Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Transcendence
On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied to cosmopolitanism. Transcendence seeks to rectify this by offering an original theory of self and society....
Elusive Lives
Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new...
A Humanist Science
Values and Ideals in Social Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Providing a capstone to Philip Selznick's influential body of scholarly work, A Humanist Science insightfully brings to light the value-centered nature of the social sciences. The work clearly challenges the supposed separation of fact and value, and argues that human values belong to the world of...
The Art of Revolt
Snowden, Assange, Manning
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce...
Arresting Cinema
Surveillance in Hong Kong Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "Hong Kong on a bad day," he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance. But while Scott brought Hong Kong and surveillance into the global film repertoire, the city's own cinema has remained outside...
Strangers in the City
Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China’s Floating Population
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migration policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China’s “floating population,” have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This massive flow of rural migrants directly challenges...
The Choice of Achilles
The Ideology of Figure in the Epic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation...
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...