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The Politics of Resentment / 1st edition
Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
2016 || Paperback || Katherine Cramer || The University of Chicago Press
Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those...
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Animal Intimacies
Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas
2018 || Paperback || Radhika Govindrajan || The University of Chicago Press
What does -it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate--and intense--moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and nonhuman animals. Built on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the mountain villages of India's Central Himalayas, Radhika Govindrajan's book explores the number of ways that human and animal interact to cultivate relationships as interconnected, r...
Tricks of the Trade / 1st edition
How to Think about Your Research While You're Doing It
1998 || Paperback || Howard S. Becker || The University of Chicago Press
Designed to help students learn how to think about research projects, this guide offers suggestions which cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of the "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum variety in the data; the development of "concepts" to organize findings; and the use of "logical" methods to explore systematically the implications of what is found. The advice ranges from simple tricks such as changing an interview question from "Why?" to ...
The Seductions of Quantification
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
2016 || Paperback || Sally Engle Merry || The University of Chicago Press
We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable.
And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning—and risk hiding or distorting as much as we rev...
Thinking About History
2017 || Paperback || Sarah Maza || The University of Chicago Press
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view t...
Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
2005 || Paperback || Donald S. Lopez Jr. || The University of Chicago Press
Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.
Where Research Begins
Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
2022 || Paperback || Thomas S. Mullaney e.a. || The University of Chicago Press
Critical Terms for Religious Studies
1998 || Paperback || Mark C. Taylor || The University of Chicago Press
Attempting to provide a revitalized, self-aware vocabulary with which the religious diversity of the 20th century can be accurately described and responsibly discussed, this book contains contributions from scholars working in a variety of religious traditions.
Dreamscapes of Modernity
Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
2015 || Paperback || Sheila Jasanoff e.a. || The University of Chicago Press
Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies-including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian ...