Feminist aesthetics and the politics of modernism

Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the opp...

Travels in manchuria and mongolia

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she w...

Hannibal lokumbe

This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of the pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe.

The beauty of choice

The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values.

The wild west of eastern europe

Ukraine is the new West Berlin of Eastern Europe. The Wild West of Eastern Europe by Pavlo Kazarin is a book about how such a transformation has become possible.

The dawn that never comes

A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a flu...

Desegregating the past

Robyn Autry recounts the public and private battles fought over the creation and content of history museums. Despite vast differences in the development of South African and U.S. society, Autry finds a common set of ideological, political, economic, and institutional dilemmas arising out of the s...

China's environmental policy and urban development

This volume tackles a range of ecological issues caused by rapid urban growth in China and examines the policies meant to protect the environment. It features discussions from leading scholars on current regulations, government decentralization and environmental protection, urban development, ind...

Educating students with refugee and asylum seeker experiences

This book examines the educational systems into which students with refugee backgrounds are placed when relocated into their new homelands. The authors propose ways in which these students can be educated with policies and perspectives that respect diversity, using a primary school in Australia d...

About canada: health and illness, 2nd edition

Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: He...

Surviving the islamic state

Based on an original survey from Baghdad alongside key interviews in the field, this book offers an insightful account of how Iraqis in different areas of the country responded to the rise and fall of the Islamic State.

Jane austen and the romantic poets

This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected iss...

Decolonization and humanism

This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies.

The columbia guide to american indian literatures of the united states since 1945

The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays consider the complex social and political influ...

The dissent papers

Beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to American foreign policy in the latter half of the twentieth century. During America's reign as a dominant world power, U.S. presidents and senior foreig...

Time and the generations

Time and the Generations blends economics, philosophy, and ecology to offer an original lens on the difficult topic of global population. Partha Dasgupta provides tentative answers to two fundamental questions: What level of economic activity can our planet support over the long run, and what doe...

The old man and the wolves

Oil powers

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and ...

Reintegrating india with the world economy

After nearly five decades of insulation from world markets, state controls, and slow growth, India embarked in 1991 on a process of liberalization of controls and progressive integration with the global economy in an effort to put its economy on a path of rapid and sustained growth. Despite major...

Writing the mughal world

Between the mid-sixteenth and early nineteenth century, the Mughal Empire was an Indo-Islamic dynasty that ruled as far as Bengal in the east and Kabul in the west, as high as Kashmir in the north and the Kaveri basin in the south. The Mughals constructed a sophisticated, complex system of govern...

The american dream is at the expense of the american negro

James Baldwin's speech delivered in 1965 at the Cambridge Union Society.

Smart machines

We are crossing a new frontier in the evolution of computing and entering the era of cognitive systems. The victory of IBM's Watson on the television quiz show Jeopardy! revealed how scientists and engineers at IBM and elsewhere are pushing the boundaries of science and technology to create machi...

Lessons from the zapatistas

Essential reading on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico — its history, its peoples’ autonomy and its revolutionary thought.

Communicative ai in (inter-)action

This book brings together contributions from a growing community of researchers who are committed to exploring communicative AI »in (inter-)action« by using and adapting qualitative (and mostly ethnographic) methods.

Unfinished nature

Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN’s research community surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making.

The kokinshū

Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as the cornerstone of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. This book offers an inviting and immersive selection of roughly one-third of the anthology in English translation.

The state-building dilemma in afghanistan

This book critically reviews the US/NATO military, peace- and statebuilding interventions in Afghanistan since 2001. It presents Afghan perceptions and discourse on topics such as democracy, Islam, women’s rights, formal and informal governance, ethnic divides, and democratic governmental design ...

Medialities

Medialities focuses on a given cultural medium's genuine structure as a particular deployment without falling into some kind of hardware determinism, therefore considering culture beyond textuality.

The work of poetry

New and classic essays by one of America's most distinguished contemporary poet-critics, The Work of Poetry surveys an extraordinary range of poets, from Dante to May Swenson, and George Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to A Child's Garden of Verses. By turns generous ...

Hong kong taxation

This book explains the principles and practice of Hong Kong taxation law together with the relevant Court and Board of Review decisions and numerous practical examples. The new edition includes legislative changes up to July 31, 2018, as well as the latest developments pertaining to the OECD’s Ba...

Feminist film studies

An introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory.

Tarnished heroes

After the Orange Revolution, Viktor Yushchenko embarked on a project to rehabilitate the far-right Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Juxtaposing the Ukrainian government’s official representation of the OUN’s leaders with international scholarly research, Per A. Rudling illuminates the deli...

Inventing the church

Bénédicte Sère explores how the Catholic Church has repeatedly invented and reinvented itself through a constant back-and-forth between narratives of the Middle Ages and modernity, excavating and traces this history through seven pivotal concepts.

Rewiring the real

Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to d...

Presence, process, and the pictorial real

Today, painting has lost its dominant position and has become one artistic medium among others. This book offers a variety of perspectives on the role of painting in the twenty-first century, discussing whether and how painting is still pertinent to contemporary image production.

Value capture and land policies

Value capture refers to a type of public financing where increases in private land values generated by public investments are “captured” or recouped by the public sector, rather than by individuals, to help pay for the initial investment needed for that development. This approach works in various...

Curating contemporary music festivals

Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music and how they could be a solution to the field’s diminishing social relevance. He focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Fe...

Hierarchies at work

This book challenges dominant understandings of both economic inequality and the future of work.