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New Publications from Section Members (2023-2024)

The following are new publications submitted by ASA SKAT Section members to be included in the Fall 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024 newsletters. Please feel free to reach out to us (lau1@ccny.cuny.edu) to be included on this list if we missed you! See also our New Books Q&A series where we conduct interviews with recent authors.

New Articles

  • Susan Bell, Patrick R. Grzanka, Kelly Joyce, and Laura Senier. 2023. “Masking (Not Masking) Up: An STS Visual-Intersectional Approach to Understanding Publics and Science in Times of Rapid Change,” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) 9(2): 9-40. https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/1637/731
  • Jordan Brensinger. 2023. “Identity Theft, Trust Breaches, and the Production of Economic Insecurity.” American Sociological Review. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224231189895
  • Daniel Breslau. 2024. “Are subsidies market manipulation? The politics of electricity market hybridization in the United States”. Energy Research & Social Science 115: 103623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103623
  • Jesse Callahan Bryant and Justin Farrell. 2024. “Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment”. Annual Review of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-083023-035225
  • Nicki Lisa Cole, Eva Kormann, Thomas Klebel, Simon Apartis, and Tony Ross-Hellauer. 2024. The societal impact of Open Science: a scoping review. Royal Society Open Science. 11: 240286. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240286
  • Amanda R. Cheong. 2024. “Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae003
  • Amanda R. Cheong. 2023. “Theorizing Omission: State Strategies for Withholding Official Recognition of Personhood.” Sociological Theory 41(4): 377-402. https://doi.org/10.1177/07352751231206838
  • Taylor M. Cruz. 2024. “Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 65(1):110-125. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00221465231190061
  • Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Jakob Schweizer, Kalina Kamenova, Larry Au, Alessandro Blasimme, Effy Vayena. 2024. “Organizational change of synthetic biology research: Emerging initiatives advancing a bottom-up approach”. Current Research in Biotechnology 7: 100188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crbiot.2024.100188.
  • Gil Eyal, Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Amanda Curi, Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva, Yijie (Coco) Fang, Jingyu Lang, Shuhan Li, Chang Liu, Jessica Liu, and Jian Su. 2024. “¿Qué hay en un nombre? La política de los síntomas post‑covid en tres países”. Ciencia, Público y Sociedad 1(1): 3‑22. https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/cps/article/view/45247 [“What’s in a Name? Contrasting the Politics of Post‑Covid Symptoms Across Three Countries” in Science, Public and Society, English version: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/juxag]
  • Jill A. Fisher and Torin Monahan. 2023. “Mutual Emotional Labor as Method: Building Connections of Care in Qualitative Research.” The Qualitative Report 28 (11): 3192-3212. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2023.6251
  • Joseph C. Hermanowicz. 2024. “The Therapeutic University.” Minerva. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09539-x
  • Joseph C. Hermanowicz. 2024. “Interrogating the Meaning of ‘Quality’ in Utterances and Activities Protected by Academic Freedom.” Journal of Academic Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-024-09512-z
  • David J. Hess. 2024. “Microgrids and the politics of sustainability transitions: A sociotechnical, multi-coalition perspective”. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 51, June, 100839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100839
  • David J. Hess. 2024. “Energy Transitions in a World of Polarized Politics”. In Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, Stephen Zehr, eds. Climate Science and Society. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Climate-Science-and-Society-A-Primer/Baker-Law-Vardy-Zehr/p/book/9781032530178#.
  • David J. Hess. 2023. “Pipeline conflicts, coalitions, and strategic action: A review of the literature”. The Extractive Industries and Society 16, 101339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101339.
  • David J. Hess. 2023. Conflict and uneven development in the multidecade distributed solar energy transition in the U.S. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120 (47) e2206200119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206200119
  • David J. Hess. 2024. “Scientists, Censorship, and Suppression: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Cases Involving Chemical and Climate Expertise”. Sociology Compass 17(7): e13241. http://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13241  
  • David J. Hess and Kaelee Belletto. 2023. Knowledge conflicts: the strategic use and effects of expertise in social movements. Sociological Inquiry 93(3): 592-630. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12508.
  • Wanheng Hu. 2024. “Imagining the model citizen: A comparison between public understanding of science, public engagement in science, and citizen science”. Public Understanding of Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/09636625241227081
  • Wanheng Hu and Ranjit Singh. 2024. Enrolling Citizens: A Primer on Archetypes of Democratic Engagement with AI. Data & Society. https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/DS_Enrolling-Citizens-Primer_FINAL.pdf
  • Hyun Ju Kim, Erica Jablonski, Debra L. Brucker, Ada Chen, John O’Neill, and Andrew J. Houtenville. Forthcoming. “What Structural and Cultural Organizational Characteristics Affect Flexible Work Environments? Evidence from the 2017 and 2022 Kessler Foundation National Employment & Disability Survey: Supervisor Perspectives Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation”.
  • Julien Larregue and Mathias Wullum Nielsen. 2023. “Knowledge Hierarchies and Gender Disparities in Social Science Funding”. Sociology. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231163071
  • Ya-Wen Lei and Rachel Kim. 2024. Automation and Augmentation: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Work. Annual Review of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-090523-050708
  • Sunmin Kim and Taeku Lee. 2023. “Making Opinions Public: Polling and Democratic Responsiveness in South Korea” Politics & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292231181766
  • Sunmin Kim and Taeku Lee. 2023. “Making Opinions Public: Polling and Democratic Responsiveness in South Korea” Politics & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292231181766
  • Joseph A. Kotarba, Stephen Molldrem, Elise Smith, Heidi Spratt, Suresh K. Bhavnani, Jeffrey S. Farroni, and Kevin Wooten. “Exploring team dynamics during the development of a multi-institutional cross­ disciplinary translational team: Implications for potential best practices”. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2023.640
  • Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya and JS Tan. 2024. “No Simple Fix: How AI Harms Reflect Power and Jurisdiction in the Workplace”. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 422–432. https://doi.org/10.1145/3630106.3658915
  • Hatim A. Rahman, Tim Weiss, and Arvind Karunakaran. 2023. “The Experimental Hand: How Platform-Based Experimentation Reconfigures Worker Autonomy.” Academy of Management Journal 66(6):1803–30. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2022.0638 [Open-source link: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/mhvr9]
  • Georg Rilinger. 2024. Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets. Theory and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-024-09555-6
  • Siri Suh and Gowri Vijayakumar. 2023. “Toward Transnational Feminist Methodologies in Global Health: Critical Ethnographies of HIV and Abortion”. Studies in Comparative International Development, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-023-09408-w
  • Margaret Waltz, Arlene M. Davis, and Jill A. Fisher. 2023. “‘Death and Taxes’: Why Financial Compensation for Research Participants is an Economic and Legal Risk.” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 51 (2): 413-425. https://doi.org/10.1017/jme.2023.72
  • Becky Woolf and Alexandra H. Vinson. 2024. “Cultural Health Capital and Patient Partner Recruitment into Healthcare Improvement Work.” Social Science & Medicine, 341:116500. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953623008572
  • Shira Zilberstein. 2024. “Models of Generating Cultural Authority: Academics and Journalists on a Digital Platform.” Poetics 102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101871 Xiaogao Zhou. 2024. “Care in Transition: Global Norms, Transnational Adaptation, and Family-Centered Gender-Affirming Care in China.” Social Science & Medicine 344:116658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116658

    • New Books

  • Christoph Hanssmann. 2023. Care without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists are Changing Medicine. University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/care-without-pathology

  • Julien Larregue. 2024. Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime. Stanford University Press; https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=36381

  • Amanda McMillan Lequieu. 2024. Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt. Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/who-we-are-is-where-we-are/9780231198752

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  • Ariane Ollier-Malaterre. 2024. Living with Digital Surveillance in China: Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy and Governance. London: Routledge Studies in Surveillance. Series editors: K. Ball, W. Webster, C. Raab, & P. Fussey. 338 Pages. ISBN 9781032517704. https://www.routledge.com/9781032517704

  • Firuzeh Shokooh Valle. 2023. In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South. Red Wood City, CA: Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=34851

  • Allison J. Pugh. 2024. The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691240817/the-last-human-job.

  • Hatim Rahman. 2024. Inside the Invisible Cage: How Algorithms Control Workers. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520395541/inside-the-invisible-cage

  • Alexandrea J. Ravenelle. 2023. Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times. Oakland, CA: University of California Press https://a.co/d/ihFGnEe

  • Benjamin Shestakofsky. 2024. Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520395039/behind-the-startup

  • Apryl Williams. 2024. Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating. Red Wood City, CA: Stanford University Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33064

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