Ibidem imprint: 334 books
Demodernization
A Future in the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants—these images became common at the turn of the twenty-first century in many once modern “civilized” countries. In quite a few of them, longtime...
by Volker Hinnenkamp, Anne Honer, Gudrun Hentges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This groundbreaking volume offers a historical comparison between the events leading up to World War I and current global tensions related to the economical and political rise of Asia. What are the risks that the desire of the new super power China and great powers like India to be recognized by the...
Filming the Unfilmable
Casper Wrede's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This volume shares the fascinating story of the cinematic adaptation of one of the world's most influential novels. An all-encompassing account of the film's production and reception, the account is filled with little-known facts and valuable insight into Solzhenitsyn's complex relationship with filmmaking.
Concurrences in Postcolonial Research
Perspectives, Methodologies, and Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The concept of concurrences is a blanket term for challenging dominating statements of the past and present. Concurrent stories have varying claims to reality and fiction, as well as different, diverging, and at times competing claims to society, culture, identity, and historical past. Dominant Western...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In the past, the European social sciences labelled and discredited knowledge that did not conform to their own definition of scientific knowledge as an alternative kind of knowledge, as 'indigenous' knowledge. Perception has changed with time: not only has indigenous knowledge become an entrance ticket...
by Dirk Matthias Dalberg, Leonid Luks, Ewelina Klimczak
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The history of Soviet nonconformism and, more broadly, of East European dissent has been written as a history of ideas, the subject of which is the transfer, internalization, and the subversive force of liberal values in socialist societies. In this sense, the nonconformist subconscious of totalitarian...
Sociality and Justice
Toward Social Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Building on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, this groundbreaking book puts the phenomenological paradigm into a new perspective. Overcoming the focus on self-reflection of the thinking subject and instead arguing for the importance of sociality as responsibility for the Other, this new approach is based...
Russia in the Arctic
Hard or Soft Power?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This timely book provides a detailed analysis of Russia's national interests in the Arctic region. It analyzes Russia's domestic discourse on the Far North's role among national priorities as well as Moscow's bi- and multilateral relations with major regional players, including energy, environmental,...
The New Third Rome
Readings of a Russian Nationalist Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Jardar Østbø analyzes the content and ideological function of the myth of Russia as a Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Østbø shows how this messianic myth was used to reinvent Russia...
Explaining Russian Foreign Policy Behavior
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This book aims to explain the reasons behind Russia's international conduct in the post-Soviet era, examining threat perceptions and national security doctrines. Serguning analyzes Russian foreign policy discourse with a particular focus on the major foreign policy schools of Atlanticism, Eurasianism,...
The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia I
Back to Our Future! History, Modernity, and Patriotism according to Nashi, 2005-2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This book analyzes the dubious role of the Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement "Nashi" in contemporary Russia. Part of the Putinist project of political stabilization, Nashi mobilizes young Russians through its emotional appeal, skillful use of symbolic politics, and promise of professional self-realization.
After Empire
Nationalist Imagination and Symbolic Politics in Russia and Eurasia in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of the decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia’s historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development...
Migrant Friendships in a Super-Diverse City
Russian-Speakers and their Social Relationships in London in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function as a part...
Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte. 18. Jahrgang, Heft 2
Simon Frank als philosophischer Vermittler zwischen Ost und West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Since 1997, FORUM has been an integral part of the landscape of European studies. In addition to contemporary history, it offers insights into the history of ideas and reviews books on Central and Eastern European history. It offers more than just history—for instance, interdisciplinary discussions...