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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis, this book examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. It delineates the documentary history of events, processes, and decisions that led up to the war while underscoring its resulting consequences. Arguing that NATO’s war is part of a larger process of militarising U.S. relations with Africa—which sees the development of the Pentagon’s AFRICOM as being in competition with Pan-African initiative—this account shows that Western relations with a “rehabilitated” Libya were shaky at best, mired in distrust, and exhibiting a preference for regime change.Trade ReviewSlouching Towards Sirte is a penetrating critique, not only of the NATO intervention in Libya, but of the concept of humanitarian intervention and imperialism in our time. It is the definitive treatment of NATO's war on Libya. It is difficult to imagine it will be surpassed." —www.gowans.wordpress.com"Forte's allegations that NATO's war was manufactured by liberal interventionists and 'iPad imperialists' whose agenda to disrupt African independence and execute regime change under the 'fig leaf' of saving lives are chilling—and persuasive. . . . Even though Forte couches descriptions of Gaddafi in amorphous, guarded language, he isn't an apologist. In this provocative and unabashedly direct book, Forte speaks truth to power." —www.ForewordReviews.com"A meticulously documented study in hypocrisy: that of the U.S. elite, of the Gulf ruling classes who have lately welded their agenda directly onto that of the United States, and of the liberal bombardiers who emerged in the crucible of ‘humanitarian’ wars of the 1990s only to re-emerge as cheerleaders of the destruction of another Arab country in 2011.(…) Forte is able to bring to bear evidence that NATO carried out extensive war crimes during the ‘liberation’ of Sirte, and the evidence is impeccable." —Max Ajl

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Book SynopsisOpen Borders to a Revolution is a collective enterprise studying the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought. It marks both the bicentennial of Latin America’s independence from Spain and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, an anniversary with significant relevance for American history. The Smithsonian partnered with several institutions and organized a series of cultural events, among them an academic symposium whose program was envisioned and developed by the editors of this volume: "Creating an Archetype: The Influence of the Mexican Revolution in the United States." The symposium gathered scholars who engaged in conversation and debate on several aspects of U.S.-Mexico relations, including the Mexican-American experience. This volume consolidates the results of those intellectual exchanges, adding new voices, and providing a wide-ranging exploration of the Mexican Revolution.

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Book Synopsis'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several ‘honor’-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du’a Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities.Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of ‘honor’-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator’s culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, women’s ‘honor’ is a form of symbolic capital within a ‘political economy’ in which marriage organizes intergroup connections. Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to ‘honor’, sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.Trade Review“Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage underlies ambitious narratives regarding the rights of women in marriage and formation of alliance, women offered as gifts to form and continue alliances. This is a rich text that dialogues with a global comparative approach analyzing the giving and receiving of women in various contexts, providing a survey of types of marriages and cultural significance of women as commodity within the lens of marriages and what unions entail.” -- Lina Fruzzetti * Professor of Anthropology, Brown University *"In a sophisticated layered fashion, the book links past studies to the present with keen attention to quantitative and qualitative data. It is an ideal work for courses addressing violence against women and girls." -- Eliz Sanasarian * author of The Women's Rights Movement in Iran *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Foreword by Deeyah Khan Note on Orthography Chapter 1: Honor Chapter 2: The Problems of Earthly Existence Chapter 3: The Patriarchal Order Chapter 4: Marriage Chapter 5: Modernity Chapter 6: Quantitative Analysis Chapter 7: The End of Honor Acknowledgements References Index Appendix

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Book Synopsis'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several ‘honor’-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du’a Khalil Aswad, and campaigns against 'honor'-based violence by Kurdish feminists have drawn international attention to this phenomenon within Kurdish communities.Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage provides a description of ‘honor’-based violence that focuses upon the structure of the family rather than the perpetrator’s culture. The author, Joanne Payton, argues that within societies primarily organized by familial and marital connections, women’s ‘honor’ is a form of symbolic capital within a ‘political economy’ in which marriage organizes intergroup connections. Drawing on statistical analysis of original data contextualized with historical and anthropological readings, Payton explores forms of marriage and their relationship to ‘honor’, sketching changing norms around the familial control of women from agrarian/pastoral roots to the contemporary era.Trade Review“Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage underlies ambitious narratives regarding the rights of women in marriage and formation of alliance, women offered as gifts to form and continue alliances. This is a rich text that dialogues with a global comparative approach analyzing the giving and receiving of women in various contexts, providing a survey of types of marriages and cultural significance of women as commodity within the lens of marriages and what unions entail.” -- Lina Fruzzetti * Professor of Anthropology, Brown University *"In a sophisticated layered fashion, the book links past studies to the present with keen attention to quantitative and qualitative data. It is an ideal work for courses addressing violence against women and girls." -- Eliz Sanasarian * author of The Women's Rights Movement in Iran *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Foreword by Deeyah Khan Note on Orthography Chapter 1: Honor Chapter 2: The Problems of Earthly Existence Chapter 3: The Patriarchal Order Chapter 4: Marriage Chapter 5: Modernity Chapter 6: Quantitative Analysis Chapter 7: The End of Honor Acknowledgements References Index Appendix

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Book SynopsisMediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime’s effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria’s uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days. While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic. Trade Review“A huge accomplishment, Mediating the Uprising combines smart readings of Syrian television miniseries with detailed ethnographic analysis. Joubin reveals the strategies of artists--both oppositional and regime-supporters--who are testing the limits of social and political expression, and the workings of an industry navigating seven years of civil war. The book is an invaluable addition to media studies and Syrian studies.” -- Edward Ziter * author of Political Performance in Syria: From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising *“Mediating the Uprising expertly reveals how Syria’s most successful transnational media products have fared during and responded to the current conflicts. Rebecca Joubin displays uncommon dexterity in how she interlaces a wealth of detail, from knowledgeable insight into sociopolitical contexts to illuminating interviews with the musalsalat’s creative personnel. This approachable book will appeal just as much to specialized scholars as to a general readership wishing to learn more about how devastating geopolitical events take their toll on our media industries and their representations of gender.” -- Kay Dickinson * author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond *“A huge accomplishment, Mediating the Uprising combines smart readings of Syrian television miniseries with detailed ethnographic analysis. Joubin reveals the strategies of artists--both oppositional and regime-supporters--who are testing the limits of social and political expression, and the workings of an industry navigating seven years of civil war. The book is an invaluable addition to media studies and Syrian studies.” -- Edward Ziter * author of Political Performance in Syria: From the Six-Day War to the Syrian Uprising *“Mediating the Uprising expertly reveals how Syria’s most successful transnational media products have fared during and responded to the current conflicts. Rebecca Joubin displays uncommon dexterity in how she interlaces a wealth of detail, from knowledgeable insight into sociopolitical contexts to illuminating interviews with the musalsalat’s creative personnel. This approachable book will appeal just as much to specialized scholars as to a general readership wishing to learn more about how devastating geopolitical events take their toll on our media industries and their representations of gender.” -- Kay Dickinson * author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Series Foreword List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Transliteration A Chronology of the Syrian Uprising Introduction: New Directions in Television Drama Amid an Uprising Chapter One: Mediating the Uprising Chapter Two: Socio-Political Satire in the Multi-Year Syrian Sketch Series Buq‘at Daw’ (Spotlight): Artistic Resistance via Gender and Marriage Metaphors, 2001 to 2017 Chapter Three: The Rise and Fall of the Qabaday (Tough Man): (De)constructing Fatherhood as Political Protest Chapter Four: The Politics of Love and Desire in Post-Uprising Syrian and Transnational Arab Television Drama Chapter Five: The Politics of Queer Representations in Syrian Television Drama Past and Present Conclusion Appendix 1: Charts of Miniseries for Ramadan 2011-2018 (Miniseries that touch on the uprising are in bold) Appendix 2: Table of Percentages of Miniseries 2011-2018 Appendix 3: Chart of Miniseries for Ramdan 2019 (Miniseries that touch on the uprising are in bold) Appendix 4: Table of Percentages of Miniseries 2019 Acknowledgments Bibliography/Filmography Index

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Book SynopsisMedia Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world’s population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values and how they influence media consumption and production throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and many others. The book’s contributors are especially interested in investigating media and their intersections with narrative, medium, technologies, and culture through the lenses that are particularly Asian by turning to Asian sociopolitical and cultural milieus as the meaningful interpretive framework to understand media. This timely and cutting-edge research is essential reading for those interested in transnational and global media studies. Trade Review“Media Culture in Transnational Asia is one of the most informative books on Asian cultural studies, examining the dynamics of the local and global forces in the trans-Asian mediascape from a local or Asian point of view. With its focus on the production and circulation of media products, old and new, both within and across national borders, this edition rewards its readership with a rich, productive dialogue among different nations, regions, and perspectives that sounds the possibilities of a rising new pan-Asian community.” -- Suk Koo Rhee * professor at Yonsei University *"Global and glocal, pan-Asian or trans-Asian, from radio to mukbang, this pithy volume presents a provocative collection of scholarship that interrogates transnational media culture in Asia—a region that is steeped in tradition yet burgeoning in exciting new ways. Media Culture in Transnational Asia is a timely and valuable contribution to media studies and Asian studies." -- Sun Sun Lim * professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design *Latinx Pop Lab podcast interview with HyeSu Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1y_8qPcvA0feature=youtu.be * Latinx Pop Lab podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Hyesu Park and Maya Dodd Part I: Transnational Approach Chapter 1: Converging on Love and Indifference: Mediated Otherness in South and East Asia Rea Amit Chapter 2: The Child Bride: Unpacking the Popularity of the Indian Television Show Balika Vadhu in Vietnam Shubhda Arora and Juhi Jotwani Chapter 3: Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTube Dorothy Wai Sim Lau Chapter 4: Screen to Screen: Adaptation and Transnational Circulation of Chinese (Web) Novels for Television W. Michelle Wang Chapter 5: Rhetorical Liminality in Southeast Asian Media Representations of Human Trafficking John Gagnon Chapter 6: Addressing Transnational Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia: Cases from Contemporary Japanese Art Hiroki Yamamoto Part II: Single-nation Approach Chapter 7: Media, Narrative, and Culture: Narrativizing and Contextualizing Korean Mukbang Shows Hyesu Park Chapter 8: Construction, Consumption, and Representation of White Supremacy in Sri Lankan Advertisements: Living White While Being Non-White Asantha U. Attanayake Chapter 9: A Liminal Bengali Identity: Film Culture in Bangladesh Sabiha Huq Chapter 10: Screening Southeast Asia: Film, Politics, and the Emergence of the Nation in Post-War Southeast Asia Darlene Machell de Leon Espena Chapter 11: Afghan Media and Culture in Transition Alireza Dehghan Chapter 12: A Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Actions of Iranian Instagram Users Hamid Abdollahyan and Hoornaz Keshavarzia Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisActs of Repair explores how ordinary people grapple with decades of political violence and genocide in Argentina—a history that includes the Holocaust, the political repression of the 1976–1983 dictatorship, and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Although the struggle against impunity seems inevitably incomplete, Argentines have created possibilities for repair through cultural memory, yielding spaces for transformation and agency critical to personal and political recovery. Trade Review"Acts of Repair compellingly emphasizes the value of narrative and testimony, using an ethnographic approach that is fine-grained and personal, dialogic and lyrical. This intimate book creates a nuanced frame for understanding immigrants, anti-Semitism, political culture, and memory practices, in Argentina and beyond." -- Ellen Moodie * coeditor of Central America in the New Millennium: Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy *"A masterful storylistener and storyteller, Natasha Zaretsky has written a heart-opening book that navigates the liminal spaces between silence and speech, erasure and memory, healing and trauma. The voices of her interlocutors sing and cry and are unforgettable. A stunning contribution to Latin American Jewish studies, as well as a beautiful enactment of the new soul-deep ethnography of the twenty-first century, this is a book that offers hope for humanity in fraught times." -- Ruth Behar * author of Letters from Cuba and An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, and Victor Haim Per *"Acts of Repair presents a gripping account of a diversity of memorial sites and practices that emerged in Argentina in response to multilayered traumatic experiences of extreme political violence. Drawing on her ethnographic observations, in-depth personal interviews, and public testimonies, Zaretesky weaves personal voices into her insightful and sensitive study of the power of memory work to lead from political protest and demands for justice to human-rights trials and open venues for individual and collective processes of recovery. Acts of Repair will be of major interest to anyone interested in the comparative study of trauma, memory, human rights, and the intergenerational impact of genocide and terrorism." -- Yael Zerubavel * author of Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition *"Alumni Books: New titles from Dartmouth writers (November/December 2020)" round-uphttps://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/alumni-books-november-december-2020 * Dartmouth Alumni Magazine *"Drawing on anthropological work started at Princeton, Natasha Zaretsky *08 explores the everyday lives of people coping with political violence in Argentina. Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina (Rutgers University Press) investigates how cultures exist with societal trauma and injustice, and how these wrongs might be repaired." * Princeton Alumni Weekly *"New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Natasha Zaretsky * New Books Network: New Books in Genocide Studies *"At the heart of Acts of Repair are the Argentine people who let Zaretsky into their lives and told her their stories. Despite the trauma that they have endured, they have devoted their lives to sharing their experiences, out of a profound sense of obligation to their fellow survivors, victims, and future generations of Argentines." * Global Americans *"Acts of Repair offers a broader canvas by situating the narrative within the larger history of European immigration to Argentina. That history, as illustrated in the book, created a national setting unlike any other in the world, as twentieth-century Argentina became a refuge for Jews fleeing the rise of Nazism and the aftermath of the Holocaust, as well as for Nazi officials, such as Adolf Eichmann, fleeing prosecution in Europe." -- Omar G. Encarnacion * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsContents Chronology Introduction: Topographies of Violence 1 El Vacío: Trauma, Narrative, and the Boundaries of Coherence 2 Dialogic Memory and the Uneven Terrain of Justice 3 Disruption and Agency in the Public Sphere 4 Sites of Memory, Erasure, and Belonging 5 Nunca Más and the Intersections of Genocide, Loss, and Survival 6 On the Limits of Witnessing, On the Boundaries of Time Conclusion: The Liminality of Repair Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCyberwars in the Middle East argues that hacking is a form of online political disruption whose influence flows vertically in two directions (top-bottom or bottom-up) or horizontally. These hacking activities are performed along three political dimensions: international, regional, and local. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi argues that political hacking is an aggressive and militant form of public communication employed by tech-savvy individuals, regardless of their affiliations, in order to influence politics and policies. Kenneth Waltz’s structural realism theory is linked to this argument as it provides a relevant framework to explain why nation-states employ cyber tools against each other. On the one hand, nation-states as well as their affiliated hacking groups like cyber warriors employ hacking as offensive and defensive tools in connection to the cyber activity or inactivity of other nation-states, such as the role of Russian Trolls disseminating disinformation on social media during the US 2016 presidential election. This is regarded as a horizontal flow of political disruption. Sometimes, nation-states, like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, use hacking and surveillance tactics as a vertical flow (top-bottom) form of online political disruption by targeting their own citizens due to their oppositional or activists’ political views. On the other hand, regular hackers who are often politically independent practice a form of bottom-top political disruption to address issues related to the internal politics of their respective nation-states such as the case of a number of Iraqi, Saudi, and Algerian hackers. In some cases, other hackers target ordinary citizens to express opposition to their political or ideological views which is regarded as a horizontal form of online political disruption. This book is the first of its kind to shine a light on many ways that governments and hackers are perpetrating cyber attacks in the Middle East and beyond, and to show the ripple effect of these attacks. Trade Review"Cyberwars in the Middle East offers a much-needed and astute take on the increasingly crucial role hacking and cyberoperations are playing across the Middle East. With empirical breadth and assiduous attention to detail Al-Rawi documents the multiple forms of ‘online political disruption’ that have become an inextricable part of the new digital authoritarianism that has arisen in the post-Arab Uprising milieu. A hugely important read." -- Marc O. Jones * author of Political Repression in Bahrain *"Cyberwars in the Middle East offers a much-needed and astute take on the increasingly crucial role hacking and cyberoperations are playing across the Middle East. With empirical breadth and assiduous attention to detail Al-Rawi documents the multiple forms of ‘online political disruption’ that have become an inextricable part of the new digital authoritarianism that has arisen in the post-Arab Uprising milieu. A hugely important read." -- Marc O. Jones * author of Political Repression in Bahrain *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Toward a Theoretical Framework of Cyberwars 2 Cyberwars and International Politics 3 U.S. Cyberoperations in the Middle East 4 Russian Trolls, Islam, and the Middle East 5 Cyberwars and Regional Politics 6 Arab Hackers and Electronic Armies Conclusion Appendix: Selected List of Arab Hacking Groups Notes References

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Book SynopsisCyberwars in the Middle East argues that hacking is a form of online political disruption whose influence flows vertically in two directions (top-bottom or bottom-up) or horizontally. These hacking activities are performed along three political dimensions: international, regional, and local. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi argues that political hacking is an aggressive and militant form of public communication employed by tech-savvy individuals, regardless of their affiliations, in order to influence politics and policies. Kenneth Waltz’s structural realism theory is linked to this argument as it provides a relevant framework to explain why nation-states employ cyber tools against each other. On the one hand, nation-states as well as their affiliated hacking groups like cyber warriors employ hacking as offensive and defensive tools in connection to the cyber activity or inactivity of other nation-states, such as the role of Russian Trolls disseminating disinformation on social media during the US 2016 presidential election. This is regarded as a horizontal flow of political disruption. Sometimes, nation-states, like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, use hacking and surveillance tactics as a vertical flow (top-bottom) form of online political disruption by targeting their own citizens due to their oppositional or activists’ political views. On the other hand, regular hackers who are often politically independent practice a form of bottom-top political disruption to address issues related to the internal politics of their respective nation-states such as the case of a number of Iraqi, Saudi, and Algerian hackers. In some cases, other hackers target ordinary citizens to express opposition to their political or ideological views which is regarded as a horizontal form of online political disruption. This book is the first of its kind to shine a light on many ways that governments and hackers are perpetrating cyber attacks in the Middle East and beyond, and to show the ripple effect of these attacks. Trade Review"Cyberwars in the Middle East offers a much-needed and astute take on the increasingly crucial role hacking and cyberoperations are playing across the Middle East. With empirical breadth and assiduous attention to detail Al-Rawi documents the multiple forms of ‘online political disruption’ that have become an inextricable part of the new digital authoritarianism that has arisen in the post-Arab Uprising milieu. A hugely important read." -- Marc O. Jones * author of Political Repression in Bahrain *"Cyberwars in the Middle East offers a much-needed and astute take on the increasingly crucial role hacking and cyberoperations are playing across the Middle East. With empirical breadth and assiduous attention to detail Al-Rawi documents the multiple forms of ‘online political disruption’ that have become an inextricable part of the new digital authoritarianism that has arisen in the post-Arab Uprising milieu. A hugely important read." -- Marc O. Jones * author of Political Repression in Bahrain *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Toward a Theoretical Framework of Cyberwars 2 Cyberwars and International Politics 3 U.S. Cyberoperations in the Middle East 4 Russian Trolls, Islam, and the Middle East 5 Cyberwars and Regional Politics 6 Arab Hackers and Electronic Armies Conclusion Appendix: Selected List of Arab Hacking Groups Notes References

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Book SynopsisContemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across the West and in the United States in particular, from surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11 to the anti-Islamic travel ban of 2017. But are Muslims undemocratic? Ahmed Khanani argues that this is not the case. In All Politics are God's Politics, Khanani shows that in fact, the opposite holds true: for socially conservative, politically active Muslims (Islamists), democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya reflects and extends their religious values. By drawing on conversations with over 100 Islamists in Morocco, this book enables readers to understand and appreciate the significance of dimuqrāṭiyya as a concept alongside new prospects for Islam and democracy in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Khanani's in-depth analysis of the Moroccan case brings these Islamists and their attending political views to the forefront. Trade Review"Scholars, journalists, and politicians routinely speak of 'democracy' around the world as if the meaning of this term were universally shared. Khanani shows with great flair and sensitivity how blinding this assumption is. Highly illuminating and methodologically exemplary." -- Frederic Schaffer * author of Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide *"What if to act democratically is to follow the Prophet’s sunna? This book turns the literature on 'Islam and democracy' on its head. Drawing on ordinary language philosophy Khanani explores the political-religious thought of Moroccan Muslim activists to appreciate contemporary democratic political thought and practice in an Islamic register. An extraordinary listener and innovative thinker, Khanani charts new terrain in decolonial studies, religion and politics, Islamic studies, and the study of Moroccan and MENA politics." -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd * author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion *"Ahmed Khanani’s book is a most welcome contribution to the debate on religion and politics." * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsContents Note on Names Introduction 1. Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Study of Democracy 2. islāmiyūn, Islam, Democracy 3. Institutions as Bridges 4. On Democracy and Substantive Goods 5. Democracy at Work Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary mass media descriptions of Muslims often suggest that Islam and Muslims are fundamentally undemocratic. Policy-makers in the West have weaponized these descriptions in attempts to legitimize anti-Muslim right-wing policy developments across the West and in the United States in particular, from surveillance in the aftermath of 9/11 to the anti-Islamic travel ban of 2017. But are Muslims undemocratic? Ahmed Khanani argues that this is not the case. In All Politics are God's Politics, Khanani shows that in fact, the opposite holds true: for socially conservative, politically active Muslims (Islamists), democracy or dimuqrāṭiyya reflects and extends their religious values. By drawing on conversations with over 100 Islamists in Morocco, this book enables readers to understand and appreciate the significance of dimuqrāṭiyya as a concept alongside new prospects for Islam and democracy in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Khanani's in-depth analysis of the Moroccan case brings these Islamists and their attending political views to the forefront. Trade Review"Scholars, journalists, and politicians routinely speak of 'democracy' around the world as if the meaning of this term were universally shared. Khanani shows with great flair and sensitivity how blinding this assumption is. Highly illuminating and methodologically exemplary." -- Frederic Schaffer * author of Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide *"What if to act democratically is to follow the Prophet’s sunna? This book turns the literature on 'Islam and democracy' on its head. Drawing on ordinary language philosophy Khanani explores the political-religious thought of Moroccan Muslim activists to appreciate contemporary democratic political thought and practice in an Islamic register. An extraordinary listener and innovative thinker, Khanani charts new terrain in decolonial studies, religion and politics, Islamic studies, and the study of Moroccan and MENA politics." -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd * author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion *"Ahmed Khanani’s book is a most welcome contribution to the debate on religion and politics." * Perspectives on Politics *"Scholars, journalists, and politicians routinely speak of 'democracy' around the world as if the meaning of this term were universally shared. Khanani shows with great flair and sensitivity how blinding this assumption is. Highly illuminating and methodologically exemplary." -- Frederic Schaffer * author of Elucidating Social Science Concepts: An Interpretivist Guide *"What if to act democratically is to follow the Prophet’s sunna? This book turns the literature on 'Islam and democracy' on its head. Drawing on ordinary language philosophy Khanani explores the political-religious thought of Moroccan Muslim activists to appreciate contemporary democratic political thought and practice in an Islamic register. An extraordinary listener and innovative thinker, Khanani charts new terrain in decolonial studies, religion and politics, Islamic studies, and the study of Moroccan and MENA politics." -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd * author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion *"Ahmed Khanani’s book is a most welcome contribution to the debate on religion and politics." * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsContents Note on Names Introduction 1. Ordinary Language Philosophy and the Study of Democracy 2. islāmiyūn, Islam, Democracy 3. Institutions as Bridges 4. On Democracy and Substantive Goods 5. Democracy at Work Epilogue Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThe Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded.Trade Review"In the era of Black Lives Matter and the mobilization of Black and Brown people to affirm their identity and belonging in America, Robert Fatton has successfully combined a transnational approach to offer the reader a new perspective on race relations, class and power in America in the twenty-first century."— François Pierre-Louis Jr., co-editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York "In this extraordinary book,Robert Fatton offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the ideology of exceptionalism as it was deployed in the United States and Haiti to extol the world-shaking revolutions that led to the first two independent nation-states in the New World, in 1776 and 1804, respectively."— New West Indian Guide "The Guise of Exceptionalism offers tremendous resources for thinking in complex terms about a world in which nationalism persistently takes on more dangerous and destructive expressions."— Perspectives on Politics “In this engaging and lucid work, Fatton brilliantly analyzes and critiques ideologies of national exceptionalism. In the process, he demonstrates the interpretive power of comparison, urging us to re-think the intertwined futures of Haiti and the U.S. by refusing myths and narratives that distort their national histories.”— Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 American Exceptionalism Chapter 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability” Chapter 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti Chapter 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism Chapter 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, And Exceptionalism Chapter 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism Chapter 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism Chapter 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded.Trade Review"In the era of Black Lives Matter and the mobilization of Black and Brown people to affirm their identity and belonging in America, Robert Fatton has successfully combined a transnational approach to offer the reader a new perspective on race relations, class and power in America in the twenty-first century."— François Pierre-Louis Jr., co-editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York "In this extraordinary book,Robert Fatton offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the ideology of exceptionalism as it was deployed in the United States and Haiti to extol the world-shaking revolutions that led to the first two independent nation-states in the New World, in 1776 and 1804, respectively."— New West Indian Guide "The Guise of Exceptionalism offers tremendous resources for thinking in complex terms about a world in which nationalism persistently takes on more dangerous and destructive expressions."— Perspectives on Politics “In this engaging and lucid work, Fatton brilliantly analyzes and critiques ideologies of national exceptionalism. In the process, he demonstrates the interpretive power of comparison, urging us to re-think the intertwined futures of Haiti and the U.S. by refusing myths and narratives that distort their national histories.”— Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 American Exceptionalism Chapter 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability” Chapter 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti Chapter 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism Chapter 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, And Exceptionalism Chapter 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism Chapter 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism Chapter 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisScientific diplomacy has recently been seen as a beacon of hope in overcoming the global challenges of international politics. At the same time, the interaction of science and diplomacy during the Cold War has become the focus of the history of science. The Max Planck Society pursued its own agenda here. After the criminal involvement of their predecessor, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the Nazi expansion and extermination policy, they were pushed back into the international scientific communities, but not onto the international political stage. The study examines how the MPG positioned itself in the field of international politics, when it cooperated with the Federal Republic's foreign policy, when it distanced itself from it and how it combined its roles as a national, European and global science-political actor.

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