UC Press Blog

Author Venezia Michalsen discusses her motivations for writing the book and the impact she hopes it will have on other Criminology students and scholars.

Author Dana Simmons on her new book, "On Hunger."

Author José Miguel Palacios on what solidarity might mean for film and media studies through Chilean exile film history.

Author Margaret Peacock on Cold War propaganda and the crisis of language in the Middle East.

Author Pat McCoy on risk sharing and the path to achieving economic well-being for all.

Today, there's a broad understanding that American cities are operating in unsustainable ways. How does this untenable model persist? As author Rahim Kurwa explains, it has to do with offloading crises to cities' peripheries.

Examining the case of Colombia, author Alexander Huezo, discusses the challenges and opportunities of applying a global environmental justice framework outside the U.S. communities where it began.

Afterimage's new special issue, "Aesthetics of Perplexity," is interested in examining perplexity as an aesthetic category, in which the experience of confusion or bewilderment can be harnessed as an artistic tactic.

Fifty years after resettlement following the US War in Vietnam, nearly 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees are living with deportation orders. Author Jennifer Huynh explains how Vietnamese communities are building systems of mutual aid to support each other through ongoing removal by the US government.

Author Oneya Fennell Okuwobi on where diversity programs fail and how to imagine changes in our workplaces that center employees.