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The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice in Los Angeles
Laureen Hom
The Power of Chinatown chronicles the contemporary history and community politics of Los Angeles Chinatown as the neighborhood faces pressures of gentrification and displacement. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork, the book bridges understandings of community, geography, political economy, and race to show the complexities and contradictions of building community power, illuminating how these place-based ethnic politics might give rise to a more expansive vision of Asian American belonging and a just city for all.
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A Dictionary of Modern Consternation
Brook McClurg
A Dictionary of Modern Consternation is a genre-bending nonfiction lyric following one family through the years from the financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this cheeky dictionary-shaped exploration of how language can often alienate and dehumanize, weakening feelings of community with societal trends that subsume individual lives, Brook McClurg offers a footnote narrative of an international life pursuing the business of words. With approximately 500 satirical dictionary entries and 143 flash essays as footnotes, this experimental memoir is filled with satirical definitions, pseudo-aphorisms, and inquisitions into words or phrases. A Dictionary of Modern Consternation is for general readers, collectors, book-as-art lovers, and anyone interested in the political economy of language, as well as graduate classes exploring experimental forms.
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Intrapreneurship Management: Concepts, Methods, and Software for Managing Technological Innovation in Organizations
Oliver Yu
Research has shown that the bulk of technological innovation comes through Intrapreneurship: innovation that takes place inside an existing organization, taking advantage of the institutional support and economies of scale provided by continuing enterprises. Intrapreneurship Management is an approach that cultivates these internal innovations and the knowledge workers who produce them. Our book offers a comprehensive guide to this approach, its challenges, and its rewards. Beginning with a simple yet flexible definition of innovation—an idea implemented with impact—it analyzes the processes and organizational tools by which novel ideas can be fostered, supported, and applied, producing industry-leading firms that maximize their internal talent. It also provides access and tools for using IntrapreneurshipREADINESSNavigator (IRN), a unique software already deployed successfully in over 150 innovation projects. The readers will also find: *Case studies of technological innovations within a range of organizations * A look forward to future challenges facing innovative organizations in the 21st century * Detailed treatment of subjects including innovation marketing, systematic creativity, and developing innovative organizational culture. The book is ideal for intrapreneurs, their managers, and any professionals working in industries driven by technological innovation, as well as researchers and students of innovation management.
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Social Issues, Equality, and Technology
Lin Zou
This book explores social equality and justice issues in the political and economic life of the United States, in the creation and consumption of technology, and in the construction of identity. The book specifically examines structural inequality in the judicial system and the capitalist market system in the U.S. It also investigates social equality and justice concerns in the development of modern and emerging technologies, especially the internet, social media, AI and intelligent systems, nanotechnology, geoengineering, neurotechnology, and genetic engineering. Inequality issues are also analyzed in relation to the concepts of gender, racial, and national identity.
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Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color
Ngoc-Yen Tran, Michael Aguilar, and Adriana Poo
Academic libraries are engaged every day in the critical work of being more inclusive and anti-racist in their teaching, collections, and community. This book explores the various methods used by academic librarians, archivists, and library workers to increase or enhance engagement with library spaces, resources, services, and materials by students of color. The resources, strategies, and approaches in this book can help all library workers engage with this vital work and build a community of support.
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