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Introduction : Lands and Peoples : Attachment, Conflict, and Reconciliation / Omer Bartov -- The Political Theology of Eretz Israel : The Nakba and the Hasidic Immigration to Palestine / Hannan Hever -- Western European "Philosemitism" and the Nakba in the 1950s / G. Daniel Cohen -- "You Just Can't Compare" : Holocaust Comparisons and Discourses of Israel-Palestine / Lital Levy -- International Human Rights Aspects of Repatriating Israeli Settlers from the West Bank / Yaël Ronen -- Oil and the Origins of Middle Eastern Sovereignty / Rachel Havrelock -- Territory, Demography, and Effective Control : An Analysis of Israel's Biospatial Politics / Yinon Cohen and Neve Gordon -- Come to Netanya : A New Reading of Israel's Planning History / Noah Hysler Rubin -- Architecture and the Struggle over Geography : Revisiting the Arab Village in Israel-Palestine / Haim Yacobi and Hadas Shadar -- Contested Pedagogy : Modern Hebrew Education and the Segregation of National Communities in Pre-state Palestine / Miriam Szamet -- The Biblical Borders between Theology and History : Israeli Schoolbook Maps, 1903-1967 / Orna Vaadia -- Zionist Civic Rituals as Nation-Building Instruments / Avner Ben-Amos -- Vival Histories in a Deeply Divided Society : The Israeli Case / Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj -- Three Paradigms for Understanding the Israel-Palestine Conflict / Sam Fleischacker -- Thinking about State Demise : The Case of Israel / Ian S. Lustick -- Decolonizing Israel-Palestine : A Discourse or a Political Program? / Ilan Pappé -- What Would a Decolonized Archaeology of Israel-Palestine Look Like? / Raphael Greenberg -- Reinstating Apartheid or Stating the Obvious? 1948 Palestinians and Israel's New Nation-State Law / Nida Shoughry -- Palestinians in Israel : The Undesirable Others / Said Zeedani -- The Demography of Return / Salman Abu Sitta -- When Utopia Becomes Topia : Mapping the Future in Israel-Palestine / Debby Farber and Umar al-Ghubari -- Afterword : Between Talbiyeh and Me / Alon Confino.

"Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts"--

"In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the victors were unable to agree on Germany's fate, and the separation of the country - the result of the nascent Cold War - emerged as a de facto, if provisional, settlement. Yet East and West Germany would exist apart for half a century, making the "German question" a central foreign policy issue - and given the war-torn history between the two countries, this was felt no more keenly than in France. Drawing on the most recent historiography and previously untapped archival sources, this volume shows how France's approach to the German question was, for the duration of the Cold War, both more constructive and consequential than has been previously acknowledged."

Introduction : the values of indeterminacy / Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez -- Kept in suspense : the unsettling indeterminacy of U.S. landfills / Joshua O. Reno -- Experiments in living : the value of indeterminacy in trans art / Elena Gonzalez-Polledo -- The production of indeterminacy : on the unforeseeable futures of post-industrial excess / Felix Ringel -- Human waste in the land of abundance : two kinds of gypsy indeterminacy in Norway / Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Cathrine Moe Thorleiffson -- Waste people/value producers : ambiguity, indeterminacy and post-socialist Russian-speaking miners / Eeva Keskula -- Indeterminate classifications : being 'more than kin' in Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- The politics of indeterminacy : boundary dislocations around waste, value and work in Subic Bay (Philippines) / Elisabeth Schober -- Epilogue : indeterminacy between worth and worthlessness / Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky

"The ideas and practices that comprise "conservation" are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has been undeniably entwined with processes of modernity, its historical roots run much deeper. Considering a variety of preindustrial European settings, this book assembles case studies from the medieval and early modern eras to demonstrate that practices like those advocated by modern conservationists were far more widespread and intentional than is widely acknowledged. As the first book-length treatment of the subject, Conservation's Roots provides broad social, historical, and environmental context for the emergence of the nineteenth-century conservation movement"--

Introduction: Encountering feelings : feeling encounters / Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen and Margrit Pernau -- Missionaries : false reverence, irreverence and the rethinking of Christian mission in China and India / Stephen Cummins and Joel Lee -- Travellers : transformative journeys and emotional contacts / Edgar Cabanas, Razak Khan and Jani Marjanen -- Anthropologists : feelings in the field / Pascal Eitler and Joseph Ben Prestel -- Entrepreneurs : encountering trust in business relations / Agnes Arndt -- Diplomats : kneeling and the protocol of humiliation / Ute Frevert -- Occupiers and civilians : facing the enemy / Philipp Nielsen -- Prisoners : experiencing the criminal other / Pavel Vasilyev and Gian Marco Vidor -- "Monsters" : emotional incoherence and familial murder / Daphne Rozenblatt -- Performers : from "courtesans" to Kathakali King Lear / Kedar A. Kulkarni -- Lovers and friends : encounters of hearts and bodies / Margrit Pernau -- Conclusion: After encounters with feelings : outcomes and further issues / Benno Gammerl.

How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies through a series of fascinating case studies. Its transnational approach highlights the socialist world's diverse interpretations of heritage and the ways in which they have shaped the trajectories of present-day preservation practices.

"Recent devaluations of a liberal arts education call the formative concept of Bildung, a defining model of self-cultivation rooted in 18th and 19th century German philosophy and culture, into question and force us to reconsider what it once meant and now means to be an "educated" individual. This volume uses an arc of interdisciplinary scholarship to map both the epistemological origins and cultural expressions of the pivotal notion of Bildung at the heart of pursuit in the humanities. From its intriguing original historical manifestations to its continuing resonance in current ongoing debates surrounding the humanities, the editors urge us to ask and discover how the classical concept of Bildung, so central to humanistic inquiry, was historically imagined and applied in its original German context"--