Dani Filc, author of Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel guest-blogged about Health Care Lessons from Israel on the Washington Post’s Short Stack blog.
September 24, 2009
August 27, 2009
Background on Fiji
The Mother Jones report on the sociopolitical and environmental context for the production of Fiji Water—much circulated via the social networking media this past week—has drawn attention to that island nation. Those looking for background on Fiji’s political conditions will be interested in our recent State of Suffering: Political Violence and Community Survival in Fiji by Susanna Trnka.
Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle (Mother Jones)
August 20, 2009
Corporate Warriors: sadly still highly topical
As Blackwater continues to be the focus of news attention (CIA terror link puts rebranded Blackwater under fire again, the Guardian), it’s important to remember that P. W. Singer paid early and intense attention to the role of private military contractors in his Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry.
February 19, 2009
Apology as diplomatic tool
In a February 3, 2009, piece on the Foreign Policy site, Stephen M. Walt draws upon Jennifer Lind’s Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics as he takes up the question of relations between the United States and Iran:
Ravenswood: End of an Era
The aluminum plant whose crucial role in labor history is described in Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor by Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner is closing its doors:
Ravenswood Looks to Future (the Charleston Gazette)
January 15, 2009
August 27, 2008
The New Masters of Capital at GlobalHigherEd
The GlobalHigherEd blog (Surveying the Construction of Global Knowledge/Spaces for the ‘Knowledge Economy’) draws upon the work of Timothy J. Sinclair, author of The New Masters of Capital, in a discussion of credit rating agencies. Read it here:
‘Passing judgment’: the role of credit rating agencies in the global governance of UK universities
Austria as Theater and Ideology and Gérard Mortier
In his blog The View from Here, Andrew Patner highlights Michael P. Steinberg’s Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival in his discussion of Gérard Mortier’s “bid to take over the Bayreuth Festival.” Here’s what Patner had to say:
Mortier even went so far as to commission the first ever German-language publication of Michael P. Steinberg’s essential 1990 work, The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival: Austria as Theatre and Ideology, 1890-1938 (Cornell University Press) in 2000 in both Austria and Germany as Ursprung und Ideologie der Salzburger Festspiele 1890-1938 (Anton Puset Verlag, Salzburg and Munich). The German-language edition was the recipient of Austria’s Victor Adler Staatspreis in 2001. The book was also republished in English as a Cornell paperback in 2000 with its title reversed and the dates dropped as Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival with an important new preface, discussing, inter alia, Mortier’s role in the modern Festival and the 1999 “Salzburg culture wars.”
Read the whole post here: The view from here to . . . City Opera, Bayreuth, and Gérard Mortier
August 8, 2008
Read Up on Georgia
Russian troops have entered Georgia today, reports the New York Times. If you want to get up to speed on the context of the conflict, please have a look at two recent books from Cornell University Press:
Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union by Francine Hirsch. This book is the Cowinner of the 2006 Council for European Studies First Book Award, Winner of the 2006 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize given by the AAASS, and Winner of the American Historical Association’s 2007 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia by Mathijs Pelkmans
Both books are in the series Culture and Society after Socialism, edited by Bruce Grant & Nancy Ries
