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Sociology
The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s […]
Launch and Presentation of the Critical Sustainabilities Website
College 8, Room 201From activism to ecology, alternative culture to industry, "sustainability," it seems, is everywhere. In the face of economic and environmental crisis, and unprecedented rates of urbanization, the term has become ubiquitous in policy circles and across many social domains. Yet this ubiquity presents us with competing and often contradictory meanings and applications, and can lead […]
Lionel Cantu Lecture Featuring Jasbir Puar
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Sociology Department is pleased to present the LIONEL CANTÚ LECTURE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 pm Namaste Lounge, Colleges Nine/Ten Reception at 3:30 Featuring: JASBIR PUAR Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies Rutgers University "The Right to Maim: Disablement, Palestine, and Disaster Capitalism" Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of […]
Charles Post: “The American Road to Capitalism”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUniversity Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join Charles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book: The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877 "Charles Post's new book, The American Road to Capitalism, is sure to become a reference point for […]