#ISA2020 Highlights – Outstanding Books by Excellent Women Authors

On International Women’s Day, we are very proud to highlight some outstanding books by excellent women authors.

Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena (UC Berkeley)
author of Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka

Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries by Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena is praised by William Milam, Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh for being “insightful and perceptive,” noting that “most exciting to me is the potential that domestic coalitions in industry might augment to full-fledged policy networks, perhaps to grow into the kind of inclusive political institutions that are the basis of modernization and real democracy.”

Dr. Gabriela Fried Amilivia
(California State University Los Angeles)
author of State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America

State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America: Transmissions Across The Generations of Post-Dictatorship Uruguay, 1984–2004 by Gabriela Fried Amilivia is lauded by Gabriele M. Schwab, Chancellor’s Professor, Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine, for being “a groundbreaking study for anyone interested in crimes against humanity and their haunting transgenerational legacy.”

Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall (University of Alberta)
coeditor of International Relations and the Arctic

International Relations and the Arctic: Understanding Policy and Governance coedited by Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall earned an excellent review in Polar Record, which noted that “this is a fantastic and elaborate collection” that “will be of great interest to both the Arctic studies community and IR scholars.”

Dr. Hume Johnson (Roger Williams University)
author of Challenges to Civil Society

Challenges to Civil Society: Popular Protest & Governance in Jamaica by Hume Johnson is praised by Dr. Priya Kurian, University of Waikato, because it is “a pioneering work that reconceptualises civil society to examine the nature and consequences of popular protest in Jamaica” and “will be invaluable to our rethinking the concept of civil society.”

Dr. Anabela Carvalho (University of Minho)
coeditor of Climate Change Politics

Climate Change Politics: Communication and Public Engagement by Anabela Carvalho and Tarla Rai Peterson is commended by Max Boykoff, University of Colorado, because it “effectively take readers beyond well-worn laments of science-policy woes and into emancipatory spaces of possibility and innovation in order to confront twenty-first-century climate challenges.”

Dr. Tarla Rai Peterson (Texas A&M University)
coeditor of Social Movement to Address Climate Change

Social Movement to Address Climate Change: Local Steps for Global Action edited by by Danielle Endres, Leah Sprain, and Tarla Rai Peterson is the Winner of the Christine L. Oravec Award in Environmental Communication. Professor Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington, notes that “this book exhibits the best that public scholarship has to offer. Its authors utilize sophisticated rhetorical theory and criticism to uncover the inventional constraints and possibilities for participants at various sites of the Step-It-Up day of climate activism.”

Dr. Susan Bryant (United States Army, ret.)
coeditor of Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Military Strategy in the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Competition coedited by Susan Bryant comes highly recommended by John Nagl, author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife and Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War because it delves into “the evolving character of war in an increasingly interconnected, networked world—and suggest innovations that will make us safer and more capable.”

Dr. Helen E. Purkitt (United States Naval Academy)
editor of African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century

African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century by Helen E. Purkitt is commended by the Institute for Environmental Security, which notes that “the originality and comprehensiveness of each chapter means that the volume is likely to appeal to a wide range of readers for many years … an important book for African Studies, economic development, environmental and earth science, environmental security, human security, international relations, national security and military science collections.”

Dr. Edith A. Disler (United States Army, ret.)
author of Language and Gender in the Military

Language and Gender in the Military: Honorifics, Narrative, and Ideology in Air Force Talk by Edith A. Disler provides a refreshing perspective on gender and language dynamics in a setting that had previously not been examined.

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