Sociology

A zine about academia, travel, and climate change

My dissertation seeks to explain the puzzle of the sustained domination of small shops over large companies in a highly volatile apparel production market in China. Thre [...]

That there exists a stereotypical figure of the typical Indian driver is a truism. Most often a working-class male body, this figure – who treats “traffic rules are m [...]

This dissertation examines the creation and catastrophic failure of California’s electricity markets in the period between 1993 and 2001. It looks at this case as an ex [...]

The stigmatization of people with schizophrenia is widespread and its consequences are often severe. However, despite the apparent ubiquity of schizophrenia stigmatizati [...]

This dissertation is about patterns of alliance and opposition evident in records of financial contributions to federal political campaigns. Over periods of many years, r [...]

Today it is estimated that there are over 150 million youth living and/or working on the streets worldwide, with the majority of them in cities of the Global South. We kn [...]

For decades, American pain specialists promoted the idea that physicians should use patients’ subjective, self-reported pain as a valid measurement and prescribe medica [...]

This dissertation examines the governance of labor after the abolition of slavery in British India (1843-1947). I focus on Sindh in the Bombay Presidency, locating the dy [...]

Communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims has recurred in Myanmar since at least the British Colonial period in the late 19th and early 20th century. That violence [...]