Sociology
Toward an African Future—Of the Limit of World
Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.
America in Denial
Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.
The Atlantic and Africa
Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.
Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought
Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.
Moving for Marriage
Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.
The Ideology of Civic Engagement
Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.
Sense of Origins
Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions
Argues that plantation life, its racialized inequities, and the ongoing struggle against them are embedded in not only the physical structures but also the everyday workings of higher education.
Pharmapolitics in Russia
Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
Globalizing Organic
Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.
Bringing the Nation Back In
Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.
The Politics of Right Sex
Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.
Relational Sociology and Research on Schools, Colleges, and Universities
Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.
City on the Edge
Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.
Culture and Tactics
Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.
Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.
Tuning the Student Mind
Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.
Militant Acts
Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.
Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
Postnormal Conservation
Explores the evolving role of botanic gardens from products and enablers of modernity and the nation-state, to their recent reinvention as institutions of environmental governance.
Postpolitics and the Limits of Nature
Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.
The Distortion of Nature's Image
Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.
Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World
Reveals how the expanding world-system entangled the non-western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied, and, often, non-European in their expression.
Stories of School Yoga
Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.