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Political Power and Social Theory
Av Diane Davis, Howard Kimeldorf
Inbunden, 1996
1591 kr
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Part of a series studying political power and social theory, this volume discusses topics such as defence policy and corporate growth, global markets, governance structures and policy options, and reflections on embedded autonomy.
Political Power and Social Theory
Av Diane Davis
Inbunden, 1997
1829 kr
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The countries or regions under study include the United States, Brazil, Chile, China, Mexico, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. In keeping with the journal's commitment to inter-disciplinary as well as historical inquiry, our nine contributors come from a variety of disciplines (sociology, political …
Political Power and Social Theory
Av Diane Davis
Inbunden, 1998
1829 kr
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The 12th volume in a series of analyses of political power and social theory. It is divided into three parts, which discuss: globalization; labour and the state; and scholarly controversy - civil society and ethnicity.
Political Power and Social Theory
Av Diane Davis
Inbunden, 2000
1829 kr
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Volume 13 critically probes the significance of worldwide transformations in political and economic systems, asking: are new patterns of liberalization producing fundamental shifts in social, political and economic life? In what ways is agency important for understanding the historical formation …
Political Power and Social Theory
Inbunden, 2001
1866 kr
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This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" deliberately grapples with some of the weightiest subjects in the contemporary social sciences: race and class and their impact on political and economic organization. Three historical papers on Cuba, Tanzania, and Mexico open the volume by …
Political Power and Social Theory
Inbunden, 2002
1676 kr
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Volume 15 offers a series of critical articles and commentaries by some of the leading historically-oriented social scientists writing in academia today. Collectively, the articles examine issues ranging from the relations between class, power and history, to the role of states and culture in …
Political Power and Social Theory
Inbunden, 2004
1811 kr
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This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" addresses some of the most pressing questions of our times, from the origins and meaning of the war in Iraq to the transnational politics of immigration to the impact of race on labor organization to the historical underpinnings of corporate power. …
Political Power and Social Theory
Inbunden, 2005
1738 kr
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Volume 17 of "Political Power and Social Theory" showcases scholarship by historical, political, and economic sociologists grouped around three broad subjects with both contemporary and historical relevance. The first is the relationship between race, class, and urban politics, and specifically, …
Political Power and Social Theory
Inbunden, 2006
1256 kr
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Volume 18 of the popular "Political Power and Social Theory" series is broken up into three parts examining political power, state formation, and economic development with examples from Africa, Russia, and Chile. It also looks at the status of opposition politics in America. It is suitable for …
Political Power and Social Theory
Av Diane E. Davis, Christina Proenza-Coles
Inbunden, 2008
1536 kr
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"Political Power and Social Theory" continues its longstanding run as a premier volume of comparative and historical social science. The volume focuses on a variety of questions relating to states, citizenship, and power, common themes examined with divergent analytical entry points and through …
Political Power and Social Theory
Av Julian Go
Inbunden, 2010
1393 kr
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"Political Power and Social Theory" is an annual review, committed to advancing our interdisciplinary, critical understanding of the linkages between social relations, political power, and historical development. Alongside peer-reviewed chapters dealing with a diversity of topics, this volume …
Rethinking Obama
Av Julian Go
Inbunden, 2011
1365 kr
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This volume of "Political Power and Social Theory" includes a selection of papers exploring Obama and the Politics of Race & Religion. Chapters examine the complex dynamics of race relations and racial meaning in America under the Obama administration. The "Scholarly Controversies" section features …
Political Power and Social Theory
Av Julian Go
Inbunden, 2012
1508 kr
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As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues. …
Postcolonial Sociology
Av Julian Go
Inbunden, 2013
1553 kr
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Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive. This special volume brings together leading sociologists to explore the concept of "postcolonial sociology," with brand new postcolonial readings of …
Decentering Social Theory
Av Julian Go
Inbunden, 2013
1508 kr
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Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations. A continuation of PPST's previous volume on "Postcolonial Sociology," this volume, "Decentering …
Fields of Knowledge
Science, Politics and Publics in the Neoliberal Age
Av Scott Frickel, David J. Hess
Inbunden, 2014
1382 kr
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This issue of Political Power and Social Theory explores the changes in science associated with the rise of neoliberalism since the 1970s. The neoliberalization of science has complicated interactions among states, markets, and civil society, often in ways that challenge major assumptions …
United States in Decline
Inbunden, 2014
1382 kr
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Is the United States in decline? If so, what are the causes and dimensions of that decline and is it irreversible? Will American decline be accompanied by the rise of a new hegemon? To what extent are that rise and decline merely concurrent processes, determined by forces internal to each polity, …
Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire
Av Mounira Maya Charrad, Julia P. Adams
Inbunden, 2015
1467 kr
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There is today a new interest in empires past and present. Scholars seek fresh ways of understanding a form of power far older than the modern nation state. Others see empire, not long ago assumed to be a mode of governance on the way out, as having a surprising new lease on life, and want to …
Chartering Capitalism
Inbunden, 2015
1351 kr
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This volume covers the evolution of the chartered company; contributions employ comparative methods, archival research, case studies, statistical analyses, computational models, network analyses, and new theoretical conceptualizations to map out the complex interactions that took place between …
Perverse Politics?
Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
Av Ann Shola Orloff, Raka Ray m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1242 kr
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In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and …
Postcolonial Sociologies
A Reader
Av Julian Go
Häftad, 2016
498 kr
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Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into social science. This is a welcome development but poses new challenges. How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This …
International Origins of Social and Political Theory
Av Tarak Barkawi, George Lawson
Inbunden, 2017
1322 kr
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This special issue is animated by the necessary entanglement of theory and history, the cortical relationship between theory and practice, and the transboundary (i.e. international) relations that help to constitute systems of thought and practice. We make three core arguments: first, all theory is …
Rethinking the Colonial State
Inbunden, 2017
1207 kr
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Studies of colonialism and empire have increasingly drawn attention to the problem of conceptualizing the political logic of colonial projects and the circumstances of state formation in colonial contexts. However, the nature and workings of the colonial state remains under-theorized and …
Critical Realism, History, and Philosophy in the Social Sciences
Av Timothy Rutzou, George Steinmetz
Inbunden, 2018
1116 kr
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Social science, history, and philosophy have often been neglect in thinking through their fundamentally intertwined relationship. The result is often an inattention to philosophy where social science and history is concerned, or a neglect of historicity and social analysis where philosophy is …
Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work
Av Rina Agarwala, Jennifer Jihye Chun
Inbunden, 2018
1116 kr
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Gender is a defining feature of informal/precarious work in the 21st century, yet studies rarely adopt a gendered lens when examining collective efforts to challenge informality and precarity. This volume foregrounds the gendered dimensions of informal/precarious workers' struggles as a crucial …
Religion, Humility, and Democracy in a Divided America
Inbunden, 2019
1059 kr
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This volume asks how religious convictions inform citizens' engagement in American democratic life, particularly across deep political divides. Strong religious convictions motivate citizens across the political spectrum to engage in public life, yet are also viewed as a driver of political …
Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism
Av Alexandre I.R. White, Katrina Quisumbing King
Inbunden, 2021
1186 kr
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In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times. They …
Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism
Av Alexandre I.R. White, Katrina Quisumbing King
Häftad, 2024
568 kr
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In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times. They …
Trump and the Deeper Crisis
Av Kevin Young, Michael Schwartz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1116 kr
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While many analysts emphasize Trump’s uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. This collection examines the roots, impacts, and future prospects of Trumpism as well as the possibilities for combatting it.Chapters analyze the role of racism and xenophobia, …
Marxist Thought in South Asia
Av Kristin Plys, Priyansh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1200 kr
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Marxism is not just a Euro-American preoccupation. It has had vibrant articulations around the world, particularly in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, and amongst Black diasporas. But South Asia has been relatively neglected in efforts to register the revolutionary theoretical traditions of …
