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Balance of Power
Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic?Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded central banks powers. In 2008, and …
Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.These days, so much of our lives takes place online but what about our afterlives? Thanks …
Master Plans and Minor Acts
An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda.Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a material politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda, …
Indebted Mobilities
An ethnographic rendering of overseas students' fraught encounters studying at an American public university. As states have reduced funding to public universities, many of those …
On Both Sides of the Tracks
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes.Social climbers have often been the core …
Pandemic Workplace
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US …
Structuring Inequality
How inequality was forged, fought over, and forgotten through public policy in metropolitan Chicago. As in many American metropolitan areas, inequality in Chicagoland is visible in …
Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning
A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement.In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins reflects on the ways that aesthetics …
Screening the Operatic Stage
An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.From the early days of television broadcasts to today s …
Precarious Happiness
A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness."e;Gordon s confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new …
Working Women in Jordan
A surprising look at the meaningful social changes in Jordan as lived and navigated by educated women. Jordan has witnessed tremendous societal transformation in its relatively …
Work, Retire, Repeat
A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States-and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national …