Film, Comedy, and Disability: Understanding Humour and Genre in Cinematic Constructions of Impairment and Disability By Alison Wilde. Routledge Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Series. 2018. $124.00 hardcover; $57.95 ebook. 196 pages. Review by Michael Stokes Navigating […]
Brilliant Imperfection
Brilliant Imperfection Description Brilliant Imperfection by Eli Clare is described as a “Mosaic.” In this series of unresolved tensions, Clare brings together personal narrative, poetry, and speculative engagements with key historical figures to grapple with […]
New Trends in Research: HIVES Research Workshop
In the Fall of 2019, Legacies of the Enlightenment had the honor of joining up with the newly-formed HIVES Research Workshop and Speaker Series to bring disabled poet, performer, and scholar Petra Kuppers to MSU […]
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The Great Warming: The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Description Demonstrates the effects of climate change from Central America to Europe during the 10th-15th centuries, as well as the later effects which this climate change had on multiple civilizations when these same places were […]
The Age of Global Warming
Description Overall survey, focuses more on the West (including Latin America, which not all “Western surveys” do) and the theorteical reasons underlying contemporary attitudes toward climate change; but takes into account, throughout the book, earlier […]
The Ancient Maya: New Perspectives
Description Excellent survey of late-Maya civilization, focusing on the Post-Classic period from the 10th-16th centuries and into Spanish contact, running through the “long colonial period” up to the end of the 18th century. Relevant for […]
Historia de los cambios climaticos
Description Excellent overall view, rooted in anthropology and ethnology, regarding how climate change affects cultures and social morals throughout the world. While an wide chronological perspective is the norm, there are excellent individual pieces dealing […]
Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment
Description Edited collection of six articles that explore eighteenth-century catastrophes around the globe. Studies consider questions of risk, vulnerability, resilience, colonialism, and the human role in creating “disasters.” Creator Johns, Alessa, ed. Publisher New York: […]
A Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination
Description Miller links the French Revolution and the violence of the Terror to eighteenth-century understandings of the natural world (for example, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains) by examining the rhetoric and writings of the revolutionaries themselves. […]