California Press Research Articles

David M.Freidenreich: Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022; pp. x + 301.

David M.Freidenreich: Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022; pp. x + 301.

Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology By Florence E.BabbBerkeley: University of California Press. 2018. 304 pp.

Women's Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology By Florence E.BabbBerkeley: University of California Press. 2018. 304 pp.

Book Review: Menace to Empire: Anti‐colonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State, by Moon‐HoJung. University of California Press, Berkeley, Berkeley. 2022. 368 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780520397873

Book Review: Menace to Empire: Anti‐colonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State, by Moon‐HoJung. University of California Press, Berkeley, Berkeley. 2022. 368 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780520397873

Hedged out. Inequality and insecurity on Wall Street. By Megan TobiasNeely, University of California Press. 2022. pp. 336. £22.69 (hbk)

Hedged out. Inequality and insecurity on Wall Street. By Megan TobiasNeely, University of California Press. 2022. pp. 336. £22.69 (hbk)

Emotions Online: Exploring Knowledge Workers’ Emotional Labour in a Digital Context in an Agile IT Company

AbstractDigital technologies and new ways of organising transform the way we experience work. This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of the role of digital emotional labour (EL) among knowledge workers. We investigate the EL involved in digital communication practices among co-located knowledge workers employed in an agile IT-consultancy firm with a relatively flat hierarchy. Based on rich qualitative data, we analyse how the specific socio-material infrastructures of a democratic communication technology called ‘Flowdock’ give rise to EL (Hochschild inAmerican Journal of Sociology, 85(3), 551–575, 1979, University of California Press, 1983). The study contributes theoretically by developing work on EL in a digital context by engaging with Oudshoorn’s (Sociology of Health & Illness, 31(3), 390–405, 2009) term ‘digital proximity’. This implies opening up EL to a more dynamic and situated approach and contributing to the organisational research scrutinising the EL of backstage professionals. The paper concludes that online communication creates new demands of managing emotions in relation to 4 themes key to agile organising: (1) working as whole persons, (2) creating partnerships, (3) unclear decision-making and lastly (4) informal power dynamics. We discuss implications of the overall finding that knowledge workers face increased demands mixing social and technical skills.

Freddy Foks. Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 280. $85.00 (cloth).

Freddy Foks. Participant Observers: Anthropology, Colonial Development, and the Reinvention of Society in Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 280. $85.00 (cloth).

Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth).

Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth).

Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice. By PoojaRangan, AkshyaSaxena, Ragini TharoorSrinivasan, and PavitraSundar (Eds.), Berkeley: University of California Press. 2023. xvii +301 pp.

Thinking with an Accent: Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice. By PoojaRangan, AkshyaSaxena, Ragini TharoorSrinivasan, and PavitraSundar (Eds.), Berkeley: University of California Press. 2023. xvii +301 pp.

Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.

Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore By NicoleFabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.

Review of Gregg Colburn and Clayton P. Aldern 2022: Homelessness is a housing problem: How structural factors explain U.S. patterns. Oakland: University of California Press.

Review of Gregg Colburn and Clayton P. Aldern 2022: Homelessness is a housing problem: How structural factors explain U.S. patterns. Oakland: University of California Press.

Regarding Mao's Alleged Speech about the Dalai Lama on 15 November 1956

AbstractOn 15 November 1956, Mao Zedong 毛泽东 delivered a speech at the Second Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Eighth CCP Congress. The official written version of this speech was published belatedly, in 1977, in the fifth volume of Mao's Selected Works. In this text, Mao was supposed to be talking about the Dalai Lama's forthcoming stay in India, and he had no difficulty in envisaging the Dalai Lama's eventual departure into exile. This passage, obviously, seems problematic as it contradicts the policy of the CCP leadership towards the Dalai Lama at that time. Tsering Shakya (The Dragon in the Land of Snows, Pimlico, 1999), Li Jianglin 李江琳 (1959 Lhasa, New Century Press, 2010), Melvyn Goldstein (A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3, University of California Press, 2013), and Liu Xiaoyuan 刘晓原 (To the End of Revolution, Columbia University Press, 2020) have successively sought to understand the reason for this. The probable reason seems to be simply that Mao most likely never made these remarks about the Dalai Lama on the date in question, and that this passage was added later in the written version of the speech, to avoid Mao losing face.

Ryan C. Edwards, A Carceral Ecology. Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina , Oakland, University of California Press, 2021, 254 p.

Ryan C. Edwards, A Carceral Ecology. Ushuaia and the History of Landscape and Punishment in Argentina , Oakland, University of California Press, 2021, 254 p.

The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine. Edited by Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 60. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. x + 307 pp. $95.00 cloth.

The Wandering Holy Man: The Life of Barsauma, Christian Asceticism, and Religious Conflict in Late Antique Palestine. Edited by Johannes Hahn and Volker Menze. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 60. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020. x + 307 pp. $95.00 cloth.

JodyHeymann, AletaSprague, AmyRaubEquality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies WorldwideUniversity of California Press, 2023, 328 p., $34.95 (or free as an e‐book)

JodyHeymann, AletaSprague, AmyRaubEquality Within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies WorldwideUniversity of California Press, 2023, 328 p., $34.95 (or free as an e‐book)

Participant observers: Anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain By FreddyFoks : University of California Press. 2023. pp. 280. $34.95 (soft/ebook); $85.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520390331

Participant observers: Anthropology, colonial development, and the reinvention of society in Britain By FreddyFoks : University of California Press. 2023. pp. 280. $34.95 (soft/ebook); $85.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780520390331

Christina Heatherton, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution University of California Press, 2022, pp. x + 311

Christina Heatherton, Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution University of California Press, 2022, pp. x + 311

Jessica Lynn Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil University of California Press, 2019, pp. xxi + 365

Jessica Lynn Graham, Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil University of California Press, 2019, pp. xxi + 365

Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.

Stuck Moving: Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology By PeterBenson. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 361 pp.

In Conversation with Brahim El Guabli

A Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco, Brahim El Guabli is an associate professor of Arabic studies and comparative literature at Williams College. His first book is entitled Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press, 2023). He’s currently completing a second book entitled Desert Imaginations: Saharanism and Its Discontents (University of California Press, forthcoming). His journal articles have appeared in LA Review of Books, PMLA, Interventions, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Arab Studies Journal, History in Africa, META, and the Journal of North African Studies, among others. He is coeditor of the two volumes of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” (1966–1988) (Liverpool University Press, 2022) and Refiguring Loss: Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Cultural Production (Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming).

Pacific Maritime World of Peru and Chile - Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World. By Joshua Savala. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 248. $85.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $34.95 e-book.

Pacific Maritime World of Peru and Chile - Beyond Patriotic Phobias: Connections, Cooperation, and Solidarity in the Peruvian-Chilean Pacific World. By Joshua Savala. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 248. $85.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; $34.95 e-book.