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David Bissell, “Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities” (MIT Press, 2018)
David Bissell
Transit Life
How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities
MIT Press, 2018

New Books in Australian and New Zealand StudiesNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 20, 2019 Peter Ekman

What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become? In Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities (MIT Press, 2018), geographer David Bissell contends that to commute is to enter a... Read More
J. Dyck and E. Lascher, “Initiatives without Engagement: A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects” (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Joshua Dyck and Edward Lascher
Initiatives without Engagement
A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects
University of Michigan Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network May 17, 2019 Heath Brown

Ballot initiatives offer voters the chance to directly determine the outcome of state policy change. Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in political efficacy and participate more in the future? Or is the initiative process ultimately undemocratic in the sense that those who participate grow less interested in participating... Read More
David Courtwright, “The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business” (Harvard UP, 2019)
David Courtwright
The Age of Addiction
How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Harvard University Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network May 10, 2019 Lucas Richert

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse. Today I talked with historian David Courtwright about the global nature of pleasure, vice, and capitalism. His new book is called The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business... Read More
Lindsey N. Kingston, “Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Lindsey N. Kingston
Fully Human
Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in LawNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 8, 2019 Lilly Goren

Lindsey N. Kingston’s new book, Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights (Oxford University Press, 2019) interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what it means, how it works, how it is applied and understood, and where there are clear gaps in that application. This is a wide-ranging, rigorously researched examination of... Read More
Carrie Baker, “Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Carrie Baker
Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade
Gender, Race, and Politics
Cambridge University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network May 8, 2019 Kyle McMillen

Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Carrie Baker‘s Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender, Race, and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2018) examines how politically and ideologically diverse activists joined together to change perceptions and... Read More
Jeanne Theoharis, “The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South” (NYU Press, 2019)
Jeanne Theoharis
The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North
Segregation and Struggle outside of the South
New York University Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network May 6, 2019 Beth Harpaz

In this New Books Network/Gotham Center for NYC History podcast, guest host Beth Harpaz, editor of the City University of New York website SUM, interviews Jeanne Theoharis, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College. Their topic is a new book just out from NYU Press, co-edited by Theoharis, called The... Read More