The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog

Carly Anne York

Social Work in an Unequal World

Rajendra Baikady

Social work is a human service profession that continues to work for human wellbeing and achieving a just and equal society. However, the gross inequality in the form of wealth, economy, concentration of resources and power, as well as gender, race, and social and...

The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

Loïc Wacquant

Recapitulating the three ages of urban ethnography born in Chicago a century ago, this book puts into historical and analytical perspective a controversy over the ethnography of the nexus of race, class, and morality in and around the black American ghetto in the age of...

Anticipatory Social Work

Laura Burney Nissen

Dealing with a rapidly changing world is the purview of all professions. Nowhere is this truer than in those professions dealing with well-being, social change, justice, and equity. What is the future of social work as a profession, and how should social work prepare...

Global Crisis and Insecurity

Paul James

From the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to the escalating effects of climate change, public consciousness of existential threat waxes and wanes. Despite the occasional intense capacity to imagine the global consequences of our cumulative actions, we seem to...

Funding White Supremacy

Robert B. Williams

In Funding White Supremacy, Robert B. Williams shows how current federal policies have perpetuated and expanded the racial wealth gap in the United States. Through the lens of stratification economics, Williams explores how twelve tax expenditures buried in the federal...

The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children

Zorana Medaric , Mateja Sedmak

The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children aims to bring child-centered approaches as applied to researching child migration to the forefront of academic and policy debates on this topic.The chapters included in this volume cover the key...

Social Work and Reproductive Justice

E. Goldblatt Hyatt

Reproductive justice (RJ) is a social justice orientation undergirded by the right to sexual, gender, and bodily autonomy. It consists of three core tenets: 1) the right to have a child, 2) the right to not have a child, and 3) the right to raise a child in safe and...

The Art of Flourishing

Liz Bowen , Rosemarie Garland-Thomson , Erik Parens , Joel Michael Reynolds

Disabled people are experts in innovation and adaptation, experts in building networks of support and knowledge sharing, and experts in navigating a world that is not built for them. This expertise is not a niche form of knowledge, but one that speaks to a fundamental...

Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the Making of an Indian Smart City

Rakib Akhtar

This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development. Globally, the rise of right-wing nationalism has progressively shaped urbanization...

The Game

Hannah Pool

To seek asylum, people often have to cross borders undocumented, embarking on perilous trajectories. Due to the war in Afghanistan, the rule of the Taliban, and severe human rights violations, over the past decades thousands of people have risked their lives to seek...

Insularity and Identity

Richard Bradley

The Element considers historiography – the extent to which insular prehistorians have integrated their findings with the archaeology of mainland Europe; and the ways in which Continental scholars have drawn on British material. An important theme is the cultural and...

The Buried City

Jamie Bulloch , Gabriel Zuchtriegel

Beyond Dispute

Daniel Taub

Evidence-Based Policy Analysis

Chong-Bum An An

Evidence-Based Policy Analysis investigates the insights learned from case studies of evidence-based policy evaluation and the policymaking process across the five distinct policy domains, representing a pioneering effort within this sphere of research. Several chapters...

Freedom Season

Peniel E. Joseph

A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington,...

Travels in Time

Astrid Erll

Human beings are time travelers. Incessantly, we traverse past, present, and future through a process called collective memory. In Travels in Time, Astrid Erll addresses the question of how collective memory emerges through motion--the movements of people, media, forms,...

The Affirmative Action Myth

Jason L Riley

From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a "clear, concise, and humane account" (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...

Invisible Revolutionaries

Olena Nikolayenko

Invisible Revolutionaries sheds light on the critical role women play in contemporary revolutions around the world. The book argues that women's engagement in contentious politics is often far less visible than men's participation, when measured by the physical presence...

Single Black Mother

Anika Maaza Simpson

Unmarried Black mothers in the United States face a precarious existence. Their precarity reflects the deep-seated ills of anti-Black racism, systemic poverty, disenfranchisement, and state violence that adversely impact the daily lives of most Black Americans....