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Book SynopsisThis book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this phrase, the Johnson administration provided its imprimatur for an emerging model of professionalism that sought to eradicate boundaries between professionals and their clients—a model that appealed to writers, especially African Americans and Chicanos/as associated with the cultural nationalisms gaining traction in the inner cities. These writers privileged artistic process over product, rejecting conventions that separated writers from their audiences. "Participatory professionalism," however, drew on a social scientific conception of poverty that proved to be the paradigm's undoing: the culture of poverty thesis popularized by Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Daniel Moynihan. For writers and policy experts associated with the War on Poverty, this thesis described the cultural gap that they hoped to close. Instead, it eventually led to the dismantling of the welfare state. Ranging from the 1950s to the present, the book explores how writers like Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Alice Walker, Philip Roth, and others exposed the War on Poverty's contradictions during its heyday and kept its legacy alive in the decades that followed.Trade Review"The works analyzed here—many of which I have taught often and know well—come alive in new ways as Stephen Schryer puts them in conversation with each other and with their historical era. Here's one reliable sign of success: I am sure that I will read these texts differently from now on." -- Carlo Rotella * Boston College *"Stephen Schryer introduces new research into the literature of poverty, demonstrating how a generation of writers engaged with the ideals and problems of welfare-state liberalism. Well-written and wide-ranging, his book shows that confronting poverty alters literary discourse, just as it fractures assumptions based on cultural identity and political sensibility." -- Gavin Jones * Stanford University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Maximum Feasible Participation chapter abstractFocusing on the African American poet and playwright Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the Introduction explores links between 1950s and 1960s process literature and the Community Action Program. Baraka's Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School (BARTS) was funded through the War on Poverty, and his version of process art fulfilled the participatory requirements of the Community Action Program. Both Baraka and many welfare activists allied with the Community Action Program also drew on a binary conception of class culture popularized by the post–World War II counterculture and liberal social science. This binary conception produced two figures that alternately incited and frustrated literary and social work efforts to bridge the gap between the middle class and the poor: the juvenile delinquent and the welfare mother. 1Jack Kerouac's Delinquent Art chapter abstractThis chapter puts the Beat writer Jack Kerouac in conversation with 1950s sociologists and psychologists interested in juvenile delinquency. These social scientists used the delinquent to develop ideas that would culminate in the class culture paradigm of the 1960s. Kerouac's fiction prefigures this paradigm, drawing on the work of Oswald Spengler to distinguish between lower-class minority and middle-class white cultures in the United States. In autobiographical novels like Maggie Cassidy, On the Road, and Dr. Sax, Kerouac imagines the delinquent as a self-divided figure, alienated from the traditional lower class and unable to adapt to the new demands of the rising professional class. His version of process art replicates this division, offering its readers a failed synthesis of middlebrow and avant-garde literature. 2Black Arts and the Great Society chapter abstractThis chapter discusses two Black Arts writers who benefited from War on Poverty patronage: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Gwendolyn Brooks. In The System of Dante's Hell and In the Mecca, the two writers developed distinct versions of participatory art. Like much of Baraka's Beat-period work, The System of Dante's Hell thematizes his dissatisfaction with the white counterculture and desire to create art that could connect him with black urban audiences. However, the novel draws on the counterculture's essentialist conception of lower-class culture in ways that would continue to shape Baraka's cultural nationalist output of the late 1960s. In contrast, Brooks's In the Mecca rejects the immersive drama that defines Baraka's Black Arts. Inspired by her Community Action Program–sponsored work with Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, the collection insists that minority poets use the resources of poetic form to achieve a calibrated distance from their lower-class subjects. 3Legal Services and the Cockroach Revolution chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on the Chicano writer and lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta, whose novels, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People, chart his transformation into a radical lawyer for Los Angeles's Brown Power Movement. Acosta began his career with Legal Services, a network of War on Poverty–funded Legal Aid offices. When he turned to movement activism, he radicalized Legal Services' demand that lawyers use their expertise to challenge laws that work against the interest of their lower-class clients. This demand became central to Acosta's version of process art. At the same time, Acosta's work replicates gender biases that ran throughout the War on Poverty. His political turn entailed his rejection of welfare mothers as clients in favor of militant young men—a turn that paralleled the War on Poverty's focus on male delinquents. 4Writing Urban Crisis after Moynihan chapter abstractThis chapter explores literary responses to the late 1960s crisis in participatory professionalism, provoked by the period's race riots and by conservatives' successful appropriation of liberal poverty discourse. The chapter focuses on two texts that address the Community Action Program: Joyce Carol Oates's them and Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. While these texts voice opposing political positions, both distrust white liberal efforts to speak for the ghetto, drawing on traditions of urban writing (naturalism and literary journalism) that resist the process imperative to break down barriers between author, audience, and lower-class subject matter. At the same time, both writers complicate their literary objectivity by incorporating aspects of the very participatory professionalism they seek to delimit. 5Civil Rights and the Southern Folk Aesthetic chapter abstractThis chapter explores the persistence of community action as an ideal in post-1960s black feminist fiction, focusing on Alice Walker's Meridian and Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters. Both writers began their careers as social workers associated with War on Poverty programs; both were also influenced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's version of community action, implemented during the 1964 Freedom Summer. In their novels, Walker and Bambara explore the legacy of the civil rights movement, focusing on intraracial class divisions that community action was supposed to suture. In both novels, these divisions turn out to be ineradicable, and their persistence marks the Southern folk aesthetic—the influential version of process art that Walker, Bambara, and other black feminist writers created in the 1970s. 6Who Belongs in the University? chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on Philip Roth's late 1990s novel, The Human Stain, arguing that the novel draws an analogy between the university and the Democratic Party. In early War on Poverty–era novels like Portnoy's Complaint, Roth developed an antiprocess conception of art and welfare politics, one that conceived of works of art and public institutions as products that require audiences to appreciate them on their own terms. In The Human Stain, Roth extends this conception to the postmodern academy, using it to criticize multicultural education and affirmative action. Linking the university and New Deal liberal coalition, Roth insists that both are under assault by cultural and ideological outsiders. This analogy leads Roth to embrace a strategic conservatism, one that echoes the politics of Bill Clinton, whose impeachment trial recurs throughout The Human Stain. Conclusion: Working-Class Community Action chapter abstractThe Conclusion sums up ongoing anxieties about lower-class cultural difference in the wake of Donald Trump's electoral victory, exploring the notion that the rural white working class inhabits an alternative culture hostile toward expert knowledge. The Conclusion develops this notion through a reading of Carolyn Chute's The School on Heart's Content Road and Treat Us like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves. In these fictions, Chute imagines an educational co-op that creates working-class experts, bypassing the division between professionals and lower-class clients that marked the Community Action Program. Chute embodies this notion of working-class expertise in the novels' form; she presents them as alternative histories, accessible to nonexpert reading practices. However, the novels replicate the War on Poverty–era notion of class culture, which cannot be eradicated without exterminating the tribal consciousness of working-class Maine.

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Book SynopsisA new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking and making an idea whose time has come? Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement takes the rise of the maker movement as its starting point. Hacker and makerspaces, fab labs, and DIY bio spaces are emerging all over the world. Based on a study of hacker and makerspaces across the US, the book explores cultures of hacking and making in the context of wider social changes, arguing that excitement about the maker movement is not just about the availability of new technologies, but the kinds of citizens we are expected to be.Trade Review"This is a well-written guide to hackerspaces and the rise of the maker movement. The book pleasingly embraces all kinds of making – a point made from the first page onwards, where sourdough-making is equated with more high-tech practices – and includes honest discussion of gender issues and exclusion. Excellent."David Gauntlett, University of Westminster"Sarah Davies provides deep insight in an accessible format into how hackerspace culture came to be, what makes it tick, and what questions we should be asking in this context."Austin Toombs, Indiana University"An enthusiastic but critically aware study of US "hackerspaces"Times Higher Education Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction There are a number of places this book could begin 2. Craft, DIY and Active Leisure It started with Stitch �n� Bitch 3. Histories of Hacking and Making There should be diversity in the hackerspace movement, he says 4. How do Hackerspaces Work? Hacker and makerspaces can look, feel and smell quite different 5. The Hacker Spirit I'm a big advocate for this sort of lifestyle and culture 6. How do Hackerspaces Really Work? They don't have a sense of community that you find in a hackerspace 7. Exclusion Whatever it is females like to talk about 8. Cool Projects Rather, it was a Trojan horse 9. Emancipation and Commodification This was a movement that could do something good 10. Who is a Hacker? No one is claiming that involvement in a quilting circle is going to prompt a new industrial revolution 11. Conclusion Two reasons hacking is timely, and three reasons it is conflicted Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking and making an idea whose time has come? Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement takes the rise of the maker movement as its starting point. Hacker and makerspaces, fab labs, and DIY bio spaces are emerging all over the world. Based on a study of hacker and makerspaces across the US, the book explores cultures of hacking and making in the context of wider social changes, arguing that excitement about the maker movement is not just about the availability of new technologies, but the kinds of citizens we are expected to be.Trade Review"This is a well-written guide to hackerspaces and the rise of the maker movement. The book pleasingly embraces all kinds of making – a point made from the first page onwards, where sourdough-making is equated with more high-tech practices – and includes honest discussion of gender issues and exclusion. Excellent."David Gauntlett, University of Westminster"Sarah Davies provides deep insight in an accessible format into how hackerspace culture came to be, what makes it tick, and what questions we should be asking in this context."Austin Toombs, Indiana University"An enthusiastic but critically aware study of US "hackerspaces"Times Higher Education Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction There are a number of places this book could begin 2. Craft, DIY and Active Leisure It started with Stitch ’n’ Bitch 3. Histories of Hacking and Making There should be diversity in the hackerspace movement, he says 4. How do Hackerspaces Work? Hacker and makerspaces can look, feel and smell quite different 5. The Hacker Spirit I'm a big advocate for this sort of lifestyle and culture 6. How do Hackerspaces Really Work? They don't have a sense of community that you find in a hackerspace 7. Exclusion Whatever it is females like to talk about 8. Cool Projects Rather, it was a Trojan horse 9. Emancipation and Commodification This was a movement that could do something good 10. Who is a Hacker? No one is claiming that involvement in a quilting circle is going to prompt a new industrial revolution 11. Conclusion Two reasons hacking is timely, and three reasons it is conflicted Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views culture simultaneously in two ways: as a world of texts, tangible and shareable products of signifying acts, and as a space of practices, repeatable activities that produce, disseminate and interpret these clusters of meaning. Both approaches are developed into corresponding models of culture which, used together, are able to provide a rich understanding of any meaning in action. In developing this innovative theory, Raud draws on a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies to semiotics and philosophy. The theory is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from both �high� and popular culture, and from Western and Asian traditions, dealing with both contemporary and historical topics. The book concludes with two case studies from very different contexts – one dealing with Italian poetry in the 13th century, the other dealing with the art scene in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. This timely and original work makes a major new contribution to the theory of culture and will be welcomed by students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.Trade Review"A high wire act of cultural theorizing, ambitious and original. Raud pushes the textual tradition of semiotics further than anybody has ever done, into situated, existential practices and circulating cultural institutions. The case studies are fascinating in themselves and illustrate how Raud's theory might work in practice."—Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University "Professor Raud's range is amazing and his book combines in an exciting way perspectives which usually are kept separate. His voice, coming from a less well-known tradition, adds a genuinely new element."—Maurice Bloch, The London School of Economics and Political Science "Meaning in Action would be worth reading for the ambition and importance of its project alone, but Raud's thorough analysis of the fundamentals of culture make this an extremely worthwhile read, and one that I think may spawn a vital discussion about the basic conceptual structure of culture itself."—Cultural SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction An outline of the theory and the book 1 Looking for culture, looking at things Social/cultural Cultural communities The cultural subject Summary 2 Meaning and signification The problem of reference Two kinds of concepts The internalisation of meaning Claims and bids Summary 3 Culture as textuality Base-texts and result-texts The operational memory Organisation of knowledge Standards and codes Summary 4 Culture as a network of practices The cultural role: functions and goals of a practice The social position: the carrier and status of a practice Materials and rules Cultural institutions Summary 5 Case Study I: The metaphysics of love and the beginnings of Italian vernacular poetry Italian political landscape in the 13th century: the bidding space The poetic context The carriers of the practice The science of love as privileged knowledge Vulgare, the medium Institutions and textuality Summary 6 Case Study II: Art and politics in Eastern Europe in the 1990s The institutions The carriers Textuality, codes and languages Summary 7 Concluding remarks A few final words References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory views culture simultaneously in two ways: as a world of texts, tangible and shareable products of signifying acts, and as a space of practices, repeatable activities that produce, disseminate and interpret these clusters of meaning. Both approaches are developed into corresponding models of culture which, used together, are able to provide a rich understanding of any meaning in action. In developing this innovative theory, Raud draws on a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies to semiotics and philosophy. The theory is illustrated throughout with examples drawn from both �high� and popular culture, and from Western and Asian traditions, dealing with both contemporary and historical topics. The book concludes with two case studies from very different contexts – one dealing with Italian poetry in the 13th century, the other dealing with the art scene in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. This timely and original work makes a major new contribution to the theory of culture and will be welcomed by students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.Trade Review"A high wire act of cultural theorizing, ambitious and original. Raud pushes the textual tradition of semiotics further than anybody has ever done, into situated, existential practices and circulating cultural institutions. The case studies are fascinating in themselves and illustrate how Raud's theory might work in practice."—Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University "Professor Raud's range is amazing and his book combines in an exciting way perspectives which usually are kept separate. His voice, coming from a less well-known tradition, adds a genuinely new element."—Maurice Bloch, The London School of Economics and Political Science "Meaning in Action would be worth reading for the ambition and importance of its project alone, but Raud's thorough analysis of the fundamentals of culture make this an extremely worthwhile read, and one that I think may spawn a vital discussion about the basic conceptual structure of culture itself."—Cultural SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction An outline of the theory and the book 1 Looking for culture, looking at things Social/cultural Cultural communities The cultural subject Summary 2 Meaning and signification The problem of reference Two kinds of concepts The internalisation of meaning Claims and bids Summary 3 Culture as textuality Base-texts and result-texts The operational memory Organisation of knowledge Standards and codes Summary 4 Culture as a network of practices The cultural role: functions and goals of a practice The social position: the carrier and status of a practice Materials and rules Cultural institutions Summary 5 Case Study I: The metaphysics of love and the beginnings of Italian vernacular poetry Italian political landscape in the 13th century: the bidding space The poetic context The carriers of the practice The science of love as privileged knowledge Vulgare, the medium Institutions and textuality Summary 6 Case Study II: Art and politics in Eastern Europe in the 1990s The institutions The carriers Textuality, codes and languages Summary 7 Concluding remarks A few final words References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. He uses this model to shed new light on a wide range of social actors, movements, and events, demonstrating through striking empirical examples the drama of social life. Producing successful dramas determines the outcome of social movements and provides the keys to political power. Modernity has neither eliminated aura nor suppressed authenticity; on the contrary, they are available to social actors who can perform them in compelling ways. This volume further consolidates Alexander’s reputation as one of the most original social thinkers of our time. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology and cultural studies as well as throughout the social sciences and humanities.Trade Review“From Mao to Martin Luther King, Mubarak’s Egypt to Obama’s America, the ritual roots of social structure to the performativity of postmodern everyday life, Alexander shows how we live and act today. This book is a necessary update on Erving Goffman and Victor Turner, a brilliantly illuminating must-read for all humanists, social scientists, and dramaturges.”Richard Schechner, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University “Jeffrey Alexander’s — The Drama of Social Life — reveals the ability of this essential American social theorist to unpack and explain the dynamic dramas of large-scale change. Ranging from Tahrir Square to the Black Lives Matter movement to the Obama White House, Alexander connects these world-shaking political events to their essential performative qualities, a core feature of modernity. Some books are designed to be read, while others demand to be read and discussed. This book is one of the latter.”Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: A New Theory of Modernity from Ritual to Performance 1. Seizing the Stage: Mao, MLK, and Black Lives Matter Today 2. Revolutionary Performance in Egypt: The 2011 Uprising 3. Political Performance in the U.S.: Obama’s 2012 Re-Election 4. Dramatic Intellectuals 5. Social Theory and the Theatrical Avant-Guard Notes

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Book SynopsisSince the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroughly updated third edition provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of global entertainment.The music industry has experienced two turbulent decades of immense change brought about in part by the digital revolution. How has the industry been transformed by these economic and technological upheavals, and how is it likely to change in the future? What is the role of music in this digital age? Wikström illuminates the workings of the industry, deftly capturing the dynamics at work in the production of musical culture between the transnational media conglomerates, the independent music companies and the public. New to this third edition are expanded sections on the changing structure of the music industry, the impact of digitization on music listening practices, and the evolution of music streaming platforms.Engaging and comprehensive, The Music Industry is a must-read for students and scholars of media and communication studies, cultural studies, popular music, sociology and economics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Music in the Cloud 1 A Copyright Industry 2 Inside the Music Industry 3 Music and the Media 4 Making Music 5 The Social and Creative Music Fan 6 Future Sounds Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBorn Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with the Italian journalist Thomas Leoncini, exactly sixty years his junior. In these exchanges with Leoncini, Bauman considers, for the first time, the world of those born after the early 1980s, the individuals who were ‘born liquid’ and feel at home in a society of constant flux. As always, taking his cue from contemporary issues and debates, Bauman examines this world by discussing what are often regarded as its most ephemeral features. The transformation of the body – tattoos, cosmetic surgery, hipsters – aggression, bullying, the Internet, online dating, gender transitions and changing sexual preferences are all analysed with characteristic brilliance in this concise and topical book, which will be of particular interest to young people, natives of the liquid modern world, as well as to Bauman’s many readers of all generations.Trade Review"A welcoming introduction to Bauman’s sociological craft and a kind of goodbye to a man whose thoughtfulness has marked our discipline. In these conversations, he comes across as someone of immense humanity, at ease with thinking but open to the challenge posed by others."Sociological Research OnlineTable of Contents Contents 1. Skin-deep transformations Tattoos, plastic surgery, hipsters 2. Transformations of aggressivity Bullying 3. Transformations of sex and dating Declining taboos in the era of finding love online Postscript The last lesson

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Book SynopsisBorn Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with the Italian journalist Thomas Leoncini, exactly sixty years his junior. In these exchanges with Leoncini, Bauman considers, for the first time, the world of those born after the early 1980s, the individuals who were ‘born liquid’ and feel at home in a society of constant flux. As always, taking his cue from contemporary issues and debates, Bauman examines this world by discussing what are often regarded as its most ephemeral features. The transformation of the body – tattoos, cosmetic surgery, hipsters – aggression, bullying, the Internet, online dating, gender transitions and changing sexual preferences are all analysed with characteristic brilliance in this concise and topical book, which will be of particular interest to young people, natives of the liquid modern world, as well as to Bauman’s many readers of all generations.Trade Review"A welcoming introduction to Bauman’s sociological craft and a kind of goodbye to a man whose thoughtfulness has marked our discipline. In these conversations, he comes across as someone of immense humanity, at ease with thinking but open to the challenge posed by others."Sociological Research Online

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Book SynopsisIn this important book, one of Latin America’s foremost critical theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the social and political trauma of Pinochet’s Chile. Focusing on the period 1990–2015, Nelly Richard denounces the politics and aesthetics of forgetting that have underpinned both the protracted transition out of dictatorship and the denial of justice to its survivors and victims. What are the perils and social costs of a culture of forgetting? What forms do memories of injustice take in newly formed democracies? How might a history of violence and an ethics of reparation be reconciled in post-autocratic societies? In addressing these and other questions, Richard exposes the abuses of the past and the present while also attending to the residues of memory that are manifested in street protests, literature, and the media, and in artistic practices from architecture and urban design to installation and film. While cultural artifacts can be powerful devices for resistance and critique, Richard argues that they can also be complicit in reproducing and collaborating with forms of institutional and political oblivion. Both within Chile and beyond, Richard offers a trenchant critique of how authoritarian regimes and neoliberal states whittle away at memory’s critical capacity. At a time of seismic political realignments in Latin America and internationally, Eruptions of Memory makes a powerful case for the ethical, political, and aesthetic value of memory.Trade Review“In this powerful new book, Nelly Richard, Chile’s premier cultural critic, takes on the reconfigurations of political and cultural memory at various moments since the return to democracy. In each instance, her lucid readings open the seams of oblivion that have sutured Chilean social life.”Francine Masiello, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Translator’s Note Introduction: The Struggle for Words - Graciela Montaldo Prologue 1. Traces of Violence, Rhetoric of Consensus, and Subjective Dislocations 2. Women in the Streets: A War of Images 3. Torments and Obscenities 4. The Confessions of a Torturer and His (Abusive) Journalistic Assemblage 5. Coming and Going 6. Architectures, Stagings, and Narratives of the Past 7. Two Stagings of the Memory of YES and NO 8. Past-Present: The Symbolic Displacements of the Figure of the Victim 9. The Media Explosion of Memory in September 2013 10. The Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Military Coup…and Afterward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important book, one of Latin America’s foremost critical theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the social and political trauma of Pinochet’s Chile. Focusing on the period 1990–2015, Nelly Richard denounces the politics and aesthetics of forgetting that have underpinned both the protracted transition out of dictatorship and the denial of justice to its survivors and victims. What are the perils and social costs of a culture of forgetting? What forms do memories of injustice take in newly formed democracies? How might a history of violence and an ethics of reparation be reconciled in post-autocratic societies? In addressing these and other questions, Richard exposes the abuses of the past and the present while also attending to the residues of memory that are manifested in street protests, literature, and the media, and in artistic practices from architecture and urban design to installation and film. While cultural artifacts can be powerful devices for resistance and critique, Richard argues that they can also be complicit in reproducing and collaborating with forms of institutional and political oblivion. Both within Chile and beyond, Richard offers a trenchant critique of how authoritarian regimes and neoliberal states whittle away at memory’s critical capacity. At a time of seismic political realignments in Latin America and internationally, Eruptions of Memory makes a powerful case for the ethical, political, and aesthetic value of memory.Trade Review“In this powerful new book, Nelly Richard, Chile’s premier cultural critic, takes on the reconfigurations of political and cultural memory at various moments since the return to democracy. In each instance, her lucid readings open the seams of oblivion that have sutured Chilean social life.”Francine Masiello, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Translator’s Note Introduction: The Struggle for Words - Graciela Montaldo Prologue 1. Traces of Violence, Rhetoric of Consensus, and Subjective Dislocations 2. Women in the Streets: A War of Images 3. Torments and Obscenities 4. The Confessions of a Torturer and His (Abusive) Journalistic Assemblage 5. Coming and Going 6. Architectures, Stagings, and Narratives of the Past 7. Two Stagings of the Memory of YES and NO 8. Past-Present: The Symbolic Displacements of the Figure of the Victim 9. The Media Explosion of Memory in September 2013 10. The Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Military Coup…and Afterward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis – the leading ethnographer and author of Learning to Labour – shows how China has undergone an internal migration not only of masses of workers but also of a mental and ideological kind to new cultural landscapes of meaning, which include worship of the glorified city, devotion to consumerism, and fixation upon the smartphone and the internet. Massive educational expansion has been a precondition for explosive economic growth and technical development, but at the same time the school provides a cultural stage for personal and collective experience. In its closed walls and the inescapability of its ‘scores’, an astonishing drama plays out between the new and the old, with a tapestry of intricate human meanings woven of small tragedies and triumphs, secret promises and felt betrayals, helping to produce not only exam results but cultural orientations and occupational destinies. By exploring the cultural dimension of everyday experience as it is lived out in the school, this book sheds new light on the enormous transformations that have swept through China and created the kind of society that it is today: a society that is obsessed with the future and at the same time structured by and in continuous dialogue with its past.Trade Review‘Written in a lucid and witty style, Paul Willis’s book provides a uniquely penetrating lens to scrutinize the deeply held meanings and cultural nuances in China’s relentless pursuit of modernity. A landmark contribution to China studies as well as the sociology of education.’Yunxiang Yan, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The Individualization of Chinese Society ‘Paul Willis is a wonderful guide in surveying China’s jarring juxtapositions. His analysis of the ideological imbrication of communism, consumerism and Confucianism, and his close attention to the feelings of shame, stress and guilt experienced by the losers of China’s new rat race, are particularly insightful.’Shehzad Nadeem, City University of New York “definitely worth reading”Michael W. Apple, Beijing Normal University"Experimenting to break the boundary between academic and popular writing, Willis’ account of his China experience, with its poetic and forceful prose, is a great pleasure to read."China Review International"Willis has produced a work which deserves the wide readership that he was aiming for."Journal of International and Comparative Education"The book is riveting and bristles with profound insights about contemporary China that leaves the reader in awe of Willis’s brilliant scholarship."American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction and Theoretical Groundings The Chinese Scene Part I Modernity’s Symbolic Order 1 Country Bad/City Good 2 Consuming Consumerism 3 The Internet as Deus Ex Machina Part II Education’s Symbolic Order 4 The GaoKao Regime 5 The Three Arrows and Experience 6 ‘People is the Fish’ Part III The View from the Saved 7 Passing GaoKao 8 Not Passing GaoKao Part IV Closing Portraits 9 ‘Chen’ 10 ‘My Own Song’ 11 A Country Trip Orders of Experience Notes

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Book SynopsisDaniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict leading to the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz on one end and the 1815 bid for Greek independence on the other, he follows the fortunes of notable British, Dutch, and French diplomats to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire as they lived and worked according to the capitulations surrendered to the Sultan. Closely reading a mixed archive of drawings, maps, letters, dispatches, memoirs, travel narratives, engraved books, paintings, poems, and architecture, O'Quinn demonstrates the extent to which the Ottoman state was not only the subject of historical curiosity in Europe but also a key foil against which Western theories of governance were articulated. Juxtaposing narrative accounts of diplomatic life in Constantinople, such as those contained in the letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the English ambassador, with visual depictions such as those of the costumes of the Ottoman elite produced by the French-Flemish painter Jean Baptiste Vanmour, he traces the dissemination of European representations and interpretations of the Ottoman Empire throughout eighteenth-century material culture. In a series of eight interlocking chapters, O'Quinn presents sustained and detailed case studies of particular objects, personalities, and historical contexts, framing intercultural encounters between East and West through a set of key concerns: translation, mediation, sociability, and hospitality. Richly illustrated and provocatively argued, Engaging the Ottoman Empire demonstrates that study of the Ottoman world is vital to understanding European modernity.Trade Review"Daniel O’Quinn’s magisterial Engaging the Ottoman Empire illuminates how aesthetic forms and knowledge practices mediate affective, cultural, erotic, and political relations across competing spatial and temporal scales. The book summons a dazzling array of materials— paintings, travel narratives, memoirs, letters, maps, poems, buildings, antiquarian collections— to testify to the complexity of European relations with the Ottoman Empire during the long eighteenth century. The sheer abundance and variety of objects thrust the reader into multifarious timeframes, for the artifacts the book analyzes are composed of materials, techniques, meanings, assumptions, and allusions that belong to multiple moments and that age, die, or become obsolete at different paces." * Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture *"[B]eautifully written and compellingly argued . . . This book provides fresh ways of thinking about how we might employ a range of Western European sources in understanding their societies' engagements with the Ottoman Empire, and the relationship between local cultures and global pressures." * Modern Philology *"What O'Quinn's book brings to light is the rich and largely unexplored collection of European literary and visual materials produced about the Ottomans that can no longer be ignored by scholars of the long eighteenth century." * Journal of British Studies *"Engaging the Ottoman Empire has the potential to upend so much of what we thought we already knew—about art history, the classics, periodization, media history, European imperialism, and so much more. Its ripple effects will be felt in scholarship on all of these topics for years to come." * Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture *"Sumptuously produced and illustrated, meticulously edited, and intricately argued, Engaging the Ottoman Empire offers rich rewards to readers who follow its carefully plotted trajectory...[It] sets a new benchmark in Ottoman studies as well as suggesting new approaches to travelogues and visual material relating to the Ottoman World, and it will surely become a key point of reference for all future work in the area." * Nineteenth Century Prose *"Taking a truly interdisciplinary approach, Engaging the Ottoman Empire demonstrates just how prevalent the Near East was in Europe's mediascape and how constitutive it was of European identity. With originality and deftness, Daniel O'Quinn detects subtle disturbances in visual and literary representations that he uses to interrogate larger questions about political contingency, sexual desire, and intercultural mediation. O'Quinn's book is a much needed summa and an incisive work of critical analysis." * Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia *"Engaging the Ottoman Empire is, in its historical rigor, the depth of its archive, and the sophistication of its readings, a monumental achievement. This is true in both a quantitative sense-in the sheer number of objects and texts surveyed-and a qualitative one, in the density of historical excavation and in the openness of the argument to surprise, ambiguity, and contradiction." * David Porter, University of Michigan *"Daniel O'Quinn's great idea is to look at the ways the 'mediascape' in the Christian kingdoms of Europe directly addressed the mediation of relations with the Ottomans. Engaging the Ottoman Empire contains a wonderful set of images that opens up new possibilities for the discussion of European representation of the Ottomans." * Palmira Brummett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. AFTER PEACE Chapter 1. Theatrum Pacis: Mediating the Treaty of Karlowitz Chapter 2. A Costume Empire: Describing the Social Matrix Chapter 3. At the Limits of Verisimilitude: Vanmour's Allegories of Social Cohesion Chapter 4. Critical Alignments: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Classical Counter-Memory PART II. BESIDE WAR Chapter 5. "As Are Yet to Be Seen": The Dilettanti's Re-enchantment of the Ionian world Chapter 6. Exoriare Aliquis: Choiseul-Gouffier's Needs and Lady Craven's Desires Chapter 7. Narrative Fragments and Object Choices: Antiquities, War, and the Vestiges of Love Chapter 8. Critical Disjunctions: The Intersection of Form, Affect, and Empire in Melling and Byron Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisNavigating Visual Culture: Theoretical Perspectives on Visual Media brings together an eclectic collection of theory-driven readings to help students understand and navigate the visual culture in which they live.The selections in Section I explore the nature of the visual and how people identify what they see around them, ranging from basic color to visual codes translated by the brain. Section II features readings that address the way people interpret, explain, and understand visual culture, while the readings in Section III give an overview of the various ways people participate in visual culture, whether as members of a particular media tribe, consumers of advertising, or users of personal computers.Each reading is framed by an original introduction that explains its place and relevance in visual culture, and discerning questions to facilitate classroom discussion or serve as writing prompts. The anthology also provides recommendations for supplemental reading and viewing. Navigating Visual Culture is well-suited to undergraduate courses in mass media, and can also be used for upper division and graduate courses in visual culture and new media.

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Book SynopsisFrom the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. By chronicling the rapid growth of binary switching since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common today as pushing a button or flipping a switch—the deceptively simple act of turning something on or off. More than a technical history, The Switch offers a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society. Analyzing this history, Puskar charts the rapid shift from analog to digital across a range of devices—keyboards, cameras, guns, light switches, computers, game controls, even the “nuclear button”—to understand how nineteenth-century techniques continue to influence today’s pervasive digital technologies. In contexts that include musical performance, finger counting, machine writing, voting methods, and immersive play, Puskar shows how the switch to switching led to radically new forms of action and thought. The innovative analysis in The Switch makes clear that binary inputs have altered human agency by making choice instantaneous, effort minimal, and effects more far-reaching than ever. In the process, it concludes, switching also fosters forms of individualism that, though empowering for many, also preserve a legacy of inequality and even domination. Trade Review "In this deeply ambitious and sophisticated book, Jason Puskar invites us to think more seriously about what happens almost every time we touch one of our devices and turn it on or swipe or click. From the technologies at our fingertips to the vastly larger networks of politics and language that they operate and represent, The Switch provides a fascinating cultural history of how we have made the modern world, and been remade in turn, by the simplest of human actions and the connections they enable."—Mark Goble, author of Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life "A dazzling, beautifully written history of a pervasive but seemingly unremarkable technology of modern life: the binary switch. Jason Puskar’s delightful and important book will fascinate historians of media and technology; it should be required reading for anyone curious about how fantasies of liberal agency are cultivated in the buttons, keyboards, triggers, and toys that make us human."—Justus Nieland, author of Happiness by Design: Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Awake at the Switch Part I. Start 1. Origin Stories 2. Designing the Button 3. Analogs and Analogies Part II. Digital Bodies 4. The Point of Touch 5. Counting on the Body 6. Darth Vader’s Nipples Part III. Keyboard Rationality 7. The Keyboard’s Checkered Past 8. Human Types 9. Chording and Coding 10. The Archaeology of Qwerty Part IV. Objects of Play 11. The Toys of Dionysus 12. Pinball Wizards Part V. Haptic Liberalism 13. The Control Panel of Democracy 14. Switching Philosophies 15. Pistolgraphs 16. First-Person Shooters Epilogue: Self-Destruct Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Ongoing conflicts between neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics have resulted in growing social instability in Latin America. This book explores the cultural dynamics of neoliberalism and anti-neoliberal resistance in Latin America as a complex set of interrelated cultural forms, examining the ways in which neoliberalism has transformed public discourses of self and social relationships, popular cultures and modes of everyday experience. Contributors from an international range of different disciplinary perspectives look at how Latin Americans construct subjectivities, build communities and make meaning in their everyday lives in order to analyse the discourses and cultural practices through which a societal consensus for the pursuit of neoliberal politics may be established, defended and contested.Trade Review"A fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of neoliberal and post-neoliberal politics in Latin America. The collection offers a refreshing perspective on the ongoing crisis of neoliberalism in the region - and the many ways that it is being challenged." Ben Garner, University of PortsmouthTable of ContentsIntroduction: Everyday Life in (Post)Neoliberal Latin America ~ Magdalena López, Daniel Nehring and Gerardo Gómez Michel Imaginaries, sociability and cultural patterns in the post-neoliberal era: A glance at the Argentinean, Paraguayan, and Venezuelan experiences ~ Miguel Ángel Contreras Natera Making neoliberal selves: Popular psychology in contemporary Mexico ~ Daniel Nehring From Uribe’s “Democratic Security” to Santo’s Peace Accords with the FARC: Hate, Fear, Hope and other Emotions in Contemporary Colombian Politics ~ Fabio López de la Roche Cine bajo tierra: Ecuador’s booming underground cinema in the aftermath of the neoliberal era ~ Rafael Ponce-Cordero Neoliberalising Humanity: Culture and popular participation in the case of the Street Market of Caruaru - Brazil ~ Adilson Silva Ferraz The contribution of the Catholic magazine Espacio Laical and the constitution of the Cuban public sphere ~ Alexei Padilla Herrera and Armando Chaguaceda Noriega Argentina: the philosophical resistance to the conquest of the soul ~ Enrique Del Percio Fleeing (post)Chávez memories: the 1990s and the Black Friday Generation ~ Magdalena López Re-imagined community: the Mapuche nation in neoliberal Chile ~ Gerardo Gómez Michel Neoliberalism and the Negotiation of the American Dream in Contemporary Latina Narratives ~ Jenifer Skolnick and Emmanuel Alvarado Bare Life in Contemporary Mexico: Everyday Violence and Folk Saints ~Jungwon Park

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Book SynopsisBeer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of the intersectional inequalities that such realities gloss over. This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Anthony Kwame Harrison Brewing Up Race Racism, Brewing, and Drinking in US History The Making of the (White) Craft Beer Industry The Paths to Becoming a Craft Brewer and Craft Beer Consumer Exposure, Marketing, and Access: Malt Liquor and the Racialization of Taste Gentrification and the Making of Craft Beer White Spaces #WeAreCraftBeer: Contemporary Movements to Change the Whiteness of Craft Beer

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Book SynopsisBeer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of the intersectional inequalities that such realities gloss over. This unique book carves a much-needed critical and interdisciplinary path to examine and understand the racial dynamics in the craft beer industry and the popular consumption of beer.Table of ContentsForeword ~ Anthony Kwame Harrison Brewing Up Race Racism, Brewing, and Drinking in US History The Making of the (White) Craft Beer Industry The Paths to Becoming a Craft Brewer and Craft Beer Consumer Exposure, Marketing, and Access: Malt Liquor and the Racialization of Taste Gentrification and the Making of Craft Beer White Spaces #WeAreCraftBeer: Contemporary Movements to Change the Whiteness of Craft Beer

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Book SynopsisJulie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a critical intervention. Across vastly different contexts, where universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly misplaced, she innovatively explores the ways that art spaces employ creative capital to sustain themselves in a competitive urban landscape. She shows how these art spaces are embedded within a politics of aspiration and demonstrates that aspiration is an important lens through which to understand the nature of, and possibilities for, urban change.Table of ContentsElsewheres Operationalizing Comparative Urbanism Envisioning Art Spaces Making Do Expressions The Capacity to Aspire

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Book SynopsisDriven by consumers’ desire for slow and local food, craft breweries, traditional butchers, cheese makers and bakeries have been popping up across the US in the last twenty years. Typically urban and staffed predominantly by white middle class men, these industries are perceived as a departure from tradition and mainstream lifestyles. But this image obscures the diverse communities that have supported artisanal foods for centuries. Using the oral histories of over 100 people, this book brings to light the voices, experiences, and histories of marginalized groups who keep Southern foodways alive. The larger than life stories of these individuals reveal the complex reality behind the movement and show how they are the backbone of the so-called "new explosion" of craft food.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Revisions from Southern Food Culture Terroir in a Glass: The Rise of Southern Winemaking Water and Waves: The Rebirth of Coastal Fishing Communities Local Markets: Value- added Products at Farmers’ Markets Smokehouses: The Art of Curing Meats Beyond Popeye’s and KFC: The Whitewashing of Southern Food Restaurants Conclusion: The Future of Southern Food

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Book SynopsisDriven by consumers’ desire for slow and local food, craft breweries, traditional butchers, cheese makers and bakeries have been popping up across the US in the last twenty years. Typically urban and staffed predominantly by white middle class men, these industries are perceived as a departure from tradition and mainstream lifestyles. But this image obscures the diverse communities that have supported artisanal foods for centuries. Using the oral histories of over 100 people, this book brings to light the voices, experiences, and histories of marginalized groups who keep Southern foodways alive. The larger than life stories of these individuals reveal the complex reality behind the movement and show how they are the backbone of the so-called "new explosion" of craft food.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crafting Revisions from Southern Food Culture Terroir in a Glass: The Rise of Southern Winemaking Water and Waves: The Rebirth of Coastal Fishing Communities Local Markets: Value- added Products at Farmers’ Markets Smokehouses: The Art of Curing Meats Beyond Popeye’s and KFC: The Whitewashing of Southern Food Restaurants Conclusion: The Future of Southern Food

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking collection offers a multi-disciplinary approach on the subject of humour, Muslims, and Islam. Beginning with theoretical perspectives and scriptural guidance on permissible and restricted humour, the volume presents a variety of case studies about Muslim comedic practices in various cultural, political, and religious contexts. This unprecedented scholarship sheds new light on common misconceptions about humour and laughter in Islam and deftly tackles sensitive themes from blasphemy to freedom of speech. Chapter 9 is available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molokotos-Liederman PART I Theoretical Perspectives on Islam and Humour 1 Ridicule in the Qur’an: The Missing Link in Islamic Humour Studies - Mostafa Abedinifard 2 Laughter in the Discursive Tradition? Emotions of Muḥammad as the Topic of a Pious Arabic-English Reader - Georg Leube 3 Humour in Islamic Literature and Muslim Practices: Virtue or Vice? - Walid Ghali PART II Muslim Humour Practices in Islamicate Societies: Textual Media 4 Using/Abusing the Qur’an in Jocular Literature: Blasphemy, Qur’anophilia, or Familiarity? - Yasmin Amin 5 A 'Stupid Lur' Mocks Allah and Mullah: Sociocultural Implications of the Luri Jokes Cycle - Fatemeh Nasr Esfahani PART III Muslim Humour Practices in Islamicate Societies: Visual Media and Performance 6 Al- Bernameg: How Bassem Youssef Ridiculed Religious Fundamentalists and Survived the ‘Defamation of Religion’ Charge - Moutaz Alkheder 7 Arab Cartoonists and Religion: The Interdependence of Transgression and Taboo - Chourouq Nasri 8 Hizbullah’s Humour: Political Satire, Comedy, and Revolutionary Theatre - Joseph Alagha 9 ‘Putting the Fun Back into Fundamentalism’: Toying with Islam and Extremism in Comedy - Mona Abdel-Fadil PART IV Muslim Comedy in North America 10 Queering Islam in Performance: Gender and Sexuality in American Muslim Women’s Stand-up Comedy - Jaclyn A. Michael 11 Comedy as Social Commentary in Little Mosque on the Prairie: Decoding Humour in the First ‘Muslim Sitcom’ - Jay Friesen Conclusion - Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molokotos-Liederman Bibliography on Islam and Humour

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Book SynopsisThis collection explores generational studies, showcasing its interdisciplinary potential in sociology, literature, history, psychology, media studies and politics. It offers fresh perspectives and opens new avenues for generational thinking.

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Book SynopsisDissecting 45 million tweets posted by 265.000 users in the five years that followed the Brexit referendum, this book presents an extensive and nuanced analysis of social media manipulation and Brexit.

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the social, political and economic turbulence in which the UK is embroiled. Drawing on Cultural Studies, it explores proliferating crises and conflicts, from the multiplying varieties of social dissent through the stagnation of rentier capitalism to the looming climate catastrophe. Examining arguments about Brexit, class and ‘race’, and the changing character of the state, the book is underpinned by a transnational and relational conception of the UK. It traces the entangled dynamics of time and space that have shaped the current conjuncture. Questioning whether increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian strategies can provide a resolution to these troubles, it explores how the accumulating crises and conflicts have produced a deepening ‘crisis of authority’ that forms the terrain of the Battle for Britain.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Battle for Britain and Conjunctural Thinking 1. Nations, Nationalisms and the Conjuncture 2. Turbulent Times: The Making of the Present Pause for Thought 1 3. Accounting for Brexit 4. Thinking Relationally: Class and Its Others 5. Building Blocs: Towards a Politics of Articulation Pause for Thought 2 6. An Accumulation of Crises 7. ‘The Best Country in the World’: Race, Culture, History 8. Holding It Together? The Coercive Turn and the Crises of Party and Bloc 9. Unstable Equilibria: The Life of the State 10. The Battle for Britain – and Beyond

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic fieldwork in Guangdong, China, this book explores the various tactics queer people employ to have children and to form queer or rainbow' families. It unpacks people's experiences of cultivating, or losing, kinship relations through their negotiation with biological relatives, cultural conventions and state legislations.

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Book SynopsisMary Butts wrote and lived among notable modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, Jean Cocteau, H.D., and Ezra Pound, and was on her way to becoming one of the most respected British female writers of the twentieth century. Yet, after her death in 1937 at the age of forty-six, her reputation suffered a decline. Butt's idiosyncratic spirituality did not lend itself to easy critical examination, modernism was generally considered a masculine endeavor, and her papers were not made public for over fifty years. The recent acquisition of those papers by the Beinecke Library at Yale University, however, has brought about a resurgence of interest in her unique writings. Mary Butts confronts and reinterprets reality in extraordinary ways, and her modernist vision recalls the natural origins and powers of the female divine. Her intense dedication to ancient rites and myth, and her dabbling in the occult, became embedded in her fiction and led to her own brand of mysticism. Indeed, the Butts heroine is at once, healer, sacred priestess, earth goddess, lover, and daimon/demon. In presenting her characters this way, Butts valorizes what she calls "the soul living at its fullest capacity." Roslyn Reso Foy gives us the first sustained critical study of Butts, exploring the signficance of feminism, mysticism, and magic in her life and writings. Foy's thoughtful analysis, combining scholarship with straightforward discussion, will serve as an introduction to, and foundation for, further critical studies of this remarkable female modernist whose work coincides with contemporary concerns and who can no longer be ignored.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism from different vantage points. There is hope that this work will help generate a dialogue, especially with colleagues who live in the regions that were analyzed. Many of the authors consider the commemorations discussed in this volume from very different points of view, as they themselves are strongly rooted in a historical context that remains much closer to the nationalism we critique.

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Book SynopsisThis work is a collection of papers in comparative cultural studies, rather than the single-culture approach, applied in the study of Central European culture. It proposes that a Central European culture, as controversial and debated as the notion may be, exists. It provides an insightful look into a new field of study where a notion of comparative is merged with the field of cultural studies from the basic premises of the discipline of comparative literature.

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Book SynopsisOf Mind and Matter analyzes identity formation in the multicultural border region of Sleswig. It highlights the changeability of national sentiments and explores what has motivated local inhabitants to define themselves as Germans or Danes. The analysis focuses especially on the respective national minorities, among whom the transitional and flexible aspects of Sleswig identity surface most clearly. The study investigates national sentiments in a border region from a theoretical and comparative perspective. It relies on diverse forms of historical evidence, including quantitative sources such as language statistics and election results, but also more subjective sources such as personal life stories and interviews. The study pays equal attention to German and Danish source material. ""Of Mind and Matter"" adds important new angles to the literature on national identity in border areas and fills a conspicuous gap in English-language historiography, which completely lacks modern analyses of Sleswig history.

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Book SynopsisNimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims—if not accomplishment—to George Steiner’s Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution or Umberto Eco’s Travels in Hyperreality.Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text.Table of Contents Preface Does Translingualism Matter? Writer Speaks with Forked Tongue: Interlingual Predicaments Promiscuous Tongues: Erotics of Translingualism and Translation Writing South and North: Ariel Dorfman's Linguistic Ambidexterity Alien Autographs: How Translators Make Their Marks Translingual Memoirs of the New: American Immigration Incubus and the Esperanto Movie Industry An Italian in English: The Translingual Case of Francesca Marciano Hugo Hamilton's Language War Jhumpa Lahiri Goes Italian Linguaphobia and Its Resistance in America Omnilingual Aspirations: The Case of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Glossary Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisPhilosophical controversies within contemporary critical theory arise largely from questions about the nature, scope and limits of human reason. As the linguistic turn in twentieth-century philosophy has increasingly given way to a sociocritical turn, traditional ideas of 'pure' reason have been left further and further behind. There is however considerable disagreement about what that shift entails for enlightenment ideals of self-consciousness, self-determination, and self-realization. In this book two prominent philosophers bring these disagreements into focus around a set of familiar philosophical issues concerning reason and the rational subject, truth and representation, knowledge and objectivity, identity and difference, relativism and universalism, the right and the good. But these "perennial problems" are resituated within the context of critical theory as it has developed from the work of the Frankfurt School in the 1930's and 1940's to the multiplicity of contemporary approaches: genealogical, hermeneutic, neopragmatist, deconstructive, and reconstructive.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Philosophy and Critical Theory: A Reprise (Thomas McCarthy):. 1. On the Idea of a Critical Theory and It's Relation to philosophy. 1.1. Horkheimer on Historicism. 1.2. Traditional and Critical Theory. 1.3. The Aufhebung of Philosophy. 2. Reason in a Postmetaphysical Age. 2.1. Deconstructionist Critiques of Reason. 2.2. Communication and Idealization. 2.3. Accountability and Autonomy. 2.4. Discourse Ethics. 3. On the Pragmatics of Communicative Reason. 3.1. The Rational Properties of Practical Activities. 3.2. Pragmatizing Communicative Rationality. 3.3. On the Methodologies of Critical Social Theory. 3.4. Multicultural Cosmopolitanism. Part II: Critical Theory and Critical History (David Couzens Hoy):. 4. A Deconstructive Reading of the Early Frankfurt School. 4.1. Tensions in Horkheimer. 4.2. Deferrals in Adorno. 4.3. Anticipations of Poststructuralism. 5. Conflicting Versions of Critique: Foucault verses Habermas. 5.1. Foucault and the Frankfurt School. 5.2. Naturalizing Philosophy with Evolutionary Stories. 5.3. From Hegel to Nietzsche. 5.4. Genealogy's Critique of Habermas. 5.5. The Critical Potential of History and of Theory. 6. The Contingency of Universality: Critical Theory as Genealogical Hermeneutics. 6.1. Genealogy For and Against. 6.2. Habermas's Universalism. 6.3. Gadamer's Hermeneutical Pluralism. 6.4. Genealogical Hermeneutics. Part III: For and Against:. 7. Rejoinder to David Hoy (Thomas McCarthy). 7.1. Pragmatism. 7.2. Genealogy. 7.3. Hermeneutics. 7.4. Pluralism. 8. Rejoinder to Thomas McCarthy (David Couzens Hoy). 8.1. Rational Agents or Cultural Dopes. 8.2. Local Solidarity or Universal Audience?. 8.3. Pluralism or Concensus?. 8.4. Identity in Difference?. Index.

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Book SynopsisMaterialist Feminisms investigates the crucial theoretical and political debates that have determined the course of British and American feminism over the last thirty years. As intellectual terrain has shifted during these decades from Marxism to cultural materialism and poststructuralist literary theory, questions of race and ethnicity, sexuality, postcoloniality, and green politics have converged and sometimes collided with the categories within feminism, but analyze many of the most important texts and movements of contemporary cultural theory. Offering not so much a unified history as an analysis of important moments within these debates, this book examines the work of such feminist theorists as MichUle Barrett, Judith Butler, Rosalind Coward, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, the m/f collective, Tania Modleski, Jacqueline Rose, Gayle Rubin, Hortense Spillers, and Gayatri Spivak. Materialist Feminisms includes new, exemplary readings of feminist detective, African-American, and postcolonial fiction, three kinds of textures commodity currently fetishized in the literary marketplace. What might the success of these kinds of writing signify about politics and desire in contemporary Anglo-American culture? Demonstrating how the poststructuralis critique of essences and identities need not end in a complete paralysis of political action, as has sometimes been claimed, Materialist Feminisms argues that feminism, soicalism, and deconstruction are not theoretical dead ends, but names for unfinished business.Table of ContentsThe Argument vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction 1 Part I Beyond the Marxist--Feminist Encounter 1 Origins UK and US 19 2 Institutionalizing Feminism 42 3 Deconstruction and Beyond 60 Part II Feminism and Cultural Critique 4 Feminism and the History of the Novel 83 5 How PC Can a White Girl Be When Her Sisters of Color Can Represent Themselves? 95 6 History and Poststructuralism 125 Part III The Politics of Contemporary Theory 7 The Politics of Essence 145 8 Identity and Sexuality 153 9 The Theory "Race," Imperialist Fractures, and Postcolonial Subjects 183 10 Towards a Green Cultural Criticism 206 Conclusion 229 Works Cited 231 Index of Names 248 Index of Subjects 253

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Book SynopsisA new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter challenge the possibility and indeed the desirability of aspiring to create totalizing theories. Postmodernists contest the view of science as an autonomous sphere of knowledge and reflection. This volume brings together leading theorists in the social sciences and philosophy to debate the respective merits of modernism and postmodernism as paradigms of social inquiry. It examines the relation between science, critique and narrative, addressing questions about the moral and political meaning of science today.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Introduction 1 Part I Toward Postmodernism: Reconfiguring Theory and Politics 1 General Social Theory, Irony, Postmodernism 17 2 Postmodern Social Theory as Narrative with a Moral Intent 47 3 On the Postmodern Barricades: Feminism, Politics, and Theory 82 4 The Strange Life and Hard Times of the Concept of General Theory in Sociology: A Short History of Hope 101 Part II Critics of Postmodernism: In Defense of Scientific Theory 5 Defending Social Science against the Postmodern Doubt 137 6 The Promise of Positivism 156 7 The Confusion of the Modes of Sociology 179 8 Daring Modesty: On Metatheory, Observation, and Theory Growth 199 Part III Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Toward a Contextualizing General Theory 9 Social Science and Society as Discourse: Toward a Sociology for Civic Competence 223 10 Culture, History, and the Problem of Specificity in Social Theory 244 11 The Tensions of Critical Theory: Is Negative Dialectics All There Is? 289 12 General Theory in the Postpositivist Mode: The "Epistemological Dilemma" and the Search for Present Reason 322 Name Index 369 Subject Index 376

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Book SynopsisIn this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the future.Trade Review"This is social theory at its very best. In a host of domains - concerning cultural difference, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and nationalism - Calhoun breaks new ground." Charles Taylor "This is a very well informed and very rigorous critical survey of Critical Social Theory." Pierre Bourdieu "A brilliant synthesis of theory and history: Calhoun works at the cutting edge, facing the future but carrying his traditions with him." Peter Beilharz "This book explores Critical Theory's origins, but more importantly it also shows how certain contemporary writers, despite not usually being recognised as such, have as much claim to the title 'critical theorist' as did Adorno and Horkheimer. It is this essential extension of critical analysis into today's body of theoretical concerns that gives the book its particular importance." Alan SicaTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Rethinking Critical Theory. 2. Interpretation, Comparison and Critique. 3. Cultural Difference and Historical Specificity. 4. Postmodernism as Pseudohistory: The Trivialization of Epochal Change. 5. Habitus, Field and Capital: Historical Specificity in the Theory of Practice. 6. The Standpoint of Critique? Feminist Theory, Social Structure and Learning from Experience. 7. The Politics of Identity and Recognition. 8. Nationalism and Difference: The Politics of Identity Writ Large. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs World War II faded into the past, urban decline emerged as the dominant motif in the public debate over the fate of the once-mighty cities of many Western industrial nations. Freely crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book uses the words of those who witnessed the cities' distress to portray the postwar discourse on urban decline in the United States. That discourse reshaped the ambivalence Americans have towards their cities, probed the nature of their moral responsibilities, offered advice as to how they should respond, and most importantly, sited in the cities the contradictions of society.Trade Review"Since America became an urban society, its cities have been a source of heated debate. Their condition has resulted not just from the unfolding of economic forces but also from policies rooted in a mentality that has regarded urbanism as threatening. In this highly original work Bob Beauregard ferrets out the history of the American city as it existed in the popular imagination. His brilliant - and entertaining - investigation reveals the mind set that has defined America's urban problems and thereby seriously limited the possibilities for addressing them." Susan S. Fainstein, Rutgers University "An original and authoritative look at the place of cities in twentieth century American culture. The catalogue of different voices that Beauregard uncovers will force us into new ways of seeing the 'decline' of U. S. cities." Professor J. Dear, University of Southern California "Voices of Decline is a solid, original contribution - well-written, insightful, provocative, and instructive. The book accomplishes it goals admirably, providing the best work I have seen on methodology of 20th century U. S. urban study. I am pleased to recommend it with enthusiasm." John S. Adams, University of Minnesota "A solid, original contribution, well written, insightful, provocative, and instructive. The book accomplishes its goals admirably, providing the best work I have seen on methodology of 20th century US urban study. I am pleased."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. 1. Themes and Texts. 2. Representing Urban Decline. 3. The Cities Wholesome and Good. 4. Not Those of Decadence. 5. The Unhappy Process of Changing. 6. On the Verge of Catastrophe. 7. Every Problem a Racial Dimension. 8. Crisis of Our Cities. 9. Rising from the Ashes. 10. Not Excessively Inconvenienced. 11. Intersections, Displacements, Absences. 12. Legitimating the Siting of Decline. Bibiliographic Essay. Methodological Note. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating collection of essays, the 'fissured terrain' of the Sociology of Culture is charted as never before. Covering a wide range of subjects and a diversity of approaches, this volume demonstrates how far contemporaray sociologists of culture have come in challenging the way that culture has been and is perceived within mainstream sociology.Table of ContentsList of figures. Contributors. Preface. 1. Introduction: The Challenge of the Sociology of Culture to Sociology as a Discipline: Diana Crane (University of Pennsylvania). 2. Culture and the Integration of National Societies: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego). 3. 'Cultural Pluralism' in Historical Sociology: Recent Theoretical Directions: Ewa Morawska and Willfried Spohn (University of Pennsylvania; University of Washington). 4. Fissured Terrain: Methodological Approaches and Research Styles in Culture and Politics: Mabel Berezin (University of Pennsylvania). 5. Cultural Theories of Organizational Behavior: The Social Construction of Rational Organizing Principles: Frank R. Dobbin (Princeton University). 6. Toward a Sociology of Material Culture: Science Studies, Cultural Studies and the Meanings of Things: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego). 7. Culture Studies Through the Production Perspective: Progress and Prospects: Richard A. Peterson (Vanderbilt University). 8. Cultural Production as 'Society in the Making': Architecture as an Exemplar of the Social Construction of Cultural Artifacts: David Brain (New College of the University of South Florida). 9. The Sociology of Cultural Reception: Notes Toward an Emergin Paradigm: Andrea Press (University of Michigan). 10. Methodological Dilemmas in the Sociology of Art: Anne Bowler (University of Delaware). 11. Cultural Conceptions of Human Motivation and Their Significance for Culture Theory: Steve Derne (SUNY-Genesco). References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSelf-described "intellectual terrorist" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.Trade Review"This work includes an introduction by Kellner and fourteen chapters whose authors creatively deal with many of the contributions, complexities and controversies surrounding one of the most troubling and delightful philosophers of our time. The introduction by Douglas Kellner is a brief, yet insightful preface to the volume. As Kellner effectively began in his earlier works, this new contribution to the growing literature on Baudrillard continues to pave a critical path." Scott Lukas, Perspectives on PostmodernityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Introduction: Jean Baudrillard in the Fin-de-Millennium 1 Douglas Kellner 1. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard 25 Mark Gottdiener 2. The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Baudrillard, Debord, and Postmodern Theory 41 Steven Best 3. Critical Theory and Technoculture: Habermas and Baudrillard 68 Mark Poster 4. Semiotics, Cybernetics, and the Ecstasy of Marketing Communications 89 Kim Sawchuck 5. Fashion and Signification in Baudrillard 119 Efrat Tseelon 6. Fatal Forms: Toward a (Neo) Formal Sociological Theory of Media Culture 135 Jonathan S. Epstein and Margaarete J. Epstein 7. Symbolic Exchange in Hyperreality 150 Deborah Cook 8. Capitalism and the Code: A Critique of Baudrillard's Third Order Simulacrum 168 Sara Schoonmaker 9. Simulation: The Highest Stage of Capitalism? 189 James Der Derian 10. Aesthetic Production and Cultural Politics: Baudrillard and Contemporary Art 209 Timothy W. Luke 11. Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 227 Nicholas Zurbrugg 12. Valorizing “the Feminine” while Rejecting Feminism? – Baudrillard’s Feminist Provocations 257 13. The Drama of Theory: Vengeful Objects and Wily Props 292 Gary Genosko 14. Baudrillard, Time and the End 313 William Bogard

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Book SynopsisThis landmark study explores a new reality in today's inner cities - one that diverges radically from the dominant models of either the urban village, with its shared culture, or the disorganized zone of urban anomie. Growing numbers of inner city neighbourhoods now contain populations drawn from a multiplicity of ethnicities, subcultures, and classes. These groups may share physical space, but they pursue disparate ways of life and hold very different views of their neighbourhood's future. Such areas have become contested turf - arenas of heated political struggle. Nowhere has this struggle been so complexly joined than in the East Village on New York's Lower East Side. For over two decades, established and new immigrants, community activists, hippies, squatters, yuppies, developers, drug dealers, artists, the homeless, and the police have been battling for control of the district and its central meeting ground, Tompkins Square Park. Based on five years of research and participant observation, this book gives a vivid account of the contestants and their struggles in the battle for the Lower East Side. It is a battle which is likely to be replicated, perhaps less violently, in many other parts of urban America.Trade Review"[a] fascinating book ... From Urban Village to East Village is a formidable achievement." Progress in Human Geography ./ "As one who has done community studies, my first reaction to Janet Abu-Lughod's ambitious volume about New York's Lower East Side was frankly one of jealousy. I envy her the cadre of able student ethnographers that she was able to field. I envy the colleagues from various disciplines-political scientist Diana Gordon, photographer Marlis Momber, architectural historian Richard Plunz, and geographer Neil Simth-who she draws on to fill in the gaps in the student accounts. I envy her this research site-no doubt among the most politically contested and sociologically complex two square miles of real estate in America. Mostly, I suppose I envy her nerve. Not surprisingly, Abu-lughod was new to New York when she began this project. It is hard to imagine anyone more immersed in the local political culture taking on an area so historically dense. What is surprising is how generally successful the resulting volume is." Philip Kasinitz, AJS Vol 101 No 5 "From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side works towards bridging this troubling gap in the literature by examining stuggles over urban space on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The result of a collaborative research project directed by Janet Abu-Lughod, the volume situates recent and highly publicized conflicts over housing and public space on the Lower East Side within an interdisciplinary analysis of the neighborhood's changing relationship to the city's political economy... The volume's refreshingly political analysis of contests over urban space, too complex to treat fully here, underscores both the rewards of collaborative research and the importance of grounding our analyses of urban restructuring in particular palces in the multiple arenas of political practice where space is invested with cultural meaning and economic value." Steven Gregory, UrbanTable of Contents1 Welcome to the Neighbourhood by Janet Abu-Lughod. PART I THE PAST IS STILL THERE 2 The Changing Economy of the Lower East Side by Jan Chien Lin (University of Houston). 3 The Tenement as a Built Form by Richard Plunz (Columbia University) and Janet Abu-Lughod. 4 A History of Tompkins Square Park by Marci Raven (New York History Project) and Jeanne Houck (Eugene Lang College). 5 Deja Vu: Replanning the Lower East Side in the 1930s by Suzanne Wasserman (Iona College). PART II THE PROCESS OF GENTRIFICATION 6 Neighbourhood `Burn-Out': Puerto Ricans at the End of the Queue by Christopher Mele (New School for Social Research, New York). 7 From Disinvestment to Reinvestment: Tax Arrears and Turning Points in the East Village by Neil Smith (Rutgers University) and others. 8 The Process of Gentrification in Alphabet City by Christopher Mele. 9 Public Action: New York City Policy and the Gentrification of the Lower East Side by William Sites (Queens University, New York). PART III CONTESTING COMMUNITY: THE ISSUES AND THE PROTAGONISTS 10 A Resident's View of Conflict on Tompkins Square by Diane Gordon (College of the City of New York). 11 The Battle for Tompkins Square Park by Janet Abu-Lughod. 12 The Residents in Tompkins Square Park by Dorne Greshof and John Dale (New School for Social Research). 13 The Squatters: A Chorus of Voices, But Is Anyone Listening? by Andrew van Kleunen (New School for Social Research). 14 Defending the Cross-Subsidy Plan: The Tortoise Wins Again by Janet Abu-Lughod. 15 Conclusions and Implications by Janet Abu-Lughod.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a lucid and distinct introduction to multiculturalism and the philosophy of social science. Distinct, engaging and timely 'multicultural' approach Clear, non-technical overview of the nature of social inquiry First volume of outstanding new "Contemporary Philosophy" series Trade Review"It is penetrating in its discussion of the issues but written in an engaging and accessible way. Highly recommended." Choice "In a textbook fashion that is accessible to undergraduate and graduate students alike, Fay offers a multicultural/dialectical approach to social inquiry that is designed to eliminate the traditional dualistic way of thinking that currently dominates the philosophy of social science. For those who are wont to explore the many questions that philosophers of social science are most interested in examining, I would definitely suggest Fay's book. He clearly articulates and assesses many of the difficult arguments in the philosophy of social science." Philosophia, Vol 28, June 2001Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: A Multicultural Approach to the Philosophy of Social Science. 1. Do You Have to be One to Know One?. 2. Do we Need Others to be Ourselves?. 3. Does our Culture or Society Make us What we Are?. 4. Do People in Different Cultures Live in Different Worlds?. 5. Must we Assume Others are Rational?. 6. Must we Comprehend Others in Their Own Terms?. 7. Is the Meaning of Others' Behaviour What They Mean by It?. 8. Is our Understanding of Others Essentially Historical?. 9. Do we Live Stories or Just Tell Them?. 10. Can We Understand Others Objectively?. 11. Conclusion: What's to be Learned From a Muticultural Philosophy of Social Science?. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the world. This volume reverses the emphasis, to focus on modes of authority and identity, and to examine the roles which existing and new traditions may play in our epoch. It announces a new agenda for contemporary social theory, moving beyond current debates over (post)modernity. The contributors include Mark Poster, Richard Sennett, Ulrich Beck, Margaret Archer, Mary Douglas and Thomas Luckmann.Trade Review"Essential reading for any scholar interested in what it means to be modern today." David Ingram, Loyola University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction: Detraditionalization and its Rivals: Paul Heelas. Part I: Losing the Traditional:. 2. Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms': Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Oriented Sociology: Ulrick Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. 3. Morality in the Age of Contingency: Zygmunt Bauman. 4. Complexity, Structural Contingencies and Value Conflicts: Niklas Luhmann. 5. The Privatization of Religion and Morality: Thomas Luckmann. Part II: Detraditionalization and Traditions Today:. 6. Tradition and Self in a Mediated World: John B. Thompson. 7. Identity, Meaning and Globalization: Detraditionalization in Postmodern Space-Time Compression: Thomas W. Luke. 8. Detraditionalization and the Certainty of Uncertain Futures: Barbara Adam. 9. Detraditionalization, Character and the Limits to Agency: Colin Campbell. Part III: Detraditionalization, Human Values and Solidarity: . 10. The Foreigner: Richard Sennett. 11. On Things not Being Worse and the Ethic of Humanity: Paul Heelas. 12. Community Beyond Tradition: Paul Morris. 13. Tradition and the Limits of Difference: Scott Lash. Part IV: Dissolving Detraditionalization: . 14. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpretations: Mark Poster. 15. Authority and Genealogy of Subjectivity: Nikolas Rose. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe modernity and postmodernity debates of recent years have tended to direct attention towards frameworks of periodization, and away from the social and cultural processes currently at work in the world. This volume reverses the emphasis, to focus on modes of authority and identity, and to examine the roles which existing and new traditions may play in our epoch. It announces a new agenda for contemporary social theory, moving beyond current debates over (post)modernity. The contributors include Mark Poster, Richard Sennett, Ulrich Beck, Margaret Archer, Mary Douglas and Thomas Luckmann.Trade Review"Essential reading for any scholar interested in what it means to be modern today." David Ingram, Loyola University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction: Detraditionalization and its Rivals: Paul Heelas. Part I: Losing the Traditional:. 2. Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms': Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-Oriented Sociology: Ulrick Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. 3. Morality in the Age of Contingency: Zygmunt Bauman. 4. Complexity, Structural Contingencies and Value Conflicts: Niklas Luhmann. 5. The Privatization of Religion and Morality: Thomas Luckmann. Part II: Detraditionalization and Traditions Today:. 6. Tradition and Self in a Mediated World: John B. Thompson. 7. Identity, Meaning and Globalization: Detraditionalization in Postmodern Space-Time Compression: Thomas W. Luke. 8. Detraditionalization and the Certainty of Uncertain Futures: Barbara Adam. 9. Detraditionalization, Character and the Limits to Agency: Colin Campbell. Part III: Detraditionalization, Human Values and Solidarity: . 10. The Foreigner: Richard Sennett. 11. On Things not Being Worse and the Ethic of Humanity: Paul Heelas. 12. Community Beyond Tradition: Paul Morris. 13. Tradition and the Limits of Difference: Scott Lash. Part IV: Dissolving Detraditionalization: . 14. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpretations: Mark Poster. 15. Authority and Genealogy of Subjectivity: Nikolas Rose. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology collects key texts on women in culture and offers an ideal introduction, for students in women's studies and feminism, to the cultural dimensions of women's experience today.Trade Review"Helpful, editorial summaries of the field, a diverse selection of 'readings'." Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface x Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 Part I The Cultural Construction of Gender 13 1 Women in Culture 15 Introduction 15 Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture 23 Sherry B. Ortner Oppression 45 Marilyn Frye Suggested Activities 50 Bibliography 52 2 Commonalities and Differences among Women 55 Introduction 55 Commonalities and Differences (excerpt) 63 Johnnetta B. Cole Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference 69 Audre Lorde And A’n’t I a Woman? 77 Sojourner Truth When you Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Woman 80 Indiana University Empowerment Workshop Heterosexuality Questionnaire 81 Gay and Lesbian Speaker’s Bureau Suggested Activities 82 Bibliography 85 3 Cultural Representations of Women 91 Introduction 91 Ways of Seeing (excerpt) 97 John Berger Beyond caring: the De-moralization of Gender 105 Marilyn Friedman Suggested Activities 112 Bibliography 114 Part II Cultural Institutions Defining Women 117 4 Women and Popular Culture I: Advertising, Print Media, and Pornography 119 Introduction 119 Beauty and the Beast of Advertising 127 Jean Kilbourne Fresh Lipstick: Rethinking Images of Women in Advertising 131 Linda M. Scott Suggested Activities 141 Bibliography 145 5 Women and Popular Culture II: Television and Film 149 Introduction 149 Solace in Soapland 153 Elayne Rapping No Way to Treat a Lawyer 160 Terry Kay Diggs Suggested Activities 165 Bibliography 167 6 Fashion, Beauty, and Women’s Health 171 Introduction 171 The Beauty Myth (excerpt) 179 Naomi Wolf Madonna, Fashion, and Identity (excerpt) 187 Douglas Kellner Obsession: the Tyranny of Slenderness 201 Kim Chernin Suggested Activities 216 Bibliography 219 7 Motherhood and Families 223 Introduction 223 Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood (excerpt) 231 Patricia Hill Collins Fall from Grace: Twentieth-century Mom (excerpt) 244 Shari L. Thurer Out of the Stream: an Essay on Unconventional Motherhood 251 Shirley Glubka Abortion through a Feminist Ethics Lens (excerpt) 261 Susan Sherwin Suggested Activities 272 Bibliography 275 8 Sex, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Abuse 283 Introduction 283 High School Lowdown 301 Miranda J. Van Gelder Scope of the Problem 304 Carol Bohmer and Andrea Parrot Legal Images of Battered Women (excerpt) 323 Martha R. Mahoney In the Truth Itself, There is Healing (excerpt) 338 Ellen Bass Suggested Activities 349 Bibliography 356 Part III Opportunities for Women in Culture 363 9 Women Creating Culture 365 Introduction 365 The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Woman in Nineteenth-Century America (excerpt) 372 Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Revolution, Girl Style 391 Farai Chideya, with Melissa Rossi and Dogen Hannah Witchcraft as Goddess Religion 394 Starhawk Suggested Activities 401 Bibliography 404 10 Feminism and the Future 409 Introduction 409 Feminism: a Transformational Politic 418 bell hooks Recognizing, Accepting, and Celebrating our Differences 427 Papusa Molina Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and the Nature/Culture Dualism (excerpt) 433 Ynestra King Still I Rise 440 Maya Angelou Suggested Activities 441 Bibliography 444 Index 449

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Book SynopsisFirst English language collection of the writing of French social critic, Paul Virilio. This volume represents his most important work, including five new translations and an exclusive interview with Virlio conducted by the editor reflecting the diverse career of this great social commentator on life in the late twentieth century.Trade Review"... the material could not be in better editorial hands. If there is a scholar within contemporary international relations who has done as much as Virilio outside it to investigate these sort of concerns, and who has the breadth of knowledge and the linguistic and intellectual engagement to offer an overall account of Virilio's corpus, it is Der Derian. His introduction to this volume is characteristically well written, thoughtful, wryly amusing and a model of concise exposition. His interview with Virilio, which forms two chapters of the book, is both a real dialogue and at the same time an illuminating tour d'horizon of Virilio's concerns. Whether you agree or disagree, with Virilio or Der Derian or both, try this book for you will be confronted with an elegant sampling of wide and pespicacious oeuvre that deals with important and difficult issues: a Virilio reader indeed." Nicholas Rengger, University of St Andrews Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Introduction by James Der Derian. 1. Interview: Is the Author Dead?. 2. Military Space. 3. The Suicidal State. 4. The State of Emergency. 5. The Critical Space. 6. The Strategy Beyond. 7. A Travelling Shot Over Eighty Years. 8. Polar Inertia. 9. The Vision Machine. 10. The Art of the Motor. 11. The Desert Screen. 12. Continental Drift. A Select Bibliography of Works by Paul Virilio. Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space and the embracing spatiality of human life with the same critical insight and emphasis that has traditionally been given to time and history on the one hand, and social relations and society on the other. Thirdspace is both an enquiry into the origins and impact of the spatial turn and an attempt to expand the scope and practical relevance of how we think about space and such related concepts as place, location, landscape, architecture, environment, home, city, region, territory, and geography. The book's central argument is that spatial thinking, or what has been called the geographical or spatial imagination, has tended to be bicameral, or confined to two approaches. Spatiality is either seen as concrete material forms to be mapped, analyzed, and explained; or as mental constructs, ideas about and representations of space and its social significance. Edward Soja critically re-evaluates this dualism to create an alternative approach, one that comprehends both the material and mental dimensions of spatiality but also extends beyond them to new and different modes of spatial thinking. Thirdspace is composed as a sequence of intellectual and empirical journeys, beginning with a spatial biography of Henri Lefebvre and his adventurous conceptualization of social space as simultaneously perceived, conceived, and lived. The author draws on Lefebvre to describe a trialectics of spatiality that threads though all subsequent journeys, reappearing in many new forms in bell hooks evocative exploration of the margins as a space of radical openness; in post-modern spatial feminist interpretations of the interplay of race, class, and gender; in the postcolonial critique and the new cultural politics of difference and identity; in Michel Foucault's heterotopologies and trialectics of space, knowledge, and power; and in interpretative tours of the Citadel of downtown Los Angeles, the Exopolis of Orange County, and the Centrum of Amsterdam.Trade Review"There is much that is innovative and thought provoking in the book ..." Rob Atkinson, Capital and Class "Thirdspace is Soja's most demanding theoretical work to date. It is a book which attempts to open up new ways of thinking about and responding to the binaries which continue to dominate the way we make practical and theoretical sense of the world. In concluding this short review of a very complex text I can only echo a comment Derek Gregory (1990:41) made when reviewing Soja's Postmodern Goegraphies: 'its intellectually sparkle is the product of a rare and generous critical intelligence'." Richard Bedford, University of Waikato "In all, a compilation of empirical and intellectual journeys." The Geographical Journal " Such as serious and important undertaking by such a prodigious intellect compels an in-depth and extended transdisciplinary and critical dialogue. Its destiny, I suspect, is to be the centre of a heated and fruitful debate. ed Soja has changed how we think about space." Robert Beauregard, Milano graduate School of Management "Soja offers a powerful new way of thinking that simultaneously takes apart and reorganizes the basic premise from which dualistic thinking derives power." Geographical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction/Itinerary/Overture. Part I: Discovering Thirdspace: . 1. The Extraordinary Voyages of Henri Lefebvre. 2. The Trialectics of Spatiality. 3. Exploring the Spaces that Difference Makes: Notes on the Margins. 4. Increasing the Openness of Thirdspace. 5. Heterotopologies: Foucault and the Geohistory of Otherness. 6. Re-Presenting the Spatial Critique of Historicism. Part II: Inside and Outside Los Angeles: . 7. Remembrances: A Heterotopology of the Citadel-LA. 8. Inside Exopolis: Everyday Life in the Postmodern World. 9. The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Select Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisHas Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin. 2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University). 4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA). 5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester). 6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside). 7. André Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading). 8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck. 9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge). Index.

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Book SynopsisHas Queer Theory 'grown out' of Feminism - in both senses? If it has, is that process a coming-out story?Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Sexualities without Genders and other Queer Utopias: Biddy Martin. 2. Sexual Traffic: Gayle Rubin (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley). 3. Sissies and Sisters: Gender, Sexuality and the Possibilities of Coalition: William Spurlin (Columbia University). 4. Reflections on Gynophobia: Emily Apter (UCLA). 5. Mother, Can't You See I'm Burning? Between Female Homosexuality and Homosociality in Radclyffe Hall's The Unlit Lamp: Trevor Hope (University of Rochester). 6. Desiring Machines? Queer Re-visions of Feminist Film Theory: Carole-Anne Tyler (University of California, Riverside). 7. André Gide and the Niece's Seduction: Naomi Segal (University of Reading). 8. Savage Nights: Mandy Merck. 9. Coming Out of the Real: Knots and Queries: Elizabeth Wright (Girton College, Cambridge). Index.

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Book SynopsisCornelius Castoriadis is presently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is a philosopher, social critic, professional economist, practicing psychoanalyst and one of Europe's foremost thinkers. The Castoriadis Reader provides for the first time an overview of the author's work and encompasses every aspect of his thought.Trade Review"The Castoriadis Reader, with representative extracts from almost fifty years of political and philosophical writing, reflects his long march from Marx back to Aristotle." Scott McLemmee, Lingua Franca "When so many pay superficial tribute to false prophets, how much better to pay serious attention to this true thinker." Nicolas Walter, New Statesman "For those unfamiliar with the thought of Castoriadis, reading his works for the first time is to encounter one of the most original and creative figures of the last half of the twentieth century." David Wallace, TopiaTable of ContentsEditor's Foreword. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1.'The Only Way to Find out If You Can Swim Is to Get into the Water.' An Introductiory Interview (1974). 2. Presentation of Socialisme ou Barbarie An Organ of Critique and Revolutionary Orienation (1949). 3. On the Content of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat's Autonomy (1955). On the Content of Socialism, II (1957). 4. Recommencing the Revolution (1964). 5. Marxism and Revolutionary Theory (1964-65). Excerpts. Marxism: A Provisional Assessment. Theory and Revolutionary Project. 6. The Social Imaginary and the Institution (1975). Excerpt. The Social-Historical. 7. The Social Regime in Russia (1978). 8. From Ecology to Autonomy (1980). 9. The Crisis of Western Societies (1982). 10. The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy (1983). 11. The Logic of Magmas and the Question of Autonomy (1983). 12. Radical Imagination and the Social Instituting Imaginary (1994). 13. Culture in a Democratic Society (1994). 14. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (1996). 15. Done and To Be Done (1989). Index.

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