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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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
Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring: A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring: A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
Governance Feminism: An Introduction An Introduction Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir 2018 Spring: Describing and assessing feminist inroads into the state
The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring: Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring: A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst Christopher Paul 2018 Spring: An avid gamer and sharp media critic explains meritocracy’s negative contribution to video game culture—and what can be done about it
The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring: An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
Youth Media Matters Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education Korina M. Jocson 2017 Fall: How young people making media have potential to shape pedagogy, raise social awareness, and promote creative self-expression
Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring: Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall: A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall: A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall: Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
A House of Prayer for All People Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church David K. Seitz 2017 Fall: Revealing the underappreciated progressive contributions of a liberal LGBT church
Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall: Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall: The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall: A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall: An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall: Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
Ready Player Two Women Gamers and Designed Identity Shira Chess 2017 Fall: A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity
Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall: Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring: Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
Transhumanism Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia Andrew Pilsch 2017 Fall: Exploring the rich history and utopian potential of transhumanism’s belief that humanity is on the cusp of radical evolutionary transformation
Inheriting Possibility Social Reproduction and Quantification in Education Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román 2017 Fall: Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association: From the SAT to social mobility statistics, examining quantitative measurements of human learning and development while rethinking their possibilities
Subprime Health Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine Nadine Ehlers and Leslie R. Hinkson, Editors 2017 Fall: Moving beyond discussions of racial genomics, an interdisciplinary exploration of race-based medicine
Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak 2017 Spring: A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring: Challenging the view that caring is only human
The Assemblage Brain Sense Making in Neuroculture Tony D. Sampson 2017 Spring: A radical new theory of the brain bridging science, philosophy, art, and politics
Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall: Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction Hugo Gernsback 2016 Fall: The founder of science fiction and his other inventions
Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling Signithia Fordham 2016 Fall: Rehabilitating the meaning of gender-specific violence
First Strike Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner 2016 Fall: Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state
Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall: A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State Erica R. Meiners 2016 Fall: Centering on the child in the struggle to dismantle America’s carceral state
The Slumbering Masses Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2016 Fall: An eye-opening look at why a “good night’s sleep” might be anything but
Foucault in Iran Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 2016 Fall: A groundbreaking reassessment of Foucault’s writings on one of the greatest political upheavals of our time
The Uberfication of the University Gary Hall 2016 Fall: The contemporary university’s implications for the future organization of labor
Human Programming Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Scott Selisker 2016 Fall: The first cultural history of the idea of the programmable mind in U.S. culture, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Gilbert Simondon 2016 Spring: A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half of the twentieth century.
Blood Sugar Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2016 Spring: How contemporary biomedicine has shaped race and racism as America’s health disparities increase
Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring: Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring: When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring: How sensors are changing our environmental relationships
Made to Hear Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children Laura Mauldin 2016 Spring: The social consequences of the medicalization of deafness, as seen in the experiences of parents and professionals working with cochlear implants
A Good Investment? Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School Amy Brown 2015 Fall: How privatized education funding reinforces race and class inequities
The Straight Line How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality Tom Waidzunas 2015 Fall: The consequences, for science as well as public policy, of relegating ex-gay therapies to the scientific fringe
Measuring Manhood Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934 Melissa N. Stein 2015 Fall: A major new history of scientific racism in the United States
Already Doing It Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency Michael Gill 2015 Spring: Exploring and exposing efforts to restrict the sexuality of intellectually disabled people
Life Support Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora 2015 Spring: How global capitalism has turned human beings into a new form of biocapital
Wildlife in the Anthropocene Conservation after Nature Jamie Lorimer 2015 Spring: Considers the effects of the Anthropocene era on approaches to conservation
The Capacity Contract Intellectual Disability and the Question of Citizenship Stacy Clifford Simplican 2015 Spring: An unprecedented look at democratic theory’s disability exclusion and today’s self-advocacy movement
Deep Mapping the Media City Shannon Mattern 2015 Spring: Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves
HIV Exceptionalism Development through Disease in Sierra Leone Adia Benton 2015 Spring: Have HIV/AIDS-focused development programs ignored wider health crises in Africa?
The Universe of Things On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 2014 Fall: An up-to-the-moment critique of a recent turn in philosophical thought
Total Liberation The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement David Naguib Pellow 2014 Fall: All oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 Fall: Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance
Sexuality in School The Limits of Education Jen Gilbert 2014 Spring: Explores and expands on the role of sexuality in teaching and learning
Educated in Whiteness Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools Angelina E. Castagno 2014 Spring: How well-meaning educators shape and enact diversity-related policies and practices that strengthen whiteness rather than educational equity or justice
Academic Profiling Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap Gilda L. Ochoa 2013 Fall: The achievement gap as it is actually experienced by Latino and Asian American students in one California high school
Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall: The world as we know it has already come to an end
Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall: How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
The Reorder of Things The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference Roderick A. Ferguson 2012 Fall: A critical account of how academia and global capital appropriated the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s and 1970s
Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination Alondra Nelson 2013 Fall: The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice
Cosmopolitics II Isabelle Stengers 2011 Fall: A sweeping inquiry that critiques modern science’s claims of objectivity, rationality, and truth
Swamplife People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden 2011 Spring: Alligator hunters, mangroves, and the (mis)adventures of the Ashley Gang in the Florida Everglades
Cosmopolitics I Isabelle Stengers 2010 Spring: A sweeping critique of the role and authority of modern science in contemporary society
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders Homeless in San Francisco Teresa Gowan 2010 Spring: A powerful ethnographic account of life on the streets in San Francisco
Migrants for Export How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World Robyn Magalit Rodriguez 2010 Spring: How the Philippines transformed itself into the world’s leading labor brokerage state
Those Who Work, Those Who Don't Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America Jennifer Sherman 2009 Fall: Following the stories of economic collapse in a Northern California town and what they tell us about rural America
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan Right-Wing Movements and National Politics Rory McVeigh 2009 Spring: Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920s
State, Space, World Selected Essays Henri Lefebvre Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden 2009 Spring: Leading intellectual Henri Lefebvre on political and state theory
Jim Crow Nostalgia Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville Michelle R. Boyd 2008 Spring: An incisive analysis of racial identity in urban politics
Bíos Biopolitics and Philosophy Roberto Esposito 2008 Spring: A significant political theorist advances the discussion of biopolitics