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Better World Book Party 2021
December 8, 2021 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate this year’s published authors and editors from the UCSC Division of Social Sciences. The event will be held in-person at the Namaste Lounge. All are welcome!
For more information about the books visit our Better World Books page.
Sponsored by the Institute for Social Transformation.
2021 Social Science Authors and Editors:

Hillary Angelo, Sociology
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens

Chris Benner, Environmental Studies and Sociology
Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter

Heather Bullock, Psychology
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty

Melissa Caldwell, Anthropology
Why Food Matters: Critical Debates in Food Studies

Roberto de Roock, Education
The Handbook of Critical Literacies

James Doucet-Battle, Sociology
Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes

Sylvanna Falcón, Latin America and Latino Studies
Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship

David Gordon, Politics
Cities on the World Stage: The Politics of Global Urban Climate Governance

Camilla Hawthorne, Sociology
The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders, and Citizenship

Fernando Leiva, Latin America and Latino Studies
The Left Hand of Capital: Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile

Mark Fathi Massoud, Politics
Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics

Steve McKay, Sociology
Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship

Bob Meister, Politics and History of Consciousness
Justice Is an Option: A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century

Catherine Ramirez, Latin America and Latino Studies
Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship

Tsim Schneider, Anthropology
The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California

Daniel Wirls, Politics
The Senate: From White Supremacy to Government Gridlock

Pat Zavella, Latin American & Latino Studies
The Movement for Reproductive Justice:
Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism