Civics and citizenship Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School​"This book is an important contribution to academic scholarship but also to the journalism industry and to foundations that support ongoing projects to rebuild trust. It provides much needed documentation at a pivotal and pivoting time, as journalism undertakes new practices in an attempt to survive."--Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisGuiding to practice democracy, this book is for members of community and neighbourhood organizations, parent-teacher associations, local government, citizens groups, and other grass-root organizations.Trade Review"Before you give up on democracy, read this book! In an era when public engagement seems ever more contentious and mean-spirited, Michael Briand offers practical, espericne-based wisdom--not naive bromides--about what we can do to make democracy work in our communities. Read this book and gain new insights and new hope."--Frances Moore Lappe, cofounder, Center for Democracy

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Book SynopsisFrom table talk to farmers' markets, analyzing the cultural politics of what and how we eatTrade Review"Provocative. . . . Flammang makes a convincing case for the centrality of food work and shared meals, much along the lines laid down by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters, but with more historical perspective and theoretical rigor."--Michael Pollan, The New York Review of Books"[Flammang] treats this subject with the high seriousness and scholarly insight it deserves."--Hypatia "An important and provocative book."--Gastronomica"A compelling argument reconnecting domesticity to civil society. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Eating is something we all have in common: it opens up both our senses and our consciences to our place in the world. Janet A. Flammang's The Taste for Civilization shows how the American family meal has been devalued from its role as a daily enactment of shared necessity and ritualized cooperation--and how important it is to restore the daily ritual of the table in our lives."--Alice Waters, founder, Chez Panisse"Deftly bringing together political theory, feminist analysis, and cultural studies, Flammang uses the familiar world of our private lives and everyday practices with food to interrogate the public life of American democracy and civil society. Thoughtful and creative."--Anna Sampaio, coeditor of Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Civility, Civil Society and Democracy; Political Theory: Where's the Household in Civil Society?; Empirical Studies: It's Hard to Measure the Table; The Art of Conversation and Civic Virtues of Thoughtfulness and Generosity; Meals, Conversations and Women; What Changes are Needed?; Part One: Household Foodwork; Chapter 1: The Time Crunch; Farm and City Foodwork; Women's Labor Force Participation and Overworked Americans; Technology and Food Tasks; The Second Shift and the Globalization of Housework; Invisible Foodwork; Solutions to the Time Crunch; Chapter 2: Domesticity: Meals, Obligation and Gratitude; Political and Gendered Domesticity; Deciding on the Menu: Household Variations; Gift, Obligation and the Economy of Gratitude; Psychological Memories and Social Connections; Escape from the Household with Commercial Food; Chapter 3: American Food; American Food as Multi-Ethnic and Regional Corporations Urge Immigrants to Eat American; Racial and Ethnic Pride in Foodways; The Slow Food Movement; American foodways, the Obesity Crisis and Global Warming; Part Two: Table Conversation; Chapter 4: Conversation and Manners; Conversations and Civility; Civil Society: Light Social Conversations and Heavy Political Arguments; The Lost Art of Conversation in the United States; Upper Class and Feminine: Courtesy, Civility, Politeness and Manners; The Universality of Table Manners; Manners and the Middle Class

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Book SynopsisThis innovative comparative study provides nuanced accounts of the personal experiences of young people who care deeply about their communities and are actively engaged in a variety of public issuesTrade Review"Investigating the experience of young activists, their motivations, and the forms of their engagement, this innovative book presents a refreshingly optimistic picture of dedicated and engaged young people."--Anne B. Smith, coeditor of Advocating for Children: International Perspectives on Children's Rights"A much needed and timely contribution that celebrates the commonalities among youth leaders on a hemispheric scale. The book offers a unified voice that rejects the fragmentation of difference, and with thought-provoking youth interviews, convincingly articulates today's concept of youth leadership. These authors help their readers, whether scholars, educators or activists, effectively situate and challenge their own ideas of youth leaders."--Latino Studies

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Book SynopsisOften perceived as unbridgeable, the boundaries that divide humanity from itself--whether national, gender, racial, political, or imperial--are rearticulated through friendship. Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose edit a collection of essays that express the different ways women forge hospitality in deference to or defiance of the structures meant to keep them apart. Emerging out of postcolonial theory, the works discuss instances when the authors have negotiated friendship''s complicated, conflicted, and contradictory terrain; offer fresh perspectives on feminists'' invested, reluctant, and selective uses of the nation; reflect on how the arts contribute to conversations about feminism, dissent, resistance, and solidarity; and unpack the details of transnational dissident friendships. Contributors: Lori E. Amy, Azza Basarudin, Himika Bhattacharya, Kabita Chakma, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Laurie R. Cohen, Esha Niyogi De, Eglantina Gjermeni, Glen Hill, Alka Kurian, Meredith MaddenTrade Review"Elora Halim Chowdhury and Liz Philipose's dazzling collection invites readers to consider the politics of feminist friendships, alliances, and collaborations. The volume explores the powerful ways that we can be transformed by our connections with others, and urges a new attention to feminist friendships as sites of generosity and empathy, alliance and resistance. Chowdhury and Philiopose's volume reminds us that friendship is fraught terrain, that we encounter each other across borders and boundaries of multiple kinds, and that the language of friendship can be co-opted by discourses of neoliberalism and imperialism. Yet their contributors urge us to continue to dream of the promise of connection, consciousness, and transformation that dissident friendships make possible."--Jennifer Nash, author of The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography "Rejuvenating our expectations of the most commonplace of human relations, Dissident Friendships challenges us to politicize that which is either overlooked or dismissed by more mainstream academic investigations. The intricate, and compassionate, analyses of friendship presented in these pages leave us renewed and provide an energizing vision for Gender Studies scholarship, social transformation and productive solidarities."--Shefali Chandra, author of The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India "Dissident Friendships is a significant transdisciplinary intervention that engages seriously with the meanings and possibilities of transformative feminist praxis in the face of the contradictions and complicities produced by neoliberalism, militarism, imperialism, humanism, and peace-building initiatives. Together, the contributors not only advance critical conversations about the work of affect in transnational solidarities and alliances; they also grapple in rich ways with the theoretical, methodological, and political complexities that are co-constitutive of the labor of dreaming, living, sustaining, and remaking epistemic friendships and communities across borders."--Richa Nagar, author of Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism"A timely collection."--Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual"Vivid, clear, diverse, and creative, the essays in this volume demonstrate the tenacity of emotional relationalities and agnostic attachments, dissident friendships that can help redefine our connections amid the nefarious intricacies of power relations."--Signs

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Book SynopsisIn civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Ian Rocksborough-Smith’s meticulous research and adept storytelling provide the first in-depth look at how these committed individuals leveraged Chicago’s black public history. Their goal: to engage with the struggle for racial equality. Rocksborough-Smith shows teachers working to advance curriculum reform in public schools, while well-known activists Margaret and Charles Burroughs pushed for greater recognition of black history by founding the DuSable Museum of African American History. Organizations like the Afro-American Heritage Association, meanwhile, used black public history work to connect radical politics and nationalism. Together, these people and their projecTrade ReviewSuperior Achievement Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2019 "Rocksborough-Smith offers a concise scholarly monograph on Black Chicago public history's tangled relationship with the left and utilizes that conflicting relationship to examine politics in our present and future."--Black Perspectives"Black Public History will appeal to all students of African American history, particularly cultural history, and is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of Chicago's expanding black past." --History: Reviews of New Books "Black Public History in Chicago is a worthwhile read and greatly contributes to the understudied history of African American public activism during the pre-civil rights movement years." --The Journal of American History"Scholars are starting to discuss in more detail how African American activists for Civil Rights were stifled under this side of the 'iron curtain' during the Cold War. However, very few have discussed the innovative ways that Black visionaries turned to public history as a broad canvas for rethinking the boundaries of community belonging and national citizenship in the face of political repression. Ian Rocksborough-Smith sheds light on a powerful core of Chicago-based culture workers who expanded the battlefront for Black freedom from the picket line and street rally to the library, the museum hall, and the classroom, using public displays of the past to imagine a different future. Black Public History in Chicago is an amazing project of both recovery and redemption."--Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life"In this remarkable book, Ian Rocksborough-Smith examines the network of librarians, writers, teachers, and others who built an African American usable past that could advance their visions of racial liberation in mid-twentieth-century Chicago. Amid repression of all kinds, these unsung activists and artists set out to make history matter beyond the academy and mainstream museums. They devoted their lives to building independent knowledge-producing institutions through school curriculum, public rituals and commemorations, and ultimately the DuSable Museum. Like his protagonists, Rocksborough-Smith resists sanitized narratives and makes public history accessible, revealing how these cultural workers bridged generations and fused interracial and nationalist ideologies. Readers interested in the Black Chicago Renaissance and the generations of the Black Freedom Struggle, Cold War scholars, and especially public historians of all stripes need to read this book. Then and now, African American public history matters as a key source of knowledge as activism to combat poverty, racism, and xenophobia in the American city."--Erik S. Gellman, author of Death Blow to Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress and the Rise of Militant Civil Rights"Black Public History in Chicago spans decades and is complemented and supported by the detailed efforts of the unseen and often mentioned contributors of each era. . . . Rocksborough-Smith has produced an excellent work that those with interest in African American history of Chicago history will enjoy." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"This book helps to celebrate those who worked to keep alive the memory of an all-too-often buried past." --The Progressive

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisContemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community.Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel''s blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community. Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and fTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School​"This book is an important contribution to academic scholarship but also to the journalism industry and to foundations that support ongoing projects to rebuild trust. It provides much needed documentation at a pivotal and pivoting time, as journalism undertakes new practices in an attempt to survive."--Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon AlexandrakisPart I: Affect as Political Condition1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou 3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano 4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion 5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni PanourgiáPart II: Agency as Ethical Condition6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad 7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe 8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill 10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh 11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex KhasnabishConclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon AlexandrakisList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historian Maria Bucur and philosopher Mihaela Miroiu beautifully capture the anxieties, ambiguities, and opportunities faced by women in contemporary Romania. The book is an excellent primer on the unique ways that the transition from state socialism to free market democracy has impacted the lives of ordinary women. It is a qualitative gem." * Aspasia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Women from Romania's Past into the Present: A Short Historical Overview2: Men: Working through Gender Norms at Home3. Children: The Most Beautiful Accomplishment of My Life4. Work and Personal Satisfaction.5. Communities: Beyond the Family6. Communism as State Patriarchy7. Facing Capitalism and Building DemocracyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historian Maria Bucur and philosopher Mihaela Miroiu beautifully capture the anxieties, ambiguities, and opportunities faced by women in contemporary Romania. The book is an excellent primer on the unique ways that the transition from state socialism to free market democracy has impacted the lives of ordinary women. It is a qualitative gem." * Aspasia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Women from Romania's Past into the Present: A Short Historical Overview2: Men: Working through Gender Norms at Home3. Children: The Most Beautiful Accomplishment of My Life4. Work and Personal Satisfaction.5. Communities: Beyond the Family6. Communism as State Patriarchy7. Facing Capitalism and Building DemocracyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis-A bipartisan call for the return to ethics within both the US government, and the citizenry. Argues that fairness in participation, and integrity in elections are only methods to improve trust in Government -Written by former US Congresswoman representing Indiana. -Has been endorsed by numerous high-profile Politicians, included John Lewis and Leon Panetta.Trade ReviewThe Character of American Democracy is a timely and essential overview of what ordinary citizens and elected officials alike are called upon to do in a democracy that is fueled by a capitalist economy. * Nuvo *Table of ContentsForeword (Marcy Kaptur)Introduction: Ethics are Fundamental to Democracy Chapter 1: American Character Chapter 2: Decision-Making with Character Chapter 3: The Habit of Leading with Character Chapter 4: Ethics and Democracy Chapter 5: Democracy, Ethics, and Capitalism Chapter 6: The American's Character Conclusion: Strength of Character – Strength of UnionNote

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Book Synopsis-A bipartisan call for the return to ethics within both the US government, and the citizenry. Argues that fairness in participation, and integrity in elections are only methods to improve trust in Government -Written by former US Congresswoman representing Indiana. -Has been endorsed by numerous high-profile Politicians, included John Lewis and Leon Panetta.Trade ReviewThe Character of American Democracy is a timely and essential overview of what ordinary citizens and elected officials alike are called upon to do in a democracy that is fueled by a capitalist economy. * Nuvo *Table of ContentsForeword (Marcy Kaptur)Introduction: Ethics are Fundamental to Democracy Chapter 1: American Character Chapter 2: Decision-Making with Character Chapter 3: The Habit of Leading with Character Chapter 4: Ethics and Democracy Chapter 5: Democracy, Ethics, and Capitalism Chapter 6: The American's Character Conclusion: Strength of Character – Strength of UnionNote

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"To my knowledge, this is the first monograph solely devoted to social media texts in a Sub-Saharan society. Yéku shows us how digital media performances are in constant dialogue with nondigital popular culture in Nigeria. Most compelling is his attention to the political subtexts of Nigerian social media, while reconstructing a micro-history of the digital world. Nigeria's social media users are politicking online; we learn how the forms and aesthetics of politicking change, thus challenging scholars to be constantly alert to digital innovations and their political potential. Cultural Netizenship is an important addition to the growing library in digital humanities."—Katrien Pype, author of The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa"In Cultural Netizenship, Nigeria's rambunctious, energetic, and impelling digital culture finds its most enthusiastic and intellectually gifted exponent, and the result is a work of rare penetration, analytic verve, and sumptuous literacy. Yékú's expository power conjures images of the finest espresso- richly concentrated, delicately brewed, and revivifying the remotest corners of the palate. This debut work, a distillation of the finest insights across the length and breadth of the social sciences, sets a new standard for scholarship in African and interdisciplinary studies."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"Through its incisive analysis of digital cultures in Nigeria, Cultural Netizenship offers a groundbreaking model for studying the relationship between digital media and the nation in a range of postcolonial contexts. Scholars and students of new media studies have much to learn from Yékú's innovative, ethnographic approach to social media and popular culture."—Roopika Risam, author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities"James Yékú might as well have erected the entire framework of Cultural Netizenship on Brecht's "In the contradiction lies the hope." Surely, you can hardly miss the manner in which the author navigates neural lines of digital thought and the quotidian reality of our circumspective analogue choices within structures of power and agency in Nigeria's pop street vis-à-vis the virtual nudity of capital's hidden hands. The strength of this work is in its walking of the tensions, the tight rope of the dialogic and the dialectical mechanism of social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria."—Sola Olorunyomi, author of AFROBEAT! Fela and the Imagined Continent"It is by now a commonplace that Nigerians have exerted a conspicuous influence on the interactive landscapes of social media. Wherever in the world one is accessing Facebook or Twitter, and for whatever purpose, one is bound to encounter a meme of Nigerian origin. Cultural Netizenship is the first comprehensive investigation of the performative work of Nigerian digital subjects in a period marked not only by a global pandemic, political unrest, and all manner of protest movements, but also by the globalization of Nollywood and other sources of Nigerian popular culture. James Yékú offers a rich and remarkably varied account of the roles of social media in the cultural and political currents of contemporary Nigeria. His insights will be of importance to Africanists and anyone interested in vernacular uses of digital networks. This is a book of considerable scholarly sophistication that also honors what is riotously funny about some of our most cherished memes."—Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars and Cinematic IndependenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices1. Afropolitan Anti-heroes and the Performative Politics of Internet Scambaiting2. The Memeification of Nollywood3. Self-Spectatoriality and the Performance of Political Selves4. Visualizing Resistance and Performing with the Visual5. Social Media Humor and Carnivalesque Aesthetics6. Virality and Instagram Comedy in A State of PandemicEpilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of RecoveryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular formsfrom GIFs to memes to videosand become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power? James Yékú proposes the concept of cultural netizenshipinternet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural dimensionsas a way of being on the social web and articulating counter-hegemonic self-presentations through viral popular images. Yékú explores the cultural politics of protest selfies, Nollywood-derived memes and GIFs, hashtags, and political cartoons as visual texts for postcolonial studies, and he examines how digital subjects in Nigeria, a nation with one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa, deconstruct state power through performed popular culture on social media. As a rubric for the new digital genres of popular and visual expressions on social media, cultural netizenship indexes the digital everyday through the affordances of the participatory web. Trade Review"To my knowledge, this is the first monograph solely devoted to social media texts in a Sub-Saharan society. Yéku shows us how digital media performances are in constant dialogue with nondigital popular culture in Nigeria. Most compelling is his attention to the political subtexts of Nigerian social media, while reconstructing a micro-history of the digital world. Nigeria's social media users are politicking online; we learn how the forms and aesthetics of politicking change, thus challenging scholars to be constantly alert to digital innovations and their political potential. Cultural Netizenship is an important addition to the growing library in digital humanities."—Katrien Pype, author of The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa"In Cultural Netizenship, Nigeria's rambunctious, energetic, and impelling digital culture finds its most enthusiastic and intellectually gifted exponent, and the result is a work of rare penetration, analytic verve, and sumptuous literacy. Yékú's expository power conjures images of the finest espresso- richly concentrated, delicately brewed, and revivifying the remotest corners of the palate. This debut work, a distillation of the finest insights across the length and breadth of the social sciences, sets a new standard for scholarship in African and interdisciplinary studies."—Ebenezer Obadare, author of Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria"Through its incisive analysis of digital cultures in Nigeria, Cultural Netizenship offers a groundbreaking model for studying the relationship between digital media and the nation in a range of postcolonial contexts. Scholars and students of new media studies have much to learn from Yékú's innovative, ethnographic approach to social media and popular culture."—Roopika Risam, author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities"James Yékú might as well have erected the entire framework of Cultural Netizenship on Brecht's "In the contradiction lies the hope." Surely, you can hardly miss the manner in which the author navigates neural lines of digital thought and the quotidian reality of our circumspective analogue choices within structures of power and agency in Nigeria's pop street vis-à-vis the virtual nudity of capital's hidden hands. The strength of this work is in its walking of the tensions, the tight rope of the dialogic and the dialectical mechanism of social media, popular culture, and performance in Nigeria."—Sola Olorunyomi, author of AFROBEAT! Fela and the Imagined Continent"It is by now a commonplace that Nigerians have exerted a conspicuous influence on the interactive landscapes of social media. Wherever in the world one is accessing Facebook or Twitter, and for whatever purpose, one is bound to encounter a meme of Nigerian origin. Cultural Netizenship is the first comprehensive investigation of the performative work of Nigerian digital subjects in a period marked not only by a global pandemic, political unrest, and all manner of protest movements, but also by the globalization of Nollywood and other sources of Nigerian popular culture. James Yékú offers a rich and remarkably varied account of the roles of social media in the cultural and political currents of contemporary Nigeria. His insights will be of importance to Africanists and anyone interested in vernacular uses of digital networks. This is a book of considerable scholarly sophistication that also honors what is riotously funny about some of our most cherished memes."—Noah Tsika, author of Nollywood Stars and Cinematic IndependenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultural Netizenship and Viral Practices1. Afropolitan Anti-heroes and the Performative Politics of Internet Scambaiting2. The Memeification of Nollywood3. Self-Spectatoriality and the Performance of Political Selves4. Visualizing Resistance and Performing with the Visual5. Social Media Humor and Carnivalesque Aesthetics6. Virality and Instagram Comedy in A State of PandemicEpilogue: Cultural Netizenship and the Praxis of RecoveryReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAdvocates the teaching of civic engagement at the college level, in various disciplines and courses. Using 'writing across the curriculum' programs as a model, this title proposes a similar approach to civic education. It provides models for incorporating civic learning and evaluating pedagogical effectiveness.Trade ReviewA ground-breaking book, Citizenship Across the Curriculum explores the range of ways different disciplines can illuminate civic questions and help students develop a stronger civic lens. * A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future *Citizenship Across the Curriculum is an important book. Our political climate has become more caustic and less productive. As professors and college-administrators, we need to take responsibility to educate the next generation of citizens. This book can help provide direction in that journey.Vol. 6, No. 2 * MountainRise *[This] new book . . . urges colleges and universities to make civic engagement a key component of their curricula as a way to help students become more active participants in the democratic process.7/31/10 * Ithaca Journal *Citizenship across the Curriculum provides useful ideas about incorporating civic engagement in a diverse set of college courses. October 1, 2010 * Academe *[T]he book itself models an ideal of citizenship: committed, impassioned, intelligent people working respectfully toward some ideal(s) of the common good.Vol. 20, no. 1, December 2010 * National Teaching and Learning Forum *In Citizenship Across the Curriculum, eight post-secondary teachers from diverse institutions . . . break the silence on their own teaching practices and make a valuable contribution to public discourse on teaching and learning. August, 2011 * H-Education *Table of ContentsContentsForeword: Civic Learning: Intersections and Interactions / Mary Taylor Huber and Pat HutchingsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ending the Solitude of Citizenship Education / Michael B. Smith, Rebecca S. Nowacek, and Jeffrey L. Bernstein1. Citizenship-Oriented Approaches to the American Government Course / Jeffrey L. Bernstein2. De-Stabilizing Culture and Citizenship: Crafting a Critical Intercultural Engagement for University Students in a Diversity Course / Rona Tamiko Halualani3. Fostering Self-Authorship for Citizenship: Telling Metaphors in Dialogue / Carmen Werder4. We Are All Citizens of Auschwitz: Intimate Engagement and the Teaching of the Shoah / Howard Tinberg5. Understanding Citizenship as Vocation in a Multidisciplinary Senior Capstone / Rebecca S. Nowacek6. Educating for Scientific Knowledge, Awakening to a Citizen's Responsibility / Matthew A. Fisher7. Enumeration, Evidence, and Emancipation / Michael C. Burke8. Science, Technology, and Understanding: Teaching the Teachers of Citizens of the Future / David R. Geelan9. Local Environmental History and the Journey to Ecological Citizenship / Michael B. Smith10. Across: The Heterogeneity of Civic Education / David Scobey11. Academic and Civic Engagement / Edward ZlotkowskiList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisGregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.Trade Review"Desiring Bodies answers the question that might dog Comparative Literature as a discipline, i.e. 'so what?'. In a bravura display of cultural and linguistic range, Heyworth turns his own supple, Ovidian intelligence to Ovidian irruptions from within the civilizing project of romance. Heyworth writes with intense literary inwardness, adroitly turned learning, and pitch-perfect prose.” —James Simpson, Harvard University“Gregory Heyworth's Desiring Bodies is a highly original study. It is also very daring—breathtakingly so, at times—in its deep engagement with major canonical writers and texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from twelfth-century Latin comedy to Milton's Paradise Lost. His remarkable essay is achieved within a stimulating cultural and artistic exegesis of a single Ovidian line in which Heyworth finds his own large subject—the famous first line of the Metamorphoses, in which the poet announces the intention to tell ‘of forms changed into new bodies.’” —John Fleming, Princeton University"Ambitious in its aims, convincing in its arguments, and frequently surprising in its readings, Desiring Bodies asks us to reconsider how literary works both respond to and adapt the remains of the literary past. By establishing Ovid as the defining figure of formal metamorphoses across literary history, Heyworth opens new possibilities for imagining literary history as a history of literary form." —Jennifer Summit, Stanford University“Heyworth has written a sophisticated study of the importance of Ovidian form in the poetics and politics of medieval and Renaissance romance . . . the author demonstrates one of Ovid’s central attributes: he was an expert historian of culture and the ways in which individuals desired culture to exist. . . . All six chapters are well written, but chapter 3 is a revelation; in it, Heyworth magisterially examines Ovidian notions of the politics of marriage in the Canterbury Tales, particularly “The Knight’s Tale.” —Choice"In nova fert animus mutates dicere formas corpora" ("My mind is bent to tell of forms changed into new bodies"). This famous first line of Ovid's Metamorphoses provides the central motif for Heyworth (English, U. of Mississippi) as he traces tensions between form and body in the cultural history of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He explores those aspects of European culture that prioritize the body and the individual over form and group both in terms of social and political thought and in terms of genre and literature.” —Reference & Research Book News“There is much to savor in this excellent volume. With laudable elegance and lexical sophistication, Gregory Heyworth’s unique, comparative study soars with ease across the landscape of cultural history in order to bring forth the ‘monolithic’ Ovidian influence on romance form in a selection of noteworthy medieval and Renaissance authors. With exceptional agility, Heyworth’s volume captures the powerful resonance of the Latin Poet’s voice through the ages. . .” —Parergon"Desiring Bodies traces the romance from Marie de France to Milton. . . . Heyworth's framework produces elegant readings that are persuasive in illustrating that Ovid's own political context should be brought to the fore more often in considerations of his influence on later literature, as it can illuminate later political contexts and ironic/satirical content, despite the textual and historical mediation of the Metamorphoses and other works." —Speculum“From critical and theoretical standpoints, this is an important study of the rich reception of Ovid in the premodern period. It not only complements the scholarship on this topic, but expands it precisely by its theoretical sophistications. . . . this book enriches the field of theoretical approaches to early modern Ovidian discourses by demonstrating how theories of social dynamics help formulate approaches to poetic creations within a cultural and political sphere.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“The premise of Gregory Heyworth’s book is simple. He takes his title and his subject from the first line of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, ‘My mind is bent to tell of forms changed into new bodies’ and tells us, in his ‘Polemical Premise’ what his book does not do: it does not contribute to ‘studies of classical influence in the traditional sense’ . . . . it investigates romance literature as a derivation of Ovidian metamorphosis in the sense of the struggle between ‘the love of the body as a material thing and as a synecdoche of the larger body of society’ (p. ix). It is, therefore, not really about literature or about particular texts but about how a particular literary genre is generated by both the unifying illusion of desire and the ultimate dissociation of the self from the other.” —Renaissance and Reformation“The three centerpieces of Heyworth’s accomplishment—which itself defies the paraphrasing rhetoric of the book-review genre—are the intellectual contextualizations of the works he studies, the dramatic and detailed engagement with Ovidian love, bodies, forms, polity, and ‘culture,’ and the old-school, detailed close reading of the poets’ words and stories.” —Studies in the Age of Chaucer

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining the Australian Citizens' Parliament, a project in deliberative democracy held in 2009. Explores its organization, the deliberation, the flow of beliefs and ideas, facilitator and organizer effects, and its impacts from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives.Trade Review“As innovators in democratic process, we know how much we depend on learning from practical trials and real-world experiences. This work captures the experience in detail and provides an important reference point for anyone hoping to bring deliberation and the citizen’s voice back into how we do government.”—Iain Walker,executive director, The newDemocracy Foundation“This study shows that deliberative capacity, personal efficacy, and common political ground can be developed through the careful design of deliberative institutions among ordinary citizens; even so, meaningful political influence over a broader social scale remains as elusive as ever. The editors present valuable and hard-won lessons for citizens, leaders, and academics who hope to realize the practical political and moral benefits of a more truly deliberative and democratic public life. The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy is full of practical wisdom for anyone who sets out to create a democratic deliberative space for ordinary citizens.”—Mark E. Button,University of Utah“From conception to conclusion, this book narrates and analyzes an ambitious experiment in deliberative democracy: the Australian Citizens’ Parliament. Integrating social science analyses of many kinds of data with reflections by philosophers and civic reform–minded public participation practitioners, the volume offers a rich sense of what occurred in the different phases of the ACP process and provides a nuanced assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of this large-scale deliberative democracy experiment. This wonderful case study is a must-read for everyone interested in deliberative democracy.”—Karen Tracy,University of Colorado, and author of Challenges of Ordinary DemocracyTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionLyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Ron LubenskyPart I: Deliberative Design and Innovation1 Origins of the First Citizens’ Parliament Lyn Carson and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis2 Putting Citizens in Charge: Comparing the Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Australia 2020 SummitJanette Hartz-Karp and Lyn Carson3 Choose Me: The Challenges of National Random SelectionRon Lubensky and Lyn Carson4 Grafting an Online Parliament onto a Face-to-Face ProcessBrian Sullivan and Janette Hartz-KarpPart II: Exploring Deliberation5 Listening Carefully to the Citizens’ Parliament: A Narrative Account Ron Lubensky6 Deliberative Design and Storytelling in the Australian Citizens’ ParliamentLaura W. Black and Ron Lubensky7 What Counts as Deliberation? Comparing Participant and Observer RatingsJohn Gastil8 Hearing All Sides? Soliciting and Managing Different Viewpoints in Deliberation Anna Wiederhold and John Gastil9 Sit Down and Speak Up: Stability and Change in Group Participation Joseph A. Bonito, Renee A. Meyers, John Gastil, and Jennifer ErvinPart III: The Flow of Beliefs and Ideas10 Changing Orientations Toward Australian DemocracySimon Niemeyer, Luisa Batalha, and John S. Dryzek11 Staying Focused: Tracing the Flow of Ideas from the Online Parliament to CanberraJohn Gastil and John Wilkerson12 Evidence of Peer Influence in the Citizens’ Parliament Luc Tucker and John GastilPart IV: Facilitation and Organizer Effects13 The Unsung Heroes of a Deliberative Process: Reflections on the Role of Facilitators at the Citizens’ Parliament Max Hardy and Kath Fisher, with Janette Hartz-Karp14 Are They Doing What They Are Supposed to Do? Assessing the Facilitating Process of the Australian Citizens’ ParliamentLi Li, Fletcher Ziwoya, Laura W. Black, and Janette Hartz-Karp15 Supporting the Citizen Parliamentarians: Mobilizing Perspectives and Informing Discussion Ian Marsh and Lyn Carson16 Investigation of (and Introspection on) Organizer BiasLyn CarsonPart V: Impacts and Reflections17 Participant Accounts of Political TransformationKatie Knobloch and John Gastil18 Becoming Australian: Forging a National IdentityJanette Hartz-Karp, Patrick Anderson, John Gastil, and Andrea Felicetti19 Mediated Meta-deliberation: Making Sense of the Australian Citizens’ ParliamentEike Mark Rinke, Katie Knobloch, John Gastil, and Lyn Carson20 How Not to Introduce Deliberative Democracy: The 2010 Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change ProposalLyn CarsonConclusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Citizens’ Parliament ExperienceJanette Hartz-Karp, Lyn Carson, John Gastil, and Ron LubenskyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of national identity in Ecuador from 1857 to 1946. Brings together recent work in rhetoric, visual culture, transnationalism, and Latin American studies to explore the different visions of indigenous people that circulated in speeches, periodicals, and art.Trade Review“Constitutive Visions demonstrates, in rich detail, how visual representations serve as rhetorical acts that constitute nations—acts every bit as important as the constitutions, laws, political speeches, and policies that make up a national rhetorical culture. Christa Olson pushes rhetoric scholars to extend their reach beyond the English world and beyond dominant Western traditions, a trend in contemporary scholarship that she models masterfully. This book will become a benchmark for both experienced scholars and novices seeking to examine how national and visual arguments take on rhetorical power across time and space.”—Jordynn Jack,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill“This engaging book explores the larger rhetorical ecology generated out of a wide range of image-making and discursive practices by which Ecuadorians came to see themselves, others, and the national territory between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Christa Olson shows how national visions—including, centrally, topoi of indigeneity—were forged over time through interactions, dialogues, and engagements among social groups. In doing so she explores the resilience of topoi and their re-creation over time and into the present, illuminating the formation of deeply rooted common sense that has shaped visions of the Ecuadorian nation.”—Kim Clark,University of Western Ontario“[This] book makes a unique interpretation of the frequently debated topic of national identity formation, adding significantly to our understanding of the contradictions and intricacies of this process.”—Michele Greet The Americas“[Olson’s] innovative application of the theoretical language of constitutive rhetoric to the exercise of both national and popular sovereignty challenges our understandings of the creation of national identities. As such, this important new work significantly advances our understanding of theories of citizenship and national formation.”—Marc Becker Hispanic American Historical Review“Analyzing the relationship of the indigenous to the nation-state is a global challenge and one that the author of this new study undertakes with great skill and unquestionable success. . . . This is an excellent work of scholarship and highly recommended for graduate students as well as specialists in the field.”—Roger P. Davis The Historian“Constitutive Visions brings readers a graphic-rich rhetorical history of nationalisms in Ecuador. Christa Olson makes a compelling argument showing how Ecuadorian national identity formations are a particularly valuable example for drawing out broader claims about the visual rhetoricity of nationalism.”—Abigail Selzer King Rhetoric & Public AffairsTable of ContentsContentsPreface: The Precarious Politics of Going ThereAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Scene SettingChapter 1: Constituting CitizenshipChapter 2: Geography Is HistoryChapter 3: Burdens of the NationChapter 4: Dead Weight: The Indian as National OtherChapter 5: Performing Strategic IndigeneityConclusion: ¿De Quién Es la Patria? NotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women's rights in Pakistan.Trade Review"It's impossible not to be impressed by Humaira Awais Shahid...Hearing her speak on issues of inequality—both gender-based and otherwise—she is eloquent and emotive." -- Prospect"Shahid's warm and passionate voice provides remarkable insight into how Islamic values and ethics might yet be a vehicle for progressive change in the developing world." -- The Middle East

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Book SynopsisA contemporary framework without the fluff, updated through the 2018 elections

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Book SynopsisIncludes chapters 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from the Home Office's Life in the United Kingdom book. This fully updated edition of The British Citizenship Test For Dummies covers all the most up to date information that you need to know to pass the latest UK Government's Life in the UK test - valid for tests taken after April 2007.Trade Review"...covers decisions and legal requirements involved in living in the UK, and includes a full chapter of sample test questions..." (familiesonline.co.uk, Friday 18th January 2008)Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Becoming a British Citizen. Chapter 1: Deciding to Stay in the UK. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Immigration and Citizenship Players. Chapter 3: Taking Care of Immigration and Citizenship Paperwork. Chapter 4: Taking the Citizenship Test. Chapter 5: Troubleshooting Your Application. Chapter 6: Reaping the Rewards of Citizenship. Chapter 7: Ten Helpful For Dummies Books. Part II: Revision Material. Chapter 8: Revision Material for the Life in the UK Test. Part III: Questions and Answers. Chapter 9: Sample Questions and Answers for the Life in the UK Test. Answers. Index.

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Book SynopsisCovers the author's burgeoning law career and the struggles of the 60s as his professional and private life navigated the turmoil and promise of the civil rights and antiwar movements.

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Book SynopsisArgues that what appears to be public opinion backlash against gay rights is more consistent with elite-led mobilization - a strategy used by anti-gay elites, primarily white evangelicals, seeking to prevent the full incorporation of LGBT Americans in the polity in order to achieve political objectives and increase their political power.Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Iowa's Irony Chapter 2 Toward a Theory of Elite-Led Mobilization Chapter 3 In Search of Backlash: The Experiments Chapter 4 In Search of Backlash: Observational Evidence Chapter 5 Institutions and Attitudes Chapter 6 The History of Gay Rights: Backlash or Elite-Led Mobilization? Chapter 7 Iowa's Judicial Retention Elections: Backlash or Elite-Led Mobilization? Chapter 8 Organize, Mobilize, Legislate, and Litigate Appendices Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDrawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina C. Heyer examines three case studies - Germany, Japan, and the United Nations - to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the US through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation in international law.

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Book SynopsisThe Fourth Amendment forbids ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’ and is the source of most constitutional constraints on policing. In this book, Michael J.Z. Mannheimer calls for a reimagination of what modern policing could look like based on the original understandings of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Upside-Down Fourth Amendment PART I: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 1: Two Models of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 2: The Local-Control Model of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 3: The Anti-Federalists and the Fourth Amendment Chapter 4: Original Understandings and Fourth Amendment Search Doctrine Chapter 5: The Contingent Common Law of Searches and Arrests PART II: THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 6: The Historical Backdrop of the Fourteenth Amendment Chapter 7: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Fourth? Chapter 8: Applying Constitutional Search-and-Seizure Constraints to the States Through the Fourteenth Amendment PART III: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND MODERN POLICING Chapter 9: The Principles of Nondiscrimination, Legality, and Nondelegation. Chapter 10: Rethinking Constitutional Constraints on Searches and Seizures Chapter 11: Original Understandings and Four Problems of Modern Policing Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 1967, in response to demonstrations in cities across the US, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders was formed. The Commission employed social scientists to research the root causes of the disturbances. This first publication of the committee’s report reveals that many of the issues it describes are still with us.Trade ReviewIn the summer of 1967 the Kerner Commission hired a team of social scientists to explain the cause of the riots that had engulfed dozens of American cities. Their report, The Harvest Of American Racism, was so controversial that the commission staff ordered it destroyed. Now, Robert Shellow and his team have published Harvest, along with insightful and revealing essays that provide appropriate context and perspective. This is an important book that is as relevant today as it was five decades ago."" - Steven M. Gillon, University of Oklahoma""This seminal study from the 1960s provides a hard-hitting and insightful look at the roots of racial discrimination in the U.S. Jettisoned by the Kerner Commission for something less radical, this eye-opening analysis still speaks volumes in our current age."" - Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University; CNN Political Analyst, Co-Host, Politics and Polls""In 1968 the Kerner Commission concluded that cities across the nation had been erupting because blacks were frustrated with the slow pace of racial and economic equality. It turns out that the Commission had been presented with a far more radical analysis of those urban uprisings, in an extraordinary report called The Harvest of American Racism. This report was not only ignored, but actively suppressed. Now black rage is once again rocking our nation's major cities, and it is past time that we take a close look at what policymakers dismissed 50 years ago. As the Harvest report made clear, those who took to the streets in 1968 weren't merely frustrated and filled with despair. They were politically engaged, they believed that racial oppression's root causes must be addressed rather than its surface expressions, and they would never stop erupting until change really happened. The Harvest of American Racism is a must-read, as relevant today as it was 50 years ago."" - Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

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Book SynopsisThe Fourth Amendment forbids ‘unreasonable searches and seizures’ and is the source of most constitutional constraints on policing. In this book, Michael J.Z. Mannheimer calls for a reimagination of what modern policing could look like based on the original understandings of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments.Trade Review“A new theory of the Fourth Amendment is born. Michael Mannheimer’s bracingly original understanding of the Fourth Amendment posits that the Framers saw it as necessarily tied to state law. He argues that courts should continue this interpretation. His defense of these propositions is utterly convincing.”—George Thomas, Rutgers Law School“This book provides an historical, ‘originalist’ grounding for the view that the Fourth Amendment, together with the Fourteenth Amendment, requires that police searches and seizures in every state be authorized by law and be applied even-handedly, but that otherwise state law, not federal constitutional law, should govern police investigations. No other author has as masterfully tied together the federalist underpinnings of the Fourth Amendment, the anti-discrimination aspects of the Fourteenth Amendment, and modern scholarship about the role democracy should play in regulating the police. This book will provoke not only new scholarship but innovative legal arguments in an era when the Supreme Court is increasingly interested in originalist interpretations.”—Christopher Slobogin, Milton Underwood Professor of Law, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Upside-Down Fourth Amendment PART I: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 1: Two Models of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 2: The Local-Control Model of the Fourth Amendment Chapter 3: The Anti-Federalists and the Fourth Amendment Chapter 4: Original Understandings and Fourth Amendment Search Doctrine Chapter 5: The Contingent Common Law of Searches and Arrests PART II: THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS Chapter 6: The Historical Backdrop of the Fourteenth Amendment Chapter 7: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Fourth? Chapter 8: Applying Constitutional Search-and-Seizure Constraints to the States Through the Fourteenth Amendment PART III: ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND MODERN POLICING Chapter 9: The Principles of Nondiscrimination, Legality, and Nondelegation. Chapter 10: Rethinking Constitutional Constraints on Searches and Seizures Chapter 11: Original Understandings and Four Problems of Modern Policing Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFeatures an account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America. This work provides an understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.Trade Review"Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a compelling account underlining the importance of the religious perspective in recent immigration activism." Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare

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Book SynopsisAmerican Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. This book reveals how the program directed at teens discriminated against black youth and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination.Trade Review"Reveals a hidden history of racial segregation on the United States' first television program centered on the teenage population... Provocative." Orange County Register "Well-researched, tightly-written... Impressively bright, clear, and comprehensive." History News Network "Excellent... Offers a valuable understanding of the ... melding of African Americans into the national youth culture." Choice "The study illustrates how ... nostalgic representations of the past ... can work as impediments to progress in the present." Cbq Communication Booknotes Qtly "The Nicest Kids in Town counters the (false) mythology of American Bandstand with valuable descriptions of 'forgotten' cultural productions." -- Gayle Wald, George Washington University Jrnl Of The Society For American Music (Jsam)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Making Philadelphia Safe for "WFIL-adelphia" Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Bandstand's Backyard 2. They Shall Be Heard Local Television as a Civil Rights Battleground 3. The de Facto Dilemma Fighting Segregation in Philadelphia Public Schools 4. From Little Rock to Philadelphia Making de Facto School Segregation a Media Issue 5. The Rise of Rock and Roll in Philadelphia Georgie Woods, Mitch Thomas, and Dick Clark 6. "They'll Be Rockin' on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, P.A." Imagining National Youth Culture on American Bandstand 7. Remembering American Bandstand, Forgetting Segregation 8. Still Boppin' on Bandstand American Dreams, Hairspray, and American Bandstand in the 2000s Conclusion Everybody Knows about American Bandstand Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen's panoramic yet finely detailed account of the three years he spent working and traveling with Chavez, including to Sal Si Puedes, the San Jose barrio where Chavez began his organizing. Matthiessen provides a candid look into the many sides of this enigmatic and charismatic leader who lived by the laws of nonviolence. Sal Si Puedes is less reportage than living history. In its pages a whole era comes alive: the Chicano, Black Power, and antiwar movements; the browning of the labor movement; Chavez's fasts; the nationwide boycott of California grapes. When Chavez died in 1993, tens of thousands gathered at his funeral. It was a clear sign of how beloved he was and how important his life had been. A new foreword by Marc Grossman considers the significance of Chavez's legacy for our time. As well as serving as an indispensable guide to the 1960s, this book rejuvenates the extraordinary vitality of Chavez's life and spirit, giving his message a renewed and much-needed urgency.Trade Review""Cesar Chavez is gracefully revealed by Peter Matthiessen as a curiously private public figure who is in love with people," * Chicago Tribune *"The spirit and sense of la Huelga”—the California grape pickers' strike”—is conveyed with passionate clarity in this fine study of Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee. . . . There isn't any fuller or sharper reportage on this subject than is found here." * Kirkus Reviews *"No labor leader has ever been better served in a contemporaneous account than Cesar Chavez is in this book by Peter Matthiessen. . . . journalism at its finest." * Agricultural History *

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Book SynopsisIn the decades after the landmark Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues. This book examines the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan.Trade Review"By looking at the antibusing uprisings that were presented in mainstream media, this recommended narrative presents civil rights through the lens of media studies and offers an entirely new way of seeing how recent history was written." Library Journal "Meticulous and insightful... Delmont's critique is tough but fair." The Boston GlobeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * The Origins of "Antibusing" Politics: From New York Protests to the Civil Rights Act 2 * Surrender in Chicago: Cities' Rights and the Limits of Federal Enforcement of School Desegregation 3 * Boston before the "Busing Crisis": Black Education Activism and Official Resistance in the Cradle of Liberty 4 * Standing against "Busing": Bipartisan and National Political Opposition to School Desegregation 5 * Richard Nixon's "Antibusing" Presidency 6 * "Miserable Women on Television": Irene McCabe, Television News, and Grassroots "Antibusing" Politics 7 * "It's Not the Bus, It's Us": The Complexity of Black Opinions on "Busing" 8 * Television News and the Making of the Boston "Busing Crisis" Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation. This fully class-tested book is the first to be organized along the lines of the major subfields of social movement scholarshipframing, movement emergence, recruitment, and outcomesto provide comprehensive coverage in a single core text. Features include:use of real data collected in the U.S. and around the worldthe emphasis on student learning outcomescase studies that bring social movements to lifeexamples of cultural repertoires used by movements (flyers, pamphlets, event data on activist websites, illustrations by activist musicians) to mobilize a grouptopics such as immigrant rights, transnational movement for climate justice, Women's Marches, Fight for $15, Occupy Wall Street, Gun Violence, Black Lives Matter, and the mobilization of popular movements in the global South on issues of authoritarian rule and neoliberalism With this book, students deepen their understanding of movement dynamics, methods of investigation, and dominant theoretical perspectives, all while being challenged to consider their own place in relation to social movements.Trade Review"Easy to read, this extensive review of social movements will benefit new scholars to the field as well as seasoned scholars interested in the organization of more recent movements." * American Ethnologist *"The book is well written and should be accessible to most readers new to the social movements field; Almeida is adept at explaining the sometimes confusing jargon that pervades the academic literature on movements." * Social Forces *"This book is a welcome addition to the academic resources available in social work education, specifically community-based social work." * Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *"For scholars of social movements in Latin America, this is a refreshing and valuable new textbook." * Latin American Politics and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Social Movements: The Structure of Collective Action 2. How to Study Social Movements: Classification and Methods 3. Theories of Social Movement Mobilization 4. Social Movement Emergence: Interests, Resource Infrastructures, and Identities 5. The Framing Process 6. Individual Recruitment and Participation 7. Movement Outcomes 8. Pushing the Limits: Social Movements in the Global South Conclusion: Mounting Crises and the Pathway Forward Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLet this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does thismoment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger examines mobilizations and movements, from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Environmental justice movements fight, survive, love, and create in the face of violence that challenges the conditions of life itself. Exploring dispossession, deregulation, privatization, and inequality, this book is the essential primer on environmental justice, packedwith cautiously hopeful stories for the future. Trade Review“Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger is a rousing primer that illuminates the movement’s core principles. It demonstrates how interconnected disparate social movements are and shows that they can coalesce into more powerful networks.” * Foreword Reviews *"A concise and powerful description of environmental injustices in various settings across the United States and its territories." * World Medical and Health Policy *"A good introductory text for an environmental justice course but can also make for an easy read to provide some basic understanding on environmental justice to an unfamiliar audience." * Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences *"The book will also no doubt become essential reading for everyone—both inside and outside the academy—who wishes to participate in building a more just, equitable, and habitable world, now and into the future." * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"In this ‘moment of danger’ Sze’s book is a call to recognize how past, present, and future are intertwined." * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction. Environmental Justice at the Crossroads of Danger and Freedom 1. This Movement of Movements 2. Environmental Justice Encounters 3. Restoring Environmental Justice Conclusion. American Optimism, Skepticism, and Environmental Justice Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKotlowski offers a surprising study of an administration that redirected the course of civil rights in America. He examines such issues as school desegregation, fair housing, voting rights, and affirmative action, as well as Native American and women's rights, and details Nixon's role, revealing a president who favored deeds over rhetoric.Trade ReviewNixon's Civil Rights is, far and away, the best book written on the topic. It is contemporary history at its absolute finest: exhaustive research, clear prose, trenchant analysis, and shrewd judgments. Anyone interested in the Civil Rights Movement, the 1970s, and the Nixon era will find this book indispensable. A truly landmark study. -- Douglas Brinkley, University of New OrleansThis book surpasses anything previously published on Nixon's civil rights in terms of research, including interviews with participants, and interpretation. The segment dealing with women's civil rights provides more details than any other work to date. Other aspects are equally well researched and controversial, particularly Kotlowski's analysis of Nixon's much publicized 'southern strategy.' He shows how limited in scope and short-lived this strategy actually was. His handling of Nixon's successful desegregation of southern schools, the president's approach to implementing civil rights in general, and his first two unsuccessful Supreme Court appointments is insightful and enlightening. -- Joan Hoff, Ohio UniversityIn this scrupulously researched investigation of his civil rights policies, Kotlowski presents a differing view of Nixon--a complex leader who listened to the advice of his knowledgeable domestic advisers...This excellent book is a worthy successor to Allen Matusow's Nixon's Economy as a skillful appraisal of Nixon's domestic policies. Highly recommended. -- Karl Helicher * Library Journal *Scholars of the Nixon presidency and of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the Nixon administration's civil rights policies. Kotlowski's book fills this void...The book shows how Nixon moved the civil rights debate from integration to economic opportunity, from rhetoric to action, and expanded the civil rights issue to women and Native Americans, while also helping to establish the Republican Party's "southern strategy". Well-researched and persuasively argued, the book captures the intriguing if frustrating complexity that characterizes Richard Nixon and will appeal equally to Nixon lovers, loathers, and those undecided. Strongly recommended. -- S. C. Matheson * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contents Prologue: Deeds versus Words 1 Flexible Response: Southern Politics and School Desegregation 2 Open Communities versus Forced Integration: Romney, Nixon, and Fair Housing 3 The Art of Compromise: Extending the Voting Rights Act 4 Jobs Are Nixon's Rights Program: The Philadelphia Plan and Affirmative Action 5 Black Power, Nixon Style: Minority Businesses and Black Colleges 6 A Cold War: Nixon and Civil Rights Leaders 7 Challenges and Opportunities: Native American Policy 8 Stops and Starts: Women's Rights Epilogue: In the Shadow of Nixon Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the 20th-century civil rights and black power eras, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold’s exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.Trade ReviewWaldo E. Martin, Jr. draws on the development of postwar black aesthetic-cultural forms to read African-American political history. He argues that what developed between the 1940s and 1970s was a ‘distinctive black cultural politics’ where culture and politics overlapped and merged… He keeps the reader focused on his central themes of hope and possibility for black political and cultural struggle between 1940 and 1979 and the drive for freedom, equality, and justice underlying cultural politics and the political culture… No Coward Soldiers constitutes a strong addition to cultural studies and analyses of African-American politics alike. While it doesn’t seek to replace more detailed historical studies of black power and civil rights that already exist, it does provide a new outlook on those histories. It is indeed an important book that ought to be read by academics and students with an interest in either or both disciplines. -- Kalbir Shukra * Ethnic and Racial Studies *No Coward Soldiers…is a fine representation of contemporary efforts in history, ethnic studies, and American studies to examine the cultural dimensions of politics, the politicization of culture, and the interaction between the two arenas… The work is a remarkable synthesis in its analysis of different facets of black culture. Martin’s canvas is rather extensive. Besides examining the artistic and political aspects of blues, spirituals, jazz, soul, rock and roll, funk, and hip-hop, he looks at sports heroes and the works of artists in different media. -- Douglas Henry Daniels * Journal of American History *Through concise and cogent observations grounded in wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Waldo Martin’s No Coward Soldiers makes a singular contribution to the literature on African-American life since World War II. Devoting special attention to music and other aspects of popular culture, Martin illuminates many of the central concerns that remain unresolved as Americans continue to debate the meaning of race. This insightful book deserves a wide readership. -- Clayborne Carson, editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960sWaldo Martin takes up the charge being led by a growing number of scholars who understand the symbiotic connections between the Civil Rights/Black Power movements and black expressive culture in a myriad of forms. Throughout the highs and lows of their freedom struggle, black Americans—in song and dance, poetry and painting, sermon and sculpture—constructed mighty cultural armature on the front lines of a social revolution. With rigor and verve, No Coward Soldiers captures the richness and complexity of that historical moment. -- Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia, author of Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin

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Book SynopsisShklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all Americans profess their devotion to the work ethic, earning remains unavailable to many who feel and are consequently treated as less than full citizens.Trade ReviewShklar has produced a compelling argument that the right to vote and the right to a job, neither of which was written into the Constitution, are nevertheless necessary for full and equal American citizenship. * Washington Monthly *A short but very potent exploration of the actual meaning of citizenship for Americans… A spirited defense of the highly privatized vision of politics which is certainly the norm in America. * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *As always, one learns from reading Shklar… The book provides an excellent interpretation of what American citizenship has meant historically. * Political Science Quarterly *Professor Shklar’s book is powerful and profound. She presents an argument that is, in many respects, original. That is, once you take in what Shklar is saying, you wonder why no one else had said it before: it is right, it is illuminating, it had been waiting to be said, it emphatically needs saying. The book is wonderful and rare. -- George Kateb, Princeton UniversityThe thesis of Judith Shklar’s American Citizenship is strong, freshly original, completely persuasive—good sense raised to a higher power… It is a deceptively modest small work which achieves large things… Shklar’s book will receive an enormous amount of well-deserved attention, for she has a genius for doing what Hegel was so supremely good at: ‘capturing’ the ethos of a nation and an age with utter persuasive precision. -- Patrick Riley, University of Wisconsin–MadisonTable of ContentsIntroduction One Voting Two Earning Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs civic education and citizenship training in secondary schools in the lower Yangzi region during the Republican era. It analyzes how students used the tools of civic education to make themselves into young citizens, and explores the complex social and political effects of educated youths' civic action.

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Book SynopsisFew other social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American society as much as the ongoing wave of new immigration. This cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigration to the U.S.Trade ReviewThe incorporation of the commentaries works well, rendering the tome less passive than many scholarly texts, and often reinforcing points raised whilst introducing new areas of discussion. Well-judged and evocative photographs by Anna LeVine give an added ‘real’ dimension to a thought-provoking work that illustrates the importance of creating a climate in which diverse ethnic groups can flourish. * British Bulletin of Publications *Crossings is must-reading for anyone interested in the ‘new immigration.’ The thoughtful and carefully researched interdisciplinary essays on economic, social, cultural, psychological, and political aspects of the Mexican immigrant experience make this volume a unique contribution to social science work on an important international topic. -- Susan Eckstein, Boston University, President of the Latin American Studies AssociationAn up-to-date look at the dynamics and effects of Mexican immigration, the longest-running and largest inflow in the history of the nation in this century. Because contributors come from both sides of the border and some of them have experienced the processes that they describe, the contents are richer and more persuasive than books written from a single-country perspective. A significant addition to the research literature on contemporary immigration. -- Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, President of the American Sociological AssociationThe originality of this timely book lies in its bilateral approach and interdisciplinary nature. A challenging work by prestigious scholars, it is a major achievement that will foster academic cooperation on one of the most complex issues in U.S.–Mexico relations. -- Mónico Verea, Founding Director and Researcher, Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Book SynopsisAs US power grew after WWI, officials and nonprofits joined to promote citizen participation in world affairs. David Allen traces the rise and fall of the Foreign Policy Association, a public-education initiative that retreated in the atomic age, scuttling dreams of democratic foreign policy and solidifying the technocratic national security model.Trade ReviewIlluminating…Allen tells an elegiac tale of the attempt to make U.S. diplomacy more democratically accountable. At a time when long-held foreign policy pieties on everything from free trade to military interventions have come unstuck, Allen’s book also serves as a guide—a record of efforts to democratize foreign affairs and their pitfalls. -- Andrew Lanham * New Republic *Every Citizen a Statesman will undoubtedly prove essential reading for historians across a variety of fields…Allen argues persuasively that the eventual creation of foreign policy free of public opinion was contested, not predetermined. -- Madelyn Lugli * Tocqueville 21 *[A] wide-ranging and extraordinary study of the FPA and its struggle to bring policymaking to the masses…Allen’s book is a wonderful contribution that deserves a wide audience. -- Brian S. Mueller * Global Policy Journal *Every Citizen a Statesman demonstrates that perennial questions about democracy and foreign policy are still worth asking, even if the answers remain out of reach. -- Tyler McBrien * Lawfare *Revelatory…Allen’s book might…be best interpreted as a message in a bottle, waiting to be picked up in a generation or two by people who hopefully live in a less undemocratic and unequal world. It will be up to them to begin the process of taking control of the state as they attempt to realize one of democracy’s highest aims: a policy by the people, not merely just for them. -- Daniel Bessner * Boston Review *US leaders often proclaim that a successful foreign policy requires public support. Yet they have been reluctant to cede power to a public with little expertise in the subject. With a firm grasp of the historical materials, a fluid writing style, and a gift for narrative, Allen shows that the United States has never figured out what a truly ‘democratic’ foreign policy might be. This fascinating book is a pleasure to read, and the lessons it draws are both timely and troubling. -- Stephen M. Walt, author of The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. PrimacyAn elegant, insightful, and wonderfully original work of history. Simultaneously a richly detailed case study of the forgotten Foreign Policy Association and a thoughtful meditation on the nature of public opinion, Every Citizen a Statesman forces us to grapple with an essential question: what would it take to democratize American foreign policy? -- Sam Lebovic, author of A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural GlobalizationA compelling and original book. Tracing the rise of the Foreign Policy Association, an organization formed to align democracy and diplomacy in the twentieth century, Allen shows how tragically difficult it can be to close the gap between powerful policymakers and a public that sees foreign affairs as distant from daily life. This insightful work shows that the relationship between the ideals of democracy and the practice of foreign policy remains as complex and relevant as ever. -- Jeremi Suri, author of Civil War by Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for DemocracyIs an authentically democratic foreign policy—that is, a foreign policy stemming from a deeply engaged public—a noble dream, a potential reality, or a fool’s errand? Allen takes up this question with an evenhanded approach and a real mastery of the source material. Timely and well argued, Every Citizen a Statesman is a major contribution to the study of US foreign relations and political history. A superb, fascinating book. -- Christopher McKnight Nichols, author of Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age

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Book SynopsisBen Laurence argues for a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. He shows that the task of political philosophy is not complete until the political philosopher asks the question “What is to be done?” and deliberates about the answer with agents of change.Trade ReviewAgents of Change is an engaging and original contribution to contemporary debate in the methodology of political philosophy. -- Saranga Sudarshan * Philosophical Quarterly *Laurence defends the Rawlsian idea that political philosophers should proffer ‘realistically utopian’ theories of justice…A thorough discussion full of distinctive ideas that repay careful consideration. -- David Wiens * Review of Politics *In Agents of Change, Ben Laurence tackles the enduring tension between utopian and practical theories of justice…Drawing from Kantian thought, he highlights the importance of addressing injustice and the rights of resistance in defining just relations among equals. -- B. V. E. Hyde * Contemporary Political Theory *Ben Laurence has written an important, elegant book. Agents of Change cogently and rigorously argues for a type of ‘ideal theory.’ Though it supplies a deep, bold, and illuminating criticism as well as a partial defense of Rawls, it is a quite original, freestanding work of political philosophy that will endure and guide our thought about change for a long time. -- Martha C. Nussbaum, University of ChicagoMust political philosophy aim at practical political action, or may it also pursue the nature and content of social justice, however unrealistic justice might be? If anyone thinks the voluminous debates about ‘ideal theory’ are played out, or thinks some position has proven itself, Ben Laurence’s elegant and searching book shows otherwise. Laurence reminds us that the questions are profound, not merely scholastic, and shows us in new ways how powerful are some of the arguments on all sides. But most important, Agents of Change develops a new, broadly Aristotelian framework that yields at once an incisive, constructive interpretation of the existing debates—it would be essential reading if only for that—and a refreshingly large step forward. -- David Estlund, Brown UniversityThis is an outstanding and timely book. It clarifies and critically assesses the most important contributions to the ongoing debate between utopian and pragmatic approaches in political philosophy. Ben Laurence also advances a novel view—the teleological conception—which captures some of the best insights in the existing competing approaches while avoiding many of their pitfalls. His explanation of the practical standpoint adopted by agents of change pursuing social justice is especially illuminating. This lucid book will appeal widely to scholars and students in philosophy, political science, law, and economics. -- Pablo Gilabert, Concordia University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Kateb] suggests that the idea of dignity is essential to the idea of human rights. By this he means that human rights are in fact derived from human dignity, which is not some spurious moral precept but an integral part of the human condition. For Kateb, dignity is not, at root, a moral phenomenon but an existential one… It is refreshing to read a work of philosophy that tries to restore some pride to our rather jaded species… Human Dignity…attempts to give human beings their due, not in any spirit of self-congratulation but so that we may build a better life for all. -- Richard King * The Australian *[A] powerful and ambitious book. [Kateb] provides a sterling example of one of the most challenging of genres, the philosophic essay. He writes not just for other scholars but for anyone who loves to think. I won’t mislead you by pretending that Human Dignity is easy and pleasant. It is demanding and pleasant, the pleasures being those of an argument that illuminates an important subject… No brief review could do justice to its bold amplitude, its intriguing twists, its problems and provocations. -- Clifford Orwin * Globe and Mail *In this lucid and highly readable ‘defense of human dignity’ and rights, Kateb explicitly avoids the use of theological insights, preferring the autonomous individual and human reason as his guides… Kateb’s critique of many prominent thinkers, including Peter Singer and J.S. Mill, and his provocative application of a theory of human dignity and rights to contemporary politics, are significant accomplishments. -- H. L. Cheek, Jr. * Choice *Kateb, like J. S. Mill, asks what objects of secular faith may candidly be used to supplant religious belief. Humanity is the answer he suggests—but humanity regarded not as the collective hero of progress or enlightenment, but as the most interesting part of nature for better and for worse: the part that holds up a mirror to the rest, even though the rest cannot recognize itself in the mirror. This is a disturbing, adventurous, and original-minded work. -- David Bromwich, Yale University[Kateb] is the last—that is, the first and only—thoroughgoing Emersonian in American political thought. -- Cornel West, Princeton University

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