At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government’s attempt to raise pork prices through the… 
Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society…
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today’s health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence…
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty, edited by Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Eric Holt-Giménez, Deniz Kandiyoti, Tony Weis and Wendy Wolford…
Faculty Associate Sanford Schram has a new book out September 2015 – The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford). As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the…
Mallika Bose is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University, USA. Paula Horrigan is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University, USA. Cheryl Doble is Associate Professor…
Faculty Associate Nancy Foner co-authored a recent paper in International Migration Review with Richard Alba. The paper, “Comparing Immigrant Integration in North America and Western Europe: How Much Do the…
Marc Edelman is professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Carlos Oya is Reader in Political Economy of Development at SOAS, University…
The chorus of the Christian hymn “Amazing Grace” reads, “I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see.” Composed by a minister who formerly…
How can we confront the problems of diminished democracy, pervasive economic inequality, and persistent global poverty? Is it possible to fulfill the dual aims of deepening democratic participation and achieving…
At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government’s attempt to raise pork prices through the…
Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society…
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today’s health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence…
Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty, edited by Roosevelt House Faculty Associate Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Eric Holt-Giménez, Deniz Kandiyoti, Tony Weis and Wendy Wolford…
Faculty Associate Sanford Schram has a new book out September 2015 – The Return of Ordinary Capitalism: Neoliberalism, Precarity, Occupy (Oxford). As Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward argued in the…
Mallika Bose is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University, USA. Paula Horrigan is Associate Professor of landscape architecture at Cornell University, USA. Cheryl Doble is Associate Professor…
Facing a coronavirus-induced recession, states and cities are looking at an acute fiscal crisis, with the National Governors Association requesting $500 billion in fiscal relief from the federal government. In recessions, the…
In the matter of where things stand on basic income in Canada, I find that a great deal depends on how it is named and framed. By clearing away some…
I graduated with a PhD in sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center in 1996. Shortly after, I co-founded a network of academics and activists interested in promoting discussion of the…
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