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Congratulations to Princeton University Press Director Christie Henry, who has been elected to the International Publishers Association - IPA's Executive Committee and Membership Committee! 🎉📚

Join PUP authors Marietje Schaake and Verity Harding at the #CogX2024 Summit (CogX Festival) on Monday, 7 Oct. for the following sessions: • 10:55am BST: Marietje Schaake, "Advancing AI: Fostering Trust with Proactive Policy" • 4:10pm BST: Verity Harding, "Maximising AI's potential" Check out the full schedule: https://hubs.ly/Q02S2whh0

The content and form of temple paintings transform the usual relationships between story, setting, and characters that we expect from narrative. In the paintings, place is not the context for narrative; rather, narrative provides context for the sacred place. That is, narrative makes meaningful the presence of the deities, saints, and people who are part of the history of the site and its devotional traditions. Read more from art historian Anna Lise Seastrand in today's edition of Ideas.

In Ungoverning, Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead trace how a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of government. Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning—the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government to do its work—has become a malignant part of politics. Democracy depends on a government that can govern, and that requires what’s called administration. The administrative state is made up of the vast array of departments and agencies that conduct the essential business of government, from national defense and disaster response to implementing and enforcing public policies of every kind. Ungoverning chronicles the reactionary movement that demands dismantling the administrative state. The demand is not for goals that can be met with policies or programs. When this demand is frustrated, as it must be, the result is an invitation to violence. Muirhead and Rosenblum unpack the idea of ungoverning through many examples of the politics of destruction. They show how ungoverning disables capacities that took generations to build—including the administration of free and fair elections. They detail the challenges faced by officials who are entrusted with running the government and who now face threats and intimidation from those who would rather bring it crashing down—and replace the regular processes of governing with chaotic personal rule. The unfamiliar phenomenon of ungoverning threatens us all regardless of partisanship or ideological leaning. Ungoverning will not be limited to Donald Trump’s moment on the political stage. To resist this threat requires that we first recognize what ungoverning is and what it portends. Equal parts important & unsettling—this important book is out now. Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02Q792S0

"At the heart of all my work is the invitation to imagine and craft the worlds we cannot live without, just as we dismantle the ones we cannot live within.” —Ruha Benjamin Congratulations to author Ruha Benjamin, who has been honored with a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship for her scholarship “illuminating how technology reflects and reproduces social inequality and championing the role of imagination in social transformation.” An esteemed and innovative transdisciplinary scholar, Benjamin is The Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab. Benjamin is also the author of several acclaimed books including, with Princeton University Press, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022). Stemming from the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence, the book poignantly explores the importance of small, individual actions to enact more systemic change. Part memoir, part manifesto, Viral Justice sets forth a sweeping, inspirational, and deeply personal exploration of how we can transform society through the choices we make every day. Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q02RQtTx0 #MacFellow #ViralJustice

"There is almost no precedent for this in the annals of political history. The idea that those entrusted with responsibility for governing a democracy would intentionally make the state less capable—degrading its ability to collect taxes, to deliver mail, to conduct diplomacy, to prosecute violations of civil rights—is almost unthinkable.  We call this “ungoverning.” It is an unfamiliar name for an unfamiliar phenomenon: the attack on the capacity and legitimacy of government, especially the part that goes by the name 'administrative state.'" Read more from Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead in this edition of Ideas. #politics #PoliticalScience #Elections #Government #Ideas

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Keidrick Roy's American Dark Age reveals how medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkers. Though the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World. What they saw was a racially stratified country that reflected not the ideals of a modern republic but rather the remnants of feudalism. American Dark Age reveals how defenders of racial hierarchy embraced America’s resemblance to medieval Europe and tells the stories of the abolitionists who exposed it as a glaring blemish on the national conscience. Against those seeking to maintain what Frederick Douglass called an “aristocracy of the skin,” Keidrick Roy shows how a group of Black thinkers, including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Hosea Easton, and Harriet Jacobs, challenged the medievalism in their midst—and transformed the nation’s founding liberal tradition. He demonstrates how they drew on spiritual insight, Enlightenment thought, and a homegrown political philosophy that gave expression to their experiences at the bottom of the American social order. Roy sheds new light on how Black abolitionist writers and activists worked to eradicate the pernicious ideology of racial feudalism from American liberalism and renew the country’s commitment to values such as individual liberty, social progress, and egalitarianism. American Dark Age reveals how the antebellum Black liberal tradition holds vital lessons for us today as hate groups continue to align themselves with fantasies of a medieval past and openly call for a return of all-powerful monarchs, aristocrats, and nobles who rule by virtue of their race. This provocative and important book is out now. Learn more and order yours: https://hubs.ly/Q02Q6YQ20

#ListenUP to PUP’s Curator of Audio Danielle D'Orlando discuss publishing “detailed and highly readable” #audiobooks in this great interview with Caleb Zakarin at New Books Network: