Society & Social Sciences

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Current knowledge about the public social welfare sphere is vast, but fragmented. Boundaries defined by geography, language, and culture hinder kno...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to...

In Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to...

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretatio...

From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and pa...

'An endlessly fascinating tour of the many different factors influencing our decision-making and reasoning' David Robson, author of The Expectation...

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotion...

As a versatile and creative thinker, Oswald Wiener (1935—2021) developed from an artist into a researcher out of sheer necessity. At the end of his...

Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges—mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citize...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This ...

The Failure of Democracy in South Korea explores the political instability and collapse of South Korea’s Second Republic following a military coup ...

In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using ...

How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return. From Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez to Albert Pujols and Juan...