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We are pleased to announce that Jie Li's CINEMATIC GUERRILLAS is the Winner of the 2025 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). This book is is a media history of Chinese film exhibition and reception that offers fresh insights into the powers and limits of propaganda. https://buff.ly/3EeeUQ2 #FilmStudies #MediaHistory #BookAward #ChineseCinema, #AcademicExcellence

Although the traditional gift at the start of the Lunar New Year is an envelope with money in it (in Taiwan, at least), I’m thrilled that my book #EverydayDemocracy received such a warm review in the #HongKong Sunday Ming Pao paper, just in time for the start of the Year of the Snake! When I researched and then wrote the book (Thanks Columbia University Press!), I did not have Hong Kong in mind. To me, HK had long been a place where people had an assumption of basic human rights, freedoms (of association, speech, the press), and enjoyed some semblance of democratic practice in politics. It was, in many ways, quite distinctive from mainland #China. Sunfai’s very thoughtful review invites HK readers to consider what lessons - or even inspiration - they might draw from the experiences of young, self-organized volunteers across the border, in southern (mainland) China. I’m not sure what they’ll take away from it, but I’ll be keen to hear from readers there (and elsewhere). I particularly like Sunfai’s translation of Everyday Democracy as “民主日常“。 I have long had in my head, “日常民主“. But on reflection, I think both work! The former I feel refers more to the broader cultural system of democracy; the latter is more (perhaps) about the everyday practices of democracy. Maybe in a future translated version I’ll combine them as “民主日常，日常民主“ which could be interpreted as an exhortation to bring democratic practice into one’s daily life and thus create the broader democratic society that one wishes to see. The review is captured (and readable) on Sunfai’s blog, at: https://lnkd.in/eKQpQh6E The original posting on the Mingpao website is here, but open to subscribers only: https://lnkd.in/ejUJAUtx 

In this Off The Page podcast episode, host Samee Siddiqui and author Jessica Namakkal discuss UNSETTLING UTOPIA. Challenging conventional markers of the boundaries of the colonial era as well as nationalist narratives, this book sheds new light on the legacies of colonialism and offers bold thinking on what decolonization might yet mean. https://buff.ly/4hxEr59 #FrenchIndia #FrenchEmpire #IndoFrenchHistory #ColonialIndia #IndianOceanHistory #Postcolonialism #DecolonialThought #BeyondDecolonization #ColonialContinuities #GlobalSouth #SubalternStudies#HistoryBooks #AcademicReads #Historian #HistoryScholars #HistoryLovers #HistoryNerd #HistoryBuff #HistoryGeek #ListenUP #Podcast

"McCall was the first woman president of the WGA, which was known at her election in 1942 as the Screen Writers Guild (SWG). Her tenure, unlike Riskin’s, was dedicated to the protection of screenwriters’ intellectual property and due remuneration."—Lillian Crawford, TLS https://buff.ly/4hzYEXT #BookReview #MaryCMcCallJr #ScreenwritingPioneer #WomenInFilm #HollywoodHistory #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #ClassicHollywood #ScreenWritersGuild #WomenWriters #FilmHistory #HollywoodLegends #FilmBooks #FilmStudies #ScreenwritingBooks #HollywoodReads #FilmHistoryBooks #BehindTheScenes #ScriptWriting #Film

"Cohen's position is firm—our values are inherently inseparable from our science, and we must act accordingly."—Jonathan Wai on CITIZEN SCHOLAR, Science https://buff.ly/4aDwl8O #BookReview #CivicAction #SocialChange #ReadUP #MustRead #NonFictionBooks #BookBuzz #Sociology #Academia #AcademicReads

In this Oregon On The Record episode, professor emeritus John Wiens, discusses his chosen field of study, his career pathway, and his new book BECOMING AN ECOLOGIST. https://buff.ly/4aElcEw #ListenUP #EcoBookshelf #EcologyBooks #ConservationReads #ScienceBooks #NatureLovers #BookRecommendations #GreenJobs #EnvironmentalScience #EcologyNetworking #EcologyJobs #CareerInEcology #EcologyLife #EcoCareer #STEMCareers #NatureWork

"Our book shows, immigrants commit less crime than the U.S.-born; are a boon to the national economy, federal coffers, and the places where they live; and integrate and learn English over time."—Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione, coauthors of IMMIGRATION REALITIES https://buff.ly/4az753D #Immigration #USImmigration #ImmigrationIssues #ImmigrationDebate

Join One Book One Bronx as they take on books, including Courtney Thorsson's THE SISTERHOOD in 2025.

Honored that my book, Decolonizing African Agriculture, made it on Food Tank's list of "25 Books Guiding Us Toward More Regenerative Food Systems" Agenda Publishing Columbia University Press https://lnkd.in/gfm3PXJW

The events of the past week can feel overwhelming. The books on this list provide readers with the tools to navigate and engage with today’s complex political landscape.