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Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook on Visual Politics focuses on key theories and methodologies for better understanding visual political communication. It also concentrates on the depictions of power within politics, taking a historical and longitudinal approach to the topic of placing visuals within a wider framework of political understanding.The Handbook provides an introduction to the theoretical underpinning of the study of visual politics as well as an overview of the current thinking and research traditions in the field of visual politics. The impressive selection of contributors explore all types of media, including studies of the tools utilised for visual politics such as social media, art and photography, featuring the latest platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. The editors also include discussions of visual politics covering a range of nations and political systems while placing current practices in visual politics within their historical context.Offering a rich range of studies exploring differing practices within their contexts to highlight current studies and support the development of future research, this Research Handbook is designed for researchers and students interested in the broad field of politics and the subfields of political communication, persuasion, propaganda and rhetoric. Trade Review‘Lilleker and Veneti’s (2023) new work, the Research Handbook on Visual Politics is the next milestone in the research of visual political communication with its thirty chapters in five thematic areas. The edited volume offers both theoretically and methodologically valuable insights into the area of visual politics. The editors carefully built up the structure of the book to cover a wide variety of topics, actors, periods, mediums, and platforms in the chapters, and to provide a broad basis for visual political communication research.’ -- Xénia Farkas, The International Journal of Press/Politics‘The Research Handbook on Visual Politics will make us think hard about the terrain of visual political communication. A marvelous review of the study of visual politics, this book will arouse interest and expose the foundation for understanding images from days of portraiture to the current age of Instagram and TikTok.’ -- Shahira S. Fahmy, American University in Cairo and Associate Editor of the flagship Journal of Communication (JoC)‘Gathering scholars from a wide array of disciplines and backgrounds, Darren Lilleker and Anastasia Veneti’s new Research Handbook on Visual Politics offers timely insights by exploring how visuality plays a central role across numerous pressing political phenomena, from social movements to war and from election campaigns to pandemic policies.’ -- Roland Bleiker, author of Visual Global Politics, University of Queensland, Australia‘How were historical monarchs artistically portrayed to legitimate power? What are the benefits and challenges in using eye-tracking technology to study recipients’ perception of political visuals? How are journalistic war images used to support political perspectives and powers? These questions, and many more, are answered in this edited volume where scholars from different fields, with different theoretical and methodological perspectives shed light on how images are used in politics. Since we all live in a visual culture, this is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary political communication.’ -- Bengt Johansson, University of Gothenburg, SwedenTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Visual Politics xvii Darren Lilleker and Anastasia Veneti PART I THEORIES AND METHODS 1 Visual rhetoric and the analysis of persuasive political communication 2 Chris Miles 2 Visualizing values: cultural dimensions in the visual framing of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. 14 Lulu Rodriguez, Daniela V. Dimitrova, Muhammad Noor Fakhruzzaman and Vitoria Faccin-Herman 3 Eye-tracking methodology in research on visual politics 29 Franziska Marquart 4 Computational visual analysis in political communication 41 Yilang Peng and Yingdan Lu 5 Politics of (comics) representation: visualising embodied research and data 54 Alexandra P. Alberda and Anna Feigenbaum PART II DEPICTIONS OF POWER 6 Visual narratives and the legitimation of power: foreign monarchs versus national elites in nineteenth-century Greece 69 Christina Koulouri 7 Islamic State, strategic self-othering and the weaponisation of propaganda images 81 Jared Ahmad 8 Imaged communities: the visual construction, contestation and commercialisation of the nation 94 César Jiménez-Martínez 9 The visual representation of politicians 108 Dennis Steffan 10 The faces of leadership: picturing power in democratic countries and dictatorial regimes 122 Luciano Cheles 11 Artivism as transformative practice: the case of Non Una Di Meno 137 Lidia Salvatori PART III DEPICTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY 12 Me, myself and I: selfies as vehicles of personalised politics in the social media era 152 Maja Šimunjak 13 Social media, visuals, and politics: a look at politicians’ digital visual habitus on Instagram 166 Vincent Raynauld and Mireille Lalancette 14 Authenticity and anachronistic media forms: visual presentations of politicians in party-political broadcasting 180 Vincent Campbell 15 Leaders’ visual communication styles: between personalisation and populism 193 Roberta Bracciale and Antonio Martella 16 When visual communication fosters leaders’ exceptional and ordinary image: the Salvini case 214 Marco Mazzoni and Roberto Mincigrucci 17 Politainment as dance: visual storytelling on TikTok among Spanish political parties 227 Rocío Zamora-Medina 18 Judging a book by its cover: political impression management on Instagram: privatization and voter engagement 243 Stéphanie De Munter, Philippe De Vries and Christ’l De Landtsheer PART IV DEPICTIONS OF IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES 19 Peripheral cues and the power of simple images 258 Darren Lilleker and Panos Koliastasis 20 Understanding the meanings of visuals: the motivations and values of Black Lives Matter and social justice art activists 267 Gabriel B. Tait 21 LGBTQ+ visual activism 283 Tessa Lewin and Olu Jenzen 22 Memes as vernacular politics 297 Viktor Chagas 23 Political engagement and satire: a change in the conversation 309 Mehnaaz Momen 24 ‘What’s Your Warrior?’ Selling service in the United States Army using social media, superheroes, and computer games 321 Brendan Maartens PART V DEPICTING REALITY 25 Indeterminacy, performativity and the ‘dialectics of the real’: the problem of knowledge in the analysis of visual politics 335 Matteo Stocchetti 26 The political work of war and conflict images 345 Katy Parry 27 The political symbolism of flags in revolutionary movements: the case of the 1821 Greek War of Independence 359 Anastasia Veneti and Stamatis Poulakidakos 28 Look into my lies: the strategic use of photography in UK Gov’s 2021 coronavirus campaign 371 Bernadine Jones and Ellie Macdonald 29 Photojournalists as NGO advocates: balancing between two realities 382 Jenni Mäenpää 30 Watching the watchers: sousveillance as a political response to surveillance society 396 Paul Reilly Index

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Book SynopsisLabour sought to develop policies regulating newspaper ownership and the role of journalists. It endeavoured to both correct what it perceived as press bias against the Labour Party and to address the broader issues of political and cultural diversity. Labour's & the Press, 1972-2005 provides a lucid analysis of how Labour's policies on the press sit within the context of the party's overall development -- from Harold Wilson, through the party's flirtation with Robert Maxwell, to the robust approach of Tony Blair. It offers a fresh insight into New Labour's concern with press management and political communications. The author demonstrates how tensions of the past shed new light on Labour Party practices of the present.Trade Review"...presents a clear-sighted survey of the shift from the Wilson period to now, and offers a new look at New Labours close attention to press management and managed political communications. It deserves to be widely read." -- European Journal of Communication, 22/4, 2007.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Labour's Problems with the Press; The People and the Press: Party Debates up to 1974; The Party, the Government, the Commission and its Minority: Labour from 1974 to 1979; Flow and Ebb: Labour from 1979 to 1983; Changes and Political Communications: Labour in the 1980s; Policy Reviewed: Neil Kinnock and John Smith; Living with the Enemy: Press Policy Under Tony Blair; Epilogue and Concluding Remarks: How Did We Get Here?; Index.

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Book SynopsisBased on a combination of a wide range of second-hand sources with previously unknown archival material from Spain, Britain, France and the United States, this book explores the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 as a propaganda battle aimed mainly at foreign public opinion. It shows how both Nationalists and Republicans used the experiences of previous conflicts such as World War I, as well as that of their totalitarian allies, in order to set up a number of propaganda and censorship services with the goal of persuading foreign -- and specifically British -- audiences of the legitimacy of their causes, and of the need to give them political, military, and relief assistance. The propaganda messages designed by both sides -- ranging from the atrocities committed by the enemy to illegal foreign intervention on its behalf -- are analysed in detail, together with the techniques that were employed to transmit these messages: eye-witness accounts, official commissions, unofficial missions of investigation, documentaries, art exhibitions, etc. As to the impact of both campaigns on the British population, the author argues that their crude nature helped to mobilise both the extreme right and the extreme left, but alienated the great majority, who preferred to rally to the Non-Intervention policy adopted by the Baldwin and Chamberlain governments. The chronicle of this relatively neglected topic demonstrates not only the utter modernity of the Spanish conflict, but also the origin of some of the arguments still employed by current historians of the war.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Truth about Spain; The Age of Modern Propaganda, 1896-1939; The Nationalists: Between Intransigence & Pragmatism; The Republicans: Triumphing Over Chaos; Defining the War; The Battle of Atrocities; The Battles of Civilization: Religion, Art, Culture; The Battle over Foreign Intervention; The Converted & the Unconverted: The British & the Spanish Conflict; Epilogue: Echoes of the Battle; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisA rabbi, a priest, a politician, public servants, a military officer, a student activist and a social media consultant are gathered in this book to discuss the incomprehensible situation of Israel's faltering public image. Rabbi Berl Wine addresses the Jewish diaspora tradition and the lack of religious understanding of the realities of running a sovereign modern state. Pastor Jorgen Buhler discusses the Christian Protestant pro-Israel perspective. Dr Meron Medzini, the biographer of Golda Meir, sets out the state's early policy toward propaganda. Dr. Moshe Yegar, a former deputy director in the Israeli foreign ministry discusses the time when Public Relations was abolished in the ministry by today's president, Shimon Peres. Danny Seman, formerly a head of department in the newly founded Ministry of Information and Government Press Office, tells of his experiences of working for the government without government backup. Barak Raz of the IDF Spokesman Unit gives the military angle. Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, sets out Israeli foreign policy objectives. Yossi Sarid, former senior minister and media personality, provides analysis of hasbara (public diplomacy) in an international perspective. David Olesker, a leading authority on global campus activism, gives a historical survey of anti-Israel campus activities. Eva Rosenstein and David Abitbol discuss professional media and social media perspectives of propaganda advocacy. Ron Schleifer sets out to rectify Israel's international image, through better understanding of historical and contemporary policy, and the political/religious/military philosophy behind the different approaches over the years, presenting media and psychological mechanisms of motivating a more resourceful approach to this increasingly necessary aspect of Israeli statehood.

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Book SynopsisUnlike the bulky academic versions of SADET’s Road to Democracy, the Abridged Edition series is much shorter; it is quicker and easier to read. The footnotes, the lengthy quotations, and overwhelmingly intricate detail have been removed. What remains is the stark truth; an outline of how, in a myriad of ways, African states helped the South African struggle for freedom.The names of authors of the Road to Democracy in South Africa Abridged Edition series have been removed from each chapter but theirs is the credit for researching and creating them. SADET acknowledges the sterling work by all these international scholars.This Abridged Editions series should be read by every South African. The hope is that others on the African continent and elsewhere in the world will find much of interest in its pages. After all, the history of the liberation struggle in South Africa is one of Africa’s greatest success stories.

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia faces hard choices. The region’s most powerful organization, ASEAN, is being challenged to ensure security and encourage democracy while simultaneously reinventing itself as a model of Asian regionalism.Should ASEAN’s leaders defend a member country’s citizens against state predation for the sake of justice—and risk splitting ASEAN itself? Or should regional leaders privilege state security over human security for the sake of order—and risk being known as a dictators’ club? Should ASEAN isolate or tolerate the junta in Myanmar? Is democracy a requisite to security, or is it the other way around? How can democratization become a regional project without first transforming the Association into a “people centered” organization? But how can ASEAN reinvent itself along such lines if its member states are not already democratic?How will its new Charter affect ASEAN’s ability to make these hard choices? How is regionalism being challenged by transnational crime, infectious disease, and other border-jumping threats to human security in Southeast Asia? Why have regional leaders failed to stop the perennial regional “haze” from brush fires in democratic Indonesia? Does democracy help or hinder nuclear energy security in the region?In this timely book—the second of a three-book series focused on Asian regionalism—ten analysts from six countries address these and other pressing questions that Southeast Asia faces in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewIn this delightful volume, a diverse, fresh, and talented group of authors shed new light on Southeast Asia and speak engagingly to wider scholarly questions. Emmerson's introduction sets the tone for an unusually creative edited collection. -- Andrew MacIntyre, Australian National UniversityIn Hard Choices, Donald Emmerson has brought together a remarkable group of leading young scholars to write on Southeast Asian regionalism from political-security, economic, and sociological perspectives. His introductory chapter defines the dimensions of regionalism on which the other contributors elaborate in a series of fine essays examining ASEAN’s past, present, and alternative futures. Hard Choices is a landmark study that will be consulted for years to come by scholars and practitioners. Highly recommended. -- Sheldon Simon, Arizona State University

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Book SynopsisThere have been few times in US American history when the very concept of freedom of speechits promise and its contradictionshas been under greater scrutiny. Guided by acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and activist Amar Kanwar, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School convened a series of public seminars on freedom of speech with the participation of some of the most original thinkers and artists on the topic. Structured as an open curriculum, each seminar examined a particular aspect of freedom of speech, reflecting on and informed by recent debates around hate speech, censorship, sexism, and racism in the US and elsewhere. Studies into Darkness emerges from these seminars as a collection of newly commissioned texts, artist projects, and resources that delve into the intricacies of free speech. Providing a practical and historical guide to free speech discourse and in-depth investigations that extend far beyond the current moment, and featuring poetic responses to the crises present in contemporary culture and society around expression, this publication provocatively questions whether true communication is ever attainable. Contributions by Zach Blas, Mark Bray, Natalie Diaz, Aruna D'Souza, Silvia Federici and Gabriela López Dena, Jeanne van Heeswijk, shawné michaelain holloway, Prathibha Kanakamedala and Obden Mondésir, Amar Kanwar, Carin Kuoni, Lyndon, Debora, and Abou, Svetlana Mintcheva, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Vanessa Place, Laura Raicovich, Michael Rakowitz, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Nabiha Syed.

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Book Synopsis2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the religious make-up of society across the Western world. As a result, societies and nation-states have faced the challenge of crafting ways to bring new religious communities into existing institutions and the legal frameworks. Regulating Difference explores how the state regulates religious diversity and examines the processes whereby religious diversity and expression becomes part of administrative landscapes of nation-states and people’s everyday lives. Arguing that concepts of nationhood are key to understanding the governance of religious diversity, Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the Canadian province of Quebec to show how processes of nation-building, religious heritage-making and the mobilization of divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces. Trade Review“An excellent contribution to the scholarly literature on Western secularities and on the regulation of religion." -- James Spickard * author of Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes *“Fascinating and helpful…an absorbing and detailed study.” -- Roger Trigg * author of Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions *"Religious diversification and the rise of nationalism, coupled with increasing immigration and ever-contested state secularism, are dominant and far-reaching trends facing many societies today. Through an evocative comparison of Quebec and Catalonia, Marian Burchardt lucidly explores how these topics are framed in law, shaped by institutional practices and understood by political actors and ordinary members of the public. Regulating Difference is essential reading for anyone concerned with such profound issues marking our troubling times." -- Steven Vertovec * Editor of the Routledge international Handbook of Diversity Studies *"Marian Burchardt’s Regulating Difference is historically informed, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. By juxtaposing Québec and Catalunya, the book makes important contributions to the literature on secularism and small nations. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of nationalism, the sociology of religion and secularism, and politics and religion more broadly." -- Geneviève Zubrzycki * author of Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec *Immigration and secularization have radically increased cultural diversity around the world. What happens when ‘diversity’ evolves from a means of description into a mode of governance? In this cleverly designed comparative study of two ’stateless nations’, Marian Burchardt shows how the logic of ‘religious diversity’ is refracted through the logics of nationalism and bureaucracy at the macro and micro scales. Required reading for anyone interested in contemporary debates about religion, politics and secularity. -- Philip S. Gorski * author of The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe *Two stateless nations, Quebec and Catalonia, with historically majoritarian Catholic confessions, have become deeply secular societies. But Catalan and Quebecois nationalists with similar conceptions of laïcité or secularism have offered divergent responses to the challenges that the religious diversity brought by large numbers of new immigrants present to their national projects. Burchardt's book examines this comparative puzzle deftly, while enriching our understanding of the ways in which religious and secular cleavages and religious and national identities may become differently entangled. An important contribution to the emerging field of multiple secularities. -- José Casanova * author of Public Religions in the Modern World *"Burchardt’s study is illuminating in that it offers new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between national identity and religious identity. By examining the procedural and governmental frameworks that both enable and inhibit the inclusion of religious migrants, his study offers a needed corrective to studies that look to philosophical concepts such as “rights” to understand what it means for religious migrants to belong to a nation." * Reading Religion *"Regulating Difference is a methodologically rich and theoretically versatile addition to the fast-growing field of comparative historical secularity." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Religious Diversity, Secularism and Nationhood 1 Theorizing Religious Diversity and Secularism 2 Contesting Religious Diversity and Secularism 3 Spatializing Religious Diversity: Urban Administration, Infrastructure and Emplacement 4 The Limits of Religious Diversity: Regulating Full-Face Coverings 5 Making Claims to Religion as Culture: The Rise of Heritage Religion Conclusions Notes List of Laws and Cases Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDictatorships throughout the twentieth century - including Mussolini's Italy, the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, Poland, and East Germany - held elections. But were they more than rituals of participation without the slightest effect on the distribution of power? Why did political regimes radically opposed to liberal democracy feel the need to imitate their enemies? Offering significant insights into totalitarian state governance, "Voting for Hitler and Stalin" thoroughly investigates the remarkable, paradoxical phenomenon of dictatorial elections, revealing the many ways they transcended mere propaganda.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the circle surrounding the band The Plastic People of the Universe and their manager, the poet Ivan M. Jirous, Machovec turns outward to examine the broader concept of the underground, comparing the Czech incarnation not only with the movements of its Central and Eastern European neighbors, but also with those in the world at large. In one essay, he reflects on the so-called Půlnoc Editions, which published illegal texts in the darkest days of the late forties and early fifties. In other essays, Machovec examines the relationship between illegal texts published at home (samizdat) and those smuggled out to be published abroad (tamizdat), as well as the range of literature that can be classified as samizdat, drawing attention to movements frequently overlooked by literary critics. In his final, previously unpublished essay, Machovec examines Jirous’s “Report on the Third Czech Musical Revival” not as a merely historical document, but as literature itself.

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Book SynopsisAn original study of radio propaganda in Czechoslovakia. Between 1939 and 1945, Czechoslovakia disappeared from the maps, existing only as an imagined ‘free republic’ on the radio waves. Following the German invasion and annexation of Bohemia and Moravia and the declaration of independence by Slovakia on 15 March 1939, the Czechoslovak Republic was gone. From their position in exile in wartime London, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš and the government that formed around him depended on radio to communicate with the public they strove to represent. The broadcasts made by government figures in London enabled a performance of authority to impress their hosts, allies, occupying enemies, and claimed constituents. This book examines this government program for the first time, making use of previously unstudied archival sources to examine how the exiles understood their mission and how their propaganda work was shaped by both British and Soviet influences. This study assesses the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of the government’s radio propaganda as they navigated the complexities of exile, with chapters examining how they used the radio to establish their authority, how they understood the past and future of the Czechoslovak nation, and how they struggled to include Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia within it.Trade Review“The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of those who recreated Czechoslovakia in 1945. It reveals, via the broadcasts, what can be learnt about the exiles’ mentality and the major obstacles which confronted them from both enemies and allies… It will certainly be used as a starting point for new research about radio propaganda in wartime Central Europe.” * Mark Cornwall, University of Southampton *Table of Contents1. List of Abbreviations2. Introduction2.1 Czechoslovakia: ‘The Child of Propaganda’2.2 Radio: The Ideal Medium for Exile2.3 Less Trouble than the Rest: The Czechoslovak Government within the British Propaganda Structure2.4 Scope and Sources3. ‘Legal, Loyal, and Internationally Recognised’: Legitimacy and the Performance of Government3.1 ‘In the Name of the Czechoslovak Republic’: The Authority of Legality3.2 ‘We Are the Masaryk Nation’: The Authority of Tradition3.3 ‘We Are Close Together at Heart’: The Authority of Charisma3.4 Exercising Authority: The Odsun and ‘Rabble-rousing’ from London4. Populating the ‘Free Republic’: Performing Nationhood over the Radio, Radio as a Medium for Nation Building4.1 ‘Faithful to the Spirit of our History’: Reading the War into the National Narrative4.2 ‘Anything That is Dear to Their Hearts’: The Mobilisation of Culture5. Idiots and Traitors? Addressing Slovakia from London5. 1 ‘The Admirable and Loyal Czechoslovak Nation’5.2 ‘Do Not Betray Yourselves’: A Policy of Negative Propaganda5.3 ‘There Is No Free Slovakia’: Political Arguments5.4 ‘The Most Blatant Ingratitude’: The Slovak State and the USA5.5 ‘Your Catholic, Christian, and Slovak Conscience Compels You’: Religious Arguments5.6 Russians, not Monsters: Tackling the Bolshevik Bogey6. ‘We Will Manage Our Own Affairs’: The Soviet Union and Broadcasting the Future of Czechoslovakia6.1 Neither Hell nor Paradise: 1940–June 19416.2 ‘Our Brother Slavs’: June 1941–19436.3 When Propaganda Diverges from Policy: Mid-1943 Onwards6.4 ‘If It Doesn’t Work, It Will Not Be Our Fault’: The Changing Representation of Poland and the Central-European Confederation6.5 ‘Subcarpathian Ruthenia Is Czechoslovak’: Broadcasting to a Lost Territory7. Conclusions8. Bibliography of Sources

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Book SynopsisIn spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of social life in China where both Confucian ethics and Communist policies have shaped collective structures with little room for individual agency and choice. What is actually happening, however, is a growing individualization of China - not only changing perceptions of the individual but also rising expectations for individual freedom, choice and individuality. The individual has also become a basic social category in China, and a development has begun that permeates all areas of social, economic and political life. How this process evolves in a state and society lacking two of the defining characteristics of European individualization - a culturally embedded democracy and a welfare system - is one of the questions that the volume explores. A strength of this volume is that its authors succeed in depicting the individualization process in conceptually acute and empirically sensitive terms, and as something with its own distinctively Chinese profile. That makes this book a 'must read' for all those wanting to understand present-day Chinese society, with all of its ambivalences, contingencies and contradictions.Table of ContentsContributors vii Preface xi Foreword: Varieties of Individualization (Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim) xiii Introduction: Conflicting Images of the Individual and Contested Process of Individualization (Yunxiang Yan) 1 1 Idealizing Individual Choice: Work, Love and Family in the Eyes of Young, Rural Chinese (Mette Halskov Hansen and Cuiming Pang) 39 2 He is He and I Am I: Individual and Collective among China's Elderly (Stig ThA gersen and Ni Anru) 65 3 Individualization and the Political Agency of Private Business People in China (JA rgen Delman and Yin Xiaoqing) 94 4 A Collective of Their Own: Young Volunteers at the Fringes of the Party Realm (Unn Malfrid H. Rolandsen) 132 5 Between Self and Community: The Individual in Contemporary Chinese Literature (Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg) 164 6 Individual Self-Discipline and Collective Freedom in the Minds of Chinese Intellectuals (Rune Svarverud) 193 7 'Friendly Pressure': Law and the Individual in Modern China (Klaus Muhlhahn) 226 8 Collective Symbols and Individual Options: Life on a State Farm for Returned Overseas Chinese after Decollectivization (Li Minghuan) 250 Index 271

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Book SynopsisIn spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay the individual. This implicit view has also coloured the study of social life in China where both Confucian ethics and Communist policies have shaped collective structures with little room for individual agency and choice. What is actually happening, however, is a growing individualization of China - not only changing perceptions of the individual but also rising expectations for individual freedom, choice and individuality. The individual has also become a basic social category in China, and a development has begun that permeates all areas of social, economic and political life. How this process evolves in a state and society lacking two of the defining characteristics of European individualization - a culturally embedded democracy and a welfare system - is one of the questions that the volume explores. A strength of this volume is that its authors succeed in depicting the individualization process in conceptually acute and empirically sensitive terms, and as something with its own distinctively Chinese profile. That makes this book a 'must read' for all those wanting to understand present-day Chinese society, with all of its ambivalences, contingencies and contradictions.Table of ContentsContributors vii Preface xi Foreword: Varieties of Individualization (Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim) xiii Introduction: Conflicting Images of the Individual and Contested Process of Individualization (Yunxiang Yan) 1 1 Idealizing Individual Choice: Work, Love and Family in the Eyes of Young, Rural Chinese (Mette Halskov Hansen and Cuiming Pang) 39 2 He is He and I Am I: Individual and Collective among China's Elderly (Stig ThA gersen and Ni Anru) 65 3 Individualization and the Political Agency of Private Business People in China (JA rgen Delman and Yin Xiaoqing) 94 4 A Collective of Their Own: Young Volunteers at the Fringes of the Party Realm (Unn Malfrid H. Rolandsen) 132 5 Between Self and Community: The Individual in Contemporary Chinese Literature (Anne Wedell-Wedellsborg) 164 6 Individual Self-Discipline and Collective Freedom in the Minds of Chinese Intellectuals (Rune Svarverud) 193 7 'Friendly Pressure': Law and the Individual in Modern China (Klaus Muhlhahn) 226 8 Collective Symbols and Individual Options: Life on a State Farm for Returned Overseas Chinese after Decollectivization (Li Minghuan) 250 Index 271

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese "dissidents" in the later Imperial period - Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The principles to which each adhered - the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and representative government - contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental (at least in theory) in today's Japanese polity and society. The study reaffirms the serious limitations of the pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change. But it also confirms the birth of an alternative tradition in which individuals began to define and sponsor the processes of national self-regulation. The book traces the perspectives of three such individuals who chose to contest the new power arrangements through their writings and political activities.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-sixth session. Volume II (Part I) contains reports of special rapporteurs and other documents considered during the session

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Book SynopsisThe Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It then explains these transformations by showing how the social organization of late modern society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime. The book presents an original and in-depth analysis of contemporary crime control, revealing its underlying logics and rationalities, and identifying the social relations and cultural sensibilities that have produced this new culture of control. In developing a history of the present in the field of crime control, David Garland presents an intertwined history of the welfare state and the criminal justice state, a theory of social and penal change, and an account of how social order is constructed in late modern societies. Drawing on extensive research in the UK and the USA, he shows in detail how the social, economic and cultural forces of the late 20th century have reshaped criminological thought, public policy, and the cultural meaning of crime and criminals.The Culture of Control explains how our responses to crime and our sense of criminal justice came to be so dramatically reconfigured at the end of the 20th century. The shifting policies of crime and punishment, welfare and security - and the changing class, race and gender relations that underpin them - are viewed as aspects of the problem of governing late modern society and creating social order in a rapidly changing social world. Its theoretical scope, empirical range and interpretative insight make this book an indispensable guide to one of the central issues of our time.Trade ReviewThere is a tremendous readability and clarity about The Culture of Control that almost disguises the mass of learning and information in the book. In fact, it is difficult to know which feature is to be admired more: the extraordinary sophistication, the integration of so many different approaches and disciplines, the snappy writing, or the lucid ordering of the argument. There is compelling realism about Garland's work. Much of it rings true, although some may find the reading of recent social history rather left wing. Against the backdrop of the new, dispiriting, CJS White Paper, here is a prophet for our times. * Legal and Criminological Psychology *Garland's book is more than just an important contribution to criminology. It is also a major work of social analysis, which deserves to be read more widely ... his account of changes in crime control also provides one of the clearest and most convincing characterizations of contemporary society in general. * Robert Reiner, The Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. A History of the Present ; 2. Modern Criminal Justice and the Penal-Welfare State ; 3. The Crisis of Penal Modernism ; 4. Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity ; 5. Policy Predicament: Adaptation, Denial and Acting Out ; 6. Crime Complex: The Culture of High Crime Societies ; 7. The New Culture of Crime Control ; 8. Crime Control and Social Order ; Bibliography ; Index

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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