Civics and citizenship Books

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 SynopsisThe story of citizenship as a tale not of liberation, dignity, and nationhood but of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination.The glorification of citizenship is a given in today's world, part of a civic narrative that invokes liberation, dignity, and nationhood. In reality, explains Dimitry Kochenov, citizenship is a story of complacency, hypocrisy, and domination, flattering to citizens and demeaning for noncitizens. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kochenov explains the state of citizenship in the modern world. Kochenov offers a critical introduction to a subject most often regarded uncritically, describing what citizenship is, what it entails, how it came about, and how its role in the world has been changing. He examines four key elements of the concept: status, considering how and why the status of citizenship is extended, what function it serves, and who is left behind; rights, particularly the right to live and work in a state; duties,

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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 SynopsisExamines, through an analysis of seven high school newspapers, the evolution of civic and political participation among young people in the United States since 1965.Trade Review“Jay Childers's work places itself within the scholarly conversation accurately, repeatedly, and convincingly, and Childers uses primary texts that, to my knowledge, have not been frequently investigated by other scholars.”—Vanessa Beasley,Vanderbilt University“We need to understand how youths experience their own citizenship if we want to reform education and politics. Because The Evolving Citizen draws on the students’ own voices and ideas, interpreted insightfully, it is a valuable and skillful contribution to our understanding of citizenship today. It is a significant book—methodologically innovative, persuasive, and carrying an important message.”—Peter Levine,Tufts University“The Evolving Citizen is an engaging look at the changing ways in which America’s teens write about their political and civic environment. This important inventory of how youths adapt to the realities of their times and alter the meaning of democracy offers reasons for hope and concern. By spanning five decades, Jay Childers’s examination of how young adults have shifted their areas of focus, their levels of engagement, and the issues they find most riveting provides insight into the evolving meaning of citizenship and changing norms of civic engagement. This is a welcome addition to the literature, offering a ground-level look at ordinary democracy.”—Gerard A. Hauser,University of Colorado BoulderTable of Contents ContentsAcknowledgments 1 American Youth: Who They Are and Why They Matter 2 American High School: Teenagers and Scholastic Journalism 3 Dislocated Cosmopolitans 4 Removed Volunteers5 Protective Critics 6 Independent Joiners 7 American Evolution, Democratic Engagement, and Civic Education Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.Trade Review“Tell’s Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America provides a critical and fascinating account of the always already ‘confessional anxiety’ that animates American public life and political culture.”—Corey D. B. Walker Journal of American History“Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America is a very smart work. It tackles the subject of public confession in a new way. Rather than identifying generic characteristics of apology and then determining that particular rhetorical acts do or do not satisfy these characteristics, Dave Tell treats the components of confession as fluid and as themselves subject to rhetorical evaluation. He examines six case studies in which a text is alleged to be a confession and makes a compelling argument that there are political stakes and consequences in the decision to label a text a confession as well as in the decision to contest that label. Tell's analysis challenges conventional wisdom over and over again. The reader will be amply rewarded with a depth of knowledge and insight about each of these significant historical moments, and he or she will have renewed appreciation for the working of rhetorical texts in history.”—David H. Zarefsky,past president of the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America“Dave Tell's book is a worthy addition to the scholarly literature on confessional culture. I especially appreciate his clear and forceful prose style and the freedom of the work from scholarly jargon and disciplinary narrowness.”—James Aune,Texas A&M University“Just as any good book should do, Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America pushed me to ask new questions with fresh vocabulary and methods. Tell’s writing is deeply compelling. His work combines the best of archival research, rhetorical criticism, and narrative.”—Jenny Rice Rhetoric Society Quarterly“Those already familiar with Tell’s previous work on the subject of confession will be pleased to find that the author has managed to break significant ground in his recent book by arguing that American public culture has been, and continues to be, fascinated with the practice of confession and what texts can be counted as such. . . . Tell’s book is a welcome addition that surely provides ample material for reflection and debate on issues related to confession and its imbrications with American public culture.”—Daniel R. Mistich Rhetoric and Public Affairs“Dave Tell is an excellent writer and thinker, incorporating provocative archival research and good storytelling, and his Confessional Crises is a welcome addition to any ongoing discussion of genre, confession, and cultural politics.”—Daniel Patrick Overton Southern Communication JournalTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics1 Confession and Sexuality: True Story Versus Anthony Comstock2 Confession and Class: A New True Story 3 Confession and Race: Civil Rights, Segregation, and the Murder of Emmett Till4 Confession and Violence: William Styron’s Nat Turner5 Confession and Religion: Jimmy Swaggart’s Secular Confession6 Confession and Democracy: Clinton, Starr, and the Witch-Hunt Tradition of American Confession Conclusion: James Frey and Twenty-First-Century Confessional CultureNotesBibliographyIndex

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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 SynopsisAnalyzes the deliberations and impact of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Argues that while it failed to realize its idealistic goals, its very failure generated valuable contestation within and beyond the TRC process.Trade Review“Just as the [Truth and Reconciliation Commission]’s ambiguities and complexities opened opportunities for productive debate, so too does From Apartheid to Democracy create openings and invite rhetorical scholars to participate in an ongoing engagement with the TRC and other truth commissions. On the whole, the rhetorical nuance of Mack’s analysis adds much to existing scholarship on the TRC and transitional justice more generally, and her multigenre analysis deftly illustrates the utility of expanding the scope of rhetorical studies on civic deliberation.”—Lindsay Harroff Rhetoric & Public Affairs“From Apartheid to Democracy is, at its core, an insightful and occasionally moving study of rhetorical form. Katherine Mack’s reflective, accessible, and judicious analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission demonstrates how the fundamentally multitextual character of the TRC produced commendable deliberative goods despite its documented shortcomings. Each chapter closely examines the generative interplay between a specific modality of public remembrance and its pragmatic function in the prolonged search for truth and reconciliation. Mack’s analysis thereby shows how multiple forms and forums of rhetorical deliberation may cumulatively assist in the difficult yet necessary work of reconciling long, painful, and often conflicting memories of violent injustice.”—Bradford Vivian,Syracuse University“Issues of memory are perhaps never more contentious than during times of upheaval and transition. Katherine Mack’s careful exploration of the rhetorics surrounding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission demonstrates the importance of these contests and draws our attention to the ways in which they take place not only in public hearings but also across a variety of texts, including the visual and the poetic. From Apartheid to Democracy offers an important reconceptualization of the work of truth commissions and broader efforts toward transitional justice.”—Kendall Phillips,Syracuse University“Foregrounding the inherent rhetoricity of truth commissions, Katherine Mack's study chronicles the failure of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to give voice to many whose humanity was brutally stolen from them. From Apartheid to Democracy not only opens space for understanding agonistic deliberation and artful dissent as reasonable responses to trauma but also expands the potential archive of public deliberation beyond the limits of phallogocentric ‘civilities.’”—Rosa Eberly,Pennsylvania State University“Katherine Mack’s innovative study of public memory in the wake of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings will change the way we understand rhetorical analysis. Mack scrupulously charts the uneven trajectories of speech, print, testimony, performance, and image as they circulate in the new South Africa, producing spaces between formerly stable categories: history and fiction, speech and silence, victim and perpetrator. From Apartheid to Democracy is a courageous book, one that should be read by anyone interested in what humanities scholarship can contribute to contemporary struggles for justice.”—Susan Jarratt,University of California, Irvine“In From Apartheid to Democracy, Katherine Mack takes a balanced, rhetorically nuanced approach to one of the most remarkable examples of transitional justice in the last century: the public memory activities of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She skillfully examines both the TRC hearings’ rhetorical dynamics and their later representations in photography and literature. Her careful, well-written analysis persuasively demonstrates how the TRC’s goal of nation-building reconciliation enabled and constrained the kinds of rhetorical acts that could be performed during the hearings, while those same contextual forces became the target of criticism and thus of rhetorical agency on the part of participants and respondents. Not only will a wide range of rhetorical critics, political theorists, and cultural historians find this a thoughtfully suggestive book, but so too will anyone interested in what Mack describes as ‘the tight braid of cultural and political projects.’”—Steven Mailloux,President’s Professor of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University“An important and original contribution in the field of transitional justice. It is accessible to a broad range of readers but will be of particular interest to practitioners and scholars interested in understanding how truth and reconciliation processes impact democratic transitions.”—Richard Lappin DemocratizationTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Rhetoricity of Truth CommissionsChapter 1: Localizing Transitional Justice in South AfricaChapter 2: Ambivalent Speech, Resonant SilencesChapter 3: Contesting AccountabilityChapter 4: Imagining ReconciliationConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays bringing together the leading scholars, teachers, coaches, and program administrators in the field of speech and debate, reflecting on the role of curricular and co-curricular speech and debate programs in civic education.Trade Review“An outstanding volume. Both wide-ranging and deep, Speech and Debate as Civic Education enlarges our understanding of intercollegiate debate by framing it in a historical context as well as by exploring its philosophical, ethical, and political possibilities. The essays consistently thematize gender, race, and culture, and together they paint a persuasive picture of why debate matters to education, and therefore to democracy. Anyone who cares about the role of rhetoric and argument in a deliberative democracy should own this book.”—William Keith,author of Democracy as Discussion: Civic Education and the American Forum Movement “Presenting an unvarnished assessment of a compelling, proven avenue for enhancing civic involvement and responsibility, Speech and Debate as Civic Education traces the ubiquitous and long-standing value of speech and debate training for local and global audiences, for middle school to college students, for majority and minority participants, and for students educated in religious and secular environments. In short, this is an invaluable resource for educators and institutions alike seeking to find needed responses to our increasingly polarized world.”—Carol Kay Winkler,Georgia State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements Foreword: Speech and Debate as Civic Education: Challenges and Opportunities - David ZarefskyIntroduction: Speech and Debate as Civic Education - J. Michael Hogan and Jessica A. KurrPart I: History of Speech and Debate as Civic Education1. Warriors and Statesmen: Debate Education among Free African American Men in Antebellum Charleston - Angela G. Ray2. Renewing a “Very Old Means of Education”: Civic Engagement and the Birth of Intercollegiate Debate in the United States - Jamie McKown3. Taking Women Seriously: Debaters, Faculty Allies, and the Feminist Work of Debating in the 1930s and 1940s - Carly S. Woods4. The Intersection of Debate and Democracy: The Shifting Role of Forensics in the History of American Civic Education - Michael D. Bartanen and Robert S. LittlefieldPart II: Debate Education and Public Deliberation5. Public Debate and American Democracy: Guidelines for Pedagogy - Robert C. Rowland6. When Argumentation Backfires: The Motivated Reasoning Predicament in Speech and Debate Pedagogy - Gordon R. Mitchell7. Teaching Religion through Argument, Speech, and Debate: Critiquing Logos and Mythos - David A. FrankPart III: Rethinking Competitive Speech and Debate8. The CEDA-Miller Center War Powers Debates: A Case for Intercollegiate Debate’s Civic Roles - Paul E. Mabrey III9. Beyond Peitho: The Women’s Debate Institute as Civic Education - Catherine H. Palczewski10. Debating Conviction: From Sincere Belief to Affective Atmosphere - Walter Greene and Darrin Hicks11. Debaters as Citizens: Rethinking Debate Frameworks to Address the Policy/Performance Divide - Sarah Stone WattPart IV: Cultivating Civic Skills and Literacy12. Debate Activities and the Promise of Citizenship - Edward A. Hinck13. Deliberation as Civic Education: Incorporating Public Deliberation into the Communication Studies Curriculum - Sara A. Mehltretter Drury, Rebecca A. Kuehl, and Jenn Anderson14. Youth, Networks, and Civic Engagement: Communities of Belonging and Communities of Practice - G. Thomas Goodnight, Minhee Son, Jin Huang, and Ann Crigler15. Pathways to Civic Education: Urban Debate Leagues as Communities of Practice - Melissa Maxcy WadePart V: International Collaboration and Interconnections in Debates16. Comparing Argument and Debate Modes to Invoke Student Civic Engagement: Learning from ‘The Ben’ - Allan D. Louden and Taylor W. Hahn17. The Worlds-Style Debate Format: Performing Global Citizenship - Una Kimokeo-Goes18. Suzhi Jiaoyu, Debate, and Civic Education in China - Laskai, David Weeks and Tim LewisSelect BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisRoberts seeks to show how and why world citizenship and mundialism—the building of global institutions—are essential for the human race to solve the growing problems of the environment, international violence, and other major world challenges.Table of ContentsA General Introduction to Mundialism World Citizenship A Sketch of the History of Mundialism Ideologies and the Principles of World Order Violence, Force and Law Language and Democracy The United Nations Reform of the United Nations Global Challenges Militarism and the Arms-Race Human Rights and World Law World Federal Government Governance Future Unlimited Books on World Citizenship and Mundialism Index

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Book SynopsisBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia.Trade ReviewThis intimate, brave memoir is also one that many women will recognize as their own: a lifetime spent trying to heal others and the world, only to discover one must start with oneself."" - Robin Morgan, editor of Sisterhood Is Powerful ""This book is the real deal, the way it was. A good book for folks to grow on. I love it! Bravo!"" - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple ""Exceptional. It is a real challenge to write a memoir that is intellectually deep, psychologically sophisticated, and politically principled that is also engaging, accessible, funny, and tender. Loving before Loving certainly is all that. What a remarkable ride."" - Becky Thompson, author of A Promise and a Way of Life ""Vividly written and profoundly moving, Joan Lester's journey-as wife, mother, activist-is politically insightful and prescient. Since her vigorous and heartfelt observations and analyses are generative and healing, this memoir is needed now when our racial conflicts, always profound, continue to intensify."" - Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Book SynopsisThis work traces political struggles over U.S. citizenship laws from the colonial period through to the Progressive era. It shows how and why throughout this time most adults were denied access to full citizenship, including political rights, solely because of their race, ethnicity or gender.

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Book SynopsisA leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme CourtTrade Review"Documents the hostility of the Rehnquist and Roberts courts to the enforcement of citizens’ constitutional rights. . . . Clear, cogent, passionate and persuasive. . . . Awash in examples of disturbing decisions of the Supreme Court."—Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post"Powerful and impassioned . . . anything but dry reading. Its cogent analysis is enhanced by practical steps for enabling federal courts to again truly enforce the U.S. Constitution."—Publishers Weekly"Chemerinsky shows how judicial deference undercuts democracy in significant ways. . . . This book is the strongest argument I have seen in favor of judicial power."—Kent Greenfield, author of The Myth of Choice"Few principles are more basic to constitutional law than the notion that if justice is to have meaning, it must be equally available to all. Yet as Erwin Chemerinsky shows in this compelling and searing indictment, the Supreme Court has erected barrier after barrier to ordinary citizens who seek nothing more than their day in court. This is a must-read for all who wonder why the promise of equal justice under law has been so severely eroded."—David Cole, Georgetown Law, author of Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law "In this book, Erwin Chemerinsky has eloquently and persuasively articulated his insightful vision of the unique role of the federal courts in our political system. All Americans—especially those sitting on the federal bench—should take heed."—Martin Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law"A masterful exposition of how the federal courts are using abstruse and unfounded procedural doctrines, from abstention to standing, to foul away our rights. Not for lawyers only!"—Susan Herman, President, American Civil Liberties Union

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Book SynopsisWhat do ordinary citizens really want from their governments?Trade Review"This is a deeply original and well-written book. The focus on conversations, combined with personal reflections and engagement with key theory, is valuable, personal and always feels intimate—rare in a book about something so abstract and distant as 'democracy.'"—Mark Deuze, author of Media Life“Papacharissi brings her singular style to understanding today’s reeling democracy. After Democracy provides a blueprint for more engaged and creative communication research and more responsive and responsible governance.”—Adrienne Russell, author of Journalism as Activism: Recoding Media Power“Derived from listening to citizens’ discontent with how they’re governed, Zizi Papacharissi ‘s After Democracy is a wise book on democracy’s unfilled promise, and how that promise can be more fully realized in the technological age.”—Thomas E. Patterson, author of We The People: An Introduction to American Government“At a moment when the future of democracy is in question, After Democracy provides a much needed reflection on what we are truly ‘after,’ and how we might achieve it.”—­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Michael X. Delli Carpini, author of After Broadcast News“A fascinating perspective on our current political, economic and communication crises, featuring citizen interviews from around the world. After Democracy offers insightful conclusions about how we can restore democracy.”—W. Lance Bennett, author of News: The Politics of Illusion

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Book SynopsisSeptember 17, 1862, was America''s bloodiest day. When it ended, 3,654 soldiers lay dead on the land surrounding Antietam Creek in Western Maryland. The battle fought there was as deadly as the stakes were high.For the first time, the Rebels had taken the war into Union territory. A Southern victory would have ended the war and split the nation in two. Instead, the North managed to drive the Confederate army back into Virginia. Emboldened by victory, albeit by the thinnest of margins, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves and investing the war with a new, higher purpose.In this vivid, character-rich narrative, acclaimed author Justin Martin reveals why this battle was the Civil War''s tipping point. The battle featured an unusually rich cast of characters and witnessed important advances in medicine and communications. But the impact of the battle on politics and society was its most important legacy. Had the outcome been different, Martin

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Book SynopsisAn enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms. With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s fairness, enhanced the executive branch’s power over citizens and immigrants, and impaired some of the freewheeling debate and protest essential in a constitutional democracy. Shipler demonstrates how the violations tamper with America’s safety in unexpected ways. While a free society takes risks to observe rights, denying rights creates other risks. A suspect’s right to silence may deprive police of a confession, but a forced confession is often false. Honoring the right to a jury trial may be cumbersome, but e

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Book SynopsisA provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in AmericaWith his best seller The Working Poor, Pulitzer Prize winner and former New York Times veteran David K. Shipler cemented his place among our most trenchant social commentators. Now he turns his incisive reporting to a critical American ideal: freedom of speech. Anchored in personal stories—sometimes shocking, sometimes absurd, sometimes dishearteningly familiar—Shipler’s investigations of the cultural limits on both expression and the willingness to listen build to expose troubling instabilities in the very foundations of our democracy. Focusing on recent free speech controversies across the nation, Shipler maps a rapidly shifting topography of political and cultural norms: parents in Michigan rallying to teachers vilified for their reading lists; conservative ministers risking their churches’ tax-exempt status to preach politics from the pulpit; national

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Book SynopsisExamines cases through the analytical framework of critical race theory. This third edition includes a new chapter on racial bias and the judiciary and a focus on fighting racism in the21st century. There is a separate chapter on torts, contracts, criminal procedure, criminal law and sentencing, property, and civil procedure.

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Book Synopsis* What is citizenship?* Is global citizenship possible?* Can cosmopolitanism provide an alternative to globalization?Citizenship in a Global Age provides a comprehensive and concise overview of the main debates on citizenship and the implications of globalization. It argues that citizenship is no longer defined by nationality and the nation state, but has become de-territorialized and fragmented into the separate discourses of rights, participation, responsibility and identity. Gerard Delanty claims that cosmopolitanism is increasingly becoming a significant force in the global world due to new expressions of cultural identity, civic ties, human rights, technological innovations, ecological sustainability and political mobilization. Citizenship is no longer exclusively about the struggle for social equality but has become a major site of battles over cultural identity and demands for the recognition of group difference. Delanty argues that globalization both threatens aTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordPreface and acknowledgementsIntroductionPart one: Models of citizenshipThe liberal theory of citizenshiprights and dutiesCommunitarian theories of citizenshipparticipation and identityThe radical theories of politicscitizenship and democracyPart two: The cosmopolitan challengeCosmopolitan citizenshipbeyond the nation-stateHuman rights and citizenshipthe emergence of the embodied selfGlobalization and the deterritorialization of spacebetween order and chaosThe transformation of the nation-statenationalism, the city, migration and multi-culturalismEuropean integration and postnational citizenshipfour kinds of postnationalizationPart three: Rethinking citizenshipThe reconfiguration of citizenshippostnational governance in the multi-levelled polityConclusionthe idea of civic cosmopolitanismReferencesIndex.

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Book SynopsisHong Kongâs âUmbrella Revolutionâ has been widely regarded as a watershed moment in the polityâs post-1997 history. While public protest has long been a routine part of Hong Kongâs political culture, the preparedness of large numbers of citizens to participate in civil disobedience represented a new moment for Hong Kong society, reflecting both a very high level of politicisation and a deteriorating relationship with Beijing. The transformative processes underpinning the dramatic events of autumn 2014 have a wide relevance to scholarly debates on Hong Kong, China and the changing contours of world politics today. This book provides an accessible entry point into the political and social cleavages that underpinned, and were expressed through, the Umbrella Movement. A key focus is the societal context and issues that have led to growth in a Hong Kong identity and how this became highly politically charged during the Umbrella Movement. It is widely recognised that political and Trade Review'This lucidly written book offers a timely analysis of the various shapes of Hong Kong’s thriving localism. It is both empirically rich and theoretically sound. In general, it reveals to keen readers a complex systems theory of changing interconnections, including; generational replacement, new socio-political movements, delicately changing situational identity informed by established as well as emerging social, economic and political divides. It is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand the haphazard development of Hong Kong in a process of accelerating absorption into Mainland China.' - KUAN, Hsin Chi, Emeritus Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTable of ContentsNotes on contributorsIntroductionChapter 1 Decolonisation deferred: Hong Kong identity in historical perspective (Wing Sang Law)Chapter 2 Changing identity politics: The democracy movement in Hong Kong (Ma Ngok)Chapter 3 Mainland Chinese immigration in Hong Kong (香港新移民): Analysing anti-immigrant sentiment (James F. Downes)Chapter 4 Hong Kong’s fragmented soul: Exploring brands of localism (Wai-man Lam)Chapter 5 ‘You have to fight on your own’ Self-alienation and the new Hong Kong nationalism (Luke Cooper)Chapter 6 The development of Hong Kong identity: From local to national identity (Stephan Ortmann)Chapter 7 Visual and discourse resistance on the "China Factor": The cultural formation of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Wai-Kwok Benson Wong)Chapter 8 From past to future: Hong Kong’s democratic movement (Benny Y. T. TAI)

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Book SynopsisThe definitive pictorial history of the diverse peoples of the world who have made New York their home.

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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 Synopsis“Wide-ranging yet brilliantly astute. . . . Davies is a wild and surprising thinker who also happens to be an elegant writer.” — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times

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

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Book SynopsisSecuritizations of Citizenship investigates how the fate of citizenship is now caught up in a dramatic and dangerous process of securitizing political communities. In the nervous state of affairs of the post-9/11 period, technologies of surveillance and control are rapidly proliferating, creating severe constraints for the enactment of citizenship practices. While citizenship has always faced the problem of exclusiveness, the contemporary relationship between security, territory, and population is being transformed in ways that are creating new dynamics of exclusion for citizens, non-citizens, and quasi-citizens alike. This book assesses a variety of citizenship practices in relation to the emergence of forms of governance that are responsive to and constitutive of fears, anxieties, and insecurities in the population. At the same time, the book identifies and assesses citizenship practices for how they can mobilize progressive forces to militate against the nervousTable of ContentsIntroduction: Securitizations of Citizenship Peter Nyers 1. The Neurotic Citizen Engin F. Isin 2. Secure Borders, Safe Haven, Domopolitics William Walters 3. Renormalizing Citizenship and Life in Fortress North America Davina Bhandar 4. (Dis)Qualified Bodies: Securitization, Citizenship and ‘Identity Management’ Benjamin J. Muller 5. Security, Flexible Sovereignty, and the Perils of Multiple Citizenship Daiva Stasiulis and Darryl Ross 6. The Accidental Citizen Peter Nyers 7. Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The Struggle of the Sans-Papiers Anne McNevin 8. The Production of Culprits: From Deportability to Detainability in the Aftermath of ‘Homeland Security’ Nicholas De Genova 9. Citizenship for All Barry Hindess

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events â such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics â which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.At a time where catastrophe increasingly functions as a signifier of our future, imaginaries of pending doom have fostered new modes of anticipatory knowledge and redeployed existing ones. Although it shares many similarities with crises, disasters, risks and other disruptive incidents, this book claims that catastrophes also bring out the very limits of knowledge and management. The politics of catastrophe is turned towards an unknown future, which must be imagined and inhabited in order to be made palpable, knowable and actionable. Politics of Catastrophe critically assesses the effects of these new practices of knowing and governing catastrophes to come and challenges the reader to think about the possibility of an alternative politicTrade Review'[The authors] offer cutting and quite thrilling critiques of Western security practices - theoretically adept and beautifully written, they are at the forefron of exciting new research to come.' - Peter Adey, Radical Philosophy, 176, November/December 2012‘This book advances our understanding of the complex and often paradoxical terrain of the catastrophe as a field of knowledge and target of anticipatory governance. In doing so, its authors stand at the forefront of new thinking about contemporary regimes of security, power and governmentality.’ - Mitchell Dean, University of Newcastle, Australia'This excellent volume is the first book-length engagement with the implications of catastrophe for contemporary practices of security governing. It is an important contribution to our current understandings of the politics of preemption, and it is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the contemporary logic of security and securitization.' - Mariek de Goede, University of Amsterdam '[T]his is a well-crafted and historically grounded comparative study that makes a welcomed and valuable contribution to the literature on foreign policy Europeanization and Europe−Latin America relations. Highly recommended for practitioners, students and scholars alike.' - Antonio Raimundo, NICPRI-University of Minho, Portugal'In addition to the discussion of emergent ways of anticipating the future and positioning political subjectivity, this excellent book establishes new paths by which to appropriate catastrophe conceptually. Overall, this book works both to consolidate and seriously further our understanding of the complex relations between knowledge and what it means to govern - and be governed by - unknown futures.' Nathaniel O'Grady, Durham University, Political Theory JournalTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Securing Catastrophic Futures 3. Conjectures of Catastrophe: ‘The Next Terrorist Attack’ 4. Economies of Catastrophe 5. Imagining Catastrophes 6. Aesthetics of Catastrophe 7. Catastrophe, Exception, Event 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the 1960s and 1970s, an energetic new social movement emerged among Mexican Americans. Fighting for civil rights and celebrating a distinct ethnic identity, the Chicano Movement had a lasting impact on the United States, from desegregation to bilingual education.Rethinking the Chicano Movement provides an astute and accessible introduction to this vital grassroots movement. Bringing together different fields of research, this comprehensive yet concise narrative considers the Chicano Movement as a national, not just regional, phenomenon, and places it alongside the other important social movements of the era. Rodriguez details the many different facets of the Chicano movement, including college campuses, third-party politics, media, and art, and traces the development and impact of one of the most important post-WWII social movements in the United States.Trade Review"With Rethinking the Chicano Movement, Marc Simon Rodriguez has artfully placed El Movimiento into its rightful place in American civil rights history. Rethinking is a critical addition to the undergraduate classroom, a significant reinterpretation of the movement’s legacy, and an exceptional read for anyone interested in Mexican American and civil rights history. This book is a must read."—Michael Innis-Jiménez, author of Steel Barrio: Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940"This book offers a compelling narrative of the Chicano movement, bringing to light its broad history, successes and limitations, as well as much new information on the struggle. Rethinking the Chicano Movement is a tremendously ambitious and important work."—Brian D. Behnken, author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas"Rodriguez has written an interesting and fresh interpretation of the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is an exciting book combining dramatic chapters with an insightful and balanced analysis. Historians will welcome this superbly rendered synthesis. It is ideally suited for students seeking to understand the social ferment that surrounded the Chicano struggle for equality and justice."—Zaragosa Vargas, author of Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican America from Colonial Times to the PresentTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mexican Americanism and the Long Chicano MovementChapter 1: A Growing Militancy: The Farm Workers in California and Political Activism in TexasChapter 2: The New Urban Politics: Chicanos and The War on PovertyChapter 3: Youth and the Campus: Chicano Students and Chicano EducationChapter 4: News and the Movement: Newspapers and Ideas in the Chicano MovementChapter 5: Art and the Movement: Chicano Murals and Community SpaceConclusion: Rethinking to Move ForwardBibliography

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Book SynopsisTelling Maya Tales offers an experimental ethnographic portrait of the San Juan Chamula, the largest and most influential Maya community of Highland Chiapas, in the late twentieth century--the era of the Zapatistas. In this collection of essays, the author, whose field work in the area spans two generations of anthropological thought, explores several expressions of Tzotzil ethnic affirmation, ranging from oral narrative to ritual drama and political action. His work covers the current era, when the Chamula Tzotzils mingle chaotically and sometimes violently with the social and political space of modern Mexico--most recently, in the context of the Maya Zapatista movement of 1994.Trade Review"Gary H. Gossen, a seasoned anthropologist with extensive field experience in Chiapas from the time of the "Harvard Chiapas Project" in the 1960s...offers many pieces of rich ethnography and interesting interpretation." -- Latin American Research ReviewTable of ContentsPreface --Telling Maya Tales 1. The Other in Chamula Tzotzil Cosmology and History: Reflections of a Kansan in Chiapas 2. True Ancient Words 3. On the Human Condition and the Moral Order 4. Language and Indians' Place in Chiapas 5. The Chamula Festival of Games: Native Macroanalysis and Social Commentary in a Maya Carnival 6. The Topography of Ancient Maya Religious Pluralism: A Dialogue with the Present 7. Indians Inside and Outside of the Mexican National Idea: A Case Study of the Modern Diaspora of San Juan Chamula 8. Life, Death, and Apotheosis of a Chamula Protestant Leader: Biography as Social History 9. From Olmecs to Zapatistas: A Once and Future History of Maya Souls 10. Maya Zapatistas Move to an Open Future

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Book SynopsisPostethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism.

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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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