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A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press award winning Culture Politics & the Built Environment series

A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series

A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk's debut English-language collection meditate on the changing sense of reality, temporality, mortality, and intimacy in the face of a catastrophic event. While some of the poems were composed in the months preceding the full-scale invasion of the poet's homeland, others emerged in its wake. Navigating between a chronicle, a chorus, and a collage, Still City reflects the lived experiences of liminality, offering different perspectives on the war and its aftermath. The collection engages a wide range of sources, including social media posts, the news reports, witness accounts, recorded oral histories, photographs, drone video footage, intercepted communication, and official documents, making sense of the transformations that war affects in individuals, families, and communities. Now ecstatic, now cathartic, these poems shine a light on survival, mourning, and hope through moments of terror and awe.

Winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

A Study of the Twenty-First-Century Latin American Novel in an Era of Apocalyptic Catastrophe

The First Thorough Examination of the Enduring Significance of Plants in Spanish American Literature and Culture

The First Comprehensive Biography of Julia Warhola

How Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century

How Paper Tools Transformed the Infrastructure of Modern Research in Prussia at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Positions Bartram's Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

Ayn Rand controversially defended rational egoism, the idea that people should regard their own happiness as their highest goal. Given that numerous scholars in philosophy and psychology alike are examining the nature of human flourishing and an ethics of well-being, the time is ripe for a close examination of Rand's theory. Egoism Without Permission illuminates Rand's thinking about how to practice egoism by exploring some of its crucial psychological dimensions. Tara Smith examines the dynamics among four partially subconscious factors in an individual's well-being: a person's foundational motivation for being concerned with morality; their attitude toward their desires; their independence; and their self-esteem. A clearer grasp of each, Smith argues, sheds light on the others, and a better understanding of the set, in turn, enriches our understanding of self-interest and its sensible pursuit. Smith then traces the implications for a broader understanding of what a person's self-interest genuinely is, and, correspondingly, of what its pursuit through rational egoism involves. By highlighting these previously underexplored features of Rand's conceptions of self-interest and egoism, Smith betters our understanding of how vital these psychological levers are to a person's genuine flourishing.

Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination

Reveals a New Story of Unexpected Sympathies, Solidarities, and Care in the Guantánamo Borderlands

Highlights the Transformative Effects of Border Conflicts on Culture and Politics

A Complex and Innovative Analysis of Discipline Formation in Nineteenth-Century Science

Offers New Perspectives on Local and Western Opposition to State Socialism and the Cold War Order

Letters Covering Tyndall's Infamous Belfast Address

A Revealing New Biography of a Pathbreaking Female Figure in Modern Indian History

Offers a New Rhetorical Repertoire for Interactive Writing in Social Media and Other Digital Spaces. Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means to write for the ?public? in an age when the distinctions between public and private have eroded. Public spaces are increasingly privatized, and individual subjectivities have been reconstructed according to market terms. Part critique and part road map, Social Mediations begins with a critical reading of digital public pedagogies, then turns to developing a new theory that can guide a more effective writing pedagogy. LeCourt offers a theory based in embodied relationality that uses information economies to develop public spheres. She highlights how information commodities generate value through circulation, orchestrate relationships among people, and support unequal power structures. By demonstrating how we can use information capital for social change rather than market expansion, writers and readers are encouraged to seek out encounters with cultural and political impact. AUTHOR: Donna LeCourt is professor and chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, digital writing, teaching writing, and issues of difference in writing studies. She is the author of Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse and coeditor of Rewriting Success: Constructing Careers and Institutional Change in Rhetoric and Composition.

Provides a Detailed Analysis of Argentine and Brazilian Political Economy Over the Last Three Decades

Demonstrates How Public Opinion Can Be Brought to Bear against Powerful Nations

Captures the Complexity of Foucault's Political Engagements and Breaks with the Orthodox View That He Was Anti-Marxist

An Introduction to the Life, Work, and "Difficulty" of Reginald Shepherd

Between Life and Death, Joy Links Human Experience to Animal Existence

An Odyssey through Yearning, Transformation, and the Liminal Space that Connects Us All

Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity