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Fictions of the Real

Synergies Between Screen and Stage in Argentine Performance

By Brenda Werth
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Media Studies, Cinema Studies

Re-centers the impact of the real on the praxis of art in Argentine performance

The Strategy of Sanctions

From Antiquity to the 21st Century

Edited by S. C. M. Paine & Anand Toprani
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations

Evaluating the short- and long-term effectiveness of sanctions alone or in combination with other instruments of national power

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

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

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

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

Aesthetics of Displacement

Movement, Archives, and Performance in Contemporary Colombia

By Melissa Blanco Borelli
Subjects: Dance, Latinx Studies, Latin American Studies, Theater and Performance

Movement and performance as a means of resistance and identity formation in contemporary Colombia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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