Precarious Universality explores the diverse and complex ways that the engagement of Chinese literature with Russia in the twentieth century grappled with universality, both as a challenge to be overcome and as an aspirational ideal. Roy Chan argues that Chinese cultural interest in Russia was not solely due to political expedience but instead ......
How do we remember a seering event that left so little behind? Scattered Steel traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the World Trade Center. When the Towers fell on September 11, 2001, nearly all that remained was pullvarized concrete and contorted steel. Samuel and Max Holleran investigate how fragments of these skyscrapers ......
Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of artwork itself. Departing from philosophies of touch - proposed by such thinkers as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, ......
Finding Treblinka challenges the long-held belief that Treblinka, the second-deadliest extermination camp operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, was completely destroyed. Even though Nazis demolished buildings, exhumed and burned victims' bodies, and planted trees to obscure the site, Caroline Sturdy Colls uncovers what still lies beneath ......
Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The volume combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern ......
Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Heritage Forensics introduces a new framework for investigating cultural heritage caught up in war, ethnic cleansing, and secrecy. The volume combines satellite-based spatial analysis with humanistic research and humanitarian concern to document the impact of the protracted conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijan on the medieval and modern ......
While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead, this volume offers an alternative interpretation to the traditional framing of military actors as ......
While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead, this volume offers an alternative interpretation to the traditional framing of military actors as ......
Circulating Subjects investigates the migration of women abroad for sex work from the 1880s through the 1930s, which Russian feminists, liberal jurists, and imperial bureaucrats worked together to define and criminalize this mobility as "white slavery." As Circulating Subjects reveals, white slavery became a powerful tool of border control for the ......
