Research: Book Series
New Directions in International Studies Book Series Edited by UWM Vice Provost for International Education Patrice Petro, the New Directions in International Studies book series presents CIE’s interdisciplinary research agenda to a global audience. The series, published by Rutgers University Press, originates from CIE’s annual scholarly conferences and includes article and book-length contributions from conference participants. The series highlights innovative new approaches to reading back and forth between the local and the global, and between multiple forms of identity and difference. Focusing on transculturalism, technology, media, and representation, it features the work of scholars who explore aspects and consequences of globalization, such as the increasing flow of peoples, ideas, images, information, and capital across borders.
Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History Patrice Petro • Publication Date: January 2002 The beginning of this century has brought with it a host of assumptions about the newness of our technologies, globalized economies, and transnational media practices. The essays here are joined by a common concern to chart another side to modernity–precisely after the shock of the new–when the new ceases to be shocking, and when the extraordinary and the sensational become linked to the boring and the everyday. Patrice Petro explores how the mechanisms of modernism, German cinema, and feminist film theory have evolved, and she discusses the directions in which they are headed. Rather than continue to sensationalize sensation, Aftershocks of the New aims to lower the volume of debates over the place of cinema within the culture of modernity. It accomplishes this by locating them within a more complex matrix of contending sensibilities, voices, and impulses.
Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights Edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Patrice Petro • Publication Date: June 2002 Among the signal developments of the last third of the twentieth century has been the emergence of a new politics of human rights. The transnational circulation of norms, networks, and representations has advanced human rights claims in ways that have reshaped global practices. Just as much as the transnational flow of capital, the new human rights politics are part of the phenomenon that has come to be termed globalization. Shifting the focus from the sovereignty of the nation to the rights of individuals, regardless of nationality, the interplay between the local and the global in these new human rights claims is fundamentally redrawing the boundaries between the rights of individuals, states, and the international community. Truth Claims brings together some of the best new work from a variety of disciplinary and geographic perspectives in order to examine the making of human rights claims and the cultural politics of their representations. All of the essays explore the potentialities of an expansive humanistic framework. Here, the authors move beyond the terms–and the limitations–of the universalism/relativism debate that has so defined existing human rights literature.
For more information on New Directions in International Studies, including purchasing and upcoming series publications, please consult the book series webpage from Rutgers University Press at rutgerspress.rutgers.edu.
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