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Memory is our home
Memory Is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of S...
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The political economy of poverty and social transformations of the global south
This book contributes to the debates on the production and eradication of poverty in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been addressed by popular movements and the governments of various states across the ...
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Children of prometheus: romanticism and its legacy
In these nine related essays, Gregory Maertz investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. Other essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and...
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Uncanny allies
This book challenges widespread academic and media claims that Russia and Belarus are unwavering allies or that Russia has unquestioned control over Belarus.
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Still
Andy Wimbush argues that quietism—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Samuel Beckett’s artistic vision. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, he shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism and turned it into a ...
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Rethinking medical ethics
In this unique study, Jean-Pierre Clero examines medical ethics from a philosophical perspective. Based on the thoughts of great philosophers, he develops a theory of medical ethics that focuses on the values of intimacy.
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Language variation and multimodality in audiovisual translation
Dora Renna proposes a pioneering framework, informed by the latest trends in audiovisual translation and multimodality and fit to achieve the complex task of operatively including multimodality in a rigorous corpus analysis of source and target versions of films characterized by language variatio...
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Legal change in post-communist states
This book—written by a team of socio-legal scholars—covers developments in legal institutions and the role of law in public administration across the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. It deals with both institutions such as courts and police and accountability to law in public administratio...
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Comparing literatures
During periods of globalization and encounters as well as clashes between cultures, the place of literature within society is often questioned. From the reception studies of the 1970s and 1980s to the stress laid on intermedial and intercultural relations, this question opens up a wide field of r...
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Rocking st. petersburg
Focusing on Germany's post-Soviet emigrant community and their "Russendisko," this volume portrays St. Petersburg's vibrant music scene as an electrifying platform for exchange. Its findings illuminate Soviet and post-Soviet popular music history and Russia's relationship with the Ukraine. The te...
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Understanding ukraine
This book tackles the history of terror and violence in Ukraine, from the starvation of the Holodomor to the changing occupation regimes, from the ’Shoah by Bullets’ to the Chornobyl disaster.
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Women of ukraine
This book presents a collection of reportages from Ukraine spanning roughly one year, from February 2022 to February 2023.
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The human genome as common heritage of mankind
In 1997, the UNESCO General Conference declared the human genome a common heritage of humankind. This declaration was followed by the Joint Statement of March 14, 2000, by US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which they stated that the “fundamental data on the huma...
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Transdisciplinary beckett
This is the first book to analyze Beckett’s use of the visual arts, music, and broadcasting media through a transdisciplinary approach. It considers how Beckett’s complex and varied use of art, music, and media in a selection of his novels, radio plays, teleplays, and later short prose informs hi...
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To see or not to see
Inez De Florio, born blind, tells the moving, fascinating, and true story of her recovery from blindness at the age of 48 and how she coped with learning to see. Based on recent scientific findings, she also offers an illuminating report on how to appreciate visual perception without overemphasiz...
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Romania and the holocaust
From summer 1941 onwards, Romania actively pursued at its own initiative the mass killing of Jews in the territories it controlled. 1941 saw 13,000 Jewish residents of the Romanian city of Ia?i killed, the extermination of thousands of Jews in Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia by Romanian armed fo...
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‘malleable at the european will’
Helmut Meier analyzes the image of Africans in pro- and anti-slavery texts from the British debate on the slave trade. He argues that by portraying African slaves as suffering wretches, anti-slavery texts created colonial others, who could subsequently become the objects of a discourse of colonia...
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Icons on ammo boxes
This book has come out of the art project "Icons on Lids of Ammunition Boxes", initiated and led by Sofiia (Sonya) Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko.
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Nazarbayev—our friend the dictator
"Like David, I am battling against a Goliath that has almost immeasurable means and powerful allies. I don't think I can win, I just want to be heard. No dictatorship lasts forever, and if my contribution can sooner or later bring about its downfall, then I will have achieved what I set out to do...
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Subjects and occasions
Matthew Feldman extends his examination of the far right in its various forms and guises, addressing matters of immediate public concern like Islamophobia and neo-Nazism, while also paying attention to the fascist past and its modulations in the present
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Beckett’s drama
Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and gestures that characters perform in Samuel Beckett’s drama, viz. mis-movements.
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The democratic developmental state
The concept of a democratic developmental state is part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policymakers in many emerging economies in the global South. This volume investigates these attempts to establish a ne...
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Solidarity of the shaken
This book delves into the emergence of a vibrant political community in the 2020 protests in Belarus.
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Towards a political economy of ukraine
The essays in this book explore the major developments, both domestic and international, that shaped the first quarter-century of Ukraine’s independence: the simultaneous construction of a nation-state and the privatization of its economy; a formal democratization of the political process alongsi...
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Quaternity
This book presents four thematically linked novellas that focus on obsessive relationships, stolen identities, and illusions of grandeur in the post-1989 Carpathian-Balkan region.
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Ideology after union
The recent history of post-Soviet societies is often described in terms of the transition metaphor. This volume describes how the new societies survived this period of regime change, economic crises, internal wars, political drawbacks, and social innovations, and how they are making sense of it.
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How putin’s propaganda works
Ukrainian political scientist Mykola Davydiuk discusses the effects of Russia's information warfare.
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Beckett's late stage
Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how...
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Watts in the desert
Solar power has taken a journey from what was once considered the lunatic fringe to mainstream society and industry. Looking specifically at the Solex project in Carnarvon, Western Australia, which pioneered the harvest of solar energy, this book offers an introduction to the development of renew...
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Kind words, cruise missiles, and everything in between
According to realist premises, the United States has an interest in remaining the world's only superpower, thus creating the need to manage and maintain unipolarity. The pursuit of this grand strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to individual states. Poland, Ukrain...
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The rhetoric of women’s humour in barbara pym’s fiction
In this study of three of Barbara Pym’s novels, Naghmeh Varghaiyan shows how humorous female discourse subverts stereotypes such as that of the spinster and of the Byronic hero. She reveals how women’s humor in Some Tame Gazelle, Excellent Women, and Jane and Prudence enables female characters to...
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A life dedicated to the republic
Josette Baer retraces the eventful life of Slovak politician Vavro Šrobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. From his student days and fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary to his active resistance to German fascism, Šrobár shaped Czechoslo...
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Media, history, and education
This book comprises a collection of essays that shed light on some of the key humanitarian issues that have emerged in independent Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This is the third installment in a series of JSPPS discussions on the conceptualization of the ideology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists during World War II.
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From servant to leader
This book consists of columns, originally written for the Kennan Institute’s expert blog Focus Ukraine.
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The arts of war, year two
The Ukrainian response to the 2022 Russian invasion has inspired a new appreciation for their country both within and beyond Ukraine.
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today...
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Mainstreaming the global radical right
2019 was a defining year for the radical right globally. From national and supranational elections that witnessed a surge in support for radical right parties to transnationally-inspired terrorist attacks in New Zealand, the USA, and Germany, the radical right is not just on the rise, but becomin...
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History of montenegro in four essays
This scholarly work on Montenegro’s history adopts a thematic lens, delving into four pivotal themes that span an extended timeline.
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Fortune favors the bold
In the early twentieth century, a teenage Greek girl in Constantinople loses both her parents and, together with her younger sister, gets thrown into a massive population exchange between Greece and Turkey. She ends up in a refugee camp in northern Greece. With determination she creates a life in...
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Ukraine is not dead yet
Megan Buskey, a Ukrainian American, returns to her family's homeland to uncover her grandmother's life, and discovers much more than she expected.
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Ukraine calling
This book contains a selection of interviews that aired on Hromadske Radio’s Ukraine Calling show. They capture what people were thinking during a critical time in the country’s history, from the July 2016 NATO Summit through to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 2019 landslide election victories.
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The marowitz compendium
Charles Marowitz was the first American to direct at the Royal Shakespeare Company and the first American to direct at the Czech National Theatre, where he nurtured numerous figures who have come to shape contemporary theater and society. The Marowitz Compendium seeks to spark a revaluation of th...
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Dealing with evils
Annie Gagiano addresses more than twenty texts from various African regions and periods, ranging from transcriptions of ancient folktales to classic African English texts and recent writings on social and gender issues. Gagiano focuses on these texts' engagement with the forces that damage and th...
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How the social sciences think about the world's social
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries o...
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Religious elements in the russian war of aggression against ukraine
This book discusses that although the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is not a religious war, it cannot be understood without considering and analyzing religious elements and contexts of justification.
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“nailed to the rolls of honour, crucified”: irish literary responses to the great war
This book explores the war writings of Patrick MacGill, James Hanley, and Liam O’Flaherty, working class Roman Catholic Irishmen, all of whom fought in the First World War as privates and who, collectively, it is argued, constitute a distinct trio of war writers.
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The new authoritarianism
This two-volume book considers the new alt-right authoritarianism from a risk perspective. Vol. 2 illuminates the phenomenon in the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Hungary, and Russia. Potential strategies to limit the alt-right threat are proposed.
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World literature in motion
By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space,” their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exi...
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The science of destiny
Should the universe not be entirely meaningless and blind, what does it say about destiny? And why are so many destinies so tragic?
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