Frederiksen's book is an “exploration of what goes missing when one looks for meaning."

Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...

Nir shows how the postmodern turn in the 1980s expressed a crisis of social and historical imagination...

Catherine Baker’s fascinating new book poses a deceptively simple question: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region?

The law does things, writes David Ray Papke, and it says things...

In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of  three inter-locking interest groups...

This landmark speech by Dr. B.R. Ambedakar is the pinnacle of his scholarly work and cements his legacy alongside Mahatma Gandhi in Indian politics...

The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...

There’s lot of talk these days, at least in some circles on the left, of a Universal Basic Income...

Who gets in to top professions? Find out...

The production and removal of garbage, as a key element of the daily infrastructure of urban life, is deeply embedded in social, moral, and political contexts...

This book offers added insight into not only the prison system as a place of employment, but also for any white-male-dominated organization...

How has the council estate been represented on stage?

A perennially popular theme in Thai cinema is that of haunting by a female ghost...

Clarence Taylor looks at black resistance to police brutality in the city, and institutional efforts to hold the NYPD accountable, since the late 1930s and '40s.

What might Levi-Strauss and structuralism have to offer to psychoanalysis beyond the incest prohibition and the Oedipus complex?

How can detective fiction explain the social world?

Through ideological laden invocation of pluralism, the “culture of poverty,” and faith in the workings of democratic institutions, liberals shared with conservatives support for an individualistic and racist social order...

This longue-durée approach allows Alf Gunvald Nilsen to unravel the Indian state's everyday tyranny against its adivasi citizens...

f you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014).

In their words, they claim that capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system...

How has European culture changed since the 1960s?

How does cultural taste regulate our lives?

None of the climate news that we’re getting is good right now, especially now that a number of governments are reversing or failing to meet commitments they made as part of the Paris Climate Accord...

What is the relationship between popular misogyny and popular feminism?