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Parité!
Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism
Häftad, 2005
333 kr
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France today is in the throes of a crisis about whether to represent social differences within its political system and, if so, how. It is a crisis defined by the rhetoric of a universalism that takes the abstract individual to be the representative not only of citizens but also of the nation. In …
Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
Häftad, 2021
386 kr
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There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality—a distinctive signature of that revolution—find such fertile ground in France? How might changing economic and social realities have affected political opinions? …
Questioning Secularism
Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
Häftad, 2012
299 kr
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The central question of the Arab Spring - what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East - has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably …
Politics of Dialogic Imagination
Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
Häftad, 2013
280 kr
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In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo) - including fashion, leisure activities, …
Ethnicity, Inc.
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Inbunden, 2009
854 kr
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In "Ethnicity, Inc." anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the …
Ethnicity, Inc.
Av John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff
Häftad, 2009
256 kr
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In "Ethnicity, Inc." anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the …
Genealogical Science
The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology
Häftad, 2014
324 kr
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The Genealogical Science analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary populations - their histories of migration and genealogical …
Inclusion
The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
Inbunden, 2007
879 kr
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With "Inclusion", Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists …
Inclusion – The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
Häftad, 2009
366 kr
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With "Inclusion", Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions. Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists …
Political Epistemics
The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
Häftad, 2011
441 kr
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What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive …
Producing India
From Colonial Economy to National Space
Av Manu Goswami
Inbunden, 2004
879 kr
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When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of …
Producing India
From Colonial Economy to National Space
Av Manu Goswami
Häftad, 2004
333 kr
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When did categories such as a national space and economy acquire self-evident meaning and a global reach? Why do nationalist movements demand a territorial fix between a particular space, economy, culture, and people? Producing India mounts a formidable challenge to the entrenched practice of …
Sins of the Fathers
Germany, Memory, Method
Inbunden, 2016
483 kr
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National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, …
Mana of Mass Society
Häftad, 2017
289 kr
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We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our understanding of publicity, propaganda, love, and power? …
What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Inbunden, 2018
1108 kr
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Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was …
What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly. What Nostalgia Was …
Moral Neoliberal
Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
Häftad, 2012
366 kr
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Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in "The Moral Neoliberal" morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation. Setting her investigation within the shifting landscape of neoliberal welfare reform in …
Guerrilla Marketing
Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
Häftad, 2018
271 kr
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Brand warfare is real. Guerrilla Marketing details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and …
Deadline
Populism and the Press in Venezuela
Av Robert Samet
Inbunden, 2019
791 kr
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Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicol s Maduro, has …
Deadline
Populism and the Press in Venezuela
Av Robert Samet
Häftad, 2019
271 kr
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Since 2006, Venezuela has had the highest homicide rate in South America and one of the highest levels of gun violence in the world. Former president Hugo Ch vez, who died in 2013, downplayed the extent of violent crime and emphasized rehabilitation. His successor, President Nicol s Maduro, has …
Authoritarian Apprehensions
Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
Av Lisa Wedeen
Häftad, 2019
366 kr
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If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long …
American Value
Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States
Inbunden, 2013
1076 kr
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Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically. Historically reliant on primary exports like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income now coming from a massive emigrant workforce - over a quarter of its …
American Value
Migrants, Money, and Meaning in El Salvador and the United States
Häftad, 2013
299 kr
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Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically. Historically reliant on primary exports like coffee and cotton, the country emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income now coming from a massive emigrant workforce - over a quarter of its …
Justice Is an Option
A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2021
1136 kr
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More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has …
Making of Romantic Love
Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
Inbunden, 2012
1237 kr
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In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with …
Making of Romantic Love
Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
Häftad, 2012
490 kr
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In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with …
Laughing at Leviathan
Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
Häftad, 2012
323 kr
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For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of …
Justice Is an Option
A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 2021
315 kr
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More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has …
Bengal in Global Concept History
Culturalism in the Age of Capital
Häftad, 2008
298 kr
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Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in …
Logics of History
Social Theory and Social Transformation
Häftad, 2005
448 kr
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While social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to history. Logics of History …
