Books published by University of California Press

Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? This book examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination.

How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? The author analyzes more than three thousand news reports and opinion pieces to show the dramatic differences in the framing of mass violence around the world and across social fields.

How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? This title deals with these queries.