The Politics of Sanctuary examines sanctuaries as spaces where activists oppose what they see as an unjust restrictive regime trapping immigrants in conditions of legal liminality. Drawing on her fieldwork in New York City, Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes explores the politics of immigrant exclusions, and depicts how immigrants in sanctuary cities ......
Establishing the French Protectorate in Morocco, 1912-1927
The Politics of Collaboration explores the initial fifteen years of the French protectorate in Morocco (1912-1927) when the independent Sharifian empire ruled by a sultan claiming descent from the Prophet Mohammed was of political and economic importance to Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. Through European agreements and a treaty with the ......
The Poetics of Incivility explores impolite modes of expression-satire, crude humor, and rudeness-as a critical lens for both aesthetic innovation and sociopolitical critique. In the Arab world-from Cairo's Tahrir Square and the thoroughfares of Beirut to war-torn Gaza-political demands have been framed by satirical cartoons and graffiti or in ......
The Poetics of Incivility explores impolite modes of expression-satire, crude humor, and rudeness-as a critical lens for both aesthetic innovation and sociopolitical critique. In the Arab world-from Cairo's Tahrir Square and the thoroughfares of Beirut to war-torn Gaza-political demands have been framed by satirical cartoons and graffiti or in ......
The Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers along the same ......
Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond
In The Pitfalls of Family Rule, Barbara Junisbai questions the conceptual divide separating democracy from nondemocracy as well as that separating "strong" authoritarian rulers from "weak" ones. Focusing on patronage, endemic to post-Soviet Eurasia but also present the world over, she untangles the spoils agreements that bind elites to strongman ......
Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian ......
The first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War offers a new evaluation of the origins and causes of the conflict, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts. He focuses his study on the question: Was the war inevitable, or could it have been ......
Arabic was among the first languages in which the Gospel was preached. The Book of Acts mentions Arabs as being present at the first Pentecost in Jerusalem, where they heard the Christian message in their native tongue. Christian literature in Arabic is at least 1,300 years old, the oldest surviving texts dating from the 8th century. Pre-modern ......
