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Books by Fellows
A major intellectual activity at the IWM is writing books. These include not only books by internationally renowned scholars but also many a first monograph by junior visiting fellows.
Below, please see a selection of books written by our fellows.
If you are a former fellow and would like to include your book in this list, please contact: publications@iwm.at with details.
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| Borders of an Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers | Ranabir Samaddar |
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Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 2020 | Authors: Ranabir Samaddar
Published: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020
Borders of an Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers
Migrant workers from different parts of India trekked back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home in the wake of the sudden announcement by the government of a complete lockd
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| Burdens of an Epidemic: A Policy Perspective on Covid-19 and Migrant Labour | Ranabir Samaddar |
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Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 2020 | Authors: Ranabir Samaddar
Published: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2020
Burdens of an Epidemic: A Policy Perspective on Covid-19 and Migrant Labour
Burdens of an Epidemic: A Policy Perspective on Covid-19 and Migrant Workers comes out close on the heels of Borders of an Epidemic. Borders of an Epidemic was documentary in nature. Burdens of an Epidemic analyses the issue of migrant labour from several dimensions of the epidemic.
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| Perspektiven des Todes in der modernen Gesellschaft | Cornelia Klinger |
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Böhlau | 2009 | Perspektiven des Todes in der modernen Gesellschaft
Wiener Reihe. Themen der Philosophie, Band 15. Das invariante Faktum von Sterblichkeit und Tod ist offen für fast unendlich viele Varianten von Verhaltens- und Handlungsweisen, von Deutungen und Sinnstiftungen.
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| Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953 | Timothy Snyder |
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Oxford University Press | 2014 | Authors: Timothy Snyder
Published: Oxford University Press, 2014
Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928-1953
The Soviet Union was the largest state in the twentieth-century world, but its repressive power and terrible ambition were most clearly on display in Europe.
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| Ludzie—rzeczy—ludzie. Rzecz o utopiach, w których rzeczy jedynie ludzi łączą, a nie dzielą | Andrzej Waskiewicz |
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universitas | 2020 | Authors: Andrzej Waskiewicz
Published: universitas, 2020
Ludzie—rzeczy—ludzie. Rzecz o utopiach, w których rzeczy jedynie ludzi łączą, a nie dzielą
Niewielu dziś pewnie ascetów, wzorem Diogenesa gotowych do życia w beczce, ale też z pewnością nie wszyscy cieszący się życiem w społeczeństwie dobrobytu myślą tylko o tym, by dorównać bogactwem legendarnemu Krezusowi. Rzec można, że człowiek dojrzały podchodzi do rzeczy rzeczowo.
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| Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges | Ruth Wodak |
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Nordic Academic Press | 2019 | Authors: Ruth Wodak
Published: Nordic Academic Press, 2019
Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges
The extreme right wing is on the rise. And there are signs that part of the political mainstream in Europe, the US, and beyond is considering going along with far-right populist parties and their divisive, ethno-nationalist programmes.
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| After Europe | Ivan Krastev | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2017 | After Europe
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a future.
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| Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society 1949-56 | Katherine Lebow |
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Cornell University Press | 2013 | Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society 1949-56
Unfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland’s “first socialist city” by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949.
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| Zwischen Existentialismus und Politik. Europa und Geschichte im Denken von Krzysztof Michalski | Piotr Kubasiak |
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Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag | 2020 | Authors: Piotr Kubasiak
Published: Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, 2020
Zwischen Existentialismus und Politik. Europa und Geschichte im Denken von Krzysztof Michalski
Der polnisch-österreichische Philosoph Krzysztof Michalski (*1948 in Warschau; † 2013 in Wien) legte ein eigenständiges Zeitdenken vor und hat die Impulse seiner Philosophie im Aufbau des europäischen Projekts praktisch umgesetzt.
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| Violence and the Gift. Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion | Ludger Hagedorn |
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JCRT | 2015 | Authors: Ludger Hagedorn
Published: JCRT, 2015
Violence and the Gift. Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion
The collection of papers in this special issue began at the conference “Violence and the Gift: Challenging Continental Philosophy of Religion,” which took place on April 25-26 2014 in Vienna, Austria.
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