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Across Continents

Writing Goans, Making Worlds

By R. Benedito Ferrão
Subjects: African Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia, Diaspora Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

A dialogue between postcolonial literature and Afro-Asiatic studies through an analysis of Goan characters

Claiming Impartiality

Peacebuilding Organizations as Actors in Multiple Fields of Global Governance

By Andrea Warnecke
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Uncovering the foundational dilemma between the objectives and the institutional mandates of peacebuilding agencies

Dissenting Through Dance

Folk Dance, Gender, and Political Protest in Turkey

By Sevi Bayraktar
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

How femme activists transform folk dance to a potent form of resistance in Turkey

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

A Century of International Crisis Behavior

Edited by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley, and Patrick James
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations

Examining times of crisis through the lens of 100 years of data

China’s Date Debate

How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II

By Emily Matson
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

How the “date debate” rewrote Chinese history

Staging Visitation

Tourist Performances and Theatricalized Places

Edited by Bryan W. Schmidt & Weston Twardowski
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Travel

How tourism becomes a site for the performance of identity

Out of Line

Reading and Writing Protest in West Germany, 1968

By Peter Schweppe
Subjects: History, German History, German Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

How the politics of print transformed protest in West Germany's Global Sixties

Lavender Sounds

From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork

By Stacey Copeland
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

An exploration of queer feminist soundwork, connecting historical lesbian radio with modern podcasting

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Poets as Public Scholars

Contemporary Poetics in an Age of Social Media

By C. R. Grimmer
Subjects: Digital Projects, Writing, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Digital Culture Books

Models ways poetry can drive public scholarship in the digital age

The Ella E. Hall Recipe Book

By Ella E. Hall
Foreword by Jessica Kenyatta Walker & Susan Wineberg
Subjects: Cookbooks, African American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Food and Drink

A personal collection of recipes and culinary experiments

Four Years in Izumi

Village Japan in the Early Sixteenth Century

By Lee Butler
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian History, Medieval and Early Modern History
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An unparalleled view of village society in Japan’s tumultuous Warring States period

Exit of a Hero

Photography and the Visual Culture of Commemoration in Southern Nigeria

By Okechukwu Nwafor
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Photography, Art History, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

The transformation of commemorative practices alongside the development of a distinct visual culture reshaping southern Nigeria

Second in Command

Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics

Edited by Karine Prémont & Christopher J. Devine
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics

Reconsidering the true significance of the nation’s second-highest office

Curriculum of the Mind

By Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson & The Space Program
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Sociology, African American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Dreaming of freedom through sound

Transpacific Experiments

Intermedia Art and Music in 1960s Japan

By Miki Kaneda
Subjects: Music, Musicology, Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, New Media

How intermedia art and everyday life in 1960s Japan shaped an unexpected transcultural avant-garde

Ruling Indonesia

Jokowi's Presidency in an Age of Democratic Crisis and Great Power Competition

By Marcus Mietzner
Subjects: Political Science, Asian Studies, Southeast Asia
Series: Emerging Democracies

A personal examination of how one leader prioritized economic development over democratic liberties

Just Language

Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence

By Dennis Johannßen
Subjects: German Studies, Political Science, Political Theory
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

A new analysis of linguistic violence and resistance in the works of German-Jewish authors

Teaching Academic Writing in the Health Sciences

A Guide for Instructors, Mentors, and Trainers

By Ella August
Subjects: English Language Teaching (ELT), Writing, Education, Higher Education

Best practices for teaching and mentoring academic writing in the health sciences

A Critique of Political Science

A History of the Caucus for a New Political Science

By Clyde W. Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance

How can political science advance progressive political development in the United States and abroad?

Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide

By Jen-yen Chen
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, China
Series: Musics in Motion

The sonic experiences and cultural diversity of the Catholic religion in Macau

Global Urban Policy

A Framework for Analyzing State and Society

Edited by David Kaufmann & Mara Sidney
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance, Spatial Politics, Urban Studies

How to see like a city

On Visual Rhetoric

By Christa J. Olson & Brandee Easter
Subjects: Art, Photography, Writing
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

Re-theorizes the persuasive, world-making work of vision and the visual

Supernatural Japan

Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic

By Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic

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