Richard Toye et al,, "The Churchill Myths" (Oxford UP, 2020)
This is not a book about Sir Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of...
22 Jun 202135min
Stephen M. Norris, "Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe" (Indiana UP, 2020)
How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences....
18 Jun 20211h 2min
Megan Carney, "Island of Hope: Migration and Solidarity in the Mediterranean" ( U of California Press, 2021)
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On t...
15 Jun 202155min
Jelena Đureinović, "The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contemporary Serbia" (Routledge, 2020)
Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, Jelena Đureinović's book The Politics of Memory of the Second World War in Contempora...
7 Jun 202159min
Hannah Jones, "Violent Ignorance: Confronting Racism and Migration Control" (Zed Books, 2021)
An elected politician is assassinated in the street by a terrorist associated with extreme political groups, and the national response is to encourage picnics. Thousands of people are held in prison-l...
7 Jun 202141min
Suzanne M. Hall, "The Migrant's Paradox: Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street li...
3 Jun 202144min
Paolo Dardanelli and Oscar Mazzoleni, "Dealing with Europe: Lessons from Switzerland's Experience" (Routledge, 2021)
Between voting to leave the European Union in 2016 and doing it four years later, the British political and media classes debated what kind of relationship they should have with the EU after withdrawa...
31 Mai 202147min
Georgiy Kasianov et al., "From 'the Ukraine' to Ukraine: A Contemporary History, 1991-2021" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
In 2021, Ukraine celebrates its thirty-year independence anniversary. During this relatively short period of time—when considered in historical terms—Ukraine underwent a number of drastic changes that...
27 Mai 202148min
