John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
Jessie Speer interweaves an ethnographic account of the lives of unhoused people in Fresno, California, with an investigation of why cities across the United States have turned to what she calls the “bulldozer approach” to homelessness.
A major contribution to the burgeoning field of global migration history, this book explores the historical clash between transnational networks of migrant mobility with state attempts to control them.
Aysehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how the United States and Turkey used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests.
Don C. Price provides the definitive biography of Song Jiaoren, recounting his remarkable career and illuminating a period of epochal change.
John D. Caputo proposes a radical alternative—what he calls “religion’s last stand”—by turning to theopoetics.
This book offers an in-depth look at Jonathan Demme’s four decades of filmmaking, tracing the core elements that unite the disparate strands of his work.
This groundbreaking book reveals the perceptual underpinnings of society, showing how sights, sounds, and smells build social and political worlds.
Tracing the evolution of poetry’s role in Chinese society, Writing Empire and Self uncovers the profound cultural changes that took place in the early medieval era.
From Equity to Growth presents specific policy choices that can reconcile social demands with macroeconomic stability, providing a road map to escape the middle-income trap without sacrificing fairness.
This book traces the Wagner Group’s violent ascent and descent, exposing how a shadow army built an empire until it turned on its masters.
In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years, the renowned scholar Partha Chatterjee challenges common notions of “state” and “nation,” arguing for a more capacious understanding of “the people.”