Turkish and german-turkish pop music

The rediscovery of Anatolian pop sparked growing musicological interest. This volume compiles over 15 years of research on music in Turkey.

Homeward from heaven

Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, it recounts the escapades, malaise, and love affairs of a bohemian group of Russian expatriates.

Temporal privilege

Jill Stauffer identifies the way certain experiences of time are valued over others as “temporal privilege” and shows how this concept helps illuminate injustices that are often hidden in plain sight.

We need silence to find out what we think

This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite—or maybe...

Homo psyche

Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ StudiesCan queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and intellectual restlessness, queer theory conforms to a model of erotic life tha...

Hegel and the infinite

Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. ...

Making rural futures

When villages are performed as ideals: hopes, tensions, and contradictions of rural transformation.

To fulfill these rights

In To Fulfill These Rights, Amaka Okechukwu offers a historically informed sociological account of the struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in higher education. Through case studies of policy retrenchment at public universities, she documents the rollback of inclusive policies in...

The evolution of fire

A Katie Couric Media Summer Reading Selection"The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written—vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on."—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There's Always This YearFrom the celebrated author of Limber, a ...

Enemies near and far

Two internationally recognized experts use newly available documents from al-Qaeda and ISIS to explain how jihadist groups think, grow, and adapt. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Thomas Joscelyn recast militant groups as learning organizations, detailing their embrace of strategic, tactical, and tech...

Global contestations of gender rights

Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, this volume addresses the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of...

Cold war reckonings

Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.

Campus medius: digital mapping in cultural and media studies

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents a time-space of 24 hours in Vienna in May 1933. This Austrofascist rally is mapped from multiple perspectives and woven into media-historical networks spanning from th...

The new constructivism in international relations theory

In this engaging book, David M. McCourt makes the case for New Constructivist approaches to international relations scholarship. The book traces constructivist work on culture, identity, and norms within the historical, geographical, and professional contexts of world politics, and reflects on r...

Far from the model minority

Far from the Model Minority centers the voices of five undocumented and mixed-status Chinese immigrant families in New York City and their sending communities in Fuzhou, China. Challenging dominant narratives about Chinese Americans and the model-minority myth, these families have experienced mul...

Islam

A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the traditionToday’s Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants in th...

From ethnophobia to anti-semitism

Why did late Stalinism turn antisemitic? Matthias Vetter traces it to Stalinist terror against “foreign” minorities, reading Soviet Judeophobia and anti-Gypsyism as part of an ethnicized Cold War xenophobia. Jews were cast as Western agents—“anti-Zionism” masking antisemitism—with echoes in Kreml...

The western ideology and other essays

‘Capitalism may be teetering once again on the edge of a terminal crisis, but there are no gravediggers in sight. This time around not only are there no gravediggers there are no longer any rival economic systems either …’ In ‘The Western Ideology’ Andrew Gamble demonstrates the contradictions an...

Catching air

Catching Air documents the lives of diver fishermen navigating changing marine environments and shifting conservation policies in the Dominican Republic. As nearshore ecologies decline and conservation policies are enacted to protect them, commercial divers follow fish into deeper water, risking ...

Begetting

An investigation of what it means to have children—morally, philosophically and emotionally“Do you want to have children?” is a question we routinely ask each other. But what does it mean to create a child? Is this decision always justified? Does anyone really have the moral right to create anoth...

Sustainability transitions in professional life trajectories

How adults incorporate sustainability into their professional lives.

The lamp of umm hashim

The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures

From serving to thriving

From Serving to Thriving: Our Journey to Becoming a Student-Thriving Institution outlines the Hispanic-Serving institution’s strategic serving-to-thriving plan and pathways implemented to create Student Thriving environments and support Latina/o/x student success.

Shots in the dark

Shots in the Dark offers a new analysis of the pervasive biases that have afflicted decision-making in the lead-up to and early days of US military interventions.

On the horizon of world literature

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that co...

Policed

How policing has fundamentally shaped the Latinx experience.The history of Latinx groups in the United States has been marked, from the beginning, by experiences of criminalization and violence at the hands of law enforcement. Marisol LeBrón argues that policing has left an indelible mark on Lati...

The edges of cinema

Bringing together a decade of criticism, The Edges of Cinema roams across an array of styles to take account of how some of the most important contemporary filmmakers are engaging the world.

After the flush

Looking beyond current sanitation models in the US to develop new ways of managing human waste as a resource.What happens when you flush the toilet? Where does the waste go?In this engagingly written ethnographic study, Nick Kawa follows the trail of human bodily excrement as it travels through m...

The heart of the wild

Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild pla...

Free will in civil law

This monograph offers the first comprehensive English-language study of free will as a foundational concept in Ukrainian civil law. Examining its role across property, contract, liability, intellectual property, and inheritance, it shows how free will shapes autonomy, consent, and legal responsib...

Yi jing: the illustrated book of changes

A delightful full-color graphic adaptation of the beloved Yi Jing—or I Ching—by bestselling comic-artist C. C. TsaiIn this volume, acclaimed comic-artist C. C. Tsai uses his virtuosic skill and sly humor to create an entertaining and enlightening full-color illustrated version of the Yi Jing—the ...

Where paralytics walk and the blind see

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always b...

Discovery at rosetta

The imposter as social theory

The figure of the imposter can stir complicated emotions, from intrigue to suspicion and fear. But what insights can these troublesome figures provide into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge? Edited by leading scholars in the field, this volume explores the question t...

Playology

This book offers a sharp, timely exploration of how digital technologies and global media reshape the ways we think, communicate, and understand ourselves. As multinational corporations increasingly mediate our access to information, identity, and civic life, it examines the profound consequences...

Preprogrammed

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text...

Why the assembly disbanded

Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collection, Why the Assembly Di...

Ukraine after maidan

When public protests first began in Ukraine at the end of 2013, the failed promise of the Orange Revolution was still fresh in the minds of many Ukrainians. However, unlike in the aftermath of 2004-2005, the political and military crises ignited by the Euromaidan brought profound changes not only...

Persian without petrification

Persian Without Petrification tackles error fossilization in Persian learning, especially among Arabic speakers. Based on longitudinal data from 312 learners, it presents a task-based, research-driven approach that fosters native-like accuracy through meaning-focused communication, corpus evidenc...

Political exercise

Lawrence D. Brown presents five case studies of cities that have promoted active living with varying success through a range of approaches. He shows how and why the transformation of a call for public intervention into projects, programs, and policies is inescapably political.

Ukraine in central and eastern europe

This book examines how countries in East-Central Europe and the Caucasus approach Ukraine and considers the potential for new multilateral structures. It also illustrates how Russia shapes politics in the post-Soviet space.

Infectious liberty

Infectious Liberty traces the origins of our contemporary concerns about public health, world population, climate change, global trade, and government regulation to a series of Romantic-era debates and their literary consequences. Through a series of careful readings, Robert Mitchell shows how a ...

Profitably healthy companies

Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level.

Alexander von humboldt

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769―1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, ...

Perspectives on a new model of school leadership

In the rapidly evolving educational landscape of the UK the journey from head teacher to CEO of a multi-academy trust offers a unique lens into the complexities of school leadership, delving into the nature of leadership in schools, examining the interplay between policy, local leadership, and ex...

Making war on the world

Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. He considers a series of crises that plagued the state system: piracy in the eighteenth century, anarchist “propagandists of the deed” at the turn of ...

Bananapocalypse

Existential crises hang over the producers of the world's food. In Bananapocalypse, Alyssa Paredes reveals how many dilemmas facing Big Ag come from self-inflicted wounds. Philippine banana plantations exporting to Japan—a network dubbed “Asia’s banana republic”—unleash chemical drift, food waste...

Revolution in the sheets

Issues of sexuality were in an uneasy relationship with the working-class politics of the Mexican Communist Party and other left-wing organizations throughout much of the twentieth century. Rather than attributing this tension solely to ideological conservatism, Revolution in the Sheets reinterpr...

The european union’s democracy promotion in central asia

The EU made the areas of democracy, human rights, rule of law, and good governance a top cooperation priority of the EU Strategy framework towards Central Asia for 2007–2013. The inclusion of strong normative elements into this strategy was both due to the EU’s commitment to democratic principles...