Author: Gregory Feldman File Type: pdf Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how taking action against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the gray zone, a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold. Feldman asks how this seven-member team makes ethical judgments when they secretly investigate smugglers, traffickers, migrants, lawyers, shopkeepers, and many others. He asks readers to consider that gray zones create opportunities both to degrade subjects of investigations and to take unnecessary risks for them. Moving in either direction largely depends upon bureaucratic conditions and team members willingness to see situations from a variety of perspectives. Feldman explores their personal experiences and daily work in order to crack open wider issues about sovereignty, action, ethics, and, ultimately, being human. Situated at the intersection of the EU migration apparatus and the global, clandestine networks it identifies as security threats, this book allows Feldman to outline an ethnographically-based theory of sovereign action.**ReviewThe Gray Zone is an ethnography of policing unlike any other. Feldmans exhilarating, fast-paced study of an undercover police team is stitched through with a highly original reflection on sovereignty, violence, and distance between ethos and ethics. The Gray Zone is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of policing. (Mark Maguire Maynooth University) About the Author Gregory Feldman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Windsor. He is the author of The Migration Apparatus Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union (Stanford, 2011) and We Are All Migrants Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-hood (Stanford, 2015).

Author: David M. Lubin File Type: pdf A vivid, engaging account of the artists and artworks that sought to make sense of Americas first total war, Grand Illusions takes readers on a compelling journey through the major historical events leading up to and beyond US involvement in WWI to discover the vast and pervasive influence of the conflict on American visual culture. David M. Lubin presents a highly original examination of the eras fine arts and entertainment to show how they ranged from patriotic idealism to profound disillusionment. In stylishly written chapters, Lubin assesses the wars impact on two dozen painters, designers, photographers, and filmmakers from 1914 to 1933. He considers well-known figures such as Marcel Duchamp, John Singer Sargent, D. W. Griffith, and the African American outsider artist Horace Pippin while resurrecting forgotten artists such as the mask-maker Anna Coleman Ladd, the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and the combat artist Claggett Wilson. The book is liberally furnished with illustrations from epoch-defining posters, paintings, photographs, and films. Armed with rich cultural-historical details and an interdisciplinary narrative approach, David Lubin creatively upends traditional understandings of the Great Wars effects on the visual arts in America. **Review What Paul Fussells The Great War and Modern Memory did for literature, David Lubins Grand Illusions does for the painting, photography, sculpture, and film inspired by the First World War. Astutely guiding his readers through the treacherous landscape where stubborn romantic myths befog the ghastly realities of modern warfare, Lubin powerfully demonstrates the Great Wars lasting legacy in all the visual arts. -- David M. Kennedy, author of Over Here The First World War and American Society A fascinating, richly illustrated examination of how this supposedly forgotten war figured in the American imagination. -- David Reynolds, author of The Long Shadow The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century Grand Illusions is a remarkable work of scholarship and cultural criticism. The huge amount of material Lubin has gathered makes absolutely clear the widespread and profound effect World War I had on those who created masses of art about it. Considered as a whole, Grand Illusions may come close to being the definitive study of Americas myriad Illusions about the Great War. Many others have addressed the topic, but no one does it better than Lubin in this fine volume. -- Townsend Ludington, author of Marsden Hartley The Biography of an American Artist The deep shadow the First World War cast on American painting, film, and letters is the subject of David M. Lubins impressive book. Demolishing the outmoded idea that the war of 1914-18 vanished from the American scene after 1918, the author offers us a wide-ranging study of both the visible and the underground traces war leaves in its wake. -- Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning The Great War in European Cultural History The most thoughtful and imaginative book ever written about the art of the First World War. -- Alexander Nemerov, author of Wartime Kiss Visions of the Moment in the 1940s The literature of American art history and popular culture is much enriched by Lubins thoughtful work. -- Booklist About the Author David M. Lubin is the Charlotte C. Weber Professor of Art at Wake Forest University. A former critic for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books including Picturing a Nation Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America (Yale UP, 1996), and Shooting Kennedy JFK and the Culture of Images (University of California Press, 2003)