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Columbia University Press Redlining Culture
Book SynopsisRichard Jean So draws on big data, computational methods, literary history, and close readings to offer an unprecedented analysis of racial inequality in American publishing that reveals the persistence of an extreme bias toward white authors.Trade ReviewIn this gift of a book, So challenges racial hegemony and discrimination in the publishing industry — and, by extension, in the country at large . . . Recognizing the significance of So’s work means recognizing the impact of words, language, and storytelling on who we have been as a country, who we are as a country, and who we could be as a country if we valued, amplified, and embraced the stories of those from historically marginalized groups — an embrace that, ultimately, would shape a world built upon celebrating not only their stories and voices, but their lives. -- Emanuela Kucik * Los Angeles Review Books *It’s easy to say that American publishing has taken steps to reduce racial inequality, indicated by the expanding list of published novels by nonwhite authors since World War II. So refutes that statement with this data-driven account that brings literary and historical methods together. A breakthrough in book history, this pathbreaking study about publishing, authorship, race, and recognition is essential reading. -- Maryemma Graham, founding director of the Project on the History of Black Writing, University of KansasWith clarity and conviction, Richard Jean So makes the case for why quantitative methods matter for the study of literary culture. But more than that, he shows what these methods can do: reveal patterns of inequality, identify examples of resistance, and enrich our understanding of the structural forces that shape what we read and why. -- Lauren Klein, coeditor of Debates in the Digital HumanitiesSo conducts groundbreaking data analysis of modern and contemporary American literary production, making visible, at scale, the denial of opportunity, attention, and distinction to writers of color. An ambitious work in cultural analytics, Redlining Culture will be a model for future work in the field. -- Kinohi Nishikawa, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary UndergroundRedlining Culture is a book of landmark significance, both for digital humanities and for literary studies at large. So demonstrates that scholars have underestimated the persistence of inequality in postwar fiction. In supporting that thesis, he also shows that quantitative models can help us understand every stage in the production of literary value—from authorial and editorial decisions, to book reviews, to the distribution of prizes and academic consecration. At once ambitious and startlingly clear, the book provides a blueprint for a new kind of literary history. -- Ted Underwood, author of Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary ChangeRedlining Culture joins a select group of texts in the humanities that employ scientific tools and computational methods in order to rigorously demonstrate the existence and persistence of institutional injustices . . . [This book] levels an incisive, evidence-based criticism against the American publishing industry, as well as the academic discipline of literary and cultural studies. -- Amir Jaima * Publishing Research Quarterly *Using an incisive combination of data science and traditional literary scholarly methods, So paints a compelling picture of the persistence of whiteness in literary culture, analysing the whole cycle of literary production to uncover the ways in which power moves through the system . . . Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction shows the richness arising from the application of an intersectional, data-justice-informed approach to a set of questions about literary culture. -- Kathryn Eccles * The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: Digital Humanities *At its best moments, So’s methodologies are indeed able to document the way that our institutions of publishing, book reviewing, and scholarly criticism have ossified or reified racialized entities like the ‘Black Author’ or ‘Asian American Fiction’ both as market phenomena and on the page. -- Nick Valvo * The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: Economic Criticism *[So] is a clear and thoughtful writer, and this is particularly helpful to those new to big data and machine learning. -- Charlotte Roh * College & Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Production: On White Publishing2. Reception: Multiculturalism of the 1 Percent3. Recognition: Literary Distinction and Blackness4. Consecration: The Canon and Racial InequalityConclusionNotesIndex
£22.50
Columbia University Press Performing the Socialist State
Book SynopsisXiaomei Chen offers a new account of the origins, evolution, and legacies of key trends in twentieth-century Chinese theater. Instead of seeing the Republican, high socialist, and postsocialist periods as radically distinct, she identifies key continuities in theatrical practices and shared aspirations for the social role of performance.Trade ReviewIn her newest work, Xiaomei Chen confirms her position as the leading chronicler and analyst of modern and contemporary Chinese theater. Focusing on three dramatists of central importance before, during, and after the socialist era, she provides a nuanced and fascinating overview of the theater’s reflection of these turbulent times. -- Marvin Carlson, author of Ten Thousand Nights: Highlights from Fifty Years of Theatre-GoingIn her study of theater, politics, and performativity in modern China, Chen tells a compelling story of three leading dramatists in search of socialist modernity—their aspirations, their inventions and interventions, and their own tragedies amid the state's staging of the most brutal theater of revolution. A powerful book. -- David Der-wei Wang, author of Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary ChinaThis is an illuminating narrative of modern Chinese theater culture exemplified by Tian Han, Hong Shen, and Ouyang Yuqian. These legendary dramatists navigated the treacherous political terrains of different eras and built a modern theater from the crosscurrents of East and West. Xiaomei Chen is the best writer for keeping their legacy alive. -- Ban Wang, author of China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World VisionThis magisterial book chronicles the cross-media story of spoken drama from its inception through Republican, Maoist, and Post-Maoist appropriations in the forms of women’s theater, socialist theater, and “red classic” films. This capacious history offers, among many gems, a diachronic study of the “sonic theater” of the Internationale over the past hundred years. -- Alexa Alice Joubin, author of Shakespeare and East AsiaEminently readable, the entire volume is noteworthy for its detailed, fascinating, and nuanced analysis of not only modern Chinese theater and drama but also Chinese theater historiography . . . A valuable and significant contribution to Asian theater studies. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Theater Founding Fathers: Liberal Aesthetics in the Republican Period1. Tian Han and His Legacy: Proletarian Modernism and “The Theater of Dramatists”2. Hong Shen and His Discontent: Canonicity Through Theory and Practice3. Ouyang Yuqian and His Theater Dream: Cross-Dressing, Drama Schools, and Theater ReformsPart II: Chinese Socialist Theater and Its Afterlife: Shifting “Classics” and Their Place in Cultural Transformation4. Is Socialism Good? Satirical Comedy and the Gray Theater of the 1950s5. The Tales of the Wives: The Mao-Era Metamorphosis of the “Red Classics” and Their Postsocialist Reinscriptions6. “The Song of the Geologists”: Remembering Scientists Onstage7. Monumental Theater: Soldier Plays and History Plays8. Singing “The Internationale”: One Hundred Years of Sonic TheaterNotesBibliographyIndex
£46.75
Columbia University Press Unnatural Disasters
Book SynopsisUnnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk.Trade ReviewIn this book, Gonzalo Lizarralde tackles some of the most pressing and difficult questions the world faces today as we struggle to adapt to climate change and intensified disasters. The result is a valuable and unique compendium of wisdom and experience, full of insight into both environmental problems and human nature. -- David Alexander, professor of risk and disaster reduction, University College LondonLizarralde provides an erudite and searing critique of the development paradigm and its buzzwords, and ultimately challenges the reader to find hope in the courage and leadership of the oppressed. The highly accessible stories contained in this book radically humanize and uplift people experiencing the long-term process of a disaster. Unnatural Disasters is a call to repoliticize our narratives and consider our participation in this site of contested power. -- Jason von Meding, M. E. Rinker Sr. School of Construction Management, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of FloridaThis book explains the contentious and complex topic of why disasters are not natural in an accessible and passionate way. It also challenges our current thinking by highlighting the gaps that we need to bridge in order to limit risk creation. Lizarralde’s account of ordinary people’s experiences is wonderful and will help readers connect with the issue. -- Ksenia Chmutina, coauthor of Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built EnvironmentThis book draws on Lizarralde’s long experience as a scholar and practitioner to examine, in an engaging prose and with a sharp eye, the roots, complexities, and consequences of what he lucidly calls “unnatural disasters” and responses to them. By taking an intellectual scalpel to commonly held assumptions and conventional solutions, backed by rigorously researched case studies in a social justice framework, Unnatural Disasters makes an important contribution to development scholarship, policy formulation, and practice. -- Julio D. Dávila, professor of urban policy and international development, University College LondonLizarralde provides a powerful critique of naïve expectations and superficial narratives regarding sustainable postdisaster reconstruction. * H-Environment *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “It Won’t Be Easy, But We Have Little Choice”1. Causes: “Disasters Happen for a Reason”2. Change: “They Want to Build Something Modern Here”3. Sustainability: “They Often Come Here with Their Talk About Green Solutions”4. Resilience: “They Say That We Must Adapt”5. Participation: “They Want Us to Participate in the Construction of I-Don’t-Know-What”6. Innovation: “We Need Something Really Innovative, They Said”7. Decision-Making: “We Want to Be Able to Make Our Own Decisions”8. Humility: “The Damn Circumstance of Water Everywhere”NotesIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Intervolution Smart Bodies Smart Things No Limits
Book SynopsisMark C. Taylor explores how technological change is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. He reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things.Trade ReviewIntervolution is at once informative and thought-provoking—a fascinating exploration of the ever-narrowing gap between men and machines. Mark C. Taylor uses his own experience of chronic illness to probe some of the central questions of our time. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeImagine your body. Imagine in it an artificial pancreas, and in the pancreas, an artificial brain. Now imagine that brain networked to—and learning from—thousands of matching pancreas-brains. What you are now imagining Mark C. Taylor has experienced and turns here into an absolutely riveting introduction into how artificial intelligence will transform us from the inside out. -- Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeStimulated by his experience with the insulin pump, Taylor elegantly explores the potential of high-speed networked computers, mobile devices, miniature sensors, big data, and artificial intelligence to create breakthroughs for the human condition. Machines will enable humans to transcend our biologic roots. This is an intellectually provocative glimpse at the future of human health. -- Toby Cosgrove, CEO Emeritus, Cleveland ClinicContributes importantly to the discourse on the intersection of biology and technology...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Our Bodies Our Selves2. Intranet of the Body3. Internet of Things4. Internet of Bodies5. Intervolutionary FutureNotesIndex
£55.80
Columbia University Press Intervolution Smart Bodies Smart Things No Limits
Book SynopsisMark C. Taylor explores how technological change is weaving together smart things and smart bodies to create new forms of life. He reveals that we are already cyborgs, integral cogs in what will become a superorganism of bodies and things.Trade ReviewIntervolution is at once informative and thought-provoking—a fascinating exploration of the ever-narrowing gap between men and machines. Mark C. Taylor uses his own experience of chronic illness to probe some of the central questions of our time. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeImagine your body. Imagine in it an artificial pancreas, and in the pancreas, an artificial brain. Now imagine that brain networked to—and learning from—thousands of matching pancreas-brains. What you are now imagining Mark C. Taylor has experienced and turns here into an absolutely riveting introduction into how artificial intelligence will transform us from the inside out. -- Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeStimulated by his experience with the insulin pump, Taylor elegantly explores the potential of high-speed networked computers, mobile devices, miniature sensors, big data, and artificial intelligence to create breakthroughs for the human condition. Machines will enable humans to transcend our biologic roots. This is an intellectually provocative glimpse at the future of human health. -- Toby Cosgrove, CEO Emeritus, Cleveland ClinicContributes importantly to the discourse on the intersection of biology and technology...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Our Bodies Our Selves2. Intranet of the Body3. Internet of Things4. Internet of Bodies5. Intervolutionary FutureNotesIndex
£16.14
Columbia University Press Programming the Future
Book SynopsisProgramming the Future examines how recent speculative television takes on the contradictions of the neoliberal order. Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander consider a range of popular SF narratives of the last two decades, including Battlestar Galactica, Watchmen, Colony, The Man in the High Castle, The Expanse, and Mr. Robot.Trade ReviewFrom the post-9/11 Battlestar Galactica to Mr. Robot, from questions of neoliberalization and political polarization to surveillance society and the war on terror, Vint and Alexander's Programming the Future is an exemplary study of twenty-first-century science fiction television as seen through the crisis of U.S. democracy. -- Gerry Canavan, Marquette UniversityBy way of a vigorous engagement with the problematics and the politics of form, Vint and Alexander mobilize the generic operations of the utopian and dystopian imaginaries in order to decisively explicate the ways in which a selection of recent science fictional television series challenge the operations of the neoliberal order even as they refuse nihilistic resignation by way of figuring radical utopian alternatives. In doing so, they provide readers and viewers with a deep interpretive interrogation of our contemporary social order that generates a standpoint and politics of hope emerging from our dark times. -- Tom Moylan, author of Becoming Utopian: The Politics and Culture of Radical TransformationTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Changing Shape of Science Fiction Television2. Inventing Science Fiction Television as Political Narrative3. 9/11 and Its Aftermaths: Threats of Invasion4. American Civil Wars5. Desiring a Different Future: The 100 and The Expanse6. Rebooting Democracy and Mr. RobotConclusion: Democracy in CrisisNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex
£22.50
Columbia University Press The Bloomberg Guide to Business Journalism
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£93.60
Columbia University Press Music in Cinema
Book SynopsisMichel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other.Trade ReviewMichel Chion is the most influential sound scholar working today. In Music in Cinema, he examines film music through expansive, multiple lenses, combining histories of different practices with theoretical and analytical insights. Claudia Gorbman’s expert translation retains Chion’s engaging writing style, combining its quirky phrasing and shrewd observations. An intellectual delight. -- Caryl Flinn, University of MichiganEver since his first book on cinema, I have been fascinated by Michel Chion’s approach to sound, music, and speech in relation to the moving image. Without fail, he proposes startlingly original perspectives on movies ranging from the well-known to the rare and obscure. Music in Cinema combines new historical frameworks with significant aesthetic insights, illustrated through hundreds of films. -- Michel Marie, professor emeritus of film studies, University of Paris IIIMichel Chion is the world’s leading scholar of the film soundtrack, and Music in Cinema is one of his greatest works. Clearly written and jargon-free, this account of music in cinema will interest readers from students to film buffs to scholars. I appreciated Chion’s personal spin on this subject and found him making me reevaluate what I thought I knew about soundtrack music. -- Alan Williams, author of Republic of Images: A History of French FilmmakingA highly recommended title and a celebration of the two art forms: film music/film audio and the art of shooting pictures. * Pop Culture Shelf *Table of ContentsTranslator’s NotePrefaceIntroduction: Music Redefined by CinemaPart I: Historical Perspectives1. Dreams and Realities: 1895–19352. Classicism to Modernism: 1935–19753. Back to the Future: 1975–19954. Whither Film Music? 1996–2020Part II: The Three Faces of Music in Cinema5. Music as Element and Means6. Music as World7. Music as Subject, Metaphor, and ModelBy Way of ConclusionGlossaryNotesIndex
£999.99
Columbia University Press Vulnerable Minds The Neuropolitics of Divided
Book SynopsisLiya Yu develops a novel political framework that builds on neuroscientific discoveries to rethink the social contract. She advances a new neuropolitical language of persuasion that refrains from moralizing or shaming and instead appeals to shared neurobiological vulnerabilities.Trade ReviewEstablished systems are rarely challenged by big ideas in the way Yu does in this book. She takes on central concepts that ground our legal and political systems, holds them up to the light of neuroscience and psychology data, and discusses the implications for moving society forward. It is a wonderful example of interdisciplinary scholarship on the brain and society, and prudent reading given humanity’s current crises. -- Lasana Harris, University College LondonThis brilliant book will transform the way we think about identity, "race," and the innumerable and persistent conflicts that have been fed by false perceptions of difference between human beings. It is essential reading for everyone interested in resolving one of the central issues of our time. -- David C. Johnston, Columbia UniversityLiya Yu’s important book comes at a critical time when our increasingly divided world needs to better understand what brain and behavioral science powerfully tells us about being human. By revealing how our brains navigate our social world and process the experiences of fear, exclusion, and dehumanization, Liya offers us a path informed by science and evidence to create a better world where empathy, understanding, and belonging can be manifested and made real. -- Tim Phillips, founder and CEO of Beyond ConflictLiya Yu shows how neuroscience can provide a lingua franca to bridge the mental gap dividing racial, partisan, and ideological groups that are primed to dehumanize the other. Where banalities about tolerance no longer ring true, our 'disillusioned curiosity' can still lead us to understand the workings of our 'exclusionary brains.' -- Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Vulnerable Minds in Charlottesville1. A Battle Over Reality: Pitching the Social Contract Anew2. Unlocking the Black Box: Social Neuroscience’s Political Power3. Shared Vulnerabilities: We All Have Dehumanizing Brains4. Humanization Duties at Home: Neuropolitical Strategies for Liberal Democracies5. Humanization Duties Abroad: The Other in a Postcolonial WorldConclusion: Toward a Neuromaterialist Idea of Our Political SelvesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Keep Em in the East
Book SynopsisRichard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York’s postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped New York filmmaking, from city politics to union regulations.Trade ReviewAmong recent books on cinema, one of the most nourishing is Richard Koszarski’s “Keep ’Em in the East”. -- Anthony Lane * The New Yorker *Koszarski’s latest movie-industry history is an essential resource for your bookshelves, a detailed inspection of critical film work in the New York City area from the 1930s to 1950s and the release of Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront. -- Greg Young * The Bowery Boys *This deep dive into the history of Postwar New York cinema is a thrillingly paced read, taking the scholarly headiness of your typical Columbia-backed book and this time pairing it with a palpable energy that feels very much influenced by its subject. At over 500 pages, the book isn’t short on stories or deep dives into films, and with focuses on Kubrick and Kazan, will surely draw many eyes when gift hunting. -- Joshua Brunsting * Criterion Cast *"[This] book is rich with anecdotes, facts, and original insights, no doubt ensuring it will be an indispensable work to scholars of post-war American filmmaking. . . the book overall is a fitting tribute and history to what is both an overlooked, yet rich and influential period in American filmmaking." -- JAMES FENWICK * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *This is an exceptional work of research and writing, years in the making. If the production of cheesy films with Pigmeat Markham doesn’t interest you, rest assured that the story grows more captivating as it goes along. Keep ‘em in the East is a knockout. * Leonard Maltin *[A]n ambitious socio-political fresco dedicated to the 'renaissance' of cinema in post-war boom New York. * Cinecitta News *Richard Koszarski is a bold historian, a meticulous researcher, and a spellbinding storyteller. “Keep ‘Em in the East” masterfully displays all his talents. Only Koszarski could so deftly weave together industrial history, political infighting, social conditions, personal and very human biographies, and pointed appreciation of films as different as Naked City and Tall, Tan, and Terrific. In the process, Koszarski brings to light forgotten movies and trends, from little-known urban docudramas to the important 'race films' made for Black audiences. The book’s final stretch “crosscuts” Kazan's making On the Waterfront with Kubrick's preparing Killer’s Kiss, and the result is as exciting as a Hollywood chase. “Keep ‘Em in the East” permanently reshapes our understanding of American film as an art, a business, and a cultural force. -- David Bordwell, author of Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie StorytellingKeep 'Em In the East is a valuable (and long overdue) work of cinema scholarship. It broadens the parameters of American film history to include the boroughs of New York, where independent artists thrived far from Hollywood’s picture factories. Koszarski’s exemplary research shows that New York’s influence extended beyond Broadway’s influential writers, directors, and performers; it included a whole cadre of cinematic talent who'd have a profound impact on American movies. -- Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir AlleyIn this reassessment of the role of New York City in the history of film, “Keep ’Em in the East” restores the city’s filmmaking reputation with impeccable research and enthusiasm. No one would dispute that Richard Koszarski is the only film historian who could have written this book. -- Jeanine Basinger, author of The Star MachineKeep 'Em in the East is absorbing and enlightening. The dramas and disasters are expertly told and brilliantly researched. The book is a pleasure to read. -- Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By ... Keep 'Em in the East is an extraordinary achievement. Koszarski knows more about the history of filmmaking in New York City than anyone else, living or dead. This distills the central part of his lifelong research. No one will ever match it. For those who love New York and the movies, this book’s many surprises will provide an unending source of fascination and information. -- Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Roots1. Not Just Another Location2. The Pathé Studio: Miniature Hollywood or Just Another False Dawn?3. Now It Can Be Told: Louis de Rochemont, Henry Hathaway, and the Birth of Docudrama4. Race Movies: New York’s Original Independent CinemaPart II: Revival5. Eight Million Stories6. The O’Dwyer Plan7. Joe Lerner’s New York Noir8. Just Passing Through9. Pictures and PoliticsPart III: Renaissance10. Crime on the Waterfront11. Obsessed with Film12. The Golden Warrior13. Kiss Me, Kill Me14. “And the Winner in New York Is . . .”15. Happy Ending16. Thank You, Hollywood!List of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
£102.85
Columbia University Press Keep Em in the East
Book SynopsisRichard Koszarski chronicles the compelling and often surprising origins of New York’s postwar film renaissance. He examines the social, cultural, and economic forces that shaped New York filmmaking, from city politics to union regulationsTrade ReviewAmong recent books on cinema, one of the most nourishing is Richard Koszarski’s “Keep ’Em in the East”. -- Anthony Lane * The New Yorker *Koszarski’s latest movie-industry history is an essential resource for your bookshelves, a detailed inspection of critical film work in the New York City area from the 1930s to 1950s and the release of Elia Kazan’s On The Waterfront. -- Greg Young * The Bowery Boys *This deep dive into the history of Postwar New York cinema is a thrillingly paced read, taking the scholarly headiness of your typical Columbia-backed book and this time pairing it with a palpable energy that feels very much influenced by its subject. At over 500 pages, the book isn’t short on stories or deep dives into films, and with focuses on Kubrick and Kazan, will surely draw many eyes when gift hunting. -- Joshua Brunsting * Criterion Cast *"[This] book is rich with anecdotes, facts, and original insights, no doubt ensuring it will be an indispensable work to scholars of post-war American filmmaking. . . the book overall is a fitting tribute and history to what is both an overlooked, yet rich and influential period in American filmmaking." -- JAMES FENWICK * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *This is an exceptional work of research and writing, years in the making. If the production of cheesy films with Pigmeat Markham doesn’t interest you, rest assured that the story grows more captivating as it goes along. Keep ‘em in the East is a knockout. * Leonard Maltin *[A]n ambitious socio-political fresco dedicated to the 'renaissance' of cinema in post-war boom New York. * Cinecitta News *Richard Koszarski is a bold historian, a meticulous researcher, and a spellbinding storyteller. “Keep ‘Em in the East” masterfully displays all his talents. Only Koszarski could so deftly weave together industrial history, political infighting, social conditions, personal and very human biographies, and pointed appreciation of films as different as Naked City and Tall, Tan, and Terrific. In the process, Koszarski brings to light forgotten movies and trends, from little-known urban docudramas to the important 'race films' made for Black audiences. The book’s final stretch “crosscuts” Kazan's making On the Waterfront with Kubrick's preparing Killer’s Kiss, and the result is as exciting as a Hollywood chase. “Keep ‘Em in the East” permanently reshapes our understanding of American film as an art, a business, and a cultural force. -- David Bordwell, author of Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie StorytellingKeep 'Em In the East is a valuable (and long overdue) work of cinema scholarship. It broadens the parameters of American film history to include the boroughs of New York, where independent artists thrived far from Hollywood’s picture factories. Koszarski’s exemplary research shows that New York’s influence extended beyond Broadway’s influential writers, directors, and performers; it included a whole cadre of cinematic talent who'd have a profound impact on American movies. -- Eddie Muller, host of TCM's Noir AlleyIn this reassessment of the role of New York City in the history of film, “Keep ’Em in the East” restores the city’s filmmaking reputation with impeccable research and enthusiasm. No one would dispute that Richard Koszarski is the only film historian who could have written this book. -- Jeanine Basinger, author of The Star MachineKeep 'Em in the East is absorbing and enlightening. The dramas and disasters are expertly told and brilliantly researched. The book is a pleasure to read. -- Kevin Brownlow, author of The Parade's Gone By ... Keep 'Em in the East is an extraordinary achievement. Koszarski knows more about the history of filmmaking in New York City than anyone else, living or dead. This distills the central part of his lifelong research. No one will ever match it. For those who love New York and the movies, this book’s many surprises will provide an unending source of fascination and information. -- Charles Musser, author of The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Roots1. Not Just Another Location2. The Pathé Studio: Miniature Hollywood or Just Another False Dawn?3. Now It Can Be Told: Louis de Rochemont, Henry Hathaway, and the Birth of Docudrama4. Race Movies: New York’s Original Independent CinemaPart II: Revival5. Eight Million Stories6. The O’Dwyer Plan7. Joe Lerner’s New York Noir8. Just Passing Through9. Pictures and PoliticsPart III: Renaissance10. Crime on the Waterfront11. Obsessed with Film12. The Golden Warrior13. Kiss Me, Kill Me14. “And the Winner in New York Is . . .”15. Happy Ending16. Thank You, Hollywood!List of AbbreviationsNotesIndex
£29.75
Columbia University Press Alluring Monsters
Book SynopsisThe pontianak, a terrifying female vampire ghost, is a powerful figure in Malay cultures. Exploring how and why the pontianak found new life in postcolonial Southeast Asian film and society, Rosalind Galt reveals the importance of cinema to histories and theories of decolonization.Trade ReviewAlluring Monsters is indispensable reading for those interested in how media, folklore, and anticolonial feminism might be explored together. The pontianak, a female ghost of childbirth with queer feminist appeal, is a fascinating fusion of pre-Islamic animism and postindependence aspirations; her influence on transnational vampire lore is decisive but little known. Galt’s deep dive into the political potential of the pontianak moves from colonial misconstruals of indigenous culture to late-colonial studio films and the decolonizing impulses of Malaysian and Singaporean popular cinemas. Across such multiethnic, intercultural flows, Galt explores issues of racialization, ethnonationalism, and environmentalism via an archivally rich exploration of supernatural horror in Southeast Asian and world cinemas. -- Bliss Cua Lim, author of Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal CritiqueThe first of its kind and a book like no other, Alluring Monsters brings Southeast Asian cinema and postcoloniality into productive tension through the much-beloved yet much-feared figure of the pontianak. Rosalind Galt has created thrilling new paths for thinking about postcolonial cinema, animism, feminism, queer/trans subjectivities, and decolonial politics. -- Alicia Izharuddin, author of Gender and Islam in Indonesian CinemaAlluring Monsters delivers on all of its ambitious promises. Rosalind Galt elegantly balances the local and the global, the historical and the theoretical, the industrial and the aesthetic, the cultural and the political, the filmic and the related arts. The result is an important new model for imagining world cinema. -- Adam Lowenstein, author of Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital MediaAlluring Monsters is an excellent study of the role of the ubiquitous pontianak in the Malay cinema located in Malaysia and Singapore during the cultural processes of the decolonization of both countries. Galt’s scholarship is impressive in its breadth and depth, contributing to our understanding of why we must take the monstrous figure of the pontianak seriously. -- Stephen Teo, author of Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of ActionGalt offers a rich and vivid history of the pontianak’s relevance to questions of race, gender, and Islam in the context of decolonization in the Malay peninsula. This book’s entwinement of local historiography with theorizations of the global comprises its bold and welcome intervention. -- Iggy Cortez * Film Quarterly *A history lesson on this understudied cinematic culture and also a nuanced theoretical study that demonstrates the author’s knowledge of Malay cinema and contemporary cultural and cinematic theory. Though Galt centers on Malay cinema, the study will be invaluable for those interested in the horror genre and cinema in non-Western nations in general. -- G. R. Butters Jr. * Choice Reviews *Galt offers new insights for understanding decolonisation discourses in which knowledge categories and identity are questioned. Indeed, this book opens up new ways to study other mythical horror figures that put Western rationalisation at stake. -- Erika Tiburcio-Moreno * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *A truly unique achievement on multiple levels. -- Alicia Izharuddin * Journal of Vampire Studies *Superlative scholarship. . .[Galt’s] research is wide-ranging and thorough, providing a groundbreaking understanding of a popular culture icon through the lens of decolonization. -- Philippe Mather * East Asian Journal of Popular Culture *Alluring Monsters is an insightful and sophisticated piece of work that illuminates how a popular film subgenre that features the most iconic hantu in the region facilitates a theoretical debate about world cinema. In addition, it serves as a conduit for multiple meanings and discourses that reflect colonial legacies and ideologies that continue to haunt postcolonial Malaysian and Singaporean societies. -- Norman Yusoff * Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *Trenchantly argued and eminently readable, Alluring Monsters will be of interest to anyone interested in feminist film criticism, the horror film, histories of world cinemas, and indeed, history as such. -- Sen Meheli * Journal of Religion & Film *[A] very rich decolonial book . . . what makes the book so fascinating and unique is its fertile dalliance with contemporary scholarship in other fields like ecocinema and new animisms, which are gaining some momentum in Southeast Asian cinema. Thus, while providing a rich foundation for students of Southeast Asian cinema, the book also carries a broader appeal beyond Asian studies. -- Gaik Cheng Khoo * Journal of Asian Studies *Undoubtedly an important contribution to Malay cultures and cinema. -- David H.J. Neo * Asian Ethnicity *Engagingly written and impressively well-researched. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Malay LanguageIntroduction: On the Trail of the Pontianak1. Popular Horror and the Anticolonial Imaginary2. Troubling Gender with the Pontianak3. Race, Religion, and Malay Identities4. Who Owns the Kampung? Heritage, History, and Postcolonial Space5. Animism as Form: A Pontianak Theory of the ForestNotesBibliographyIndex
£27.00
Columbia University Press Rapture
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£54.40
Columbia University Press 1960
Book SynopsisAl Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literary, and intellectual figures who strove to create a new language to reckon with the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world.Trade ReviewTightly focused on work done within the year of its title, 1960 offers a compelling account of how artists processing the memory of mass trauma in World War II turned to innovation and reinvention as a means of recovery. Al Filreis has managed a rare accomplishment—writing a profound work of historical analysis that has deep implications for ideas shaping our lives today. -- Johanna Drucker, author of Iliazd: Meta-Biography of a Modernist1960 offers a provocative and vivid intellectual history from a literary perspective. Reading works as diverse as John Coltrane’s My Favorite Things and Jackson Mac Low’s aleatory poetry as part of the belated processing of World War II traumas, it asks us to reconsider the origins, references, and trajectories of the postwar avant-gardes. -- Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical LexicographyThis brilliantly syncretic book confronts the repression of World War II in American culture, circa 1960. Filreis thinks through a constellation of songs, literature, poetry, and films, each pierced by the war. His linked essays show how great art is not only ethically necessary but also a source of endless pleasure. 1960 is a tour de force of critical intelligence. -- Charles Bernstein, author of Pitch of PoetryAl Filreis's 1960 is a brilliant and absorbing cultural history of the moment when the repressed traumas and unspeakable atrocities of World War II erupted into the work of thinkers and artists across the globe. Reckoning with language's inadequacy to bear witness to—much less to reveal—crimes that language itself abets, these writers (from Fanon to Baldwin, Celan to Baraka, Achebe to Arendt to Auden, Duncan, Rothenberg, and others) developed and applied theories of language and power we still rely upon today. International in scope, rich in character and incident, 1960 is an investigatory and archival tour de force that excavates connections between figures and ideas undetected until now. -- Elisa New, director and host of PBS, Poetry in AmericaAl Filreis adds 1960 to the years that matter. The story he tells about the art, literature, and film of that year is complicated, one less utopian than many presume, one defined by the despair of World War II, one where it matters that Celan and Baldwin gave talks on the same day in October of 1960. This is a beautiful book, full of detailed readings of minor and major figures that reconfigure and contextualize the avant-garde and experimental traditions of that era. -- Juliana Spahr, author of Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment[An] impressive study which offers countless new perspectives on the shift from the conservative 1950s to the progressive, often radical 1960s. * Leonardo Reviews *Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsPrefacePart I. Emerging from the Night of the Word1. An Introduction to the Survivor: New Contexts for Genocide2. Pain-Laden Rhymes: Challenges to Narrative and the Radical “Writing I”3. Openings of the Field: Deep Memory and Its CounterwordsPart II. The End of the End of Ideology4. Absurd Judgment: Auden, Arendt, Eichmann, and the Kafka Revival5. Oppose the Anti-Everything: Zero Art and the Hopeful Leap6. Adjustment and Its Discontents: Aleatory Art vs. Cold War Deradicalization7. Disaster Defies Utterance: Arts of the Unsayable8. Thaw Poetics: Folk Revival, Radical Unoriginality, and the Old Word Witness9. Abomunism: Wars Within Wars in American Poetry10. Favorite ThingsNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press By the Power Vested in Me How Experts Shape
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Columbia University Press By the Power Vested in Me How Experts Shape
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Columbia University Press To Catch a Dictator
Book SynopsisTo Catch a Dictator is a dramatic insider’s account of the hunt for Hissène Habré, the former despot of Chad, and his momentous trial. The human rights lawyer Reed Brody recounts how he and an international team of investigators, legal experts, and victims went on a quest for justice.Trade ReviewFrom one of the world’s great fighters for justice, a most powerful tale of true crime that is at once gripping, forensic, and deeply human. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"Reed Brody’s remarkable book, To Catch a Dictator, is part political thriller, part memoir, part handbook for human rights attorneys and activists the world over. Brody describes the atrocities committed by Hissène Habré, who brutally ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990 with U.S. government support, and with profound humanity writes of the victims of Habré’s torture, who courageously persevered in their decades-long fight for justice. This compelling book serves as a guiding light to those who would pursue justice and human rights in these times that appear increasingly dark. -- Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!A riveting account of how a band of unrelenting victims and their allies were able to turn the tables on a brutal tyrant who thought he had gotten away with his crimes. I saw the story play out in real time as Senegal organized one of the most important trials in African history, and it was every bit as extraordinary as it appears on the page. Reed Brody’s engrossing book will restore your hope in the possibility of justice. -- Aminata Touré, former prime minister of SenegalTo Catch a Dictator reads like a gripping espionage thriller, except the whole thing is about true-life crime on an international scale. This definitive account of the origins and conduct of the Hissène Habré trial abounds with dictators, spies, assassinations, and political intrigue. -- Craig Etcheson, author of Extraordinary Justice: Law, Politics, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunals[To Catch a Dictator] makes for great reading...an engrossing blow-by-blow account...provid[ing] fascinating insights into the nature of such an international legal coalition. -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *An absorbing saga that raises a disturbing question: How do brutal fascists like Habre and other murderous heads of state evade a courtroom reckoning for so long after falling from power? -- Steve Levingston * The Washington Post *Catchy, easy to read and inspiring...Brody is a natural storyteller. -- Mia Swart, Edge Hill University * African Yearbook *Table of ContentsForeword, by Jacqueline MoudeïnaProloguePart I. Hissène Habré, an “African Pinochet”1. Souleymane Guengueng2. Hissène Habré3. The Pinochet Precedent4. A President Can Be ProsecutedPart II. Building the Case5. Politics Enters the Picture6. The Terror Files7. A Grenade Attack8. Justice Comes to Chad9. A Banana Republic?10. Reed Brody’s Schedule11. Habré Is Indicted, Again12. The Caliph13. A Senegalese Merchant14. “Reed Bloody, a Hateful Jew”15. Habrémania16. Habrécadabra17. The Trade Union of Heads of State18. “On Behalf of Africa”Part III. Building a Court19. Mr. X20. La France21. Panic in Chad22. An “Insider” Witness23. “Hope Is the Last Thing to Vanish”24. A Bizarre Decision25. Backlash26. “A Political and Legal Soap Opera”27. “Hurricane Mimi”28. “President Habré Has Been Kidnapped”29. A Trial in ChadPart IV. The Trial of Hissène Habré30. Two Heart Attacks31. Round One to Habré32. “You Will Be Tried Whether You Like It or Not”33. “From the Victims I Ask for Forgiveness”34. Khadidja Tells Her Secret35. The Man Who Runs Faster Than Death36. Souleymane Testifies37. The Verdict Is AnnouncedEpilogueAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Columbia University Press Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
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Columbia University Press Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories
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Columbia University Press What Is Sexual Difference
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Luce Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race.Trade ReviewWhat is Sexual Difference? thinks with and against Luce Irigaray in a new and invigorating way. Posing the fundamental question as to what sexual difference is opens up a range of possibilities for reading Irigaray beyond the oppositional attitudes of the essentialism question. Essays from a diversity of perspectives consider Irigaray in relation to colonialism, race, ecological questions, and gender identity. The inclusion of essays that read Irigaray in the context of trans philosophy and the critique of cissexism are an especially welcome contribution. -- Elaine P. Miller, author of Head Cases: Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed TimesThis is a timely and impressive re-examination of Luce Irigaray's influential ontological philosophy. By explicitly placing Irigaray's thinking within our pressing contemporary concerns with new, and returning, political, social, and environmental crises, the volume examines how 'sexual difference' constructs lived experience for/by/with diverse communities in affirmative, transversal, and specific ways. Its four sections address the capacity of writing about colonial, racial, sexual, or migrational issues through sexual difference, in order to suggest affirmative and ethical relations or subjectivities. As such, Irigaray's thinking may help enable us to re-think what it means to live together, at times and in places, so deeply constituted by societal, political, and environmental inequity and uncertainty. -- Peg Rawes, author of Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and SubjectivityThis rich collection shows that Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference remains fruitful and important. Engaging with ontology, essentialism, the sex/gender distinction, trans identities, colonialism, critical race theory, nature and ecology, and new materialisms, the authors interpret and take forward the idea of sexual difference creatively. They bring out many generative resonances between Irigaray's work and contemporary critical thought. -- Alison Stone, author of Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual DifferenceThe text that you hold, What is Sexual Difference?, beautifully captures the constitutive dynamism, dialectical and conceptual generativity, and deep openness that is reflective of the ongoing work of Luce Irigaray. The engaging and critically fecund voices and discursive framings within the text precisely reflect the phenomenon of wonder as postponement vis-à-vis the meaning of sexual difference. The text embodies a conceptual excess that resists closure regarding the work of Irigaray but does not sacrifice the necessity to think with her. Indeed, it is this process of thinking with Irigaray that disrupts autarchic myths of univocal meaning, and interpretive hegemony regarding her work. It is clear to me that the spirit and passion of Irigarayan wonder (as a mode of mourning) imbues this text. In this way, Rawlinson and Sares have fashioned a polyvocal philosophical site that refuses (as it should) to suit us totally and functions as a critically engaging textual advent. -- George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by Elizabeth GroszList of Abbreviations (Works by Irigaray)Introduction: Irigaray and the Question of Sexual Difference, by James Sares and Mary C. RawlinsonPart I: The Ontology of Sexual Difference1. The Ontological Negativity of Sexual Difference, by James Sares2. Opening Hegel’s Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference, by Mary C. Rawlinson3. One, Two, Many? Sexual Difference and the Problem of Universals, by Stephen D. Seely4. Returning to Irigaray’s Radical Materialism: Sexuate Difference, Ontology, and Bodies of Water, by Laura RobertsPart II: Sexual Difference Beyond Sex/Gender5. Life Itself and Sexual Difference: Nature and Culture, by Ruthanne Crapo Kim6. Sexuation as a Frame for Human Becoming: Reading a “Plastic” Essence in Irigaray’s Philosophy, by Belinda Eslick7. Looking Back at “This Sex Which Is Not One”: Post-deconstructive New Materialisms and Their (Sexual) Difference, by Penelope DeutscherPart III: Sexuate Nature and Subjectivity8. An Uncontainable Subject: Thinking Feminine Sexuate Subjectivity with Irigaray, by Jennifer Carter9. Male Re-imaginings: From the Ontology of the Anal Toward a Phenomenology of Fluidity, by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei10. Sexual Difference as Qualitative Becoming: Irigaray Beyond Cissexism?, by Oli Stephano11. An Onto-ethics of Transsexual Difference, by Mitchell Damian MurtaghPart IV: Placing Sexual Difference12. Sexuate Difference in the Black Atlantic: Reading Irigaray with Hartman, by Rachel Jones13. Bloodshed: Kinship as a Site of Violence in Irigaray and Spillers, by Sabrina L. Hom14. Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the “Second Rape” of Law, by Yvette Russell15. Place Thinking with Irigaray and Neidjie, by Rebecca HillPart V: Back to the Future of Sexual Difference16. Reading Speculum Again: Narrative, Optics, Time, by Emanuela Bianchi17. Indebtedness: A Sexuate Malaise, by Iván Hofman18. Mysterics: Extinction and Emptiness, by Lynne HufferList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Sex Trafficking in the United States
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Columbia University Press Sex Trafficking in the United States
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Columbia University Press The Backstreets A Novel from Xinjiang
Book SynopsisThe Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. Perhat Tursun follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the capital of Xinjiang. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection.Trade ReviewNamed a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker * The New Yorker *Close to a perfect work of art. -- Ed Park * The Atlantic *The Backstreets is an agonizing testimony to the anti-Uyghur policies and prejudices that led to [Tursun and the co-translator's] disappearances. It is also good writing of the sort that makes me feel like somebody has wrenched my head 90 degrees to the left: It's both clear and disorienting, an utterly new way of describing the world. -- Lily Meyer * NPR Books *Visceral and often disorientating, The Backstreets illustrates the painful effects of racism and exclusion. It is a strange and devastating novel, a portrait of what it means to become a second-class citizen in your homeland. * The Economist *The Backstreets is undoubtedly an important political document, but it is, most of all, a significant addition to the canon of outsider literature. -- Sam Sacks * Wall Street Journal *Poignant and disturbing . . . Life as a persecuted minority colours the book, but Tursun breaks loose of narrow victimhood. The Backstreets is a compelling read in its own right. -- Cindy Yu * The Spectator *A startling literary document of urban alienation. * The New Yorker *The Backstreets is a politically charged, emotional novel about the impacts of prejudice, industrial city life, and desolation on China’s Uyghur people. It is a major literary event that is honest in its portrayal of oppression. -- Monica Carter * Foreword Reviews, starred review *[A] slight, sorrowful, tone-perfect novel . . . Tursun’s novel sings with a kind of lyrical despair and anomie, all rendered with sensual depth and persuasiveness. -- Tom Sandborn * Vancouver Sun *There are many political – and perhaps ethical – reasons why The Backstreets deserves a wide readership. But above these should be an appreciation of its literary merits, not least of which are its sustained tone and imagery (well conveyed by Darren Byler and his co-translator). -- Nick Holdstock * Times Literary Supplement *One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2022 * The Millions *The publication of Perhat Tursun's The Backstreets, together with Darren Byler's illuminating introduction, is a landmark event in English-language world literature. Tursun's narration of the life of an Uyghur office worker in Ürümchi is unforgettable and quietly mindblowing. The style, mood, and scope are evocative of Camus (or maybe of an alternative Camus who wrote from an Algerian perspective), while still feeling utterly distinctive and unprecedented. A triumph. -- Elif Batuman, author of The IdiotWryly intelligent, acutely receptive to the sounds and smells of the life around him, but also half crazy, convinced that the universe is bombarding him with messages in a code he cannot read, and—finally—subjected to the casual contempt of his Han Chinese masters, Perhat Tursun's young hero gives us a darkly poetic record of a struggle to make sense of a world of oppression. A brave and heartrending book. -- J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the Nobel PrizeTursun, as rendered into English by Byler and Anonymous, writes with the ease and confidence of some of the greatest philosophical and absurdist writers of the twentieth century. -- Lauren Bo * Asymptote *The tragedy of the Uyghurs deserves nothing less than this absolutely brilliant and penetrating book. It is a moral imperative for readers to understand what is happening to this besieged population, and Perhat Tursun's prose is worthy of Kafka's. -- Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends: A NovelIf there ever is a work of literature that captures the existential condition of presently intensifying settler colonization of an indigenous city, it is Perhat Tursun’s short, masterful novel The Backstreets. This beautifully translated novel should be on the reading list for every conscientious person and adopted for world literature classes on high school, college, and graduate levels. -- Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los AngelesA fierce and brave cry of moral repugnance. -- Bill Marx * The Arts Fuse *A modernist masterpiece about life in China’s Muslim heartland. -- Bradley Jardine * Coda Story *Tursun constructs a psychoanalytical auto-fictional biography of a city at the borders of the Chinese state, showing us the ordinary alienation and the mundane repression Uyghur bodies are subjected to in their everyday life. . .The existence of this text in English is a truly luminous event for world literature. -- Serena De Marchi * Cha: An Asian Literary Journal *A remarkable work. -- John Alvey * The Modern Novel *[A]n excellent work and a pleasure to read. In a relatively short novel, the writer manages to express a people’s plight wrapped up in a story of a walk, and in the pollution that surrounds the walker. -- Tony Malone * Tony's Reading List *[A] disturbing, socially vital work of literature... -- Anita Felicelli * Words Without Borders *[D]isorienting, disturbing, evoking a swirl of feelings in the reader. -- Emily Walz * Washington Independent Review of Books *Given its author’s disappearance, The Backstreets will inevitably be received as a totem to the Uyghurs, first and foremost. It is that. But it is also more: a rare book that stands out because of the oppressive intensity of its narrative style, one reminiscent of the modernist writers (Dostoevsky, Camus, Freud) . . . At the same time, it carves out a distinctive voice that is uniquely bleak and beautiful. -- Luke Hallam * The Guardian *The Backstreets reads like a mash-up between Kafka and David Lynch. -- Tom Bowden * The Book Beat *A work of creative genius that takes as its theme the homelessness many Uyghurs feel as strangers in their own land. -- Yangyang Cheng * The Nation *This is a hugely important novel both as an excellent work of narrative art and as the encapsulation of the plight of an imperiled, suppressed ethnic group and its culture. Its translator, Darren Byler, should be loudly applauded for rendering this key text into lucid, well-judged English and bringing it to a global audience, as should his anonymous Uyghur co-translator. -- Oliver Dixon * World Literature Today *One of my favourite novels of recent times. -- Nilanjana Roy * Financial Times *Table of ContentsIntroductionThe Backstreets
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Columbia University Press Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy
Book SynopsisDavid R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo Chávez.Trade ReviewDavid R. Mares offers a remarkably useful analysis of the challenges of harnessing energy exports for sustainable development and the political dynamics that greatly complicate these challenges. His holistic political-economy approach integrates a comprehensive analytic map of political systems with in-depth understanding of the extraordinarily complicated case of Venezuela while also accounting for nationalization and privatization across Latin America. -- William Ascher, author of Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing CountriesControl of national hydrocarbon sectors, though often chronicled from an economic or legal point of view, is a highly political phenomenon. Political scientist David Mares unpacks the underlying drivers that influenced resource development and oil wealth in Latin America. His innovative methodological framework goes beyond simplistic explanations linked to the rhetoric about populism to offer extraordinary insights into the complex variables that influence who benefits from oil and who does not in societies like Venezuela. A must read for policy makers, students and scholars seeking to understand how oil alters political landscapes, often with negative consequences for the very citizens who should benefit most from this national patrimony. -- Amy Myers Jaffe, author of Energy's Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National SecurityLatin American oil and natural gas policies are highly divergent across the countries in this region; they also change considerably over time. Consider Venezuela’s disastrous depredation of its once thriving hydrocarbon industry versus Brazil’s more steady hand. What accounts for these differences? In this sweeping, interesting book, David Mares challenges conventional wisdom, which argues that either geology, markets, or ideology explain this variation. Instead, he identifies three main causes: the political system’s inclusiveness, how competitive the policymaking body is and, in a breath of fresh air, individual leaders’ traits. Mares also looks at the effects of these policies on whether they promote the stewardship of the natural resource sector and development broadly. To do so, he takes history and fine-grained knowledge of these countries' resources, governments, and societies seriously. This book is a revelation and a must read for political scientists, economists, academics working in business school, policymakers, and anybody who wants to learn about the checkered but fascinating history and political economy of Latin American hydrocarbons. -- Victor Menaldo, author of The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics and DevelopmentA must-read book for those interested in the determinants of oil policy in Latin America. Mares makes significant contributions to the literature on resource nationalism, showing how not only structural factors but also the inclusiveness and competitiveness of the political system shape energy policy. The in-depth case study of Venezuela constitutes by itself a major contribution, but the book’s lessons travel widely. -- Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin American Energy Program, Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice UniversityWhat causes the period waves of resource nationalism that sweep across the underdeveloped world? Meticulously researched and well argued, Mares overturns our understanding of resource nationalism. His proposed model that will change our understanding of the causes and consequences of the phenomenon and will force many of us to rethink what we thought we knew. -- Noel Maurer, author of The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Resource Nationalism and the Political Economy of Energy PolicyPart I. Energy Policy and Resource Nationalism1. The Parameters of Nationalism and Energy Policy2. The Paths to Diverse Partnerships in the Context of Resource Nationalism3. Explaining Oil and Gas PolicyPart II. Venezuela Case Study4. Venezuela’s Political Economy, 1989–20165. Scoring the Variables6. Explaining Energy Policy Under a Collapsing Punto Fijo7. Energy Policy in the Bolivarian RevolutionConclusions: Resource Nationalism and Energy PolicyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy
Book SynopsisDavid R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo Chávez.Trade ReviewDavid R. Mares offers a remarkably useful analysis of the challenges of harnessing energy exports for sustainable development and the political dynamics that greatly complicate these challenges. His holistic political-economy approach integrates a comprehensive analytic map of political systems with in-depth understanding of the extraordinarily complicated case of Venezuela while also accounting for nationalization and privatization across Latin America. -- William Ascher, author of Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing CountriesControl of national hydrocarbon sectors, though often chronicled from an economic or legal point of view, is a highly political phenomenon. Political scientist David Mares unpacks the underlying drivers that influenced resource development and oil wealth in Latin America. His innovative methodological framework goes beyond simplistic explanations linked to the rhetoric about populism to offer extraordinary insights into the complex variables that influence who benefits from oil and who does not in societies like Venezuela. A must read for policy makers, students and scholars seeking to understand how oil alters political landscapes, often with negative consequences for the very citizens who should benefit most from this national patrimony. -- Amy Myers Jaffe, author of Energy's Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National SecurityLatin American oil and natural gas policies are highly divergent across the countries in this region; they also change considerably over time. Consider Venezuela’s disastrous depredation of its once thriving hydrocarbon industry versus Brazil’s more steady hand. What accounts for these differences? In this sweeping, interesting book, David Mares challenges conventional wisdom, which argues that either geology, markets, or ideology explain this variation. Instead, he identifies three main causes: the political system’s inclusiveness, how competitive the policymaking body is and, in a breath of fresh air, individual leaders’ traits. Mares also looks at the effects of these policies on whether they promote the stewardship of the natural resource sector and development broadly. To do so, he takes history and fine-grained knowledge of these countries' resources, governments, and societies seriously. This book is a revelation and a must read for political scientists, economists, academics working in business school, policymakers, and anybody who wants to learn about the checkered but fascinating history and political economy of Latin American hydrocarbons. -- Victor Menaldo, author of The Institutions Curse: Natural Resources, Politics and DevelopmentA must-read book for those interested in the determinants of oil policy in Latin America. Mares makes significant contributions to the literature on resource nationalism, showing how not only structural factors but also the inclusiveness and competitiveness of the political system shape energy policy. The in-depth case study of Venezuela constitutes by itself a major contribution, but the book’s lessons travel widely. -- Francisco Monaldi, director of the Latin American Energy Program, Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice UniversityWhat causes the period waves of resource nationalism that sweep across the underdeveloped world? Meticulously researched and well argued, Mares overturns our understanding of resource nationalism. His proposed model that will change our understanding of the causes and consequences of the phenomenon and will force many of us to rethink what we thought we knew. -- Noel Maurer, author of The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction: Resource Nationalism and the Political Economy of Energy PolicyPart I. Energy Policy and Resource Nationalism1. The Parameters of Nationalism and Energy Policy2. The Paths to Diverse Partnerships in the Context of Resource Nationalism3. Explaining Oil and Gas PolicyPart II. Venezuela Case Study4. Venezuela’s Political Economy, 1989–20165. Scoring the Variables6. Explaining Energy Policy Under a Collapsing Punto Fijo7. Energy Policy in the Bolivarian RevolutionConclusions: Resource Nationalism and Energy PolicyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press New Story of the Stone An Early Chinese Science
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Columbia University Press Catastrophic Incentives
Book SynopsisExamining twenty years of disasters from 9/11 to COVID-19, Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin show how flawed incentive structures make the world more vulnerable when catastrophe strikes.Trade ReviewAt this critical crossroads in human history, Schlegelmilch and Carlin expose the cracks in how we prepare and respond to disasters and call on us to develop and execute strategies for achieving a more sustainable and resilient future. -- Shay Bahramirad, senior vice president of Engineering, Asset Management, and Capital Program, LUMA Energy, and president-elect of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power and Energy SocietyThis critical analysis offers fresh insight into the ways that the very structures we rely on to keep us safe from disasters are falling short. In exploring disincentives for readiness within and among sectors and the vulnerabilities they enable, the authors also provide a path forward and a reason to believe that a more resilient future is possible. -- Tom Daschle, commissioner, Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense and former Senate majority leaderA critical examination of recent events and our capacity to prepare and respond to them. With this work, the authors review the key drivers of disaster infrastructure, and the incentives that sustain them. As we reflect on the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and observe the landscape ahead, this book is a valuable resource. -- Nicolette Louissaint, senior vice president of policy, Healthcare Distribution AllianceThis is a true ‘must read’ for anyone interested in how we’ve managed large-scale disasters since the 9/11 attacks. Chronicling the evolution of key policies and protocols while still being an accessible and compelling story, it is an essential guide for professionals, students, and anyone interested in the safety and security of our world in the years to come. -- Irwin Redlener, MD, founding director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia UniversityThis book is an essential read to better understand why different sectors respond the way they do, and how that sets the stage for our own preparedness planning for surviving disasters. -- Les Stroud, survival expert and award-winning filmmaker and producerTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. A Recent History of Disasters: Events, Trends and Organizational Responses1. The Birth of the Modern Era of U.S. Disaster Management and Its Global Implications (2001)2. A Pandemic Warning, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Hurricane Katrina, and a Bird Flu (2002–2007)3. An Influenza Pandemic, Earthquake in Haiti, Fukushima Disaster, and Superstorm Sandy (2008–2012)4. Ebola, Hurricanes, Wildfires, and a Pandemic for the Ages (2013–2021)Part II. How Organizations Respond to Disasters and Why They Behave That Way5. Disaster Politics6. Disaster Markets and the Private Sector7. Disaster Nonprofits8. Disaster AcademicsPart III. In Search of Disaster Resilience9. Humans Are Bad at Risk, and Even Worse with Uncertainty10. Reimagining the ModelNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Education
Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Education
Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex
£28.50
Columbia University Press Soil to Foil
Book SynopsisSoil to Foil tells the extraordinary story of aluminum. Saleem H. Ali reveals its pivotal role in the histories of scientific inquiry and technological innovation as well as its importance to sustainability.Trade ReviewAluminum—who knew? In Saleem H. Ali’s capable hands, the metal becomes the vehicle for an engrossing and enlightening explanation of how our world works—and how it might work much better. -- Bill McKibben, Right Livelihood Award-winning environmental author and Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Middlebury CollegeSoil to Foil lights the way for how to build net-positive companies and economies from the ground up. It holds the hand of courageous business leaders in setting an inspiring vision for circular systems and gently but firmly pushing back against basic misconceptions of physics, chemistry, and geology that stifle creativity. Aluminum is something we can all relate to, and Soil to Foil helps you see it and the world around you in a new light filled with abundant possibility. -- Rohitesh Dhawan, president and CEO, International Council on Mining and MetalsSoil to Foil shows the profound connections between the atomic properties of aluminum and the gigantic entanglements of the world we live in through economics, politics, environmental laws, science, technology, industrial design, advertising, and more. Ali admirably and skillfully guides us to a much deeper and more vital understanding of these subjects. -- Tyler Volk, professor emeritus, New York University, and author of Quarks to Culture: How We Came to BeSoil to Foil considers the ‘extraction’ of the chemical processes used to turn aluminum ore into usable resources, fitting within a broader turn in the social sciences to considering the sociomaterial and sociotechnical dimensions of the world we live in. Ali persuasively shows why materiality and chemical composition matters for how aluminum ‘comes to be’ as a resource. -- Jessica M. Smith, Department of Engineering and Society, Colorado School of MinesWith approachable storytelling… environmental scientist Saleem Ali masterfully traces… the story of aluminum. * Science *This work provides fascinating insight. Highly recommended. * American Library Association (ALA) *Employs an engaging narrative style to convey scientific concepts... in clear, compelling prose. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the complex life cycle of aluminum will appreciate this book. Highly recommended. * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsPrefacePart I. Salt and Sod1. Elemental Origins and the Invention of Need2. Soil Without Soul: Why Aluminum Was Rejected by LifePart II. Precious Forces3. Unbreakable Bonds: The Challenge of Extraction4. The Bond Breakers and Their BountyPart III. Flight and Foil5. Mobile Metal: How Aluminum Facilitated War and Peace6. Aluminum for All: The Invention of a Household MetalPart IV. Elemental Flows7. Recycling and Realism: The Industrial Ecology Paradigm8. Restoration and Renewal of Mineral FrontiersEpilogue: Governing Our Planet’s Elemental ResourcesNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press We Are Each Others Business Black Womens
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Columbia University Press We Are Each Others Business Black Womens
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Columbia University Press Aging Moderns
Book SynopsisWhat happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.Trade ReviewScott Herring combines new archival research, interviews, and innovative literary analysis in a book that transforms the way we think about aging, modernism, and artistic production. Eloquent, witty, and lucid, Aging Moderns is also a great read. -- Rachel Adams, author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and DiscoveryWith groundbreaking research and fierce dedication, Scott Herring gives us a modernism never seen before: flourishing decades after its supposed high point, featuring authors in late life unfazed by bodily afflictions. Still intensely experimental, this is a new and different avant-garde, all the more stunning for being unexpected. -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted SurvivalWith Aging Moderns, Scott Herring recasts the credo of modernist studies and urges us instead to “make it old.” This magnificent book makes a compelling and urgent case for how a focus on old age and aging challenges entrenched understandings of the period and its aesthetics. Grounded in dazzling archival research, Aging Moderns is a profoundly ethical book that redefines collaboration, creativity, and, ultimately, the very conception of modernism. -- Sari Edelstein, author of Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of AgeAging Moderns challenges both the modernist cult of youth and a pervasive ageism in the culture. Arriving at late modernism via the later life of modernists, Herring rewrites literary history while taking his readers on a fascinating journey through archives and community centers. A remarkable demonstration of criticism as care. -- Heather K. Love, University of PennsylvaniaIn addition to being of interest to students and scholars of modernism, Aging Moderns forces reflections on the barriers and opportunities of senior status toward a realization of critical age studies. * Choice Reviews *Intriguing. * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *Aging Moderns offers the field an immensely readable approach to forgotten—and largely unknown—works by major literary and artistic figures of high modernism. * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Experimental Aging and American Modernism1. Djuna Barnes and the Geriatric Avant-Garde2. The Special Collections of Samuel Steward3. Ivan Albright’s Anti-Antiaging Treatments4. Tillie Olsen and the Old-Old Left5. Queer Senior Living with Charles Henri Ford and Indra Bahadur Tamang6. The Harlem Renaissance as Told by “Lesbian Elder” Mabel HamptonCoda: After Jacob Lawrence at Iona Senior ServicesNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Aging Moderns
Book SynopsisWhat happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.Trade ReviewScott Herring combines new archival research, interviews, and innovative literary analysis in a book that transforms the way we think about aging, modernism, and artistic production. Eloquent, witty, and lucid, Aging Moderns is also a great read. -- Rachel Adams, author of Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and DiscoveryWith groundbreaking research and fierce dedication, Scott Herring gives us a modernism never seen before: flourishing decades after its supposed high point, featuring authors in late life unfazed by bodily afflictions. Still intensely experimental, this is a new and different avant-garde, all the more stunning for being unexpected. -- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted SurvivalWith Aging Moderns, Scott Herring recasts the credo of modernist studies and urges us instead to “make it old.” This magnificent book makes a compelling and urgent case for how a focus on old age and aging challenges entrenched understandings of the period and its aesthetics. Grounded in dazzling archival research, Aging Moderns is a profoundly ethical book that redefines collaboration, creativity, and, ultimately, the very conception of modernism. -- Sari Edelstein, author of Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of AgeAging Moderns challenges both the modernist cult of youth and a pervasive ageism in the culture. Arriving at late modernism via the later life of modernists, Herring rewrites literary history while taking his readers on a fascinating journey through archives and community centers. A remarkable demonstration of criticism as care. -- Heather K. Love, University of PennsylvaniaIn addition to being of interest to students and scholars of modernism, Aging Moderns forces reflections on the barriers and opportunities of senior status toward a realization of critical age studies. * Choice Reviews *Intriguing. * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *Aging Moderns offers the field an immensely readable approach to forgotten—and largely unknown—works by major literary and artistic figures of high modernism. * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Experimental Aging and American Modernism1. Djuna Barnes and the Geriatric Avant-Garde2. The Special Collections of Samuel Steward3. Ivan Albright’s Anti-Antiaging Treatments4. Tillie Olsen and the Old-Old Left5. Queer Senior Living with Charles Henri Ford and Indra Bahadur Tamang6. The Harlem Renaissance as Told by “Lesbian Elder” Mabel HamptonCoda: After Jacob Lawrence at Iona Senior ServicesNotesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Voyages of Discovery The Cinema of Frederick
Book SynopsisVoyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Frederick Wiseman’s career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarian’s works since the 1990s.Trade ReviewBarry Keith Grant provides an updated version of his own singularly authoritative study of documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s astonishing range of films—from the controversial Titicutt Follies through such diverse examples as Meat, Missile, Model, Deaf, Blind, Public Housing, Ballet, and Belfast, Maine, to name a few. In his deeply informed study, Grant creates his own meticulous, yet accessible, “tapestry” of inquiry worthy of the same approach he credits Wiseman with adopting. Grant’s insightful readings of Wiseman’s carefully wrought compositions—and the happy accidents that sometimes occur—highlight colorful thematic threads woven to create the “reality fictions” Wiseman, in his own words, is producing. At the same time, Grant presents a capacious “mosaic,” placing Wiseman’s films in textured dialogue, not only with each other, but also with works of literature, art, theater, music, and dance, along with other films and Hollywood genres, that inform them. Grant explores Wiseman’s penetrating vision of institutional operations—the human interactions that sustain them and the ideological underpinnings beneath the “rules” that govern them. As Grant compellingly claims, Wiseman avoids providing viewers with easy answers. Voyages of Discovery powerfully uncovers the ambiguities inviting viewers to democratically, actively, and reflexively assess their own participation in, contributions to, and complicity within the cultural conditions Frederick Wiseman so evocatively observes. -- Cynthia Lucia, Rider UniversityVoyages of Discovery is one of the very best books of film analysis and scholarship that I've ever read. It is certainly the essential work about a major film-maker, whose films require special tools and sensitivities to discuss, which Grant possesses in abundance. This is a most useful work both for those just discovering Wiseman and those who think they know him. Great ideas abound on every page, and Grant's organization of the films is original and helpful. Exemplary as well are the carefully selected frame enlargements, which nicely support his close analysis of visual issues. Grant's ability to bring in relevant ideas from both film study and beyond it is the mark of an eminent scholar. That Grant discusses the entirety of Wiseman's prodigious output, in depth and entertainingly, is also quite an accomplishment. -- Stephen Mamber, author of Cinema Verite in America: Studies in Uncontrolled DocumentaryThis is the new edition we have been waiting for. Barry Keith Grant provides an essential companion to Frederick Wiseman, one of the most distinctive and prominent voices in US documentary. Voyages of Discovery offers perceptive and in-depth analyses of Wiseman's vast catalogue, ranging from the 1960s to his most recent work. Grant foregrounds the ways Wiseman's films have not only documented institutions but have challenged their established practices, encouraging audiences to meaningfully engage with and question the hierarchies and fraught political dynamics encountered in everyday life. This study matches the subtlety and resistance to reductive narratives found in Wiseman's own films, revealing why his work remains compelling and necessary viewing that continues to speak to the present day. -- Jeffrey Geiger, author of American Documentary Film: Projecting the NationThis revised edition of Voyages of Discovery is updated and expanded to cover Wiseman’s prodigious output over the decades since the original appeared. Supplemented and supported by a range of secondary sources from diverse fields spanning film studies, sociology, art history, and political science (among so many others), Grant develops a portrait of a working filmmaker that is informed and definitive. -- Michael Baker, Sheridan CollegeThe time is right for a second edition, and this year's 'revised and expanded' version rises to the occasion. * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Man with a Movie Camera2. American Madness: Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1968), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Juvenile Court (1974), Welfare (1975)3. The Big Parade: Basic Training (1971), Manoeuvre (1979), Missile (1988)4. Blood of the Beasts: Primate (1974), Meat (1976), Racetrack (1985), Zoo (1993)5. When Worlds Collide: Canal Zone (1977), Sinai Field Mission (1978), Model (1980), The Store (1983)6. The Bad and the Beautiful: The Cool World (1963), Seraphita’s Diary (1982)7. You and Me: Essene (1972), Blind (1987), Deaf (1987), Adjustment and Work (1987), Multi-Handicapped (1987), Aspen (1991)8. Love and Death: Near Death (1989)9. The Never-Ending Story: High School II (1994), Public Housing (1997), Domestic Violence (2001), Domestic Violence 2 (2002)10. Playtime: Ballet (1995), La Comédie-Française, ou L’amour joué (1996), The Last Letter (2002), La Danse—Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris (2009), Boxing Gym (2010), Crazy Horse (2011), National Gallery (2014), A Couple (2022)11. Our Town: Central Park (1989), Belfast, Maine (1999), State Legislature (2007), At Berkeley (2013), In Jackson Heights (2015), EX-LIBRIS: The New York Public Library (2017), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), City Hall (2020)FilmographyIndividual AwardsRetrospective ScreeningsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Cinematic Guerrillas
Book SynopsisCinematic Guerrillas is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda.Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking book, Jie Li delivers a fascinating account of socialist cinema. Reviving the scene of mobile projection and reception, Li reveals the human as central to technology, infrastructure, and energy. By taking propaganda history seriously, Li makes a major contribution to global media theory and archaeology. Cinematic Guerrillas will reverberate across multiple fields in the years to come. -- Weihong Bao, author of Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in ChinaCinematic Guerillas is both a bumper research harvest and a thrilling read. The memories of Mao-era mobile projectionists and audiences make us understand and feel how the cinema enchanted its audiences with revolutionary spirit—and how it made them willing to pay the heavy price of utopian dreams. -- Chris Berry, coeditor of Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of TranslationCinematic Guerrillas offers an ingenious exploration of Mao-era China. Jie Li considers state messages conveyed in film, embedding them in a physical mediascape of itinerant projectionists who hauled equipment, cash-strapped collectives who paid for local screenings, and villagers who flocked to open-air showings for entertainment and respite. Perceptive, hilarious, and heartbreaking. -- Gail Hershatter, author of The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective PastHow do you turn a scattered population into a revolutionary mass? Drawing on extensive archival and oral research, Li depicts the work of thousands of mobile projectionists traveling all over China training rural peoples for political struggle. A tour de force of historical reconstruction and theoretical intervention, this book shows how the Chinese revolution was also a media revolution dependent on the logistical work of ‘cinematic guerillas.’ -- Brian Larkin, author of Signal and Noise: Infrastructure, Media, and Urban Culture in NigeriaCinematic Guerrillas is cultural history at its best. Not only does it provide an engaging account of the culture of the young and aspiring PRC, but it also lays out an impeccable method to study socialist culture, straddling media studies and political economy to critically analyze some fundamental features of its very effective propaganda. -- Laikwan Pang, author of The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China's Cultural RevolutionJie Li’s research on Maoist cinema as a spirit medium reveals the constant struggle to keep revolutionary enthusiasm high after the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949. Her research on mobile projectionists brings out the complexity of working with rural audiences who sought the entertainment value in films meant to be understood ideologically. This book is a fine contribution to the study of cinema under socialism. -- Wendy Larson, author of Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of CultureThrough its marvelous narrative, Cinematic Guerrillas makes a compelling case that reception constitutes the core of cinema’s function and value . . . What Li manages to both uncover and produce is a rich and richly contradictory history of Chinese cinema, or, more precisely, of cinema in China, detailing in its intricacies how projectionists and audiences became key conduits of the “media revolution” that others might more commonly call the “Chinese revolution.” -- Bruno Guaraná * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revolutionary Spirit MediumshipPart I: Projectionists as Media Infrastructure1. Cinematic Nation-Building: Media Networks and Spiritual Battlegrounds2. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried3. The Three Sisters Movie Team: Projecting Models, Model Projectionists, and Female Projectionists4. The Cost of Spiritual Food: A Ritual Economy of Rural CinemaPart II: Audiences as Creative Agents5. The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema6. Guerrilla Cinema and Guerrilla Reception7. Transcultural Guerrillas: The Reception of Foreign Films in Socialist China8. Poisonous Weeds and Censorship as ExorcismEpilogueAppendix: InterviewsNotesIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Cinematic Guerrillas
Book SynopsisCinematic Guerrillas is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda.Trade ReviewIn this groundbreaking book, Jie Li delivers a fascinating account of socialist cinema. Reviving the scene of mobile projection and reception, Li reveals the human as central to technology, infrastructure, and energy. By taking propaganda history seriously, Li makes a major contribution to global media theory and archaeology. Cinematic Guerrillas will reverberate across multiple fields in the years to come. -- Weihong Bao, author of Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in ChinaCinematic Guerillas is both a bumper research harvest and a thrilling read. The memories of Mao-era mobile projectionists and audiences make us understand and feel how the cinema enchanted its audiences with revolutionary spirit—and how it made them willing to pay the heavy price of utopian dreams. -- Chris Berry, coeditor of Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of TranslationCinematic Guerrillas offers an ingenious exploration of Mao-era China. Jie Li considers state messages conveyed in film, embedding them in a physical mediascape of itinerant projectionists who hauled equipment, cash-strapped collectives who paid for local screenings, and villagers who flocked to open-air showings for entertainment and respite. Perceptive, hilarious, and heartbreaking. -- Gail Hershatter, author of The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective PastHow do you turn a scattered population into a revolutionary mass? Drawing on extensive archival and oral research, Li depicts the work of thousands of mobile projectionists traveling all over China training rural peoples for political struggle. A tour de force of historical reconstruction and theoretical intervention, this book shows how the Chinese revolution was also a media revolution dependent on the logistical work of ‘cinematic guerillas.’ -- Brian Larkin, author of Signal and Noise: Infrastructure, Media, and Urban Culture in NigeriaCinematic Guerrillas is cultural history at its best. Not only does it provide an engaging account of the culture of the young and aspiring PRC, but it also lays out an impeccable method to study socialist culture, straddling media studies and political economy to critically analyze some fundamental features of its very effective propaganda. -- Laikwan Pang, author of The Art of Cloning: Creative Production During China's Cultural RevolutionJie Li’s research on Maoist cinema as a spirit medium reveals the constant struggle to keep revolutionary enthusiasm high after the People’s Republic of China was established in 1949. Her research on mobile projectionists brings out the complexity of working with rural audiences who sought the entertainment value in films meant to be understood ideologically. This book is a fine contribution to the study of cinema under socialism. -- Wendy Larson, author of Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of CultureThrough its marvelous narrative, Cinematic Guerrillas makes a compelling case that reception constitutes the core of cinema’s function and value . . . What Li manages to both uncover and produce is a rich and richly contradictory history of Chinese cinema, or, more precisely, of cinema in China, detailing in its intricacies how projectionists and audiences became key conduits of the “media revolution” that others might more commonly call the “Chinese revolution.” -- Bruno Guaraná * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revolutionary Spirit MediumshipPart I: Projectionists as Media Infrastructure1. Cinematic Nation-Building: Media Networks and Spiritual Battlegrounds2. Mobile Projectionists and the Things They Carried3. The Three Sisters Movie Team: Projecting Models, Model Projectionists, and Female Projectionists4. The Cost of Spiritual Food: A Ritual Economy of Rural CinemaPart II: Audiences as Creative Agents5. The Hot Noise of Open-Air Cinema6. Guerrilla Cinema and Guerrilla Reception7. Transcultural Guerrillas: The Reception of Foreign Films in Socialist China8. Poisonous Weeds and Censorship as ExorcismEpilogueAppendix: InterviewsNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Disasters and Human Development
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Columbia University Press Global Easts Remembering Imagining Mobilizing
Book SynopsisThis book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Jie-Hyun Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia.Trade ReviewFew books have the range and ambition of Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia into conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it. -- Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Jie-Hyun Lim is one of the most original and innovative historians of his generation, wonderfully knowledgeable across Western and East Asian history alike. The connections he draws linking the history of Poland and East-Central Europe with Korea and East Asia are always thought-provoking and provide fresh insights about being ‘on the margins.’ Anyone interested in questions of memory, modernity, democracy, and dictatorship in the global twentieth century will come away inspired from this important book. -- Stefan Berger, author of History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical PracticeWhile demonstrating that 'East' and 'West' are relational categories produced through the logic of historicism, Lim juxtaposes 'Global Easts' in Europe and Asia to produce a brilliant and effective cognitive remapping of global history and memory – in the process disrupting the facile binaries through which we imagine we know our world. A must read. -- Takashi Fujitani, author of Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War IITheoretically sophisticated and empirically rich...this is a thought-provoking book that will be of interest to anyonestudying the role of history and memory in international relations. * International Affairs *Readers will come away certainly stimulated. * Europe-Asia Studies *This book will unsettle your framework and compel you to rethink and re-engage with questions that you might have satisfactorily set aside as completed projects. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Global EastsPart I. Remembering1. Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability2. The Second World War in Global Memory Space3. Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and ColonialismPart II. Imagining4. A Postcolonial Reading of Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited5. Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography7. Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbook: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms8. Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North KoreaPart III. Mobilizing9. Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship10. Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” NationsEpilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of NeopopulismIndex
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Columbia University Press Global Easts
Book SynopsisThis book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Jie-Hyun Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia.Trade ReviewFew books have the range and ambition of Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia into conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it. -- Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Jie-Hyun Lim is one of the most original and innovative historians of his generation, wonderfully knowledgeable across Western and East Asian history alike. The connections he draws linking the history of Poland and East-Central Europe with Korea and East Asia are always thought-provoking and provide fresh insights about being ‘on the margins.’ Anyone interested in questions of memory, modernity, democracy, and dictatorship in the global twentieth century will come away inspired from this important book. -- Stefan Berger, author of History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical PracticeWhile demonstrating that 'East' and 'West' are relational categories produced through the logic of historicism, Lim juxtaposes 'Global Easts' in Europe and Asia to produce a brilliant and effective cognitive remapping of global history and memory – in the process disrupting the facile binaries through which we imagine we know our world. A must read. -- Takashi Fujitani, author of Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War IITheoretically sophisticated and empirically rich...this is a thought-provoking book that will be of interest to anyonestudying the role of history and memory in international relations. * International Affairs *Readers will come away certainly stimulated. * Europe-Asia Studies *This book will unsettle your framework and compel you to rethink and re-engage with questions that you might have satisfactorily set aside as completed projects. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Global EastsPart I. Remembering1. Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability2. The Second World War in Global Memory Space3. Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and ColonialismPart II. Imagining4. A Postcolonial Reading of Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited5. Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography7. Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbook: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms8. Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North KoreaPart III. Mobilizing9. Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship10. Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” NationsEpilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of NeopopulismIndex
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Columbia University Press The Precious Summary
Book SynopsisThe Precious Summary is the most important work of Mongolian history on the three-hundred-year period before the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Written by Sagang Sechen in 1662, shortly after the Mongols’ submission to the Qing, it spans Buddhist cosmology, Chinggis Khan, the post-Yuan Mongols, and the Mongols’ conversion to Buddhism.Trade ReviewThis edition of The Precious Summary shows, once again, that Johan Elverskog is the preeminent English-language translator of Mongolian classics working today. -- Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene, author of The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State: The Formation of the Qing Imperial ConstitutionNot since the Secret History of the Mongols first appeared forty years ago has a Mongol masterpiece of equal importance found its way into English. Elverskog's linguistic intelligence and profound knowledge of Mongolian history make the prose and poetry of this historical classic shine. -- Timothy Brook, author of Great State: China and the WorldAlmost two hundred years after I. J. Schmidt’s first translation into German, Elverskog has finally given us an authoritative English rendition of Sagang Sechen’s Precious Summary, designed for a wide readership and accounting for the most modern scholarship. The Precious Summary is a must-read for all those interested in Mongolian civilization. -- Christopher Atwood, editor and translator of The Rise of the Mongols: Five Chinese SourcesJohan Elverskog’s annotated translation of a critically important Mongol text comes as the most comprehensive translation to date. Elverskog not only helps us in forming a unique understanding of the seventeenth-century text, but he also provides essential references and analyses to previous translations and other texts from Inner Asia which now can be seen in a new light. -- Uranchimeg Tsultemin, author of A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia[An] extraordinary achievement . . . which will remain the standard reference work for this important Mongolian chronicle for many years to come. -- Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz * Journal of Chinese History *Accessible and erudite, Johan Elverskog’s translation of this seventeenth-century classic of Mongolian literature is a major contribution to the study of Inner Asian history. -- David Sneath * The Seventeenth Century *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. History of the Universe, the Buddha, and India2. History of Tibet3. History of Chinggis Khan4. History of the Yuan Dynasty5. History of the Northern Yuan Dynasty6. History of the Mongol-Oirat Wars7. History of Dayan Khan8. History of the Six Tümen9. History of Khutugtai Sechen Khung Taiji10. History of Altan Khan and the Buddhist Conversion11. History of the Dalai Lamas and the Ordos12. History of the Ming and Qing Dynasties13. Epilogue14. ColophonNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Blessing America First
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Columbia University Press The Kokinshu
Book SynopsisCompiled 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.Trade ReviewThese eminently readable and often beautiful translations will appeal to a new generation of readers in Japanese studies and beyond. The accompanying essays survey the genesis and afterlives of the collection and offer significant new insights on the original language of the poems and how to appreciate them in translation. -- Joseph T. Sorensen, author of Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200)From the cries of the warbler in spring to the lonely nights of longing for a lover, Duthie offers fresh translations from each book of the Kokinshū, while grounding us in histories of scripts, reading and writing practices, and the power of poetry in premodern Japan. -- Christina Laffin, author of Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun AbutsuThis book should appeal to anyone interested in Japanese poetry, both for its evocative rendering of selections from the Kokinshū and for its concisely informative account of the classic waka anthology. -- Gustav Heldt, translator of The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient MattersTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. TranslationMana PrefaceSelected Poems from the KokinwakashūKana PrefacePart II. Essays1. Poetry Before the Heian Period2. The Heian Court and Kana Writing3. The Conception and Structure of the Kokinshū4. Topics of Composition5. Prosody and Rhetorical Conventions6. The Kokinshū Prefaces7. The Kokinshū Text and Its Commentarial Tradition8. Translating the KokinshūAppendix: Poets in This BookBibliography and Further ReadingIndex
£90.00
Columbia University Press The Politics of Survival Black Women Social
Book SynopsisGladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to survive and challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances.Trade ReviewThis innovative, meticulously researched book sheds new light on the experiences and struggles of poor Afro-descendant women in the United States and Brazil. An example of intersectional research at its best, the analysis uncovers how the interlocking dynamics of gender, race, skin color and poverty simultaneously shape and constrain social policies. Building on a long tradition of comparative scholarship on race in both countries, The Politics of Survival offers a sophisticated and nuanced Black feminist perspective on the gendered racialization of poverty in the Americas. -- Kia Lilly Caldwell, author of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and PolicyThe Politics of Survival offers a seamless combination of strong theory, sound methodology, and rich empirical evidence. Mitchell-Walthour anchors her analysis in Black feminist theory thereby centering Black women as the main subjects and using an intersectional approach to highlight the complex reality of poor Black women’s lives. -- Ollie A. Johnson III, coeditor of Comparative Racial Politics in Latin AmericaThe Politics of Survival treasures the social vision and economic ethics of poor Black women in Brazil and the United States. Mitchell-Walthour's impeccable research champions the political opinions of poor Black Women about social welfare policies and shows how their leadership is the best path for meeting material needs and activating and sustaining participatory democracy. Mitchell-Walthour surfaces how the global face of misogynoir and shaming poor women has been weaponized to disempower, marginalize, steal wages and family futures, and constrain political parties and policy options over generations. This is precisely how gender politics and race and ethnic politics transform comparative politics and how our research shapes a democratic Black Woman led future. -- Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White VulnerabilityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics of Survival2. Support of Social Welfare Programs, Stigma, and Resistance3. Perceptions of Class, Skin Color, and Gender Discrimination4. Are Poor Black Women to Blame for Conservative Politicians? Social Welfare Beneficiaries’ Political Knowledge, Voting Preferences, and Religion5. Conclusion: Are Poor Black Women the Hope for Progressive Politics?AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Democracy on the Ground
Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country.Trade ReviewA much-needed grassroots study of two ‘populist’ experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia. Gabriel Hetland is an astute observer of Latin American politics and this insightful, thoughtful book goes beyond the polemics and cliches to consider what democracy means to people whose opinions are rarely consulted. Indispensable. -- Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaHetland masterfully portrays the complexity of implementing democracy on the grassroots level in Latin America. -- Susan Eva Eckstein, author of Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in AmericaIn this important book, Gabriel Hetland brings his illuminating fieldwork in Venezuela and Bolivia to make a compelling and original argument about how the nature of national political systems can shape the possibility for participatory action on the ground. -- Sujatha Fernandes, author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s VenezuelaDemocracy on the Ground explores an interesting puzzle: why did political elites embrace participatory democracy in some Latin American cities and not others? This puzzle and Hetland’s findings are important to many debates about democracy, political elites, political parties, and participatory governance. His extensive fieldwork will be of great value to scholars and policy makers who want to better understand the political dynamics in this region -- Stephanie McNulty, author of Democracy From Above? The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory ReformsHis unexpected findings raise important questions for leftists anywhere hoping to one day exercise state power. * Jacobin *An alluring read. * International Affairs *This book is valuable to scholars and teachers of Latin American politics, political sociology, and comparative politics... Democracy on the Ground demonstrates that it is not only possible to widen the sphere of democratic participation without inciting elite repression, but that it has empirically already happened. * Peace and Change *An important contribution to studies of democracy, participation, and the Left. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Venezuela: Refracting Left-Populist Hegemony into Participatory Urban Governance1. Venezuela: From Crisis to Left-Populist Hegemony2. Torres: Participatory Democracy in “Venezuela’s First Socialist City”3. Sucre: Administered Democracy in a Right-Governed “Chavista City”Part II. Bolivia: Refracting Passive Revolution, Perpetuating Clientelism4. Bolivia: From Active to Passive Revolution5. Santa Cruz: Technocratic Clientelism, or Fear of the Masses6. El Alto: Inverted Clientelism in the Rebel CityConclusionMethodological Appendix: Thinking About the Political in Political EthnographyNotesReferencesIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Democracy on the Ground
Book SynopsisThis book examines the complex relationship of the Left, the Right, and democracy through the lens of local politics in Venezuela and Bolivia. Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Gabriel Hetland compares attempts at participatory reform in cities governed by the Left and Right in each country.Trade ReviewA much-needed grassroots study of two ‘populist’ experiments in Venezuela and Bolivia. Gabriel Hetland is an astute observer of Latin American politics and this insightful, thoughtful book goes beyond the polemics and cliches to consider what democracy means to people whose opinions are rarely consulted. Indispensable. -- Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of AmericaHetland masterfully portrays the complexity of implementing democracy on the grassroots level in Latin America. -- Susan Eva Eckstein, author of Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in AmericaIn this important book, Gabriel Hetland brings his illuminating fieldwork in Venezuela and Bolivia to make a compelling and original argument about how the nature of national political systems can shape the possibility for participatory action on the ground. -- Sujatha Fernandes, author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s VenezuelaDemocracy on the Ground explores an interesting puzzle: why did political elites embrace participatory democracy in some Latin American cities and not others? This puzzle and Hetland’s findings are important to many debates about democracy, political elites, political parties, and participatory governance. His extensive fieldwork will be of great value to scholars and policy makers who want to better understand the political dynamics in this region -- Stephanie McNulty, author of Democracy From Above? The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory ReformsHis unexpected findings raise important questions for leftists anywhere hoping to one day exercise state power. * Jacobin *An alluring read. * International Affairs *This book is valuable to scholars and teachers of Latin American politics, political sociology, and comparative politics... Democracy on the Ground demonstrates that it is not only possible to widen the sphere of democratic participation without inciting elite repression, but that it has empirically already happened. * Peace and Change *An important contribution to studies of democracy, participation, and the Left. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Venezuela: Refracting Left-Populist Hegemony into Participatory Urban Governance1. Venezuela: From Crisis to Left-Populist Hegemony2. Torres: Participatory Democracy in “Venezuela’s First Socialist City”3. Sucre: Administered Democracy in a Right-Governed “Chavista City”Part II. Bolivia: Refracting Passive Revolution, Perpetuating Clientelism4. Bolivia: From Active to Passive Revolution5. Santa Cruz: Technocratic Clientelism, or Fear of the Masses6. El Alto: Inverted Clientelism in the Rebel CityConclusionMethodological Appendix: Thinking About the Political in Political EthnographyNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press The American Stamp
Book SynopsisExamining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.Trade ReviewIn this thrilling account of United States postage stamps, Goldblatt and Handler show us that enduring national myths are inextricably bound up with racial segregation, settler colonialism, and consumerism. Beautifully written and compellingly argued, this book shows that the United States postage stamp is as complex, fraught, and contradictory as the nation itself. -- Elizabeth Chin, author of My Life with Things: The Consumer DiariesThe American Stamp describes in layered detail how postage stamps perform the “ideological magic” of making one people out of all these raced, classed, and gendered addresses and pieces of paper. It is materialist analysis at its most unforgettable. -- Laura Wexler, author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. ImperialismGoldblatt and Handler offer an original and well documented interpretation of U.S. postage stamps that will be of interest to a wide array of audiences: stamp collectors and postal historians, to be sure, but also anyone interested in the construction and transformation of U.S. citizenship, consumerism, and popular representation. This book makes a fascinating and important contribution to the literature on nationalism, citizenship, and collecting. -- Pauline Turner Strong, author of American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the CenturiesGiven email, supply chain setbacks, and fears of mail-in ballot corruption, many would consider a stamp the relic of a dying era. But Goldblatt and Handler powerfully bring the stamp back to life as an unrecognized measure of American democracy’s future and not just its past. In The American Stamp we find a timely and historically rigorous examination of the consumer republic and its limits. -- Davarian Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our CitiesTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Mailing, Collecting, Cataloguing1. The Postal Infrastructure of Democratic Citizenship2. Creating Post-postal Value: Stamp Collecting3. U.S. Stamps: Cataloguing Polities and Framing National CulturePart II: Storied Ancestors4. Fixing the Iconography of National Ancestry: Dead Heads and Moving Bodies During the U.S. Civil War5. Mining History and Marketing Stamps at the World’s Fairs6. The People in the Postal Polity: Twentieth-Century Definitive Stamps and the Iconography of Democratic InclusionPart III: The Stamp of Neoliberalism7. Postal People: From Industrial Labor, Black Power, and Social Service to Cartoon Citizenship8. Segregating Stamps: From White Definitives to Racialized Commemoratives9. How to Do Things with Stamps, Part I: First-Day Covers10. How to Do Things with Stamps, Part II: Shooting the MoonConclusion: Postal Circulation and Citizenship at the End of the American CenturyAcknowledgmentsAppendix: How Many People Collect Stamps in the United States?NotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Power of Podcasting
Book SynopsisSiobhán McHugh dissects what makes a good podcast and outlines how you can create one yourself. She blends practical insights into and critical analysis of the art of audio storytelling. Packed with case studies, history, tips, and techniques, this book introduces readers to the possibilities of the world of sound.Trade ReviewAbsolutely fascinating, and a terrific lesson in how to tell good stories. Whether you seek instruction, or simply to know why some podcasts are better than others, this book is for you. Considering how rapidly podcasting is developing, McHugh manages to keep it bang up to date, charting the latest trends and the ever-expanding honour roll of podcasts circulating around the world. For those looking for practical guidance in creating or improving their own podcasting, she populates the chapters with real, living, breathing people in all the highs and lows of their humanity, which is, after all, the secret to great radio, journalism and outstanding podcasting. -- Olya Booyar, head of radio, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting UnionStorytelling is Siobhán McHugh’s gift, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that this book is written as an immersive narrative … the ideal book for students, trainers, researchers and anyone who wants to learn about the inner workings of podcasting. -- Kim Fox, American University in Cairo and co-chair of the Podcast Studies NetworkAn invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding today’s global podcasting phenomenon. I learned so much. -- Carolina Guerrero, CEO of Radio Ambulante StudiosThe most in-depth guide to the best audio storytelling around the world. Packed with useful insights and ideas. -- Marc Fennell, creator of Stuff the British StoleEssential reading for anyone aspiring to make memorable audio. This is the ultimate guide to podcasting from a master of the craft. -- Richard Baker, host of The Last Voyage of the Pong SuA love letter to the power of podcasting and audio, from one of the most experienced storytellers with sound. -- James Cridland, editor of PODNEWSMuch more than a how-to guide for aspiring podcasters … A reminder of the power of sound and the huge potential of the podcast medium. -- Richard Berry, University of SunderlandMcHugh’s detailed explanations of how audio can transform words are profound. . . . The Power of Podcasting is a reminder that audio storytelling is an art form. * Australian Book Review *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Seductive Power of Sound1. Podcasting: Why, Who, What2. Appreciating Audio Storytelling: The Backstory3. Radio, Podcasting and Intimacy4. The Aerobic Art of Interviewing5. Milestones in the Podsphere: From Serial to The Daily6. Podcasting as Literary Journalism: S-Town7. Creating a Hit Narrative Podcast, Part 1: Finding the Story8. Creating a Hit Narrative Podcast, Part 2: Under the Hood of The Last Voyage of the Pong Su9. Inclusion, Diversity and Equality: Pushing the Boundaries of Podcasting10. Podcasting: What Next?Appendix: Podcast Recommendations and ReviewsNotesAcknowledgmentsIndex
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