The twinship phenomenon might be a mere curiosity, a quirk of fate and fortune, were the two writers’ legacies less politically fraught and consequential. Both get blamed for a lot of dam-age in the world. Nabokov is sometimes charged, from the right flank, with condoning or committing or making light of pedo-philia (a recent scholarly book promises guidance on Teaching Na…
Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent authoritarianism. Around 40 percent of the world's people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world's countries. In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Erica Frantz guides us through to…
We wrote this book, in the first place, because we needed it and it did not exist. In 2014 we came to the discovery, as a comparative research group preparing for fieldwork, that there was practically no written guidance on how to handle the challenges of authoritarianism research. There were reams of literature on anthropological fieldwork, and some good texts on how to do researc…