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Fordham University Press FALL 2020

A is for Asylum Seeker

Words for People on the Move

A de asilo

palabras para personas en movimiento R AC H E L I DA BU F F Spanish translation by A L E JA N D R A O L I VA 272 pages, 5 × 8 • 16 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289158, Paperback, $18.95, £14.99 (TP) 9780823289141, Hardback, $70.00, £56.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available IMMIGRATION | HUMA N RIGHTS | AM ER I CAN S T UD I ES AUG US T

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“The old saying that ‘sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me’ is completely wrong. Words hurt. Words start wars. Words have been used to dehumanize and demonize the immigrant population. Thousands of people are detained, separated from their families, their loved ones, deported. Children are ripped from their parents, they are kept in cages. People are dying in the desert. But words can also stop wars, heal, and build solidarity. A is for Asylum Seeker is a great resource, a tool to help us change the way we use language and create a place where we can all live in dignity.”

RAV I RAG BIR, EXECUT I VE D I R EC TO R , NEW SAN CT UARY COA L I T I O N

“A unique and stimulating perspective on the intersectional journeys, histories, challenges and aspirations of different types of migrants in the world, with an emphasis on the United States. This book uplifts the fundamental humanity at the core of the migrant experience regardless of nationality, religion, race, or economic purpose.”

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“An essential primer for the era of forced migration, militarized borders, detention centers and for-profit carceral systems. Rachel Ida Buff ’s profound, readable new book is filled with clarity, context and critical guidance for all who ‘dream in the many languages of liberation.’ ”

RAB BI BRANT ROS EN , AU T H O R O F W R ES T LING IN T H E DAY L I GHT: A R A B B I ’S PAT H TO PALES T INIAN SO L IDAR IT Y

This is just the book we need right now. It will draw you in and hold you, from the first word to the last. It is so much more than a historical glossary. It is a reminder that words have power. They create the world around us. Each word in this book is an offering, a reclamation, a seed of liberation.

JEN N IFER G UG LIEMO, AU T H O R O F LIVING T H E RE VO LU TI O N : I TA L I A N W O M EN ’ S R ES IS TANC E AND RAD I C A L I SM I N N E W YO R K C IT Y, 1 880 –1 9 4 5

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a result of political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia have led to increasingly harsh policies.

A mass-mediated political circus obscures both histories of migration and longstanding definitions of words for people on the move, fomenting widespread linguistic confusion.

Under this circus tent, there is no regard for history, legal advocacy, or jurisprudence. Yet in a world where the differences between “undocumented migrant” and “asylum seeker” can mean life or death, words have weighty consequences.

A timely antidote to this circus, A is for Asylum Seeker reframes key words that describe people on the move. Written to correct the de-meaning of terms by rhetoric and policies based on dehumanization and profitable incarceration, this glossary provides an intersectional and historically grounded consideration of the words deployed in enflamed debate. Skipping some letters of the alphabet while repeating others, thirty terms cover everything from Asylum-seeker to Zero Tolerance Policy. Each entry begins with a contemporary or historical story for illustration and then proceeds to discuss the language politics of the word. The book balances terms affected by current political debates—such as “migrant,” “refugee,” and “illegal alien”—and terms that offer historical context to these controversies, such as “fugitive,” “unhoused,” and “vagrant.”

Rendered in both English and Spanish, this book offers a unique perspective on the journeys, histories, challenges, and aspirations of people on the move. Enhancing the book’s utility as an educational and organizing resource, the author provides a list of works for further reading as well as a directory of immigration-advocacy organizations throughout the United States. teaches history and comparative ethnic studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Author of Against the Deportation Terror: Organizing for Immigrant Rights in the Twentieth Century, she has also written for The Nation, The Washington Post, Truthout, and Jewish Currents.

RACHEL IDA BUFF

is Communications Coordinator at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago. She is a freelance writer and editor and has served as a volunteer translator for the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City.

ALEJANDRA OLIVA

Rachel Ida Buff ’s A is for Asylum Seeker is a marvelously conceived, highly relevant, and eminently readable abecedary that confronts our growing inability to recognize the humanity of people forcibly displaced from their homes. In this book, Buff is not only exploring the lexicon of displacement but is also building a language of resistance to the dehumanization of migrants worldwide, and that itself is a feat almost beyond mere words.

MOUS TAFA BAYO UMI , AU T H O R O F HOW DO E S I T F E E L TO BE A P RO BLEM ?

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Nearly 600 captivating stories of notable former residents of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, some famous, some forgotten

Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side Bloomingdale–Morningside Heights J I M M AC K I N 464 pages, 8 × 9, 105 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289295, Paperback, $34.95, £26.99 (TP) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions NEW YORK | HISTORY | BIOGRAPH Y NOV EMB ER

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What do Humphrey Bogart and Patty Hill (co-author of “Happy Birthday,” the most popular song of all time) have in common? Both of them once lived in the neighborhood of Morningside Heights and Bloomingdale, a strip of land that runs from the 90s to 125th Street, between the Hudson River and Central Park. Spanning hundreds of years, Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side is a compilation of stories of nearly 600 former residents who once called Manhattan’s Upper West Side home.

Profiling a rare selection of wildly diverse people who shaped the character of the area, author Jim Mackin introduces readers to its fascinating residents—some famous, such as George and Ira Gershwin and Thurgood Marshall, and some forgotten, such as Harriet Brooks, Augustus Meyers, and Elinor Smith. Brief biographies reveal intriguing facts about this group, which include scientists, explorers, historians, journalists, artists, entertainers, aviators, public officials, lawyers, judges, and some in a category too unique to label. This collection also promotes accomplished women who have been forgotten and spotlights The Old Community, a tight-knit African American enclave that included such talented and accomplished residents as Marcus Garvey, Billie Holiday, and Butterfly McQueen.

The book is divided into five geographical sections: the West 90s, the West 100s, the West 110s, the West 120s, and Riverside Drive. Addresses are arranged in ascending order within each section, first by street number and then by street address number. While the focus is on people, the book includes an eclectic collection of interesting facts and colorful stories about the neighborhood itself, including the 9th Avenue El, Little Coney Island, and, notoriously, one of the most dangerous streets in the city, as well as songs and movies that were written and filmed in the neighborhood. Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side provides a unique overview of the people who shaped the neighborhood through their presence and serves as a guide to those who deserve to be recognized and remembered. is a New York City historian and founder of WeekdayWalks, which provides tours of New York neighborhoods. Jim is a co-leader of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group and recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Volunteer Service and the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee Award for Contributions.

JIM MACKIN

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscape

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It M AT T H E W SPA DY 320 pages, 100 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289424, Hardback, $34.95, £26.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions NEW YORK | HISTORY | URBAN STUDIES SEPTEMBER

The study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban community, an examination of the relationship between people and the land they inhabit. When John James Audubon bought fourteen acres of northern Manhattan farmland in 1841, he set in motion a chain of events that moved forward inexorably to the streetscape that emerged seven decades later. The story of how that happened makes up the pages of The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families Who Shaped It. This fully illustrated history peels back the many layers of a rural society evolving into an urban community, enlivened by the people who propelled it forward: property owners, tenants, laborers, and servants. The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot tells the intricate tale of how individual choices in the face of family dysfunction, economic crises, technological developments, and the myriad daily occurrences that elicit personal reflection and change of course pushed Audubon Park forward to the cityscape that distinguishes the neighborhood today.

A longtime evangelist for Manhattan’s Audubon Park neighborhood, author Matthew Spady delves deep into the lives of the two families most responsible over time for the anomalous arrangement of today’s streetscape: the Audubons and the Grinnells. Buoyed by his extensive research, Spady reveals the darker truth behind John James Audubon (1785–1851), a towering patriarch who consumed the lives of his family members in pursuit of his own goals. He then narrates how fifty years after Audubon’s death, George Bird Grinnell (1849–1938) and his siblings found themselves the owners of extensive property that was not yielding sufficient income to pay taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Like the Audubons, they planned an exit strategy for controlled change that would have an unexpected ending.

Beginning with the Audubons’ return to America in 1839, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot follows the many twists and turns of the area’s path from forest to city, ending in the twenty-first century with the Audubon name re-purposed in today’s historic district, a multiethnic, multi-racial urban neighborhood far removed from the homogeneous, Eurocentric Audubon Park suburb. is the creator of the virtual walking tour AudubonParkNY.com and curator for AudubonParkPerspectives.org, a news site that reflects on the constant intersection of past and present in a vibrant and historic neighborhood. He was a leader in the decade-long community effort that culminated in the Audubon Park Historic District.

MATTHEW SPADY

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The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way C OL I N DAV E Y W I T H T H OM AS A . L E S SE R With a new preface by the author and a new foreword by N E I L D E G R A S SE T YS O N 278 pages, 50 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289639, Paperback, $19.95, £14.99 (TP) [Hardback edition available: 9780823283484] eBook available Empire State Editions NEW YORK CITY | MUSEUM STUD I ES | ARCH I T ECT UR E N OV EM BER

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“What the Museum has done, in different ways, through the different stages of its life, is to feed the human sense of wonder at the universe.”

“The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, “One of my most cherished childhood memories as a visitor to New generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained York was the breathtaking moment when the lights were lowered at here. Located across the street from Central Park, the huge structures, spanning four city the Hayden Planetarium and the skyline of the City and the night blocks, is constructed of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period sky emerged. Thanks to Colin Davey’s similar experiences that of 150 years. This is the first book to tell the story of the museum from the point of view of led him to write this informative book, it rekindled that magical these buildings. The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way moment for me and explained in great detail the wonderful story of combines them with New York, American history, and the history of science.” an institution I loved but knew so little about.”

PREH I STORI C TI MES KERMIT RO OS EV ELT I I I , F RO M T H E F O R E WO R D

SAR A CEDAR MILLER, H I S TO R I A N E M E R I TA , C ENT RAL PARK CO N S E RVA N C Y

“A gigantic treasure chest stands next to New York’s Central Park, filled with the wonders of prehistoric times, life on Earth, and deep space. For me, the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium were like a second childhood home. I’m so glad for this book, which at last tells its remarkable story.”

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“The American Museum of Natural History and Rose Center for Earth and Space are treasures that reveal our connection and long fascination with the world around us and the universe beyond.

Through their doors we enter into an expedition of our own full of discovery and revelation. The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way throws those doors open and allows us insights into the events, personalities and artifacts that define and continue to shape this world-class institution! Colin Davey with Tom Lesser invite us in with details and stories that could only come from deep and thorough research and dedication to veracity! This book is a must for all naturalists, historians and lovers of art, museums, and New York!”

STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER QUINN, EXHIBITION ASSOCIATE, THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

“Want to learn more fascinating history about the Museum of Natural History? In honor of its 150th anniversary, Colin Davey and Thomas A. Lesser have brought out a new, definitive history of the Museum. The book, The American Museum of Natural History and How it Got that Way, provides a history of the museum’s architecture, collections, exhibitions, research and conservation efforts, charting the institution’s relationship with the natural world, and with New York City. In these pages, you’ll find polar explorers, intrepid archeologists, and visionary rocket scientists who devoted their lives to discovery, and, in many cases, to the Museum itself.”

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“This volume makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of one of the most iconic American institutions devoted to science and popular education, especially regarding astronomy and space science, over the course of more than a century. Deeply researched and illustrated with 50 black-and-white period photos and numerous diagrams, the work is not only a pleasure to read, but will serve as a notable reference for years to come. Planetarians everywhere can benefit from a short to an in-depth perusal of its pages.”

PLA N E TA R I A N : J O U R NAL O F T H E INT ER N AT IO N AL PLA N E TA R I U M SO C I E T Y

“This is, in many ways, a particularly American story, and anyone interested in history or museums will find this a very satisfying read. Author Colin Davey had a life-long love affair with the museum, growing up in New York and spending many, many hours happily lost in the museum collections, and that shines through in his writing as does his fine, in-depth research. Plenty of excellent graphics and photographs support this fascinating history.”

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“. . . an adroitly written and researched narrative. . .”

G OTH A M: A BLOG FOR SC H OL A RS OF N EW YORK CI TY H I STORY

The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science.

Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium.

Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentiethcentury powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists.

Richly illustrated with period photos, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way is based on deep archival research and interviews. life was shaped by frequent visits to the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium as a child. He is a scientist, software engineer, martial artist, and author of Learn Boogie Woogie Piano.

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was Scientific Assistant and Intern Astronomer (1974–76) and Senior Lecturer (1975–82) at the Hayden Planetarium. He has also held several positions at the American Museum of Natural History, including Manager of Development.

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How the South Bronx and Puerto Rican migration defined Fr. Neil Connolly’s priesthood as he learned to both serve and be part of his community

The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico

Neil Connolly’s Priesthood in the South Bronx A NG E L G A RC IA

336 pages, 30 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289264, Hardback, $34.95, £26.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available Empire State Editions B I O GRAP HY | URBAN STUDIES | CATHOLIC STUDI ES DECEMB ER

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South Bronx, 1958. Change was coming. Guidance was sorely needed to bridge the old and the new, for enunciating and implementing a vision. It was a unique place and time in history where Father Neil Connolly found his true calling and spiritual awakening. The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico captures the spirit of the era and the spirit of this great man.

Set in historical context of a changing world and a changing Catholic Church, The Kingdom Began in Puerto Rico follows Fr. Neil Connolly’s path through the South Bronx, which began with a special Church program to address the postwar great Puerto Rican migration.

After an immersion summer in Puerto Rico, Fr. Neil served the largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the Bronx from the 1960s to the 1980s as they struggled for a decent life. Through the teachings of Vatican II, Connolly assumed responsibility for creating a new Church and world. In the war against drugs, poverty, and crime, Connolly created a dynamic organization and chapel run by the people and supported Unitas, a nationally unique peer-driven mental health program for youth. Frustrated by the lack of institutional responses to his community’s challenges, Connolly challenged government abandonment and spoke out against illconceived public plans. Ultimately, he realized that his priestly mission was in developing new leaders among people, in the Church and the world, and supporting two nationally unique lay leadership programs, the Pastoral Center and People for Change.

Discovering the real mission of priesthood, urban ministry, and the Catholic Church in the United States, author Angel Garcia ably blends the dynamic forces of Church and world that transformed Fr. Connolly as he grew into his vocation. The book presents a rich history of the South Bronx and calls for all urban policies to begin with the people, not for the people. It also affirms the continuing relevance of Vatican II and Medellin for today’s Church and world, in the United States and Latin America. was a community organizer and Executive Director of South Bronx People for Change, a Church-based direct action and membership organization co-founded by Fr. Connolly. Garcia is a long-term resident of the South Bronx and has been active on social justice issues and worker cooperatives.

ANGEL GARCIA

In Your Eyes I See My Words

Homilies and Speeches from Buenos Aires, Volume 3: 2009–2013 JORG E M A R IO B E RG O G L IO, P OP E F R A NC I S

In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 3 brings together the homilies and speeches of Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from 2009 through his election as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013. These writings provide an intimate glimpse into the theological, philosophical, scientific, and cultural-educational currents that forged the steady, loving, and nurturing leadership style with which Bergoglio guided the Church in Buenos Aires. That style has now done the same for the Church from Rome, a Church rocked by financial and moral scandals, and a world shaken by the first global pandemic in a century.

These writings were kneaded—a word he uses when talking about the work of molding the souls and character of youth and seminarians—in the relationships he formed in his bus rides to work and in his intense contact with all segments of the population. Because of that careful and prayerful process of kneading they have found their full development in Bergoglio’s writing as Pope Francis, especially in Evangelii gaudium (November 2013); Gaudete et exsultate, On the call to sanctity (March 2018); and his encyclical Laudato si’ (May 2015). In this final volume of Bergoglio’s homilies and papers we meet European theologians and thinkers such as Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Bergoglio’s Uruguayan philosopher and friend, Methol Ferré, the literary figure Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Enrique Santos Discépolo, a singer and composer of tangos that decry corruption.

In a prophetic conclusion, the last homily of this volume is an outline of the roadmap Pope Francis has followed throughout his papacy: one defined by ongoing love and care for God’s people and that seeks to spread God’s merciful anointing to those living on the margins of life. was born in Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, entered the Society of Jesus at age twenty-one, and was ordained in 1969 with a degree in philosophy. He became auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires in 1992, archbishop in 1998, and cardinal in 2001. He was elected as the first Jesuit pope on March 13, 2013.

POPE FRANCIS

is editor of the review La Civiltà Cattolica and teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

ANTONIO SPADARO, S.J. PATRICK J. RYAN, S.J.

Fordham University.

is the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at

is co-editor, translator, and writer for La Fe Viva, daily biblical devotions for Creative Communications for the Parish.

MARINA A . HERRERA

Translated by M A R I NA A . H E R R E R A , P H . D. Edited and with an Introduction by A N T ON IO SPA DA R O, S . J. Foreword by PAT R IC K J. RYA N , S . J. 408 pages 9780823289356, Hardback, $34.95, £26.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available RELIGION OCTOBER

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A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in Brazil

Form and Feeling

The Making of Concretism in Brazil A N TON IO SE RG IO B E S S A , Editor 256 pages, 9 × 9 96 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289110, Paperback, $34.95, £26.99 (AC) 9780823289103, Hardback, $125.00, £100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available ART HISTORY | LATIN AMERICA N STUDI ES FEBRUARY

Form and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices pioneered in the 1950s by artists and poets such as Flávio de Carvalho, Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Haroldo de Campos, Mary Vieira, Lygia Pape, Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark, Waly Salomão, and Emil Forman, among many others. Fourteen thought-provoking essays examine how many of their strategies constituted a pertinent critique of the country’s wide-ranging embrace of Eurocentric modernity while anticipating a number of practices prevalent among contemporary artists today—namely, the rise of art as social practice, the embrace of pedagogical concerns by artists, and relational aesthetics.

The fourteen essays collected in this volume consider the ramifications of modernist abstraction in the second half of the twentieth century and contribute to a growing academic field in postwar Brazilian and Latin American art history. Contributions to this anthology examine the development of modernist ideas that flourished in Brazil during a controversial period interspersed by dictatorial regimes. The global aspect of Brazilian art is especially evident in these studies, presenting the relational complexity of their subjects as transcultural, transnational actors while simultaneously contributing to a growing, increasingly nuanced understanding of visual and material culture, performance, and criticism in Brazil.

Form and Feeling continues the important process of re-analyzing the intersections of Concretism and Neo-concretism, arguing for greater affinities between the primary and lesser-known cast of characters while equally redistributing the strict geographical divisions of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This anthology broadly situates this extraordinary period of artistic experimentation in direct relationship to contemporary factors, such as psychoanalysis, educational systems, poetry, politics, and feminism. It crafts innovative relationships about the constructive hierarchies of form and space, poetry and painting, and mathematics and philosophy, thus engendering new positions for a deeply ensconced period in Brazilian history. worked for sixteen years as the Director of Curatorial and Education Programs at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, in addition to teaching at the School of Visual Arts and Columbia University’s Teachers College. A scholar of concrete poetry, Bessa is the author of Öyvind Fahlström—The Art of Writing, co-editor of Novas—Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos, and editor of Mary Ellen Solt—Towards a Theory of Concrete Poetry and Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva.

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“In an epoch when transparency, openness, and candor are constantly enjoined on us, and in which the message ‘Secrets Kill’ is driven home by everything from twelve-step groups to Lifetime TV, Dufourmantelle shows the powers that secrecy continues to hold. This urgent book will open new perspectives on a world marked by the rise of Wikileaks, Big Data, and social media.”

MIC HAE L MO O N, E MORY U NIV E RSITY

In Defense of Secrets A N N E DU F OU R M A N T E L L E

Translated by L I N D S AY T U R N E R 160 pages, 5 × 8 9780823289233, Paperback, $25.00, §18.99 (AC) 9780823289226, Hardback, $90.00, §72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available PHILOSOPHY | PSYCHOANALYSIS JANUA RY

Psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle drowned in 2017 in an attempt to rescue two children caught in the ocean. Her work lives on, though, in this provocative and necessary book. Through etymologies and case studies, personal history and incisive commentary on contemporary society, In Defense of Secrets returns us to the fundamental psychic scene of the secret. The secret, for Dufourmantelle, is not a code to be cracked or a firewall to be penetrated but a dynamic and powerful entity that permits relation and that ensures our humanity.

Tracking the secret though art and literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sociology, from the Inquisition to the present, Dufourmantelle’s writing spirals around the question of the secret’s value. In our age, when political and personal transparency seem to be prized above all—lives posted on the Internet, information leaked, whistles blown, taboos absent except with respect to the secret itself—In Defense of Secrets champions what remains hidden, private, veiled, hushed, just out of sight. The secret is on the side of nature, not science; organic growth, not technology; love’s generosity, not knowledge’s grasp.

For Dufourmantelle, the secret is a powerful and dynamic thing: deadly if unheard or misused, perhaps, but equally the source of creativity and of ethics. An ethics of the secret, we can hear her say, means listening hard and sensitively, respecting the secret in its secret essence, unafraid of it and open to what it has to say.

(1964–2017), philosopher and psychoanalyst, taught at the European Graduate School and wrote monthly columns for the Paris newspaper Libération.

Her books in English include In Praise of Risk; Power of Gentleness; Blind Date; and, with Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality.

ANNE DUFOURMANTELLE

is a poet and translator. She is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.

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“Seeing Like a Child is an extraordinary book, bursting with critical insight and affective power. Han vividly explores how war and migration are dispersed into a domestic life marked by small corrosions, devastating loss, and tiny solidarities. Courageously probing the plasticity of self and lifeworld, the anthropologist illuminates the fragile but deeply meaningful yearnings of her family’s memorable characters. A must-read.”

J OÃO BIE HL, AU THOR O F V I TA : L I FE I N A ZON E OF SOCI A L ABANDONM E NT

“With this deeply moving intimate history, Clara Han reclaims an important legacy of modern anthropology, its capacity to connect the personal with the world-historical.

Seeing Like a Child is an audacious attempt to restore kinship as a vital category in historical and political inquiry and a must-read for anyone interested in discovering how much of the world is involved in bringing up a child.”

HEONIK KWON, AU THO R O F A FTER TH E KOREA N WA R: A N INTIM ATE HISTORY

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.

Seeing Like a Child Inheriting the Korean War C L A R A HA N Foreword by R IC HA R D R E C H T M A N 208 pages, 5 × 8 9780823289462, Paperback, $25.00, §18.99 (AC) 9780823289455, Hardback, $90.00, §72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Thinking from Elsewhere ANTHROPOLOGY | ASIA N A MERICAN STUDIES NOV EMB ER

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In this deeply moving narrative, Clara Han explores how the catastrophic event of the Korean War is dispersed into domestic life. Han writes from inside her childhood memories as the daughter of parents whose migrations from the North to the South of Korea and then to the United States frayed familial ties. At the same time, she writes as an anthropologist whose fieldwork has taken her to the devastated worlds of her parents to Korea and to the Korean language allowing her to find and found kinship relationships broken in war and illness. A fascinating counterpoint to the project of testimony that seeks to transmit a narrative to future generations, Seeing Like a Child sees the inheritance of familial memories of violence as embedded in how the child inhabits her everyday life.

CLARA HAN is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile and co-editor of Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium.

“The radical theology of the distinguished visionary thinker John Caputo is a great breath of fresh air in our claustrophobic and catastrophic time. He goes to the deep roots—the inner disturbance and generative inflection—of our existential crisis and political lockjaw.

Caputo’s powerful prophetic call flows from his philosophical subtleties and deep respect for religious traditions. His courageous voice is timely for us all!”

CO RNE L W E ST

This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large

In Search of Radical Theology

Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations JOH N D. C A P U TO

256 pages 9780823289196, Paperback, $28.00, §20.99 (AC) 9780823289189, Hardback, $95.00, §76.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy THEOLOGY | RELIGION | PHILOSOPHY OCTOBER

Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful argumentation, and sophisticated analysis transmitted through the lucid, accessible prose that has earned the author a wide readership of academics and non-academics alike. In tackling “radical theology,” John D. Caputo has in mind the deeper stream that courses its way through various historical and confessional theologies upon which these theologies draw even while it disturbs them from within. They are well served by this disturbance because it keeps them on their toes. When we read about professional theologians’ losing their jobs in confessional institutions, the chances are that, by earnestly digging into what is going on in their tradition, they have hit upon radical theological rock.

Unlike modernist dismissals of religion, radical theology does not debunk but re-invents the theological tradition. Radical theology, Caputo says, is a double deconstruction—of supernatural theology on the one hand and of transcendental reason on the other, and therefore of the settled distinctions between the religious and the secular. Caputo also addresses the challenge for radical theology to earn a spot in the curriculum, given that the “radical” makes it suspect among the confessional seminaries while the “theology” renders it suspect among university seminars. Journeying from the academy to contemporary American culture, In Search of Radical Theology includes a captivating presentation of radical political theology for the time of Trump. This utterly unique volume not only brings readers on an enlightening tour of Caputo’s thought but also invites us to accompany the author as he travels into intriguing new territories. is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His most recent book is Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory.

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NEW EDITION “A wonderfully helpful and stimulating book. . . . Highly recommended.”

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“One of the most comprehensive and valuable interpretations of deconstruction to date.”

L I BRA RY JOU RN A L

Deconstruction in a Nutshell

A Conversation with Jacques Derrida Edited with a Commentary by J OH N D. C A P U T O With a New Introduction 272 pages 9780823290291, Paperback, $25.00, §18.99 (SDT) 9780823290284, Hardback, $90.00, §72.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Perspectives in Continental Philosophy PHILOSOPHY NOVEMBER

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Responding to questions put to him at a roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes up with unusual clarity and great eloquence such topics as the task of philosophy, the Greeks, justice, responsibility, the gift, community, and the messianic. Derrida refutes the charges of relativism that are often leveled at deconstruction by its critics and sets forth the profoundly affirmative and ethico-political thrust of his work.

The roundtable is marked by an unusual clarity that continues into the second part of the book, in which one of Derrida’s most influential readers, John D. Caputo, elaborates upon Derrida’s comments and supplies material for further discussion.

This edition also includes a substantial new Introduction by Caputo that discusses the original context of the book and traces the development of deconstruction since Derrida’s death in 2004, from the rise of new materialisms to return to religion.

Long one of the most lucid and reliable introductions to Derrida and deconstruction available in any language, and an ideal volume for students, Deconstruction in a Nutshell will also prove illuminating for those already familiar with Derrida’s work. was the single most influential voice in European philosophy for the last third of the twentieth century. His many books include Of Grammatology, Specters of Marx, and The Animal That Therefore I Am.

JACQUES DERRIDA

is Thomas J. Watson Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University and David R. Cook Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Villanova University. His most recent book is In Search of Radical Theology.

JOHN D. CAPUTO

“Like a Lake is like a novella teasing an essay, or an erotic ghost haunting a fictional memoir, or a negative searching for its lost prints. It is an unnerving question-machine where desire, memory, loss and invention are staged, folded and held, tasted, re-made and undone. It’s a strange, vivid, troubling and beautiful book.”

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Like a Lake

A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography C A ROL M AVOR 144 pages, 51/2 × 81/2, 17 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289325, Hardback, $24.95, §18.99 (HC) Simultaneous electronic edition available L I TE RATU RE | PHOTOGRAPHY | QUEER STUDIES OCTOBER

When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to grasp, “like water slipping through our fingers.” Can a man innocently love a boy who is not his own?

Using fiction to reveal the truths about families, communities, art objects, love, and mourning, Like a Lake tells the story of ten-year-old Nico, who lives with his father (an ItalianAmerican architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor who learned how to draw while interned during World War II). Set in the 1960s, this is a story of aesthetic perfection waiting to be broken. Nico’s midcentury modern house, with its Italian pottery jars along the outside and its interior lit by Japanese lanterns. The elephant-hide gray, fiberglass-reinforced plastic 1951 Eames rocking chair, with metal legs and birch runners. Clam consommé with kombu, giant kelp, yuzu rind, and a little fennel—in each bowl, two clams opened like a pair of butterflies, symbols of the happy couple. Nico’s boyish delight in developing photographs under the red safety light of Coda’s “Floating Zendo”— the darkroom boat that he keeps on Lake Tahoe.

The lives of Nico, his parents, and Coda embody northern California’s postwar landscape, giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles and poetic visions. Author Carol Mavor addresses the sensuality and complexity of a son’s love for his mother and that mother’s own erotic response to it. The relationship between the mother and son is paralleled by what it means for a boy to be a model for a male photographer and to be his muse. Just as water can freeze into snow and ice, melt back into water, and steam, love takes on new forms with shifts of atmosphere. Like a Lake’s haunting images and sensations stay with the reader. is a writer who is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester, England. Her most recent books are Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale; Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour; and Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans Soleil and Hiroshima mon amour.

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“S. Brook Corfman’s My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is one of the most distinctive poetic journals I’ve read in that it expanded my already quite ‘out there’ ideas of the ordinary. Welcome to the incredibly true life of poets. Often, being attuned to the everyday means we are also riddled with premonition. Whenever two things interact with each other, they exert forces upon each other. That’s Newton. Here, Corfman finds a liberating universe in areas of fleeting contact. ‘To restore old books, the paper can be split in half and reattached with a new archival center . . .’. The dangers to our lives (rigid thinking turned into law, ecological disaster) are seen as both modern and ancient. Let Corfman be the poet in your ear offering a little magic to thrive.” “‘To move on and through a feeling,’ writes S. Brook Corfman, ‘a feeling must be honored.’

These poems survive the fraught journey from the inner and outermost spaces and leave their permanent marks. Like the still photographs of Cassils’s Becoming an Image, each poem offers a new view of the pained Earth, the uncertain self, and the meteoric woman.

When ‘[a] woman died and we cannot even agree she was a woman,’ not even the weather can be relied upon. These poems are stark and tender compressions that artfully and achingly reckon with what is imminent, what is private, and what is unknown.”

YONA HARV E Y, AU THO R O F H EMMI N G TH E WATER AND YO U DON’ T HAVE TO G O TO MA RS FOR LOV E

“‘There’s a kind of suspension in a car on a highway, so that to stop feels a great affront.’

This line, from near the end of S. Brook Corfman’s new book, describes the poet’s own power to ‘gather the propulsive forces’ that carry us through worlds lived, felt, and dreamt.

From these, the subject emerges as an energy, a force seen in its passing: ‘I, the death wail of each passing car; I, a late night but still somehow bright sky.’ This is subjectivity in motion, a self in transformation, through emotion’s mutable ground.”

J E SSIC A FISHE R, AU THO R O F FRA I L-CRA FT AND I N MOST

S. BROOK CORFMAN is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and two chapbooks including The Anima: Four Closet Dramas. Born and raised in Chicago, they now live in Pittsburgh.

“scenery is ‘a kind of study /that is a bracing/ for impact.’ What José Felipe Alvergue tenses for in and perhaps through this brilliant and vulnerable book is the wrack of reckoning.

That wreckage sets on the pages in visual and lexical entanglements: ‘gnarls’ of complicity and protest, privilege and trammel, particular bodies and abstraction. Alvergue moves us through these ruins with unflagging emotional immediacy and intellectual urgency, turning, again and again, on the image of his newborn son, ashen, breathless. scenery is a powerful work, stirred from an instance of the author’s desperate powerlessness. We should study this.”

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In scenery, lyric’s public voice and memoir’s personal reconciliations confront the archives of America’s racial and legal histories, resulting in a genre-bending exploration of what it means to exist as oneself for an Other. The author, a Salvadorean immigrant and parent, reflects on the status of personhood in America between racial supremacy and racial disavowal, thinking through his own structural role as a naturalized citizen, and naturalization’s historical condition in the denial of full legal and emotional Black personhood.

This daring work delves into the archive of liberal humanism from colonial era writing on the competing status of slaves to the present, while the visual archive of public news provides an ekphrastic environment to the author’s bigger lyric-memory: being the parent of a biracial American-born child in a contemporary era accentuated by violence, white nationalism, and fear.

From seventeenth-century casta paintings up to contemporary coverage of domestic unrest and riots, from the delivery room to scenes of parenthood, Alvergue ponders: What is the kind of emotion a face demonstrates, or a body, an assembly? scenery approaches, in an asymptotic manner, the empathy we come to feel when the language we’ve made is dulled by the roles we are also expected to occupy against one another. is Associate Professor of Contemporary Literature and Transnationalism at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. A graduate of both the Cal Arts Writing and Buffalo Poetics programs, José is also the author of gist: rift: drift: bloom and precis.

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“Drawing from a deep reservoir of radical writing and activism, leading abolitionist thinker Dylan Rodríguez creatively frames the current multiculturalist moment as the latest stage of historical reconstructions of white domination. He astutely distinguishes anti-Blackness and racial–colonial power while demonstrating how they remain linked by global white supremacist aspirations and logics. White Reconstruction challenges us to think more radically both by eschewing reformist ideas and terms and by learning from the creative genius of liberationist insurgencies that call us to abolitionist struggle.”

D O ROTHY ROBE RTS, AU THO R O F K I L L I N G TH E BL ACK BODY: RAC E, REPRODU CTI ON , A N D TH E MEA N I N G OF L I BERTY

“As thoughtful as it is fierce, White Reconstruction is a pleasure for those of us who study and teach history. Refusing to imagine the historian’s concerns as at odds with those of the theorist, Rodríguez shows white supremacy re-inventing its forms without losing sight of its imperatives. In consolidating slick new moments of control, rulers retain old modes of domination. Moments of multiculturalism and those of terror against vulnerable populations do not succeed but instead structure each other in this compelling study.”

DAV ID ROE D IGE R, AU THO R O F TH E SI N K I N G MI D D L E CL A SS: A POL I TI C A L H I STORY

White Reconstruction

Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide DY L A N RODR ÍG U E Z 256 pages, 6 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289394, Paperback, $30.00, §22.99 (AC) 9780823289387, Hardback, $105.00, §84.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available C RI TICA L RACE THEORY | AMERICA N STUDI ES OCTOB ER

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We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti-Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts—from Freedmen’s Bureau documents and the “Join LAPD” hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater’s hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike—Dylan Rodríguez counter-narrates the long “post–civil rights” half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and “multiculturalist white supremacy.”

Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodríguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving.

DYLAN RODRÍGUEZ is Professor in the Department of Ethnic Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has been named among the first cohort of Freedom Scholars, an initiative supporting progressive academics who are at the forefront of movements for economic and social justice. He is co-editor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader and the author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition.

“This brilliant book engages Cavarero’s work to re-imagine an ethics of nonviolence.

Challenging the masculine individualism common to canonical thought and contemporary politics, the authors envision new forms of sociality rooted in bodily interdependence. Reading this book is like participating in an electrifying seminar with some of the most incisive feminist thinkers of our time.”

E LISABE TH ANKE R, GEORGE WASHINGTON U NIV E RSITY

“This indispensable volume engages with the brilliantly provocative work of the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. Imaginatively organized and well-introduced by the editors, the book illuminates, supplements, and generatively questions several of Cavarero’s key concepts, among them the political idea of germinal democracy marked by an ethics of nonviolence.”

MARGARE T FE RGU SO N, U NIV E RSITY O F C ALIFORNIA , DAV IS

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence

Adriana Cavarero, with Judith Butler, Bonnie Honig, and Other Voices

T I M OT H Y J. H U Z A R and C L A R E WO ODF OR D, Editors

Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig—to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence. The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on postMarxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics. Together, the authors contest the boundaries of their common project for a pluralistic, heterogeneous, but urgent feminist ethics of nonviolence. is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. Her most recent book is Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude.

ADRIANA CAVARERO

is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is The Force of Nonviolence.

JUDITH BUTLER

is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. Her most recent book is Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair.

BONNIE HONIG

is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton.

TIMOTHY J. HUZAR

is Director of the Critical Theory strand of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Brighton. She is the author of Disorienting Democracy: Politics of Emancipation.

CLARE WOODFORD

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“Girl Head is a cogent, imaginative, and important book about the gendered underpinnings of the materials of cinema. It is an important contribution to feminist film history and to film studies more generally.”

C ATHE RINE RU SSE LL, CONCORD IA U NIV E RSITY

“In this surprising and immensely pleasurable read, Yue reveals a hidden history of disappearing female bodies and their link to the materiality of film and its technical processes. Girl Head is a brilliant and original book and sure to be an important reference for media historians and film theorists alike.”

NICO BAU MBAC H, CO LU MBIA U NIV E RSITY

Girl Head

Feminism and Film Materiality GENEVIEVE YUE

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For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the material object underlying that image, the filmstrip itself? What does feminist analysis have to offer in understanding the film image before it enters the realm of representation?

Girl Head explores how gender and sexual difference have been deeply embedded within film materiality. In rich archival and technical detail, Yue examines three sites of technical film production: the film laboratory, editing practices, and the film archive. Within each site, she locates a common motif, the vanishing female body, which is transformed into material to be used in the making of a film. The book develops a theory of gender and film materiality through readings of narrative film, early cinema, experimental film, and moving image art.

This original work of feminist media history shows how gender has had a persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen. is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media and Director of the Screen Studies program at Eugene Lang College, The New School.

GENEV IEV E YUE

“Kenneth Kidd’s generative and useful book considers what it would mean to ground a critical theory in books for young people. An ideal spokesbook for the public humanities, Kidd’s lucid, accessible Theory for Beginners explores why small books are so good at raising big questions. By estranging the familiar and cultivating a sense of wonder, children’s literature, as Kidd shows us, teaches us not just how to read but how to read the world.”

PHILIP NE L, AU THO R O F WA S TH E C AT I N TH E H AT BL AC K ? THE HIDDE N RACI SM OF CH I L D REN ’ S L I TERATU RE, A N D TH E N EED FOR D I VE RSE BOOKS

“Is theory for beginners? If all theorists were as intellectually broad-minded, playfully pedagogical, and mercifully undogmatic as Kenneth Kidd, then it would be. His witty and wide-ranging account of how children’s literature sometimes functions as theory and theory sometimes engages creatively with children (and other novices) is wonderfully eclectic and illuminating.”

MARAH GU BAR, MASSAC HU SE TTS INSTITU TE O F TEC HNO LO GY

Theory for Beginners

Children’s Literature as Critical Thought K E N N E T H B. K I DD

Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children’s literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children’s classics, especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children’s literature in significant ways. Offering a novel take on this phenomenon, Theory for Beginners explores how philosophy and theory draw on children’s literature and have even come to resemble it in their strategies for cultivating the child and/or the beginner. Examining everything from the rise of French Theory in the United States to the crucial pedagogies offered in children’s picture books, from Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother? and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events to studies of queer childhood, Kenneth B. Kidd deftly reveals the way in which children may learn from philosophy and vice versa. is Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale and Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature. He is also co-editor (with Derritt Mason) of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality (Fordham).

KENNETH B. KIDD

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“In Just Universities, Jerry Beyer presents a remarkable analysis of the relationship between Catholic institutions of higher education and Catholic social teaching that will set the framework for all future explorations of the relationship between these two realms of the Catholic experience and tradition. Beyer’s choice of issues to examine are pointed and timely, and his analysis is both theoretically sophisticated and practically relevant. Some of the topics he explores are at the forefront of the current dialogue: the ‘corporatization’ of Catholic higher education; just wages; the status of adjunct faculty; unionization of faculty; institutional financial investments; environmental and climate justice; and issues of inclusion based on race, gender, sexual identity, and class, among others. Just Universities is a must-read for all engaged in these critical issues. As a Catholic college president, I am indebted to Beyer for what he has provided to those in positions of leadership. His analysis should be the framework for all future discussions on these topics, and higher education should be most grateful for Beyer’s contribution.”

JAME S A . D O NAHU E, PRE SID E NT O F ST. MARY ’ S CO LLEGE OF CALIF ORNIA

Just Universities

Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education G E R A L D J. B E Y E R 304 pages 9780823289974, Paperback, $30.00, §22.99 (SDT) 9780823289967, Hardback, $105.00, §84.00 (SDT) Catholic Practice in North America E DU CATION | RELIGION | CATHOLIC STUDIES JANUA RY

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Gerald J. Beyer’s Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to embody Catholic social teaching in their campus policies and practices. Beyer argues that the corporatization of the university has infected U.S. higher education with hyper-individualistic models and practices that hinder the ability of Catholic institutions to create an environment imbued with bedrock values and principles of Catholic Social Teaching such as respect for human rights, solidarity, and justice. Beyer problematizes corporatized higher education and shows how it has adversely affected efforts at Catholic schools to promote worker justice on campus; equitable admissions; financial aid; retention policies; diversity and inclusion policies that treat people of color, women, and LGBTQ persons as full community members; just investment; and stewardship of resources and the environment. is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Villanova University. He is the author of Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland’s Unfinished Revolution.

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his volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contributions to the making of the modern United States by exploring parish ministry, preaching, health care, education, social and economic justice, liturgical renewal and the arts, missionary outreach and contemplative prayer, ongoing internal formation and renewal, and models of sanctity. It charts the effects of the United States on Dominican life as well as the Dominican contribution to the larger U.S. history. As the country grew and developed, so did the Dominican response.

When the country was engulfed by wave after wave of immigrants and cities experienced unchecked growth, Dominicans provided educational institutions, community, social and religious centers, health care, and social services. When epidemic disease hit various locales, Dominicans responded with nursing care and spiritual sustenance. As the United States became more complex and social inequities appeared, Dominicans cried out for social and economic justice.

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“Preaching with Their Lives makes a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic religious life in the United States. The essays in this collection reveal the wide-ranging ways that members of the Dominican order have borne witness to the Word, from education and parish ministry to social activism and the arts. They bring together the story of women and men of prayer and service, attuned to both the internal transformations taking place within the Dominican order as well as their remarkable engagement with the wider world. With this volume, the Dominicans receive the scholarly attention and recognition they so rightly and richly deserve.”

SE TO N HALL U NIV E RSITY

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States.

Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contributions to the making of the modern United States by exploring parish ministry, preaching, health care, education, social and economic justice, liturgical Contributors: Arlene Bachanov, Elizabeth Michael Boyle, Jeffrey M.and Burns,the Jamesarts, T. Carroll, Heath renewal missionary outreach and contemplative prayer, ongoing internal Carter, Diane Kennedy, Margaret M. McGuinness, formation andJ. models of sanctity. It charts the effects of the United States on Donna Maria Moses,and Cecilia renewal, Murray, Christopher Renz, Ellen Skerrett, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Dominican life as well as the Dominican contribution to the larger U.S. history. When the Cynthia Taylor, Janet Welsh country was engulfed by wave after wave of immigrants and cities experienced unchecked growth, Dominicans provided educational institutions; community, social, and religious centers; and health care and social services. When epidemic disease hit various locales, Dominicans responded with nursing care and spiritual sustenance. As the United States became more complex and social inequities appeared, Dominicans cried out for social and economic justice. Amidst the ugliness and social dislocation of modern society, Dominicans offered beauty through the liturgical arts, the fine arts, music, drama, and film, all designed to enrich the culture. Through it all, the Dominicans cultivated their own identity as well, undergoing regular self-examination and renewal. is Professor of American Catholicism at La Salle University. She is the author of Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine and Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America.

MARGARET M. MCGUINNESS

is Director of the Frances G. Harpst Center for Catholic Thought and Culture at the University of San Diego and Director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace: A History of the Christian Family Movement, 1949–1974.

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“This beautifully written, sophisticated analysis of spiritual warfare writing illuminates much about the colonial, white-supremacist state of the contemporary United States. S. Jonathon O’Donnell takes us into this genre of apocalyptic thought and compels us to pay attention to its deep political hold. Drawing on insights from critical race theory, decolonial theory, and critical theory, O’Donnell shows how prophecy writers try to fend off difference yet are ultimately compromised by, or implicated in, the very uncertainty and oppression that they seek to forestall. A must-read for those seeking to understand the influence of apocalyptic thought on U.S. politics.”

E RIN RU NIO NS, AU THOR O F TH E BA BYLON COMPL EX: TH EOPOLITICAL FA N TA SI ES OF WA R, SEX, A N D SOV EREI G N TY

“A well-written and engaging examination of American spiritual warfare texts that provides a compelling theoretical intervention, one that reveals the fissures cracking the formative logics of U.S. nation-state sovereignty and its binaries of good/evil, insider/ outsider, and pure/impure.”

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Passing Orders

Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare S . JONAT HON O’ D ON N E L L

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Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape.

Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical “spiritual warfare” demonologies in contemporary America. Situating spiritual warfare as part of broader frameworks of American exceptionalism, ethnonationalism, and empire management, author S. Jonathon O’Donnell exposes the theological foundations of the systems of queer- and transphobia, anti-blackness, Islamophobia, and settler colonialism that justify the dehumanizing practices of the current U.S. political order.

O’Donnell argues that demonologies are not only tools of dehumanization but also ontological and biopolitical systems that create and maintain structures of sovereign power, or orthotaxies—models of the “right ordering” of space, time, and bodies that stratify humanity into hierarchies of being and nonbeing. Alternative orders are demonized as passing, framed as counterfeit, transgressive, and transient. Yet these orders refuse to simply pass on, instead giving strength to deviant desires that challenge the legitimacy of sovereign violence.

Critically examining this challenge in the demonologies of three figures—Jezebel, the Islamic Antichrist, and Leviathan—Passing Orders re-imagines demons as a surprising source of political and social resistance, reflecting fragile and fractious communities bound by mutual passing and precarity into strategic coalitions of solidarity, subversion, and survival.

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ARVO PÄRT SOU N DI N G TH E SACR E D

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“This is a thorough and impressive attempt to challenge de-materialized readings of Pärt’s music, concentrating especially on the sheer physicality of sound and hearing. It is likely to set new directions in studies of this beguiling composer and open up fresh avenues in the wider field of music and theology.”

J E RE MY BEGBIE, DU KE U NIV E RSITY

Scholarly writing on the music of Arvo Pärt is situated primarily in the fields of musicology, cultural and media studies, and, more recently, in terms of theology/spirituality. Arvo Pärt: Sounding the Sacred focuses on the representational dimensions of Pärt’s music (including the trope of silence), writing and listening past the fact that its storied effects and affects are carried first and foremost as vibrations through air, impressing themselves on the human body.

In response, this ambitiously interdisciplinary volume asks: What of sound and materiality as embodiments of the sacred, as historically specific artifacts, and as elements of creation deeply linked to the human sensorium in Pärt studies? In taking up these questions, the book “de-Platonizes” Pärt studies by demystifying the notion of a single “Pärt sound.” It offers innovative, critical analyses of the historical contexts of Pärt’s experimentation, medievalism, and diverse creative work; it re-sounds the acoustic, theological, and representational grounds of silence in Pärt’s music; it listens with critical openness to the intersections of theology, sacred texts, and spirituality in Pärt’s music; and it positions sensing, performing bodies at the center of musical experience. Building on the conventional score-, biography-, and mediabased approaches, this volume reframes Pärt studies around the materiality of sound, its sacredness, and its embodied resonances within secular spaces. is Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he also directs the Institute of Sacred Arts and the Arvo Pärt Project. He is the author of Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence.

PETER C. BOUTENEFF

is Associate Professor of Music at Amherst College. His research deals broadly with music, religion, European identity, and media. He is the author of Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia.

JEFFERS ENGELHARDT

is Research Professor of Religion and Culture and Associate Dean at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Center for Pastoral Excellence. He is the author of Between Magisterium and Marketplace, Theologia Crucis, and All These Things into Position: What Theology Can Learn from Radiohead ROBERT SALER

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Inventing America’s First Immigration Crisis

Political Nativism in the Antebellum West LU K E R I T T E R

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Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians have not yet completely explained why westerners joined the ranks of the National American, or “Know Nothing,” Party or why the nation’s bloodiest anti-immigrant riots erupted in western cities—namely Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, and St. Louis. In focusing on the antebellum West, Inventing America’s First Immigration Crisis illuminates the cultural, economic, and political issues that originally motivated American nativism and explains how it ultimately shaped the political relationship between church and state.

In six detailed chapters, Ritter explains how unprecedented immigration from Europe and rapid westward expansion re-ignited fears of Catholicism as a corrosive force. He presents new research on the inner sanctums of the secretive Order of Know-Nothings and provides original data on immigration, crime, and poverty in the urban West. Ritter argues that the country’s first bout of political nativism actually renewed Americans’ commitment to church–state separation. Native-born Americans compelled Catholics and immigrants, who might have otherwise shared an affinity for monarchism, to accept American-style democracy.

Catholics and immigrants forced Americans to adopt a more inclusive definition of religious freedom.

This study offers valuable insight into the history of nativism in U.S. politics and sheds light on present-day concerns about immigration, particularly the role of anti-Islamic appeals in recent elections.

LUKE RITTER , Assistant Professor at New Mexico Highlands University, received his Ph.D.

in American history from Saint Louis University. He specializes in the history of immigration, nativism, and religion in the mid-nineteenth-century United States. Ritter received the William E. Foley Research Fellowship in 2019, the Environment in Missouri History Fellowship in 2016, and the Filson Fellowship in 2013. He is the author of numerous articles published in the Journal of American Ethnic History, American Nineteenth Century History, the Journal of Early American History, and the Missouri Historical Review.

“Powerful in its assessment and truly revelatory in its ability to demonstrate the need for a ‘different relation to the political,’ Infrapolitical Passages gives language and scope to a new politico-economic conjuncture and offers us the opportunity to fully appreciate the scale of this shift. It asks us to walk away from the old, tired narratives of political modernity and to reflect upon the need to effectively start over in our reflections on what the political means now and what the future within what Williams call the ‘PostKatechontic’ shall now consist of.”

ABRAHAM ACOSTA , U NIV E RSITY OF ARIZONA

“Gareth Williams has a gift for announcing problems, perhaps intractable, and then reeling them in and walking them back out step by step. You find yourself confronted with ‘infrapolitics,’ ‘decontainment,’ ‘narco-accumulation,’ and ‘katechon,’ which may or may not ring a bell. It all seems intimidating, but then a couple of pages later you feel like you’re handling a new concept, and connections start to litter your consciousness. It’s brilliantly useful.”

J OSHUA LU ND, U NIV E RSITY OF NOTRE DAME

Infrapolitical Passages

Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign State G A R E T H W I L L IA M S 288 pages, 24 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289899, Paperback, $32.00, §24.99 (SDT) 9780823289882, Hardback, $110.00, §88.00 (SDT) LITERATURE | POLITICA L SCIENCE DECEMBER

Infrapolitical Passages proposes to clear a way through some of the dominant political determinations and violent symptoms of contemporary globalization. In doing so, Gareth Williams makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technological value extraction on a planetary scale.

The book offers a theory of globalization as a gigantic, directionless crisis in humanity’s symbolic organization, as well as a theory of global economic warfare as the very positing of directionlessness and, at the same time, facticity. Williams’s infrapolitics stands at a distance from the biopolitical, which it understands as domination presenting itself as the production of specific forms of subjectivity in the face of the commodity. The subsequent obscuring of being signals the need to circumvent the instrumentalization of life as subordination to the metaphysics of subjectivity, representation, and politics.

Infrapolitical Passages works to confront that which is unavailable in subjectivity and representation, opening a way for facticity in the age of globalization in order to make room for the infrapolitical question for existence. is Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures and Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Mexican Exception: Sovereignty, Police, and Democracy and The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America.

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“If you believe that art is inherently progressive, emancipatory, and universal, you must read this important case study of the nationalist and de-civilizing capacities of art, and its official uses and misuses, in Germany and Turkey. Exploring how national frames delimit the production, circulation, collection, and display of visual art works, Banu Karaca unsettles pervasive assumptions through immanent critique, while also offering a new understanding of the political role of art in our contemporary world.”

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“In The National Frame, Banu Karaca demonstrates how histories of violence that are often conventionally understood to have been overcome (the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide) remain deeply formative of the political present, shaping the economic and cultural policies of the German and Turkish states. With impeccable and eye-opening scholarship, Karaca forces the history of art to confront the history of genocide. The National Frame presents a masterful interrogation of the geopolitics of modernity.”

KABIR TAMBAR, STANFORD U NIV E RSITY

The National Frame Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany BA N U KA R AC A 288 pages, 22 black-and-white illustrations 9780823290215, Paperback, $35.00, §26.99 (SDT) 9780823290208, Hardback, $125.00, §100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available A NTHROPOLOGY | ART FEBRUARY

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Based on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance.

It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts. By examining discussions of the civilizing function of art in Turkey and Germany and particularly moments in which art is seen to cede this function, The National Frame reveals the histories of violence on which the production, circulation, and, very understanding of art are predicated.

Karaca examines this darker side of art in two cities in which art and its institutions have been intertwined with symbolic and material dispossession. The particularities of German and Turkish contexts, both marked by attempts to claim modern nationhood through the arts; illuminate how art is staked to memory and erasure, resistance and restoration; and why art has been at once vital and unwieldy for national projects. As art continues to be called upon to engage the past and imagine different futures, The National Frame explores how to reclaim art’s emancipatory potential.

BANU KARACA is an EUME Fellow of the VolkswagenStiftung at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. She is co-editor of Women Mobilizing Memory and co-founder of Siyah Bant, a research platform that analyzes and documents censorship in the arts in Turkey.

“Who Is a Muslim? is a pioneering contribution to Urdu scholarship. It is going to rewrite the field of Urdu studies, overturning commonly held assertions and forcefully arguing for new readings of canonical texts. The book will spark manifold conversations for a long time.”

J E NNIFE R DU BROW, U NIV E RSITY O F WASHINGTO N

“As scholars of world literature reckon with the colonial legacies of philology and Orientalism, Khan’s Who Is a Muslim? provides an important critical history anchored in South Asian sources that sheds light on crucial questions regarding nation, language, and religion. Across its five chapters, it weaves together insightful engagements with literary form, narrative structure, and the emergence of modern social imaginaries. I can think of few books that offer such a rich account with such resonant implications for our field.”

MIC HAE L ALLAN, U NIV E RSITY O F OREGO N

Who Is a Muslim?

Orientalism and Literary Populisms M A RYA M WASI F K HA N

Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan—popular novels, short stories, television serials—is formed around a question that is and historically has been at the core of early modern and modern Western literatures.

The question “Who is a Muslim?,” a constant concern within eighteenth-century literary and scholarly orientalist texts, the English oriental tale chief among them, takes on new and dangerous meanings once it travels to the North-Indian colony, and later to the newly formed Pakistan. A literary-historical study spanning some three centuries, this book argues that the idea of an Urdu canon, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship. is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS University, Lahore.

MARYAM WASIF KHAN

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“In Channeling Moroccanness, Becky Schulthies challenges anthropological linguistics by pushing beyond the speech event to different contexts of speaking, listening, and viewing to come up with what she calls a ‘calibration’ of Moroccan sociality. The book is an important and distinctive contribution to the ethnography of Morocco.”

STE V E N C ATO N, HARVARD U NIV E RSITY

“Channeling Moroccanness is highly readable and brisk. Schulthies’s intimate descriptions of timely media practices and Moroccans’ discussions of their effects contribute important ethnographic detail on the weaving of technological media into everyday communications and evince her extensive ethnographic labor. This is a vital and compelling book.”

E MILIO SPAD OLA , CO LGATE U NIV E RSITY

Channeling Moroccanness

Language and the Media of Sociality B E C K Y L . S C H U LT H I E S 240 pages 11 black-and-white illustrations 9780823289721, Paperback, $32.00, §24.99 (SDT) 9780823289714, Hardback, $110.00, §88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available ANTHRO P O LO GY | COMMUNICATIONS A ND MEDIA STUDI ES MIDDLE EASTERN STUDI ES DECEMB ER

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What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative failure as they seek to shape social and political relations in urban Fez. Over the last decade, laments of language and media failure in Fez have focused not just on social relations that used to be and have been lost but also on what ought to be and had yet to be realized. Such laments have transpired in a range of communication channels, from objects such as devotional prayer beads and remote controls; to interactional forms such as storytelling, dress styles, and orthography; to media platforms like television news, religious stations, or WhatsApp group chats.

Channeling Moroccanness examines these laments as ways of speaking that created Moroccanness, the feeling of participating in the ongoing formations of Moroccan relationality. Rather than furthering the discourse about Morocco’s conflict between liberal secularists and religious conservatives, this ethnography shows the subtle range of ideologies and practices evoked in Fassi homes to calibrate Moroccan sociality and political consciousness.

BECKY L. SCHULTHIES

is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.

“This is a fascinating and provocative book, powerfully argued, exegetically adroit, and profoundly suggestive in its implications. Vandeputte offers a series of extraordinarily fine-grained, original, and subtle readings that brilliantly demonstrate how philosophy’s ambivalence about journalism expresses philosophy’s own uneasy relation toward its temporal and historical constitution. It makes us think anew about the ‘new’ and the ‘news’ and about ‘thinking’ itself.”

RE BECC A COMAY, U NIV E RSITY O F TO RONTO

“Critique of Journalistic Reason offers a provocative reframing of modern European thought, expanding and redirecting Foucault’s insight into the emergence of ‘today’ as a post-Kantian philosophical problem.”

PE TE R FE NV E S, NO RTHW E STE RN U NIV E RSITY

Critique of Journalistic Reason

Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper TOM VA N DE P U T T E 272 pages 9780823290253, Paperback, $32.00, §24.99 (SDT) 9780823290260, Hardback, $110.00, §88.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available PHILOSOPHY | HISTORY SEPTEMBER

An encounter between philosophy and journalism recurs across the modern philosophical tradition. Images of reporters and newspaper readers, messengers and town criers, announcements and rumors populate the work of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Benjamin. This book argues that these three thinkers’ preoccupation with journalism cannot be separated from their philosophy “proper” but plays a pivotal role in their philosophical work, where it marks an important nexus between their theories of history, time, and language.

Journalism, in the tradition Vandeputte brings to light, figures before anything else as a cipher of the time in which philosophy is written. If the journalist and newspaper reader characterize what Kierkegaard calls “the present age,” that is because they exemplify a present marked by the crisis of the philosophy of history—a time after the demise of history as a philosophizable concept. In different ways, the pages of the newspaper appear in the European philosophical tradition as a site where teleological and totalizing representations of history must founder, together with the conceptions of progress and development that sustain them.

But journalism does not simply mark the end of philosophy; for Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Benjamin, journalistic writing also takes on an exemplary role in the attempt to think time and history in the wake of this demise. The concepts around which these attempts crystallize— Kierkegaard’s “instant,” Nietzsche’s “untimeliness,” and Benjamin’s “actuality”—all emerge from the philosophical confrontation with journalism and its characteristic temporalities. is head of Critical Studies at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam and a fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin.

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“Exhibiting extraordinary range and depth, Nathan Brown takes on the most important philosophical issues of our time: the relation between reason and reality, sapience and sentience, the possibility of revolution and the material conditions of freedom. Inviting serious debate on fundamental questions, this book reawakens our sense of the true, the good, and the beautiful.”

MARTIN HÄGGLU ND, AU THOR O F TH I S L I FE

“Rationalist Empiricism advances a wholly original and utterly convincing philosophical position, brilliantly bringing together studies in visual art, science, politics, and the history of philosophy. This will be one of the most important theoretical works of the past twenty years or more. It represents a renewal of theory in the best possible sense.”

AU D RE Y WASSE R, AU THO R O F TH E WORK OF D I FFEREN C E

Rationalist Empiricism

A Theory of Speculative Critique NAT HA N B ROW N 272 pages, 29 black-and-white illustrations 9780823290017, Paperback, $35.00, §26.99 (SDT) 9780823290000, Hardback, $125.00, §100.00 (SDT) Simultaneous electronic edition available Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory PHILOSOPHY | LITERA RY CRITICISM JANUA RY

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Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant’s transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and experience. Rationalist Empiricism shows that the capacity of reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating their discrepant powers, Brown argues, is what enables speculation to move forward in concert with critique.

Sweeping across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, as well as political theory, science, and art, Brown engages with such major thinkers as Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Bachelard, Althusser, Badiou, and Meillassoux. He also shows how the concepts he develops illuminate recent projects in the science of measurement and experimental digital photography. With conceptual originality and argumentative precision, Rationalist Empiricism reconfigures the history and the future of philosophy, politics, and aesthetics.

NATHAN BROWN is Associate Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics.

“This volume, full of precise, incisive, and deeply researched scholarship, situates the problematic of political theology within a series of questions that emerge within German Idealist philosophy, from Kant to Marx. This is an original and necessary contribution to the growing field of political theology. As evinced in this volume, German Idealism and its intellectual heirs in critical theory, Marxism, and cultural theory are an important, perhaps even necessary place to ground the contemporary critiques of the global capitalist order of racial, gendered, and biopolitical oppression.”

J OSHUA RAME Y, HAV E RFORD CO LLEGE

Nothing Absolute

German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology KIRILL CHEPURIN, and A L E X DU B I L E T, Editors

Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields.

Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the politicaltheological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.

Nothing Absolute reclaims German Idealism as a political-theological trajectory. Across the volume’s contributions, German thought from Kant to Marx emerges as crucial for the genealogy of political theology and for the ongoing reassessment of modernity and the secular. By investigating anew such concepts as immanence, utopia, sovereignty, theodicy, the Earth, and the world, as well as the concept of political theology itself, this volume not only rethinks German Idealism and its aftermath from a political-theological perspective but also demonstrates what can be done with (or against) German Idealism using the conceptual resources of political theology today.

KIRILL CHEPURIN ALEX DUBILET

is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at HSE University, Moscow.

is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Joseph Albernaz, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, Kirill Chepurin, S. D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Alex Dubilet, Vincent Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel, Steven Shakespeare, Oxana Timofeeva, Daniel Whistler CONTRIBUTORS:

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“No one else could have pulled off what Geoffrey Bennington has accomplished in the strikingly original Scatter 2. The book stands alone and I suspect will prove more accessible to many readers than Scatter 1. Catch Bennington at full stride as he walks his readers through the familiar tradition of Western political philosophy, only to show that, by virtue of his illuminating insight, that tradition is no longer quite as familiar as we thought.”

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Scatter 2

Politics in Deconstruction G E OF F R E Y B E N N I NG TON

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Politics is an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy—as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery as is philosophy’s traditional adversary, poetry. That difficulty makes it an attractive topic for any deconstructive approach to the tradition from which we inherit our language and our concepts. Scatter 2 pursues that deconstruction, often starting with, and sometimes departing from, the work of Jacques Derrida by attending to the concepts of sovereignty on the one hand and democracy on the other.

The book begins by following the fate of a line from Homer’s Iliad, where Odysseus asserts that “the rule of many is no good thing, let there be one ruler, one king.” The line, Bennington shows, is quoted, misquoted, and progressively Christianized by Aristotle, Philo Judaeus, Suetonius, the early Church Fathers, Aquinas, Dante, Ockham, Marsilius of Padua, Jean Bodin, Etienne de la Boétie, up to Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson, and even one of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials, before being discussed by Derrida himself. In the book’s second half, Bennington begins again with Plato and Aristotle and tracks the concept of democracy as it regularly abuts and undermines that sovereignist tradition. In detailed readings of Hobbes and Rousseau, Bennington develops a notion of “proto-democracy” as a possible name for the scatter that underlies and drives the political as such and that will always prevent politics from achieving its aim of bringing itself to an end. is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School.

GEOFFREY BENNINGTON

“World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth lays out a novel and provocative argument for an anticolonial mode of reading. Against the usual assumption that entering the scene of world literature entails asserting cultural authority, Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial writers withdraw authority from the singular figure of an author. This aesthetics mines contingency, precariousness and unknowability precisely because it points to a world after colonialism that is not yet in place. Worldly reading, Elam compellingly argues, is not about the formation and cultivation of subjects but the convocation of collectivities for a world to come. Essential reading for those concerned with the future of comparative literature and the world.”

NATALIE ME LAS, CORNE LL U NIV E RSITY

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentiethcentury anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism.

Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon’s political writings and Erich Auerbach’s philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty.

Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present.

J. DA N I E L E L A M

Hong Kong.

is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of

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“Shibboleth is an important reflection on the politics of border crossings, the policing of identities, and the linguistic performances on which such actions depend. Working in two directions at once, Redfield makes the story of passwords and border patrols told in the biblical book of Judges relevant to our present moment while at the same time using the work of Derrida, Celan, and Salcedo to draw attention to questions of legitimacy, inheritance, mass murder, autoimmunity, and civil strife at the heart of the biblical narrative.”

MIC HAE L LE V INE, RU TGE RS U NIV E RSITY

Shibboleth

Judges, Derrida, Celan M A RC R E DF I E L D

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In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who cannot pronounce the initial shin phoneme. In modern European languages, shibboleth has come to mean a hard-to-falsify sign that winnows identities and establishes and confirms borders. It has also acquired the ancillary meanings of slogan or cliché. The semantic field of shibboleth thus seems keyed to the waning of the logos in an era of technical reproducibility—to the proliferation of technologies and practices of encryption, decryption, exclusion and inclusion that saturate modern life. The various phenomena we sum up as neoliberalism and globalization are unimaginable in the absence of shibboleth-technologies.

In the context of an unending refugee crisis and a general displacement, monitoring and quarantining of populations within a global regime of technics, Paul Celan’s subtle yet fierce reorientation of shibboleth merits scrupulous reading. This book interprets the episode in Judges together with Celan’s poems and Jacques Derrida’s reading of them, as well as passages from William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom! and Doris Salcedo’s 2007 installation Shibboleth at the Tate Modern. Redfield pursues the track of shibboleth: a word to which no language can properly lay claim—a word that is both less and more than a word, that signifies both the epitome and the ruin of border control technology, and that thus, despite its violent role in the Biblical story, offers a locus of poetico-political affirmation.

MARC REDFIELD is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies and Chair of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His most recent books are Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America and The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror.

“Michael Raposa’s Theosemiotic is both a consummation and a beginning: a consummation of the theosemiotic he discovered and created in his early study of Charles Peirce and then expanded to incorporate the ideas of a variety of thinkers who explore the work of signs in the cosmos. Raposa’s scholarship is impeccable. It is also the beginning of a turn to the practices and feelings of theosemiotic in a very down-to-earth way—to musement, perception, and reflection. Raposa reaches down to the root of Peirce’s semiotic and cosmology—that the meanings we enjoy in life are indeed gifts, and that we should treat them with reverence and care” D O U G AND E RSO N, AU THO R O F PH I LOSOPH Y A MERI C A N A : MAKING PH I LOSOPH Y AT H OME I N A MERI C A N CU LTU RE

Theosemiotic Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning

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In Theosemiotic, Michael Raposa uses Charles Peirce’s semiotic theory to rethink certain issues in contemporary philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. He first sketches a history that links Peirce’s thought to that of earlier figures (both within the tradition of American religious thought and beyond), as well as to other classical pragmatists and to later thinkers and developments. Drawing on Peirce’s ideas, Raposa develops a semiotic conception of persons/selves emphasizing the role that acts of attention play in shaping human inferences and perception. His central Peircean presuppositions are that all human experience takes the form of semiosis and that the universe is “perfused” with signs. Religious meaning emerges out of a process of continually reading and re-reading certain signs.

Theology is explored here in its manifestations as inquiry, therapy, and praxis. By drawing on both Peirce’s logic of vagueness and his logic of relations, Raposa makes sense out of how we talk about God as personal, and also how we understand the character of genuine communities. An investigation of what Peirce meant by “musement” illuminates the nature and purpose of prayer. Theosemiotic is portrayed as a form of religious naturalism, broadly conceived. At the same time, the potential links between any philosophical theology conceived as theosemiotic and liberation theology are exposed.

MICHAEL L. RAPOSA is Professor of Religion Studies and the E. W. Fairchild Professor of American Studies at Lehigh University. He is the author of Peirce’s Philosophy of Religion, Boredom and the Religious Imagination, and Meditation and the Martial Arts.

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“Gil is an exquisite reader of poetry, with an eye for the weird, the overlooked, or typically elided perspectives. His willingness to take seriously odd moments, his ability to hear and to contemplate strangeness, and his eagerness to engage a poem or play’s own presentational strategies, metapragmatic gestures, and lexical and formal choices all make Fate of the Flesh an impressive account of Renaissance literature and culture.”

DAV ID GLIMP, U NIV E RSITY O F COLO RAD O, BO U LD E R

Fate of the Flesh

Secularization and Resurrection in the Seventeenth Century DA N I E L J UA N G I L

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In the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry. As an emerging empirical scientific world view and a rising Cartesian dualist ontology transformed the ancient hope for the resurrection of the flesh into the fantasy of a soul or mind living on separately from any body, literature complicated the terms of the debate. Such poets as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Jonson picked up the discarded idea of the resurrection of the flesh and bent it from an apocalyptic future into the here and now to imagine the self already infused with the strange, vibrant materiality of the resurrection body.

Fate of the Flesh explores what happens when seventeenth-century poets posit a resurrection body within the historical person. These poets see the resurrection body as the precondition for the social person’s identities and forms of agency and yet as deeply other to all such identities and agencies, an alien within the self that both enables and undercuts life as a social person. This perspective leads seventeenth-century poets to a compelling awareness of the unsettling materiality within the heart of the self and allows them to re-imagine agency, selfhood, and the natural world in its light. By developing a poetics that seeks a deranging materiality within the self, these poets anticipate twentieth-century “avant-garde” poetics.

They frame their poems neither as simple representation nor as beautiful objects but as a form of social praxis that creates new communities of readers and writers assembled around a new experience of self-as-body mediated by poetry.

DANIEL JUAN GIL

is Professor of English at Texas Christian University.

“Welcoming Finitude is a fine addition to the tradition of phenomenological inquiry of religious experience. . . . [A]nyone interested in the philosophy and phenomenology of religious experience will find Welcoming Finitude quite hospitable, and not without a noticeable conviviality.”

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“Gschwandtner writes with a welcome transparency and obvious wellspring of knowledge that runs extremely deep. . . . [S]cholars of whatever sort will find food for thought in Gschwandtner’s work and an addition to the subfield of the phenomenology of religion that is ready for comparison with other studies that either do not overtly cover liturgical matters or do so from a differing tradition.”

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What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our emotions or dispositions?

How is liturgy experienced as a communal event, and how does it form the identity of those who participate in it? Welcoming Finitude explores these broader questions about religious experience by focusing on the manifestation of liturgical experience in the Eastern Christian tradition. Drawing on the methodological tools of contemporary phenomenology and on insights from liturgical theology, the book constitutes a philosophical exploration of Orthodox liturgical experience.

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Toward a Phenomenology of Orthodox Liturgy

teaches Continental Philosophy of Religion at Fordham University. She is the author of Reading Jean-Luc Marion: Exceeding Metaphysics; Postmodern Apologetics? Arguments about God in Contemporary Philosophy (Fordham); Degrees of Givenness: On Saturation in Jean-Luc Marion; and Marion and Theology, besides articles and translations at the intersection of phenomenology and religion.

CHRISTINA M. GSCHWANDTNER

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The Refuge Press The Refuge Press is an independent humanitarian imprint that was founded in 2019.

Following on from a successful International Humanitarian Affairs Series through Fordham University Press, The Refuge Press, with Brendan Cahill as its publisher, publishes four books per year. The Refuge Press books challenge humanitarian thinking and offer personal and professional reflections on global crises.

Labyrinths K E V I N M . C A H I L L , M . D. 119 pages, 61/2 × 91/2 , 16 black-and-white illustrations 9780823293650, Paperback, $15.95, §11.99 (TP) The Refuge Press I N T E RNAT I O NAL HU MANI TAR IA N A FFA IRS AVA ILA B LE

“Labyrinths are part of every sensitive being’s life story. As I read our dear friend Kevin’s memoirs, I cannot help but remember Boutros’s too. In their doctor–patient relationship they seem to have developed a shared vision for the future of humanity. Its essence resides in humanitarian care; its realization is nourished by their wealth of personal experiences. Dr. Cahill’s memoirs are quite revealing. They show us why and how the motives and methods for caring for the health of one being may be applied to humanity at large.”

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“At first glance, one might get the impression that Labyrinths is just another Irish-American memoir. To be sure, it does include richly detailed descriptions of Irish-American life in the Bronx and an even more richly detailed accounts of more than a few derring-do Indiana Jones–type adventures (albeit of a medical kind) in Africa and the Middle East. If the truth were told, however, this is far more than a simple Irish-American memoir. Rather, it is a modern-day Book of Wisdom, wisdom that Dr. Cahill learned in his long and groundbreaking career in the field of humanitarian assistance, wisdom that is summed up in a particularly moving way with this snippet: One quickly came to understand that tradition and culture were as essential as aspirin and bandages in running a rural medical program . . . that prejudice and economic exploitation are realities that must be faced if one is to fulfill the obligations of a physician. It is necessary to appreciate the cry of the Oppressed . . . if one is to practice medicine in a developing land, especially during and after periods of chaos and disaster. . . . One learned to adapt on the spot, to be imaginative and flexible, and to try to develop life-saving programs built on . . . understanding and humility.

“This is a modern-day Book of Wisdom that should be required reading for all who are in the work of international humanitarian assistance—and for career foreign service officers.”

R E V. J OSE PH M. MC SHANE, S.J., P R E SID E NT, FO RD HAM U NIV E RSITY

Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow armed conflicts or natural disasters. Widely used in international training programs, these books provide practical, specific approaches—and solutions—to complex problems in a multidisciplinary field. But how, and why, and even when certain editorial decisions were made required a deeper probe, and Labyrinths looks back at the formative influences of childhood, adolescence, education, and early professional experiences. Many of the pieces in this volume predate the Fordham University Press Humanitarian Book series. They were written in a library in our beach home, overlooking sand dunes and the Atlantic Ocean, with the rhythmic sound of waves and bird song as background music. In the quiet isolation of a seaside town I find respite from a busy life devoted to clinical medicine, public health, teaching, travel, and a global network of international humanitarian assistance projects. This book is dedicated “For the People of Point Lookout,” who have respected my privacy while I develop initiatives that have spread from this tiny hamlet to reach millions of vulnerable people around the world.

KEV IN M. CAHILL, M.D., is University Professor and Director at the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University and the President of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation in New York City. He is also a Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University and Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital.

He has served as the Chief Advisor on Humanitarian and Public Health Issues for three Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly and for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. His career in tropical medicine and humanitarian operations began in Calcutta in 1959; he has carried out medical, relief, and epidemiological research in 70 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He has written or edited 33 books, translated into many languages, and more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals on subjects ranging from public health and tropical diseases to humanitarian assistance, foreign affairs, Irish literature, and history. He holds numerous Honorary Doctorates from universities around the world.

Perspectives in a Pandemic

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and Public Health Issues for three Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly and for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. His career in tropical medicine and humanitarian operations began in Kolkata in 1959; he has carried out medical, relief, and epidemiological research in 70 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He has written or edited 33 books, translated into many languages, and more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals on subjects ranging from public health and tropical diseases to humanitarian assistance, foreign affairs, Irish literature, and history. He holds numerous Honorary Doctorates from universities around the world.

A Skein of Thought

The Ireland at Fordham Humanitarian Lecture Series Edited by B R E N DA N C A H I L L and JOHA N NA L AW TON Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill draws on his extensive experiences in earlier epidemics, natural disasters, and armed conflicts to offer lessons, wisdom, guidance, and support to frontline workers. While he wrote the essays as weekly reflections in the early months of the pandemic for the thousands of humanitarian-relief workers he has trained around the world, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand and make some sense of the complexities and chaos inevitable in a pandemic.

KEV IN M. C A H I L L , M .D. , is University Professor and Director at the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University and President of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation in New York City. He is also a Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University and Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital.

He has served as the Chief Advisor on Humanitarian

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of a series of distinguished lectures that explored the current challenges to policymakers and humanitarian actors as they focus their efforts on larger and more complex emergencies. The contributors to this book both identify innovative measures in addressing established problems and address hitherto underresearched emerging issues. A Skein of Thought is the product of this fruitful partnership. Ireland has, through its longstanding peacekeeping, its embrace of multi-lateralism, and its investment in development and humanitarian solutions, been a global leader in confronting and mitigating global disasters. In a similar way, the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs has been a global leader in humanitarian training, publications, and research. A Skein of Thought: The Ireland at Fordham Humanitarian Lecture Series, then, represents this link between theory and practice.

Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, Brendan Cahill, H.E. Mary Robinson, H.E. President Michael D. Higgins, Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Vice Admiral Mark Mellett DSM, Jamie McGoldrick, Dr. Caitriona Dowd, Matthew Hollingworth, AnneLaure Duval, and Tánaiste Simon Coveney, TD CONTRIBUTORS:

BRENDAN CAHILL is Executive Director, Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University. For nearly twenty years Mr. Cahill has created, directed, and taught humanitarian programs throughout the world. At Fordham University he established a thriving undergraduate program and two master’s programs in Humanitarian Studies. He founded The Refuge Press, of which he serves as publisher.

is Program Officer, Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, Fordham University. Ms. Lawton is the Program Officer for The Ireland at Fordham Humanitarian Lecture Series and an editor for the IIHA’s Refuge Press. Holding a B.A. in Environmental Policy from Colby College, she has focused her research at home and abroad on natural resource–driven conflicts, human rights violations, and the forced displacement of communities as a result of climate change.

JOHANNA LAWTON

This book is the result of a strong collaboration between the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations and Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs. It is a record

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Aid Memoir

L A R RY HOL L I NG WORT H

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Larry Hollingworth, current visiting Professor of Humanitarian Studies at Fordham University in New York City, served as head of the UNHCR’s efforts in Bosnia throughout the lengthy conflict that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the early to mid ’90s. Aid Memoir follows Larry and his UN colleagues throughout multiple efforts to provide much-needed relief for besieged, isolated, and desperate communities riddled by senseless killing and aggression. The characters encountered throughout are at times thrilling, at times frightening. Larry spares no details, however troubling, and therefore shines a telling light on the reality of the situation that most will remember to have watched on their television screens. is a Visiting Professor of Humanitarian Studies at the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) at Fordham University in New York. Over the past decade, Mr. Hollingworth served as Humanitarian Coordinator on CIHC-supported missions for the United Nations in Iraq, Lebanon, East Timor, Palestine, and Pakistan.

After serving as a British Army officer for thirty years, Mr. Hollingworth joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and held assignments in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. He was appointed UNHCR Chief of Operations in Sarajevo during the siege of the city in the Balkan conflict. Mr. Hollingworth has also worked with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He was awarded Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 L A RRY H O L L I N G WO RT H

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and honored by the U.S Department of State on the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Related to the Status of Refugees in 2011. Mr. Hollingworth is a frequent lecturer on relief and refugee topics in universities and is a commentator on humanitarian issues for the BBC. In his current role as Humanitarian Programs Director, which he has held for more than 15 years, Mr. Hollingworth directs humanitarian training courses for participants from or intending to enter the humanitarian-aid world. He has directed 48 onemonth courses and more than 50 one-week courses, of which there are more than 2,300 alumni.

The Migrant Diaries LY N N E JON E S

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What is it like to run away from bombing, lose your family, and work out how to take care of yourself in a foreign country when you are seven years old? What do you do when the woman who promised you a good job in Europe turns out to have sold you into prostitution? How do you escape from torture and detention in Libya? What is it like to almost drown in the Mediterranean and then be confined in a garbageand rat-filled settlement on a Greek island for years?

In this book, Lynne Jones answers these questions by combining direct testimony from children with a blazingly frank eyewitness account of providing mental health support on the front line of the migrant crisis across Europe and Central America in the past five years.

Her diaries document how a compassionate welcome shifted to indifference and hostility toward those seeking refuge from war, disaster, and poverty in the richest countries in the world. They shine a

light on what it is like to be caught up on the front lines of the migrant crises in Europe and Central America, either as a person in flight or as a volunteer trying to help. They show how people who have fled war, poverty, and disaster—trapped in degrading, humiliating living conditions—have responded with resourcefulness and creativity. In the absence of most large professional humanitarian agencies, migrants and volunteers together have created a new form of humanitarianism that challenges old ways of working.

Today there are 79 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 1 percent of the world’s population. Understanding the perspectives of people on the move has never been more important.

LYNNE JONES , OBE, FRCPsych, Ph.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, writer, researcher, and relief worker. Her most recent books are Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry and Then They Started Shooting: Children of the Bosnian War and the Adults They Become, published by Bellevue Literary Press.

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PHILIP T. SICKER

is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Rose Hill Writing Program at Fordham University.

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