Quest for freedom

Faith in their own color

Craig D. Townsend tells the remarkable story of St. Philip’s, the first African American Episcopal church in New York City, and its struggle for autonomy and independence.

Saving ourselves

Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events.

“indians wear red”

With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have prod...

Reading »black mirror«

The dystopian series Black Mirror is infamous for its apocalyptic portrayals of humankind’s relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies. This timely collection offers innovative interdisciplinary perspectives on how confrontations with such issues should be considered and un...

Rootedness and acculturation

Historians and sociolinguists with background in German or American studies offer a fresh look at a critical period in the history of German-American communities.

Who will govern the new world—the present and future of the g20

How can the G20 fulfill their role most efficiently in the post-crisis era, and what role do the emerging economies play in the new global economic order? This timely volume provides an overview of the most important challenges ahead for the G20, especially China.

Land value capture in the united states

As challenges mount from rapid urbanization, deteriorating infrastructure, and climate change, land value capture has never been more important to the future of municipalities.

Cinematic overtures

A great movie’s first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. In Cinematic Overtures, Annette Insdorf discusses the opening sequence, inviting viewers to turn first impressions into deeper understanding of cinematic technique. She offers a series of revelatory readings of individual ...

Conversations

Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and career.These wide-ranging conversations flow between topics such as his relationship with China, the m...

From suffragette to homesteader

From Suffragette to Homesteader opens a unique window into the past. Central to this book is a powerful memoir written in 1952 by Ethel Marie Sentance as an anniversary present for her husband, Clarence. The memoir begins in 1883 and details Ethel’s early life in a small English village. Frustrat...

Boomerang ethics

The fact that racism has adverse effects on Blacks and other minorities is obvious. But what is not so obvious are the hidden impacts of racism on all members of society, including white people.Joseph Mensah and Christopher J. Williams argue that ethics of altruism and social justice are inadequa...

How to read chinese prose

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of traditional Chinese prose.

Cro-magnon

This book tells the story of the dynamic and resilient people commonly known as the Cro-Magnons in light of recent scientific advances.

The history of economics

Roger E. Backhouse and Keith Tribe present a broad introduction to the history of economic thought that provides much-needed context behind the development of ideas and a guide through the original writings of major economists. They seek to emphasize a diversity that is sometimes suppressed in mo...

The running flame

Fang Fang’s explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gende...

A taste for purity

Julia Hauser explores the global history of vegetarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She demonstrates that vegetarians in India and the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism, and...

In good form

The main topic of this book is how to argue for formal epistemic norms of credence. Leszek Wroński advocates formal justificational pluralism, suggesting the use of various formal tools in arguments for synchronic and diachronic norms.

The madhouse effect

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. The Madhouse Effect offers a clever lampoon of the fallacious claims and absurd argument...

Intimacy in illegality

Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, this book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migrat...

Experiencing europeanization in the black sea and south caucasus

This volume investigates forms of interregionalism in the Black Sea–South Caucasus area in the fields of economic cooperation and the Europeanization of energy and environmental policies. Contributors assess questions such as the effect of the EU on civil society development in Armenia and democr...

An interesting life, so far

Finally, Bruce King, acclaimed literary critic, presents his autobiography and offers fascinating insights into his life as bon vivant and literary critic.

Digital culture & society (dcs)

Digital Culture & Society is a refereed, international journal, fostering discussion about the ways in which digital technologies, platforms and applications reconfigure daily lives and practices. It offers a forum for inquiries into digital media theory, methodologies, and socio-technologica...

The maidan museum: preserving the spirit of maidan

This book examines the relation between art made during the Maidan Events and the mission of the Maidan Museum, the preservation of the ‘Spirit of Maidan’.

The multicultural classroom

This book presents findings from a research project that investigated the educational context of Indigenous Australian learners by shedding light on the incorporation of First Nations perspectives in teaching materials and methodology. The results reveal the complexities arising in connection wit...

Attraction, love, sex

Simon LeVay introduces readers to a memorable cast of researchers trying to unravel the many mysteries that surround sex and sexuality. He distills vast expertise on the biology and psychology of sex into an engaging and easy-to-understand survey with scientific acumen, a critical eye, and a sens...

Developmental peace

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of China's role in international peacebuilding.

In china's wake

Nicholas Jepson shows how Chinese demand not only transformed commodity markets but also provided resource-rich states with the financial leeway to set their own policy agendas. He combines analysis of China-led structural change with fine-grained detail on how the boom played out across fifteen ...

The creative self

The Creative Self delves into the hegemony of neoliberal self-optimization and turns to psychoanalysis in search of an alternative.

Informal healthcare in contemporary russia

This volume deals with one of the most understudied aspects of everyday life in Russian society. Its main characters are the providers of goods and services to whom people turn for healthcare instead of official medical institutions. This encompasses a wide range of actors—from network marketing ...

Appetite for innovation

The name elBulli is synonymous with creativity and innovation. Located in Catalonia, Spain, the three-star Michelin restaurant led the world to "molecular" or "techno-emotional" cooking and made creations, such as pine-nut marshmallows, rose-scented mozzarella, liquid olives, and melon caviar, in...

Nomadic cinema

Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.

Marked men

White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy an...

Biopolitics and historic justice

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked. This book introduces the concept of “injuries of normality” to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice.

Liberals and communism

Tipping point for advanced capitalism

Changes in the class structure and in class consciousness are setting the stage for new class alliances for democratic socialism.

Baby boomers of color

Melvin Delgado provides a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of boomers of color

Bombardier abroad

In Bombardier Abroad, Thomas examines several cases of the Canadian aerospace giant’s work in the high-speed rail sector in South Africa, China/Tibet, and Israel/Palestine and argues that these projects are deepening existing social and political tensions. By participating in these infrastructure...

Korea in world history

Donald Clark does a masterful job of situating the entire sweep of Korean history in its global context thus belying the shop worn stereotype of Korea as a hermit nation. Clark uses his mastery of both medieval and modern history to vividly describe the often ignored contributions of this fascina...

Posthumous life

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent “turns” toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Essays examine the boundaries and significance of the human and the humanities in the wake of various ...

Movements. journal for critical migration and border regime studies

The journal "movements" collects academic, activist and artistic output that deals with migration and border regimes. It fosters exchange between academic discourse and the movements of migration, and thus allows for political debate about our societies in motion.This issue discusses the current ...

Speech and silence [anthology]

International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong is an award-winning biennial festival founded by renowned Chinese poet Bei Dao. IPNHK will invite thirty poets from different parts of the world to celebrate its tenth anniversary in Hong Kong as well as in ten mainland cities.

To deter and punish

To Deter and Punish examines why and how the United States and its Western European allies came to treat nonstate “terrorists” as a key threat. Silke Zoller traces Western state officials’ responses to terrorism from the first Palestinian hijacking in 1968 to Ronald Reagan’s militarization of cou...

At war with government

Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. The political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident—it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it.

Other lives

In his The Twenty Verses, the Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu invites readers to explore experiences in dreams and to inhabit the experiences of nonhuman beings—animals, hungry ghosts, and beings in hell. Sonam Kachru provides a deep engagement with Vasubandhu’s account of mind in a global philos...