Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
Huber, professor of geography and the environment, focuses on the everyday material struggle of the working-class over access to energy, food, housing and transportation. Huber argues that these necessities are core industries that need to be decarbonized.
See related: Climate Change
The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
Faculty members Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane are among the co-editors and contributors to this handbook, which investigates the social contexts of health—including food and nutrition, race, class, ethnicity, trauma, gender, mental illness and the environment—to explain the complicated nature of illness.
See related: Aging, Gender and Sex, Health Policy, Natural Disasters, Race & Ethnicity
Project-Think and the Fragmentation and Defragmentation of Civil Society in Egypt, Palestine, and Turkey
See related: Middle East & North Africa, Non-governmental Organizations
Perceived Impacts of COVID-19 on Wellbeing among US Working-age Adults with ADL Difficulty
See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, Mental Health
Churn in the older adult SNAP population
See related: Health Policy
The Economics of COVID-19
See related: COVID-19
COVID-19 Negatively Impacted Health and Social Relationships among Working-Age Adults with Disabilities
Plant-Centered Diets Among Older Adults: The Need for Improved Nutritional Health Messaging
One way aging adults may mitigate disease onset and progression is through increased consumption of plant-based foods.
Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader
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The Awakening Coast
The Awakening Coast offers the first comprehensive English-language selection of the writings of the multinational missionaries who established the Moravian faith among the indigenous and Afro-descendant populations through the turbulent years of the Great Awakening of 1881 to 1882, when converts flocked to the church and the mission’s membership more than doubled.
See related: Religion
Nine Ways Grandparenting is Changing with the COVID-19 Pandemic
This research brief describes these long-term sociodemographic changes and uses in-depth interviews conducted before the pandemic to illustrate nine specific ways grandparenting is shifting in the U.S.
COVID-19 Has Reduced the Latino Mortality Advantage among Older Adults
This research brief examines Latino-white differences in COVID-19 mortality rates among older adults and describes how those disparities have reduced the Latino mortality advantage in this age group.
Civil Rights, Firearm Safety, and Environmental Protection Policies Predict Better Health among U.S. Midlife Adults
This research brief examines the association between several state policies and self-rated health among adults ages 45-64 from 1993 to 2016.
An Evaluation of the Residential Property Tax Equity in New York City
This report, by Christopher Berry, evaluates property tax regressivity and its causes in New York City.
Introduction: The Politics of the Migrant/Refugee Binary
This article interrogates the categorization and labeling of border crossers, particularly the categories of migrant and refugee as they are used in distinction with one another.
Social Infrastructure (“Third Places”) is Not Distributed Equally Across the U.S.
This data slice shows that third places are not evenly distributed across the U.S.
Tax Housing or Land? Distributional Effects of Property Taxation in Germany
Scientific Americans: Invention, Technology, and National Identity
Bringing together scientific research and popular wonder, Branson charts how everything from mechanical clocks to steam engines informed the creation and expansion of the American nation.
Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975
See related: India