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.

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Explains why and how local critical reporting can exist in China despite the kinds of media control that are the hallmarks of authoritarian rule.

Examines the organization, regulation, and enactment of civic engagement within AmeriCorps, an American volunteer service program.

Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.

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.

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia’s search for national identity over a century of political turbulence.

Engaging analysis of men-seeking-men media as paradoxical sites of both self-marketing and radical queer sociality.

Traces how alternative food movements are affected by global and local trends, with a focus on how organic agriculture was integrated in Israel.

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.

The first in-depth study of the All World Gayatri Pariwar, a modern Indian religious movement.

Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.

Essays in the field of comparative world religions and corresponding axial civilizations.

Investigates the professional practices of astrologers in urban India and their popularity among the educated middle and upper classes.

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.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Brings relational sociology to bear on educational research.

Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan.

An in-depth account and model of antiracist professional development for white practicing teachers.

Analyzes the dynamic period in which Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby moved African American professional stand-up comedy from the chitlin’ circuit to the mainstream.

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.

Wide-ranging critique of the epistemological and ethical assumptions that underlie contemporary debates concerning climate change.