The Third Reich subjected some one hundred thousand individuals to a pernicious anti-homosexual campaign that included censorship, surveillance, medical experimentation, and death. Credible scholarship suggests that as many as fifteen thousand were interned in concentration camps, though the actual names and numbers of all those who suffered and died will never be known. Today, prevailing […]
During the crucial period of its formation, the opposing forces of corruption and anticorruption shaped Venezuela’s new national state and its relationship with society. National strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, who ruled from 1908 to 1935, fastened control over key areas of the economy, extracted wealth from the Venezuelan people, and distributed resources to favorites. Utilizing […]
Founded in 2019, the Prison Agriculture Lab is a collaborative space for inquiry and action that links innovative research, science translation and storytelling, and public engagement committed to challenging inequities in the criminal punishment system in the United States. Prison agriculture is not only important as a practice that is central to the development and […]
From project introduction: “A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado invites users to explore nuclear geographies, policy issues, artistic responses, and personal and scholarly reflections on the U.S. nuclear complex. Colorado is a microcosm of the U.S. nuclear apparatus. The state has seen uranium mining, plutonium processing, underground defense posts and labs, active air force bases, […]
While the growing attention to trans rights and the development of trans-specific interest groups suggest that the time is right for a trans rights movement akin to prior civil rights movements, The Politics of Right Sex explores the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans communities. Synthesizing critical theory, transgender […]
In this special issue of the journal, we explore new theoretical and empirical interventions in environmental justice. The compilation of articles examines how neoliberal policy measures impact social mobilization around environmental injustices and other inequalities. Authors in this volume focus on sites of acceptance, quiescence, and resistance in the face of industrial, hazardous, or other […]
This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline. It offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of environmental sociology and its role in this era of intensified national and global environmental crises. Its timely frameworks and high-impact chapters will assist in navigating […]
As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world—from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments—social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that are doing so much harm to the planet and people? Sociologists Stephanie A. Malin and Meghan Elizbeth Kallman offer […]
This collection examines the continuities and changes that have set the Dominican political system apart from its Latin American counterparts over the last couple of decades. Whereas traditional political parties have lost support throughout Latin America and electoral systems have devolved into illiberal democracies, Dominican democracy remains flawed but vibrant with a popular embrace of […]
In Souls under Siege, explore how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century. Many people understood both plague and war as the symptoms of spiritual sicknesses caused by excessive sin, and they […]
