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Reaction Formations

Reaction Formations

The Subject of Ethnonationalism

Edited by Joshua Branciforte and Ramsey McGlazer

Contributor(s): Tyler Blakeney, Chiara Bottici, Joshua Branciforte, Gisela Catanzaro, Melinda Cooper, Julian Göpffarth, Ramsey McGlazer, Benjamin Noys, Bruno Perreau, Rahul Rao, Shaul Setter and M. Ty

Today, an international new right has coalesced. Variously described as nativist, right-populist, alt-right, and neofascist, far-right movements in many countries have achieved electoral victories that...

ISBN: 9781531503147

Gothic Things

Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that, since...

ISBN: 9781531503420

A Grammar of the Corpse

A Grammar of the Corpse

Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Elizabeth Spragins

No matter when or where one starts telling the story of the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir (August 4, 1578), the precipitating event for the formation of the Iberian Union, one always stumbles across dead...

ISBN: 9781531501570

Narrating Humanity

Narrating Humanity

Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea

Cynthia Franklin

In Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention,...

ISBN: 9781531503734

Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons

Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons

Pursuing Democracy’s Promise through Place-Based Activism

Sharon Egretta Sutton

A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continually grows the next generation of compassionate leaders.This essential, timely...

ISBN: 9781531502829

The Work of Repair

The Work of Repair

Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa

Thomas Cousins

The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.

ISBN: 9781531503543

Shimmer

Sarah Schulman

A revelatory portrait of McCarthy-era Manhattan—back in print!It is 1948 in Manhattan. Aspiring reporter Sylvia Golubowsky pays her dues in the steno pool at the tabloid New York Star, along with...

ISBN: 9781531502928

Hell on Color, Sweet on Song

Hell on Color, Sweet on Song

Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park

Francis R. Kowsky

With Lucille Gordon

Reveals new and previously unknown biographical material about an important figure in nineteenth-century American architecture and music.Jacob Wrey Mould is not a name that readily comes to mind when...

ISBN: 9781531502577

In Quest of a Shared Planet

In Quest of a Shared Planet

Negotiating Climate from the Global South

Naveeda Khan

An eye-opening firsthand account of the negotiating rooms responsible for the direction of the most urgent issue of our time

ISBN: 9781531502782

Curriculum by Design

Curriculum by Design

Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core

Edited by Mary Thomas Crane, David Quigley and Andy Boynton

Contributor(s): Allison Adair, Lynne Anderson, Robert Bartlett, William Bole, Toby Bottorf, Andy Boynton, John Butler, Daniel Callahan, Mary Thomas Crane, Hanne Eisenfeld, Thomas Epstein, Brian Gareau, Tara Gareau, Elizabeth Graver, Stacy Grooters, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Gregory Kalscheur, Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Prasannan Parthasarathi, David Quigley, Brian Robinette, Juliet Schor, Sylvia Sellers-García, Elizabeth H. Shlala, Min Hyoung Song, Jenna Tonn, Holly VandeWall and Dunwei Wang

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators,...

ISBN: 9781531501334

Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy

Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy

Beyond Male and Female

Bryce E. Rich

Within contemporary orthodoxy, debates over sex and gender have become increasingly polemical over the past generation. Beginning with questions around women’s ordination, arguments have expanded...

ISBN: 9781531501532

Manhattan

Letters from Prehistory

Hélène Cixous

Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic

The luminous tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors

ISBN: 9781531502898

Faith, Reason, and Theosis

Faith, Reason, and Theosis

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

Contributor(s): William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, Robert Glenn Davis, Stephen J. Davis, David Bentley Hart, Philip Kariatlis, Jean Porter, Andrew Prevot, Ashley M. Purpura, Kirsi Stjerna, Michele Watkins and Rowan Williams

Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various...

ISBN: 9781531503024

Melancholy Acts

Melancholy Acts

Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World

Nouri Gana

How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injustice of which they are a product and against which they...

ISBN: 9781531503505

Forgotten Casualties

Forgotten Casualties

Downed American Airmen and Axis Violence in World War II

Kevin T Hall

Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence.Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the...

ISBN: 9781531502867

Earthly Things

Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

Edited by Karen Bray, Heather Eaton and Whitney Bauman

Contributor(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn and Carol Wayne White

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human...

ISBN: 9781531503062

Derrida, Supplements

Derrida, Supplements

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Anne O'Byrne

When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time. Thinking with and against each other over the course...

ISBN: 9781531503383

Startling Figures

Startling Figures

Encounters with American Catholic Fiction

Michael O'Connell

Startling Figures is about Catholic fiction in a secular age and the rhetorical strategies Catholic writers employ to reach a skeptical, indifferent, or even hostile audience. Although characters in...

ISBN: 9781531503468

Toy Stories

Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Vanessa Smith

Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a...

ISBN: 9781531503581

The Livable and the Unlivable

The Livable and the Unlivable

Judith Butler and Frédéric Worms

At once profound, accessible, and utterly essential—an animated conversation between two eminent thinkers illuminating what we mean when we talk about living.

ISBN: 9781531502744

Topothesia

Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess

Ameeth Vijay

Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses...

ISBN: 9781531503185

Group Works

Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence

Ethan Philbrick

An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.The artist and author Ethan Philbrick’s Group Works re-imagines...

ISBN: 9781531502706

The Worlding of Arabic Literature

The Worlding of Arabic Literature

Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability

Anna Ziajka Stanton

This book examines the translation of Arabic literature into English, in conversation with contemporary literary scholarship and classical Arabic aesthetic and linguistic paradigms. Case studies reveal practices of translating that activate embodied forms of language and affective modes of reception to position Arabic literature ethically in the world literary system.

ISBN: 9781531503222

Reporting World War II

Reporting World War II

Edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer

Contributor(s): Steven Casey, Kendall Cosley, Douglass Daniel, Alan Delozier, Carolyn Edy, Karen Garner, Larry Greene, Alexander Lovelace, Nathaniel L. Moir, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, G. Kurt Piehler, James Austin Sandy, Victoria Sotvedt and Ingo Trauschweizer

This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers...

ISBN: 9781531503109

The Genocide Paradox

The Genocide Paradox

Democracy and Generational Time

Anne O'Byrne

Democracies abhor genocide and yet they perpetrate their own genocidal violence and then fail to acknowledge it. Drawing on the history of biological taxonomies, anthropological studies of kinship, and radical democratic theory, this work studies the root of the problem in the paradoxes of democratic inheritance and revolution, asking: What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?

ISBN: 9781531503260

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