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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: 9781531503154

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: 9781531503437

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...

ISBN: 9781531503048

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: 9781531501587

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: 9781531502836

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: 9781531503550

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: 9781531503741

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: 9781531502935

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: 9781531502584

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: 9781531502799

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: 9781531501341

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: 9781531501549

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: 9781531503192

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: 9781531502751

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: 9781531502904

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: 9781531502713

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: 9781531503239

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: 9781531503116

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: 9781531503277

Moroccan Other-Archives

Moroccan Other-Archives

History and Citizenship after State Violence

Brahim El Guabli

Moroccan Other-Archives investigates how histories of exclusion and silencing are written and rewritten in a postcolonial context that lacks organized and accessible archives. The book draws on cultural...

ISBN: 9781531501464

Against the Carceral Archive

Against the Carceral Archive

The Art of Black Liberatory Practice

Damien Sojoyner

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison...

ISBN: 9781531503789

The World and God Are Not-Two

The World and God Are Not-Two

A Hindu–Christian Conversation

Daniel Soars

The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation between...

ISBN: 9781531502065

Ambush at Central Park

Ambush at Central Park

When the IRA Came to New York

Mark Bulik

A compelling, action-packed account of the only officially sanctioned I.R.A attack ever conducted on American soil.In 1922, three of the Irish Republican Army’s top gunmen arrived in New York City...

ISBN: 9781531502614

Remember the Hand

Remember the Hand

Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia

Catherine Brown

Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices have...

ISBN: 9780823298938

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: 9781531503031

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