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The Social Imperative
Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between...
Organizing Organic
Conflict and Compromise in an Emerging Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Stakeholders in the organic food movement agree that it has the potential to transform our food system, and yet there is little consensus about what this transformation should look like.
Tracing the history of the organic food sector, Michael A. Haedicke charts the development of two narratives...
Immigrant Ambassadors
Citizenship and Belonging in the Tibetan Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is...
Bernie Madoff and the Crisis
The Public Trial of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Bernie Madoff's arrest could not have come at a more darkly poetic moment. Economic upheaval had plunged America into a horrid recession. Then, on December 11, 2008, Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme came to light. A father turned in by his sons; a son who took his own life; another son dying and...
The Tourism Encounter
Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
In recent decades, several Latin American nations have experienced political transitions that have caused a decline in tourism. In spite of—or even because of—that history, these areas are again becoming popular destinations. This work reveals that in post-conflict nations, tourism often takes...
Emissaries from the Holy Land
The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
For Jews in every corner of the world, the Holy Land has always been central. But that conviction was put to the test in the eighteenth century when Jewish leaders in Palestine and their allies in Istanbul sent rabbinic emissaries on global fundraising missions. From the shores of the Mediterranean...
Memories of Absence
How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
There is a Moroccan saying: A market without Jews is like bread without salt. Once a thriving community, by the late 1980s, 240,000 Jews had emigrated from Morocco. Today, fewer than 4,000 Jews remain. Despite a centuries-long presence, the Jewish narrative in Moroccan history has largely been suppressed...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory—Muslim as well as Jewish—in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study...
Regulating Prostitution in China
Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900-1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In the early decades of the twentieth century, prostitution was one of only a few fates available to women and girls besides wife, servant, or factory worker. At the turn of the century, cities across China began to register, tax, and monitor prostitutes, taking different forms in different cities....
by Ben Golder
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic...
Surrendering to Utopia
An Anthropology of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportunities for research,...
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology
French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from...
Faith as an Option
Possible Futures for Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's...
by Niklas Luhmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the...