University Of California Press: 1479 books
Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
Compassionate Care in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
What does it mean to be a compassionate, caring person in Russia, which has become a country of stark income inequalities and political restrictions? How might ethics and practices of kindness constitute a mode of civic participation in which “doing good”—helping, caring for, and loving one...
Arbitraging Japan
Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
For many financial market professionals worldwide, the era of high finance is over. The times in which bankers and financiers were the primary movers and shakers of both economy and society have come to an abrupt halt. What has this shift meant for the future of capitalism? What has it meant for the...
Returned
Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation—an emergent global order of social injustice—reaches far beyond the individual...
The Prison School
Educational Inequality and School Discipline in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Public schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. As public schools and offices of justice have become collaborators in punishment, rates of African American suspension and expulsion have soared, dropout rates have accelerated, and prison...
Shenoute of Atripe and the Uses of Poverty
Rural Patronage, Religious Conflict, and Monasticism in Late Antique Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The issues...
Working Skin
Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan’s "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan’s largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized...
Beyond the Metropolis
Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide...
Tokyo Vernacular
Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Preserved buildings and historic districts, museums and reconstructions have become an important part of the landscape of cities around the world. Beginning in the 1970s, Tokyo participated in this trend. However, repeated destruction and rapid redevelopment left the city with little building stock...
Educational Delusions?
Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice...
by Ben Crow, Suresh K. Lodha
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Drawing on research from around the world, this atlas gives shape and meaning to statistics, making it an indispensable resource for understanding global inequalities and an inspiration for social and political action. Inequality underlies many of the challenges facing the world today, and The Atlas...
Exposed Science
Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to...
Renovating Democracy
Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challenging...
Playing War
Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In Playing War, Sabine Frühstück makes a bold proposition: that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace....
On Time
Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph,...