Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Imagine yourself without a face—the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our …

Decision-making in urban contexts is increasingly characterized by a depoliticized
environment that has normalized neoliberal urban policies. These are further pursued in …

Street-level bureaucrats working in the field of migration enforcement have the uneasy task
of finding irregularised migrants and processing their cases–often until deportation. As the …

The term “urban ecology” has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the
social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental …

This article examines perspectives and practices related to social triage and the exclusion of
criminalized and marginalized individuals in community services such as shelters, mental …

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city
has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New …

Winner of the National Communication Association's 2018 Diamond Anniversary Book
Award With the exception of slave narratives, there are few stories of black international …

In popular, legal, and academic discourses, the term" human rights" is now almost always
discussed in relation to its opposite: human rights abuses. Syllabi, textbooks, and articles …

Current trends in humanitarian accountability are unpacked through the examination of an
accountability system put in place after the 2010 monsoon floods in Pakistan. Humanitarian …

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization
impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminist …