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"For over thirty years, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships has served as the University of Pennsylvania's primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and its local geographic community of West Philadelphia. These partnerships advance research, teaching, learning, and service while improving the quality of life and learning in the community. One of the Netter Center's primary objectives has been to educate Penn students to be creative, compassionate, ethical citizens who contribute significantly to improving the welfare of others--while they are students and throughout their lives and careers. Community-Engaged Scholarship and the New Professoriate: Voices from Netter Center Alumni is a collection of stories told by alumni of the University of Pennsylvania whose lives were profoundly shaped by engaging with the West Philadelphia community as students. Their reflections trace the linear relationship between their involvement in democratic community partnerships through Penn's Netter Center and their current professional activities, primarily in academia, where they remain actively engaged in the struggle to build a more democratic and equitable society. The mutuality and humility that pervade these autobiographical accounts are the core of the democratic aspiration to which the Netter Center is and has always been dedicated. The stories are testimony to the Netter Center's and founding director Ira Harkavy's enduring influence on the next generation of community-engaged scholars and practitioners"--Publisher's description.

"This book explores the creative efforts of some of Rome's most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome's Christian past. Maya Maskarinec shows how, from Late Antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city's saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors"--

"For over thirty years, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships has served as the University of Pennsylvania's primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and its local geographic community of West Philadelphia. These partnerships advance research, teaching, learning, and service while improving the quality of life and learning in the community. One of the Netter Center's primary objectives has been to educate Penn students to be creative, compassionate, ethical citizens who contribute significantly to improving the welfare of others--while they are students and throughout their lives and careers. Community-Engaged Scholarship and the New Professoriate: Voices from Netter Center Alumni is a collection of stories told by alumni of the University of Pennsylvania whose lives were profoundly shaped by engaging with the West Philadelphia community as students. Their reflections trace the linear relationship between their involvement in democratic community partnerships through Penn's Netter Center and their current professional activities, primarily in academia, where they remain actively engaged in the struggle to build a more democratic and equitable society. The mutuality and humility that pervade these autobiographical accounts are the core of the democratic aspiration to which the Netter Center is and has always been dedicated. The stories are testimony to the Netter Center's and founding director Ira Harkavy's enduring influence on the next generation of community-engaged scholars and practitioners"--Publisher's description.

"Multidisciplinary in its methodology and provocative in its argumentation, this book demonstrates that human communities in the ancient past were inextricably intertwined with the world around them, and that the actions they took simultaneously responded to and shaped the risks--both hazardous and favorable--that they perceived"--Publisher's description.

"The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and hardships into the lives of poor and working people despite its alleged achievements. In villages, farming families confront an agrarian crisis, with rising costs of seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides, low prices for crops in the face of grave indebtedness, and ecological damage to the soil, water, and forests. Due to the scarcity of jobs, many migrate to cities for work. Once in the city, migrants take on and must contend with low-paid, insecure, and hazardous work. And in urban neighborhoods, they deal with congested living conditions, poor qualities of air, water, and sanitation, and separation from their families in the village. Souls in the Kalyug introduces readers to migrant workers who are confronting myriad hardships, and asks how it is that these workers create lives that can become less injurious than their circumstances might suggest. Anthropologist Shankar Ramaswami proposes a three part answer. In a metal factory in Delhi, migrant workers engage in resistance and collective struggle against perceived oppression and injustice. In the city and village, they weave tight connections to one another, building friendships in empathetic closeness and fellowship. In the metaphysical realm, they attempt to resist soul-distorting processes in our present, decivilizing times, or the Kalyug. Through these activities, migrant workers strive towards, and at times realize, elements of a good life. Souls in the Kalyug ultimately presents a nuanced and intimate portrait of migrant workers through a complex study of entanglement and noncooperation in workers' worlds, and in its analysis of workers' politics, within and outside of hierarchical labor unions, interpersonal relationships, and foundational religious and cosmological worldviews"--Publisher's description.

"This book explores how early modern writers used poetry to fight food insecurity. Authors like Robert Herrick and Anne Bradstreet witnessed the privatization of public farmland, rising food prices amidst uncontrolled inflation, mass starvation in nascent North American colonies, and the racist violence of the Caribbean plantation slavery system. Anders M. Greene-Crow shows how these authors' experiments with literary form sought to change their readers' eating habits and beliefs about food and diet. Simultaneously, this book reveals why criticism began to discount literature's power as a tool for social change, connecting the political history of New Criticism to close reading practices that reinforce the scarcity culture of literature departments today. Taking writers' material conditions into account in analyzing form, this book recovers the role of one of our most basic needs-the need to eat-within literary criticism, shedding new light on modern-day food ethics and activism's place in literature"--

"The Other Faces of Arthur lays bare the role of Arthuriana in the racial logics of Medieval Europe through an analysis of the construction of whiteness in the Global North Atlantic-Scandinavia, Britain, Iberia, and North Africa. By analyzing Arthurian texts written in Castilian, Catalan, Middle Welsh, and Old-Norse Icelandic, among other languages, the book introduces the Arthurian materials, discusses the important role of translation in the dissemination and analysis of Arthuriana, and demonstrates how these texts function within the chivalric setting that produced them, concluding that Arthuriana's obsession with chivalry is about whiteness-a racial category that privileges dominance-by normalizing violence and marginalizing non-whiteness. Beyond its primary intervention-to shape the framework of the Global North Atlantic using the sub-corpus of Arthurian texts to discuss the function of chivalric whiteness, this book aims to highlight lesser-known Arthurian texts. In many cases providing excerpts of these texts and translations, and relevant scholarship, which are not readily available. In this sense, The Other Faces of Arthur isn't just a literary study; it may be the easiest way for Arthurian scholars who do not read some of these languages, especially Castilian or Catalan, to access these materials. In this way, The Other Faces of Arthur aims to introduce the Global North Atlantic as a subset of Global Medieval Studies to further literary and historical analysis, centers lesser-known Arthurian texts in conversation with each other, and it establishes how the texts construct chivalric whiteness to disguise power, genocide, and terror against racialized subjects, ultimately rationalizing geo-cultural expansion"--