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REMISSION QUEST
A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer
VIRGINIA ADAMS O'CONNELL
Foreword by Philippe Bourgois
How the accepted wisdom of medical sociology helped the author through her cancer journey— and how it fell short
As a medical sociologist, Virginia Adams O’Connell long studied the healthcare system and people navigating illness. Then, in 2019, she confronted her own reality of being diagnosed with primary bone lymphoma. “Since my diagnosis, I joined a club of current and past patients that I never wanted or intended to join,” she writes with both candor and poignancy, adding, “But we can collectively work to make it the best club it can be.”
In the course of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, Adams O’Connell lived through theories she had researched and applied her sociological ideas to help make sense of her personal experiences. Remission Quest chronicles how the reality of living with cancer changed her perspective on what she had studied. Adams O’Connell found her knowledge illustrated and enriched her sociological analysis of our medical institutions and that her own illness narrative shone new light on her theories.
With moving prose, Remission Quest captures the emotions of having cancer and dealing with elaborate medical systems, learning how to be a “good patient” while also managing indescribable fear and fatigue, and confronting questions about the meaning of life. Adams O’Connell’s experiences are both personal and universal. They provide inspiration, compassion, and understanding.
VIRGINIA ADAMS O’CONNELL is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Moravian University and the author of Getting Cut: Failing to Survive Surgical Residency Training.
SOCIOLOGY | HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY | ANTHROPOLOGY | BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR/ AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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EDUCATION | POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY |COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Higher Education, Place, and Social Responsibility series
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EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION, SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE
LOCAL DEMOCRATIC
MISSION
SJUR BERGAN
Provides global lessons from Europe’s experience developing a culture of democracy through higher education
Education is about more than preparing students for the labor market; it is about preparing them to be active citizens in democratic societies, to engage in personal growth, and to develop a broad, advanced knowledge base. As Sjur Bergan emphasizes in European Higher Education, Social Responsibility, and the Local Democratic Mission, advocacy is required to ensure that higher education institutions meet these goals through cooperation with their local communities.
Bergan outlines the political and institutional complexity of European universities. He explains how history, cultural traditions, and national identities impact education across Europe. He also describes the roles of the Council of Europe and U.S. higher education in the development of a transatlantic cooperation on the democratic mission of higher education. Other chapters explore education programs for developing and maintaining democracy and human rights, pragmatic and creative ways that European universities are working with their local communities, and the development of education opportunities for refugees.
Ultimately, Bergan’s book explores not only the local democratic mission of higher education as it has developed in Europe, but also how it could continue to develop, and why it is important it does so.
SJUR BERGAN is an independent education expert and former Head of the Council of Europe’s Education Department. He was instrumental in the development of the Council of Europe’s cooperation on the democratic mission of higher education with U.S. and international partners. He is the author of Not by Bread Alone and Qualifications: Introduction to a Concept
FAMILY AND DISABILITY ACTIVISM Beyond Allies and Obstacles
EDITED BY PAMELA BLOCK, ALLISON C. CAREY, AND RICHARD K. SCOTCH
Giving voice to a range of intersectional disability and parent experiences within social movement activism
In 2020, Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, and Richard K. Scotch published Allies and Obstacles, which examined the tensions and connections between disability activism and parents of children with disabilities. In Family and Disability Activism, they continue to examine these issues with a focus on the path-breaking advocacy by marginalized activists with intersectional lived experiences.
Family and Disability Activism reveals how families and disabled people who identify as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA2S+ understand issues of rights versus justice. Contributions by Deaf and disabled activists emphasize the frequent need for either care or independence. Other chapters show how members of the disabled community and their families must navigate systemic issues of segregation, institutionalization, and access to special education services differently depending on their ethnic and racial identities.
Expanding the conversation about disability, kinship, biological and chosen families, and activism, this volume amplifies important voices in the fight for disability rights.
CONTRIBUTORS: Erin Compton, Diane Compton, Jaclyn Ellis, Laura LeBrun Hatcher, Elena Hung, Bridget Liang, Jenelle Rouse, Cheryl Najarian Souza, Jeneva Stone, Roger A. Stone, Lisette E. Torres, Grace Tsao
PAMELA BLOCK is a Professor of Anthropology at Western University.
ALLISON C. CAREY is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Shippensburg University.
RICHARD K. SCOTCH is Professor of Sociology and Public Health at the University of Texas at Dallas.
DISABILITY STUDIES | SOCIOLOGY | COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY | MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS | NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT | CULTURAL STUDIES
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MONSTROUS NATURE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HARMS
A Green Cultural Criminological Perspective
AVI BRISMAN AND NIGEL SOUTH
How popular culture informs our ideas about harms to the environment caused by humans
How does culture influence human relationships with the environment? In Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms, green cultural criminologists Avi Brisman and Nigel South examine stories of monsters and disasters to address how the ways we depict and think about harms to the environment dissuade us from taking care of our planet and each other.
The authors use examples from popular culture, including Disney and Marvel Cinematic Universe films, to consider ideas about how the environment responds to people who cause it harm. Brisman and South identify and discuss three dominant and interrelated depictions of the relationship between humans and the environment: first, nature as monstrous or fear inducing; second, nature and the Earth (or parts of it) as abject; and third, the entanglement of nature and the apocalypse, wherein nature is contributing to the end of the world, with an end point sometimes conceptualized as one without humans.
Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms argues that such representations have material consequences. The authors make the case for challenging them so that we neither perpetuate them nor retreat into cynicism and defeatism about the future of our planet.
AVI BRISMAN is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University.
NIGEL SOUTH is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Essex.
CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE INTERREGNUM
EDITED BY ROBERT F. CARLEY, ANNE DONLON, BEENASH JAFRI, LAURA J. KWAK, EERO LAINE, SAJ, AND CHRIS ALEN SULA
Interrogates and reconfigures possibilities for activist–intellectual work during times of social transformation
The editors and contributors to Cultural Studies in the Interregnum mobilize transnational cultural studies as a tool for politically engaged intellectual critique. Alongside the work of emerging and established scholars and activists, they think through massive cultural shifts and explore the possibilities of the in-between.
Covering queer and feminist studies, critical disability studies, and critical race and ethnic studies, the essays in Cultural Studies in the Interregnum reflect on our shared political pasts and futures. Using examples ranging from media and literature to sex work, policing, and university systems, this exciting volume probes what cultural studies means in moments of social transformation.
CONTRIBUTORS include: Sean Johnson Andrews, C.M. Kaliko Baker, Mary Tuti Baker, James Bliss, Jorge E. Cuéllar, John R. Decker, Brian Dolber, Candace Fujikane, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Chris Hall, Rachel Lim, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Anna Karthika, Manu Karuka, Najwa Mayer, Kyle Mays, Andrew Ó Baoill, Yumi Pak, Therí A. Pickens, Sami Schalk, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tia Trafford, and the editors
ROBERT F. CARLEY is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M University, College Station.
ANNE DONLON is an independent scholar.
BEENASH JAFRI is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis.
LAURA J. KWAK is Associate Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at York University.
EERO LAINE is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
SAJ is an independent scholar and Associate Editor at punctum books.
CHRIS ALEN SULA is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.
CULTURAL STUDIES | AMERICAN STUDIES | RACE AND ETHNICITY |GENDER STUDIES | DISABILITY STUDIES
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LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY / ASIAN STUDIES
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COUNTERFEITED IN CHINA
The Operations of Illicit Businesses
KO-LIN CHIN
Dispels the many myths surrounding an illegal industry through face-to-face interviews with luxury-goods counterfeiters in Guangzhou, China
Counterfeiting tops the list of organized crimes committed worldwide, raking in nearly half a trillion dollars in 2019. The impact of this illicit business is felt by consumers, brand owners, state authorities, and workers, and it impacts the economy. Moreover, its proliferation has fueled the advancement of organized crime groups.
In his illuminating study, Counterfeited in China, Ko-lin Chin investigates this lucrative industry and its emergence in China. His face-to-face interviews with counterfeiters — business owners, workers, facilitators, and key informants — in the hub of Guangzhou, China reveal how businesses that design, produce, and distribute fake and unauthorized luxury goods manage the risks inherent in their business.
Counterfeited in China examines the individual and group characteristics of counterfeiters and their relationships with organized crime; analyzes the economic aspects of counterfeiting; assesses the relationships among counterfeiting, violence, and corruption; and seeks to understand the demand for counterfeit goods. Chin also discusses the role of Chinese authorities and other parties in the war against counterfeiting.
Assessing the state of the industry and its future, Chin provides fascinating new insights into the modus operandi of counterfeiters.
KO-LIN CHIN is Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the coauthor of The Chinese Heroin Trade: Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Beyond, and Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking, and the author of The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia’s Drug Trade, and Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States (Temple).
VISUALITY OF VIOLENCE
Witnessing the Policing of Race
OFELIA ORTIZ CUEVAS
Examining the visual, political economic, legal, and cultural functions of racial violence
Visuality of Violence unpacks the way visual documentations and depictions of the practice of racial violence are used in imperialism, capitalism, and neoliberalism in the United States. Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas traces the continuity of racial value through the shifting narratives of race by examining the longrunning TV series, COPS, and the museum exhibition, Without Sanctuary, which features photographs of lynching. These case studies provide an innovative holistic mapping of the policing and incarceration of Black and Brown people.
Addressing the frequently ignored experiences of Asian and Native Americans, among others, in its comparative undertaking, Visuality of Violence exceeds intersectional mapping to uniquely charge the spectacle of racial violence as a foundational practice in its continued presence in contemporary society. Cuevas argues that the visual presentations of the racial body throughout history requires a reckoning and acknowledgement of the material and legal effects of the images, narratives, and practices used to maintain hegemonic racial order and inequality.
In holding a theoretical mirror to history, Visuality of Violence reveals liberal mythical reliance on the ideals of western law and its rationalities as the location of justice and freedom, thereby presenting its readers with a new understanding in the quest for peace and liberation.
OFELIA ORTIZ CUEVAS is Assistant Professor and an interdisciplinary scholar in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis.
AMERICAN STUDIES | CULTURAL STUDIES | RACE AND ETHNICITY
Critical Race, Indigeneity, and Relationality series
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HISTORY | SEXUALITY STUDIES/SEXUAL IDENTITY
| GENDER STUDIES
Sexuality Studies series
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LOVE IN THE LAV
A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922–1972
AVERILL EARLS
Tells the unexpected, sometimes heartbreaking stories of Dublin’s men who desired men and the Gardaí who policed them
Love in the Lav uncovers Ireland’s queer lives of the past. Averill Earls investigates how same-sex-desiring men lived and loved in a country where their sexuality was illegal and seen as unnatural. Across seven social biographical chapters, each highlighting individuals at the nexus of these histories, Earls constructs a narrative of experiences through the larger contexts in which they are embedded.
Earls uses courtroom testimonies, police records, and family history archives as well as “educated speculation” to show how structures governing male same-sex desire in Ireland played out on the bodies of the men who desired men, the teen boys who sold sex to men, and the way the Catholicnationalist ethos shaped the Gardaí who policed them.
Love in the Lav examines the experiences of people such as cabbie James Hand, who was put on trial for gross indecency, to provide a window into the queer working-class subculture of 1930s Dublin. Earls also focuses on issues of consent, especially with teens, and the unregulated queer Irish world of public figures, including Micheál Mac Liammóir, Hilton Edwards, Ronald Brown, and John Broderick.
By examining twentieth-century Ireland through the lived experiences of ordinary same-sex-desiring Irish men who were relegated to obscurity by Irish society, Earls reveals the contradictions, possibilities, and magnitude of postcolonial Irish Catholic nationalism.
AVERILL EARLS is Assistant Professor of History at St. Olaf College and Executive Producer of Dig: A History Podcast
SODOMY’S SOLICITATIONS
A Right to Queerness
JOSEPH J. FISCHEL
Advances a queer politics that backgrounds identity claims and foregrounds instead the state’s deployment of sex to govern
Joseph Fischel’s provocative book, Sodomy’s Solicitations, builds out a politics of sexual justice that challenges state sex exceptionalism. By tracing several twenty-first century contestations around Louisiana anti-sodomy laws, Fischel examines patterns and practices of sexual injustice that are too easily eclipsed by our collective focus on marginalized identities.
The political stories narrated in Sodomy’s Solicitations are undoubtedly stories of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, but they are also stories of other political problems—and political possibilities. Fischel indicts U.S. sex offender regulatory regimes as state-sponsored sexual violence; offers a qualified defense for sexual expression in public; and argues that animal sexual abuse laws, with their exemptions for industrial agricultural practices, authorize the suffering they were enacted to deter. He also makes the case that laws criminalizing the exchange of sex for money are unconstitutional, and proposes that the best way to protect trans and queer children might just be to enfranchise them.
Sodomy’s Solicitations champions a right to queerness across rather than within identity formations—a right to relatively unpoliced gender, sexual, and intimate pluralism.
JOSEPH J. FISCHEL is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice and Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent.
SEXUALITY STUDIES/SEXUAL IDENTITY | AMERICAN STUDIES | LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY | POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY | PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS
Sexuality Studies sereis
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IMMIGRATION | SOCIOLOGY | AFRICAN STUDIES | ANTHROPOLOGY
268 pp • 6 x 9" • 11 tables • 2 figures
$39.95 paper 978-1-4399-2566-9
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COUNTERSTREAMS IN MIGRATION
Ethiopians' Choices to Stay, Leave, or Return
HEWAN GIRMA
Provides a 360-degree view of migration from the perspectives of non-migrants, returnees, and repeat migrants
Migration journeys are not unidirectional. In Counterstreams in Migration, Hewan Girma reveals a more complex circuit of migration, concentrating on the motivations behind non-migration, return migration, and repeat migration to show how these flows mutually affect and influence the migrant as well as the family members who remain at home.
Weaving together nearly 100 stories of non-migrants, returnees, and repeat migrants from Ethiopia, Girma advances a theory of migra-emotions, emotions specific to migration, to understand decisions and experiences, such as the imaginary of home and the lived reality of alienation, disaffection abroad, and feelings of duty to one’s homeland.
Looking beyond the meanings of migration or processes of integration, Girma explores the emotional subtext of migration aspirations. In doing so, Counterstreams of Migration complicates conventional understandings of migration and provides a more complete picture of migrant stories.
HEWAN GIRMA is Associate Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She cofounded and codirects the Ethiopian, East African and Indian Ocean Research Network. She is the coeditor of The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings and Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names
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RECKONING WITH THE WORLD
South Korean Television and the Latin American Imaginary BENJAMIN M. HAN
How Korean television formulates and exploits a monolithic imaginary of Latin America through the lens of East Asian modernity
For many Koreans, Latin America is foreign and unfamiliar, but popular television shows have generated considerable interest in this region of the Global South. In Reckoning with the World, Benjamin Han explores this phenomenon by providing a close reading of Korean TV programs that take place, are shot in, or depict Latin America. These dramas, reality shows, and travel documentaries present South Koreans with an understanding of themselves by projecting an illusion of difference that underscores themes of identity, race, and modernity.
Historical dramas like The Land of Humans, about Korean migrants in Mexico, consider diasporic identity and nationalism, while the fantasy series Secret Garden explores issues of modernity. In addition, the TV drama Encounter and the entertainment show Traveler contrast the cultures of global Korea with Cuba. As these programs create appealing storytelling, characters, and aesthetics, they inspire and resonate with audiences and fans across the globe. However, Korean television’s imaginary of Latin America is not about its investment in fostering greater interculturality with Latin American nations and their cultures but instead projects a façade of progressive racial and cultural politics shaping Korea’s reckoning with the world.
BENJAMIN M. HAN is Associate Professor in the Department of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America and the coeditor of Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia: Race and Reception
MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS/CULTURAL STUDIES/ASIAN STUDIES/LATIN AMERICAN/ CARIBBEAN STUDIES
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS | ASIAN STUDIES | SOCIOLOGY | POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
258 pp • 6 x 9" • 9 tables • 13 figures
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BE WATER
Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests
MING-SHO HO
How Hongkongers launched a large-scale protest movement with collective improvisation
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s courts. With its name derived from martial arts master Bruce Lee’s adage “formless and shapeless like water,” the incident turned out to be the city’s largest episode of contentious politics and was unique for using impromptu communication among participants and the absence of central leadership.
In Be Water, Ming-sho Ho examines the dynamics of the city-wide uprising from the perspective of agency power. He seeks to understand how numerous and anonymous Hongkongers contributed to this epoch-making campaign as well as how they responded to the full-scale state repression that enveloped them. Ho praises and questions the durability of the inventive Be Water Revolution and how the activists encouraged protests spontaneously, through interpersonal networks and by voluntarily collaborating with strangers at great personal risk.
Ho posits a new concept of “collective improvisation” to make sense of such a decentralized yet creative way of protesting. Be Water seeks to understand the rise and long afterlife of this movement and illustrate its efficacy. As Ho shows, these dynamics of collective improvisation have implications for contemporary protest movements around the world.
MING-SHO HO is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and a Researcher of Taiwan Social Resilience Center at National Taiwan University. He is the author of Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement (Temple) and Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012
DISABLING RELATIONS
Wounded Bodyminds and Transnational Praxis
SONA KAZEMI
Bears witness to disabled survivors of violence in Iran from war, incarceration, acid attacks, and torture
How do we learn to defetishize disability in our everyday lives? In Disabling Relations, Sona Kazemi probes this and other questions that consider how processes and relations of patriarchy, imperialism, and religious fundamentalism, as well as class and ideology, rework the dialectics of disability in transnational contexts.
Kazemi focuses on the disabled dissidents who were incarcerated and tortured by the Islamic regime in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution in Iran, the disabled veterans and civilians wounded during and after the Iran–Iraq War, the disabled survivors of state-sanctioned punitive limb amputation, and the disabled women survivors of acid attacks as a form of gender-based violence. Disabling Relations explains how disabled bodyminds are produced and sustained through the violence of patriarchal, capitalistimperialist, nationalist, and theocratic social relations. Kazemi uses the theoretical concept of “wounding” as a historical process of becoming and remaining disabled mediated by unequal power relations and “disability consciousness” to show how these survivors come to terms with their disability.
Thinking about critical disability theory in a new way, Kazemi investigates how disability is produced transnationally and the impact that this new theorization can make globally.
SONA KAZEMI is Assistant Professor of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She is the Society for Disability Studies’ 2018 recipient of the honorable mention for the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies, and Associate Editor for the Global Ideas’ Section of Review of Disability Studies, An International Journal.
DISABILITY STUDIES | MIDDLE EAST STUDIES |CULTURAL STUDIES | WOMEN'S STUDIES
Dis/color series
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PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | AFRICAN STUDIES | RACE AND ETHNICITY
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FOUNDATIONS OF BLACK EPISTEMOLOGY
Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy
ADEBAYO OLUWAYOMI
Engaging with epistemological questions concerning the object and subject knowledge from the black philosophical perspective
Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi’s bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorous historical study of Black intellectual history to show how seminal Black thinkers have long been interested in and engaged with questions concerning the phenomenon of human knowledge, and questions around human agency, including practical considerations regarding the social and political value of knowledge.
Foundations of Black Epistemology examines writings by Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Steve Bantu Biko, Huey P. Newton, and Kathleen Neal Cleaver. Each chapter addresses issues of self-knowledge, self-assertion, Black consciousness, or anticolonialism and its relation to personal and political epistemologies.
Oluwayomi offers innovative perspectives on the formulation, deduction, and interrogation of epistemological themes within Black Africana philosophy. By considering the important epistemological theories and arguments in Black philosophy particularly in the last 150 to 200 years, Foundations of Black Epistemology promises to generate new discussions around this necessary field of Black Africana philosophy.
ADEBAYO OLUWAYOMI is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at West Chester University.
CANARIES IN THE CODE MINE
Precarity and the Future of Tech Work
MAX PAPADANTONAKIS
How once-secure programmers navigate marginalization by gender, race, and age in the workplace
The idea that the tech industry is a secure field with jobs and opportunities for growth is a myth. There is widespread precarity among software developers, who experience uncertainty, anxiety, and imposter syndrome as technological advancements threaten job security. Max Papadantonakis investigates this phenomenon in his revealing study, Canaries in the Code Mine. He indicates that precarity is not just about the risk of losing one’s job; it is about living in a career where basic needs and rights are not guaranteed.
Interviewing 120 software developers from leading tech firms, Papadantonakis shows how temporary contracts, project cancellations, and company downsizing undermine the security of even highly skilled professionals. He also highlights the systemic inequalities that shape the tech industry, showing how age, race, and gender often dictate the opportunities and responsibilities software developers have—or are denied.
Canaries in the Code Mine highlights a disturbing reality of privilege and vulnerability within the tech industry. Papadantonakis engages in a critical discourse on the evolving nature of work in the digital era, emphasizing the need to shape an equitable future in the rapidly evolving landscape.
MAX PAPADANTONAKIS is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences and Global Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay
LABOR STUDIES AND WORK | TECHNOLOGY | SOCIOLOGY |COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS | MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
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PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS | AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES | LITERATURE AND DRAMA | AFRICAN STUDIES | POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
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THE DOOR OF NO RETURN
Being-as-Black
MICHAEL E. SAWYER
Presents an alternative system of Black Radical Thought
In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into being—and what existence in that future looks like. He considers what people of African descent face and the proper response to the situation. He introduces the idea of Being-As-Black as a response and questions the overarching ethos that will be the guide to a beneficial resolution.
Using critical theory and philosophy, Sawyer decouples Black identity and Black philosophy from White and Western frames by building on Toni Morrison’s ideas of Black Thought and encouraging an understanding of Black Self-Consciousness and Black Self-Identity on Black terms. The Door of No Return uses music, literature, visual art, and a variety of physical disciplines to imagine a world that differs from one that confounds the positive formation of Black SelfConsciousness under the coercive regime of white supremacy and Anti-Black racism.
MICHAEL E. SAWYER is Professor with Tenure of African American Literature & Culture, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis, and Sir Lewis.
COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE
EDITED BY SÉBASTIEN TUTENGES AND PHILIP SMITH
Explores how the theory of collective effervescence can be applied in surprising ways to the study of charisma, crowds, music, religion, social media, and much more
Sociologist Émile Durkheim’s theory of collective effervescence describes an overwhelming sense of excitement, empowerment, and unity. While originally tailored to examine religious phenomena, the theory has proven remarkably powerful in explaining secular experiences, from raves and military marches to sporting events and protest crowds.
The editors and contributors to Collective Effervescence make a deep dive into new waters. They investigate solo experiences, virtual collectivities, low-intensity effervescence, and negative outcomes. Through studies of drug ceremonies, occupational subcultures, bookshops, online activities, and much more, each chapter discovers and theorizes something previously unknown. Collective Effervescence finds new potentials in a familiar theoretical resource.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sarah H. Awad, Pierre Bouchat, Randall Collins, Silvia da Costa, Scott Draper, Lisa Flower, Romulo Lelis, Heather Margrsion, Sharon Mascall-Dare, Ashley Mears, Margit Anne Petersen, José J. Pizarro, Bernard Rimé, Dario Páez, David Sausdal, Daniel Smith, Femke Vandenberg, Brady Wagoner, David Wästerfors, Brad West, and the editors
SÉBASTIEN TUTENGES is Professor at Aarhus University and editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Criminology. He is the author of Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
PHILIP SMITH is Professor and Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim and the author of Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–2020
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PRIVATE LIFE, PUBLIC ACTION
How Housing Politics Mobilized Citizens in Moscow
ANNA ZHELNINA
Analyzes how residents' personal housing strategies influenced their response to Moscow’s urban renewal
Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritarian government, residents supported or opposed the redevelopment by mobilizing and organizing into local alliances. They were often shocked by their neighbors who were excited about the new housing or those suspicious of being displaced.
Private Life, Public Action traces how residents impacted by the relocation plan became activists despite having little to no experience organizing or even forming political affiliations and opinions. Author Anna Zhelnina details the ways in which neighbors engaged in collective action, as well as the individual and structural changes these interactions caused.
Zhelnina develops the concept of “housing strategies” to explain how residents’ debates with their neighbors about housing were shaped by their private life strategies. She applies her findings about housing in Moscow to ongoing questions about political mobilization, demonstrating how public engagement is shaped by historical and social contexts.
Examining the intersection of housing, politics, and citizenship in contemporary Russia, Private Life, Public Action offers a new way to look at urban change.
ANNA ZHELNINA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University. She is the coauthor of Gains and Losses: How Protestors Win and Lose
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