Four new books funded at CEU Press via OtF
Posted by Kira Hopkins on Aug. 8, 2024 at 1059
Central European University (CEU) Press is pleased to announce the funding of four new open access books thanks to the existing supporters, and recently joined new library members of the Opening the Future (OtF) programme.
Published over the summer, our new OA books will be freely accessible and readable online, and will also be available in print.
MARIUPOL 2013-2022 Stories of Mobilization and Resistance, by Hana Josticova
The chapters in this book represent successive phases of one story – that of Mariupol, formerly Ukraine’s tenth largest city, and the second-largest in the Donbas region. The author, a young Slovak academic, conducted her ethnographic fieldwork in this coastal town between November 2018 and August 2021. She was one of the last academics to do research in Mariupol before its invasion and eventual occupation by Russia.
During these years, Hana Josticova was overwhelmed by acts of mobilization and resistance that went in opposite directions: support for a Western direction of Ukraine’s future, and support for the status quo that the victory of the Euromaidan seemed to threatened.
The title will be of interest to anyone researching armed conflicts, revolutionary groups and movements, anthropology and regional studies, and will be available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
Riverine Citizenship A Bosnian City in Love with the River, by Azra Hromadžić
Water potential is a significant natural wealth of most parts of the Balkans which gave rise to a surge in hydropower investments unparalleled across Europe. As part of the process, a dam was planned to be built on the Una River which runs through the Bosnian town of Bihać. This alarmed the city’s residents, culminating in a protest in 2015. The book begins with this protest and it explores how the threat of dam construction transformed the seemingly apolitical love of the river into a powerful political force around which thousands of people mobilized: riverine citizenship.
The title will be of interest to anyone researching Southeast Europe and the Balkans, former Yugoslavia, and the societal impact of environmental issues, and will be available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje A Lost World, by Cathie Carmichael
Trebinje is a city in Hercegovina, the southeastern part of the confederate state of Bosnia-Hercegovina. Following the imposition of Habsburg rule on Ottoman Bosnia in 1878, a new garrison was constructed in the old citadel. This innovative book tells the story of the garrison in times of peace and war. By using a micro-historical approach, the author traces the story of an extra-European style colonial project in the heart of Europe. The Austro-Hungarian administration rapidly transformed Trebinje into a tree-lined city dominated by the army. Hospitals, cisterns, schools, roads, and railways were then built and educated soldiers produced new work on botany, geology, or archaeology in their spare time.
As in many similar cases, the Habsburg "civilizing mission" was accompanied by ruthless violence against those who resisted the new foreign occupiers. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 led to increased persecution of the Orthodox population. Border villages were burnt down, and people were publicly executed. The infrastructure slowly collapsed, food shortages and news of military defeats left the Habsburg population beleaguered and they quickly left at the end of 1918.
The tragic violence, however, is described alongside accounts of daily life in the Trebinje garrison complex. By personalizing historical events, the narrative reveals the perspective of people who found themselves in the small city: the ordinary soldier, the condemned "insurgent," the career officer, the cook, the shepherdess, the hotelier, or the journalist. The author has focussed on the experience of several soldiers by a close reading of their diaries and memoirs.
The title will be of interest to anyone researching Military History, European History with a focus on Austria and Hungary, and cultural studies of the region, and will be available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
Biopower in Putin’s Russia From Taking Care to Taking Lives, by Andrey Makarychev, Sergei Medvedev
Makarychev and Medvedev examine the importance of biopolitics in fueling Russia’s confrontation with the West. In their view, the development of Putin’s illiberal authoritarianism was largely triggered by what they call a biopolitical turn. This shift is exemplified by the use of an increasing number of regulatory mechanisms to discipline and constrain the human body. Such political practices concern issues of sexuality, reproductive behavior, adoption, fertility, family planning, public hygiene, and demography. This turn created a new disciplinary framework for the population and the elite. Bans and restrictions of a biopolitical nature, became one of the main tools for articulating the rules of belonging in the political community and drawing its political boundaries. Biopolitical discourses have taken up the core of the Russian identity formation, which contrasts a positive “conservative Russia” with a supposedly vicious “liberal West.”
The title will be of interest to anyone researching European and Russian History, biopolitics, Putin’s regime, gender studies, and will be available on Project MUSE, DOAB, Open Research Library, JSTOR, OAPEN, De Gruyter as well as on EBSCO, ProQuest, and Overdrive.
Funding for these new OA titles comes from the Press’ collective library membership programme Opening the Future, bringing the initiative’s OA output to 20 published titles. Opening the Future at CEU Press is a cost-effective way for libraries to increase their digital collections on the history and culture of Central and Eastern Europe and the former communist countries.
Subscribing libraries get unlimited multi-user access to curated packages of backlist books, with perpetual access after three years. The Press uses membership funds solely to produce new frontlist titles in OA format.
More information on Opening the Future can be found on the website, or contact Kat Baier, Head of Sales, Marketing and Operations, on BaierK@press.ceu.edu
For further information:
MARIUPOL 2013-2022 Stories of Mobilization and Resistance
Author: Hana Josticova
ISBN: 978-963-386-764-8 cloth, 9789633867655 ebook
Publication date: 10 July 2024
Details: 230 pages
Riverine Citizenship A Bosnian City in Love with the River
Author: Azra Hromadžić
ISBN: 978-963-386-768-6 cloth, 9789633867693 ebook
Part of series:
Critical Approaches to Southeast Europe: A Cross-Disciplinary Series
Publication date: 31 July 2024
Details: 200 pages
The Habsburg Garrison Complex in Trebinje: A Lost World
Author: Cathie Carmichael
ISBN: 978-963-386-770-9 cloth, 9789633867716 ebook
Publication date: 20 August 2024
Details: 280 pages
Biopower in Putin’s Russia: From Taking Care to Taking Lives
Author: Andrey Makarychev, Sergei Medvedev
ISBN: 978-963-386-749-5 cloth, 9789633867501 ebook
Publication date: 31 July 2024
Details: 180 pages
The full list of OA titles funded by our generous member library subscribers can be found at ceup.openingthefuture.net/forthcoming, and the backlist packages to which libraries may subscribe can be found here: ceup.openingthefuture.net/packages.