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Jonathan Butcher
The Polarization Myth

If you don't like the idea of a boy who says he is a girl using the girls' bathroom, are you out of step with the mainstream? If diversity, equity, and inclusion programs strike you as discriminatory, are…

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Amber Husain
Tell Me How You Eat

Bustle's Most AnticipatedAn intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants.Inspi…

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Elizabeth Suhay
Debating the American Dream

Faith in the American Dream--the idea that anyone who works hard can achieve success--has waned in the 21st century. Decreases in economic mobility, increases in the wealth gap, and other economic shifts …

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Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni
Cybernetic Circulation Complex

Big Tech firms dominate the global economy. But what value do they actually produce? In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of fir…

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Subodhana Wijeyeratne
The Islands and the Stars

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is among the six largest national space agencies in the world, along with China's CNSA, US's NASA, and Russia's Roscosmos. JAXA's budget is more than $1 billi…

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Unravelling Maid in Canada

Since its legalization in 2016, health care professionals in Canada have provided more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide, or MAID, than in any other country. MAiD has quickly become one of…

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Jamie Rowen
Worthy of Justice

Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for adults accused of crimes that are associated with sub…

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Irene I Vega
Bordering on Indifference

How a largely Latino/a workforce of immigration agents reconciles the moral ambiguities of its workImmigration agents have a frontline view of the racial, economic, and legal inequalities that undocumente…

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Jamie Rowen
Worthy of Justice

Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for adults accused of crimes that are associated with sub…

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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Abigail Leonard
Four Mothers

Tsukasa in Japan grapples with memories of a difficult childhood as she tries to chart a new, healthier path for her own daughter while balancing onerous cultural expectations. Chelsea in Kenya endures a …

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Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, Jim Miller
Under the Perfect Sun

Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diego cover the city's historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justi…

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Prakash Kashwan, Aseem Hasnain
Decolonizing Environmentalism

Recent debates emphasize the urgency of making environmental movements more inclusive, yet they do so without deeper scrutiny of the core tenets of environmentalism. Despite efforts by some groups, there …

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Fernando Racimo
Science in Resistance

Scientists around the world rise up for climate and ecological justiceIn April 2022, hundreds of scientists rose in civil disobedience, breaking the law in more than twenty-eight countries. Risking arrest…

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Yuanyuan Qu
Becoming Digital Citizens

This book explores the relationship between disability, citizenship, and information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Chinese context. It offers new insights into the norms and practices of di…

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Alva Gotby
Feeling at Home

Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Homegrapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing -- domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagin…

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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City Politics in Canada

Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led …

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Stephanie Wakefield
Miami in the Anthropocene

"Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Groundi…

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City Politics in Canada

Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led …

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