Award-Winning Books: Community Organizing and Social Movements
Allies and Obstacles
Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities
348 pages
6 x 9
2 tables
PB: 978-1-4399-1633-9 $34.95 Jun 20
HC: 978-1-4399-1632-2 $109.50 Jun 20
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1634-6 $34.95 Jun 20
Scholarly Achievement Award for a Book, North Central Sociological Association, 2021
Allison Carey, recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Career in the Sociology of Disability from the Disability and Society section of the American Sociological Association
Architectures of Revolt
The Cinematic City circa 1968
262 pages
6 x 9
34 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1004-7 $36.95 Jun 18
HC: 978-1-4399-1003-0 $99.50 Jun 18
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1005-4 $36.95 Jun 18
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2019
Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven
Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement
288 pages
6 x 9
5 tables, 6 figures, 2 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1707-7 $39.95 Jan 19
HC: 978-1-4399-1706-0 $104.50 Jan 19
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1708-4 $39.95 Jan 19
Named one of the "Best Books" of 2019 by Foreign Affairs
Taiwan's Academica Sinica Book Award, 2019
Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City
Somerville, MA
190 pages
6 x 9
3 figures, 5 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1013-9 $29.95 Mar 13
HC: 978-1-4399-1012-2 $81.50 Mar 13
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1014-6 $29.95 Mar 13
Susan Ostrander is the 2019 recipient of the ARNOVA Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award
The Disability Rights Movement
From Charity to Confrontation
Updated Edition
360 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-4399-0744-3 $35.95 Jun 11
HC: 978-1-4399-0743-6 $91.50 Jun 11
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0745-0 $35.95 Jun 11
Frieda Zames is the recipient of the Eileen Healy Public Service Award, 2003
The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
240 pages
6 x 9
14 tables, 2 figs., 8 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-262-4 $35.95 Jul 94
HC: 978-1-56639-123-8 $85.50 Jan 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0463-3 $35.95
Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999
Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995
Good Reasons to Run
Women and Political Candidacy
324 pages
6 x 9
8 tables, 32 figures, 2 maps
PB: 978-1-4399-1956-9 $37.95 May 20
HC: 978-1-4399-1955-2 $109.50 May 20
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1957-6 $37.95 May 20
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2020
Mirya Holman, recipient Erika Fairchild Award from the Southern Political Science Association's Women's Caucus, 2022
It Comes from the People
Community Development and Local Theology
400 pages
6 x 9
3 figs., 25 halftones, 1 maps
PB: 978-1-56639-212-9 $34.95 May 95
HC: 978-1-56639-211-2 $83.50 Jun 95
Co-winner for the Transformational Politics Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1996
A Life in the Struggle
Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
320 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-321-8 $32.95 May 89
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0775-7 $32.95 Feb 95
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Race Relations, 1989
Mobilizing Gay Singapore
Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State
228 pages
6 x 9
4 tables, 1 map
PB: 978-1-4399-1032-0 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1031-3 $70.50 Apr 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1033-7 $30.95 Apr 14
Distinguished Book Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association, 2015
Awarded a certificate from the International Convention of Asia Scholar's Book Prize acknowledging it as Ground-Breaking Matter in the Social Sciences category by the 2015 Reading Committee, 2015
Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
296 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 5 figs., 45 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-604-9 $31.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-603-2 $81.50 Apr 08
Ebook: 978-1-59213-605-6 $31.95 Apr 08
Urban Communication Foundation Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award, 2008
Money for Change
Social Movement Philanthropy at the Haymarket People's Fund
256 pages
5.5 x 8.25
PB: 978-1-56639-364-5 $36.95 Mar 97
HC: 978-1-56639-363-8 $80.50 Nov 95
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0545-6 $35.95 Mar 97
Susan Ostrander is the 2019 recipient of the ARNOVA Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award
Movements in Times of Democratic Transition
390 pages
6 x 9
34 tables, 16 figures
PB: 978-1-4399-1181-5 $35.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1180-8 $95.50 Jan 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1182-2 $35.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation
248 pages
6 x 9
11 figures, 6 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1203-4 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1202-7 $85.50 Jul 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1204-1 $30.95 Jul 15
National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Division Book of the Year 2017
Power, Participation, and Protest in Flint, Michigan
Unpacking the Policy Paradox of Municipal Takeovers
272 pages
5.25 x 8.5
11 tables, 4 figures, 5 halftones, 1 map
PB: 978-1-4399-1567-7 $32.95 Oct 19
HC: 978-1-4399-1566-0 $94.50 Oct 19
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1568-4 $32.95 Oct 19
American Society for Public Administration Section on Democracy and Social Justice Book Award, 2019
American Political Science Association Robert A. Dahl Award, 2020
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2020