Category: Publications

In the winter of 2025, Associate Teaching Professor Alison Hope Alkon published two articles about experiential pedagogies. The first, “A Pedagogy for the End of the World: Teaching Environmental Health and Justice in a Sacrifice Zone,” appeared in a special issue of Environmental Studies and Sciences dedicated to Practicing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The second piece, “A People’s Pedagogy:…

Director of Community Studies Mike McCarthy published The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It), which examines how finance interacts with politics, social theory, and democracy. He explores new forms of governance led by working-class people and historically excluded groups that have the power to reshape financial institutions. This…

Community Studies professor Julie Guthman published a new book, The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. It takes on the solution culture of Silicon Valley and how it has made its way into universities, to the detriment of preparing students to engage critically with the world’s problems. 

Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and community studies affiliated faculty member, Jessica Taft, contributed a chapter to this book for Bloomsbury Publishing in 2023, arguing that young activists’ strategies and tactics for change illuminate the contours and limits of young people’s collective political power, including their symbolic power, disruptive power, prefigurative power,…