Publications
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A Life of Worry
(2023)
In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing war and famine to fretting over the best cell phone plan. This shift in the landscape of people’s anxieties is the result of policies that made Vietnam ...
Globalization
(2023)
Since the end of the Cold War, globalization—the process and the idea—has been reshaping the world. Global studies scholarship has emerged to make sense of the transnational manifestations of globalization: economic, social, ...
Lived Refuge
(2023)
In a world increasingly shaped by displacement and migration, refuge is both a coveted right and an elusive promise for millions. While conventionally understood as legal protection, it also transcends judicial definitions. ...
Ground Truths
(2024)
Ground Truths shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, ...
Analytic Induction for Social Research
(2023)
This book explores analytic induction, an approach to the analysis of cross-case evidence on qualitative outcomes that has deep roots in sociology. A popular research technique in the early decades of empirical sociology, ...
Celluloid Democracy
(2023)
The first book to offer a history of film activism in post-1945 South Korea, Celluloid Democracy tells the story of the Korean filmmakers, distributors, and exhibitors who reshaped cinema in radically empowering ways through ...
Dangerous Love
(2022)
The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as “pimp-prostitute” arrangements by researchers and the general public ...
At the Edges of Sleep
(2022)
At the Edges of Sleep considers sleep in film and moving image art as both a subject matter to explore onscreen and a state to induce in the audience. Far from negating action or meaning, sleep extends into new territories ...
The Fluvial Imagination
(2022)
Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world’s first “water-exporting country” when it signed a 1986 treaty with its powerful neighbor. An elaborate network of ...
Networked Refugees
(2021)
Almost 68.5 million refugees in the world today live in a protection gap, the chasm between protections stipulated in the Geneva Convention and the abrogation of those responsibilities by aid agencies. With dwindling ...
Sensitive Reading
(2022)
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What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This ...
Acquired Alterity
(2022)
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This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. ...
Accidental Holy Land
(2022)
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Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years ...
Cinematic Independence
(2022)
Cinematic Independence traces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions ...
Hydrohumanities
(2021)
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
Discourse about water and power in the modern era have largely focused on human power over water: who gets to own and control a ...
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine
(2021)
The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been at the center of the Palestinian national struggle for a very long time. This book critically explores the meaning of Palestinian statehood and the challenges that ...
The Funeral of Mr. Wang
(2021)
In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has increased ...
What Makes a Church Sacred?
(2021)
What is the purpose of a church? Who owns a church? Mary K. Farag persuasively demonstrates that three groups in late antiquity were concerned with these questions: Christian leaders, wealthy laypersons, and lawmakers. ...
Law as Reproduction and Revolution
(2021)
This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social ...
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine
(2021)
The quest for an inclusive and independent state has been at the center of the Palestinian national struggle for a very long time. This book critically explores the meaning of Palestinian statehood and the challenges that ...