Sociology
Racism and Resistance
Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.
Making the Public Service Millennial
Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.
New York's Great Lost Ballparks
Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.
Primary Elections and American Politics
Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.
The Letchworth State Park Atlas
A visitor's companion to New York's Letchworth State Park, richly illustrated with ninety maps and thirty-five photographs.
Bitter Harvest
Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.
A Double Burden
Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.
Christianity and Politics in Tribal India
Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.
Religion in Multidisciplinary Perspective
An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.
Moving for Marriage
Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects
Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
From Pariah to Priority
Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.
Much Sound and Fury, or the New Jim Crow?
Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.
The Humanistic Background of Science
The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.
Democracy at the Ballpark
Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.
A New American Labor Movement
Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.
Sacred and Secular
Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.
White Cottage, White House
Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.
Black Lives Matter in US Schools
A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.
Tasting Coffee
Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.
Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education
Offers a vision for innovation in higher education focused on societal progress and human development, as well as for higher education's role within a broader culture of innovation.
Human Landscapes
The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.
Barcelona, City of Comics
Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.
Addiction Recovery and Resilience
Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.
Liberating Revolution
Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.
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.
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.
America in Denial
Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.
Material Insurgency
Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.
The Students We Share
Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.
Animals in Irish Society
The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.
Seeing Symphonically
Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.
Sappho's Legacy
Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.
Flesh of My Flesh
Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.
Faith, Hope, and Sustainability
A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.
Screen Love
Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.
The Specter of Babel
Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.
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.
Words of Destiny
Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.
Sense of Origins
Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
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.
Bastard Politics
Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.
From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond
Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.
Self-Direction
Relates how the self-direction movement was developed, the research that supports it, how the model has spread across the country and the globe, and recommendations and prospects for the future.
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.
Building Pedagogues
An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.
Urban Migrants in Rural Japan
Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.
Epistemic Responsibility
Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.
City on the Edge
Explores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.
Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory
Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.
Blows to the Head
A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing.
Walkable Cities
Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.
Culture and Tactics
Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.
Racial Inequality in New York City since 1965
A comprehensive exploration of racial inequality in New York City since 1965.
The Politics of People
Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.
Beyond the Xs and Os
Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.
Doghiker
A comprehensive guidebook for dog owners that includes seventy-seven great hikes from the Adirondacks through the Catskills.
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.
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.
The Distortion of Nature's Image
Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.
Fight to Live, Live to Fight
Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.
Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura
Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.
Stories of School Yoga
Provides firsthand perspectives from yoga practitioners and educators on the promises and challenges of school-based yoga programs.
The Future of (Post)Socialism
Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.
Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.
Welcome to Fear City
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis.
Tools of War, Tools of State
Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.
United University Professions
Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.
Forest and Crag
A compelling story of our ever-evolving relationship with mountains and wilderness.
Overcoming Niagara
Analyzes the nineteenth century canal age in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region as a transnational phenomenon.
Cities under Austerity
Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.
Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis
This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.
The Vocation of Writing
Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.
P'ungsu
The first scholarly book to address Korean geomancy through an interdisciplinary lens.
A Turbulent South Africa
Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
The Caribbeanization of Black Politics
Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.
Race, Nation, and Refuge
Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.
The Politics of Unreason
The first systematic analysis of the Frankfurt School’s research and theorizing on modern antisemitism.
State Violence and Moral Horror
Explores the concept of "moral horror" as the experience of living amidst unjustifiable state violence.
Everyday Sustainability
Illuminates the contradictions that emerge within conscious capitalism initiatives that are designed to empower women.
Spontaneous Combustion
Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.
Radical Imagination, Radical Humanity
Provides firsthand accounts of militant Puerto Rican activists in 1970s New York City.
After Katrina
Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Undervalued Dissent
Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics.
Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State
A comparative examination of the political, historical, legal, and religious antecedents of penalties and discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world.
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism
Argues that the economic system itself is culpable in maintaining our oppressive educational status quo.
The Politics of the Second Slavery
Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
Austerity and the Labor Movement
An overview and analysis of austerity policies and labor movement resistance in several countries.
Anarchism in Korea
A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea.
New York Art Deco
The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City’s Art Deco treasures.
Just War and Human Rights
Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.
Leo Strauss, Philosopher
European scholars discuss Leo Strauss as a major figure in the history of philosophy.
Urban Citizenship and American Democracy
Examines city politics and policy, federalism, and democracy in the United States.
New Frontiers of Slavery
Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.
Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition
Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.
Chinese Thought as Global Theory
Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.
Respectability on Trial
Recovers and chronicles the plights of ordinary New Yorkers that resonate with contemporary debates on rape and domestic violence.
City in Common
Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.
Running the Long Path
An ultrarunner’s fast-paced narrative into the wilds of New York’s Hudson Valley, as he attempts to set a new record for completing the Long Path, a 350-mile hiking trail that links New York City and Albany.
Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Third Edition
Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. .