Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Edited by Ulrike Freitag, Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, and Nora Lafi

The Armenian Genocide: Evidence from the German Foreign Office Archives, 1915-1916, Compiled and Edited by Wolfgang Gust

“…this massive volume contains the only English-language  translation of 240 primary documents found in German Foreign Office files.  A very extensive overview section provides superb historical background, especially concerning the German involvement.  A much earlier compilation of German-language  documents was compiled by German theologian Johannes Lepsius in 1919, but some text was ‘deleted or manipulated  by the German Foreign Office.’  Gust and his wife were able to restore some of the original text, and they added many documents not found in the Lepsius volume.  This meticulously compiled work will provide historians and students with invaluable information about this lesser-known aspect of the genocide.”  ·  Choice

 

 

 

 

Narrating Victimhood: Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia, by Michaela Schäuble

“[This book] is scholarly, very well researched, and contains some fascinating original ethnographic material that is handled with imagination and sensitivity.”  ·  Frances Pine, Goldsmiths, University of London

“This is a truly excellent study. From the first to the last page, I was impressed by its thoughtfulness, level of scholarship, and ethnographic thoroughness…She succeeds in making this unstudied place come alive in her ethnography while simultaneously making her rich ethnographic detail serve as a lever for a highly sophisticated analysis of a cluster of issues that are both of contemporary political relevance and of theoretical significance.”  ·  Marko Zivkovic, University of Alberta

 
The Political Economy of Border Drawing: Arranging Legality in European Labor Migration Policies, by Regine Paul

“The author relates in an inspiring way [how]…capitalism, the welfare regime, and citizenship [relate] to migration policies, and analyzes the logics of labor migration regulations in three cases. The book makes a key contribution to the academic debate by pointing light on the normative basis of migration policies and the seeming contradictions between the logics of migrant admissions.”  ·  Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff, University of Kassel

Making a Difference? Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and its Emergence in China, Edited by Susanna Price and Kathryn Robinson

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Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine, Edited by Marian J. Rubchak,
Foreword by Catherine Wanner

“With [this volume] Marian J. Rubchak has begun filling a long-standing void in the post-Soviet gender literature with a diverse collection dedicated solely to the understanding of women’s positions in Ukraine. Rubchak was one of the earliest Western observers of women’s issues in Ukraine and…among the first to gauge its feminist potential. Her edited volume also recognizes the significance of the sustained transnational and cross-cultural conversations between women scholars and activists that have ensued…[It] succeeds in discerning a feminist concern that stems from the contradictions inherent in women’s efforts to support Ukrainian nation building while simultaneously striving to promote women’s true equality.”  ·  Journal of Ukrainian Studies

 

 

 

 

Cultural Diversity in Russian Cities: The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era, Edited by Cordula Gdaniec

“Taken together, these [contributions] reveal that cosmopolitanism’s definitions and meanings only exist in the plural, that the formation of cosmopolitan ideas and communities is inevitably contingent and place-specific, and that the forces preaching exclusion and intolerance are often at least as powerful as those promoting cultural acceptance in a rapidly globalising world. I recommend it for the insights and case studies it offers, and it would be a useful text for courses concerned with globalisation and urbanism.”  ·  Urban Studies

 

 

 

 

 

Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence, Edited by Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja

“What emerges as common features of these cities mark their unique contribution to an understanding of cosmopolitanism as ideal and practice, raising crucial questions about who is or can be cosmopolitan and where cosmopolitanism is in the world. Loosely connected by their orientation to both Europe and Asia, the shifting valences of this outlook over time have important consequences for the cities’ respective cosmopolitan-ness, as well as the meaning and nature of cosmopolitanism.”  ·  Urban History

“In their new book, Caroline Humphrey and Vera Skvirskaja have excelled in building a …magnificent world of cultural identities without ends. The authors and editors offer a compelling exploration of the multilayered ideas about what makes “us”and “them”in six cities: Odessa, Tbilisi, Warsaw, Venice, Thessalonica, and Dushanbe…Humphrey and Skvirskaja take the deeper, anthropological, microscopic view of the everyday experiences of people. And in this they do an excellent job.”  ·  Slavic Review

Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens, Edited by Sabine Hake and Barbara Mennel

“With its multiplicity of topics this varied volume contributes much to the promising study of Turkish German cinema, and more general: migrant cinema. [This volume] does not only show how much research there has already been done, but also how much work remains to be done.”  ·  Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

“[This book] …breaks new ground in film-theoretical approaches to the field and points the way to future avenues of investigation. Particularly refreshing are chapters that take account of how Turkish German film intersects with new forms of spectatorship…in its attention to a variety of media and genres, theoretical frameworks, institutional contexts, and its rare inclusion of perspectives from outside Germany…The volume pushes the boundaries of existing scholarship. More than just a survey, it offers productive models for future studies in the field.”  ·  German Quarterly

Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism, Edited by Friederike Kind-Kovács and Jessie Labov

“Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond offers a long-awaited rethinking of dissent at the grassroots level. Looking primarily but not exclusively to the Eastern Bloc, this volume skillfully stretches our understanding of samizdat to incorporate visual art, music, video, and the web. The editors bring together seemingly disparate samizdat ‘texts’ by placing them within the larger context of transnationalism, gender, and mass media. In so doing, they remind us that dissent is, first and foremost, a creative human endeavor, one that not only has a history but also a future.” · Paulina Bren, Vassar College

Investigating Srebrenica: Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities, Edited by Isabelle Delpla, Xavier Bougarel, and Jean-Louis Fournel

“[This book] provides us with a framework to analyse the hundreds of reports that are being written around the world in an effort to come to terms with past atrocities. Whether readers are interested in international relations, law, human rights, history or sociology, this book will have something to bear in the way in which we all approach the issue of understanding rationales behind knowledge. This work fills a gap in the current literature on the main reports and investigations of Srebrenica, since these had not been, until now, the objects of comparative analysis.”  ·  LSE Blog

 

 

 

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