Ibidem imprint: 334 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book contributes to the debates on the production and eradication of poverty in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been addressed by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe....
The Sarcophagus of Identity
Tribalism, Nationalism, and the Transcendence of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Given the increasing centrality of identity to contemporary politics, James Skelly's book provides a critical and useful analysis of the dominant and problematic conceptual bases for self and identity. Inspired in part by his lawsuit against the U.S. Secretary of Defense while serving as an active...
Dealing with the Yugoslav Past
Exhibition Reflections in the Successor States
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book analyzes the representation of the socialist past in the national history museums of the former Yugoslavia. Through travels to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the process of constructing the national narratives that maintain and legitimize...
Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right [four-volume set]
A Guide to Archives
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This truly unique collection is the essential guide to archival research on conservatism, the right wing, and the far right, offering a detailed overview of primary sources in all media. It details documents, film, video, sound recordings, microfilm and microfiche, cartoons, sheet music, newspaper...
by Nevena Nancheva, Timofey Agarin, Anja Pećnik
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This is a book about the crisis of the European integration project as seen from the vantage point of people’s movements across and to the European continent. But why should the issue of refugees or of migration have anything to do with the dynamics of the integration or disintegration of the European...
Socio-Economic Foundations of the Russian Post-Soviet Regime
The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature. As he guides readers through Russia's peculiar service and support estate system, Kordonsky reveals how...
The Euromaidan’s Effect on Civil Society
Why and How Ukrainian Social Capital Increased after the Revolution of Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Sophie Falsini presents a fascinating analysis of the current state and future prospects of Ukrainian civil society in light of the 2013–2014 events. Since then, the country has been shaken by both sociopolitical disorders and a deep humanitarian emergency, also exacerbated by the crisis of internally...
Joining a Prestigious Club
Cooperation with Europarties and Its Impact on Party Development in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine 2004–2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Brussels’s idea of a “wider Europe” implies that Europeanisation is not limited to EU member states. The EU can, so it claims, also exert impact beyond its borders. One of the channels of external EU influence is cooperation between Europarties and parties outside the Union. Through mutual visits...
Wandering Workers
Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected...
Ethnic Entrepreneurs Unmasked
Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Based on an institutional approach to ethnic conflict, Petar Cholakov highlights the idiosyncrasies of, and the challenges to, interethnic relations in Bulgaria. He traces the emergence of the currently implemented Bulgarian ethnic model in its interconnection with the party system, and especially...
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
2017/1: A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena. The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and authoritarianism...
Latvia—a Work in Progress?
100 Years of State- and Nation-Building
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state and nation building in Latvia are still ongoing. Such issues as citizenship, language policy, minority rights, democratic legitimacy, economic stability, and security all remain objects...
Democracy, Plan, and Market
Yakov Kronrod's Political Economy of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This is the first book in English to present a succinct overview of the influential work of the Russian economist Yakov Abramovich Kronrod (1912–1984) on the political economy of socialism. Kronrod headed the theoretical section of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of the USSR in the 1970s...
Di chi tiene la penna: immagini di scrittori e scrittura nel romanzo italiano dal 1911 al 1942 [Italian-language Edition]
Letture da Annie Vivanti, Luigi Pirandello, Jolanda, Italo Svevo, Alberto Moravia, Achille Campanile
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Simona Bianconi explores the creative process of writing, its communicative aspects and the traces of the writer himself in his creations, as well as the effect writing has on the personality of the author.Through the analysis of texts by six outstanding protagonists of the Italian novel in the first...