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Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital

by Grazia Ingravalle

Amsterdam University Press, 2024

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Cloth: 978-94-6372-567-5

eISBN: 978-90-485-5574-1 (PDF)

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Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institutional histories, early and silent film historiography, and archival curatorship. It examines three institutions at the forefront of experimentation with film exhibition and curatorship. The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY, and the National Fairground and Circus Archive in Sheffield, UK serve as exemplary sites of historical mediation between early and silent cinema and the digital age. A range of elements, from preservation protocols to technologies of display and from museum architectures to curatorial discourses in blogs, catalogs, and interviews, shape what the author innovatively theorizes as the archive’s hermeneutic dispositif. Archival Film Curatorship offers film and preservation scholars a unique take on the shifting definitions, histories, and uses of the medium of film by those tasked with preserving and presenting it to new digital-age audiences.
About the Author
Grazia Ingravalle is Assistant Professor in Film at Queen Mary University of London. She has published extensively on film archives, early cinema, digitization, and decolonisation in edited collections and journals including The Moving Image, Screen, and the JCMS. Archival Film Curatorship is her first monograph.
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“Archival Film Curatorship offers a vital contribution to moving image archiving studies. Grounded in Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and extensive, original archival research, the book simultaneously reminds us that silent films’ historicity are products of deep-rooted institutional traditions, while showing a way forward for film curation amidst the accelerating datafication of film heritage.”
-- Dr. Christian Olesen, Assistant Professor Digital Media & Cultural Heritage, University of Amsterdam

"Ingravalle brilliantly explores the histories of three key film archives as institutions established in the 20th century that have revised and transformed their missions in the digital era. Archival practices and archival theories are intertwined in this penetrating study of film and media histories and futures."
-- Catherine Russell, Distinguished Professor of Film Studies, Concordia University, Montreal
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Framing Film, Silent Cinema, Analog, Media Studies, Film, Performing Arts, Social Science
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Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart: William B. Smart - Utah State University Press on BibliOpen
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Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart

by William B. Smart

Utah State University Press, 2008

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Cloth: 978-0-87421-722-3

eISBN: 978-0-87421-723-0

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Winner of the Evans Handcart Prize 2009
Winner of the Mormon History Assn Best Biography Award 2009

By the early twentieth century, the era of organized Mormon colonization of the West from a base in Salt Lake City was all but over. One significant region of Utah had not been colonized because it remained in Native American hands--the Uinta Basin, site of a reservation for the Northern Utes. When the federal government decided to open the reservation to white settlement, William H. Smart--a nineteenth-century Mormon traditionalist living in the twentieth century, a polygamist in an era when it was banned, a fervently moral stake president who as a youth had struggled mightily with his own sense of sinfulness, and an entrepreneurial businessman with theocratic, communal instincts--set out to ensure that the Uinta Basin also would be part of the Mormon kingdom.

Included with the biography is a searchable CD containing William H. Smart's extensive journals, a monumental personal record of Mormondom and its transitional period from nineteenth-century cultural isolation into twentieth-century national integration.

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William B. Smart, a descendant of William H. Smart, is the coeditor, with Donna T. Smart, of Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849–1850 ; and, with Terry Tempest Williams, of New Genesis: A Mormon Reader on Land and Community.
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Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore: Chloe Ahmann - University of Chicago Press on BibliOpen
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Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore

by Chloe Ahmann

University of Chicago Press, 2024

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Cloth: 978-0-226-83359-0

Paper: 978-0-226-83361-3

eISBN: 978-0-226-83360-6

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A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures.

Factory fires, chemical explosions, and aerial pollutants have inexorably shaped South Baltimore into one of the most polluted places in the country. In Futures after Progress, anthropologist Chloe Ahmann explores the rise and fall of industrial lifeways on this edge of the city and the uncertainties that linger in their wake. Writing from the community of Curtis Bay, where two hundred years of technocratic hubris have carried lethal costs, Ahmann also follows local efforts to realize a good future after industry and the rifts competing visions opened between neighbors.
 
Examining tensions between White and Black residents, environmental activists and industrial enthusiasts, local elders and younger generations, Ahmann shows how this community has become a battleground for competing political futures whose stakes reverberate beyond its six square miles in a present after progress has lost steam. And yet—as one young resident explains—“that’s not how the story ends.” Rigorous and moving, Futures after Progress probes the deep roots of our ecological predicament, offering insight into what lies ahead for a country beset by dreams deferred and a planet on the precipice of change.
About the Author
Chloe Ahmann is assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell University. This is her first book.
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“I began this book as an anthropologist, but a few pages in, realized I was reading it as the little Black boy who acquired a chronic respiratory illness while growing up in Baltimore. I was playing football outside and suddenly couldn’t breathe. Then an ambulance came. Before long, inhalers, respirators, and ventilators were a feature of everyday life—both for me and my two brothers, who also suffered from asthma. I wish we had Ahmann’s book back then. Maybe, just maybe, we would’ve better understood the uncertainties of a childhood existence defined by hazy and noxious forces that threatened to debilitate and kill us. Written with empathy and backed by rigorous analysis, Futures after Progress is a revelation.”
— Laurence Ralph, author of Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him

“Ahmann folds time and space in this stunning ethnography to ask how a future tense forms after sacrifice, resilience, and progress are exhausted—a vital intervention into contemporary conditions.”
— Joseph Masco, University of Chicago

"Futures After Progress makes numerous contributions to the theory and method of the environmental humanities, which is especially prescient for researchers across the African continent and the global south. Ahmann offers not only signposts for the future of anthropology, but also for the ways in which we as researchers reckon with entangled lifeworlds through our field sites. Bringing this work into conversation with students across the world will no doubt forge methodological dexterity along with positional sensitivities which will charter new terrains, possibilities, and futures across the social sciences"
— Anthropology Southern Africa

"With this richly researched book, Ahmann gives us a powerful ethnography of the industrialized Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore. . .. The pleasure of this ethnography is the delicacy of Ahmann's analysis of the extremely fragile formations of hope that make up our visions of the future and thus our political aspirations. In a time of great uncertainty, Futures After Progress reminds us of this necessary, but ephemeral, form of political labor."
— Anthropology and Humanism

"Compelling. . . Anchored by a decade of involvement with varied populations, sometimes in conflict, in an area of South Baltimore that has been dominated for centuries by damaging industrial and post-industrial projects, Ahmann. . . skillfully evokes problems and people, united and divided by profound meditations on time past and futures imagined."
— Choice

"Beautifully written and necessary . . . There is so much to admire about this book. . . I also forgot to add a note of criticism, seemingly mandatory in reviews such as this. OK, here’s one: Why do we have to wait so long for another book from Ahmann?"
— American Ethnologist

"Chloe Ahmann’s debut book, Futures After Progress, is a well-researched and a unique publication. . . . Apart from discussing at length the harmful effects of industrialization, borne unevenly by racialized groups and extending across generations, Ahmann has analyzed the diverse ways in which the deteriorating environment of South Baltimore has permeated all kinds of relationships, including chemical and ethical as well as structural and personal. Moreover, by examining the efforts by the local population to realize a secure and healthy future, she can demonstrate the diverse ways in which people in the US have politicized 'impure' environments."
— World History Encyclopedia

"One of the most formidable commentaries on the current political situation in the USA, and the Anthropocene at large."
— Ethnos

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Process This: Undergraduate Writing in Composition Studies: Nancy Dejoy - Utah State University Press on BibliOpen
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Process This: Undergraduate Writing in Composition Studies

by Nancy Dejoy

Utah State University Press, 2004

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Paper: 978-0-87421-595-3

eISBN: 978-0-87421-503-8

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In Process This, Nancy DeJoy argues that even recent revisions to composition studies, cultural studies, service learning, and social process movements--continue to repress the subjects and methodologies that should be central, especially at the level of classroom practice. Designed to move student discourses beyond the classroom, these approaches nonetheless continue to position composition students (and teachers) as mere consumers of the discipline. This means that the subjects, methodologies, and theory/practice relationships that define the field are often absent in composition classrooms.

Arguing that the world inside and outside of the academy cannot be any different if the profession stays the same, DeJoy creates a pedagogy and a plan for faculty development that revisions the prewrite/write/rewrite triad to open spaces for participation and contribution to all members of first-year writing classrooms.

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Reading in a Digital Age: David M. Durant - Against the Grain, LLC on BibliOpen
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Reading in a Digital Age

by David M. Durant

Against the Grain, LLC, 2017

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Paper: 978-1-941269-13-8

eISBN: 978-1-941269-30-5 (OA)

eISBN: 978-1-941269-17-6 (standard)

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Charleston Briefings: Trending Topics for Information Professionals is a thought-provoking series of brief books concerning innovation in the sphere of libraries, publishing, and technology in scholarly communication. The briefings, growing out of the vital conversations characteristic of the Charleston Conference and Against the Grain, will offer valuable insights into the trends shaping our professional lives and the institutions in which we work.
 
The Charleston Briefings are written by authorities who provide an effective, readable overview of their topics—not an academic monograph. The intended audience is busy nonspecialist readers who want to be informed concerning important issues in our industry in an accessible and timely manner.

​How is reading changing in the digital environment? How will it continue to change? Are we headed for an all- digital future? Or does print still have a place in the reading environment? Does format matter? What do readers tell us they want? This brief monograph offers librarians, publishers, vendors, and others an overview of these key issues as well as advice on how their institutions should approach the print versus digital controversy.
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David M. Durant is Associate Professor and Federal Documents and Social Sciences Librarian at J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He holds a master’s of science degree in library and information services from the School of Information, University of Michigan, and an MA in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published articles in portal, Library Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Against the Grain. He has written book reviews for Against the Grain and for Choice.
 
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International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction: Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens - University of Michigan Press on BibliOpen
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International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction

edited by Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens

University of Michigan Press, 2023

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Cloth: 978-0-472-07622-2

Paper: 978-0-472-05622-4

eISBN: 978-0-472-90354-2 (OA)

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Scholars have studied international organizations (IOs) in many disciplines, thus generating important theoretical developments. Yet a proper assessment and a broad discussion of the methods used to research these organizations are lacking. Which methods are being used to study IOs and in what ways? Do we need a specific methodology applied to the case of IOs? What are the concrete methodological challenges when doing research on IOs? International Organizations and Research Methods: An Introduction compiles an inventory of the methods developed in the study of IOs under the five headings of Observing, Interviewing, Documenting, Measuring, and Combining. It does not reconcile diverging views on the purpose and meaning of IO scholarship, but creates a space for scholars and students embedded in different academic traditions to reflect on methodological choices and the way they impact knowledge production on IOs.

About the Author

Fanny Badache is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Leah R. Kimber is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University and Research Associate at the University of Geneva.

Lucile Maertens is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lausanne.

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“International Organizations and Research Methods fills a gaping hole in the IO literature and will be particularly valuable to graduate students and IO researchers with its diversity of methods and authors covering a range of UN specialized agencies and IOs in different issue areas and regions.  The book's introduction provides a very useful overview of what the book aims to do and not do and how the editors define methods as a reflexive part of the research process.  The innovative use of boxes is a great way to present specific tools and ‘tricks,’ including interviewing in a foreign language and analyzing tweets.”

— Margaret Karns, University of Massachusetts Boston

“This book is original and innovative, as it is the first companion to provide a broad and thoughtful inventory of research methods used in the social sciences and humanities to understand what international organizations are and what they do: so very helpful!”

— Bob Reinalda, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

“This book is a terrific achievement. It not only provides the novice and the experienced researcher with a complete menu of methods to choose from when analyzing international organizations. The authors also take care to address cross-cutting questions of epistemology, positionality, and research ethics that we should all be aware of.” — Jens Steffek, Technische Universität Darmstadt

“Politicians, pundits, and the public undervalue international organizations. Too few scholars understand enough about the nuts-and-bolts to dispel this inaccurate image. Not the team assembled in these pages, however. They detail not only why institutions matter but how to analyze these essential actors in contemporary world politics.”— Thomas G. Weiss, The CUNY Graduate Center

"[The book] will be useful for students looking for an entry point into a fascinating social world; for researchers wanting to dabble in new methods; for lecturers integrating case-studies from international politics in their teaching; and for practitioners seeking to understand how research is conducted on their employer(s). Consequently, the book provides the first systematic survey of how scholars of international organizations think about their research subject, their own positionality, and their interactions with the institutions themselves." — International Affairs

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Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.): Timoteus Pokora - University of Michigan Press on BibliOpen
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Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)

by Timoteus Pokora

University of Michigan Press, 1975

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Cloth: 978-0-89264-020-1

Paper: 978-0-472-03803-9

eISBN: 978-0-472-90139-5 (OA)

eISBN: 978-0-472-12744-3 (standard)

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Better known in his own times than later, Huan T’an (43 BCE–25 CE) was a scholar-official, independent in his thought and unafraid to criticize orthodox currents of his time. A practitioner of the Old Text exegesis of the Classics, he maintained a position on the court during a turbulent time of political crises, uprisings, and civil war, spanning the reigns of four emperors.
His principal work, Hsin-lun, differs from other books on political criticism in that it does not deal primarily with history but takes many examples from contemporary social and political life. While belonging to the Old Text group of court officials and scholars, Huan T’an differed radically from them in his stress on direct knowledge, in his range of practical experience, and in his outspoken criticism of popular opinions. He was not a systematic philosopher, but his ideas were influential in the return to a more worldly conception of Confucianism.
To translate Huan T’an’s writings, one must reconstruct the texts. Timoteus Pokora uses two nineteenth-century fragments as a basis around which to orient quotations from Hsin-lun from sixty-four other sources, primarily encyclopedias and commentaries. Pokora provides notes to give context to these short references and to account for discrepancies between quotations and originals, and he includes a large index to add coherence and points of entry.
About the Author
Timoteus POKORA is a research fellow at the University of Michigan.
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Research Guide to People’s Daily Editorials, 1949–1975: Michel Oksenberg and Gail Henderson - University of Michigan Press on BibliOpen
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Research Guide to People’s Daily Editorials, 1949–1975

edited by Michel Oksenberg and Gail Henderson

University of Michigan Press, 1982

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Paper: 978-0-89264-949-5

eISBN: 978-0-472-90179-1 (OA)

eISBN: 978-0-472-12783-2 (standard)

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An indispensable aid to researching a crucial series of policy statements, the present guide provides access to the only continuous source from China which illuminates high-level policy.
Includes an extensive subject index.
About the Author
Michel OKSENBERG was a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan.
Gail HENDERSON is Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail: Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner - University of Michigan Press on BibliOpen
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Campaign Finance and Political Polarization: When Purists Prevail

by Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner

University of Michigan Press, 2015

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Cloth: 978-0-472-07299-6

Paper: 978-0-472-05299-8

eISBN: 978-0-472-90003-9 (OA)

eISBN: 978-0-472-12160-1 (standard)

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Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological agendas and, consequently, fostered political polarization.

Drawing on data from 50 states and the U.S. Congress over 20 years, La Raja and Schaffner reveal that current rules allow wealthy ideological groups and donors to dominate the financing of political campaigns. In order to attract funding, candidates take uncompromising positions on key issues and, if elected, take their partisan views into the legislature. As a remedy, the authors propose that additional campaign money be channeled through party organizations—rather than directly to candidates—because these organizations tend to be less ideological than the activists who now provide the lion’s share of money to political candidates. Shifting campaign finance to parties would ease polarization by reducing the influence of “purist” donors with their rigid policy stances.

La Raja and Schaffner conclude the book with policy recommendations for campaign finance in the United States. They are among the few non-libertarians who argue that less regulation, particularly for political parties, may in fact improve the democratic process.
About the Author
Raymond J. La Raja is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, and Associate Director of the UMass Poll.  Brian F. Schaffner is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Director of the UMass Poll, and a Co-Principal Investigator for the Cooperative Congressional Election Study.

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"[La Raja and Schaffner] meticulously analyse party factions, who donates to political campaigns and why, and they also examine data that indicate how fewer restrictions on political parties increase financial support for moderate candidates. Anyone interested in looking at an alternative to the current campaign finance system should read this research."
--London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books

— Melissa M. Smith, London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books

"This is a very important book that will be widely discussed...It is highly readable and is backed by innovative data on state-level party polarization, the ideology of donors, and state campaign finance laws...Highly recommended."
--Choice Reviews

— R Kolodny, Choice Reviews Online

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The Tale of Matsura: Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction: Wayne Lammers - University of Michigan Press on BibliOpen
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The Tale of Matsura: Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction

by Wayne Lammers

University of Michigan Press, 1992

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Cloth: 978-0-939512-48-5

Paper: 978-0-472-03817-6

eISBN: 978-0-472-90159-3 (OA)

eISBN: 978-0-472-12764-1 (standard)

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Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura; ca. 1190) as the only one that can be considered successful. The work is here translated in full, with annotation.
Set in the pre-Nara period, The Tale of Matsura is the story of a young Japanese courtier, Ujitada, who is sent to China with an embassy and has a number of supernatural experiences while there. Affairs of the heart dominate The Tale of Matsura, as is standard for courtly tales. Several of its other features break the usual mold, however: its time and setting; the military episode that would seem to belong instead in a war tale; scenes depicting the sovereign’s daily audiences, in which formal court business is conducted; a substantial degree of specificity in referring to things Chinese; a heavy reliance on fantastic and supernatural elements; an obvious effort to avoid imitating The Tale of Genji as other late-Heian tales had done; and a most inventive ending. The discussion in the introduction briefly touches upon each of these features, and then focuses at some length on how characteristics associated with the poetic ideal of yōen inform the tale. Evidence relating to the date and authorship of the tale is explored in two appendixes.
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Wayne P. Lammers received a doctorate from the University of Michigan and is Assistant Professor of Japanese at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his research on classical Japanese fiction, he is the translator of a volume of short stories by the contemporary Japanese author Shōnō Junzō.
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Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan: Allison Alexy - University of Chicago Press on BibliOpen
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Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan

by Allison Alexy

University of Chicago Press, 2020

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Cloth: 978-0-226-69965-3

Paper: 978-0-226-70095-3

eISBN: 978-0-226-70100-4

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In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision—the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of breaking up, from intense shame and societal criticism to friends’ and relatives’ unsolicited advice. In Intimate Disconnections, Allison Alexy tells the fascinating story of the changing norms surrounding divorce in Japan in the early 2000s, when sudden demographic and social changes made it a newly visible and viable option. Not only will one of three Japanese marriages today end in divorce, but divorces are suddenly much more likely to be initiated by women who cite new standards for intimacy as their motivation. As people across Japan now consider divorcing their spouses, or work to avoid separation, they face complicated questions about the risks and possibilities marriage brings: How can couples be intimate without becoming suffocatingly close? How should they build loving relationships when older models are no longer feasible? What do you do, both legally and socially, when you just can’t take it anymore?
 
Relating the intensely personal stories from people experiencing different stages of divorce, Alexy provides a rich ethnography of Japan while also speaking more broadly to contemporary visions of love and marriage during an era in which neoliberal values are prompting wide-ranging transformations in homes across the globe.
About the Author
Allison Alexy is assistant professor in the Departments of Asian Languages and Cultures and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She is coeditor of Home and Family in Japan and Intimate Japan.
Reviews
“Intimate Disconnections offers an extraordinarily rich account of changing expectations for marriage, intimacy, and relationality in contemporary Japan. Alexy’s deeply empathetic analysis of divorce is destined to enrich our empirical understanding of this globally increasingly common life decision and its legal, economic, and emotional consequences.”
— Hirokazu Miyazaki, Northwestern University

“This is a rich ethnographic study about increasing divorce in Japan, public discourses on later-life divorce (jukunen rikon), and popular images of divorced women’s empowerment that Alexy explores in depth. This accessible and carefully crafted book will be an important addition to the fields of cultural anthropology and gender studies, with Alexy’s nuanced depiction of gender dynamics, the labor market, and socioeconomic structures in contemporary Japan.”
— Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas

"A panorama of Japanese mores and attitudes toward marriage, many of them in flux as people negotiate dependences and self-interest. . . . Japan isn’t known as a model for marital romance, a sentiment that is reflected in Intimate Disconnections. But in the spirit of anthropology that aims to explain without judgment or prescription, Alexy’s book helps understand a society moving away from equating marriage with normalcy."
— Japan Times

"I strongly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in understanding the current marriage and divorce landscape in Japan... the book also includes excellent insights into the legal, economic, and labour realities in contemporary Japan, providing a useful overview of shifts over the past two decades."
— New Voices in Japanese Studies

"In Intimate Disconnections, cultural anthropologist Allison Alexy paints an exceptionally nuanced picture of the performance of divorce in early twenty-first century Japan based on several years of participant observational fieldwork, during which she was able to conduct many interviews... Alexy’s interpretation is original and goes beyond the usual simplistic explanations in terms of general dissatisfactions with or ambivalence toward traditional ideals of masculinity and femininity."
— Monumenta Nipponica

"Intimate Disconnections is a fascinating study of not just how marriages end through divorce, but the place of discourses about divorce on intimate practices. The strength of Alexy's work lies in her stories, particularly of older men and women, working out the anxieties and fall outs of what later life-divorces foreclose and/or open."
— PoLAR

"Intimate Disconnections provides fascinating insight into the troubles of Japanese marriages, gleaned by Alexy over meals or drinks, in one-on-one interviews, and during small group counseling sessions and discussions. . . .   The author’s sensitive handling of these intimate, often painful, stories helps us understand the challenges of divorce and the shifting ground of intimacy in marriages during the economic transformations of the last several decades."
— Journal of Japanese Studies

"Allison Alexy is utterly sensitive to the situations of the women and men she talks with—several of them her personal friends—who did, or are going through, or will divorce. . . She does a lot of the heavy theoretical lifting as well."
— American Ethnologist

"[A] thorough ethnographic and sociological exploration of divorce in Japan. . . . One of the great strengths of this volume is how it brings together clear macrosocial insights with nuanced personal accounts of divorce."
— Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877: Harry L. Watson - University of Chicago Press on BibliOpen
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Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877
Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877

by Harry L. Watson

University of Chicago Press, 2018

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Cloth: 978-0-226-30048-1

Paper: 978-0-226-30051-1

eISBN: 978-0-226-30065-8

About the Book
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing tradition. It will be one of the first peer-reviewed American history textbooks to be offered completely free in digital form. Visit buildingtheamericanrepublic.org for more information. 

Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the battlefield. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federalist republic. From there, it explains the renegotiations and refinements that took place as a new nation found its footing, and it traces the actions that eventually rippled into the Civil War.

This volume goes beyond famous names and battles to incorporate politics, economics, science, arts, and culture. And it shows that issues that resonate today—immigration, race, labor, gender roles, and the power of technology—have been part of the American fabric since the very beginning.
About the Author
Harry L. Watson is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America and An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1770–1820. His coedited books include Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader and The American South in a Global World. 
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“Building the American Republic tells the story of the United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast-moving narrative making the nation’s struggles and accomplishments new and compelling.  Weaving together stories of a broad range of Americans, drawing from the best scholarship, and writing in a warm and engaging voice, Watson and Dailey have crafted an inclusive history that is a pleasure to read.”
— Edward L. Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities, University of Richmond

“Learned and inviting, this beautifully realized consideration of the American experience deploys the craft of history to advance a profound account of fundamental themes. By integrating political, social, demographic, and economic understanding, the combination of analysis and narrative power in Building the American Republic will prove stimulating to teachers as well as their students.”
— Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University

“Written by two leading political historians, Building the American Republic provides an engaging and accessible narrative of US history that combines a lucid discussion of American political institutions with an analysis of major social movements and cultural developments. Students will find the book an invaluable point of departure for gaining a deeper understanding of the American past.”
— Rosemarie Zagarri, University Professor and Professor of History, George Mason University

“Watson and Dailey have authored an engaging two-volume narrative history of the United States appropriate for a year-long survey course at the college level. . . . What these volumes do offer, in addition to very competitive pricing on paperback copies, is one of the first peer-reviewed US history textbooks in free digital format.”
— Choice

“Most of our teaching materials have morphed into four-color glossy multimedia extravaganzas with interactive features, hot-links, and ‘chat with the author’ interfaces that confront students with a food court of undifferentiated choices. But these new volumes look like and read like books. Without reverting to a pompous omniscience, which so often mars this kind of effort, these books manage to exhibit many perspectives and voices in a narrative that provokes discussion and invites reflection. . . .
 
This is an extraordinary achievement by a master teacher and writer of American history. Modestly priced in paperback, the e-book (as well as Jane Dailey’s companion volume) is available for free at the University of Chicago Press website. Where can you find a better deal than that?”
 
— Journal of the Early Republic

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TASTE: Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos - University of Westminster Press on BibliOpen
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TASTE

edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

University of Westminster Press, 2018

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Paper: 978-1-911534-32-7

eISBN: 978-1-911534-34-1

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Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists.
About the Author
Dr Andrea Pavoni is Post-doctoral Fellow at DINAMIA'CET, ISCTE - Instituto Universit·rio de Lisboa, Portugal. He completed his PhD at the University of Westminster, London, in 2013. His research explores the relation between materiality and normativity from various transdisciplinary
angles and is the author of Controlling Urban Events: Law, Ethics and the Material (2017).

Dr Danilo Mandic is Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster. His research focuses on copyright law and its relation to technology. His other research interests comprise sound studies, art and law, and media studies.

Dr Caterina Nirta is Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research interests revolve around the body, space and deviance.
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Taste, Senses and sensation, Law and sociobiology, Phenomenology, Psychological aspects, Movements, Law, Sociology, Philosophy, Social Science
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The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen: Claudy Op den Kamp - Amsterdam University Press on BibliOpen
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The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen

by Claudy Op den Kamp

Amsterdam University Press, 2018

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Cloth: 978-94-6298-139-3

eISBN: 978-90-485-3104-2 (PDF)

About the Book
Orphan works, or artworks for which no copyright holder is traceable, pose a growing problem for museums, archives, and other heritage institutions. As they come under more and more pressure to digitize and share their archives, they are often hampered by the uncertain rights status of items in their collections. The Greatest Films Never Seen: The Film Archive and the Copyright Smokescreen uses the prism of copyright to reconsider human agency and the politics of the archive, and asks what the practical implications are for educational institutions, the creative industries, and the general public.
About the Author
Claudy Op den Kamp is Lecturer in Film and faculty member at the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management at Bournemouth University, UK, and Adjunct Research Fellow at Swinburne Law School, Australia.
Reviews
"When navigating digital access to archive films, copyright lawyers typically fetishize the law, while archivists tend to fear it. Claudy Op den Kamp invites a more nuanced response. Copyright is important, no doubt, but making meaning and doing history is also about tangible things, about places, policies, and — most importantly — people. This is an elegant and engaging book, a Catherine wheel of film history scholarship, throwing light and sparks in many directions." - Ronan Deazley, Professor of Copyright Law, Queen’s University Belfast "This stylish book will be indispensable for everyone who cares about the future of the past. Grounded in deep scholarship and experience, it’s a case study in how copyright law shapes (or warps) cultural practice. While celebrating film preservation and the pleasures of working with found footage, Claudy Op den Kamp also reveals how pervasive anxieties over copyright compliance can hobble both memory institutions and filmmakers — and offers a bracing vision of the way forward." - Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law Emeritus, American University, Washington College of Law "The Greatest Films Never Seen is a well-written exploration of the way film history is constructed in the contemporary film archive. Claudy Op den Kamp takes the reader on a rare journey into the collection policies of the film archive, by way of copyright issues and the intellectual property system. She offers readers instructive and straightforward information about copyright, orphan films and archival policies, as well as providing a thoughtful and necessary meditation on history making in the film archive." - Janna Jones, Professor of Creative Media & Film, Northern Arizona University
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Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care, Volume 26
Mark A. Peterson, ed.
Duke University Press
This special issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law centers on Nobel laureate Kenneth J. Arrow’s seminal article "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care." When the essay first appeared in 1963, health economics did not exist as an established field, and there was a professional and social bias against thinking about health care in economic terms. Arrow’s trailblazing article laid the foundation for modern health economics and has guided its direction for four decades.

Now the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law examines this legacy, opening with a foreword by Mark V. Pauly, one of the first to publish a response to Arrow’s original article and a major voice in health economics today. A reprint of the article itself serves as a springboard from which contributors assess the accuracy of Arrow’s portrayal of the United States health care system in the early sixties and evaluate how the system has progressed since that time. The contributors to this remarkable collection include some of the most distinguished scholars in the health policy field.

Designed to be an effective reference tool, this issue sets Arrow’s original article apart from the rest by printing it on tinted paper. The contributors’ responses to Arrow are divided into four parts—Part 1: Supply, Demand, and Health Care Competition; Part 2: Risk, Insurance, and Redistribution; Part 3: Information, Knowledge, and Medical Markets; Part 4: Social Norms and Professionalism.

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Uncertain Times
Kenneth Arrow and the Changing Economics of Health Care
Peter J. Hammer, Deborah Haas-Wilson, Mark A. Peterson, and William M. Sage, eds.
Duke University Press, 2003
This volume revisits the Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow’s classic 1963 essay “Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care” in light of the many changes in American health care since its publication. Arrow’s groundbreaking piece, reprinted in full here, argued that while medicine was subject to the same models of competition and profit maximization as other industries, concepts of trust and morals also played key roles in understanding medicine as an economic institution and in balancing the asymmetrical relationship between medical providers and their patients. His conclusions about the medical profession’s failures to “insure against uncertainties” helped initiate the reevaluation of insurance as a public and private good.

Coming from diverse backgrounds—economics, law, political science, and the health care industry itself—the contributors use Arrow’s article to address a range of present-day health-policy questions. They examine everything from health insurance and technological innovation to the roles of charity, nonprofit institutions, and self-regulation in addressing medical needs. The collection concludes with a new essay by Arrow, in which he reflects on the health care markets of the new millennium. At a time when medical costs continue to rise, the ranks of the uninsured grow, and uncertainty reigns even among those with health insurance, this volume looks back at a seminal work of scholarship to provide critical guidance for the years ahead.

Contributors
Linda H. Aiken
Kenneth J. Arrow
Gloria J. Bazzoli
M. Gregg Bloche
Lawrence Casalino
Michael Chernew
Richard A. Cooper
Victor R. Fuchs
Annetine C. Gelijns
Sherry A. Glied
Deborah Haas-Wilson
Mark A. Hall
Peter J. Hammer
Clark C. Havighurst
Peter D. Jacobson
Richard Kronick
Michael L. Millenson
Jack Needleman
Richard R. Nelson
Mark V. Pauly
Mark A. Peterson
Uwe E. Reinhardt
James C. Robinson
William M. Sage
J. B. Silvers
Frank A. Sloan
Joshua Graff Zivin

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