Ohio University Press: 522 books

Cover of Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa
by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, Solomon M. Gofie
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience....
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Reel Pleasures

Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania

by Laura Fair
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018

Reel Pleasures brings the world of African moviehouses and the publics they engendered to life, revealing how local fans creatively reworked global media—from Indian melodrama to Italian westerns, kung fu, and blaxploitation films—to speak to local dreams and desires. In it, Laura Fair zeroes...
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by Gene Logsdon
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looked at one of the bleakest places in America—a raw and barren strip-mined landscape—and saw in...
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Music Hall and Modernity

The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture

by Barry J. Faulk
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004

The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. Music Hall and Modernity demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their...
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Modern Muslims

A Sudan Memoir

by Steve Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016

Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would join and live with the Republican Brotherhood, the Sufi Muslim group led by the visionary Mahmoud Mohamed Taha. Taha was a religious intellectual who participated...
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A Burning Hunger

One Family’s Struggle Against Apartheid

by Lynda Schuster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

If the Mandelas were the generals in the fight for black liberation, the Mashininis were the foot soldiers. Theirs is a story of exile, imprisonment, torture, and loss, but also of dignity, courage, and strength in the face of appalling adversity. Originally published in Great Britain to critical...
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Women in the Shadows

Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali

by Jennifer Goodlander
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and...
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Shake Terribly the Earth

Stories from an Appalachian Family

by Sarah Beth Childers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny’s nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year.In a thoughtful, humorous voice...
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Making a World after Empire

The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010

In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Representing approximately two-thirds of the world’s population, the Bandung conference occurred...
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by Dimitri Ginev
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

In The Tenets of Cognitive Existentialism, Dimitri Ginev draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices. At stake is the question of whether it is possible to integrate forms of reflection...
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The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World

Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patočka

by Ľubica Učník
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

In The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World, Ľubica Učník examines the existential conflict that formed the focus of Edmund Husserl’s final work, which she argues is very much with us today: how to reconcile scientific rationality with the meaning of human existence. To investigate this conundrum,...
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Blood and Capital

The Paramilitarization of Colombia

by Jasmin Hristov
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014

In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state’s coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified...
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From Mastery to Mystery

A Phenomenological Foundation for an Environmental Ethic

by Bryan E. Bannon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014

From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoning field of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as  “substance” that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists....
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