Citizenship and Service
(December 2020)
The Politics of Civic National Service in Israel Etta Bick - Author
Holidays of the Revolution
(December 2020)
Communist Identity in Israel, 1919-1965 Amir Locker-Biletzki - Author
The Specter of Babel
(November 2020)
A Reconstruction of Political Judgment Michael J. Thompson - Author
Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.
In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate cri...(Read More)
Suffrage and Its Limits
(September 2020)
The New York Story Kathleen M. Dowley - Editor Susan Ingalls Lewis - Editor Meg Devlin O'Sullivan - Editor Kathy Hochul - Preface
Bending the Arc
(June 2020)
Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War Steve Breyman - Editor John W. Amidon - Editor Maureen Baillargeon Aumand - Editor
Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.
Since the late 1990s the annual Kateri Tekakwitha Interfaith Peace Conference in upstate New York has grown to become the region’s premier peace conference. Bending the Arc provides a history of the conference and brings together the inspiring, personal stories from such well-known participants as Med...(Read More)
Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.
Reconstructing the Civic examines the civic activism of the homeland Palestinian minority in Israel. Employing a multi-methodological and empirically rich approach, Amal Jamal blends historical description with interviews of Palestinian elites drawn ...(Read More)
The Politics of Right Sex
(June 2020)
Transgressive Bodies, Governmentality, and the Limits of Trans Rights Courtenay W. Daum - Author
Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.
While the growing attention to trans rights and the development of trans-specific interest groups suggest that the time is right for a trans rights movement akin to prior civil rights movements, The Politics of Right Sex explores the limitations of rights-based mobilizati...(Read More)
Bringing the Nation Back In
(March 2020)
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the Struggle to Define a New Politics Mark Luccarelli - Editor Rosario Forlenza - Editor Steven Colatrella - Editor
Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.
Bringing the Nation Back In takes as its starting point a series of developments that shaped politics in the United States and Europe over the past thirty years: the end of the Cold War, the rise of financial and economic globalization, the creation of the European Union, and the development of the ...(Read More)
