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Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care (U Illinois Pres

In this deeply researched and compelling narrative, journalist Mara Kardas-Nelson examines the compl

In A Boy Broken: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Mental Ilness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning 

Freelance curator Joanne Rosenthal joins Jana Byars to talk about Sex: Jewish Positions (Hirmer, 202

Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self (Lexington Books, 2023) ex

Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policy

Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton Unive

Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have r

Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant an

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows (Routledge, 2024) provides

Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market

What happens after colonial industries have run their course—after the factory closes and the fields

As the 2024 American presidential election approaches, it is common to hear scholars and journalists

In The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game (UNC Press, 2024), Nathan

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad, Pr

Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarmi

The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2

Discussing money is always accompanied by controversy as well as enchantment. Debating what money is

Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India: Tracing the Pre-history of Green and

Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) grapples with the