Affiliate Bookshelf

The Interwar World ed. by Dr. Andrew Denning and Dr. Heidi J.S. Tworek

Dr. Andrew Denning and Dr. Heidi J.S. Tworek's edited volume The Interwar World was published August 29, 2023 by Routledge. You can buy a copy here. The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyze, and interpret this crucial period in twentieth-century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars. The volume’s contributors challenge the era’s accepted temporal and geographic framings by privileging global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative.

The Making of Council Democracy: State Transformation and Radical Possibilities by Dr. Babak Amini

Dr. Babak Amini's book The Making of Council Democracy: State Transformation and Radical Possibilities was published on September 30, 2024 by Rotledge. You can purchase a copy here. “Council democracy” is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system. Both in political practice and in social theory, “council democracy” has resurfaced periodically in the past, most notably in the interwar period, in the “long 1960s,” and since the turn of the 21st century. This book offers a novel theoretical and methodological approach to the study of “council democracy.” It focuses on the processes that led to the emergence of two of the foundational and most radical instances of “council democratic” movements in Germany during the German Revolution (1918-1919) and in Italy during the biennio rosso (1919-1920). With all their diversities, ambiguities, and shortcomings, these movements, in varying degrees, sought democratic alternatives to autocratic relations, from local to state levels, and to economic relations, from workplace to national levels. The book shows how...

Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic by Dr. Katherine Bowers

Dr. Katherine Bowers' first monograph, Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic was published in 2022 by the University of Toronto Press: https://utorontopress.com/9781487526924/writing-fear/

Секс, любовь и миграция: постсоциализм, модерность и интимность от Стамбула до Арктики [Russian translation of Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic] by Dr. Alexia Bloch

Dr. Alexia Bloch's book Секс, любовь и миграция: постсоциализм, модерность и интимность от Стамбула до Арктики [Russian translation of Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic] was published on May 1, 2024 by Academic Studies Press. You can purchase a copy here. Sex, Love, and Migration complicates a narrative of women’s exploitation as a feature of migration in the twenty-first century, to argue that women’s mobility is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning a decade (2002-2011), Alexia Bloch shows how women moving between the former Soviet Union and Turkey forged new forms of relationships in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often worked for years on end. The lives and aspirations of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three spheres in Istanbul—sex work...