Ibidem Press: 164 books
The Auschwitz Concentration Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book provides a chronological account of the Auschwitz concentration camp from the camp's beginning in 1940 right up to its liberation in January 1945, and beyond. Chris Webb manages to find a balance between detailing the sufferings of the victims and the actions, characters, and fates of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena. The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and authoritarianism...
The Pursuit of Pleasure
Overcoming a Civilizational Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.
Art and Conscientization
Forum Theatre in Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, and South Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How can the performing arts add value to peacebuilding programs? Is it possible to use participatory theatre to reconnect and reconcile enemies? What is the trauma-healing effect for those acting in a theatre troupe?
Claus Schrowange has explored these questions and the opportunities of using...
Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts
Historic and Ethnographic Case Studies of Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and Alternative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By taking...
Modern Dilemmas
Understanding Collective Action in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor Ostrom, corecipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, claims that 'the theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book contributes to the debates on the production and eradication of poverty in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been addressed by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe....
The Sarcophagus of Identity
Tribalism, Nationalism, and the Transcendence of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly's book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of Defense while serving as an active...
Dealing with the Yugoslav Past
Exhibition Reflections in the Successor States
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book analyzes the representation of the socialist past in the national history museums of the former Yugoslavia. Through travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the process of constructing the national narratives that maintain and legitimize...
Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime
The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature. As he guides readers through Russia's peculiar service and support estate system, Kordonsky reveals how...
The Euromaidan’s Effect on Civil Society
Why and How Ukrainian Social Capital Increased after the Revolution of Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 2013–2014 events. Since then, the country has been shaken by both sociopolitical disorders and a deep humanitarian emergency, also exacerbated by the crisis of internally...
Wandering Workers
Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected...
Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked
Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Based on an institutional approach to ethnic conflict, Petar Cholakov highlights the idiosyncrasies of, and the challenges to, interethnic relations in Bulgaria. He traces the emergence of the currently implemented Bulgarian ethnic model in its interconnection with the party system, and especially...
Latvia—a Work in Progress?
100 Years of State- and Nation-Building
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state and nation building in Latvia are still ongoing. Such issues as citizenship, language policy, minority rights, democratic legitimacy, economic stability, and security all remain objects...