Sociology
Perversions of the Market
An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.
Systems from Hell
Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.
Cohabiting Earth
Promotes a path of harmony between humanity and Earth by presenting a vision that is comprehensive in scope and offering a positive new identity for humanity.
Sites of Statelessness
Explores various unusual sites of statelessness like sea, cities, and laws, beyond mere legal and regulatory frameworks, that determines statelessness.
Buffalo's Waterfront Renaissance
Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo’s waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.
Snapping Beans
Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.
The Overlooked Pillar
Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.
Education among Indigenous Palestinians in Israel
An expansive, in-depth analysis of education among indigenous Palestinians in Israel over seven decades.
Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology
Explores Gadamer's hermeneutic theory of understanding and puts this theory into conversation with several social epistemologies, including feminist epistemology.
Class-Conscious Coal Miners
Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.
Hindu Mission, Christian Mission
Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.
Hopelessly Alien
An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950.
Between Care and Justice
Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.
Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean
Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.
Bedeviled
A groundbreaking study of jinn doppelgangers and the problem of evil in Akbarian Sufism.
Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth
Engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research on and with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City.
Hokkaido Dairy Farm
Argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.
The Chosen We
Draws on and centers oral histories with Black women college graduates to demonstrate the role of community in fostering their success in and beyond education.
Walking as Artistic Practice
Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.
Portraits of Public Service
Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.
Reauthoring Savage Inequalities
Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.
Tourists and Trade
How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.
Musicology of Religion
Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.
Global Libidinal Economy
Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.
Bush League, Big City
The saga of New York’s push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams.