Three Decades Since Kathy Edin's Making Ends Meet -
two special issues from Russell Sage!
@ffcws.bsky.social
Coming in hot off the presses
A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today.
@lbmcgrath.bsky.social's Middlemen is now available (23 June UK pub)!
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Starting today, I’m a tenured professor at Stanford. I’m thrilled and grateful to my generous mentors and brilliant students.
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"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away."
me in @bostonreview.bsky.social
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Prof. @mivich.bsky.social's book The Division of Rationalized Labor is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. Congrats, Michelle! @sssp1org.bsky.social
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In Becoming an Abolitionist, Derecka Purnell examines how one cannot separate putting an end to policing from broader struggles for freedom.
My new piece in @issuesinst.bsky.social with @cyberlyra.bsky.social comes at an urgent moment in science policy. New OMB rules and EOs threaten to politicize science and strip it of the democratic norms, autonomy, and pluralism meant to protect science as and for democracy
issues.org/merton-redux...
Michael Gibson-Light
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
New article theorizing the relational mechanisms that reproduce criminal legal inequalities. Come for the theory; stay for the review of cutting-edge research showing how social closure, exploitation, and claims-making drive inequality under the law
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This article outlines a relational theory of legal inequality through a review of recent studies of crime, law, and deviance. I argue that three relational mechanisms—claims-making, social closure, a...
