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Super Continent
The Logic of Eurasian Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
A Eurasian transformation is underway, and it flows from China. With a geopolitically central location, the country's domestic and international policies are poised to change the face of global affairs. The Belt and Road Initiative has called attention to a deepening Eurasian continentalism that has,...
Beyond Nation
Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In the work of writer Abe Kōbō (1924–1993), characters are alienated both from themselves and from one another. Through close readings of Abe's work, Richard Calichman reveals how time and writing have the ability to unground identity. Over time, attempts to create unity of self cause alienation,...
Race and Upward Mobility
Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle...
The Politics of Space Security
Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
For the past sixty years, countries have conducted military and civilian activities in space, often for competitive purposes. But they have not yet fought in this environment. This book examines the international politics of the space age from 1957 to the present, the reasons why strategic restraint...
Mourning Remains
State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they...
by Vitalis Danon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author, Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Israélite Universelle and quickly adopted—and was adopted by—the local...
Souffles-Anfas
A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa. Founded in 1966 by Abdellatif Laâbi and a small group of avant-garde Moroccan...
Dreaming of Dry Land
Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and...
Democracy and War
Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau...
His Hiding Place Is Darkness
A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
His Hiding Place is Darkness explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond...
Narrowcast
Poetry and Audio Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as a technique for separating bodies...
Rebranding Islam
Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic leader...
Mandarin Brazil
Race, Representation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual...
Other Englands
Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined geographies common to...