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The Moving City
The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban ...
University of California Press4d
A Grammar of Motives
About this book Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it? An answer to that question is the subject ...
University of California Press5d
The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
University of California Press9d
The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness: first recognized together in mid-nineteenth-century Europe, ...
University of California Press15d
Free trade’s legacy of grief for families of the disappeared in Mexico
In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Although disappearances in Mexico trace back to the Cold ...
University of California Press16d
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In Mexico today, thousands of families are searching for loved ones who have disappeared amid the violence associated with “the war on drugs.” Trade agreements like NAFTA created conditions that ...
University of California Press18d
Building Farming Resilience with Climate-Smart Intervention
Donovan Campbell and Shaneica Lester are co-authors of “Building Resilience in Jamaica’s Farming Communities: Insights From a Climate-Smart Intervention,” which won top prize in the 2023 Case Studies ...
University of California Press18d
Q&A with Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua, series editors of “California Studies in Global Musicology”
We’re thrilled to announce our new California Studies in Global Musicology series, led by series editors Joy H. Calico and Daniel K. L. Chua! In this interview, Calico and Chua introduce the series, ...
University of California Press19d
Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City"
Building the Black City shows how African Americans built and rebuilt thriving cities for themselves, even as their unpaid and underpaid labor enriched the nation's economic, political, and cultural ...
University of California Press19d
Prisons are Still Making COVID-19 Era Mistakes
The last chapter of our book Fester is called “The Next Plague.” We wrote it to warn everyone in prison administration, prison litigation, and politics, that if considerable reforms are not ...
University of California Press21d
Tinkering with the Future: Everyday Experiments Under Startup Capitalism
I was at an Innovation Fair, passing desultorily by stalls advertising funding opportunities and state schemes for entrepreneurship, when a sudden crush of people caught my eye. I walked up to see ...