

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