Politics, History, and Culture – serie
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Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Häftad, 2009
343 kr
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The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction …
States of Imagination
Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Av Thomas Blom Hansen, Finn Stepputat
Häftad, 2001
454 kr
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The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on …
German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
Häftad, 2001
454 kr
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When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the …
Cunning of Recognition
Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
Häftad, 2002
418 kr
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The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with …
States of Memory
Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Häftad, 2003
441 kr
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States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory-its place in social relations and the forms it takes-varies …
Remaking Modernity
Politics, History, and Sociology
Av Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
468 kr
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A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and …
Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Inbunden, 2005
1630 kr
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The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is …
Politics of Method in the Human Sciences
Positivism and Its Epistemological Others
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often declared obsolete, positivism is alive and well in a number of the fields; in others, its influence is …
Remains of War
Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted for in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2005
563 kr
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The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers’ bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material, …
Markets of Dispossession
NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the …
Markets of Dispossession
NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo
Inbunden, 2005
1574 kr
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What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the …
Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the …
Affective Communities
Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
Av Leela Gandhi
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster’s epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the “friend” stands as a metaphor for dissident …
Paper Families
Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion
Häftad, 2007
315 kr
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and …
Native Sons
West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
Av Gregory Mann
Inbunden, 2006
1362 kr
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For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues …
Native Sons
West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
Av Gregory Mann
Häftad, 2006
396 kr
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For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues …
Colored Amazons
Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Häftad, 2006
301 kr
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Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of …
Disciplining Statistics
Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation and use of statistical knowledge. Through a comparison of vital statistics and demography, Schweber …
Disciplining Statistics
Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885
Inbunden, 2006
1266 kr
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In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation and use of statistical knowledge. Through a comparison of vital statistics and demography, Schweber …
Liberalism Without Democracy
Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination that have hindered rather than encouraged the …
Nostalgia for the Modern
State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
Av Esra Özyürek
Inbunden, 2006
1266 kr
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As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the …
Nostalgia for the Modern
State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
Av Esra Özyürek
Häftad, 2006
343 kr
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As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the …
Beyond Belief
India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
Av Srirupa Roy
Häftad, 2007
385 kr
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Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and …
Salt in the Sand
Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present
Häftad, 2007
454 kr
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Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of …
Creating Market Socialism
How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
Häftad, 2007
343 kr
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In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people-rather than state or market elites-in creating new …
Art of the Network
Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
Inbunden, 2007
1621 kr
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Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed …
Subject Lessons
The Western Education of Colonial India
Av Sanjay Seth
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the …
Art of the Network
Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed …
Ruling Oneself Out
A Theory of Collective Abdications
Häftad, 2008
441 kr
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What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds …
Class and the Color Line
Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement
Häftad, 2007
480 kr
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A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well …
