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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
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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
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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
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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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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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University of Toronto Press Publicity and the Canadian State
Book SynopsisBringing together contemporary Canadian analysis by scholars in a number of fields, this collection will be a welcome new resource for academics, public relations and policy professionals, and government communicators at all levels.Table of ContentsIntroduction Communicating for Hegemony: The Making of the Publicity State - Kirsten Kozolanka (Carleton University) Part 1. Political Communication Journalism, Corporate Media, and Democracy in the Digital Era - Frederick J. Fletcher (York University) In Whose Interest? Government Communication and Public Accountability? - Kirsten Kozolanka Publics without Politics: Surplus Publicity as Depoliticization - Darin Barney (McGill University) Part 2. Publicity and the State The War on Ideas: From Hayek to Harper - Donald Gutstein (Simon Fraser University) The Politics of Public Opinion - Paul Nesbitt-Larking (Huron University College, University of Western Ontario) Taming the Untamable? Constraints and Limits on Government Advertising - Jonathan Rose (Queen's University) Political Funding Regimes and Political Communication in Canada - Robert MacDermid (York University) Domestic Brand Politics and the Modern Publicity State - Richard Nimijean (Carleton University) Managing Information: Too Much Publicity, Not Enough Public Disclosure - Ken Rubin (Access to Information Advocate) and Kirsten Kozolanka Tracing and Tracking Canadian Privacy Discourse: The Audience as Community - Leslie Regan Shade (University of Toronto) and Tamara Shepherd (Concordia University) Part 3. Beyond the Publicity State The Permanent Campaign On-line: Platforms, Actors and Issue-Objects - Greg Elmer (Ryerson University), Ganaele Langois (University of Ontario Institute of Technology), and Fenwick McKelvey (Ryerson University) The Role of Social Movements and Interest Groups - Miriam Smith (York University) Reality Check: The Counter-Publicity of Alternative Media - Herbert Pimlott (Wilfrid Laurier University) Publicity State or Democratic Media? Strategies for Change - Kathleen A. Cross (Simon Fraser University), Robert A. Hackett (Simon Fraser University), and Steve Anderson (Openmedia.ca) References
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University of Toronto Press The Politics of Federalism
Book Synopsis The British North America Act of 1867 fashioned a Canadian federation which was intended to be a highly centralized union led by a powerful national government. Soon after Confederation, however, the government of Ontario took the lead in demanding a greater share of the power for the provinces, and it has continued to press this case. Professor Armstrong analyses the forces which promoted decentralization and the responses which these elicited from the federal government. He explains Ontario's reasons for pursuing this particular policy from 1867 to the Second World War. The author's sources are the private papers of federal and provincial premiers and other contemporary political figures, government publications, parliamentary debates, and newspapers. He has identified and developed three separate but related themes: the dynamic role played by private business interests in generating intergovernmental conflicts; Ontario's policy of promoting its economic growt
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Bristol University Press Health in a PostCOVID World Lessons from the Cr
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue: Health and civilisation Crisis: A Timeline Part 1: Growth 1. Growth, Wealth and Health 2. Health and Trade 3. 'They Go on Because They Have Begun' Part 2: Freedom 4. The Nature of Freedom 5. The Vaccine Society 6. The Freedom to Fail 7. The Dead Hand of Care Part 3: Justice 8. The Poverty of Justice 9. Just Health, Just Care 10. A Kingdom of Ends Part 4: Security 11. War and Peace 12. The Risk Society Part 5: Democracy 13. One for All Part 6: Truth 14. Who Counts? 15. Conclusion Postscript: Crisis in the UK 2022
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Bristol University Press Health in a PostCOVID World
Book SynopsisWhat part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the validity of these the founding principles of Western liberalism and the policies they shape, as the recipe for progress?At a time of global permacrisis', Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival. Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole.Table of ContentsPrologue: Health and civilisation Crisis: A Timeline Part 1: Growth 1. Growth, Wealth and Health 2. Health and Trade 3. 'They Go on Because They Have Begun' Part 2: Freedom 4. The Nature of Freedom 5. The Vaccine Society 6. The Freedom to Fail 7. The Dead Hand of Care Part 3: Justice 8. The Poverty of Justice 9. Just Health, Just Care 10. A Kingdom of Ends Part 4: Security 11. War and Peace 12. The Risk Society Part 5: Democracy 13. One for All Part 6: Truth 14. Who Counts? 15. Conclusion Postscript: Crisis in the UK 2022
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Mania for Freedom American Literatures of
Book SynopsisIn analysing the language of enthusiasm in philosophy, religion, politics, and literature, John Mac Kilgore uncovers a tradition of enthusiasm linked to a politics of emancipation. The dissenting voices chronicled here fought against what they viewed as tyranny while using their writings to forge international or anti-nationalistic political affiliations.
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The University of North Carolina Press Gun Country
Book SynopsisTells the history of the US post-World War II gun boom through the dynamics of consumer capitalism and Cold War ideology, the combination of which resulted in a vast number of Americans arming themselves to the teeth and centering their political identity on their guns.Trade ReviewIlluminating, timely . . . . an original way of understanding a stunning and enduring increase in gun ownership in the US . . . . McKevitt offers a compelling argument about where the extremity of America's permissiveness toward deadly weaponry originated and how debates on the Second Amendment's meaning have evolved in response to shifting cultural preoccupations. He also makes a persuasive appeal for how the human costs of mass gun ownership could be mitigated."—Kirkus Reviews
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Duke University Press Going Stealth
Book SynopsisToby Beauchamp positions surveillance as central to the understanding of transgender politics to show how contemporary security practices extend into everyday gendered lives.Trade Review"[Going Stealth] accomplishes the best of what we imagine theory to be good for—making sense of our everyday experiences, grounding personal interactions with the state in histories of structural oppression, and illuminating the broader context of our banal negotiations between dignity, resilience, convenience, resistance, politics-inpractice, and privilege. . . . Going Stealth is a helpful contribution to multiple literatures, and it demonstrates the ways in which robust interdisciplinarity also requires solidarity in scholarship." -- Lyndsey P. Beutin * Society & Space *"For academics and those with the wherewithal to struggle through it there's a great deal of intellectual value to be found in a book such as this." -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *“Going Stealth is … topical and urgent, delving into contemporary hot-button issues of gendered bathrooms and TSA screening practices.” -- Elise Morrison * TDR: The Drama Review *"Going Stealth is written into scholarship that moves transgender studies beyond concentration on identity. Moreover, it is a significant contribution to research at the juncture between gender, sexuality, race, disability and surveillance studies. Going Stealth should appeal to any scholar in cultural studies, sociology and border studies." -- Iwo Nord * European Journal of Women's Studies *"Going Stealth is an enjoyable read, offering timely reflection on security, conformity, fear, citizenship, and difference in our turbulent times." -- Sara L. Crawley * Gender & Society *"Going Stealth will be useful for expanding on and bringing together the works of transgender studies and cultural studies, in particular appealing to sexuality scholars in general. This book will be of interest to those who are interested in the intersections between visibility, security, gender deviance, dis/ability, race, gender, class, sexuality, and nation/citizenship." -- Kerry Scroggie, Amanda Brown & Esther Rothblum * Journal of Homosexuality *“Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a careful meshwork of historical and political analysis, attentive to the problems of existing critical frames.” -- Tony Wei Ling * Catalyst *“Toby Beauchamp’s Going Stealth is a much-needed analysis into practices of state surveillance and its impact on the regulation of gender in the United States.... Going Stealth asks the reader to question not only notions of visibility but also the very desire of recognition itself.” -- Sy Simms * TSQ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Suspicious Visibility 1 1. Deceptive Documents 24 2. Flying under the Radar 50 3. Bathrooms, Borders, and Biometrics 79 4. Sensitive Information in the Manning Case 107 Conclusion. On Endurance 131 Notes 141 Bibliography 173 Index 185
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University of Toronto Press Absent Mandate
Book SynopsisAbsent Mandate develops the crucial concept of policy mandates, distinguished from other interpretations of election outcomes, and addresses the disconnect between election issues and government actions. Emphasizing Canadian federal elections between 1993 and 2015, the book examines the Chretien/Martin, Harper, and Trudeau governments and the campaigns that brought them to power. Using data from the Canadian Election Studies and other major surveys, Absent Mandate documents the longstanding volatility in Canadian voting behaviour. The failure of elections to provide genuine policy mandates stimulates public discontent with the political process and widens the gap between the promise and the performance of Canadian democracy. Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. The Strategic Configuration of Canadian Democracy 2. Partisanship: Persistently Flexible 3. A Politics of Discontent 4. On the Issues 5. Leading the Campaign 6. Performance Politics and Electoral Volatility 7. Policy, Performance ... Mandate? 8. Conclusion: Continuities amid Change Appendix A. Political Parties’ Percentages of the Vote, 1965–2015 Federal Elections Appendix B. Seats Won by Political Parties, 1965–2015 Federal Elections Appendix C. Vote in the 2015 Federal Election by Province/Territory and Socio-Demographic Characteristics Appendix D. Federal Party Identification by Region and Socio-Demographic Characteristics, 2015 Appendix E. Survey Data Sources References Index
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University of Toronto Press Absent Mandate
Book SynopsisDominated by discussions of broad national problems, media tactics gone amiss, and the personal lives of party leaders, Canadian election campaigns have led to substantial public discontent.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. The Strategic Configuration of Canadian Democracy 2. Partisanship: Persistently Flexible 3. A Politics of Discontent 4. On the Issues 5. Leading the Campaign 6. Performance Politics and Electoral Volatility 7. Policy, Performance ... Mandate? 8. Conclusion: Continuities amid Change Appendix A. Political Parties’ Percentages of the Vote, 1965–2015 Federal Elections Appendix B. Seats Won by Political Parties, 1965–2015 Federal Elections Appendix C. Vote in the 2015 Federal Election by Province/Territory and Socio-Demographic Characteristics Appendix D. Federal Party Identification by Region and Socio-Demographic Characteristics, 2015 Appendix E. Survey Data Sources References Index
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Cornell University Press Speaking Out in Vietnam
Book SynopsisSince 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's political landscape. So argues Benedict Kerkvliet in his analysis of Communist Party–ruled Vietnam. Speaking Out in Vietnam assesses the rise and diversity of these public displays of disagreement, showing that it has morphed from family whispers to...Trade ReviewThis book is a decisive cornerstone for the growing literature on resistance and collective action in Vietnam.... essential reading for many future projects that aim to focus on the landscape of resistance in non-democratic and repressive contexts. * ASEAS(UK) *Kerkvliet's pulled it all together in Speaking Out in Vietnam, a very readable book. Kerkvliet's book provides a robust framework for analysis going forward of the party-people dialogue. It is destined to be a basic reference for Vietnam-watchers. * Asia Sentinel *Kerkvliet offers an interesting and valuable analysis of how Vietnam has handled the growing criticism of Communist Party–state leadership. * Choice *Speaking Out in Vietnam addresses an important phenomenon in Vietnamese politics and deserves to be widely read. * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *Speaking Out in Vietnam, written in lively and engaging prose, is the first to bring together an analysis of different types of political criticism and public protest in Vietnam. -- Joe Buckley * H-Net/H-Diplo *This book is indispensable when it comes to talking about contemporary Vietnam, covering the entire North and South, looking at the period from the Nhan Van Giai Pham incident in the 1950s to the present, and depicting the evolution of the relationship between the Vietnamese people and the authorities. * Southeast Asian Studies *Speaking Out in Vietnam is a welcome contribution and an eye-opening read for anyone familiar with Vietnam as well as those less so. It not only conveys the voices of citizens protesting state policies but also invites reflection on the pairing of consent and repression as instruments of rule. * Contemporary Southeast Asia *Speaking Out is an important piece of scholarship that deserves a place on the bookshelves of every student of Vietnamese politics. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Speaking Out in Vietnam applies recent social science perspectives to a detailed investigation of primary sources to bring new light on important issues in Vietnamese studies. Scholars of diverse fields and interests will read it with pleasure and profit. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Political Criticism and the Party-State 1. Labor: Protesting Working and Living Conditions 2. Land: Defending Farms and Opposing Corruption 3. Nation: Protecting Vietnam and Questioning the Party's Patriotism 4. Democratization: Advocating Regime Change 5. Party-State Authorities: Treatment of Regime Critics 6. Reprise and Prospects Appendix: Cited Party-State Newspapers Notes Index
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Stanford University Press The Art of Revolt
Book SynopsisMore than mere whistleblowers, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are exemplary figures who are inventing new political practices and calling old conceptions of the state and citizenship into question.Trade Review"This short, lucid book makes the case that the new security state's use of pervasive techniques of surveillance and data mining has engendered new forms of digital resistance. A manifesto of sorts, The Art of Revolt makes an argument friendly to specialists and non-specialists alike and offers a challenge for everyone concerned with today's new forms of political protest and alliance."—Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley"Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is arguably one of the most talented of the new wave of French theory. In this incisive and unflinching book, he compellingly exposes the hardened skin of the perverse forms of power that endanger our liberties in this age of mass surveillance."—Achille Mbembe, author of The Critique of Black Reason"The Art of Revolt offers a striking and radical new perspective on truth-tellers in the Internet age: how they leak, wield anonymity, and find asylum in ways that break radically with established practices to effect change. Lagasnerie brings ideas to the table that even I, an insider, had never considered. Whether you agree or disagree with the actions of his protagonists, this book is a must-read for grasping the significance and innovation of their work. Its compelling ideas will inspire all readers to reflect on how they can engage productively in the betterment of our societies."—Sarah Harrison, Director of the Courage Foundation and WikiLeaks Associate"Lagasnerie discusses Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning as developers of a new political art, a "different way of understanding what it means to resist"....This volume is of most interest to scholars of civil liberties and international communication....Recommended."—W.C. Johnson, CHOICE"Whether Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden are traitors or heroes is one of those 'debates' that is yet to be settled... Geoffroy de Lagasnerie's The Art of Revolt is not an account of these whistleblowers' deeds, but rather an interrogation of the categories and assumptions implicit in such questions."—Dzmitry Tsapkou, Cultural Critique
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Stanford University Press Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary
Book SynopsisA multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history. Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt's 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos, military communiqués, open letters, constitutional contentions, protest slogans, parliamentary debates, and court decisions. A rich trove of political arguments, the sources reveal a range of actors vying over the fundamental question in politics: who holds ultimate political authority. The revolution's tangled events engaged competing claims to sovereignty made by insurgent forces and entrenched interests alike, a vital contest that was terminated by the 2013 military coup and its aftermath. Now a decade after the 2011 Arab uprisings, Mona El-Ghobashy rethinks how we study revolutions, looking past causes and consequences to train our sights on the collisions of revolutionary politics. She moves beyond the simple judgments that once celebrated Egypt's revolution as an awe-inspiring irruption of people power or now label it a tragic failure. Revisiting the revolutionary interregnum of 2011–2013, Bread and Freedom takes seriously the political conflicts that developed after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, an eventful thirty months when it was impossible to rule Egypt without the Egyptians.Trade Review"Mona El-Ghobashy adds a new perspective to the canonical view of the Arab Spring with the immensely readable and thoughtfully constructed Bread and Freedom. Starting from Charles Tilly's insight that revolutions are more like traffic jams than eclipses of the sun, El-Ghobashy revisits how an Egyptian protest became a revolutionary situation."—Sidney G. Tarrow, Cornell University"If you read only one book on the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, make it Bread and Freedom. Mona El-Ghobashy leads the reader behind the scenes to the real battles of 2011, for a rewarding read that challenges everything you thought you knew about revolutionary uprisings. A rare treat."—Elizabeth F. Thompson, American University"In this gripping political history, Mona El-Ghobashy overturns conventional dramaturgical narratives of Egypt's 2011 uprising as marked by hopeful beginnings and calamitous endings. Instead, she captures the uncertainty and interstitial quality of Egypt's interregnum as a 'revolutionary situation.' Marked by analytical rigor and immense narrative detail, Bread and Freedom is a must-read for anyone concerned with deeper conceptual questions surrounding the entanglement of revolution and democracy."—Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis"With an unusual command of detail and an uncommon facility with social science theory, El-Ghobashy recounts the years of upheaval in Egypt between the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak and the 2014 election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi... As El-Ghobashy elegantly shows, it is small wonder that the politics of those years seemed so confusing and uncertain. They were, for actors and observers alike—and she provides much welcome clarity."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"This is essential reading for specialists of Egyptian politics and theorists of revolution, as well as scholars of authoritarianism, contentious politics, and regime transition... Bread and Freedomwill spur important conversations. And hopefully, with time, it will facilitate the shared understandings that are necessary for Egyptians to build a common future."—Tamir Moustafa, International Journal of Middle East Studies"Bread and Freedomis well-written and thoroughly researched, and it utilizes a wide range of secondary sources. El-Ghobashy revives an old concept but pushes the reader to rethink revolutions by focusing on uncertainty. Her argument that focuses on uncertainty through the concept of a revolutionary situation holds up to the evidence... She thus encourages the reader to understand revolutions and their aftermath not as pre-determined events but as unpredictable competitions among multiple sovereignty claims that strive to end revolutionary situations."—Sarp Kurgan, Middle East Librarians Association"Mona El-Ghobashy's Bread and Freedom is a richly detailed and theoretically deft unsettling of arguments that Egypt's Arab Spring trajectory was linear or preordained. Adopting the concept of a "revolutionary situation," she highlights how circumstance, uncertainty, and reaction interacted to drive forward events on the ground...Bread and Freedom narrates Egypt's "revolutionary situation" as a series of critical junctures, each produced by some prior interaction, and in turn generative of a new one."—Steven Brooke, Perspectives on PoliticsMona el-Ghobashy's Bread and Freedom offers perhaps the single best narrative of Egypt from 2011 to the present which has yet been written. Her finely grained, beautifully crafted storytelling reveals the sheer complexity of the revolutionary period and the multiplicity of actors trying to navigate a profoundly uncertain environment."—Marc Lynch, Project on Middle East Political Science"Bread and Freedom is an exceptional work that offers a clear analysis of the Egyptian revolution of 2011—a notably confusing case. It also presents a novel and refreshing assessment of scholarship on both the Egyptian case specifically, and on revolution in general."—Atef Said, Mobilization: An International QuarterlyThis is an essential work for students of contemporary Egypt and the politics of the Arab world generally and also for those with a comparative focus on revolution, social movements, or democratization. ... [T]his book's rich analysis should induce many scholars to read it from cover to cover and to return to it again and again. Essential."—G. E. Perry, ChoiceTable of ContentsPrologue: We Won't Leave, He Must Go 1. Narratives of Egypt's Revolution 2. Let Them Say What They Want, and We'll Do What We Want 3. Fear Us, O Government 4. Let's Write Our Constitution 5. Down, Down with the General Guide's Rule 6. State Prestige Conclusion: Bread and Freedom
£86.40
Stanford University Press Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S.
Book SynopsisMany Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms. But Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall urge engaged citizens to think again. Overseas, our government takes actions in the name of defense that would not be permissible within national borders. Emboldened by the relative weakness of governance abroad, the U.S. government is able to experiment with a broader range of social controls. Under certain conditions, these policies, tactics, and technologies are then re-imported to America, changing the national landscape and increasing the extent to which we live in a police state. Coyne and Hall examine this pattern—which they dub "the boomerang effect"—considering a variety of rich cases that include the rise of state surveillance, the militarization of domestic law enforcement, the expanding use of drones, and torture in U.S. prisons. Synthesizing research and applying an economic lens, they develop a generalizable theory to predict and explain a startling trend. Tyranny Comes Home unveils a new aspect of the symbiotic relationship between foreign interventions and domestic politics. It gives us alarming insight into incidents like the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Snowden case—which tell a common story about contemporary foreign policy and its impact on our civil liberties.Trade 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
£23.39
Stanford University Press Learning the Lessons of Modern War
Book SynopsisLearning the Lessons of Modern War uses the study of the recent past to illuminate the future. More specifically, it examines the lessons of recent wars as a way of understanding continuity and change in the character and conduct of war. The volume brings together contributions from a group of well-known scholars and practitioners from across the world to examine the conduct of recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. The book's first section consists of chapters that explore the value of a contemporary approach to history and reflect on the value of learning lessons from the past. Its second section focuses on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chapters on Iraq discuss the lessons of the Iraq War, the British perspective on the conflict, and the war as seen through the lens of Saddam Hussein's military. Chapters on Afghanistan discuss counterinsurgency operations during the war, Britain's experience in Afghanistan, raising and training Afghan forces, and U.S. interagency performance. The book's third section examines the lessons of wars involving Russia, Israel, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Georgia, and Colombia. It concludes by exploring overarching themes associated with the conduct of recent wars. Containing a foreword by former National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, Learning the Lessons of Modern War is an indispensable resource for international relations and security studies scholars, policymakers, and military professionals. Trade Review"A famous old military saying suggests that 'amateurs talk about tactics, armchair generals study strategy, but professionals study logistics.' Studying lessons from modern warfare, the volume Learning the Lessons of Modern War, edited by Thomas G. Mahnken, challenges its readers to add a fourth component to this old saying, suggesting that counterinsurgency experts need to study politics." -- Ori Swed * Contemporary Sociology *
£107.20
Stanford University Press Learning the Lessons of Modern War
Book SynopsisLearning the Lessons of Modern War uses the study of the recent past to illuminate the future. More specifically, it examines the lessons of recent wars as a way of understanding continuity and change in the character and conduct of war. The volume brings together contributions from a group of well-known scholars and practitioners from across the world to examine the conduct of recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. The book's first section consists of chapters that explore the value of a contemporary approach to history and reflect on the value of learning lessons from the past. Its second section focuses on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chapters on Iraq discuss the lessons of the Iraq War, the British perspective on the conflict, and the war as seen through the lens of Saddam Hussein's military. Chapters on Afghanistan discuss counterinsurgency operations during the war, Britain's experience in Afghanistan, raising and training Afghan forces, and U.S. interagency performance. The book's third section examines the lessons of wars involving Russia, Israel, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Georgia, and Colombia. It concludes by exploring overarching themes associated with the conduct of recent wars. Containing a foreword by former National Security Advisor Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, Learning the Lessons of Modern War is an indispensable resource for international relations and security studies scholars, policymakers, and military professionals. Trade Review"A famous old military saying suggests that 'amateurs talk about tactics, armchair generals study strategy, but professionals study logistics.' Studying lessons from modern warfare, the volume Learning the Lessons of Modern War, edited by Thomas G. Mahnken, challenges its readers to add a fourth component to this old saying, suggesting that counterinsurgency experts need to study politics." -- Ori Swed * Contemporary Sociology *
£28.90
Stanford University Press Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary
Book SynopsisA multivocal account of why Egypt's defeated revolution remains a watershed in the country's political history. Bread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt's 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos, military communiqués, open letters, constitutional contentions, protest slogans, parliamentary debates, and court decisions. A rich trove of political arguments, the sources reveal a range of actors vying over the fundamental question in politics: who holds ultimate political authority. The revolution's tangled events engaged competing claims to sovereignty made by insurgent forces and entrenched interests alike, a vital contest that was terminated by the 2013 military coup and its aftermath. Now a decade after the 2011 Arab uprisings, Mona El-Ghobashy rethinks how we study revolutions, looking past causes and consequences to train our sights on the collisions of revolutionary politics. She moves beyond the simple judgments that once celebrated Egypt's revolution as an awe-inspiring irruption of people power or now label it a tragic failure. Revisiting the revolutionary interregnum of 2011–2013, Bread and Freedom takes seriously the political conflicts that developed after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, an eventful thirty months when it was impossible to rule Egypt without the Egyptians.Trade Review"Mona El-Ghobashy adds a new perspective to the canonical view of the Arab Spring with the immensely readable and thoughtfully constructed Bread and Freedom. Starting from Charles Tilly's insight that revolutions are more like traffic jams than eclipses of the sun, El-Ghobashy revisits how an Egyptian protest became a revolutionary situation."—Sidney G. Tarrow, Cornell University"If you read only one book on the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, make it Bread and Freedom. Mona El-Ghobashy leads the reader behind the scenes to the real battles of 2011, for a rewarding read that challenges everything you thought you knew about revolutionary uprisings. A rare treat."—Elizabeth F. Thompson, American University"In this gripping political history, Mona El-Ghobashy overturns conventional dramaturgical narratives of Egypt's 2011 uprising as marked by hopeful beginnings and calamitous endings. Instead, she captures the uncertainty and interstitial quality of Egypt's interregnum as a 'revolutionary situation.' Marked by analytical rigor and immense narrative detail, Bread and Freedom is a must-read for anyone concerned with deeper conceptual questions surrounding the entanglement of revolution and democracy."—Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis"With an unusual command of detail and an uncommon facility with social science theory, El-Ghobashy recounts the years of upheaval in Egypt between the 2011 uprising against President Hosni Mubarak and the 2014 election of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi... As El-Ghobashy elegantly shows, it is small wonder that the politics of those years seemed so confusing and uncertain. They were, for actors and observers alike—and she provides much welcome clarity."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"This is essential reading for specialists of Egyptian politics and theorists of revolution, as well as scholars of authoritarianism, contentious politics, and regime transition... Bread and Freedomwill spur important conversations. And hopefully, with time, it will facilitate the shared understandings that are necessary for Egyptians to build a common future."—Tamir Moustafa, International Journal of Middle East Studies"Bread and Freedomis well-written and thoroughly researched, and it utilizes a wide range of secondary sources. El-Ghobashy revives an old concept but pushes the reader to rethink revolutions by focusing on uncertainty. Her argument that focuses on uncertainty through the concept of a revolutionary situation holds up to the evidence... She thus encourages the reader to understand revolutions and their aftermath not as pre-determined events but as unpredictable competitions among multiple sovereignty claims that strive to end revolutionary situations."—Sarp Kurgan, Middle East Librarians Association"Mona El-Ghobashy's Bread and Freedom is a richly detailed and theoretically deft unsettling of arguments that Egypt's Arab Spring trajectory was linear or preordained. Adopting the concept of a "revolutionary situation," she highlights how circumstance, uncertainty, and reaction interacted to drive forward events on the ground...Bread and Freedom narrates Egypt's "revolutionary situation" as a series of critical junctures, each produced by some prior interaction, and in turn generative of a new one."—Steven Brooke, Perspectives on PoliticsMona el-Ghobashy's Bread and Freedom offers perhaps the single best narrative of Egypt from 2011 to the present which has yet been written. Her finely grained, beautifully crafted storytelling reveals the sheer complexity of the revolutionary period and the multiplicity of actors trying to navigate a profoundly uncertain environment."—Marc Lynch, Project on Middle East Political Science"Bread and Freedom is an exceptional work that offers a clear analysis of the Egyptian revolution of 2011—a notably confusing case. It also presents a novel and refreshing assessment of scholarship on both the Egyptian case specifically, and on revolution in general."—Atef Said, Mobilization: An International QuarterlyThis is an essential work for students of contemporary Egypt and the politics of the Arab world generally and also for those with a comparative focus on revolution, social movements, or democratization. ... [T]his book's rich analysis should induce many scholars to read it from cover to cover and to return to it again and again. Essential."—G. E. Perry, ChoiceTable of ContentsPrologue: We Won't Leave, He Must Go 1. Narratives of Egypt's Revolution 2. Let Them Say What They Want, and We'll Do What We Want 3. Fear Us, O Government 4. Let's Write Our Constitution 5. Down, Down with the General Guide's Rule 6. State Prestige Conclusion: Bread and Freedom
£23.39
Stanford University Press Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government
Book SynopsisThe U.S. government's prime enemy in the War on Terror is not a shadowy mastermind dispatching suicide bombers. It is the informed American citizen. With Manufacturing Militarism, Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall detail how military propaganda has targeted Americans since 9/11. From the darkened cinema to the football field to the airport screening line, the U.S. government has purposefully inflated the actual threat of terrorism and the necessity of a proactive military response. This biased, incomplete, and misleading information contributes to a broader culture of fear and militarism that, far from keeping Americans safe, ultimately threatens the foundations of a free society. Applying a political economic approach to the incentives created by a democratic system with a massive national security state, Coyne and Hall delve into case studies from the War on Terror to show how propaganda operates in a democracy. As they vigilantly watch their carry-ons scanned at the airport despite nonexistent threats, or absorb glowing representations of the military from films, Americans are subject to propaganda that, Coyne and Hall argue, erodes government by citizen consent.Trade Review"Immersed in militarism since birth, Americans have a choice: the blue pill of aggression and self-righteousness disguised as fostering democracy and freedom, or the red pill of truth. Coyne and Hall offer us the red pill and a path to freeing ourselves from the military machine. Take it, America, and put a stop to military glorification and endless war."—William J. Astore, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Ret.)"Rich with maddening examples, Manufacturing Militarism demonstrates that the US government constantly emits lies and half-truths meant to shore up public support for endless wars against an endless stream of enemies, real and imaginary. And Coyne and Hall show us what to do about it. Read this book: Democracy is hanging in the balance."—Roger Koppl, Syracuse University"This book brilliantly analyzes one of the deepest problems of American democracy: the role of mass media in reinforcing government propaganda that promotes war, intervention and militarism. From Washington to Hollywood, from Iraq to American sports stadiums, the order of the day is inflating threats, inventing enemies, and fanning the flames of fear and xenophobia. Manufacturing Militarism explains why the world that Americans see is so different from the world that actually exists."—Stephen Kinzer, Watson Institute, Brown University, author of Poisoner in Chief"In Manufacturing Militarism Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall offer both a vital rejoinder to uncritical American exceptionalism and this dirty secret: democracies, too, peddle in propaganda. Blending analyses of recent history, politics, and culture, they chronicle a narrative game long rigged—the U.S. government's ceaseless post-9/11 campaign to sell wars we don't need, that people don't otherwise want. Their disturbing conclusions ring as collective alarm-bells for a republic in its long night of peril."—Maj. (Ret.) Danny Sjursen, Center for International Policy, author of Patriotic Dissent and Ghostriders of Baghdad"Manufacturing Militarism is a timely and far-reaching study of the role state-sponsored propaganda has played and continues to play in 21st-century American life. Coyne and Hall show how, since 9/11, successive administrations held back relevant information and deliberately misled journalists and the public, damaging America's democracy, national security and international reputation."—David C. Unger, Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe, author of The Emergency State"You can't handle the truth! At least that's what your government thinks. Manufacturing Militarism shows how democratic governments utilize their monopoly on classified information to propagandize their citizens in order to enable government actions that benefit the politically elite at the expense of average citizens. Coyne and Hall superbly illustrate how we have been propagandized by the U.S. government throughout the war."—Benjamin Powell, Free Market Institute, Texas Tech University"In Manufacturing Militarism, Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall document the pernicious effects of the government's control and dissemination of information. They describe the 'threat inflation' that characterizes government propaganda, facilitating citizen compliance and shifting power away from citizens and to the political elite who control public policy. More than just a tool that enables government policymakers to enact policies they prefer, Coyne and Hall make a persuasive case that government propaganda is a real threat to a free society."—Randall Holcombe, Professor of Economics, Florida State University"Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror... should be read by everyone who seeks to more fully understand the extent to which militaristic propaganda has pervaded seemingly every aspect of our society."—Zachary Yost, Mises Wire"In Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror,Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall provide an unusual, interesting, broadly persuasive, and welcome approach to explaining the manufacture and deployment of militarism in America.... The book's message is powerful and simple. It is evidence-based and well-reasoned. It is a work of serious scholarship. It condemns concentrated power in a few hands to propagandise and mislead the people to get behind wars of aggression, and pay the costs in blood and treasure. It says the American state is dangerous. It says the people must be vigilant, informed, and courageous."—Inderjeet Parmar, The WireTable of Contents1. "Propaganda: Its Meaning, Operation, and Limits" 2. "The Political Economy of Government Propaganda" 3. "Selling the Invasion of Iraq" 4. "The Post-Invasion Propaganda Pitch" 5. "Paid Patriotism: Propaganda Takes the Field" 6. "Flying the Propagandized Skies" 7. "Propaganda Goes to Hollywood" 8. "The Power of the Propagandized"
£79.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Transitional Justice: Contending with the Past
Book SynopsisWhat should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines reconciliation with accountability? In this book, Michael Newman accessibly introduces these debates, outlining the key ideas and giving an overview of the vast literature by reference to case studies in such places as South Africa, Cambodia and Sierra Leone. While recognising that every situation is different, he argues that is vital to contend fully with the past and address the fundamental causes of mass human rights abuses. A readable overview for those coming to the subject of transitional justice for the first time, and food for thought for those already familiar with it, this book is invaluable in areas ranging from politics and international relations to peace and conflict studies, law, human rights and philosophy.Trade Review‘A highly readable rendering of the current state of the field of transitional justice; ecumenical and comprehensive, it embraces the project of how to reckon with the past.’Ruti Teitel, New York Law School, author of Globalizing Transitional Justice ‘This book masterfully contextualises the dizzying array of theoretical work in transitional justice while doing full service to disagreements. Reflective, critical and persuasive, it is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate study.’Padraig McAuliffe, University of Liverpool ‘Michael Newman provides an excellent and up-to-date summary of the literature and approaches to transitional justice that will be invaluable for students, scholars and practitioners, as well as making important interventions of his own on topics as diverse as gender, culture and climate change.’Rachel Kerr, King’s College London‘An excellent introduction to and critique of this ever-growing field.’Social and Legal StudiesTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter One Introducing Transitional Justice Origins and Development Defining and Conceptualising Transitional Justice Chapter Two Mechanisms and Approaches Introduction Prosecutions and Trials Purges, Vetting and Lustration Amnesties Truth Commissions Reparations and Redress a) Material Reparations b) Symbolic Reparations Traditional Informal Justice Concluding Remark Chapter Three Does it Work? Evaluating Transitional Justice Empirical Evaluations of the Impact of TJ Truth Commissions International and ‘Internationalised’ Criminal Justice Concluding Remarks Chapter Four Specific Perspectives on Transitional Justice Victim Perspectives Feminist and Gendered Perspectives Concluding Remarks Chapter Five Transitional Justice Today and Tomorrow Debates and Critiques New Challenges a) The Cultural Sphere b) Climate Change and the Environment c) Transitional Justice in Established Liberal- Democracies Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
Bristol University Press Whose Government Is It?: The Renewal of
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is needed to improve democracy and public service. It explains why the problem of civic disengagement poses a major threat and shows how obstacles to democratic cooperation between citizens and state institutions can be overcome.Trade Review"...a substantial, go-to text for those who are studying or are interested in political science. It is a complex book, full of facts, analysis and case studies... And while the whole premise of the book may appear to be a somewhat idealistic form of democracy, with plenty of examples and case studies of how cooperation between state and citizen has been highly beneficial, it serves to demonstrate that such a goal can be achieved." Shout Out UK * Shout Out UK, 19th March 2019 *“At a time of rising authoritarianism and shrinking public spheres, it is instructive and inspiring to read a whole compendium of essays by scholars, practitioners and policymakers who are committed to cooperation between state and citizens. Whose Government Is It? is packed with insights for citizens and officials alike.” Peter Levine, Tufts UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Government with the People ~ Henry Tam Part One: Why We Need State-Citizen Cooperation Realism and Democratic Renewal ~ Nick Pearce The Importance of Collective Control ~ Anna Coote Deliberative Engagement with Complex Policies ~ Simon Burall The Road to Empowerment ~ Hazel Blears and David Blunkett Part Two: What Is Required for Effective Engagement Lessons From Democratic Innovations ~ Graham Smith The Potential of Community Development ~ Marilyn Taylor Community Action and Civic Dialogue ~ Barry Quirk Old Age and Caring Democracy ~ Marian Barnes Young People and Everyday Democracy ~ James Sloam Part Three: How To Expand Our Civic Capability Improving Citizenship Education ~ James Weinberg and Matthew Flinders Rethinking Civic Roles ~ Jane Roberts Promoting the ‘Take Part’ Approach ~ Marjorie Mayo, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek and Carol Packham Developing Public-Cooperative Partnerships ~ Pat Conaty Conclusion The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation ~ Henry Tam
£25.64
Bristol University Press Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics
Book SynopsisThough children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and space split into three broad sections: imagined childhoods, governed childhoods, and lived childhoods. Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how international relations is, somewhat paradoxically, quite deeply invested in a particular rendering of childhood as, primarily, a time of innocence, vulnerability, and incapacity.Trade Review"Extending and enriching our understanding of how children and childhoods are always already imbricated in the practices of global politics, the various essays in this impressive and diverse volume demonstrate the significance of children as subjects of political discourse and intervention, and agents of political change. The collection is both coherent and wide-ranging, articulating clearly not only why children and childhoods matter in global politics but also how these political actors and processes can be – indeed, are – pivotal to the constitution of global-local connections and to the reproduction of, or resistance to, existing structures of power." Laura J. Shepherd, The University of Sydney“This groundbreaking volume demonstrates in brilliant and wide-ranging detail why studies of children and childhoods are not just peripheral but essential for understanding the realities and possibilities of global politics.” John Wall, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective - J. Marshall Beier and Helen Berents Part 1: Imagined Childhoods 1. ‘Anchor Babies’ and ‘Imposter Children’: Childhoods’ Representations in Global Migration Politics - Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli 2. Creating Inclusive Reconciliation and Reporting Spaces with Children: Valuing Their Stories - Caitlin Mollica 3. Stories about Children Born of Violence: Counternarratives in the Peruvian Truth Commission’s Archive and Popular Culture - Ana Lucia Alonso Soriano 4. (Un)Recognition of Child Soldiers’ Agency in UN Peacekeeping Practice - Dustin Johnson Part 2: Governed Childhoods 5. Contested Children’s and Young People’s Political Representation in Global Health - Anna Holzscheiter and Laura Pantzerhielm 6. The Representative Breakthrough? Children and Youth Representation in the Global Governance of Migration - Jonathan Josefsson 7. The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict: A Normative Agenda and Children’s Agency in Armed Conflict - Vanessa Bramwell 8. In/visible Subjects: Global Migration Management and the Integration of Refugee Children into Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Alebachew K. Haybano and Jennifer Riggan 9. Alone and on the Move: Unaccompanied Children in UK Parliamentary Debates 2015–2016 - Lesley Pruitt and Antje Missbach 10. Pathologies of Child Governance: Safe Harbor Laws and Children Involved in the Sex Trade in the United States - Robyn Linde Part 3: Lived Childhoods 11. Childhood, Playing War, and Militarism: Beyond Discourses of Domination/ Resistance and Towards an Ethics of Encounter - Sean Carter and Tara Woodyer 12. Troubling Girl Power Environmentalism: Indigenous Girls, Climate Change Activism, and a Relational Ethic of Responsibility - Lindsay Robinson 13. Children’s Intifada: Children as Participants in a Violent Conflict - Timea Spitka 14. Children’s Agency and Co-construction of Everyday Militarism(s): Representations and Realities of War in Ukrainian Children’s Art, 2014–2022 - Kristina Hook and Iuliia Hoban 15. Centring the Demand for Critical Climate Justice Education - Bennett Collins and Ali Watson
£72.00
Bristol University Press Why the European Union Failed in Afghanistan
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth analysis of the EU's state-building efforts in Afghanistan (20012022), this book argues that the EU's actions were inadequate and deeply flawed, failing to account for the growing insecurity within Afghanistan and changes within US strategy.
£23.74
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies
Book Synopsis Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts - political, social, and cultural - that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take place between the categories of the literary and the nation, as well as between the disciplinary sites of critical discourses and the porous boundaries of their methods. They are concerned with the material effects of the imperial and colonial logics that have fashioned Canada, as well as with the paradoxes, ironies, and contortions that abound in the general perception that Canada has progressed beyond its colonial construction. Smaro Kamboureli's introduction demonstrates that these essays engage with the larger realm of human and social practices - throne speeches, book clubs, policies of accommodation of cultural and religious differences, Indigenous thought about justice and ethics - to show that literary and critical work is inextricably related to the Canadian polity in light of transnational and global forces. Trade Review``Given the wide range of approaches and disciplines included in this volume, the index is particularly helpful in terms of orientation and contains not only major concepts and historical events related to Canadian studies, but also refers to important representatives of the Canadian literary scene. Moreover, each articles comes with an annotated section which, together with the overall bibliography, provides useful and interesting suggestions for further reading and discussion. The book's strengths certainly lie in the fact that it manages to emphasize the importance of the nation-state which, in spite of all cosmopolitan, global, and transnational developments at work, continues to serve as an important conceptual framework within the area of Canadian literary studies. Thus this volume is especially valuable for Canadian literary scholars and critics interested in the current debates centering on the nation with regard to (trans)national and global challenges.'' -- Felicitas Schweiker -- Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 25.2, September 2014Table of Contents Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias Preface Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias Introduction: Shifting the Ground of a Discipline: Emergence and Canadian Literary Studies in English Smaro Kamboureli National Literatures in the Shadow of Neoliberalism Jeff Derksen ""Beyond CanLit(e)"": Reading. Interdisciplinarity. Transatlantically. Danielle Fuller White Settlers and the Biopolitics of State Building in Canada Janine Brodie ""Some Great Crisis"": Vimy as Originary Violence Robert Zacharias Amplifying Threat: Reasonable Accommodations and Quebec's Bouchard-Taylor Commission Hearings (2007) Monika Kin Gagnon and Yasmin Jiwani The Time Has Come: Self and Community Articulations in Colour. An Issue and Awakening Thunder Larissa Lai Archivable Concepts: Talonbooks and Literary Translation Kathy Mezei Is CanLit Lost in Japanese Translation? Yoko Fujimoto The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the ""Age of Apology"" Pauline Wakeham The Long March to ""Recognition"": Sákéj Henderson, First Nations Jurisprudence, and Sui Generis Solidarity Len Findlay bush/writing: embodied deconstruction, traces of community, and writing against the state in indigenous acts of inscription peter kulchyski Notes Works Cited Contributors Index
£33.11
University of Massachusetts Press Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda and the
Book SynopsisAlthough often framed as an economic, military, and diplomatic confrontation, the Cold War was above all a conflict of ideas. In official pronouncements and publications as well as via radio broadcasts, television, and film, the United States and the Soviet Union both sought to extend their global reach as much through the power of persuasion as by the use of force. Yet of all the means each side employed to press its ideological case, none proved more reliable or successful than print. In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the myriad ways print was used in the Cold War. Looking at materials ranging from textbooks and cookbooks to art catalogues, newspaper comics, and travel guides, they analyse not only the content of printed matter but also the material circumstances of its production, the people and institutions that disseminated it, and the audiences that consumed it. Among the topics discussed are the infiltration of book publishing by propagandists East and West; the distribution of pro-American printed matter in postwar Japan through libraries, schools, and consulates; and the collaboration of foundations, academia, and the government in the promotion of high culture as evidence of the superiority of Western values. At the same time, many of the qualities that made print the preferred medium of official propaganda also made it an effective instrument for challenging Cold War orthodoxies at home and abroad. Because printed materials were relatively easy to transport, to copy, and to share, they could just as well be used to bridge differences among people and cultures as to exploit them. They also provided a vehicle for disseminating satire and other expressions of dissent. In addition to the volume editors, contributors include Ed Brunner, Russell Cobb, Laura Jane Gifford, Patricia Hills, Christian Kanig, Scott Laderman, Amanda Laugesen, Martin Manning, Kristin Matthews, Hiromi Ochi, Amy Reddinger, and James Smith. Together their essays move beyond traditional Cold War narratives to gauge the role of a crucial cultural medium in the ideological battle between the superpowers and their surrogates. Gregory Barnhisel and Catherine Turner Gregory Barnhisel and Catherine Turner
£24.65
St Augustine's Press John Stuart Mill – On Democracy, Freedom and
Book SynopsisIn addition to “On Liberty” and “On Representative Government,” this new selection of Mill’s writings includes, among others, a number of less known of his writings, such as: “Civilization,” “Perfectibility,” “The Negro Question,” “On Education,” “On Aristocracy,” “On Marriage,” “On Free Press,” “Socialism,” Mill’s review of Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” his letters to Tocqueville, and several other writings. If one can use a somewhat exaggerated language, Mill’s writings are to liberal-democracy what Marx and Engels’ writings were to Communism. Both systems gave expression to 19th century man’s longing for equality and justice, both promised to liberate him from the shackles of oppression, authority and tradition. Instead of liberating man, Communism created the most brutal system in human history, and its spectacular fall in 1989 is one of history’s greatest events. Western world today shows that liberal-democracy is no longer a benign doctrine, which advocates free market, minimum state and individual liberties, but, like Communism, is an all-encompassing ideology which forces an individual to abdicate his freedom and soul in favor of a Communist-like collective. As many critics of real Socialism could see the seeds of totalitarianism in the writings of Marx and Engels, so one can see the seeds of liberal totalitarianism in Mill’s writings. This new edition is intended to help readers to understand why democratic-liberalism came so close to its 19th century ideological rival.
£26.00
H.W. Wilson Publishing Co. Reference Shelf: Propaganda and Misinformation
Book Synopsis
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Information Age Publishing Reproducing, Rethinking, Resisting National
Book SynopsisIn his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V. Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood and national communities are imagined. In this work, Wertsch coined the term schematic narrative templates to refer to basic plots, such as the triumph over alien forces or quest for freedom, that are recurrently used, setting a national theme for the past, present and future. Whereas specific narratives are about particular events, dates, settings and actors, schematic narrative templates refer to more abstract structures, grounded in the same basic plot, from which multiple specific accounts of the past can be generated. As dominant and naturalised narrative structures, schematic narrative templates are typically used without being noticed, and are thus extremely conservative, impervious to evidence and resistant to change.The concept of schematic narrative templates is much needed today, especially considering the rise of nationalism and extreme-right populism, political movements that tend to tap into national narratives naturalised and accepted by large swathes of society. The present volume comprises empirical and theoretical contributions to the concept of schematic narrative templates by scholars of different disciplines (Historiography, Psychology, Education and Political Science) and from the vantage point of different cultural and social practices of remembering (viz., school history teaching, political discourses, rituals, museums, the use of images, maps, etc.) in different countries. The volume's main goal is to provide a transdisciplinary debate around the concept of schematic narrative templates, focusing on how narratives change as well as perpetuate at times when nationalist discourses seem to be on the rise. This book will be relevant to anyone interested in history, history teaching, nationalism, collective memory and the wider social debate on how to critically reflect on the past.
£44.96
Information Age Publishing Reproducing, Rethinking, Resisting National
Book SynopsisIn his now classic Voices of Collective Remembering, James V. Wertsch (2002) examines the extent to which certain narrative themes are embedded in the way the collective past is understood and national communities are imagined. In this work, Wertsch coined the term schematic narrative templates to refer to basic plots, such as the triumph over alien forces or quest for freedom, that are recurrently used, setting a national theme for the past, present and future. Whereas specific narratives are about particular events, dates, settings and actors, schematic narrative templates refer to more abstract structures, grounded in the same basic plot, from which multiple specific accounts of the past can be generated. As dominant and naturalised narrative structures, schematic narrative templates are typically used without being noticed, and are thus extremely conservative, impervious to evidence and resistant to change.The concept of schematic narrative templates is much needed today, especially considering the rise of nationalism and extreme-right populism, political movements that tend to tap into national narratives naturalised and accepted by large swathes of society. The present volume comprises empirical and theoretical contributions to the concept of schematic narrative templates by scholars of different disciplines (Historiography, Psychology, Education and Political Science) and from the vantage point of different cultural and social practices of remembering (viz., school history teaching, political discourses, rituals, museums, the use of images, maps, etc.) in different countries. The volume's main goal is to provide a transdisciplinary debate around the concept of schematic narrative templates, focusing on how narratives change as well as perpetuate at times when nationalist discourses seem to be on the rise. This book will be relevant to anyone interested in history, history teaching, nationalism, collective memory and the wider social debate on how to critically reflect on the past.
£82.80
University of Manitoba Press Stored in the Bones: Safeguarding Indigenous
Book SynopsisA new tool for preserving Indigenous cultural heritagesIntangible cultural heritage (ICH) consists of community-based practices, knowledges, and customs that are inherited and passed down through generations. While ICH has always existed, a legal framework for its protection only emerged in 2003 with the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In Stored in the Bones, Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville details her work with Anishinaabeg and Inninuwag harvesters to showcase their cultural heritage elements and to provide a new discourse for the promotion and transmition of Indigenous ICH.The book focuses on lived experiences of the akiwenziyag and kitayatisuk (“men of the land” in Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwe and Inninumowin/Cree, respectively). These men shared their dibaajimowinan “life stories” and living heritage—from putting down tobacco to tending traplines—with Pawłowska-Mainville during her fifteen years in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. Illustrating the importance of ICH recognition, Pawłowska-Mainville describes her experience with the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission regarding the impacts of the Keeyask hydro development and her documentation of the Pimachiowin Aki UNESCO World Heritage Site. By performing and transmitting their living heritage, the akiwenziyag and kitayatisuk are, in the words of Richard Morrison, “doing what they are supposed to: “energizing and strengthening their bones as they walk this Earth.” Providing practical ways to safeguard ICH, Pawłowska-Mainville demonstrates that discursive frameworks for living heritage can assist communities in connecting youth with their ancestors and preserving their knowledge and practices for future generations.Stored in the Bones enriches discussions of treaty rights, land claims, and environmental and cultural policy. Presenting an international framework that may be used to advance community interests in dealings with provincial or federal governments, the study offers a pathway for Indigenous peoples to document knowledge that is “stored in the bones.”Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Living Heritage Chapter 2: Intangible Heritage Chapter 3: “The last one to know” Chapter 4: “‘Clean energy,’ they say” Chapter 5: “The land will stand for you” Conclusion Appendix 1 Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventorying Card Appendix 2 Inventory Guidelines Appendix 3 Useful Resources Abbreviations Glossary of Anishinaabemowin and Inninumowin Terms Bibliography Notes Index
£22.36
Wits University Press The state of secularism: Religion, tradition and
Book SynopsisThe Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth.‘Religion in South Africa’s past’, writes Dhammamegha Annie Leatt, has been ‘saturated by politics’ and politics ‘saturated by religion’. So how, she asks, was it possible for a new state to found itself without religious authority? Why did the churches give up so much of their political role in the transition? How can we think about tradition and the customary in relation to secularism? How can we not? In The State of Secularism Leatt guides the reader from a history of global political secularism through an exploration of the roles played by religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa to the position of religion in the post-apartheid state. She analyses the negotiations relating to religion in the constitution-making process, arguing that South Africa is both secular in its Constitution and judicial foundations and increasingly non-secular in its embrace of traditional authorities and customary law.In the final chapter Leatt turns her attention to post-apartheid South Africa, examining changing relationships between churches and the ruling African National Congress and the increasing influence of traditional leaders and evangelical Christians in an anti-liberal alliance. This book makes a tremendous contribution to the literature on postcolonial politics on the African continent. It has wonderful insights into the founding of a constitutional democracy in South Africa and will appeal to students in history, politics, sociology, anthropology and constitutional law.Key points This book makes a significant contribution to available literature on the role of religion and traditional authority in a postcolonial state. It sheds light on what was at stake in the often painstaking debates in the constitution-making process about the law and the place of religion in the future democratic state of South Africa. It looks at how traditional leadership and customary law were recognised in the postapartheid dispensation of democratic constitutionalism. This book will appeal to students in history, politics, sociology and anthropology, and constitutional law. Trade ReviewThe author deftly guides the reader through various committees, negotiation forums, interest groups, political parties and legal wrangles to uncover the often-surprising developments, alliances and political about-turns in the process of Constitution-making. This is not just politics as the search for power, or the politics of big men … but a thoroughly human affair with its attendant messiness, idealism, complexities and ambiguities."" — Ilana van Wyk, author of A Church of Strangers: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa.Table of Contents Abbreviations Glossary Preface 1 Thinking Secularism from South Africa 2 A South African Morality Tale: Religion, Tradition and Racialised Rule 3 Negotiated Consensus and Religious Rights 4 Re-establishing Traditional Authority 5 The Spirit of a New South Africa 6 Secular Constitutionalism in South Africa? Conclusion Notes Appendix 1 Postamble to the interim constitution Appendix 2 Excerpts from the South African Constitution Bibliography Index
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Wits University Press Stopping the Spies: Constructing and resisting
Book SynopsisIn 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked secret documents revealing that state agencies like the NSA had spied on the communications of millions of innocent citizens. International outrage resulted, but the Snowden documents revealed only the tip of the surveillance iceberg. Apart from insisting on their rights to tap into communications, more and more states are placing citizens under surveillance, tracking their movements and transactions with public and private institutions. The state is becoming like a one-way mirror where it can see more of what its citizens do and say, while citizens see less and less of what the state does, owing to high levels of secrecy around surveillance.Jane Duncan assesses the relevance of Snowden’s revelations for South Africa. In doing so she questions the extent to which South Africa is becoming a surveillance society governed by a surveillance state. Is surveillance used for the democratic purpose of making people safer, or is it being used for the repressive purpose of social control, especially of those considered to be politically threatening to ruling interests? What kind of collective is needed to ensure that unaccountable surveillance does not take place? What works and what does not work as organised responses? These questions and more are examined in this penetrating analysis of South African and global democracy.Stopping the Spies is aimed at South African citizens, academics as well for general readers who care about our democracy and the direction it is taking.Trade Review"This book makes a timely contribution to the study of surveillance in the South African context. It is important reading not only because of the detailed information it provides about threats to citizen freedoms in post-apartheid South Africa, but also for its constructive suggestions for public agency and resistance." - Herman Wasserman, Professor of Media Studies and Director: Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape TownTable of Contents PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES LIST OF ACRONYMS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Theorising the surveillance state CHAPTER 2 Is privacy dead? Resistance to surveillance after the Snowden disclosures CHAPTER 3 The context of surveillance and social control in South Africa CHAPTER 4 Lawful interception in South Africa CHAPTER 5 State mass surveillance, tactical surveillance and hacking in South Africa CHAPTER 6 Privacy, surveillance and public spaces in South Africa CHAPTER 7 Privacy, surveillance and population management: the turn to biometrics CHAPTER 8 Stopping the spies: resisting unaccountable surveillance in South Africa CHAPTER 9 Conclusion NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Asian Security and the Rise of China:
Book SynopsisDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo, M. L. R. SmithTrade Review‘This thoroughly researched and clearly written book considers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the impact and implications of China's rise, with separate chapters considering the very different dynamics of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. . . In all, they provide valuable information and ample food for thought for students and practitioners at all levels. Highly recommended.’ -- M.F. Farrell, Choice‘This book undertakes a sophisticated analysis of considerable nuance. The careful discussion, which makes use of multiple international relations theoretical positions, does not confuse but rather provides a thoughtful, well-balanced approach, missing in some of the more excitable “rising China” publications. . . the book offers many important insights for policymakers, academics and those deeply concerned with understanding the East Asian region.’ -- Peter Layton, RUSI JournalDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and M. R. Smith have delivered a wonderfull neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia- Pacific. -- Dylan Kissane, CEU Political Science Journal‘Khoo, Jones, and Smith have pulled off a remarkable balancing act, crafting a well-grounded and multifaceted survey of China’s rise in the context of Asian security. In a field which is often marked more by scholarly effervescence than substance, the authors provide a refreshingly detailed portrait of the last two decades, and fair-mindedly point out evidence which might support both extremes of the debates they challenge with their own “third way”.’ -- Frank ‘Scott’ Douglas, US Naval War College, US‘Congratulations to the authors for a clearly argued and comprehensive treatment of China’s post-Cold War rise and what it means for existing and future dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region. Effectively employing realist theory in a fair-minded treatment of regional developments, the volume shows how and why power realities are more important than non-material factors in determining the region’s trajectory and thereby demonstrates that China’s ascendance in Asia remains complicated and conflicted.’ -- Robert Sutter, George Washington University, US‘Jones, Khoo, and Smith have written a very good primer to the challenges the rise of China poses for the East Asian regional order and its various constituent parts. They manage to do so while also presenting a clear, well-considered argument on how the respective actors in this drama are likely to respond. That they intersperse their analysis with humorous asides and clever metaphors is not lost on the reader; preventing the book from becoming a dry overview of the alphabet soup of meetings, agreements, frameworks, and institutions that have defined international relations in East and Southeast Asia in the past 30 years or so.’ -- East Asian Integration ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Rocky Rise: US–China Relations in the Post-Cold War Era 2. Fear Factor: Northeast Asian Responses to China’s Rise 3. ASEAN’s Elusive Search for a Role in East Asian International Relations 4. Norms are what Strong States Make of Them: ASEAN in an Age of Volatility 5. Producing Security: State Power, Democracy and Southeast Asian Regionalism 6. Between Two Worlds: Australian Foreign Policy, the Rise of China and Middle-Power Responses to New and Old Security Dilemmas 7. The New Twenty Years’ Crisis: East Asia and the Northern Financial Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index
£105.00
Emerald Publishing Limited 21st Century Urban Race Politics: Representing
Book Synopsis21st Century Urban Race Politics begins by offering a twenty-first-century understanding of minority representation in historically majority-Caucasian cities and draws on case studies in cities throughout the United States. The aim of this volume is to take stock of what we know about the advantages and disadvantages of the "racialized" and "deracialized" approaches to governance and to describe a third approach, the "universalized interest approach." The authors argue that minority elected officials, when given the power and resources to do so, often do more than represent constituent interests without acknowledging the representation of members of their racial/ethnic group in urban communities. Contributors describe how mayors of various backgrounds have sought to represent minority interests in electoral and governing contexts. In each case, the mayors are found to represent minority interests. In most cases, the representation of minority interests is accomplished without deemphasizing the significance of race and as the mayor maintains support from whites within their electoral and governing coalitions. With case studies from across the country, in medium-sized and large cities, and mayors of various backgrounds, the volume provides a vivid account of how different minority mayors have handled minority representation in historically majority Caucasian cities and what lessons academics and politicians can learn from them.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreword. Deracialization Reconsidered: Theorizing Targeted Universalistic Urban Politics. Chapter 1 Political Transformation in Providence: The Election of Mayor Angel Taveras. Chapter 2 Constructing a Moderate Multiracial Coalition in “America’s Most Diverse City”: Kevin Johnson and Coalition Politics in Sacramento. Chapter 3 Beyond Booker: Assessing the Prospects of Black and Latino Mayoral Contenders in Newark, New Jersey. Chapter 4 “Showing his Color”: Mark Mallory’s Racial Distinctiveness as Seen Through Media Representations. Chapter 5 Asian American Politics in Oakland: The Rise of Mayor Jean Quan. Chapter 6 The Mile High Difference: Examining the Impact of Political and Institutional Context on the Electoral Strategies Pursued by Minority Mayors in Denver, and the Impacts of Those Strategies on Minority Communities. Chapter 7 Michael Coleman: The Midwestern Middleman. Chapter 8 Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles, and the Politics of Race. Chapter 9 Balancing Act: Racial Empowerment and the Dual Expectations of Jack Ford in Toledo, Ohio. Chapter 10 ‘The Last Black Mayor of Atlanta?. Chapter 11 The Election of the First African American Female Mayor in Georgia’s First City: The Long Struggle for African American Empowerment in Savannah. Chapter 12 Buffalo, New York: A Discussion of Mayor Brown’s Leadership. Chapter 13 From Fenty to Gray: The Salience of Urban Gentrification, Black Politics, and Substantive Representation in Washington, DC’s 2010 Mayoral Elections. Epilogue: Future Prospects for Targeted Universalism. 21st Century Urban Race Politics: Representing Minorities as Universal Interests. Research in race and ethnic relations. Research in race and ethnic relations. Copyright page. Dedication. Dedication. Acknowledgments.
£113.99
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Asian Security and the Rise of China:
Book SynopsisDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo, M. L. R. SmithTrade Review‘This thoroughly researched and clearly written book considers a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the impact and implications of China's rise, with separate chapters considering the very different dynamics of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia. . . In all, they provide valuable information and ample food for thought for students and practitioners at all levels. Highly recommended.’ -- M.F. Farrell, Choice‘This book undertakes a sophisticated analysis of considerable nuance. The careful discussion, which makes use of multiple international relations theoretical positions, does not confuse but rather provides a thoughtful, well-balanced approach, missing in some of the more excitable “rising China” publications. . . the book offers many important insights for policymakers, academics and those deeply concerned with understanding the East Asian region.’ -- Peter Layton, RUSI JournalDavid Martin Jones, Nicholas Khoo and M. R. Smith have delivered a wonderfull neoclassical take on East Asian security and added energy to the debate surrounding China's rising influence in that region. Asian Security and the Rise of China will find an audience in universities as well as in the conference rooms where foreign and security policies are made in the Asia- Pacific. -- Dylan Kissane, CEU Political Science Journal‘Khoo, Jones, and Smith have pulled off a remarkable balancing act, crafting a well-grounded and multifaceted survey of China’s rise in the context of Asian security. In a field which is often marked more by scholarly effervescence than substance, the authors provide a refreshingly detailed portrait of the last two decades, and fair-mindedly point out evidence which might support both extremes of the debates they challenge with their own “third way”.’ -- Frank ‘Scott’ Douglas, US Naval War College, US‘Congratulations to the authors for a clearly argued and comprehensive treatment of China’s post-Cold War rise and what it means for existing and future dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region. Effectively employing realist theory in a fair-minded treatment of regional developments, the volume shows how and why power realities are more important than non-material factors in determining the region’s trajectory and thereby demonstrates that China’s ascendance in Asia remains complicated and conflicted.’ -- Robert Sutter, George Washington University, US‘Jones, Khoo, and Smith have written a very good primer to the challenges the rise of China poses for the East Asian regional order and its various constituent parts. They manage to do so while also presenting a clear, well-considered argument on how the respective actors in this drama are likely to respond. That they intersperse their analysis with humorous asides and clever metaphors is not lost on the reader; preventing the book from becoming a dry overview of the alphabet soup of meetings, agreements, frameworks, and institutions that have defined international relations in East and Southeast Asia in the past 30 years or so.’ -- East Asian Integration ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Rocky Rise: US–China Relations in the Post-Cold War Era 2. Fear Factor: Northeast Asian Responses to China’s Rise 3. ASEAN’s Elusive Search for a Role in East Asian International Relations 4. Norms are what Strong States Make of Them: ASEAN in an Age of Volatility 5. Producing Security: State Power, Democracy and Southeast Asian Regionalism 6. Between Two Worlds: Australian Foreign Policy, the Rise of China and Middle-Power Responses to New and Old Security Dilemmas 7. The New Twenty Years’ Crisis: East Asia and the Northern Financial Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index
£31.95
Liverpool University Press The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World addresses post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti. Working through an archive of black politics, The Unfinished Revolution examines the charged upheaval that Haiti’s arrival caused in the Atlantic world. Salt revisits this site of contestation in order to critically reflect on the ways that brokers from Haiti and across the Atlantic responded to the political existence of a nation forged from the fires of revolution and consistently racialized as black by other nation-states. These sovereign bodies—who Salt argues took their political cues regarding who can be sovereign from the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)—struggled to accept the existence of the independent nation-state of Haiti. Examining Haiti through the lens of blackness and sovereignty, Salt produces an original and compelling account of the challenges and constraints Haiti has encountered in fighting for its continued political existence. Assembling a wide range of materials—from photographs, newspaper articles, letters, diplomatic documents, essays and objects—Salt produces a cogent and nuanced book that moves beyond the revolutionary period of Haiti’s history in order to argue that Haiti remains in the midst of an unfinished revolution over its sovereignty.Trade Review'The Unfinished Revolution offers a relevant look at post-independence Haiti. Readers will appreciate the host of figures and events Salt presents along with her thoughtful discussions of these "transnational representatives." The work will appeal to students and scholars interested in reflecting on what sovereignty means for a black nation during the Atlantic world period and beyond.' Yveline Alexis, H-LatAmTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION/ Sovereignty and PowerONE/ Games of Sovereignty and OpportunityTWO/ Selling Citizenship, Recognising Blood, Stabilising SovereigntyTHREE/ Burlesquing Empire: Performing Black Sovereignty on the World StageFOUR/ Welcome to the New World Order: Haiti and Black Sovereignty at the Turn of the CenturyFIVE/ Sovereignty Under Seige? Contemporary Performances of Black Sovereignty
£46.21
Collective Ink No Justice, No Police?: The Politics of Protest
Book SynopsisSparked by the brutal police murder of George Floyd, the second wave of the #blacklivesmatter protest movement has surged across more than 100 US cities, spilling into Brazil, South Africa, Paris and London - to name a few of the primary sites of active resistance. This is a new movement, international in scope, with a disproportionately large section of young people - Black and white - using their own language and tactics to fundamentally challenge the whole range of racist institutions governing today’s globalised world. Matt Clement’s No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change chronicles this movement as it continues to deepen and broaden.
£21.84
Liverpool University Press The City of Jerusalem: The Israeli Occupation and
Book SynopsisThe author writes from the experience of thirty years working in the Jerusalem municipality, including 21 years as a public official and ten years as an elected councilor representing the left-wing Meretz party. This book is born from an urgent need to understand the mechanisms articulating the city in which I live, which I love and for which I suffer. I am from Jerusalem, I could not live in another city and the barbarities my government is perpetrating on the Palestinian parts of the city do not allow me to remain quiet. Through this book I engage with the prevailing model of power and repression and the neo-colonial system that expresses its perverse functioning. This book is centered on the political and economic mechanisms practiced by Israel in East Jerusalem over the last decade. These mechanisms reinforce the occupation and keep Jerusalems Palestinians subjugated through co-optation into the Israeli system. Analysis is centered on the changes wrought during the mayoralty of Nir Barkat (20082018), who came into politics from the business world and introduced management concepts to the workings of municipal government. While Barkat succeeded in creating the illusion of a new era in eastern Jerusalem, the result is heartbreaking displacement and vulnerability toward East Jerusalems residents, and the application of urban planning that impacts negatively on residents legal status. The City of Jerusalem: The Israeli Occupation and Municipal Subjugation of Palestinian Jerusalemites is a profound sociological and economic analysis of a city under a normalised occupation which has destroyed the very essence of what Jerusalem stands for: a reflection of diverse religious belief within a multicultural setting, where citizens rights are upheld and not discriminated against for political purpose.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Political Propaganda
Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook draws on a wide range of international case studies to assess the transformative impact of modern communication landscapes on political propaganda. From Brexit to Donald Trump, from presidential elections in Mexico to political rallies in India, from ‘fake news’ to Cambridge Analytica, contributors demonstrate the ways in which growing digital platforms have amplified the reach and influence of political propaganda.International contributors dissect current political contexts, with a key focus on the growth of populism, nationalism, and alt-right politics, to understand how propaganda contributes to the formation and organization of political cultures. Chapters pay close attention to recent election campaigns across Europe, Asia, and the Americas and analyse political and cultural information wars that have been fuelled by misinformation and the so-called ‘fake news’ in digital media. Bringing together pioneering empirical research into contemporary communication, campaigning, journalism, and new media in a new political age, this Research Handbook provides a critical understanding of how propaganda contributes to the modern exercise of power globally.Offering interdisciplinary perspectives on an issue at the forefront of contemporary politics, this Research Handbook is a crucial resource for both scholars and students of international politics and relations, security, communications, and media studies. Its practical insights into political campaigning and new media will also benefit policymakers, governments, and citizens in handling key challenges posed to the healthy functioning of political systems by propaganda.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Political Propaganda 1 Gary D. Rawnsley, Yiben Ma and Kruakae Pothong 1 World propaganda and personal insecurity: intent, content, and contentment 7 Naren Chitty 2 Democracies and war propaganda in the 21st century 22 Piers Robinson 3 Fake news, trust, and behaviour in a digital world 36 Terry Flew 4 Cambridge Analytica 49 David R. Carroll 5 ‘Believe me’: political propaganda in the age of Trump 59 Gary D. Rawnsley 6 The information war paradox 75 Peter Pomerantsev 7 Digital propaganda as symbolic convergence: the case of Russian ads during the 2016 US presidential election 88 Corneliu Bjola and Ilan Manor 8 Getting the message right in Xi Jinping’s China: propaganda, story-telling, and the challenge of reaching people’s emotions 106 Kerry Brown 9 Political communication in the age of media convergence in China 119 Xiaoling Zhang and Yiben Ma 10 Xi Jinping’s grand strategy for digital propaganda 135 Titus C. Chen 11 Constructing its own reality: the CCP’s agenda for the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement 151 Luwei Rose Luqiu 12 Sexuality and politics: ‘coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films 164 Hongwei Bao 13 The compassion ‘spectacle’: the propaganda of piety, virtuosity, and altruism within neoliberal politics 176 Colin Alexander 14 Political propaganda and the global struggle against Apartheid, 1948‒1994 191 Nicholas J. Cull 15 Refugees, migration and propaganda 205 Gillian McFadyen 16 Brexit uncertainties: political rhetoric versus British core values in the NHS 219 Georgia Spiliopoulos 17 The media, antisemitism, and political warfare in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, 2015‒2019 232 James R. Vaughan 18 Terrorist propaganda 251 Afzal Ashraf 19 Propaganda through participation: counterterrorism narratives in China 265 Chi Zhang 20 Countermeasures to extremist propaganda: a strategy for countering absolutist religious beliefs in northeast Nigeria 278 Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob 21 Imagined minorities: making ‘real’ images of ethnic harmony in Chinese tourism 293 Melissa Shani Brown and David O’Brien 22 The language of protest: slogans and the construction of tourism contestation in Barcelona 308 Neil Hughes 23 The Mexican 2018 presidential election in the media landscape: newspaper coverage, TV spots, and Twitter interaction 324 Rubén Arnoldo González 24 Political propaganda and memes in Mexico: the 2018 presidential election 342 Penélope Franco Estrada and Gary D. Rawnsley 25 Political parties, rallies, and propaganda in India 355 Andrew Wyatt 26 Media and majoritarianism in India: eroding soft power? 367 Daya Thussu 27 Korean cultural diplomacy in Laos: soft power, propaganda, and exploitation 381 Mary J. Ainslie 28 Fact-checking false claims and propaganda in the age of post-truth politics: the Brexit referendum 398 Jen Birks 29 Beyond the smear word: media literacy educators tackle contemporary propaganda 413 Renee Hobbs Index
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