Ibidem Press: 164 books
Projects That Flow
More Projects in Less Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Projects can go over budget, exceed deadlines, or deliver restricted features and quality, which can result in economic damage for companies and their clients. Difficulties arise at the source, and established metrics and management methods slow projects down by creating conflicts in operations and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
How can the G20 fulfill their role most efficiently in the post-crisis era, and what role do the emerging economies play in the new global economic order? This timely volume provides an overview of the most important challenges ahead for the G20, especially China.
InExActArt - The Autopoietic Theatre of Augusto Boal
A Handbook of Theatre of the Oppressed Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This handbook not only provides a very wide-ranging introduction and orientation to the world of the Theatre of the Oppressed, but Birgit Fritz also presents concrete and practical assistance for structuring basic workshops in process-oriented theatre work and in developing Forum Theatre plays.
Birgit...
The Dark Side of European Integration
Social Foundations and Cultural Determinants of the Rise of Radical Right Movements in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support. The Dark Side of European Integration argues that this rising nationalism and the mobilization of the radical right are the consequences of European economic integration. The European economic project has produced...
Memory Is Our Home
Loss and Remembering: Three Generations in Poland and Russia, 1917-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Memory Is Our Home is a powerful biographical memoir based on the diaries of Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc, who was born in Warsaw before the end of World War I, grew up during the interwar period and who, after escaping the atrocities of World War II, was able to survive in the vast territories of Soviet...
Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist
Fascism, Genocide, and Cult
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality...
The Holocaust in Central European Literatures and Cultures
Problems of Poetization and Aestheticization
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been considered taboo, as only authentic testimony, documents, or at least 'unliterary', prosaic approaches were seen as appropriate. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards...
The Social Work of Narrative
Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights....
Beckett's Late Stage
Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Beckett's Late Stage reexamines the Nobel laureate's postwar prose and drama in the light of contemporary trauma theory. Through a series of sustained close readings, the study demonstrates how the comings and goings of Beckett's prose unsettles the Western philosophical tradition; it reveals how...
by Llewellyn Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett’s creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to...
Off-Broadway/Off-West End
American Influence on the Alternative Theatre Movement in Britain 1956–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
David Weinberg argues that American experimental theater practice was a key factor in the development of the alternative theater movement in Britain during the period 1956–1980. He covers the activities of the experimental theater groups associated with Jim Haynes, Charles Marowitz, Nancy Meckler,...
Limits of a Post-Soviet State
How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Though informed by case studies conducted in Ukraine, this book transcends its country-specific scope. It explains why informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary but a constant in most political systems. The book discusses self-protective mechanisms, responses to incomplete...
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History
Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social landscape. Why are we observing calls for national identity...
A Fateful Triangle
Essays on Contemporary Russian, German, and Polish History
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The twentieth century began with a deep identity crisis of European parliamentarianism, pluralism, rationalism, individualism, and liberalism―and a following political revolt against the West’s emerging open societies and their ideological foundation. In its radicalism, this upheaval against Western...