Sociology books: Urban studies
Sociology books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MN89560. Code expires Nov. 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // RACE AND ETHNICITY // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
HISTORY OF MEDICINE // HEALTH POLICY // DISABILITY STUDIES
CRIMINAL JUSTICE // EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT // ANIMAL STUDIES
URBAN STUDIES // GENDER AND SEXUALITY // GLBT STUDIES
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // LITERATURE AND POETRY
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // LABOR STUDIES
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Unsettling Choice Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education Ujju Aggarwal 2023 Fall
- How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
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Expelling Public Schools How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark John Arena 2023 Spring
- Exploring the role of identitarian politics in the privatization of Newark’s public school system
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Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring
- A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
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Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
- The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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All through the Town The School Bus as Educational Technology Antero Garcia 2023 Spring
- The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America
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Meaningless Citizenship Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State Sally Wesley Bonet 2022 Fall
- A searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation
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Afro-Sweden Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country Ryan Thomas Skinner 2022 Fall
- A compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diaspora
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Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall
- An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall
- A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
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The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring
- Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond
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Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall
- A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
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Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
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Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring
- A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work
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Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
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Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall
- A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
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Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall
- Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
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Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall
- A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
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The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall
- Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
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Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring
- Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions
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The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith 2021 Spring
- How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life
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The Migrant’s Paradox Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall 2021 Spring
- Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
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The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring
- Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
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Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
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The Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring
- The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
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Chasing World-Class Urbanism Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires Jacob Lederman 2020 Fall
- Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers
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Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring
- A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics