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Building That Bright Future
In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers’ society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finnish culture and language came under attack and ethnic Finns became the region’s primary targets in the Stalinist Great Terror. Building That Bright Future relies on the personal letters and memoirs of these Finnish migrants to build a history of everyday life during a transitional period for both North American soci...
Women in Rock Memoirs
Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women. The book includes memoirs written by both well-known and lesser-known artists and artists from both inside and outside of the Anglo-American sphere. The essays by scholars from different research areas and countries around the world are divided into three parts according to the overall themes: Memory, Trauma, and Writing; Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism; and Aging, Performance, and the Image. They explore the dynamics of memoir as a genre by discussing the similarities and differences between the women in rock and the choices they have made when writing their books. As a whole, they help form a better understanding of today's possibilities and future challenges for women in rock music.
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past
Although historical research undertaken in different disciplines often requires speculation and imagination, it remains relatively rare for scholars to foreground these processes explicitly as a knowing method. Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past brings together researchers in a wide array of disciplines, including literary studies and history, ethnography, design, film, and sound studies, who employ imagination, creativity, or fiction in their own historical scholarship or who analyze the use of imagination, creativity, or fiction to make historical claims by others. This volume is organized into four topical sections related to representations of the past—textual and conc...
Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination
Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more ...
Trumpism, Bigotry, and the Threat to American Democracy
In Trumpism, Bigotry, and the Threat to American Democracy, Larry N. Gerston examines the near-lethal combination of American bigotry and the ability of Donald Trump to take advantage of this scourge to satisfy his own political objective. The result is an individual who won election to the American presidency by adroitly pitting members of American society against one another, while presenting himself as the only person in the position to save America from itself. Having succeeded to the nation’s most important political office, Trump proceeded to use the position for his own benefit, irrespective of laws, norms, and, most importantly, the Constitution. So powerful was Trump that he and his minions came close to overturning the 2020 presidential election with the January 6, 2021, insurrection against the nation’s Capitol. While Trump failed in his attempt to remain in office, the threat to the well-being of the United States remains real.
An Unfamiliar America
This collection focuses on conceptions of the unfamiliar from the viewpoint of mainstream American history: aliens, immigrants, ethnic groups, and previously unencountered ideas and ideologies in Trumpian America. The book suggests bringing historical thinking back to the center of American Studies, given that it has been recently challenged by the influential memory studies boom. As much as identity-building appears to be the central concern for much of the current practice in American history writing, it is worth keeping in mind that historical truth may not always directly contribute to one's identity-building. The researcher’s constant quest for truth does not equate to already possessing it. History changes all the time, because it consists of our constant reinterpretation of the past. It is only the past that does not change. This collection aims at keeping these two apart, while scrutinizing a variety of contested topics in American history, from xenophobic attitudes toward eighteenth-century university professors, Apache masculinity, Ku Klux Klan, Tom Waits's lyrics, and the politics of the Trump era.
Disney's Star Wars
In 2012, Disney purchased Lucasfilm, which meant it also inherited the beloved Star Wars franchise. This corporate marriage sent media critics and fans into a frenzy of speculation about what would happen next with the hugely popular series. Disney’s Star Wars gathers twenty-one noted fan and media studies scholars from around the world to examine Disney’s revival of the franchise. Covering the period from Disney’s purchase through the release of The Force Awakens, the book reveals how fans anticipated, interpreted, and responded to the steady stream of production stories, gossip, marketing materials, merchandise, and other sources in the build-up to the movie’s release. From fears that Princess Leia would be turned into a “Disney princess” to collaborative brand management, the authors explore the shifting relationship between fans, texts, and media industries in the context of a crucial rebranding campaign. The result is a fascinating examination of a critical moment in the iconic series’ history.
Comics and Migration
Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration. The volume examines both individual works of comic art and examples of practical applications of comics from across the world. Comics are well-suited to create understanding, highlight truthful information, and engender empathy in their audiences, but are also an art form that is preconditioned or even limited by its representational and practical conventions. Through analyses of various practices and representations, this book questions the uncritical belief in the capacity of co...
Kulttuurihistorian tutkimus
Kulttuurihistoriallisesti suuntautunutta tutkimusta tehdään monilla humanistisen tutkimuksen aloilla. Tieteenalasta riippumatta humanistit etsivät vastauksia kysymyksiin, mitä on ihmisyys, kulttuuri, historia, yhteiskunta, ja miten tämä kaikki ilmenee ihmisten toiminnassa ja siitä syntyvissä lähteissä. Tässä teoksessa monitieteisyys ja tieteenalojen välinen vuorovaikutus toteutuvat monisyisesti. Kulttuurihistorian tutkimus: Lähteistä menetelmiin ja tulkintaan pureutuu tutkimusprosessiin. Sen artikkelit esittävät havainnollisesti menetelmien yhteyden ja soveltamisen lähdeaineistoihin sekä osoittavat, miten menetelmän ohjaama lähdeanalyysi tekee mahdolliseksi tutkimuskysymyksiin vastaamisen. Kirjassa kootaan monipuolisesti yhteen tämänhetkistä kulttuurihistoriallista tutkimusta ja pohditaan, millaisia ovat humanistisen tutkimuksen ajankohtaiset kysymykset 2020-luvulla.
Kaksipäinen koira
Kiehtova teos koirista, ihmisistä ja tieteen tekemisen eettisyydestä Hyytävä tarina vie Moskovan kaduille ja tieteen synkkään historiaan, missä koirat heräsivät kuolleista, lensivät avaruuteen ja kantoivat kahta päätä. 1950-luvulla Moskovan kaduilta alkoi kadota pieniä, vaaleaturkkisia koiria eikä kukaan tiennyt, mitä niille kävi. Nyt tiedämme. Koirat päätyivät tutkijoiden käsiin, ja niistä tuli kokeellisen lääketieteen ja avaruuskilpailun pioneereja. Sitkeistä katukoirista tuli ensimmäisiä avaruuslentäjiä ja niille tehtiin ensimmäiset elinsiirrot. Tarina on hurja, mutta lukija saa oppaakseen kirjoittajan, joka asennoituu eläimiin ja eläimiä tutkiviin ihmisi...
