Stanford University: 1318 books
Beyond the Euromaidan
Comparative Perspectives on Advancing Reform in Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Beyond the Euromaidan examines the prospects for advancing reform in Ukraine in the wake of the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution and Russian invasion. It examines six crucial areas where reform is needed: deep internal identity divisions, corruption, the constitution, the judiciary, plutocratic...
Servants of Globalization
Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor...
Drugs, Thugs, and Diplomats
U.S. Policymaking in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the Colombian security forces were linked to abusive,...
by Eduardo Moncada
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
This book analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the political projects that cities launch to confront urban violence are shaped by the interaction between urban political economies and patterns of armed...
Contraband Corridor
Making a Living at the Mexico--Guatemala Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The Mexico–Guatemala border has emerged as a geopolitical hotspot of illicit flows of both goods and people. Contraband Corridor seeks to understand the border from the perspective of its long-term inhabitants, including petty smugglers of corn, clothing, and coffee. Challenging assumptions regarding...
Culture of Accidents
Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and other unforeseen “accidents” at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination....
Image and Presence
A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present—from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless...
A Covenant of Creatures
Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works...
Memos from the Besieged City
Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Memos from the Besieged City argues for the institutional and cultural relevance of literary study through foundational figures, from the 1200s to today, who defied precarious circumstances to make significant contributions to literacy and civilization in the face of infelicitous human acts. Focusing...
The Great Social Laboratory
Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences—anthropology, human geography, and demography—in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing both intellectual and institutional genealogies of knowledge production, this book examines social science through a broad...
by Paul A. Kottman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence...
Transformative Beauty
Art Museums in Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Why did British industrial cities build art museums? By exploring the histories of the municipal art museums in Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, Transformative Beauty examines the underlying logic of the Victorian art museum movement. These museums attempted to create a space free from the moral...
by Elizabeth S. Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance of phenomena—including money, gender, urban...
Anthropology's Politics
Disciplining the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
U.S. involvement in the Middle East has brought the region into the media spotlight and made it a hot topic in American college classrooms. At the same time, anthropology—a discipline committed to on-the-ground research about everyday lives and social worlds—has increasingly been criticized as...