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Most titles in this catalog published by Columbia University Press are available worldwide from the press. The Wuhan Lockdown
Guobin Yang
This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20047-9 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20046-2 2022 328 pages
What World Is This?
A Pandemic Phenomenology Judith Butler
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.
$17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20829-1 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20828-4 November 2022 144 pages
The New Pragmatist Sociology
Inquiry, Agency, and Democracy Edited by Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship
In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism.
$40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-20379-1 $160.00 / £132.00 cloth 978-0-231-20378-4 2022 512 pages
Exhuming Violent Histories
Forensics, Memory, and Rewriting Spain’s Past Nicole Iturriaga
Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, reshape collective memory, and create new forms of transitional justice. Exhuming Violent Histories sheds new light on how science and technology intersect with human rights and collective memory.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20113-1 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20112-4 2022 240 pages 25 illus. Waiting for Dignity
Legitimacy and Authority in Afghanistan Florian Weigand
By exploring how different types of authority attempted to legitimize their rule, Waiting for Dignity challenges common assumptions about how to build legitimacy. Florian Weigand shows that what matters in conflict zones is what he terms “interactive dignity”: Citizens judge authorities on the basis of their day-today experiences with them. The extent to which people perceive interactions to be fair, inclusive, and respectful is vital to the construction of lasting order.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20049-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20048-6 2022 384 pages
Worldmaking in the Long Great War
How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East Jonathan Wyrtzen
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among local and international actors.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18629-2 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18628-5 2022 336 pages
The Quantified Scholar
How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences Juan Pablo PardoGuerra
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra examines the effects of quantitative research evaluations on British social scientists, arguing that the mission to measure academic excellence resulted in less diversity and more disciplinary conformity. He provides a compelling account of how quantification altered the incentives of scholars and administrators.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19781-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19780-9 October 2022 272 pages 15 illus. Emerging Global Cities
Origin, Structure, and Significance Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony
This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Lagos, New Orleans, Säo Paulo, and Hong Kong, identifying key features common to these cities.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-205177 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-205160 December 2022 376 pages 50 illus.
The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment
Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value Horacio Ortiz
Horacio Ortiz provides a critical analysis of the social institutions and practices that produce and regulate stock pricing and valuation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among financial professionals in New York and Paris, this book shows how the political imaginaries that underpin financial markets legitimize global inequalities.
$30.00 /£25.00 paper 978-0-231-20119-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20118-6 2021 328 pages Wine Markets
Genres and Identities Giacomo Negro and Michael T. Hannan with Susan Olzak
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in Italy and France as well as interviews with critics and data analysis, this book provides an unprecedented sociological account of the dynamics of wine markets. It shows how the concepts of genre and collective identity explain producers’ choices, whether they are selling traditional or nonconventional wines.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20371-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20370-8 2022 280 pages 40 illus.
Selling Nature in the City Kevin Loughran
Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19405-1 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19404-4 2021 304pages 20 illus. The Soft City
Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City Terry Williams
In The Soft City, the ethnographer Terry Williams ventures deep into the underground world of sex in New York. The book explores different aspects of the “perverse space” of the city: porn theaters, sex shops, peep shows, restroom cruising, sadomasochism clubs, swingers’ events, and many more.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17795-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17794-8 2022 312 pages
Marseille, Port to Port
William Kornblum
William Kornblum—an eminent urban sociologist and a veteran traveler in the Francophone world—invites readers on an exploration of a changing city. Blending travelogue and social observation, he roams Marseille’s neighborhoods and regions in the company of writers, scholars, activists, and ordinary people.
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20507-8 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20506-1 2022 200 pages Many Urbanisms
Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building Martin J. Murray
Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20407-1 $140.00 /£108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20406-4 2022 392 pages 11 illus.
The Cage of Days
Time and Temporal Experience in Prison K. C. Carceral and Michael G. Flaherty
This book combines the perspectives of K. C. Carceral, a formerly incarcerated convict criminologist, and Michael G. Flaherty, a sociologist who studies temporal experience, to examine how prisons regulate time and how prisoners resist the temporal regime.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20345-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20344-9 2021 320 pages The Struggle to Stay
Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church Katie Gaddini
The Struggle to Stay is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women’s experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19674-1 2022 304 pages
Generation Gap
Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture Kevin Munger
Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that a common “cohort consciousness” binds aging Boomer voters into a bloc—but a shared identity and purpose among Millennials and Gen Z could topple Boomer power.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20087-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20086-8 2022 216 pages 38 illus. Computing the News
Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity Sylvain Parasie
Sylvain Parasie examines how data journalists and news organizations have navigated the tensions between traditional journalistic values and new technologies. Offering an in-depth analysis of how computing has become part of the daily practices of journalists, this book proposes ways for journalism to evolve in order to serve democratic societies.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19977-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19976-6 October 2022 312 pages
The Long Year
A 2020 Reader Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.
$22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1 2021 560 pages
PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
Defining the Age
Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours Edited by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer
In Defining the Age, Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer bring together a group of distinguished contributors to consider how Daniel Bell’s ideas captured their historical moment and continue to provide profound insights into today’s world.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20367-8 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20366-1 2021 344 pages
The Power of Podcasting
Telling Stories Through Sound Siobhán McHugh
Siobhán McHugh dissects what makes a good podcast and outlines how you can create one yourself. She blends practical insights into and critical analysis of the art of audio storytelling. Packed with case studies, history, tips, and techniques, this book introduces readers to the possibilities of the world of sound.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20877-2 $100.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-20876-5 October 2022 320 pages The Best American Magazine Writing 2022
Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors; Introduction by Jeffrey Goldberg
The Best American Magazine Writing 2022 features a selection of articles honored by this year’s National Magazine Awards for Print and Digital Media. These awards are sponsored and administered by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
$18.95 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-20891-8 $80.00 / £66.00 cloth 978-0-231-20890-1 December 2022 264 pages
From Whispers to Shouts
The Ways We Talk About Cancer Elaine Schattner
Elaine Schattner reveals a sea change—from before 1900 to the present day—in how ordinary people talk about cancer. From Whispers to Shouts examines public perception of cancer through stories in newspapers and magazines, social media, and popular culture.
$29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-19226-2 February 2023 376 pages Anxious Eaters
Why We Fall for Fad Diets Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill
Anxious Eaters shows that fad diets are popular because they fulfill crucial social and psychological needs—which is also why they tend to fail. Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill bring together anthropology, psychology, and nutrition to explore what these programs promise yet rarely fulfill for dieters.
$28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19244-6 2022 360 pages
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
Unequal Cities
Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States Richard McGahey
Richard McGahey explores how cities can foster equitable economic growth despite the obstacles in their way. Drawing on extensive experience as well as historical analysis, he examines the failures of public policy and conventional economic wisdom that have led to the neglect of American cities and highlights opportunities for reform.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-17334-6 December 2022 304 pages The Postwar Economic Order
National Reconstruction and International Cooperation Albert O. Hirschman
Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. This book presents a collection of his reports about economic policy, early efforts at intra-European cooperation, and the new U.S.-centered international order.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20059-2 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20058-5 November 2022 320 pages
Before Central Park
Sara Cedar Miller
This book is the authoritative account of the place that would become Central Park. From the first Dutch family to settle on the land through the political crusade to create America’s first major urban park, Sara Cedar Miller chronicles two and a half centuries of history.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-18194-5 2022 624 pages 170 illus.
The Fulton Fish Market
A History Jonathan H. Rees
This book is a lively and comprehensive history of the Fulton Fish Market, from its founding in 1822 through its move to the Bronx in 2005. Jonathan H. Rees explores the market’s workings and significance, tracing the transportation, retailing, and consumption of fish.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20256-5 December 2022 312 pages 30 illus.
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
Buried Beneath the City
An Archaeological History of New York Nan A. Rothschild, Amanda Sutphin, H. Arthur Bankoff, and Jessica Striebel MacLean
Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts, from the first traces of indigenous societies more than ten thousand years ago to the detritus of Dutch and English colonization, through to the burgeoning city’s transformation into a modern metropolis.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19495-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19494-5 2022 312 pages 196 illus.
The American Stamp
Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler
Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-20824-6 January 2023 336 pages 74 illus.
Scripting Defiance
Four Sociological Vignettes Ari Sitas, Sumangala Damodaran, Amrita Pande, Wiebke Keim, and Nicos Trimikliniotis
This book uncovers scripts through which notions of deviance as well as acts of defiance unravel. It considers an archive made up of significant scripts or narratives of defiance that endure through subaltern people’s cultural formations despite and in response to dominant ideas and ideologies.
$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-81-9505591-3 2022 496 pages
TULIKA BOOKS
Maps of Sorrow
Migration and Music in the Construction of Precolonial AfroAsia Sumangala Damodaran and Ari Sitas
Maps of Sorrow takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes, and interactions that were interconnected through long-distance trade, slavery, and migration.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-81-9505599-9
September 2022 TULIKA BOOKS
London
The Privatised City Mike Raco and Frances Brill
London has become one of the fastest growing cities in Europe and its expansion has generated many planning challenges. This book examines the complexities and difficulties in mobilizing policy agendas, and the market-led development of London that has led to the privatization of the city’s decision-making processes and policy implementation.
$35.00 paper 978-1-78821-306-6 $99.00 cloth 978-1-78821-305-9 October 2022 288 pages
AGENDA PUBLISHING
Bordertextures
A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies Edited by Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, and Eva Nossem
This book proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-3895-0 2021 350 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Shifts in Mapping
Maps as a Tool of Knowledge Edited by Christine Schranz
Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies drive this field and change our view of the world, shaping how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are relevant to cartography’s practices.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6041-8 2022 294 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Platformisation of Urban Life
Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities Edited by Anke Strüver and Sybille Bauriedl
This book addresses the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
$30.00 paper 978-3-8376-5964-1 2022 200 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Programming Creativity
Semantics and Organisation of Creativity Within IT Enterprises Jan Sebastian Zipp
Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today’s prevailing understanding of the concept of creativity.
$55.00 paper 978-3-8376-6316-7 2022 230 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Robotic Knitting
Re-Crafting HumanRobot Collaboration Through Careful Coboting Pat Treusch
Pat Treusch provides a technofeminist intervention that not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting but also contributes a tangible example of coboting dynamics. Robotic Knitting re-crafts the nature of collaboration between human and robot.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-5203-1 2022 166 pages 35 illus.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Functional Differentiation of Society
Rudolf Stichweh
With this systematic study of functional differentiation in sociology, Rudolf Stichweh fills an astonishing gap in sociological research. To do so, he combines essays and case studies instructive for both practicing social scientists and the general public interested in a sociological understanding of modernity.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8376-6119-4 September 2022 250 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
The Production of Consumer Society
Cultural-Economic Principles of Distinction Ernst Mohr
With a novel theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an overall stylistic system of society and analyzes their encounters.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-5703-6 2021 340 pages 37 illus.
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Sound Formations
Towards a Sociological Thinking-with Sounds Rémy Bocquillon
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the processoriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, “feedingback” the sonic experimentations at the core of the research in new and engaging ways.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6330-3 2022 212 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Public Space in Transition
Co-production and Co-management of Privately Owned Public Space in Seoul and Berlin Dahae Lee
Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private-sector entities in the form of privately owned public spaces (POPS). Public Space on Transition offers a nmber of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6232-0 2022 202 pages 76 illus.
