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University of British Columbia Press The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post911
Book SynopsisWhat kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? Grappling with these questions, this book presents six provocative case studies authored by respected peacebuilding practitioners in their own societies.Table of ContentsPreface1 Introduction: What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 era? / Stephen Baranyi2 Peace in Guatemala: Settling for what seems possible of aiming for what is desirable / Gabriel Aguilera Peralta3 Decentralization and sustainable peacebuilding in Mozambique: Bringing the elements together again / Eduardo J. Sitoe and Carolina Hunguana4 Local governance and sustainable peace: the Haitian case / Hérard Jadotte and Yves-François Pierre5 Palestine 1993-2006: Failed peacebuilding, insecurity and poor governance / Khalil Shikaki6 Afghanistan: What kind of peace? The role of rural development in peacebuilding / Omar Zakhilwal and Jane Murphy Thomas7 Transition from Civil War to Peace: Challenges for Peace-building in Sri Lanka / Jayadeva Uyangoda8 The fate of former combatants in Guatemala: Spoilers or agents for change? / Wenche Hauge and Beate Thoresen9 Fighting for peace? Former combatants and the Afghan peace process / Arne Strand10 Considering the international DDR experience and spoiling: Lessons for Palestine / Pamela Scholey and Khalil Shikaki11 Conclusions / Stephen Baranyi and Kristiana PowellReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Paradoxes of Peacebuilding Post911
Book SynopsisWhat kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? Grappling with these questions, this book presents six provocative case studies authored by respected peacebuilding practitioners in their own societies.Table of ContentsPreface1 Introduction: What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 era? / Stephen Baranyi2 Peace in Guatemala: Settling for what seems possible of aiming for what is desirable / Gabriel Aguilera Peralta3 Decentralization and sustainable peacebuilding in Mozambique: Bringing the elements together again / Eduardo J. Sitoe and Carolina Hunguana4 Local governance and sustainable peace: the Haitian case / Hérard Jadotte and Yves-François Pierre5 Palestine 1993-2006: Failed peacebuilding, insecurity and poor governance / Khalil Shikaki6 Afghanistan: What kind of peace? The role of rural development in peacebuilding / Omar Zakhilwal and Jane Murphy Thomas7 Transition from Civil War to Peace: Challenges for Peace-building in Sri Lanka / Jayadeva Uyangoda8 The fate of former combatants in Guatemala: Spoilers or agents for change? / Wenche Hauge and Beate Thoresen9 Fighting for peace? Former combatants and the Afghan peace process / Arne Strand10 Considering the international DDR experience and spoiling: Lessons for Palestine / Pamela Scholey and Khalil Shikaki11 Conclusions / Stephen Baranyi and Kristiana PowellReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Unthinkable Thoughts
Book SynopsisThis book presents a case study of an academic conference where various actors sought to circumscribe the exploration of a controversial idea – the one-state model for Israel and Palestine – and it throws into stark relief the vulnerability and importance of academic freedom.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionAn Unintended Ethnography: Part 11 Outside Academia2 The Forbidden Question: “One State or Two?”An Unintended Ethnography: Part 23 Mixing Jurisdictions: Academic Foreign Policy4 Inside AcademiaAn Unintended Ethnography: Part 3 – Making Sense5 Accountability and Validity6 Academic Freedom and the Worthiness of IdeasConclusion: Epicycles and Political WorkAppendices: Correspondence and DocumentationNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£69.70
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University of British Columbia Press One Hundred Years of Struggle
Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the federal vote with a look at the real struggles women faced, depending on their race, class, and location in the nation, in their fight for equality.Trade ReviewJoan Sangster's One Hundred Years of Struggle jolts us back into women's often grim historical reality, reminding us that the political rights that we often take for granted today were keenly opposed in years past. -- Susan Whitney, associate professor of history, Carleton University * Literary Review of Canada *Joan Sangster’s clear, concise, and lively treatment of the women’s suffrage movement in Canada provides a broad historical survey…One Hundred Years of Struggle succeeds remarkably well in presenting ideas in an accessible way without oversimplifying them. -- Barbara Messamore, University of the Fraser Valley * The Ormsby Review *Sangster’s honest analysis of the role that imperial and racist attitudes played (and continue to play) in the fight for women’s equal political participation offers a challenge to those who believe that struggles associated with women’s suffrage are entirely historical. -- Stephanie Milliken * THIS Magazine, March 2018 *Now this is one of those books you need to read and you need to buy for others, especially now as women are facing watershed moments on many fronts. In this fantastic book, acclaimed historian Joan Sangster celebrates the 100th anniversary of Canadian women getting the vote not with rah, rah speeches and pleasantries, but with looks at the real warriors and the real struggles women faced … this comprehensive book truly reminds the reader of what determination and dedication can do. -- Dana Gee * Vancouver Sun *Under one cover, One Hundred Years brings together aspects of the story that have hitherto been scattered throughout the historiography and reflects the growing maturity of the field of women’s/gender history. -- Dianne Dodd, Parks Canada * Manitoba History Journal, Issue 88, *Table of ContentsPreface1 The Privilege of Property2 Race and the Idea of Rights for Women3 Suffrage as a Socialist Issue4 Making Suffragists5 The Anti-suffragists6 Feminist Countercultures7 Debating War and Peace8 Old and New Agendas in Peacetime9 Votes for All WomenAfterwordSources and Further Reading; Photo Credits; Index
£18.99
University of British Columbia Press Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence
Book SynopsisIn a critical analysis of the profound shift to big data practices among intelligence agencies, Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence highlights the challenges for civil liberties, human rights, and privacy protection.
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Inside the Campaign
Book SynopsisAn illuminating profile of the work carried out behind the scenes during a Canadian election campaign.Trade ReviewAs a first attempt to expand our appreciation of the many faces of a modern election campaign the book is a success...Inside the Campaign ought to open the way to interesting comparative research. -- Kenneth Carty * Party Politics *Helping to pull back the curtains are a slate of academics and practitioners—individuals who have been actively involved in these behind-the-scenes processes, including during the 2019 campaign—who paired up to pen each chapter, an arrangement Mr. Marland flagged as unique. -- Laura Ryckewaert * The Hill Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Constantly Shopping for Votes / Alex Marland with Susan Delacourt1 Election Administrators / Andrea Lawlor and Marc Mayrand2 Political Staff / Paul Wilson and Michael McNair3 Public Servants / Lori Turnbull and Donald Booth4 Leaders’ Debate Coordinators / Brooks DeCillia and Michel Cormier5 News Editors / Colette Brin and Ryan MacDonald6 Pollsters / André Turcotte and Éric Grenier7 Party Fundraisers / Erin Crandall and Michael Roy8 Party Platform Builders / Jared Wesley and Renze Nauta9 National Campaign Directors / David McGrane and Anne McGrath10 National Campaign Director of Communications / Stéphanie Yates and John Chenery11 Senior Advisor to the Leader on Tour / Mireille Lalancette and Marie Della Mattia12 Political Advertisers / Vincent Raynauld and Dany Renauld13 Third Party Activism / Thomas Collombat and Magali Picard14 The Independent Candidate / Tamara A Small and Jane PhilpottConclusion / Anna Lennox Esselment and Thierry GiassonList of Contributors; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Transformative Media
Book SynopsisIn an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.Trade ReviewThis book is a distinctive blend of critical analysis and participatory empirical research and makes a compelling case for engaged social activism. A must-read for scholars and students in media studies, communications, critical cultural studies, and sociology. -- W. Alvarez, Utica University * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsPreface1 Intersectional Technopolitics2 Global Justice3 Anti-austerity4 Anticolonialism and Antiracism5 2LGBTQ+ 6 Transfeminism 7 FuturesAppendix; References; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Transformative Media Intersectional
Book SynopsisIn an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.Trade ReviewThis book is a distinctive blend of critical analysis and participatory empirical research and makes a compelling case for engaged social activism. A must-read for scholars and students in media studies, communications, critical cultural studies, and sociology. -- W. Alvarez, Utica University * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsPreface1 Intersectional Technopolitics2 Global Justice3 Anti-austerity4 Anticolonialism and Antiracism5 2LGBTQ+ 6 Transfeminism 7 FuturesAppendix; References; Index
£25.19
Cornell University Press Making Enemies
Book SynopsisThe Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government—even in the face of long-term nonviolent opposition led by activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...Trade Review"While Burma's military government presents the outside world with various road maps to democracy and the possibility of a return to civilian rule, Mary Callahan, a professor at the University of Washington, presents in her excellent study . . . the reasons why the Burmese generals are so resistant to political reform. . . . Callahan describes the mentality of today's Burmese military rulers, with its legacy of distrust between them and the population. . . . In other countries . . . , military rule was always short-lived, and nonmilitary social forces . . . managed to survive periods of repression. In contrast, Callahan points out, there are no reports that anyone inside Burma's armed forces 'is questioning the propriety of treating citizens as enemies.' Even a compromise with the opposition would be seen as a capitulation, so the army simply manipulates the course of events to perpetuate military rule, not to change the way in which the country is ruled."—Bertil Linter, Far Eastern Economic Review, January 29, 2004"Mary P. Callahan, an American scholar who fortuitously got access to the Burmese regime's archives, provides a striking account in Making Enemies of how, during the 1950s, the military establishment, increasingly centralized and bureaucratized, steadily took over all functions of the state from an enfeebled civilian government. Callahan avoids facile theories—for instance, that the Burmese Buddhists are prone to defer to authority. She describes the background of the prolonged wars against Burmese Communists and against ethnic minorities—in which the Burmese army grew to be the dominant political as well as military force in the country."—Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books, February 14, 2008"A long-awaited, authoritative, and fluent account of the . . . military regime that has kept Burma poor, isolated, and inward looking since 1962. . . . Callahan is one of the few scholars who understands and writes well about the Burmese military. . . . Recovering the promise of a democratic or even mildly participatory Burma will be difficult, especially given the past that Callahan explains so well."—Choice, September 2004"This book gives the most revealing account of the formative years of MAF's evolution and has clearly outlined the far-reaching consequences of that process which eventually led to its current standing as the colossus of Myanmar politics and governance. It provides the most logical arguments exposing the origins of the sacred cows of MAF: viz., order, unity, stability, self-reliance and moral superiority. This book is a 'must read' for all who specialize in Myanmar as well as those interested in comparative politics, civil-military relations and political sociology."—Tin Maung Maung Than, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Aseasuk News No 36, Autumn 2004"The author describes and analyzes in significant detail the forces that led to the formation of the Burmese army, the tensions within the army, and the friction between the military and the civilian governments during the indigenous democracy era which lead to the Caretaker Government. . . . A significant number of generally unknown facts are presented in print for the first time in this volume."—Paul Sarno, Bulletin of the Burma Studies Group Number 74, Sept 2004"Callahan's narrative challenges our understanding of Myanmar today. Elsewhere in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia Pacific, we are witnessing an ascendancy of the 'old professionalism' among the military, except in Myanmar (and Pakistan). Post-Cold War globalization, democratization and other forces and institutions have forced the military in Indonesia, Thailand and elsewhere in the region to rethink their role in politics. But in Myanmar (the new name given by the State Law and Order Restoration Committee or SLORC) colonialism, World War II, and the failures of post-colonial governments have left no countervailing forces or institutions to challenge the tatmadaw's dominance of the state through coercion."—Kwa Chong Guan, Nanyang Technological University, Contemporary Southeast Asia 26:2, August 2004"This book is a major addition to the sparse literature on the Burmese military. Having been given access to materials in the field that no other foreigner has been able to peruse, in Making Enemies Mary Callahan analyzes the splits within the military itself. This book is a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Burmese military and is essential to our understanding of the present aspects of military rule and its likely continued critical influence in Burma."—David I. Steinberg, Georgetown University
£20.79
Stanford University Press In Defense of Japan
Book SynopsisThis book provides the first full-blown, up-to-date, English-language based narrative on the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development.Trade Review"In Defense of Japan remains an impressively well-researched and valuable book that makes a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of Japan. — Thomas U. Berger, Journal of Japanese Studies"There is an abundance of technical information here to satisfy readers with that particular interest, and the combination of Pekkanen's legal expertise coupled with Kallender-Uzemu's knowledge of Japan's space industry results in a richly detailed and insightful policy analysis that very few scholars in the field today could produce on their own. . . One hopes that policymakers in Washington, D.C. will take particular note of this publication and give it the careful and critical reading it deserves."—Walter E. Grunden, Technology and Culture"[An] excellent case study on Japan's space policy . . . This book is a readable, cogent examination of the interaction of corporate interests with national security interests, and adds needed nuance to the emerging understanding of Japan as an important player in the field of international security."—Col. David Hunter-Chester, Military Review"[V]ery ambitious and admirable. The book is based on very extensive research and it provides a good record of the path of Japanese space policy development. It is a good book to use as a concise data book of Japanese space history."—Kazuto Suzuki, Social Science Japan Journal"In Defense of Japan draws substantively from an impressive number and variety of sources . . . [T]he authors siphon a wealth of factual detail to document the market-to-military trend . . . Anyone interested in reading a thoroughly researched, up-to-date, English-language treatise on the dual-use nature of Japan's evolving space activities need look no further than this particular volume, which might serve as a model for historically grounded analyses of other national space policies and programs."—Rick W. Sturdevant, High Frontier"The subject of this book is highly technical . . . But the bottom line is clear enough: Japan's capabilities are widely underestimated, all the more so in space . . . The strategic logic for Japan's space program is obvious, with a growing naval, space, and nuclear power across the East China Sea and a second nuclear power even closer, on the Korean Peninsula . . . It is too soon to count Japan out in the arms race in Asia."—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs"What makes this book so useful and impressive is that it draws together extensive coverage of developments in Japan's space industry—both from the government and the corporate side—with a broad treatment of government reform and Japan's evolving security policy. In addition, it provides the most sustained argument I am aware of on the role of corporations in Japan's security policymaking."—Andrew L. Oros, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Washington College
£52.20
Stanford University Press The OneState Condition
Book SynopsisSince the start of the occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Israel''s domination of the Palestinians has deprived an entire population of any political status or protection. But even decades on, most people speak of this ruleboth in everyday political discussion and in legal and academic debatesas temporary, as a state of affairs incidental and external to the Israeli regime. In The One-State Condition, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir directly challenge this belief.Looking closely at the history and contemporary formation of the ruling apparatusthe technologies and operations of the Israeli army, the General Security Services, and the legal system imposed in the Occupied TerritoriesAzoulay and Ophir outline the one-state condition of Israel/Palestine: the grounding principle of Israeli governance is the perpetuation of differential rule over populations of differing status. Israeli citizenship is shaped through the active denial of Palestinian citizenship and cTrade Review"The first section is a crucial analysis of the nature of the occupation. The later critique is an important contribution to a critical theory of Israeli politics."—P. Rowe, CHOICE"The authors define their concepts and arguments clearly, and convincingly build the case that Israel as a regime is reliant or contingent upon its occupying activities. The One-State Condition is a must-have aid, not just for navigating the reality of the Isreal-Palestine conflict as it occurs on the ground, but for reading between the lines of other news sources"—Sarah Alibabaie, Portland Book Review"[The One State Condition] is one of the most exhaustive resources on the creation, maintenance and entrenchmer of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza available in any language. . . a startling clear picture of the nature of the Israeli regime is sure to surprise even the most intense observer of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse." —Joseph Dana, The National"This book is a brilliant, deeply analytical, and thorough study in re-conceptualizing the Israeli Occupation and the nature of the Israeli regime. It is required reading for all who are interested in a deeper understanding of the state of affairs of the Israeli-Palestinian case. Azoulay and Ophir offer one of the most remarkable books written so far in this field."—Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel"This book is a meticulous exploration of the post-1967 Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In laying bare Israel's structural, conceptual and bureaucratic regimes of settler, civilian and military authorities over the Palestinian inhabitants, authors Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir analyze and consider consequences and solutions for the entire region to the operationalized Jewish principle of self-segregation."—Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles, author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village"'Neither democratic nor Jewish': this is how Azoulay and Ophir provocatively describe the current regime of the State of Israel, their country of citizenship, in response to the increasing fusion of state formation and colonial occupation. To conceive of a civil association among Jews and Arabs equally considered within the land of historic Palestine—whatever its constitutional form—the authors deconstruct the strategies of ethnic exclusion and systematically envisage the means of liberating political imagination. This will be deemed treason by some, utopia by others, but it is a courageous and well-informed contribution to reopening the future. The alternative is catastrophe."—Etienne Balibar, author of We, the people of Europe?"Ethically and politically committed, Azoulay and Ophir challenge—to put it mildly—hegemonic Zionist Israeli statements that the Palestinian occupation is not part of what 'we' are. With eloquent and impassioned arguments, they acutely undermine the sterile indulgences of current Israeli politics, and ultimately widen the horizon of debate for the political possibilities and future of Israel and Palestine."—Gabriel Piterberg, University of California, Los Angeles"This is a first-rate intervention into understanding how the Israeli occupation operates. Innovative and insightful, the volume also transcends the local case to shed new light on violence and governance in conflict zones the world over. A profound contribution to our understanding of the colonial presence."—Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University
£81.90
Stanford University Press The OneState Condition
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between the Israeli government and the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and theorizes that the occupation is intrinsic to the existence of the Israeli state.Trade Review"The first section is a crucial analysis of the nature of the occupation. The later critique is an important contribution to a critical theory of Israeli politics."—P. Rowe, CHOICE"The authors define their concepts and arguments clearly, and convincingly build the case that Israel as a regime is reliant or contingent upon its occupying activities. The One-State Condition is a must-have aid, not just for navigating the reality of the Isreal-Palestine conflict as it occurs on the ground, but for reading between the lines of other news sources"—Sarah Alibabaie, Portland Book Review"[The One State Condition] is one of the most exhaustive resources on the creation, maintenance and entrenchmer of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza available in any language. . . a startling clear picture of the nature of the Israeli regime is sure to surprise even the most intense observer of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse." —Joseph Dana, The National"This book is a brilliant, deeply analytical, and thorough study in re-conceptualizing the Israeli Occupation and the nature of the Israeli regime. It is required reading for all who are interested in a deeper understanding of the state of affairs of the Israeli-Palestinian case. Azoulay and Ophir offer one of the most remarkable books written so far in this field."—Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel"This book is a meticulous exploration of the post-1967 Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In laying bare Israel's structural, conceptual and bureaucratic regimes of settler, civilian and military authorities over the Palestinian inhabitants, authors Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir analyze and consider consequences and solutions for the entire region to the operationalized Jewish principle of self-segregation."—Susan Slyomovics, University of California, Los Angeles, author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village"'Neither democratic nor Jewish': this is how Azoulay and Ophir provocatively describe the current regime of the State of Israel, their country of citizenship, in response to the increasing fusion of state formation and colonial occupation. To conceive of a civil association among Jews and Arabs equally considered within the land of historic Palestine—whatever its constitutional form—the authors deconstruct the strategies of ethnic exclusion and systematically envisage the means of liberating political imagination. This will be deemed treason by some, utopia by others, but it is a courageous and well-informed contribution to reopening the future. The alternative is catastrophe."—Etienne Balibar, author of We, the people of Europe?"Ethically and politically committed, Azoulay and Ophir challenge—to put it mildly—hegemonic Zionist Israeli statements that the Palestinian occupation is not part of what 'we' are. With eloquent and impassioned arguments, they acutely undermine the sterile indulgences of current Israeli politics, and ultimately widen the horizon of debate for the political possibilities and future of Israel and Palestine."—Gabriel Piterberg, University of California, Los Angeles"This is a first-rate intervention into understanding how the Israeli occupation operates. Innovative and insightful, the volume also transcends the local case to shed new light on violence and governance in conflict zones the world over. A profound contribution to our understanding of the colonial presence."—Neve Gordon, Ben-Gurion University
£19.79
Stanford University Press Social Movements Mobilization and Contestation in
Book SynopsisBefore the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen.The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory''s classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action toTrade Review"This book is an invaluable source of empirical data on contention and mobilization in the [Middle East and North Africa] region, both at the center and the peripheries, and goes a long way to explain the 'Arab Spring'. Its greatest strengths lie in the nuanced and actor-focused depiction of mobilization and contention dynamics and in challenging conventional knowledge regarding the prevalence of radicalization, the role of Islamist actors, and the teleological drive of contention . . . [F]or everyone trying to understand the ongoing events in the MENA region with the whole range and complexity of its activism, this book is essential reading."—Anna Sunik, Democratization"The second edition of their volume provides new chapters on the situations in Syria, Yemen, and Tunisia, while adding and revising the sections of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The editors acknowledge the complexities of the dynamic region while providing empirical analysis that seeks to provide a better understanding of the changes at hand."—Middle East JournalPraise for the first edition:"An altogether welcome addition to both the social movement literature and the growing body of work on contention in the Middle East and North Africa. In the wake of 9/11, scholars rushed to fill the gaping void in scholarly knowledge of all manner of 'Islamacist' movements, but generally without tapping into the rich body of work on contentious politics that had been produced in recent years. And for their part, movement scholars were missing in action when it came to knowledge of events in this crucial region of the world. This exceptional collection has gone a long way towards remedying this problem and bringing these two important literatures into productive dialog with each other."—Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityPraise for the first edition:"Protest in the Middle East and North Africa is not just a monopoly of Islamists. This volume juxtaposes Islamist activism with movements by workers, intellectuals, feminists, human rights activists, and others that don't get much attention in the West, but which present a fuller picture of political and social upheavals in the region."—Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£89.10
Stanford University Press Social Movements Mobilization and Contestation in
Book SynopsisBefore the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen.The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory''s classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action toTrade Review"This book is an invaluable source of empirical data on contention and mobilization in the [Middle East and North Africa] region, both at the center and the peripheries, and goes a long way to explain the 'Arab Spring'. Its greatest strengths lie in the nuanced and actor-focused depiction of mobilization and contention dynamics and in challenging conventional knowledge regarding the prevalence of radicalization, the role of Islamist actors, and the teleological drive of contention . . . [F]or everyone trying to understand the ongoing events in the MENA region with the whole range and complexity of its activism, this book is essential reading."—Anna Sunik, Democratization"The second edition of their volume provides new chapters on the situations in Syria, Yemen, and Tunisia, while adding and revising the sections of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. The editors acknowledge the complexities of the dynamic region while providing empirical analysis that seeks to provide a better understanding of the changes at hand."—Middle East JournalPraise for the first edition:"An altogether welcome addition to both the social movement literature and the growing body of work on contention in the Middle East and North Africa. In the wake of 9/11, scholars rushed to fill the gaping void in scholarly knowledge of all manner of 'Islamacist' movements, but generally without tapping into the rich body of work on contentious politics that had been produced in recent years. And for their part, movement scholars were missing in action when it came to knowledge of events in this crucial region of the world. This exceptional collection has gone a long way towards remedying this problem and bringing these two important literatures into productive dialog with each other."—Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityPraise for the first edition:"Protest in the Middle East and North Africa is not just a monopoly of Islamists. This volume juxtaposes Islamist activism with movements by workers, intellectuals, feminists, human rights activists, and others that don't get much attention in the West, but which present a fuller picture of political and social upheavals in the region."—Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£21.59
Stanford University Press Constructing Cassandra
Book SynopsisConstructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11 terrorist attackssurprises still play out today in U.S. policy. Although there has been no shortage of studies exploring how intelligence failures can happen, none of them have been able to provide a unified understanding of the phenomenon. To correct that omission, this book brings culture and identity to the foreground to present a unified model of strategic surprise; one that focuses on the internal make-up the CIA, and takes seriously those Cassandras who offered warnings, but were ignored. This systematic exploration of the sources of the CIA''s intelligence failures points to ways to prevent future strategic surprises.Trade Review"This smoothly written and sophisticated study of intelligence analysis will appeal to a broad audience . . . [The authors'] social science approach, lack of ideological bias, and ability to dissect organizational behavior produce a masterful account . . . Recommended."—A. Klinghoffer, CHOICE"This important book will provoke a debate within the Intelligence Community that will expose new truths and frame current intelligence dilemmas in a new light. Its emphasis on the social nature of intelligence analysis will contribute to a new understanding of the intelligence process."—Jim Breckenridge, Executive Director, Institute for Intelligence Studies, Mercyhurst University"The authors should be complimented for providing a fresh look at the functioning of the CIA as they analyze the commonalities underlying its numerous intelligence failures. The book touches upon some of the most profound issues that have divided the Directorate of Intelligence as it struggles to understand the often complex and confusing international realities with a special emphasis on the analytical tradition of Sherman Kent, the intellectually architect of the DI. It is a welcome addition to the literature on intelligence failures and a timely remainder of the difficulties that American intelligence faces in coping with the Arab Spring."—Ofira Seliktar, Professor of Political Science, Gratz College
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Stanford University Press Tyranny Comes Home
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clearly and boldly argued, this is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the economics of interventionism."—Joshua Hall, West Virginia University, and coauthor of Economic Freedom of the World Report"Many people believe that U.S. 'peacekeeping' efforts abroad help to protect American civil liberties at home. Coyne and Hall show just how mistaken that view is. I know of no other work that makes such a clear connection between foreign intervention and the erosion of domestic civil liberties."—Randall Holcombe, Florida State University"Coyne and Hall brilliantly reveal that a fatal coarsening comes with the rise of an empire. One can only respond with the cant phrase, heard often in these latter days, which would be better applied to peaceful, intellectual exchanges than to the corrupting enterprise of foreign intervention: 'Thank you for your service.'"—Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago"An old German saying claims that losing a war is bad, but winning a war is worse. Coyne and Hall document one way in which that is the case: the architecture of social control created by militarism is easily adapted to domestic life. Tyranny Comes Home illustrates this phenomena in the United States, while offering a path to reclaiming the 'Great Republic.'"—Michael Munger, Duke University"Tyranny Comes Home argues that a nation cannot act brutally in the world and still respect the rights and liberties of its own people. It is a wonderfully insightful look at the connections between the violence of American foreign policy and our shrinking democracy at home."—Stephen Kinzer, Watson Institute, Brown University, Columnist, The Boston Globe, and author of The True Flag"An adept and engaging examination of the processes by which militaristic policy abroad can lead to the loss of civil liberties at home."—John Mueller, Ohio State University and Cato Institute"Anyone who believes that decades of thoughtless military interventionism have enhanced America's well-being needs to read Tyranny Comes Home. Coyne and Hall deftly show how incessant foreign meddling undermines the very domestic freedoms it is intended to preserve. A powerful, original indictment of America's warrior state ideology."—Michael J. Glennon, author of National Security and Double Government"A number of America's founding fathers expressed the view that foreign military ventures would come at a high cost. In Tyranny Comes Home, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall put this warning to the test: How have America's wars of choice and its colonial experiments affected the homeland and the power of the presidency? And what does economic theory have to say about the transformation from state to empire? Their analysis makes for an engrossing read, a remarkably demonstration of the foresight that went into the Constitution, and a stark depiction of the dangers that it faces today."—Scott Horton, Contributing Editor, Harper's Magazine"Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall have built a highly original and penetrating argument on a neglected topic that demands attention in the age of endless war. Their thorough analysis, understanding of history, and fresh correlations are insightful and a pleasure to read. We need more of this kind of creative bridge building."—John Tirman, MIT Center for International Studies"America's disastrous wars have taken a horrendous toll. Yet, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall powerfully demonstrate that the costs are even higher than we have recognized. Tyranny Comes Home is a brilliant and important book that transcends partisanship. The authors' call for anti-militarism and patriotism built on a critical attitude towards the security state can help to rescue America's democracy."—Jeffrey D. Sachs, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University"This is an important and provocative exploration of an overlooked cost of militaristic foreign policy: domestic freedom. This well-researched and lively book is a must read for those concerned with the preservation of individual liberty and the perils of permanent war." -- Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner"Using cases ranging from militarizing police, using drones for surveillance, and exercising elements of torture in American prisons, Coyne and Hall lend an economic lens to their research to show how foreign interventions and domestic policy decisions are becoming increasingly intertwined—in their eyes at a significant cost to the American public....[T]he authors raise questions about how a country can act violently throughout the world while still claiming to respect the liberties and rights of its own citizens."—W. Miller, Choice"Coyne's and Hall's book is a great, conceptually holistic investigation into how the state can threaten our liberty. Economists regularly recognize the unintended consequences of domestic policy; Coyne and Hall have explained the unintended consequences of foreign policy, and their costs.—Jerrod A. Laber, The American Conservative"This was an excellent expository text that I do believe was one of the most educational I have read in some time, and I thoroughly recommend it to students and practitioners of foreign policy, international relations, intelligence studies and strategic studies."—Courtney J. O'Connor, London School of Economics Review of Books"[An] eye-opening account that should be read by every engaged citizen who cares about the future of the nation and global affairs."—Miriam Cohen, The Vienna CircleTable of Contents1. Mark Twain's Ominous Warning 2. The Boomerang Effect: How Social Control Comes Home 3. A Perfect Storm: Why America Is Susceptible 4. Surveillance 5. The Militarization of Police 6. Drones 7. Torture Conclusion: Reclaiming the Great Republic
£84.15
LSU Press Manipulating the Masses
Book SynopsisExplores a profound and enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federal government exercised unprecedented power to shape the views and attitudes of American citizens.
£38.66
LSU Press Manipulating the Masses
Book SynopsisTells the story of the enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state.Trade ReviewA fascinating study into the origins of targeted misinformation and fake news, and the creators who unleashed them on our world out of misguided patriotism." - David Callaway, Former Editor-in-Chief, USA Today"An instant classic. This stunning history of the origins of American propaganda and the information state unveils the threat to self-government that's been with us since World War I. If you care about democracy, this book belongs at the top of your reading list." - Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government & the Press, Harvard University"There are fewer more important obligations of government in a democracy to keep citizens informed and to tell the truth. That standard, sadly, has failed at crucial moments in our history and John Maxwell Hamilton's volume recalls the history of a seminal failure. It should open our eyes to shortcomings in what we get as 'public information' and ask us all to demand better from our nation's leaders." - Mike McCurry, Former White House and State Department spokesman; Professor and Director, Public Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary"George Creel and his Committee on Public Information, directed by President Woodrow Wilson, represented a massive and successful effort during WWI to mold opinion in favor of American involvement in the war. Hamilton's book demonstrates that distorted propaganda such as what we saw during the Vietnam War and from today's White House, is nothing new. His story is a mirror into our own times." - Ambassador Theodore Sedgwick, Commissioner, World War I Centennial Commission"This highly-readable, meticulously researched book examines the origins of modern U.S. propaganda, as refined in the Twentieth Century. These practices, well-intended at first, have ended up harming this nation by undermining its democratic principles. Professor Hamilton rings a warning bell that all should hear about the dangers that propaganda, whether from abroad or within our own land, continues to hold for the future of America's open society." - Loch Johnson, Regents Professor Emeritus of International Affairs, University of Georgia"John Hamilton has written an outstanding, timely new book. A century ago, President Woodrow Wilson's Ministry of Public Information was America's first and only propagandistic Ministry of Information. Today, we have deteriorated to darker, diminished discourse with phrases such as 'fake news' by a President who has made tens of thousands of false or misleading public statements since his Inauguration. All of this can be traced to the story Hamilton tells." - Charles Lewis, Founder of the Center for Public Integrity and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists"Manipulating the Masses brilliantly tells the story of President Woodrow Wilson's 1916 re-election campaign and how Wilson used the same techniques to shape public opinion when he took the country into World War I and created the Committee on Public Information. Every public affairs office in government today as well as the private sector's public relations industry owe their birth to Wilson's CPI and what was done there. It's quite a story." - Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report"Both fascinating and troubling, this thoughtful history reveals the roots of the official spin that dominates much of today's news. The blunt title and alarming cover illustration--a 1918 war-bond poster depicting a direct German attack on New York City--make clear the heavy-duty nature of Manipulating the Masses, John Maxwell Hamilton's important history of the establishment during World War I of systematic propaganda as an instrument of American government." - New York Journal of Books"In this excellent book, John Maxwell Hamilton examines the darker side of US president Woodrow Wilson's administration during the First World War. . . . Hamilton provides a detailed account of the CPI's (Committee on Public Information) operations, ranging from propaganda to censorship both at home and abroad. . . . Wilson's legacy was mixed, as Hamilton convincingly demonstrates in this outstanding book." - H-Net Reviews"Some history books make exceptional contributions. Like long-needed highways or bridges, they act as public utilities. Some even do the job with elegance. John Maxwell Hamilton's Manipulating the Masses: Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of American Propaganda is such a book: history as public service, delivered with grace and advancing our progress on the vital road to understanding the relationship between government and media in America and, by extension, in the wider world. Hamilton draws on a wide array of archival sources in many countries to tell a simple story: how the United States government used mass communications to advance its foreign policy at home and abroad during World War I. In the past, the subject has been tackled only partially, most prominently by writers with a personal connection to the events in question and to the story's central government agency, the Committee on Public Information (CPI). Moreover, this story has been overshadowed by the memoir of the man who ran the campaign, George Creel. Creel was the modern U.S. government's first great propagandist, with a role so novel that promulgating government propaganda was once known as 'Creeling.' Creel's own account of the process was--no surprise--self-serving. Hamilton's book is a more-than-overdue audit of Creel and his agency. More than that, it illuminates the original sin in the U.S. government's relationship with the media, a foundational mix of spin and distortion that echoes down the decades to our own era of presidential tweets and weaponized media. 'Every element' of today's 'information state,' says Hamilton, 'had antecedents in the CPI.'" - American Purpose
£27.86
University of Pennsylvania Press Selling the American Way
Book SynopsisSelling the American Way documents how U.S. officials defined and defended the "American Way of Life" in a quest to promote democratic capitalism and discredit communism, but faced great difficulties in reconciling their symbolic America with the complex political, economic, and strategic realities of the Cold War.Trade Review"Well researched and clearly written, Selling the American Way is a welcome addition to a fast-growing body of literature on propaganda and the 'cultural Cold War.'" * Journal of American History *"Belmonte has produced an invaluable contribution that should be examined by everyone interested in understanding public diplomacy and in building an effective public diplomacy campaign." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Chronology Introduction Chapter 1: The Truman Years Chapter 2: The Eisenhower Years Chapter 3: Defining Democracy: Images of the American Political System Chapter 4: Selling Capitalism: Images of the Economy, Labor, and Consumerism Chapter 5: "The Red Target Is Your Home": Images of Gender and the Family Chapter 6: "A Lynching Should Be Reported Without Comment": Images of Race Relations Conclusion: The Costs and Limits of Selling "America" Notes Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press American Marriage
Book SynopsisIn American Marriage, Priscilla Yamin argues that marriage is a political institution to which actors turn either to stave off or to promote change over issues of race, gender, class, or sexuality. In the political struggle, certain marriages are pushed as necessary for the good of society, while others are contested or prevented.Trade Review"An invitation to further and deeper conversations among scholars interested in all types of identity-based inequalities about the political institution of marriage and the politics of inclusion." * Politics and Gender *"Because Yamin, a political scientist, so astutely illustrates the hefty political work that marriage does in the face of the widespread belief that it is entirely nonpolitical, she deepens our grasp of its history." * Journal of American History *"A powerful analysis of the complex interactions between the public obligations expected of citizens and the private ones expected of marriage partners. Yamin demonstrates how our most intimate relationships have been shaped by political agendas, and in turn how our changing notion of personal rights and obligations are reshaping political debates." * Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, A History *"A splendid contribution to the scholarship of politics and marriage. . . . An exemplary work in a neglected field." * Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Marriage as a Political Institution I. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1. The "Duties as Well as Privileges of Freedom Chapter 2. "What Constitutes a Valid Marriage?" II. THE LONG CULTURE WARS Chapter 3. "Marriage Is One of the Basic Civil Rights of Man" Chapter 4. "Marriage Is the Foundation of a Successful Society" Chapter 5. "We're in a Battle for the Soul of the Nation" Conclusion: "Is There Hope for the American Marriage?" Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
New York University Press When Governments Break the Law The Rule of Law
Book SynopsisTakes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governmentsTrade ReviewIf, as all the authors in this volume concede, Bush Administration violations can be prosecuted for their alleged crimes, shouldnt we, in accordance with the rule of law, proceed with such prosecutions. This, however, is just the jumping off point. This is a great book precisely because the authors clearly succeed in demonstrating the complexity and problems with each seemingly simple solution. Neither solution, prosecuting or not prosecuting, will leave the reader completely satisfied, but this is exactly the point... Using law to legalize something which cannot be legalized raises the question of what, exactly, is the role that law plays in its own subversion. The essays in this volume take a meaningful and helpful step in the direction of answering this question. * Concurring Opinions *While we think of the crimes of the Bush-Cheney administration as lying somewhere in the past, the aggressive wars, warrantless spying, lawless imprisonment, and torture continue. This collection looks deeply into one likely way to end these crimes, namely enforcing the laws against them. Included are serious and informed voices both for and against prosecution. -- David Swanson,author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect UnionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Responding to Government Lawlessness: What Does the Rule of Law Require? Nasser Hussain and Austin Sarat 1 Vindicating the Rule of Law: Prosecuting Free Riders on Human Rights Claire Finkelstein 2 Guantanamo in the Province of The Hague? Daniel Herwitz 3 Universal Jurisdiction as Praxis: An Option to Pursue Legal Accountability for Superpower Torturers Lisa Hajjar 4 The Spider's Web: How Government Lawbreakers Routinely Elude the Law Stephen Holmes 5 Democracy as the Rule of Law Paul Horwitz 6 Justice Jackson, the Memory of Internment, and the Rule of Law after the Bush Administration Stephen I. Vladeck About the Contributors Index
£23.74
Syracuse University Press Israelites in Erin
Book SynopsisDrawing on both canonical and little-known texts of the Literary Revival, Bender highlights the centrality of Exodus in Ireland. In doing so, she recuperates the history of a liberation narrative that was occluded by the aesthetic of 1916, when the Christ story replaced Exodus as a model for revolution and liberation.
£30.56
John Wiley & Sons Beyond Othering A Gandhian Approach to Conflict
Book SynopsisIllustrates how Gandhian principles of multicultural belonging and pluralism are key to resolving conflicts, not just in South Asia but across the world. Beyond Othering is a timely and relevant contribution to the discourse on conflict resolution.
£30.56
John Wiley & Sons Beyond Othering
Book SynopsisIllustrates how Gandhian principles of multicultural belonging and pluralism are key to resolving conflicts, not just in South Asia but across the world. Beyond Othering is a timely and relevant contribution to the discourse on conflict resolution.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Partition, South Asian Conflict, and Gandhi 1. Gandhian Conflict Resolution 2. Othering, Clash of Visions, and Partition 3. Post-partition South Asia 4. Promoting Belonging Conclusion: Beyond Othering Notes Bibliography Index
£63.90
University of Arizona Press North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
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Duke University Press Violent Democracies in Latin America
Book SynopsisA collection exploring how individuals and institutions in contemporary Latin American democracies use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice.Trade Review“Contributors to the volume Violent Democracies in Latin America do an excellent job of opening new paths for exploring this abiding question. . . . This edited volume is remarkably coherent and the chapters fit together nicely. . . . [E]ach chapter makes a unique contribution to the interdisciplinary conceptualization of violent pluralism.” - Kedron Thomas, Anthropological Quarterly“Violent Democracies in Latin America is a welcome addition to cross-disciplinary studies of Latin American politics. . . . Violent Democracies forces the readers to consider each case study in its specificity and the common problems of the region as a whole, which is, I would submit, the only way to address the problem of violence in today’s Latin American states.” - Isabel DiVanna, Canadian Journal of History“Violent Democracies in Latin America presents a nuanced study of the interactions between trade liberalization, neoliberal economic systems,and the political environment of post-authoritarian Latin America that subverts many of the previous ideas on the democratic transition and offers useful insights for scholars into the political economic context of the period. As contributors include an anthropologist, several historians, a political scientist, and a sociologist, the volume will reach a wide audience and contribute to the growing dialogue on contemporary Latin American politics.” - Irene Depetris Chauvin, Hispanic American Historical Review“The case studies are uniformly good—well researched and written on important and interesting topics. . . . Violent Democracies makes an important contribution in focusing our attention on the perpetuation of violence as Latin American countries continue in their democratization process.” - Charles D. Brockett, A Contracorriente“The studies presented here suggest that there is no simple route by which Latin American political democracies could become less violent, because violence has not only been institutionally integral to the way state power is exercised and class privileges are maintained within the region, but has also been exacerbated by its insertion into a neoliberal capitalist internationalsystem.” - John Gledhill, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Association“[T]his book presents a new research agenda on the problems of governance, democracy, and security in Latin America. The concept of violent pluralism that it advances requires a precise examination of the existing connections between different forms of violence, as well as a deep understanding of the autonomy that certain forms of violence might have with respect to others.” - Hugo Frühling, Latin American Politics and Society"Arias and Goldstein have compiled an excellent series of cases that collectively argue in support of their main thesis…. Arias and Goldstein offer an alternative, sophisticated understanding of the multiple and tactical uses of violence that keep a disenfranchised citizenry under control." - James H. McDonald, Ethnohistory“Violent Democracies of Latin America superbly captures the on-going tensions between security and insecurity, on the one side, and pressures for social change and participatory democracy, on the other. Contributors provide multiple insights into how these tensions clash, interface, and then meld into a ‘violent pluralism’ of new Latin American democracies.”—Martha Huggins, Charles and Leo Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University“Violent Democracies in Latin America is a welcome addition to cross-disciplinary studies of Latin American politics. . . . Violent Democracies forces the readers to consider each case study in its specificity and the common problems of the region as a whole, which is, I would submit, the only way to address the problem of violence in today’s Latin American states.” -- Isabel DiVanna * Canadian Journal of History *“Violent Democracies in Latin America presents a nuanced study of the interactions between trade liberalization, neoliberal economic systems,and the political environment of post-authoritarian Latin America that subverts many of the previous ideas on the democratic transition and offers useful insights for scholars into the political economic context of the period. As contributors include an anthropologist, several historians, a political scientist, and a sociologist, the volume will reach a wide audience and contribute to the growing dialogue on contemporary Latin American politics.” -- Irene Depetris Chauvin * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[T]his book presents a new research agenda on the problems of governance, democracy, and security in Latin America. The concept of violent pluralism that it advances requires a precise examination of the existing connections between different forms of violence, as well as a deep understanding of the autonomy that certain forms of violence might have with respect to others.” -- Hugo Frühling * Latin American Politics and Society *“Contributors to the volume Violent Democracies in Latin America do an excellent job of opening new paths for exploring this abiding question. . . . This edited volume is remarkably coherent and the chapters fit together nicely. . . . [E]ach chapter makes a unique contribution to the interdisciplinary conceptualization of violent pluralism.” -- Kedron Thomas * Anthropological Quarterly *“The case studies are uniformly good—well researched and written on important and interesting topics. . . . Violent Democracies makes an important contribution in focusing our attention on the perpetuation of violence as Latin American countries continue in their democratization process.” -- Charles D. Brockett * A Contracorriente *“The studies presented here suggest that there is no simple route by which Latin American political democracies could become less violent, because violence has not only been institutionally integral to the way state power is exercised and class privileges are maintained within the region, but has also been exacerbated by its insertion into a neoliberal capitalist internationalsystem.” -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Violent Pluralism: Understanding the New Democracies of Latin America / Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein 1 The Political and Economic Origins of Violence and Insecurity in Contemporary Latin America: Past Trajectories and Future Prospects / Diane E. Davis 35 End of Discussion: Violence, Participatory Democracy, and the Limits of Dissent in Colombia / Mary Roldán 63 Maintaining Democracy in Colombia through Political Exclusion, States of Exception, Counterinsurgency, and Dirty War / María Clemencia Ramírez 84 Clandestine Connections: The Political and Relational Makings of Collective Violence / Javier Auyero 108 "Living in a Jungle": State Violence and Perceptions of Democracy in Buenos Aires / Ruth Stanley 133 Organized Violence, Disorganized State / Lilian Bobea 161 Toward Uncivil Society: Causes and Consequences of Violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay 201 Violence, Democracy, and Human Rights in Latin America / Todd Landman 226 Conclusion: Understanding Violent Pluralism / Enrique Desmond Arias 242 References 265 Contributors 299 Index 301
£25.19
Duke University Press Feminist Surveillance Studies
Book SynopsisFeminist Surveillance Studies is a field-defining collection that places gender, race, class, and sexuality at the center of surveillance studies. Concerned with exposing the ways in which surveillance is tied to discrimination, the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what cost.Trade Review"Feminist Surveillance Studies provides a much-needed set of feminist interventions into the study of surveillance. The essays offer critically important insights into the gendered dimensions of state surveillance, vividly outline the structural inequalities designed into surveillance regimes, and provide a wealth of avenues for future research." -- Kelly A. Gates author of * Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance *"Remarkably intercommunicative and interdisciplinary, these essays are an important intervention in the burgeoning field of surveillance studies... Feminist Surveillance Studies is an overture that conceptualizes surveillance within an aesthetics of domination, a luxurious and galvanizing text to be deeply engaged and widely taught." -- Stephanie Amon * Afterimage *"Feminist Surveillance Studies offers an important intervention in surveillance studies scholarship, one that is sure to shape the discipline moving forward. It is a must-read for teachers and scholars in this area, but the diverse array of case studies makes this book relevant for updating material in an array of media studies classrooms." -- Dana Schowalter * Feminist Media Studies *"[A] necessary and important collection. . . . Rather than mark off a corner of scholarship as definitively feminist and definitively surveillance, Feminist Surveillance Studies asks us to rethink both, in service of more nuanced, just, and progressive critical frameworks." -- Andrea Braithwaite * New Media & Society *"It is testament to the structural intra-disciplinarity of Feminist Surveillance Studies that the subject categories this book is labelled with—Gender Studies, Surveillance Studies, Cultural Studies—don’t cover the half of it. These framing points are enriched by the various socio-historical contingencies presented throughout. The multiple critical connections are precisely what is so vital about the book, and a reason I would include chapters from this book on reading lists for a general new media studies course, or contemporary literary studies and visual culture courses." -- Zara Dinnen * New Formations *"On their own, and as a collection, the essays in Feminist Surveillance Studies offer an impressive array of empirically rich, theoretically engaged and critically-oriented contributions that should reshape the ways we do surveillance studies. Dubrofsky and Magnet are right to claim that their book will launch a new field of engagement. Feminist Surveillance Studies is a must-read for feminist and surveillance scholars alike." -- Amanda Glasbeek * Theoretical Criminology *Table of ContentsForeword / Mark Andrejevic ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction. Feminist Surveillance Studies: Critical Interventions / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Soshana Amielle Magnet 1 Part I. Surveillance as Foundational Structure 1. Not-Seeing: State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism, and Gender Violence / Andrea Smith 21 2. Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking: From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination / Laura Hyun Yi Kang 39 3. Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens / Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah 58 Part II. The Visual and Surveillance: Bodies on Display 4. Violating In/Visibilities: Honor Killings and Interlocking Surveillance(s) / Yasmin Jiwani 79 5. Gender, Race, and Authenticity: Celebrity Women Tweeting for the Gaze / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Megan M. Wood 93 6. Held in the Light: Reading Images of Rihanna's Domestic Abuse / Kelli D. Moore 107 Part III. Biometric Technologies as Surveillance Assemblages 7. Terror and the Female Grotesque: Introducing Full-Body Scanners to U.S. Airports / Rachel Hall 127 8. The Public Fetus and the Veiled Woman: Transnational Surrogacy Blogs as Surveillant Assemblage / Sayantani Dasgupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta 150 9. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? / Dorothy E. Roberts 169 Part IV. Toward a Feminist Praxis in Surveillance Studies 10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients / Ummni Khan 189 11. Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies / Kevin Walby and Seantel Anaïs 208 Afterword. Blaming, Shaming, and the Feminization of Social Media / Lisa Nakamura 221 References 229 Contributors 265 Index 271
£25.19
Duke University Press Feminist Surveillance Studies
Book SynopsisFeminist Surveillance Studies is a field-defining collection that places gender, race, class, and sexuality at the center of surveillance studies. Concerned with exposing the ways in which surveillance is tied to discrimination, the contributors investigate what constitutes surveillance, who is scrutinized, why, and at what cost.Trade Review"Feminist Surveillance Studies provides a much-needed set of feminist interventions into the study of surveillance. The essays offer critically important insights into the gendered dimensions of state surveillance, vividly outline the structural inequalities designed into surveillance regimes, and provide a wealth of avenues for future research." -- Kelly A. Gates author of * Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance *"Remarkably intercommunicative and interdisciplinary, these essays are an important intervention in the burgeoning field of surveillance studies... Feminist Surveillance Studies is an overture that conceptualizes surveillance within an aesthetics of domination, a luxurious and galvanizing text to be deeply engaged and widely taught." -- Stephanie Amon * Afterimage *"Feminist Surveillance Studies offers an important intervention in surveillance studies scholarship, one that is sure to shape the discipline moving forward. It is a must-read for teachers and scholars in this area, but the diverse array of case studies makes this book relevant for updating material in an array of media studies classrooms." -- Dana Schowalter * Feminist Media Studies *"[A] necessary and important collection. . . . Rather than mark off a corner of scholarship as definitively feminist and definitively surveillance, Feminist Surveillance Studies asks us to rethink both, in service of more nuanced, just, and progressive critical frameworks." -- Andrea Braithwaite * New Media & Society *"It is testament to the structural intra-disciplinarity of Feminist Surveillance Studies that the subject categories this book is labelled with—Gender Studies, Surveillance Studies, Cultural Studies—don’t cover the half of it. These framing points are enriched by the various socio-historical contingencies presented throughout. The multiple critical connections are precisely what is so vital about the book, and a reason I would include chapters from this book on reading lists for a general new media studies course, or contemporary literary studies and visual culture courses." -- Zara Dinnen * New Formations *"On their own, and as a collection, the essays in Feminist Surveillance Studies offer an impressive array of empirically rich, theoretically engaged and critically-oriented contributions that should reshape the ways we do surveillance studies. Dubrofsky and Magnet are right to claim that their book will launch a new field of engagement. Feminist Surveillance Studies is a must-read for feminist and surveillance scholars alike." -- Amanda Glasbeek * Theoretical Criminology *Table of ContentsForeword / Mark Andrejevic ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction. Feminist Surveillance Studies: Critical Interventions / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Soshana Amielle Magnet 1 Part I. Surveillance as Foundational Structure 1. Not-Seeing: State Surveillance, Settler Colonialism, and Gender Violence / Andrea Smith 21 2. Surveillance and the Work of Antitrafficking: From Compulsory Examination to International Coordination / Laura Hyun Yi Kang 39 3. Legally Sexed: Birth Certificates and Transgender Citizens / Lisa Jean Moore and Paisley Currah 58 Part II. The Visual and Surveillance: Bodies on Display 4. Violating In/Visibilities: Honor Killings and Interlocking Surveillance(s) / Yasmin Jiwani 79 5. Gender, Race, and Authenticity: Celebrity Women Tweeting for the Gaze / Rachel E. Dubrofsky and Megan M. Wood 93 6. Held in the Light: Reading Images of Rihanna's Domestic Abuse / Kelli D. Moore 107 Part III. Biometric Technologies as Surveillance Assemblages 7. Terror and the Female Grotesque: Introducing Full-Body Scanners to U.S. Airports / Rachel Hall 127 8. The Public Fetus and the Veiled Woman: Transnational Surrogacy Blogs as Surveillant Assemblage / Sayantani Dasgupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta 150 9. Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? / Dorothy E. Roberts 169 Part IV. Toward a Feminist Praxis in Surveillance Studies 10. Antiprostitution Feminism and the Surveillance of Sex Industry Clients / Ummni Khan 189 11. Research Methods, Institutional Ethnography, and Feminist Surveillance Studies / Kevin Walby and Seantel Anaïs 208 Afterword. Blaming, Shaming, and the Feminization of Social Media / Lisa Nakamura 221 References 229 Contributors 265 Index 271
£98.60
Duke University Press The Transparent Traveler
Book SynopsisRachel Hall characterizes post-9/11 airport security practices as operating under the "aesthetics of transparency," which requires passengers to perform innocence and be open to inspection—those who cannot are deemed opaque and presumed to be a threat. Travelers are no longer innocent until proven guilty; they are guilty until proven transparent.Trade Review"Rachel Hall describes a state of emergency that has probably been normal in the rest of the world since the inception of mass air travel, and to non-Americans, it has a whiff of naivety. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book. As Hall observes, the technological and cultural advances in the area of security have been so great and so rapid in recent years that they constitute a major part of our contemporary lives. Her argument centres on notions of transparency, from its aesthetics in a broadly architectural sense, to transparency in terms of biopolitics, to transparency as performance. She writes persuasively of security as theatre, or as she puts it pithily, "a cultural performance of risk", demanded both by those in authority and their institutions, and their subjects. It couldn't be any other way: without complicity on the part of the consumer, security simply couldn't be enacted in the way that it is." -- Richard J. Williams * Times Higher Education *"Hall’s sharp eye for visuality, combined with this book’s innovative methodology—which cuts across and between different sites, historical moments, and cultural practices in order to tell a compelling story about securitization, ideology, and risk in the contemporary US—makes the book an important read for cultural studies and communication studies scholars at large." -- Bryanne Young * Text and Performance Quarterly *"What this book does excellently is build a picture of the disciplinary power of airport security through a myriad of media texts: this is a book that will appeal to a wide range of scholars, from those in critical surveillance studies to theorists of visual culture, from those interested in the continued relevance of Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics to critics of contemporary formations of the neoliberal society, and from scholars in mobility studies to those specifically interested in the space of the airport." -- Justine Shih Pearson * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Rethinking Asymmetrical Transparency: Risk Management, the Aesthetics of Transparency, and the Global Politics of Mobility 1 1. The Art of Performing Consumer and Suspect: Transparency Chic as a Model of Privileged, Securitized Modernity 25 2. Opacity Effects: The Performance and Documentation of Terrorist Embodiment 57 3. Transparency Effects: The Implementation of Full-Body and Biometic Scanners at US Airports 77 4. How to Perform Voluntary Transparency More Efficiently: Airport Security Pedagogy in the Post-9/11 Era 109 5. Performing Involuntary Transparency: The TSA's Turn to Behavior Detection 131 Conclusion. Transparency Beyond US Airports: International Airports, "Flying" Checkpoints, Controlled-Tone Zones, and Lateral Behavior Detection 157 Notes 179 Bibliography 205 Index 219
£76.50
Duke University Press Islam and Secularity
Book SynopsisIn Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle examines the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. She demonstrates that Islam and secularism are mutually constitutive, constantly changing, and that the presence of Islam unsettles dominant narratives of Western modernism.Trade Review"Once again, then, Göle attends simultaneously to the asymmetries of power and the dynamics of reinvention—the hallmark more generally of this readable, analytically complex, and timely new book." -- Mayanthi Fernando * Reading Religion *"Göle’s contributions are manifold. . . . This work is a must-read for a graduate seminar on the topic. It is highly recommended for both researchers and nonprofessionals." -- Hakan Erdagöz * Sociology of Religion *"Islam and Secularity makes for very rewarding and stimulating reading. It is exceptionally well suited to relocate debates about European secularity and Islam into global and historical perspectives. Concise and clearly written, the book is packed with wide-ranging arguments that will challenge the reader on many levels and with fascinating case studies." -- Frank Peter * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies 1 2. Secular Modernity in Question 31 3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self 53 4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality 73 5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere 103 6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries 135 7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna 161 8. Europe's Trouble with Islam: What Future? 193 Notes 227 Bibliography 243 Index 257
£98.60
Duke University Press The Transparent Traveler
Book SynopsisRachel Hall characterizes post-9/11 airport security practices as operating under the "aesthetics of transparency," which requires passengers to perform innocence and be open to inspection—those who cannot are deemed opaque and presumed to be a threat. Travelers are no longer innocent until proven guilty; they are guilty until proven transparent.Trade Review"Rachel Hall describes a state of emergency that has probably been normal in the rest of the world since the inception of mass air travel, and to non-Americans, it has a whiff of naivety. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book. As Hall observes, the technological and cultural advances in the area of security have been so great and so rapid in recent years that they constitute a major part of our contemporary lives. Her argument centres on notions of transparency, from its aesthetics in a broadly architectural sense, to transparency in terms of biopolitics, to transparency as performance. She writes persuasively of security as theatre, or as she puts it pithily, "a cultural performance of risk", demanded both by those in authority and their institutions, and their subjects. It couldn't be any other way: without complicity on the part of the consumer, security simply couldn't be enacted in the way that it is." -- Richard J. Williams * Times Higher Education *"Hall’s sharp eye for visuality, combined with this book’s innovative methodology—which cuts across and between different sites, historical moments, and cultural practices in order to tell a compelling story about securitization, ideology, and risk in the contemporary US—makes the book an important read for cultural studies and communication studies scholars at large." -- Bryanne Young * Text and Performance Quarterly *"What this book does excellently is build a picture of the disciplinary power of airport security through a myriad of media texts: this is a book that will appeal to a wide range of scholars, from those in critical surveillance studies to theorists of visual culture, from those interested in the continued relevance of Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics to critics of contemporary formations of the neoliberal society, and from scholars in mobility studies to those specifically interested in the space of the airport." -- Justine Shih Pearson * TDR: The Drama Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Rethinking Asymmetrical Transparency: Risk Management, the Aesthetics of Transparency, and the Global Politics of Mobility 1 1. The Art of Performing Consumer and Suspect: Transparency Chic as a Model of Privileged, Securitized Modernity 25 2. Opacity Effects: The Performance and Documentation of Terrorist Embodiment 57 3. Transparency Effects: The Implementation of Full-Body and Biometic Scanners at US Airports 77 4. How to Perform Voluntary Transparency More Efficiently: Airport Security Pedagogy in the Post-9/11 Era 109 5. Performing Involuntary Transparency: The TSA's Turn to Behavior Detection 131 Conclusion. Transparency Beyond US Airports: International Airports, "Flying" Checkpoints, Controlled-Tone Zones, and Lateral Behavior Detection 157 Notes 179 Bibliography 205 Index 219
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Duke University Press Islam and Secularity
Book SynopsisIn Islam and Secularity Nilüfer Göle examines the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. She demonstrates that Islam and secularism are mutually constitutive, constantly changing, and that the presence of Islam unsettles dominant narratives of Western modernism.Trade Review"Once again, then, Göle attends simultaneously to the asymmetries of power and the dynamics of reinvention—the hallmark more generally of this readable, analytically complex, and timely new book." -- Mayanthi Fernando * Reading Religion *"Göle’s contributions are manifold. . . . This work is a must-read for a graduate seminar on the topic. It is highly recommended for both researchers and nonprofessionals." -- Hakan Erdagöz * Sociology of Religion *"Islam and Secularity makes for very rewarding and stimulating reading. It is exceptionally well suited to relocate debates about European secularity and Islam into global and historical perspectives. Concise and clearly written, the book is packed with wide-ranging arguments that will challenge the reader on many levels and with fascinating case studies." -- Frank Peter * Journal of Islamic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Public Sphere beyond Religious-Secular Dichotomies 1 2. Secular Modernity in Question 31 3. Religious-Secular Frontiers: State, Public Sphere, and the Self 53 4. Web of Secular Power: Civilization, Space, and Sexuality 73 5. The Gendered Nature of the Public Sphere 103 6. Public Islam: New Visibilities and New Imaginaries 135 7. Public Culture, Art, and Islam: Turkish-Delight in Vienna 161 8. Europe's Trouble with Islam: What Future? 193 Notes 227 Bibliography 243 Index 257
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Stalins Nomads
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and unsettling account of the Soviet campaign to forcefully sedentarize and collectivize the Kazakh clans. Stalin and his inner circle pursued a campaign of violence and subjugation, rather than attempting any dialog or cultural assimilation.Trade ReviewPraise for the German edition - ""An outstanding contribution to the literature on the Kazakh famine. It is based on prolific research in dozens of archives and on an excellent grasp of recent Kazakh, Russian, and western scholarship."" - Slavic Review
£46.10
MP-MAS Uni of Massachusetts Creating Rosie the Riveter
Book SynopsisExamines advertisements and fiction published in the Saturday Evening Post and True Story in order to show how propaganda was used to encourage women to enter the work force.Trade ReviewAn illuminating study of WWII propaganda directed at women and labor force participation. . . . Excellent reading for courses in women's studies, communications, and culture." —Choice"'How did the strong figure of Rosie the Riveter become transformed into the naive, dependent, childlike, self-abnegating model of femininity is the late forties and 1950s?' Honey's analysis of fiction and advertising in two popular magazines [True Story and Saturday Evening Post] of the period follows the shifting image of women produced in response to advice and actual story ideas from government propaganda agencies, e.g., the Office of War Information. By untangling conflicting themes in these and earlier images, she moves beyond the conspiracy theory often implied in discussions of the 'feminine mystique.' This scholarly study is decidedly readable and concise." —Library Journal"Honey's fine study of wartime images of women underscores the importance of systematic research. In addition, her book demonstrates the value of scholarly sensitivity to issues of class as well as gender. The differences Honey finds are striking, her conclusions sobering." —American Historical Review"Honey has produced a provocative history. Creating Rosie the Riveter makes one think differently about how advertising and the division of labor can affect the image of women. Rosie the Riveter was created in a short time in a moment of need, but she was dismissed just as quickly, sent off to have babies and find meaning in the world where 'father knows best.' This shift was caused not only by the mass media, but also by the images already present in the American tradition. The strong pioneer woman and the keeper of the hearth have been around for a long time." —Business History Review"Honey's well-researched and well-written volume helps to demonstrate that continuity with the past and future, not change, was the dominant theme for women in the 1940s." —D'Ann Campbell, Minerva
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Cornell University Press Advertising Sin and Sickness The Politics of
Book SynopsisDocuments three distinct periods in the history of national debate over the regulation of alcohol and tobacco marketing, tracing the fate of proposed federal policies and introducing their advocates and opponents. This book argues that the politics of alcohol and tobacco advertising reflect profound cultural ambivalence about consumerism.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched. A splendid book that is sure to find interested audiences in many academic fields, as well as in activist circles. * Business History Review *The author quite rightly sees this history as an important element in the unfolding reaction to consumer culture in the United States and the uneasiness sometimes associated with the growth of marketing to children. -- James Gilbert, University of MarylandResearched in fascinating detail... a valuable and well-argued addition to the literature. * Addiction *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Health, Morality, and Free Speech Part One: The Failed Fight to Ban Alcohol Advertising, 1947–1958 1. Temperance and Mass Society 2. The Industries' Regulatory Response 3. Legislative Battles: Politics and Rhetoric Part Two: The Battle to Regulate Cigarette Marketing, 1960s 4. Emergence of the Postwar Antismoking Movement 5. The Warning Label Debate 6. The Next Push: Restricting Advertising Part Three: The New Temperance Movement and Alcohol Marketing Restrictions, 1970s and 1980s 7. The Political, Legal, and Scientific Context of Regulation 8. Policy Contests: Warning Labels and Advertising Controls Conclusion: The Elusive Quest for Restraints Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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FOREST HISTORY SOC INC Americas Fires
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Edward Elgar Publishing Political Violence
Book SynopsisExamining the role of elections and top-down democracy promotion in Africa, this book focuses on how and why electoral contests are associated with division and violence. It considers whether the Western political model has failed developing countries, in what ways, and how this has affected peopleâs lives.
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WW Norton & Co Three Dangerous Men
Book SynopsisHow three key figures in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding Western power.Trade Review"Seth Jones makes a compelling, riveting argument in Three Dangerous Men that the United States needs to reconsider significant aspects of the very concept of contemporary warfare. He provides a fascinating examination of the threats to the US from Russia, Iran, and China, describing how they are not just using traditional military capabilities to confront the United States, but hackers, spies, special operations forces, proxies, and private military companies – among others. This is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the present-day challenges facing the U.S. and our allies and partners around the world." -- Gen. David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, U.S. Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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Johns Hopkins University Press Writing in Public
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of literary writing in democratic society?Building upon his previous work on the emergence of literature, Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once certain forms of discourse came to be perceived as public and entitled to freedom from state or private control. Ross argues thatwith liberty of expression becoming entrenched as a national valuethe legal constraints on speech had to be reconceived, becoming less a set of prohibitions on its content than an arrangement for managing the public sphere. The public was free to speak on any subject, but its speech, jurists believed, had to follow certain ground rules, as formalized in laws aimed at limiting private ownership of culturally significant works, maintaining civility in public diTrade ReviewWriting in Public offers a brilliant synthesis of a massive set of interrelated topics: how the public role of literature gradually and radically shifted; its legal, social and literary causes; and its long-term implications for the public. For those grappling with the question of what literature's public functions were or were supposed to do, Ross offers both an insightful and provoking guide.—Andrew Benjamin Bricker, Ghent University, Review of English StudiesWriting in Public makes an ambitious argument with ramifications both for our reading of eighteenth-century literature and our contemporary understanding of literature as a form of public speech. One key strength of Ross's book is the way that highly specific examples are engagingly narrated and then open out into broad historical claims . . . [S]cholars in all areas of eighteenth century studies, as well as historians of free speech and the law, will find it a valuable resource.—Hannah Doherty Hudson, Eighteenth-Century FictionWhat Ross styles 'a cultural history of ideas about literature's place in the public sphere,' is timely and worth reading . . . This strikingly original volume is largely juridical; while Ben Jonson, Daniel Defoe, and Alexander Pope have their cameos, Writing in Public devotes itself to jurists and their legal reasoning as they debated intellectual property, perpetual copyright, the liberty of criticism, seditious libel, and so on.—University of Toronto QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Writing in Public Part I. Copyright1. Literature in the Public Domain 2. The Fate of Style in an Age of Intellectual Property Part II. Defamation and Privacy3. What Does Literature Publicize? 4. How Criticism Became Privileged Speech: The Case of Carr v. Hood (1808) Part III. Seditious Libel5. Literature and the Freedom of Mind Epilogue: Unacknowledged Legislators Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Ethics of Care
Book SynopsisApplying feminist ethics to a comprehensive reworking of the theory of human security, addressing such issues as poverty, health, environment, conflict and peace buildingTrade Review"This is the best book on the implications of the ethics of care for global politics. In combining human security with a relational approach to care ethics, Robinson has written an essential contribution both to the fields of international relations and global ethics." -Joan C. Tronto, University of Minnesota "Anyone who is interested in understanding human security, gender, and their relationship will benefit from reading The Ethics of Care-its feminist approach to human security is theoretically sophisticated, innovative, and robust. This book's theoretical contribution is second only to its indispensability to understanding policy in a number of key areas-including sex economies, humanitarian intervention, peacebuilding, health, and the environment. It is a must read!" -Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida "Robinson's book is an important contribution to the literatures on human security on the one hand, and the feminist ethic of care on the other. The key strength of The Ethics of Care is the way that it demonstrates in detail the implications of a care approach for human security thinking across a range of domains. It is highly theoretically sophisticated in its account of care ethics, but also has the strong advantage of fleshing its consequences out in relation to empirical contexts and issues." -Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Ethics of Care and Global Politics 2. Rethinking Human Security 3. "Women's Work": The Global Care and Sex Economies 4. Humanitarian Intervention and Global Security Governance 5. Peacebuilding and Paternalism: Reading Care through Postcolonialism 6. Health and Human Security: Gender, Care, and HIV/AIDs 7. Gender, Care, and the Ethics of Environmental Security Conclusion: Security through Care References Index
£53.55
Temple University Press,U.S. The Ethics of Care
Book SynopsisApplying feminist ethics to a comprehensive reworking of the theory of human security, addressing such issues as poverty, health, environment, conflict and peace buildingTrade Review"This is the best book on the implications of the ethics of care for global politics. In combining human security with a relational approach to care ethics, Robinson has written an essential contribution both to the fields of international relations and global ethics." -Joan C. Tronto, University of Minnesota "Anyone who is interested in understanding human security, gender, and their relationship will benefit from reading The Ethics of Care-its feminist approach to human security is theoretically sophisticated, innovative, and robust. This book's theoretical contribution is second only to its indispensability to understanding policy in a number of key areas-including sex economies, humanitarian intervention, peacebuilding, health, and the environment. It is a must read!" -Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida "Robinson's book is an important contribution to the literatures on human security on the one hand, and the feminist ethic of care on the other. The key strength of The Ethics of Care is the way that it demonstrates in detail the implications of a care approach for human security thinking across a range of domains. It is highly theoretically sophisticated in its account of care ethics, but also has the strong advantage of fleshing its consequences out in relation to empirical contexts and issues." -Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Ethics of Care and Global Politics 2. Rethinking Human Security 3. "Women's Work": The Global Care and Sex Economies 4. Humanitarian Intervention and Global Security Governance 5. Peacebuilding and Paternalism: Reading Care through Postcolonialism 6. Health and Human Security: Gender, Care, and HIV/AIDs 7. Gender, Care, and the Ethics of Environmental Security Conclusion: Security through Care References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary
Book SynopsisToday's warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms. The essays in this volume discuss:the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;the role of novel techniques of identification in military settings;the stress on precision associated with targeted killings and kidnappings;the uses of the social sciences in contemporary warfare.In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants themselves.Contributors include: Ariel ColoTable of ContentsAbbreviations About the Contributors Preface 1 Warfare Without Warriors? Changes in Contemporary Warfare and the Demise of the Citizen SoldierJohn Torpey and Saskia Hooiveld 2 The Changing Character and Enduring Nature of War: The Collision of State and Sub-State PolitiesRob Johnson 3 Plus Ça Change: War and State-BuildingIan Roxborough 4 A Crisis of Norms: Fighting Irregular Wars WellColonel C. Anthony Pfaff 5 Searching for Red and Blue in the Fog of Gray: The Development and Deployment of US Military Biometrics in Iraq and AfghanistanTravis R. Hall 6 Precision Warfare and the Case for Symmetry: Targeted Killings and Hostage-takingAriel Colonomos 7 Militarizing Ethnography: The Pentagon’s Use and Abuse of CultureRoberto J. González Conclusion Postnational WarfareDavid Jacobson
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Temple University Press,U.S. Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary
Book SynopsisToday's warfare has moved away from being an event between massed national populations and toward small numbers of combatants using high-tech weaponry. The editors of and contributors to the timely collection Transformations of Warfare in the Contemporary World show that this shift reflects changes in the technological, strategic, ideological, and ethical realms. The essays in this volume discuss:the waning connection between citizenship and soldiering;the shift toward more reconstructive than destructive activities by militaries;the ethics of irregular or asymmetrical warfare;the role of novel techniques of identification in military settings;the stress on precision associated with targeted killings and kidnappings;the uses of the social sciences in contemporary warfare.In his concluding remarks, David Jacobson explores the extent to which the contemporary transformation of warfare is a product of a shift in the character of the combatants themselves.Contributors include: Ariel ColoTable of ContentsAbbreviations About the Contributors Preface 1 Warfare Without Warriors? Changes in Contemporary Warfare and the Demise of the Citizen SoldierJohn Torpey and Saskia Hooiveld 2 The Changing Character and Enduring Nature of War: The Collision of State and Sub-State PolitiesRob Johnson 3 Plus Ça Change: War and State-BuildingIan Roxborough 4 A Crisis of Norms: Fighting Irregular Wars WellColonel C. Anthony Pfaff 5 Searching for Red and Blue in the Fog of Gray: The Development and Deployment of US Military Biometrics in Iraq and AfghanistanTravis R. Hall 6 Precision Warfare and the Case for Symmetry: Targeted Killings and Hostage-takingAriel Colonomos 7 Militarizing Ethnography: The Pentagon’s Use and Abuse of CultureRoberto J. González Conclusion Postnational WarfareDavid Jacobson
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Temple University Press,U.S. Healing Our Divided Society Investing in America
Book SynopsisIn1968, the Kerner Commission concluded that America was heading toward two societies, one black, one whiteseparate and unequal. Today, America's communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacy violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation's example around the world. InHealing Our Divided Society,Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, along with Eisenhower Foundation CEO Alan Curtis, re-examine fifty years later the work still necessary towards the goals set forth inThe Kerner Report. This timely volume unites the interests of minorities and white working- and middle-class Americans to propose a strategy to reduce poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. Reflecting on America's urban climate today, this new report sets forth evidence-based policies concerning employment, education, housing, neighborhood development, and criminal jus
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Temple University Press,U.S. Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South
Book SynopsisEvery day, undocumented immigrants are rendered vulnerable through policies and practices that illegalize them. Moreover, they are socially constructed into dangerous criminals and taxpayer burdens who are undeserving of rights, dignity, and respect. Meghan Conley's timely book, Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South, seeks to expose and challenge these dehumanizing ideas and practices byexamining the connections between repression and resistance for unauthorized immigrants in communities across the American Southeast. Conley uses on-the-ground interviews to describe fear and resistance from the perspective of those most affected by it. She shows how, for example, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act in Georgia prompted marches and an action that became a day of non-compliance. Likewise, an enforcement lottery that created unpredictable threats of arrest and deportation in the region mobilized immigrants to organize and demonstrate. However, as immigrant rights activists m
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Temple University Press,U.S. Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South
Book SynopsisEvery day, undocumented immigrants are rendered vulnerable through policies and practices that illegalize them. Moreover, they are socially constructed into dangerous criminals and taxpayer burdens who are undeserving of rights, dignity, and respect. Meghan Conley's timely book, Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South, seeks to expose and challenge these dehumanizing ideas and practices byexamining the connections between repression and resistance for unauthorized immigrants in communities across the American Southeast. Conley uses on-the-ground interviews to describe fear and resistance from the perspective of those most affected by it. She shows how, for example, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act in Georgia prompted marches and an action that became a day of non-compliance. Likewise, an enforcement lottery that created unpredictable threats of arrest and deportation in the region mobilized immigrants to organize and demonstrate. However, as immigrant rights activists m
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Emerging Threats to Human Rights
Book SynopsisAs widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human rights of a large proportion of the world's population, we are also confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this timely anthology assess how environmental resources, state violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect with patterns of migration. As some refugees flee violence at home, they arrive in an asylum country only to experience violence at the hands of the native population. Likewise, those denied citizenship rights in their country become vulnerable to human traffickers and other rights violations when they flee.Bringing together scholars of resource dilemmas, violence, and citizenship as well as lawyers and human rights practitioners, Emerging Threats to Human Rights begins
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