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Rebecca Brennan
@rebeccabrennan.bsky.social
Senior Editor at Princeton University Press, commissioning in the social sciences. Views my own.
https://press.princeton.edu/our-people/rebecca-brennan
The 70% off @princetonupress.bsky.social sale is now on! Here are the sociology titles available in the UK/Europe list, but all subjects and US lists available too: bit.ly/48JDJ3y
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October 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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John Ikenberry reviews Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men.
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Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
Patricia Owens provides a deeply researched and engrossing feminist history of international relations as a discipline in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Tomorrow, Oct 16 at 5:30pm BST, join the Cambridge Conservation Initiative for the launch of Melissa Leach and James Fairhead's book, Naturekind! This in-person event is free and open to the public. It's going to be fantastic, so grab one of the few remaining tickets while you can! 🌿 buff.ly/jtZwwd6
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy publication day to Melissa Leach & James Fairhead for 'Naturekind'! It introduces a new paradigm for human & nonhuman communication from @princetonupress.bsky.social

Innovative & provocative, as reviewer @erleellis.bsky.social says,"nature is talking, & people need to listen"
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Naturekind
A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and culture
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October 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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My special issue of The Sociological Quarterly on queer nightlife is out! A real passion project, attempting to articulate what unique contributions sociologists can make to a vibrant interdisciplinary conversation. It’s all open access for 6 months. www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6... #sociology
The Sociological Quarterly
Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly
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October 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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🔊 Episode #3 out now!
@whitproject.bsky.social (@politicsoxford.bsky.social) explores how the gender binary shaped the production and reception of international thought and what recovering overlooked voices means for present-day international relations.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Re-upping the link to an online book talk tomorrow at 3pm hosted by SPIN.👇 Please email secrecyresearch@gmail.com for an invite link.
September 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The field of international relations has always relied on the intellectual labor of women. Yet as our podcast of the week shows, misogyny, racism, and marginalization worked to systematically exclude women’s contributions.

With @whitproject.bsky.social & @javiermejiac.bsky.social

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September 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"Supply Chain Justice offers a powerful, unsettling lens into how state and private contractors shape deportation regimes with an eye for efficiency over humanity"

Review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book in academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @janikakuge.bsky.social
The Border as a Service Job: Supply Chain Justice—the Logistics of British Border Control by Mary Bosworth
Today’s newspapers are strewn with increasingly restrictive and populist positions on migration control and asylum politics. Many of these positions imagin
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September 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity.

We See Things They’ll Never See by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday is out now. Learn more about this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Exciting day as We See Things They'll Never See: Love, Hope & Neurodiversity publishes - one of the first books I commissioned @ @princetonupress.bsky.social. Thank you to Chantelle and Jason for allowing me to be a part of bringing this beautiful and important book into the world.

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We See Things They’ll Never See
How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity
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September 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Their position as Black academics demanding change is radical, their calls for equality and equity are feminist, and the way they draw attention to a racist, classist and ableist past that has shaped present-day attitudes is decolonial"

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We See Things They’ll Never See by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday
Alexa MacDermot on We See Things They’ll Never See – Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday’s vision, through music, of a world that accepts neurodiversity.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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“Quite often, big social theorists actually formed their ideas in social movements, or in radical or activist spaces – what sociologists call counter-public spheres.”

@alimeghji.bsky.social talks to Iris Pissaride about W.E.B. Du Bois’ legacy in the Magazine’s September issue.

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September 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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New episode of the EPH Podcast

I talk with @whitproject.bsky.social about how women were erased from the foundational narratives of International Relations

🎧 Listen

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September 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Zoom talk on "Erased" at 3pm on October 1st at the cool Secrecy, Power, and Ignorance research Network (SPIN) in Bristol. Details, including email address for invite link,👇
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Book Talk: Erased by Professor Patricia Owens - SPIN
Wednesday October 1st, Professor Patricia Owens Chair: Dr Zara Bains   SPIN is pleased to host a book talk by...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wonderful review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's "searing ethnographic analysis" Supply Chain Justice:

"For those of us in the U.S. looking to understand the logics behind our own carceral border regime, Bosworth’s account is not just useful; it is essential"

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Jotwell Criminal Law:
Maartje van der Woude, Outsourcing the Border, Outsourcing Justice, JOTWELL (September 12, 2025) (reviewing Mary Bosworth, Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control (2025)), crim.jotwell.com/outsourcing-....
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is a great opportunity for ECRs in the social sciences (and beyond):

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September 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Abstract submissions are now invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh. Take part in ‘75 Years of Sociology’ – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
August 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"An essential primer for our uncertain present"

Guardrails by Urs Gasser @tum.de and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger @oii.ox.ac.uk is now available in paperback (or the audiobook is currently on sale, 30% off!) @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Guardrails
How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertainty
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August 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Happy publication day to Tony King @exeter.ac.uk for his @princetonupress.bsky.social book AI, Automation and War. W/ praise from Hew Strachan, @pdwilliamsgwu.bsky.social, Sarah Kreps & Jack Watling, a must read on the real role of AI in war (spoiler: no killer robot armies!) tinyurl.com/mtnrvvt3
AI, Automation, and War
Why AI will not replace human strategic judgement in war
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August 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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I'm filled with gratitude to see @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
and the local community in Santa Barbara both celebrate my book as a Lammy finalist for Best Book in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction. I could not have imagined a more generous and gracious welcome. Thank you! #sociology @princetonupress.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
60% off some PUP print titles!
Our Flash Sale is back—now featuring more titles than before!

Save 60% on select print editions with code FLASH. This extended collection runs through the end of September, so you’ll have even more time (& titles) to explore. Check out the current collection: press.princeton.edu/sale/flash-s...
August 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
August 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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We have been having a wonderful time at #ASA2025 in Chicago! Come say hi to us at booth 439 and check out our latest selection of #Sociology titles. Plus, save 30% (in the US and Canada) through 8/31/25 with code EXH30. We hope to see you soon!

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August 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Super excited for @princetonupress.bsky.social to be live at #ASA2025! The exhibit hall opens at noon today so @asanews.bsky.social, come in and join me soon!
August 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM