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  • Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities

    Studying the Facilities That Sustain Community, Social Networks, and Trust

    by Peter Dirksmeier, Angelina Göb, Liza Griffin, Kay Pallaris, Hannah Widmer, Lee Crookes, Beth Perry, Irene Manzini Ceinar, Regan Koch, Liz Cox, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Michelle L. Johnson, Laura Landau, David Trouille, Michael DeLand, Alasdair Jones, Sophie Yarker, Luke Billingham, Alison Stennng, Olivia Theocharides-Feldman, Julia King, David Prytherch, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiro, Mave Blackman, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Lucy Natarajan, Myfanwy Taylor, John Tomaney, Gesine Tuitjer, Leonie Tuitjer, Anna-Lisa Müller, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rachel Aldred, Asa Thomas, Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Salene Schloffel-Armstrong, David Conradson, Owen Garling, Matthew Wolfe, Eric Klinenberg ...
    From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Fútbol in the Park

    Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties

    by David Trouille ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    You know the scene: amateur soccer players battling over the ball, spectators cheering from the sidelines, vendors selling their wares from carts. Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the United States, and numerous communities are witnessing one of the hallmarks of this transformation: the emergence of park soccer. In Fútbol in the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Making Democracy Fun

    How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics

    by Josh A. Lerner ...
    Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun ... Read more

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  • Everyday Revolutions

    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

    by Marina A. Sitrin ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain ... Read more

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  • We Don't Need Another Hero

    Struggle, Hope, and Possibility in the Age of High-Stakes Schooling

    by Gregory Michie ...
    In his latest book, bestselling author Gregory Michie critiques high-stakes schooling and provides a powerful alternative vision of teaching as a humanistic enterprise, students as multidimensional beings, and schools as spaces where young people can imagine and become, not just achieve. Drawing on his experiences over the past two decades as a classroom teacher, community volunteer, researcher, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • I'm Neither Here nor There

    Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

    by Patricia Zavella ...
    I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s central coast struggle for agency amid the region’s deteriorating economic conditions and ... Read more

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  • Owners of the Sidewalk

    Security and Survival in the Informal City

    by Daniel M. Goldstein ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to survive. In Owners of the Sidewalk Daniel M. Goldstein examines the ways these systems correlate in the marginal spaces of the Latin American city. Collaborating with the Cancha's legal and permanent ... Read more

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  • Domestica

    Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface

    by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ...
    In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context. ... Read more

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  • Brown and Gay in LA

    The Lives of Immigrant Sons

    by Anthony Christian Ocampo ...
    Series series Asian American Sociology
    Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention, 2024 Best Book Award, given by the Asia and Asian America section of the American Sociological AssociationThe stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los AngelesGrowing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay... ... Read more

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  • Academic Profiling

    Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap

    by Gilda L. Ochoa ...
    Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In Academic Profiling, Gilda L. Ochoa addresses this so-called gap by going directly to the source. At one California public high school where the controversy is lived ... Read more

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  • The Quality of Home Runs

    The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball

    by Thomas F. Carter ...
    In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carter’s lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball ... Read more

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