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Intellectual Radicalism After 1989
Crisis and Re-orientation in the British and the American Left
Häftad, 2016
340 kr
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Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to formulate a socialist …
Trouble on the Far Right
National Strategies and Local Practices Challenging Europe
Av Maik Fielitz, Laura Lotte Laloire
Häftad, 2016
225 kr
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In Europe, the far right is gaining momentum on the streets and in parliaments. By taking a close look at contemporary practices and strategies of far-right actors, the present volume explores this right-ward shift of European publics and politics. It assembles analyses of changing mobilization …
Resistance and the Politics of Truth – Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou
Häftad, 2021
447 kr
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`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. Iain MacKenzie analyses two of the most compelling of these perspectives: …
Psychopolitics of Speech – Uncivil Discourse and the Excess of Desire
Av James Martin
Inbunden, 2021
1185 kr
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The human capacity for speech is forever celebrated as evidence of its innate civility. Why, then, is public discourse often – and today more than ever, it would seem – so uncivil, even delusional? The reason, argues James Martin in this timely book, lies in the way speech works to organise desire. …
Future of the Eurozone – How to Keep Europe Together: A Progressive Perspective from Germany
Av Alexander Schellinger, Philipp Steinberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
330 kr
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Europe is stumbling from crisis to crisis. The financial and debt crises are endangering the European currency union; referenda in several EU countries show widespread Euroscepticism; the economy is only slowly regaining momentum; unemployment remains high in many Member States; and the refugee …
Powers of the Mind – Mental and Manual Labor in the Contemporary Political Crisis
Av Michael Bray
Häftad, 2021
1490 kr
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The Marxist conception of the division between mental and manual labor is a critical yet unrecognized aspect of contemporary political struggles.Departing from this novel argument, Michael Bray traces the conceptual and socio-political history of this labor division and emphasizes how the forms of …
Land Grabbing as Development? – Chinese and British Land Acquisitions in Comparative Perspective
Av Ariane Goetz
Häftad, 2021
457 kr
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Since 2008, foreign land acquisitions have attracted international attention under the term »land grabbing.« Illustrated by rich and nuanced empirical accounts of forty Chinese and British investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ariane Goetz explains the phenomenon of »land grabbing« from the …
Equality Governance via Policy Analysis? – The Implementation of Gender Impact Assessment in the European Union and Gender–Based Analysis in Canada
Av Arn T. Sauer
Häftad, 2021
539 kr
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Gender impact assessment has been both celebrated as a beacon of hope for the cause of gender equality and criticised as being ineffectual. More than 20 years of gender mainstreaming have demonstrated that equality governance with and through impact assessment is an intersectional and still …
Power and Its Logic – Mastering Politics
Av Dominik Meier, Christian Blum
Häftad, 2021
330 kr
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Power is the essence of politics. Whoever seeks to understand and master it must understand its logic. Drawing on two decades of international experience in political consulting, Dominik Meier and Christian Blum give profound and honest insights into the inner workings of power. Introducing their …
Biopolitics and Historic Justice – Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality
Häftad, 2021
436 kr
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Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Braun introduces the concept of »injuries of normality« to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for …
Inclusion through Exclusion – How Young Immigrant Israelis in the Nationalist Yisra′el Beitenu Party Read Israeli Citizenship
Häftad, 2021
669 kr
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How do young people from immigrant families become engaged in politics? Anja Schmidt-Kleinert examines the case of young Israelis who are actively engaged with the nationalist Yisra'el Beitenu party, led by the Israeli minister of defence, Avigdor Lieberman. She explores how the activists present …
Post–Digital Cultures of the Far Right – Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US
Av Maik Fielitz, Nick Thurston m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
596 kr
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How have digital tools and networks transformed the far right's strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and the US. It …
Mediated Bordering – Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites – the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes how the function and quality of the EU's current political border is crafted, …
Sublime of the Political – Narrative and Autoethnography as Theory
Inbunden, 2021
1767 kr
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In an age of immediate and global exchange of information, the ability to theorize about political conditions remains largely an elite, technocratic, and esoteric enterprise. In this timely intervention, Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and …
Bodies of Democracy – Modes of Embodied Politics
Inbunden, 2021
1700 kr
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Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin …
Democratic Citizenship in Flux – Conceptions of Citizenship in the Light of Political and Social Fragmentation
Av Markus Bayer,, Oliver Schwarz m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
427 kr
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Traditionally, citizenship has been defined as the legal and political link between individuals and their democratic political community. However, traditional conceptions of democratic citizenship are currently challenged by various developments like migration, the rise of populism, increasing …
European Regions – Perspectives, Trends, and Developments in the Twenty–First Century
Av Elisabeth Donat, Sarah Meyer m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
793 kr
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the EU is facing deep political, social, and economic changes. The benefit of supranational organization is no longer obvious to European citizens and questions of legitimacy have accompanied the EU's development over the last decades. Regions – albeit often …
Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development – Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present–Day South Africa
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices are …
Democracy, Markets and the Commons – Towards a Reconciliation of Freedom and Ecology
Av Lukas Peter
Häftad, 2021
847 kr
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How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on …
New Meatways and Sustainability – Discourses and Social Practices
Häftad, 2021
435 kr
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Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discourses and their boundaries define what is seen as possible, as well as the range of issues and their solutions. By exploring the connections between …
External Communication in Social Media During As – A Theoretical Model and Empirical Case Study of the Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Häftad, 2021
487 kr
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Social media increasingly shapes the way in which we perceive conflicts and conflict parties abroad. Conflict parties, therefore, have started using social media strategically to influence public opinion abroad. This book explores the phenomenon by examining, (1) which strategies of external …
Brokering Development?
The Private Sector and Unalleviated Poverty in Tanzanias Agricultural Growth Corridors
Av Idil Ires
Häftad, 2022
889 kr
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Recent portrayals of the private sector as the engine of poverty alleviation in Africa's agricultural growth corridors have sparked critique by scholars and activists alike. Land acquisitions by investors are the most criticized, but the private sector engages in corridors in other ways, on which …
Amnesty International and Women’s Rights
Feminist Strategies, Leadership Commitment and Internal Resistances
Häftad, 2021
487 kr
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Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty …
Christian Right in Europe
Movements, Networks and Denominations
Häftad, 2023
472 kr
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Inspired by the success of the US Christian Right and the rise of the global far-right, ultraconservative Christians in Europe are joining forces and seek to reshape Europe. By assembling in anti-gender movements and sharing anti-Muslim narratives, they actively influence the political landscape …
Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse
The Production of Popular Knowledge
Av Gesa Mackenthun, Jorn Dosch
Häftad, 2023
770 kr
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The large-scale use of semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics is particularly prevalent in right-wing discourses and populist »alternative knowledge« production. The contributors to this volume analyze processes of re-semanticizing received meanings, effectually re-coding those …
Global Authoritarianism
Perspectives and Contestations from the South
Av International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies
Häftad, 2022
596 kr
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We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence of reactionary ideologies and movements, combined with an escalating assault on democratic institutions and structures. Nevertheless, most studies of these phenomena remain anchored in a methodological nationalism, while comparative research is almost …
Politics of Digital Pharmacology
Exploring the Craft of Collective Care
Av Felix Heidenreich, Florian Weber-Stein
Häftad, 2022
595 kr
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Digitization is transforming our world economically, culturally, and psychologically. The influx of new forms of communication, networking, and business opportunities, as well as new types of distraction, self-observation, and control into our societies represents an epochal challenge. Following …
Enduring Enmity
The Story of Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt
Häftad, 2024
1109 kr
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To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even been attributed the role of the godfather of today's left-Schmittianism. With reference to previously unknown archival materials, …
Tale of Two Unions
The British Union and the European Union After Brexit
Av Mark Corner
Häftad, 2023
694 kr
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Brexit is a tale of two unions, not one: the British and the European unions. Their origins are different, but both struggle to maintain unity in diversity and both have to face the challenge of populism and claims of democratic deficit.Mark Corner suggests that the »four nations« that make up the …
Social Evolution of World Politics
Av Mathias Albert, Hauke Brunkhorst m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
596 kr
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How can we understand long-term change in world politics better? Based on readings of thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Foucault and Luhmann, the authors of this book propose a framework for understanding such change in terms of social evolution. They show that processes of social learning and …
