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

NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // LITERATURE AND POETRY

THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // LABOR STUDIES

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
The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Kenneth J. Saltman 2018 Fall: How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance
Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall: People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Internet Daemons Digital Communications Possessed Fenwick McKelvey 2018 Fall: A complete history and theory of internet daemons brings these little-known—but very consequential—programs into the spotlight
Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall: A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
The Right to Be Out Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in America’s Public Schools, Second Edition Stuart Biegel 2018 Fall: An updated edition of this measured, practical, and timely guide to LGBT rights and issues for educators and school officials
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Conversations in Maine A New Edition Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, Freddy Paine and Lyman Paine 2018 Fall: Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in print
Herlands Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States Keridwen N. Luis 2018 Fall: How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality
Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall: How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall: Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall: An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall: How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
The Denial of Antiblackness Multiracial Redemption and Black Suffering João H. Costa Vargas 2018 Fall: An incisive new look at the black diaspora, examining the true roots of antiblackness and its destructive effects on all of society
Black Boys Apart Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools Freeden Blume Oeur 2018 Fall: How neoliberalism and the politics of respectability are transforming African American manhood
Gay, Inc. The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics Myrl Beam 2018 Fall: A bold and provocative look at how the nonprofit sphere’s expansion has helped—and hindered—the LGBT cause
Food Justice Now! Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle Joshua Sbicca 2018 Fall: A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates
Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring: “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring: The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring: A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate