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Hand That Touch This Fortune Will

A History and Theory of Hand Reading after Charlotte Wolff
Sam Dolbear

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2024

Mapping the hand as cosmos as clinic as history as biography, hand reading is a technique suspended between medical and mystical judgement, empirical diagnosis and speculative divination. This book weaves the lives and work of the ‘reader’ and the ‘read’ together in an intricate fabric.
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Affective Activisms and the Right to Have Rights in Turkey

Eirini Avramopoulou

Palgrave Macmillan Cham

This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism. Based on extensive ethnographic research of the life and politics of feminist, LGBTQI+, and women’s religious groups in Istanbul from 2007 to 2015, it explores the affects, meanings, and interpretations these groups express in their activism—in particular, their strategic use of human rights’ language to claim institutional and social legitimacy and their reinterpretation of gender/queer theory across politics of difference to make sense of global dynamics that affect their everyday lives.
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Burnout

The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
Hannah Proctor

Verso Books, April 2024

In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going?
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Displacing Theory Through the Global South

ed. by Iracema Dulley, Özgün Eylül İşcen
Cultural Inquiry, 29

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024

Open Access
Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization.
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Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories

Elena Lombardi

Cultural Inquiry, 28
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

Open Access
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories presents a unique form of creative scholarship. It employs Dante’s late medieval take on Ulysses and his tragic pursuit of ‘virtue and knowledge’ as a prism that refracts an ancient myth of journey and return into a modern story of discovery and nostalgia.
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War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments

Reflections from the Middle East
ed. by Umut Yıldırım

Cultural Inquiry, 27
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

Open Access
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East identifies a conceptual intersection between war, affect, and ecology from the Middle East.

Untying the Mother Tongue

ed. by Antonio Castore, Federico Dal Bo

Cultural Inquiry, 26
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

Open Access
Untying the Mother Tongue explores what it might mean today to speak of someone's attachment to a particular, primary language. Traditional conceptions of mother tongue are often seen as an expression of the ideology of a European nation-state.
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Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture
Amina ElHalawani
ed. by Michael Butter, Lars Eckstein, Joachim Frenk, Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, Thomas Herbst, Barbara Korte, Günter Leypoldt, Christoph Reinfandt, Anatol Stefanowitsch

De Gruyter, Volume 71, Issue 1, March 2023

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Special Issue: Haunted by Homes; Guest Editor: Amina ElHalawani.
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Never Was

H. Gareth Gavin

Cipher Press, April 2023

Daniel sits on a clifftop in the aftermath of a party at Fin's mansion, looking out over a junky sea. Daniel's not sure why they're there, or who Fin is, even though Fin seems to be somebody famous.

The Case for Reduction

ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger

Cultural Inquiry, 25
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

Open Access
This volume suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction, their generative potentials, ethics, and politics. Can their violences be contained and their benefits transported to other contexts?
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