Stanford University Press: 1317 books
A City Consumed
Urban Commerce, the Cairo Fire, and the Politics of Decolonization in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Though now remembered as an act of anti-colonial protest leading to the Egyptian military coup of 1952, the Cairo Fire that burned through downtown stores and businesses appeared to many at the time as an act of urban self-destruction and national suicide. The logic behind this latter view has now...
by Karen M. Inouye
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen M. Inouye explores how historical events can linger in individual and collective memory and then crystallize in powerful moments of...
Marked Women
The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Cervical cancer is the third leading cause of death among women in Venezuela, with poor and working-class women bearing the brunt of it. Doctors and public health officials regard promiscuity and poor hygiene—coded indicators for low class, low culture, and bad morals—as risk factors for the disease.
Drawing...
Outsourced Children
Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization?
Countries...
The Supply Side of Security
A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Supply Side of Security conceptualizes military alliances as contracts for exchanging goods and services. At the international level, the market for these contracts is shaped by how many countries can supply security.
Tongfi Kim identifies the supply of policy concessions and military commitments...
Remote Freedoms
Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
What does it mean to be a "rights-holder" and how does it come about? Remote Freedoms explores the contradictions and tensions of localized human rights work in very remote Indigenous communities.
Based on field research with Anangu of Central Australia, this book investigates how...
Composing Egypt
Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how nationalists, Islamic modernists, bureaucrats, journalists, and early feminists sought...
by Jean-Luc Marion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility—of appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for...
Coercive Concern
Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Many liberal-minded Western democracies pride themselves on their commitments to egalitarianism, the fair treatment of immigrants, and the right to education. These environments would seem to provide a best-case scenario for the reception of immigrant youth. But that is not always the case. Coercive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Testaments written in their own language, Nahuatl, have been crucial for reconstructing the everyday life of the indigenous people of central Mexico after Spanish contact. Those published to date have largely been from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Testaments of Toluca presents a...
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...