03724nam a2200529 i 450010.3998/mpub.11734938MiU20260219075851.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260219t20262026miu ob 001 0 eng d9780472906024open access ebook047290602Xopen access ebook9780472078226hardcover9780472058228paperback10.3998/mpub.11734938doiEYMengrdapnEYMa-em---JZ6374341.584Warnecke, Andrea,author,https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjxmhBth8dFp6KJD6GbXBdhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8293-0652,https://ror.org/027bh9e22Claiming impartiality :peacebuilding organizations as actors in multiple fields of global governance /Andrea Warnecke.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (245 pages)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierConfigurations: Critical Studies of World PoliticsIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-244) and index.Open accessWhy has multilateral peacebuilding in conflict-ridden states emerged as a depoliticized practice that rarely engages with local actors and agendas? And why has depoliticization persisted despite continued criticisms? Claiming Impartiality offers an innovative answer to the puzzling persistence of depoliticization in post-war peacebuilding that focuses on the institutional mandates, interests, and practices of those international and bilateral organizations that design and implement most peacebuilding interventions. Drawing on and expanding a Bourdieusian field perspective, the book examines international organizations as actors in multiple fields of global governance. Using the case studies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Timor-Leste, it traces the emergence and transformation of peacebuilding practices by leading international and bilateral organizations during the first two decades of the field's existence. The organizational lens highlights the tensions that exist between the objectives of simultaneously acting as a peacebuilding organization and as a peacekeeping, humanitarian, or development organization whose practices are to varying degrees committed to observing the twin principles of impartiality and neutrality. By thinking through these sometimes contradictory roles, the book offers new insights into how these organizations sideline questions of political agency in favor of expanding their influence into related fields of global governance. Claiming Impartiality discusses the future of peacebuilding and explores avenues for addressing political challenges to peace itself.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Description based on information from the publisher.Peacekeeping forcesCase studies.International agenciesCase studies.Peace-buildingBosnia and Herzegovina.Peace-buildingTimor-Leste.International relations.World politics.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.117349380No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 05901nam a2200529 i 450010.3998/mpub.12259783MiU20260219080029.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260219t20262026miua ob 000 0 eng d9780472905980(open access)0472905988(open access)9780472078189(hardcover)9780472058181(paperback)10.3998/mpub.12259783doiEYMengrdapnEYMJF1525.C74352A century of international crisis behavior /edited by Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Kyle Beardsley, and Patrick JamesInternational crisis behaviorAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (560 pages) :illustrationstexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references.Preface -- I. Introduction and Overview -- Ch.1. Tracking a Century of International / Crisis Kyle Beardsley, Patrick James, and Jonathan Wilkenfeld -- Ch. 2. Historical and Emerging Trends in International Crisis Behavior / Kyle Beardsley and Jonathan Wilkenfeld -- Summary of Section I -- II. The State of the Field -- a. System Level -- Ch. 3. Alliances, Coalitions and International Relations / Daina Chiba and Yuan Zhuang -- Ch. 4. Forced Migration Crises: A Rising Danger in World Politics / Hemda Beh-Yehuda and Rami Goldstein -- b. Dyadic Level -- Ch. 5. Economic Interdependence and International Crises - Yuleng Zeng and Ali Isgandarov -- Ch. 6. Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in International Crises / Kyungwon Suh -- Ch. 7. Protracted Conflict and Crisis Escalation / Luba Levin-Banchek -- c. State Level -- Ch. 8. Diversionary Theory and Crises in World Politics / Emezet Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering -- Ch. 9. Crisis Type Matters: Implications for Ethnicity and the Democratic Peace / Meirav Mishali-Ram and Hemda Ben-Yehuda -- Ch. 10. Leaders, Regime Type, and International Crises - Edward Yang and Jonathan Keller -- Summary of Section II -- III. New Findings -- a. System Level -- Ch. 11. Civil Wars and the Clustering and Contagion of International Crises / Mehmet Arslan and Kristian Gleditsch -- Ch. 12. A Review of International Organizations and International Crises / Yun Jung Yang and Zorzeta Bakaki -- b. Dyadic Level -- Ch. 13. Near Crisis Dynamics in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons / Edward Gonzalez, Miriam Barnum, and Patrick James -- Ch. 14. Cultural Influences on Mediation in International Crises / Molly Inman -- Ch. 15. Mediation Styles and Crisis Recurrence / Constantin Ruhe -- c. State Level -- Ch. 16. Exogenous Factors and the Bargaining Process in International Crises / Vesna Danilovic and Joe Clare -- Ch. 17. What is Escalation? Measuring Crisis Dynamics in International Relations with Human and LLM Generated Event Data -- Ch. 18. Escalation Management in Gray Zone International / Jonathan Wilkenfeld and Egle Murauskaite -- Ch. 19. Deterrence in the Early Stages of Crisis / Kyle Beardsley, Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Phoung Pham, Corinne DeFrancisci, Diana Partridge, and Megan Rutter -- Summary of Section III -- IV. Summing Up and Moving Forward -- Ch. 20. A Systemist Mapping of a Century of Crisis / Patrick James.Open accessExamining times of crisis through the lens of 100 years of data. Perhaps more than ever, we need to invest in the study of the causes and consequences of crises. Since its founding in 1975, the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project has aimed to better equip academics, policymakers and the next generation of engaged citizens to make sense of why crises arise and how they can be more effectively managed and prevented. The ICB Project's data holdings consist of full-length qualitative case studies, along with an expanding range of quantitative datasets that include information regarding the characteristics of the states in crisis, crisis behavior, attempts at third-party crisis management, the role of nonstate actors, and the system-level context. A Century of International Crisis Behavior summarizes the evolving patterns of international crisis behavior in the nearly 500 cases cataloged since 1918, provides an accounting of the state of the scholarship to make sense of the patterns, and presents new findings that advance our understanding. Chapters are grouped according to their level of analysis: studies of systems, dyads, and states. The authors highlight what we have learned and what we have yet to learn regarding the prevention, escalation, and de-escalation of international crises.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Crisis management in government.Crisis management.Crises.International relations.World politics.Electronic books.Wilkenfeld, Jonathan,editorhttps://orcid.org/0009-0004-2341-4561https://ror.org/047s2c258Beardsley, Kyle,1979-editorhttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjHQcVtwWjKVpqtPcpHPkPhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-3264https://ror.org/00py81415James, Patrick,1957-editorhttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhMpbb34bqvCDdBBXQDv3https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5901-7907https://ror.org/03taz7m60Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.122597830No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 04235nam a2200553 i 450010.3998/mpub.12658MiU20260724130112.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260724t20262004miua ob 001 0 eng d9780472098804hardcover9780472068807paperback9780472907311open access ebook047290731Xopen access ebook10.3998/mpub.12658doiEYMengrdapnEYMn-us---PS508.J4810.8/08924Jewish in America /edited by Sara Blair, Jonathan Freedman.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026©20041 online resource (vi, 277 pages) :illustrations (some color)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references.Open accessMerchants of Venice /Leonard Barkan --The Jew's house /Louis Simpson --Sephardic culture and me /Richard Kostelanetz --If only: finding America in Hasidism /Pearl Abraham --The Lower East Side union of all the shuls I go to /Jonathan Boyarin --Of what language, pray, is 'the American mind'? /Martha Banta --A eulogy /Stephen Greenblatt --Valley boys /Gregory Orfalea --My Jewish perversion /Bonnie Friedman --Don Rickles and death /John Limon --The material /Robert Pinsky --Eccentric fractals (Isaiah, math and snow) /Jacqueline Osherow --The new world /Chana Bloch --'And the darkness he called night' /Chana Bloch --Kol Nidrei: September 2001 /Grace Schulman --The messenger /Daniel Mark Epstein --Yom Hashoah in Florida /Rick Hilles --The celebrity /Laurence Goldstein --The lower case Jew /Rodger Kamenetz --Jewish America through the lens /Sara Blair --Intifada diptych /Alisa Solomon --Israel and America: revisioning history /Shira Wolosky --Playing the angles /Sharon Pomerantz --Tea /Nancy Reisman --Is there a Jewish text in this class?: Jewish modernism in the multicultural academy /Julian Levinson --'Who's Jewish?': some Asian-American writers and the Jewish-American literary canon /Jonathan Freedman --Why American has not seemed like exile /Stephen J. Whitfield --Sign under test /Charles Bernstein.Includes bibliographical references and index."Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response. Shaped in the American crucible of race and ethnicity, pushed and pulled by the American traditions of ahistorical and individualist thinking, empowered by a powerful sacramental and hermeneutic tradition yet challenged by that tradition's stunning variety of inflections, impelled to furious response by world crisis, these writers testify not only to the anguishing and joyous complexity of being Jewish in America, but the creative energies such multiplicity generates." - From the IntroductionDescription based on information from the publisher.American literatureJewish authors.American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism.JewsUnited StatesLiterary collections.JewsUnited StatesIntellectual life.Judaism and literatureUnited States.JudaismLiterary collections.Judaism in literature.Jews in literature.Electronic books.Blair, Sara,editor.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjJJ8BWHCtDHY6ckj7qcKdFreedman, Jonathan,1954-editorhttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqxdBR98qmwqxc7jV6xjCMichigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.126580No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03216nam a2200469 i 450010.3998/mpub.12863389MiU20260202124253.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260202t20262026miua ob 001 0 eng d9780472058150paperback book9780472078158hardcover book9780472905942open access ebook0472905945open access ebook10.3998/mpub.12863389doiEYMengrdapnEYMG156.S63Staging visitation :tourist performances and theatricalized places /Bryan Schmidt and Weston Twardowski, editors.Tourist performances and theatricalized placesAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (1 volume :illustrations)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.Open accessStaging Visitation frames tourism and travel as complex social performances that shape identities, communities, and global imaginaries. This volume proposes "visitation" as a framework that emphasizes the participatory and relational dimensions of travel. While tourism is often pejoratively framed as a commodified or exploitative leisure activity for those with means, its reality is far more nuanced. Tourism stages heritage, provokes encounters across cultural divides, and prompts both visitors and hosts to negotiate values and identities--all while sustaining economies (and the power relations they produce) at global and local scales. From museums and theme parks to festivals and influencer culture, the essays in this volume trace how transitory encounters--embodied, affective, and historically layered--build travel destinations into theatricalized places. These essays bring theatre and performance studies into conversation with cultural geography, sociology, anthropology, and media studies to demonstrate how tourism functions as both a stage and a repertoire for modern life. Staging Visitation argues that travel is not only about movement across space, but also about the performance of culture itself--its preservation, reinvention, and transformation.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.TourismSocial aspects.Performing artsSocial aspects.Culture and tourism.Electronic books.Schmidt, Bryan,editorhttps://orcid.org/0009-0002-1691-0247https://ror.org/03hsf0573Twardowski, Weston,editorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1061-6231https://ror.org/008zs3103Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.128633890No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 02850nam a2200469 i 450010.3998/mpub.12877082MiU20260416102905.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260416t20262026miua ob 000 0 eng d9780472058167paperback book9780472078165hardcover book9780472905959open access ebook0472905953open access ebook10.3998/mpub.12877082doiEYMengrdapnEYMs-ck---NX535.A1700.986105Blanco Borelli, Melissa,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjG84hjqGYdkfbQFChDDv3Aesthetics of displacement :movement, archives, and performance in contemporary Colombia /Melissa Blanco Borelli.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (1 volume :illustrations)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-252) and index.Open accessAesthetics of Displacement centers the embodied aesthetic practices of Afro-Colombian people and their experiences, asking readers to reassess Colombian national history, legacies of colonialism and racism, politics of memory, and the inheritances of violence related to the Colombian armed conflict. Through a theoretical frame of destierro or "displacement" and an examination of the Afro-Colombian philosophy vivir sabroso or "to live harmoniously," Aesthetics of Displacement focuses on how theatre-makers, choreographers, filmmakers, activist groups, and photojournalists create an embodied Colombian perspective informed by decolonial practices and thinking that rely on movement as as strategy for existence and that counter European hegemonic aesthetics as the major foundations of taste and value. This approach not only enhances our understanding of contemporary Colombian culture, but also highlights the importance of performance as a means of resistance and identity formation.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Performance artPolitical aspectsColombia.Decolonization in art.Black peopleColombiaEthnic identity.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.128770820No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 02906nam a2200469 i 450010.3998/mpub.13069411MiU20260310103734.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260310t20262026miu ob 000 0 eng d9780472133727hardcover book9780472222650electronic book0472222651electronic book10.3998/mpub.13069411doiEYMengrdapnEYMenglatPA6436874.01Draper, Kenneth M.,authorhttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjyBtPvxmCRdvw8kF7qWjChttps://orcid.org/0009-0001-7223-2420https://ror.org/01kg8sb98Non-lyric and lyric in Horace's Odes :the poetics of disguise and infiltration /Kenneth Draper.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resourcetexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierKenneth Draper's new volume investigates genre, gender, and self-presentation in Horace's first collection of Odes. It examines how Horace uses non-lyric genres--elegy, epic, invective, and philosophical discourse--to define his lyric project, responding to the rhetorical challenge of writing in the wake of civil war. It shows how Horace employs a "poetics of disguise and infiltration" in his engagement with these other genres. At times, he assimilates his lyric persona to an elegiac one, claiming to share elegy's effeminacy and disinterest in politics. Similarly, he draws on philosophical discourse to present himself as too modest for heavy political themes. In both cases, he turns to clothing metaphors to identify the slight persona as a disguise that he may assume or discard as needed. Through this disingenuous self-presentation, he disavows interest in the masculine modes of epic and invective. Read as reflections on Horace's own infiltration of epic territory, the examined scenes give clues about his motivations: focusing on the characters' self-preservation amid dangers, he reminds readers of the risks and audacity of his project.Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.Description based on information from the publisher.Horace.CarminaCriticism and interpretation.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Transgression (Ethics)Disguise in literature.Recognition in literature.PoetryPsychological aspects.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.13069411No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03311nam a2200541 i 450010.3998/mpub.13107428MiU20260128093754.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260128t20262026miua ob 000 0 eng d9780472905881(open access ebook)0472905880(open access ebook)9780472078103(hardcover)9780472058105(paperback)10.3998/mpub.13107428doiEYMengrdapnEYMHQ1219Mbure, Wanjiru G.,authorhttps://orcid.org/0009-0006-8457-3026https://ror.org/03hsf0573Out for glamour in Africa :a history of black urban femininities in Drum Magazine /Wanjiru G. Mbure.Out for glamor in Africa :a history of black urban femininities in Drum MagazineHistory of black urban femininities in Drum MagazineAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (256 pages) :illustrationstexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierAfrican Perspectives SeriesIncludes bibliographical references.Open accessRenegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine. Out for Glamour in Africa critically reflects on how Black women utilized Drum magazine, a leading publication in Africa during the era of independence, for political empowerment and constructing notions of Black femininity. Wanjirũ G. Mbure terms the concept of femme urbAfricana, a model of Black femininity depicted as urban, political, fashionable, paradoxically Afrocentric, heteronormative, and transnational. Foregrounding stories of the women who embodied these traits and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped their presence in Drum, Mbure argues that these representations of Black women from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States produced a novel form of Black urban femininity. Utilizing a breadth of archival materials from cover girl photographs, advertisements, and columns, to readers' comments, Mbure reveals the complex relationship between the Black urban woman and the era's contested ideals within a transnational matrix.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Women, BlackPsychological aspects20th century.Women, BlackSocial aspects20th century.Femininity20th century.Beauty, Personal20th century.Urban womenPsychological aspects20th century.Urban womenSocial aspects20th century.Drum (Johannesburg, South Africa)Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.131074280No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03295nam a2200445 i 450010.3998/mpub.14369335MiU20260129120329.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260129t20262026miu ob 001 0 eng d9780472222711ebook0472222716ebook9780472040261paperback10.3998/mpub.14369335doiEYMengrdapnEYMGV1469.62.P38DeJong, Scott.author,https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8337-6510,https://ror.org/01qxhf360.Their system, our game :homebrew and the worlds of Pathfinder /Scott DeJong and Marc Lajeunesse.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resourcetexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierTabletop GamesOur favorite tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) provide a chance to act out a fantasy. It might be the desire to wipe out foes with a single strike, the ability to charm even the most curmudgeonly townsfolk, or maybe even just the aspiration to adventure as a potted plant. Since game systems don't always let players craft the kinds of games they want to experience, this is when they turn to the "homebrew" process to create personal rules and worlds. While Pathfinder has a history of being an underdog to the longtime industry leader Dungeons & Dragons, it has an ethos of open game design that inspires players, indie makers, and third-party content creators to brew up new rules, characters, classes, and game settings. Their System, Our Game looks at the history of Pathfinder and how it encourages aspiring makers to break into the game design space. Through interviews with player-creators and third party makers, the authors use a range of perspectives to define homebrew for TTRPGs. Taking a closer look at homebrew design, they create two homebrew campaigns (available as free downloads) collaboratively with two different groups of players. Player accounts of gameplay and designer reflections of how their homebrew actually played out at the game table outline some of the challenges and perks of designing on the fly, creating customized settings, and bending or breaking rules. The book concludes by going through the research, interviews, design, and play analysis to show what homebrew and Pathfinder mean together. Ultimately Their System, Our Game is a celebration of how players use homebrew to explore creation and expression in their own TTRPG games.Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.Description based on information from the publisher.Pathfinder (Game)Fantasy gamesDesign.Fantasy gamesRules.Electronic books.Lajeunesse, Marc,author,https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0275-4866,https://ror.org/01qxhf360Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.Tabletop games.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14369335No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03201nam a2200517 i 450010.3998/mpub.14378240MiU20260226103222.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260226t20262026miu ob 001 0 eng d9780472058174paperback book9780472078172hardcover book9780472905966open access ebook0472905961open access ebook10.3998/mpub.14378240doiEYMengrdapnEYMPT405830.9358Schweppe, Peter,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBvTbGyYcfdFr48dw79ymOut of line :reading and writing protest in West Germany, 1968 /Peter Schweppe.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resourcetexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierSocial History, Popular Culture, and Politics in GermanyBy analyzing how protest fused the politics of reading and writing in 1968 West Germany, author Peter Schweppe uncovers the vibrant history of alternative literary form during a watershed moment of social upheaval. Out of Line interlinks the politics of reading and writing with the verve of Global Sixties' protest, where fringe books, underground newspapers, incendiary flyers, and furtive graffiti galvanized readers and writers alike. The phrase "out of line" scrutinizes the emerging performative relationship between visual and textual media in the late 1960s as it metamorphosed modes of West German literary production, channeled the agenda of the protest movement, and, in doing so, shaped new kinds of textual meaning. Through its engagement with theories of materiality and "things," Out of Line interrogates the dynamic ways that protest readers and writers pushed and broke conventional boundaries. Schweppe's exploration of form discloses how reading and writing out of line implicates a textual and material history of protest and the lessons it offers protest histories to come.Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-236) and index.Open accessThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Protest literature, German.Protest movementsGermanyHistory20th century.Literature and societyGermanyHistory20th century.Politics and literatureGermanyHistory20th century.Government, Resistance to, in literature.Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.143782400No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03053nam a2200445 i 450010.3998/mpub.14482650MiU20260309094729.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260309t20262026miu ob 000 0 eng d9780472040278paperback book9780472222667electronic book047222266Xelectronic book10.3998/mpub.14482650doiEYMengrdapnEYMn-us---LB2332.32378.12082Breaking boundaries :how writing groups fuel women's academic success /edited by Deborah Crusan.How writing groups fuel women's academic successAnn Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (xi, 114 pages)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierWriting groups often fly under the radar in academia, but they can make a big difference. Faculty are under constant pressure to publish while juggling teaching, research, and service. Add packed schedules and limited time, and writing can easily get sidelined--especially for women balancing work and family. Breaking Boundaries: How Writing Groups Fuel Women's Academic Success explores how writing groups offer support, structure, and community to help navigate these challenges. Whether you're a grad student trying to finish a dissertation, a stuck faculty member, or someone newly tenured wondering what's next--you're in the right place. This book shares honest stories, insights, and encouragement from women who have found strength in writing together. Each chapter highlights real experiences with writing groups--what helped, what didn't, and how these groups shaped the authors' scholarly identities. They discuss topics such as overcoming imposter syndrome, access to writing resources, navigating the stress of tenure, making academic contributions outside traditional paths, and creating sustainable writing habits. The contributors come from diverse disciplines and deliver practical advice for making writing fit into a hectic academic life. Their message is clear: when scholars support each other in writing, they not only grow their own careers, but also become mentors, leaders, and role models in the academic world.Includes bibliographical references.Description based on information from the publisher.Women in higher educationUnited States.Academic writing.Scholarly publishing.Electronic books.Crusan, Deborah,editorhttps://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjtKdR4qqFD7K8QG3BdKMPhttps://ror.org/04qk6pt94Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14482650No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 02986nam a2200469 i 450010.3998/mpub.14488314MiU20260210090049.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260210t20262026miua ob 001 0 eng d9780472078219hardcover9780472058211paperback9780472906017open access ebook0472906011open access ebook10.3998/mpub.14488314doiEYMengrdapnEYMDS432.G56301.295484Ferrão, R. Benedito,author.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1160-8383https://ror.org/03hsf0573Across continents :writing Goans, making worlds /R. Benedito Ferrão.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,[2026]©2026.1 online resource :color illlustrationstexttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierAfrican perspectivesIncludes bibliographical references and index.Open accessAcross Continents employs Goan literary subjectivity as epistemology to critique a specific limitation of postcolonial thought, one that does not account for the situations or afterlife of Portuguese colonialism. Employing various novels, R. Benedito Ferrão considers the relationship between Portuguese and British colonialisms through the displacement of Goan characters across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, and in so doing, highlights the cultural, historical, and political linkages between these continents. The experiences of these figures in dealing with the processes of nation, statecraft, and political intrigue at various historical junctures offer a comparative understanding of the tumultuous conditions of postcoloniality in the making of marginalized subjectivity. Examining the mobility and diversity of Goan experiences as represented in works by Salman Rushdie, M.G. Vassanji, Roger King, and Margaret Mascarenhas, this book calls into question limits of citizenship, nationality, and notions of belonging. Ferrão centers seemingly minor figures to exemplify the effects of colonial and postcolonial changes that connect diverse geopolities.This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Description based on information from the publisher.Indic literature (Portuguese)History and criticism.Luso-Indians.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.144883140No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging 03279nam a2200493 i 450010.3998/mpub.14524804MiU20260413095916.0m o d cr#unu||||||||260413t20262026miuab ob 001 0 eng d9780472058136paperback book9780472078134hardcover book9780472905928open access ebook0472905929open access ebook10.3998/mpub.14524804doiEYMengrdapnEYMa-tu---GV1701793.319561Bayraktar, Sevi,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjKWX9TY7VrvR9cVMpcJQqDissenting through dance :folk dance, gender, and political protest in Turkey /Sevi Bayraktar.Ann Arbor :University of Michigan Press,2026.©20261 online resource (1 volume :illustrations, maps)texttxtrdacontentcomputercrdamediaonline resourcecrrdacarrierStudies in Dance: Theories and PracticesIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-274) and index.Open accessDissenting Through Dance examines how femme activists in contemporary Turkey deploy folk dance as a powerful tool of political resistance and collective solidarity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, choreographic analysis, and archival research, the book examines how traditional dances, particularly those rooted in marginalized cultures such as Kurdish, Roma, Alevi, Laz, and Hemsin communities, are reimagined to contest misogyny, cultural erasure, and oppressive gender politics. Sevi Bayraktar brings to life the stories of feminist, LGBTQ+, and grassroots activists occupying public spaces with dance as a form of protest when conventional forms of assembly are suppressed or criminalized in Turkey. Working outward from these femmes' stories, protests, and dances, Bayraktar argues that by reconfiguring Turkey's folk-dance heritage for their contemporary political aims, dissenting femmes rechoreograph national space in opposition to the state as a way to reclaim the public sphere for pluralist democracy and to subvert hegemonic discourses about Turkish national identity, neoliberal economic development, and female and ethnic bodies. By moving together, activists subvert patriarchal norms, embody new visions of community, and create moments of hope, joy, and resistance even under conditions of surveillance and fear.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0Description based on information from the publisher.Folk dancingTurkey.DancePolitical aspectsTurkey.WomenPolitical activityTurkey.Electronic books.Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),publisher.Studies in dance (Dance Studies Association)https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.145248040No-worldcatRecordExternalImportMPubCataloging