Sociology books: Urban studies
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.
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