As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining ......
Dreams and Reality, originally published in Yiddish in 1979, recounts Shifra Lipshitz's (1898-1984) nearly fifty-year sojourn in the Soviet Union that began as idealized infatuation and ended with radical disillusionment. Born in Poland, Lipshitz became a leftwing activist, fleeing to the Soviet Union illegally in 1923. A believer in Bolshevik ......
Dreams and Reality, originally published in Yiddish in 1979, recounts Shifra Lipshitz's (1898-1984) nearly fifty-year sojourn in the Soviet Union that began as idealized infatuation and ended with radical disillusionment. Born in Poland, Lipshitz became a leftwing activist, fleeing to the Soviet Union illegally in 1923. A believer in Bolshevik ......
The founder of modern Russian philosophy, Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) is widely considered its greatest practitioner. Together with Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, he is one of the towering intellectual figures in late-nineteenth-century Russia, and his diverse writings influenced much of the non-Marxist tradition of twentieth-century Russian thought. ......
Displays of Belonging illuminates the lives and work of Polish Jewish collectors and museologists, who sought to preserve the treasures of the Jewish past while demonstrating Jewish belonging on Polish soil. As Jews comfortable in the Polish language and within Polish artistic and academic society, they saw themselves as intermediaries between ......
How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism
Disciplining Democracy reveals the political consequences for the triumph of "service learning" as the dominant pedagogical model of civic engagement in the modern American university. Volunteer-based civic engagement programs in higher education are popularly understood as curricular opportunities that enable young people to engage as citizens in ......
Digital Initiation Rites is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. Drawing upon testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom it enabled and articulated a political transformation from being 'asleep' to being 'awake', Vita Peacock narrates the process through which digital ......
Digital Initiation Rites is an ethnography of Anonymous in Britain between 2014 and 2017, in the context of government austerity. Drawing upon testimonies of dozens of participants, for whom it enabled and articulated a political transformation from being 'asleep' to being 'awake', Vita Peacock narrates the process through which digital ......
Hannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: political struggles, war and peace, and economic development. She experienced the pull of traditional emphases on duty, subjection, and hierarchy and the emergence of radical new ideas promoting free choice, liberty, and independence. Regarding these ......
