Sociology books: Theory
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems.
BOOKS ON SALE
All books below are 40% off using code MN89460. Code expires October 15, 2022.
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The Solidarity Economy Jean-Louis Laville 2023 Spring
- Questioning the boundaries between politics and economics
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers Rosemary Hennessy 2023 Spring
- Recovering the bold voices and audacious lives of women who confronted capitalist society’s failures and injustices in the 1930s—a decade unnervingly similar to our own
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Gramsci at Sea Sharad Chari 2023 Fall
- Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Nonhuman Humanitarians Animal Interventions in Global Politics Benjamin Meiches 2023 Spring
- Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations
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Crip Negativity J. Logan Smilges 2023 Spring
- Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
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The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
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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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Lesbian Death Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer Mairead Sullivan 2022 Fall
- Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity
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Queer Silence On Disability and Rhetorical Absence J. Logan Smilges 2022 Fall
- Championing the liberatory potential of silence to address the fraught disability politics of queerness
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Webbed Connectivities The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Vrushali Patil 2022 Fall
- Constructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference
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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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On Posthuman War Computation and Military Violence Mike Hill 2022 Spring
- Tracing war’s expansion beyond the battlefield to the concept of the human being itself
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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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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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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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Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring
- How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
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The Alienated Subject On the Capacity to Hurt James A. Tyner 2022 Spring
- A timely and provocative discussion of alienation as an intersectional category of life under racial capitalism and white supremacy
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Media and the Affective Life of Slavery Allison Page 2022 Spring
- How media shapes our actions and feelings about race
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall
- What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
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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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Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
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An Essay for Ezra Racial Terror in America Grant Farred 2021 Fall
- An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America’s racial unconscious is not so unconscious
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Visibility Interrupted Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming Carly Thomsen 2021 Fall
- A questioning of the belief in the power of LGBTQ visibility through the lives of queer women in the rural Midwest
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The Digitally Disposed Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value Seb Franklin 2021 Spring
- Locates the deep history of digitality in the development of racial capitalism
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The Black Reproductive Unfree Labor and Insurgent Motherhood Sara Clarke Kaplan 2021 Spring
- How Black women’s reproduction became integral to white supremacy, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy—and remains key to their dismantling
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Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners