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How to Politicize a People: A Case Study of the Sikh Community
The rise of the Sikh community from relative obscurity to political imperial prominence is a fascinating yet often overlooked story in the West. For students of political science, the Sikh experience ...
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Today’s science skepticism goes back to the scientific revolution
Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...
University of California Press17d
Reading List: Democracy and Its Threats, Essential Reads for Navigating an Uncertain Future
With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political breed, the last outcome of the ...
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Riding Like the Wind
"This absorbing biography, written with both affection and admiration, shows Babb as one of the most indefatigable characters in American literary history."—The New Republic This saga of a writer done ...
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UC Press November Award Winners
Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ...
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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
The rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, when the US ...
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Interview with Vietnamese Dissident Journalist and Author Huy Duc
In this essay, UC Berkeley historian and Journal of Vietnamese Studies Co-Editor Peter Zinoman discusses the detention of Truong Huy San (Huy Duc) and his interview with the imprisoned journalist.
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A Q&A with CPCS Associate Editor Paulina Pospieszna
Paulina Pospieszna is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include democracy promotion, democratization, and democratic ...
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Q&A with Camilo Sanz, author of "Cancer Intersections"
Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally ...
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The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
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A Late Antiquity on its Own Terms: New Material Perspectives on Late Antique Urbanism
Agency-based methods like ANT and MET require investigating the reciprocal impact that humans and things have on one another. Whereas materials (and the objects created from them) lack conscious ...
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"Beyond the Binary" reveals early Muslim jurists' ideas of gender
One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of women in Islamic law. Whereas Muslim conservatives argue that gender-differentiated legal rulings reflect ...