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Mourning Remains
State Atrocity, Exhumations, and Governing the Disappeared in Peru's Postwar Andes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Mourning Remains examines the attempts to find, recover, and identify the bodies of Peruvians who were disappeared during the 1980s and 1990s counterinsurgency campaign in Peru's central southern Andes. Isaias Rojas-Perez explores the lives and political engagement of elderly Quechua mothers as they...
by Vitalis Danon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Published in Tunis in 1938, Ninette of Sin Street is one of the first works of Tunisian fiction in French. Ninette's author, Vitalis Danon, arrived in Tunisia under the aegis of the Franco-Jewish organization the Alliance Israélite Universelle and quickly adopted—and was adopted by—the local...
Souffles-Anfas
A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa. Founded in 1966 by Abdellatif Laâbi and a small group of avant-garde Moroccan...
Dreaming of Dry Land
Environmental Transformation in Colonial Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and...
Democracy and War
Institutions, Norms, and the Evolution of International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau...
His Hiding Place Is Darkness
A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
His Hiding Place is Darkness explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond...
Narrowcast
Poetry and Audio Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets associated with the New Left mobilized tape recording as a new form of sonic field research even as they themselves were being subjected to tape-based surveillance. Media theorists tend to understand audio recording as a technique for separating bodies...
Rebranding Islam
Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym), rose to fame via nationally televised sermons, best-selling books, and corporate training seminars. In Rebranding Islam James B. Hoesterey draws on two years' study of this charismatic leader...
Mandarin Brazil
Race, Representation, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visual...
Other Englands
Utopia, Capital, and Empire in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined geographies common to...
Transition to Neo-Confucianism
Shao Yung on Knowledge and Symbols of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1989
The Sung Neo-Confucian synthesis is one of the two great formative periods in the history of Confucianism. Shao Yung (1011-77) was a key contributor to this synthesis, and this study attempts to make understandable the complex and highly theoretical thought of a philosopher who has been, for the most...
Just Violence
Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture and debates about human rights. Yet despite...
by Nancy Yousef
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
How much can we know about what other people are feeling and how much can we sympathize or empathize with them? The term "intimacy" captures a tension between a confidence in the possibility of shared experience and a competing belief that thoughts and feelings are irreducibly private. This...
The Mechanical Song
Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Examining the privileged relation of women to the singing voice in nineteenth-century literary works, the author argues for an emerging identification between women and artifice in the period. Beginning with texts by Rousseau and Proust that show a link between nostalgia for the maternal voice and...