SSRC Books

The SSRC publishes innovative and original research from its programs and networks through its own imprint, in co-publications with Columbia University Press, and with other university and independent publishers.

Most Recent Titles

Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profit
2009.
A Portrait of Louisiana
9/17/09. Sarah Burd-Sharps ; Eduardo Borges Martins ; Kristen Lewis
A Portrait of Mississippi
2009. Sarah Burd-Sharps ; Eduardo Borges Martins ; Kristen Lewis
Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
2009. Andrew Sartori
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
2009. Tom Boellstorff
Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad
2009. Steven Heydemann (Editor); David C. Hammack (Editor)
Imagining the Sacred Past: Hagiography and Power in Early Normandy
2009. Samantha Herrick
Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation
2009. Amy Elizabeth Wendling
Living Memory: The Social Aesthetics in a Northern Italian Town
2009. Jillian Cavanaugh
Origins, Journeys and Returns: Social Justice in International Education
2009. Joan Dassin (Editor); Toby A Volkman (Editor); Mary S. Zurbuchen (Editor)
Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk
2009. Mitchell Orenstein
Recipes for Immortality: Healing, Religion, and Community in South India
2009. Richard S. Weiss
Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa
2009. Jonathan Miran
Social Protection and the Market in Latin America: The Transformation of Social Security Institutions
2009. Sarah Brooks
The North Caucasus: Histories, Diasporas and Current Challenges
2009.
Transitional Justice and Development: Making Connections
June 2009. Roger Duthie (Editor); Pablo de Greiff (Editor)
Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds
2009. Rita J. King ; Joshua S. Fouts
Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis: Ho Chi Minh City in Comparative Perspectives
2009 forthcoming.
Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution
2009. James David Straker
Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States
May 2008. David McConnell (Editor); Yasushi Watanabe (Editor)
A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration
2008. David Scott Fitzgerald
Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question
2008. Andrew Lakoff (Editor); Stephen J. Collier (Editor)
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
2008. Michelle Renee Scott
Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border
2008. Casey Walsh
Chinese Street Opera in Singapore
2008. Tong Soon Lee
Darfur: A New History of a Long War (revised and updated)
2008. Julie Flint ; Alex de Waal
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library)
2008. Jeremy Graham Prestholdt
Drugs, Thugs and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
2008. O. Hugo Benavides
Empire and Dissent: The United States and Latin America
2008. Fred Rosen (Editor)
Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship
2008. Charles R Hale (Editor)
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)
2008. Justin McDaniel
Health at Risk: America’s Ailing Health System--and How to Heal It
2008. Jacob S Hacker
ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks
2008. Ayesha Zainudeen (Editor); Rohan Samarajiva (Editor)
Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
2008. Richard Alba (Editor); Josh DeWind (Editor); Albert Raboteau (Editor)
Interdisciplinary Research: Case Studies from Health and Social Science
2008. Patricia Rosenfield (Editor); Norman B. Anderson (Editor); Frank Kessel (Editor)
Interrogating Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India
2008. Monirul Hussain
Judicial Power and National Politics: Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel
2008. Patricia Woods
Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference
2008. Hazel Rose Markus (Editor); Martha Minow (Editor); Richard Shweder (Editor)
La Diaspora Cubana en México: Terceros Espacios y Miradas Excéntricas
2008. Tanya Nicole Weimer
Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity
2008. Katherine Newman
Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
2008. Gabriel Alexander Ondetti
Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States
2008. Scott Gehlbach
Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960
2008. Eiko Maruko Siniawer
Social Democracy Inside Out: Government Partisanship, Insiders, and Outsiders in Industrialized Democracies
2008. Francisco David Rueda
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China
2008. Kathryn Edgerton
The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009
2008. Sarah Burd-Sharps (Editor); Eduardo Borges Martins (Editor); Kristen Lewis (Editor)
The Medieval Prison: A Social History
2008. Guy Geltner
The Soviet Empire of Signs: A History of the Tartu School of Semiotics
2008. Maxim Waldstein
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
2008. Christopher Kelty
Visualizing Social Science: Photographs by Rachel Tanur
2008. Judith M Tanur (Editor)
When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia
2008. Donna F. Murdock
Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India
2008. Sarah K. Pinto
A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
2007. Tom Boellstorff
Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing
2007. Teri Caraway
Bridging Islands: Venture Companies and the Future of Japanese and American Industries
2007. Robert Kneller
Building States without Society: The Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary
2007. Beate Sissenich
Classical Sociological Theory
2007. James Moody (Editor); Indermohan Virk (Editor); Joseph Gerteis (Editor); Steve Pfaff (Editor); Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future
2007. Yibing Huang
Contemporary Sociological Theory
2007. James Moody (Editor); Indermohan Virk (Editor); Joseph Gerteis (Editor); Steve Pfaff (Editor); Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea
2007. Yves Emmanuel Tiberghien
Friends Indeed?: The United Nations, Groups of Friends, and the Resolution of Conflict
2007. Teresa Whitfield
Globalization, Business Politics and Development: North Africa in Comparative Perspective
2007. Melani Cammett
Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956
2007. Reinaldo L. Roman
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
2007. Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Islamic Sufism Unbound: Politics and Piety in Twenty-first Century Pakistan
2007. Robert Thomas Rozehnal
Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies
2007. Alexander Mayer-Rieckh (Editor); Pablo de Greiff (Editor)
Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831 (Pitt Latin American Studies)
2007. Marixa Lasso
Nationalism and Self-Government: The Politics of Autonomy in Scotland and Catalonia
2007. Scott Greer
Nations Matter: Citizenship, Solidarity, and the American Dream
2007. Craig Calhoun
Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The view from the Ground Floor
2007. Paula M. Pickering
Practicing Culture
2007. Richard Sennett (Editor); Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
2007. Anibal Perez-Linan
Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy
2007. Candice Marie Jenkins
Reform and the Non-State Economy in China: The Political Economy of Liberalization Strategies
2007. Hongyi Lai
Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries
2007. Michael Tomz
Researching Migration: Stories from the Field
2007. Louis DeSipio (Editor); Manuel Garcia y Griego (Editor); Sherrie Kossoudji (Editor)
Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa
2007. Diana K. Davis
Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
2007. Alejandro Portes (Editor); Josh DeWind (Editor)
Sociology in America
2007. Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture
2007. Joe Karaganis (Editor)
Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts
2007. Brendan O’Leary (Editor); John Tirman (Editor); Marianne Heiberg (Editor)
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen
2007. Flagg Miller
The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth
2007. Jessica T. Allina-Pisano
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace
2007. Alex de Waal (Editor)
Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
2006. Julia Lynch
AIDS and Power: Why There is No Political Crisis - Yet
2006. Alex de Waal
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon
2006. Lara Deeb
Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism
2006. Brian McLaren
Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
2006. Heidi Feldman
Child Soldiers in Africa
2006. Alcinda Honwana
Cows, Kin, and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability
2006. Susan Crate
Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe
2006. Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos (Editor); P. Nikiforos Diamandouros (Editor); Richard Gunther (Editor)
Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
2006. Melissa S. Fisher (Editor); Greg Downey (Editor)
Illicit Flows and Criminal Things: States, Borders, and the Other Side of Globalization
2006. Itty Abraham (Editor); Willem Van Schendel (Editor)
Journey of Song: Public Life and Morality in Cameroon
2006. Clare Ignatowski
Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power
2006. Frederick Cooper (Editor); Kevin W. Moore (Editor); Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Market Reform in Society: Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru
2006. Moises Arce
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 11: El pasado en el futuro: los movimientos juveniles
2006. Elizabeth Jelin (Editor); Diego Alejandro Sempol Fernandez (Editor)
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 12: Subjetividad y figuras de la memoria
2006. Elizabeth Jelin (Editor); Susana Kaufman (Editor)
Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural Change
2006. John Tirman (Editor); Edward Newman (Editor); Ramesh Thakur (Editor)
Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American Politics
2006. Leon Sigal
Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005
2006. Duanfang Lu
State and Society in Conflict
2006. Paul W. Drake (Editor); Eric Hershberg (Editor)
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba And the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery
2006. Matt D. Childs
The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West
2006. Sheldon Garon (Editor); Patricia Maclachlan (Editor)
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
2006. Scott Straus
Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army
2006. Tim Allen
Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis
2006. Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
What Happened to the Women?: Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
2006. Ruth Rubio-Marin (Editor)
Youth, Globalization, and the Law
2006. Ronald Kassimir (Editor); Sudhir Venkatesh (Editor)
Ciudades Translocales: Espacios, flujo, representación—Perspectivas desde las Américas
2005. Rossana Reguillo (Editor); Marcial Godoy-Anativia (Editor)
Darfur: A Short History of a Long War
2005. Julie Flint ; Alex de Waal
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
2005. Robert Latham (Editor); Saskia Sassen (Editor)
Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in the United States
2005. Alexandra M. Stern
Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan
2005. Alex de Waal
Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America
2005. Karen I. Leonard (Editor); Alex Stepick (Editor); Manuel Vásquez (Editor); Jennifer Holdaway (Editor)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
2005. Caroline Elkins
Makers & Breakers: Children & Youth in Postcolonial Africa
2005. Filip De Boeck (Editor); Alcinda Honwana (Editor)
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 10: Memorias militares sobre la represión en el Cono Sur: visiones en disputa en dictadura y democracia
2005. Felipe Aguero (Editor); Eric Hershberg (Editor)
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 9: Escrituras, imágenes y escenarios ante le represión
2005. Ana Longoni (Editor); Elizabeth Jelin (Editor)
Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region
2005. T.J. Pempel (Editor)
Ritual and World Change in a Balinese Princedom
2005. Lene Pedersen
The Development Imperative: Toward a People-Centered Approach
2005. Christy Thornton (Editor); Eric Hershberg (Editor)
The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
2005. Sanford Jacoby
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
2005. Tom Boellstorff
The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism
2005. Clifford Bob
UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
2005. Richard Jolly ; Thomas G. Weiss ; Louis Emmerij ; Tatiana Carayannis
Beyond Memory: The Crimean Tartars’ Deportation and Return
2004. Greta L. Uehling
Cartographic Mexico: A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes
2004. Ray Craib
Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
2004. Gretchen Helmke
Homeland Conceptions and Ethnic Integration Among Kazakhstan’s Germans and Koreans (Mellen Studies in Geography, V. 13)
2004. Alexander Colman Diener
Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
2004. Colin Wayne Leach (Editor); Donna Gabaccia (Editor)
Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa
2004. Alex de Waal (Editor)
Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
2004. Alejandra Bronfman
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 7: Educación y memoria. La escuela elabora el pasado
2004. Federico Guillermo Lorenz (Editor); Elizabeth Jelin (Editor)
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 8: Iglesia, represión y memoria. El caso chileno.
2004. Maria Angelica Cruz
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood
2004. Neil Brenner
Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
2004. George M. Frederickson (Editor); Nancy Foner (Editor)
Procedural Politics: Issues, Influence, and Institutional Choice in the European Union (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
2004. Joseph Jupille
Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space
2004. Manu Goswami
The Maze of Fear: Security and Migration After 9/11
2004. John Tirman (Editor)
Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present
2003. James Cracraft (Editor); Daniel Rowland (Editor)
Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship between Information Technology and Security
2003. Robert Latham (Editor)
Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands
2003. Renato Rosaldo (Editor)
Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico
2003. Caroline Charlotte Beer
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 5: Monumentos, memoriales y marcas territoriales
2003. Elizabeth Jelin (Editor); Victoria Langland (Editor)
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 6: Luchas locales, comunidades e identidades
2003. Elizabeth Jelin (Editor); Ponciano Del Pino (Editor)
Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
2003. Paul Greenough (Editor); Anna Tsing (Editor)
Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa
2003. Evan Lieberman
Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
2003. James Sweet
Rethinking the Late Ottoman Empire: A Comparative Social and Political History of Albania and Yemen, 1878-1918
2003. Isa Blumi
Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies
2003. Mala Htun
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in India
2003. William Mazzarella
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge: The Soviet Space Race with Apollo
2003. Asif A. Siddiqi
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
2003. Elizabeth Jelin
The University of Lubumbashi 1990—2002: A Society in Distress Bets on the Future
2003. Veronique Klauber (Editor); Bogumil Jewsiewicki (Editor)
Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)
2002. Tamar Gutner
Critical Views of Sept. 11: Analyses from Around the World
2002. Eric Hershberg (Editor); Kevin W. Moore (Editor)
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
2002. Joe Karaganis (Editor); Paul Price (Editor); Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Energy Market Restructuring and the Environment: Governance and Public Goods in Globalized Markets
2002. Martha C. Harris
Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies
2002. Hazel Rose Markus (Editor); Martha Minow (Editor); Richard Shweder (Editor)
Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico (1939-1975)
2002. Sebastiaan Faber
Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace
2002. William G. O'Neill
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 1: Los trabajos de la memoria
2002. Elizabeth Jelin
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 2: Del estrado a la pantalla: Las imágenes del juicio a los ex comandantes en Argentina
2002. Claudia Feld
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 3: Las conmemoraciones: Las disputas en las fechas "in-felices"
2002. Elizabeth Jelin
Memorias de la Represión Vol. 4: Los Archivos de la Represión: Documentos, Memoria y Verdad
2002. Ludmila da Silva Catela
Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
2002. C. A. Bayly (Editor); Leila Fawaz (Editor)
Understanding September 11
2002. Paul Price (Editor); Ashley S. Timmer (Editor); Craig Calhoun (Editor)
Democracy, Liberalism, and War
2001. Tarak Barkawi (Editor); Mark Laffey (Editor)
Intervention & Transnationalism in Africa: Global—Local Networks of Power
2001. Ronald Kassimir (Editor); Thomas Callaghy (Editor); Robert Latham (Editor)
Japan in the Muromachi Age
2001. Toyoda Takeshi (Editor); John W. Hall (Editor)
Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe
2001. P. Nikiforos Diamandouros (Editor); Richard Gunther (Editor)
Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
2001. Arthur M Kleinman (Editor); Pamela Reynolds (Editor); Veena Das (Editor); Margaret Lock (Editor); Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (Editor)
Caring for the Elderly in Japan and the US: Practices and Policies
2000. Susan Orpett Long (Editor)
Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery
2000. Stewart Patrick (Editor); Shepard Forman (Editor)
Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
2000. Nancy Foner (Editor); Ruben Rumbaut (Editor); Steven J. Gold (Editor)
Investment and Risk in Africa
2000. Paul Collier (Editor); Catherine Pattillo (Editor)
Japan and Russia: The Tortuous Path to Normalization
2000. Gilbert F. Rozman (Editor)
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry
2000. Margaret Lock (Editor); Alberto Cambrosio (Editor); Allen Young (Editor)
Models of Capitalism and Latin American Development
2000. Evelyne Huber (Editor)
Other Pasts: Women, Gender and History in Early Modern Southeast Asia
2000. Barbara W. Andaya
Recent Transformations in Korean Law and Society
2000. Dae-Kyu Yoon (Editor)
Recovering from Conflict: Strategy for an International Response
2000. Stewart Patrick (Editor); Dick Salomons (Editor); Shepard Forman (Editor)
Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia
2000. Mushtaq H. Khan (Editor); Jomo K Sundaram (Editor)
Self and Story in Russian History
2000. Stephanie Sandler (Editor); Laura Engelstein (Editor)
Violence and Subjectivity
2000. Arthur M Kleinman (Editor); Pamela Reynolds (Editor); Veena Das (Editor); Mamphela Aletta Ramphele (Editor)
War, Institutions and Social Change in the Middle East
2000. Steven Heydemann (Editor)
A Guide to the Social Science Research Council Archives at the Rockefeller Archive Center
1999. Kenneth W. Rose (Compiler)
Ciudadanía Política y Formación de las Naciones : Perspectivas Históricas de América Latina [Political Citizenship and the Formation of Nationhood : Historical Perspectives on Latin America]
1999. Hilda Sabato (Editor)
Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam
1999. Vicente L. Rafael (Editor)
La Guerra de 1898 [The War of 1898]
1999. Manuel Lopez Diaz (Editor)
The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience
1999. Charles Hirschman (Editor); Philip Kasinitz (Editor); Josh DeWind (Editor)
The Illicit Global Economy and State Power
1999. Peter Andreas ; H. Richard Friman
The Politics of Strategic Adjustment: Ideas, Institutions, and Interests
1999. Edward Rhodes (Editor); Peter Trubowitz (Editor); Emily Goldman (Editor)
The Worlds of Indian Industrial Labour
1999. Jan Breman (Editor); Karin Kapadia (Editor); Jonathan Parry (Editor)
Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World
1999. Katherine Verdery (Editor); Michael Burawoy (Editor)
Social Science Research Council, 1923-1998
2001. Kenton W. Worcester