Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
Music Hall and Modernity
The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture
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...
Modern Muslims
A Sudan Memoir
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...
A Burning Hunger
One Family’s Struggle Against Apartheid
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...
Women in the Shadows
Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali
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...
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
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...
Making a World after Empire
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
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...
by Dimitri Ginev
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
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...
The Crisis of Meaning and the Life-World
Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Patočka
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,...
Blood and Capital
The Paramilitarization of Colombia
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
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...
From Mastery to Mystery
A Phenomenological Foundation for an Environmental Ethic
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....
The Boy Is Gone
Conversations with a Mau Mau General
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family...
The Americans Are Coming!
Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American...
Generations Past
Youth in East African History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting...