Society for the Study of Social Problems 2022

Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2022 annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.

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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press's virtual presence at the 2022 annual meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems.

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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

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Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring: A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
Breathing Race into the Machine The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics Lundy Braun 2021 Spring: How race became embedded in a medical instrument
Arc of the Journeyman Afghan Migrants in England Nichola Khan 2020 Fall: A monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations
As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring: How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
The Computer’s Voice From Star Trek to Siri Liz W. Faber 2020 Fall: A deconstruction of gender through the voices of Siri, HAL 9000, and other computers that talk
Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Christopher Schaberg 2021 Spring: As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here
Shaving the Beasts Wild Horses and Ritual in Spain John Hartigan Jr. 2020 Fall: A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual—from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets
Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall: A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
Drawing the Sea Near Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa C. Anne Claus 2020 Fall: How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life
The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall: Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall: Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
Scammer’s Yard The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica Jovan Scott Lewis 2020 Fall: Tells the story of Jamaican “scammers” who use crime to gain autonomy, opportunity, and repair
Black Food Matters Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, Editors 2020 Fall: An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today
Unraveling Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2020 Fall: Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall: A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
Fix What You Can Schizophrenia and a Lawmaker's Fight for Her Son Mindy Greiling 2020 Fall: One mother’s fight to support her son and change a broken system
Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall: A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook Foundations for Affect Theory Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 2020 Fall: An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins
The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring: Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall: A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
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
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
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
Things Worth Keeping The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World Christine Harold 2020 Spring: A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste
Action at a Distance John Durham Peters, Florian Sprenger and Christina Vagt 2020 Fall: How are human actions shaped by the materiality of media?
Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring: How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
Decarcerating Disability Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition Liat Ben-Moshe 2020 Spring: This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration
An Archive of Taste Race and Eating in the Early United States Lauren F. Klein 2020 Spring: A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature
Red Gold The Managed Extinction of the Giant Bluefin Tuna Jennifer E. Telesca 2020 Spring: Illuminating the conditions for global governance to have precipitated the devastating decline of one of the ocean’s most majestic creatures
On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring: An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring: The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
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
Grocery Activism The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota Craig B. Upright 2020 Spring: A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today
Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring: Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
Hacked Transmissions Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi 2020 Spring: Mapping the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day
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
Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring: A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall: Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall: How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
Class Action Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools Rand Quinn 2019 Fall: A compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco
Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall: A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
Medical Necessity Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision Making Daniel Skinner 2019 Fall: How the politics of “medical necessity” complicates American health care
Deadly Biocultures The Ethics of Life-Making Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh R. Krupar 2019 Fall: A trenchant analysis of the dark side of regulatory life-making today
Fair Trade Rebels Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas Lindsay Naylor 2019 Fall: Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade
Wageless Life A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone 2020 Spring: Drawing up alternate ways to “make a living” beyond capitalism
LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring: Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall: Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne
The Alchemy of Meth A Decomposition Jason Pine 2019 Fall: Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into gold
Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall: A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall: A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
The Price of Nice How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity Angelina E. Castagno, Editor 2019 Fall: How being “nice” in school and university settings works to reinforce racialized, gendered, and (dis)ability-related inequities in education and society
Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring: Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall: A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence Megan Mae Burke 2019 Fall: An inquiry into the phenomenology of “woman” based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence
What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall: Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring: A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States
Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall: A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall: The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring: Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall: An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall: A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
Daring to Be Bad Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2019 Fall: An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—30th anniversary edition
Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall: A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall: A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Glissant and the Middle Passage Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss John E. Drabinski 2019 Spring: A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and Caribbeanness
Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall: Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring: A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring: A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring: Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring: Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring: The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall: Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
Prison Land Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America Brett Story 2019 Spring: From broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressive social relations into everyday life
Reimagining Livelihoods Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment Ethan Miller 2019 Spring: A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development
Learning versus the Common Core Nicholas Tampio 2019 Spring: An open challenge to Common Core’s drive for uniformity
Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field Notes from the Field Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir, Editors 2019 Spring: An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South
Fighting for NOW Diversity and Discord in the National Organization for Women Kelsy Kretschmer 2019 Spring: An unparalleled exploration of NOW’s trajectory, from its founding to the present—and its future
A Contest without Winners How Students Experience Competitive School Choice Kate Phillippo 2019 Spring: Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students’ eyes
Men in Place Trans Masculinity, Race, and Sexuality in America Miriam J. Abelson 2019 Spring: Daring new theories of masculinity, built from a large and geographically diverse interview study of transgender men
The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches 2019 Spring: How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?
Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring: An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
Dead Labor Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death James Tyner 2019 Spring: A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring: Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
The Technique of Thought Nancy, Laruelle, Malabou, and Stiegler after Naturalism Ian James 2019 Spring: Interrogating the work of four contemporary French philosophers to rethink philosophy’s relationship to science and science’s relationship to reality
The Platform Economy How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet Marc Steinberg 2019 Spring: Offering a deeper understanding of today’s internet media and the management theory behind it
Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
Machine Thomas Pringle, Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler 2019 Spring: On the social consequences of machines
Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring: A media theory of markets
Communication Paula Bialski, Finn Brunton and Mercedes Bunz 2019 Spring: On contemporary communication in its various human and nonhuman forms
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall: A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall: A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
Dialogues on the Human Ape Laurent Dubreuil and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh 2018 Fall: A primatologist and a humanist together explore the meaning of being a “human animal”
Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall: The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall: How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
Gringolandia Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism Matthew Hayes 2018 Fall: A telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city