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Book Synopsis''A lively and learned guide to the politics, personalities and conflicts that are shaping a dynamic group of countries'' FINANCIAL TIMES''A fascinating and many-layered portrait of Southeast Asia'' THANT MYINT-UWhy are the region''s richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia and China''s growing influence affect the region and the rest of the world? Thought-provoking and eye-opening, Blood and Silk is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region''s most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it''s like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate pTrade ReviewBooks on the rise of Asia tend to concentrate on China and India. Vatikiotis fills a gap by providing a lively and learned guide to the politics, personalities and conflicts that are shaping a dynamic group of countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Burma -- Gideon Rachman * FINANCIAL TIMES Summer Reads *Blood and Silk is not a dry socio-political analysis. Vatikiotis has an eye for quirky detail, whether it be the Thai crown prince's pet poodle commissioned as an air force officer and dressed in uniform, or the self-important Muslim separatist from southern Thailand who prayed with Osama bin Laden in Khartoum but found the terrorist mastermind uninspiring and unimpressive. In the end, though, the outlook is menacing. Indonesia risks "the kind of ethnic and religious sectarian strife we see in the Middle East today". Malaysians are dismayed by "the slow disintegration of the multiracial compact". In Thailand, there is "little prospect of the military willingly giving up power". The Philippines remains "a prisoner of oligarchy". Even Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar has disappointed her liberal supporters. We can hope that Vatikiotis is wrong, but I fear he is not -- VICTOR MALLET * FINANCIAL TIMES *Vatikiotis's arguments are fluent and convincing, and his writing is suffused with a deep knowledge of and affection for Southeast Asia and its peoples -- Richard Cockett * LITERARY REVIEW *[An] ambitious and timely book * THE ECONOMIST *A fascinating and many-layered portrait of Southeast Asia, brimming with colourful characters, insights and anecdotes, Blood and Silk is a rich palimpsest as can only be written by a longstanding student and scholar of the region like Michael Vatikiotis -- Thant Myint-U, author of THE RIVER OF LOST FOOTSTEPSVatikiotis offers a lucid portrait of this fascinating region by bringing together a student's sense of wonder and curiosity, a journalist's scepticism and diligence in making sense of reality, and a peacemaker's compassion for the vulnerable -- Salil Tripathi * SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST *

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Book SynopsisCombining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It's a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over-to deadly effect.With contributions from #BlackLivesMatter cofounder Patrisse Cullors, Ferguson activist and Law Professor Justin Hansford, Director of New York-based Communities United for Police Reform Joo-Hyun Kang, poet Martín Espada, and journalist Anjali Kamat, as well as articles from leading scholars Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Robin D. G. Kelley, Naomi Murakawa, Vijay Prashad, and more, Policing the Planet describes ongoing struggles from New York to Baltimore to Los Angeles, London, San Juan, San Salvador, and beyond.Trade ReviewThis book is the best analytical and political response we have to the historic rebellions in Ferguson! Don't miss it. -- Cornel West, author of Black Prophetic FireWe owe Jordan Camp and Christina Heatherton a great expression of gratitude for this brilliant and provocative collection of voices that compels us to see the Black Lives Matter Movement in the larger context of twenty-first-century racial capitalism and the growing carceral state. -- Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom MovementA major work . As someone who certainly admires the work of these scholars, I couldn't think of a more compelling and timely work such as this. I am pleased to not only be in community with these amazing people but to listen and learn from them . Policing the Planet comes at an incredibly important time. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureWhen this series of essays addressing contemporary activism's biggest movement hits stands in May, we'll be ready. A variety of contributors, including anti-police brutality and militarization activists from around the country and world, promise to make Policing the Planet a definitive work for anybody confused about exactly what structural law enforcement powers lead to our current racial justice climate. * Colorlines *This broad collection of sharp commentary from activists, academics, and artists situates recent struggles right where they belong-in opposition to an increasingly global regime of police abuse. * Flavorwire *A probing collection of essays and interviews. * Philadelphia Tribune *Through compiling so many critical voices in one place, Camp and Heatherton have created a much-needed guidebook of resistance to our planet's police state and the structures of urban governance that feed it. -- Aaron Cantú * Washington Spectator *Policing the Planet is an important intervention to a key issue at a crucial time. -- Ramor Ryan * TeleSur *An incredible anthology tracing the bloody history of broken-windows policing and its implications for city life in general. -- James Tracy * Rooflines *

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Book SynopsisOn 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran’s Gilan province. Barely two months later, the Iranian People’s Fada’i Guerrillas officially announced their existence and began a long, drawn-out urban guerrilla war against the Shah’s regime. In Call to Arms, Ali Rahnema provides a comprehensive history of the Fada’is, beginning by asking why so many of Iran’s best and brightest chose revolutionary Marxism in the face of absolutist rule. He traces how radicalised university students from different ideological backgrounds morphed into the Marxist Fada’is in 1971, and sheds light on their theory, practice and evolution. While the Fada’is failed to directly bring about the fall of the Shah, Rahnema shows they had a lasting impact on society and they ultimately saw their objective achieved.Trade Review‘A definitive history of the Iranian People’s Fada’i Guerrillas. Theoretical frameworks are interwoven with historical narrative, and riveting anecdotes are tempered by conceptual discussions. In one volume, Ali Rahnema has compiled a comprehensive guide to understanding the ideology, activities, and legacy of the Fada’is… He has masterfully told the Fada’is’ story, including their writings, their successes, and their failures, leaving readers with the impression of the Fada’is as serious, brave, influential, and ideologically driven patriots.’ * Iranian Studies *‘Ali Rahnema has produced the most comprehensive and deeply engaging narrative to date of the revolutionary left in Iran during the 1970s… A masterwork, a must-read!’ -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University‘Meticulous and riveting, this book works like a time-tunnel, taking us back to experience “first-hand” the dramatic heroics and painful tragedy of radical political opposition in 1960s–1970s Iran.’ * Afshin Matin-Asgari, author of Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity *‘Delivers like a ray of hope… This book is an act of redemption, not just of the Iranian Marxist revolutionaries but of the spirit of the age that demanded armed uprising against tyranny.’ -- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University‘Call to Arms is a significant study of Iran’s militant left in the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring a broad range of primary and secondary source material it closely examines the formation and operational dynamics of Iran’s radical opposition during the Cold War.’ -- Ali Gheissari, Professor of History, University of San Diego‘Rahnema has done the staggeringly difficult task of offering us a meticulously researched history of the life and times of the Fadaʾis in late-Pahlavi Iran.’ -- Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Violence as a political option? Demonizing the armed opposition Why resort to political violence? The four Iranian Marxist theoreticians of armed struggle 2 Hasan Zia-Zarifi’s account of why armed struggle The culprit: Absolutist despotic monarchism Reflections from prison 3 Amir-Parviz Pouyan’s account of why armed struggle Literature in the service of politics Armed struggle: Rational or irrational? A necessary theoretical digression Pouyan on the necessity of armed struggle as a rational choice Refutation of the theory of survival Pouyan’s incisive impact 4 Masʿoud Ahmadzadeh’s accounts of why armed struggle Demystifying classical notions of how and when to take up arms The fruitful retreat The Debray factor: From Havana to Tehran via Mashhad Learning from the past Breaking with the old sacred cows Armed struggle by the revolutionary vanguard 5 Bijan Jazani’s accounts of why armed struggle Mysteries around What a Revolutionary Should Know To confront a monarchical military dictatorship Revolutionary intellectuals: The dynamite of the revolutionary movement Jazani’s paradoxical hints Revolutionary agents and the question of leadership in a despotic or democratic Iran 6 The Tudeh Party’s awkward tango with armed struggle Ideological rift over revolution-making Iranian students take sides The Tudeh Party’s reluctant approval of armed struggle The Tudeh Party pushes back against armed struggle Revolution means employing peaceful methods of struggle The Tudeh Party denounces armed struggle What did the revolutionary Marxists think of the Tudeh Party? 7 Monarchists, Maoists, and the Tudeh Party in unison: armed struggle is counterrevolutionary adventurism For Nikkhah the red revolution turned white Kourosh Lashaʾi’s rejection of romanticism and embrace of realism The Tudeh Party: We told you so 8 Armed struggle and Marxist canonists Historical determinism or revolutionary voluntarism? Marx and Engels: Wavering over the role of violence? Lenin on violence, unequivocal? Trotsky: Dissonance between intellectual revolutionary consciousness and backward economic conditions invites violence 9 Armed struggle and Marxist revolutionaries Mao Tse-tung’s revolutionary authority Che Guevara’s revolution-making to overthrow dictators Carlos Marighella: Unleashing violence to end dictatorial violence Marighella in Iran via Baghdad 10 Formative years of the Jazani group Jazani the entrepreneur Whence it came Student political activities First phase of the Jazani Group Jazani and The Message of University Students Second phase of the Jazani Group The political and propaganda branch The operational and military branch The military operation that should have happened but did not Ghafour Hasanpour’s networks: Recruiting behind the scenes 11 Jazani Group compromised First raids The remnants of the Jazani Group under siege Bank robberies The decision to leave the country The final nabs 12 The new Hasanpour, Ashraf, and Safaʾi-Farahani Group: Preparations and operations Picking up the broken pieces Organizing armed struggle: Three teams The first urban operations of the H-A-S Group 13 The Pouyan, Ahmadzadeh, and Meftahi Group The dissimilar but inseparable Pouyan and Ahmadzadeh Enter ʿAbbas Meftahi Pouyan’s circles at Mashhad and Tabriz Ahmadzadeh’s membership in Hirmanpour’s circle Meftahi’s Sari and Tehran circles The P-A-M Group’s military operations before Siyahkal An ethical digression: To press or not to press the trigger 14 Armed struggle in Iran: Rural or urban Theoretical positioning Ahmadzadeh gently parts with the Cuban model Jazani: Rural Iran not the ideal revolutionary base Jazani’s change of heart: Emphasis on rural/mountainous warfare 15 Merger discussions for “Iran’s revolutionary armed movement” The painful and slow process of negotiation Last hurdle: Convincing the P-A-M rank and file The mountain group’s five-month reconnaissance mission Postponements 16 The H-A-S Group hounded The beans are spilled The arrests begin The mountain team compromised 17 The Siyahkal operation Assault on the Siyahkal Gendarmerie Station on 19 Bahman The aftermath of the assault The nineteen-day odyssey of the retreating guerrillas 18 Assessing the Siyahkal strike Objectives of the Siyahkal strike: Ahmadzadeh, Ashraf, Safaʾi-Farahani Siyahkal as a military operation: Fumbles and blunders The regime’s first public response to the Siyahkal strike The Ranking Security Official’s spectacle 19 The Hamid Ashraf factor Schooling Ashraf in the eyes of fellow combatants Three years of guerrilla struggle in perspective Ashraf violent and authoritarian? 20 Hemming the guerrillas or cultivating a guerrilla culture? The Shah declares the end of terrorist activities in Iran The Golesorkhi affair Revolutionaries of the Film School of the Iranian National Television Slaying heroes: Fuel on fire 21 Jazani’s questioning of armed struggle Challenging the theory and practice of the Fadaʾis Looking for new forms of struggle Underlining the role of legal methods of struggle A matter of trade-off 22 Softly disarming armed struggle to regain the trust of the masses Step one: The correct stage in the movement Step two: Walking on two legs Step three: Iran’s paradoxical political condition, democratic and despotic Step four: The guerrillas’ conflicting remits, or unity of opposites Step five: Armed propaganda and the combined method of struggle Two interpretations of armed struggle The issue of objective conditions of revolution How long would it take the masses to join the movement? Saving the armed movement from the unhealthy leftist tendency 23 Jazani’s ideological offensive in prison Spreading the good word Open schism in prison Where did the original members of the Jazani Group stand? The secretive delinking of armed struggle from the movement The misunderstood or conflicted theoretician 24 The Fadaʾi interface, inside, outside prison Indirect interactions between Ashraf and Jazani in 1973 On the correct method of struggle: The Fadaʾis and the Star Group Summer 1974: Armed struggle as strategy and tactic has the upper hand Reading about the correct method of struggle in People’s Combat Familiarity with and reaction to Jazani’s works outside prisons 25 Fadaʾi leadership debating correct methods of struggle A discreet Jazani special issue of People’s Combat Growing a second leg? Political activities in 1976 discussions with the Marxist Mojahedin Does Ashraf take sides in May/June 1976? 26 Bird’s-eye view of armed struggle (1971–1976) The guerrillas’ persistent presence Guerrillas highlighted: Partial transparency The news blackout and the Fadaʾis’ rising success Changing tides: Expansion, exposure, and beleaguered The Fadaʾis’ relations with Libya, Palestinian groups, and the Soviet Union The shock of state terrorism Fadaʾis under attack The Fadaʾis without Ashraf 27 Guerrillas conducting the regime’s requiem Students at home beat on the drums of war University turmoil and campus guards Policy of zero tolerance The student backlash to the Golesorkhi affair Winds of change 28 The regime’s requiem: The players abroad Iranian students abroad rallying against the regime Iranian students abroad take their cue from the guerrillas Radical methods to put the Shah’s regime on the spot 29 Prelude to the Shah’s free fall The Western press reveals secrets Disdain for torture The grand anti-Shah conspiracy A last-ditch effort against the guerrilla–CISNU coalition Beating a fatal retreat Conclusion Chronology Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFriends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel's advocates in Britain, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the history and changing fortunes of key actors within the British Zionist movement in the context of the Israeli government's contemporary efforts to repress a rising tide of solidarity with Palestinians expressed through the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Offering a nuanced and politically relevant account of pro-Israel actors' strategies, tactics, and varying levels of success in key arenas of society, it draws parallels with the similar anti-boycott campaign waged by supporters of the erstwhile apartheid regime in South Africa.By demystifying the actors involved in the Zionist movement, the book provides an anti-racist analysis of the pro-Israel lobby which robustly rebuffs anti-Semitic conspiracies. Sensitively and accessibly written, it emphasises the complicity of British actors - both those in government and in civil society. Drawing on a range of sources including interviews with leading pro-Israel activists and Palestinian rights activists, documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests and archival material, Friends of Israel is a much-needed contribution to Israel/Palestine-related scholarship and a useful resource for the Palestine solidarity movement.Trade ReviewFriends of Israel is a meticulous study of the organizations seeking to reverse widening support for the Palestinian cause in Britain. On a topic that is fraught with exaggeration, distortion, and propaganda, Aked proceeds with precision and nuance, giving us a much-needed, authoritative analysis. Grounded in anti-racism, Friends of Israel paints a complex picture of Zionism in Britain, giving readers the tools to oppose both anti-Semitism and Israeli apartheid. -- Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming! and What Is Antiracism?This book expertly maps out the key figures supporting and defending the Israeli apartheid regime in Britain whilst also illuminating how the British government remains deeply complicit in the oppression of Palestinians. It is an invaluable addition to the literature and whilst it focuses on pro-Israel actors, Aked explains that Israeli regime and supporters strategies are a direct response to over a century of Palestinian resistance. This book thus not only makes an important academic contribution but also a political one to a struggle that is ultimately for freedom and justice. -- Yara Hawari, author of The Stone HouseAt last, a thoughtful, meticulously-researched study of the well-organised disinformation campaign against Palestinian rights, BDS and for supporting Apartheid Israel in Britain. In a work comprising the multiplicity of aspects of the Israel Lobby work in the British public and political spheres, Hil Aked offers the means for deconstructing Zionist myths, innate in British discourse since the Balfour Declaration, if not before. A must for anyone interested in understanding and countering this oppressive influence. -- Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, author of An Army Like No OtherIn this compelling analysis and history of Britain's sordid relationship with Israel, we understand the individuals and organisations committed to endless occupation and violence against Palestinians, along with those courageous to imagine a humane alternative. -- Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine LaboratoryNot only the definitive study of political influence, state propaganda and lobbying by British actors on behalf of 'Brand Israel', but also a passionate defence of the universal application of anti-racist principles. Hil Aked has grasped the indivisibility of the fight against Israeli Apartheid and the fight against antisemitism. A lucid and thoroughly courageous intervention that will stand the test of time. -- Liz Fekete, Director, Institute of Race Relations, author of Europe's Fault LinesNo one who reads Hil Aked's meticulously-researched book can be left in any doubt about how Israel's friends operate to subvert British popular perceptions and the British political process in favour of Zionism. An essential and timely expose of an important and hitherto neglected subject. -- Ghada Karmi, author of ReturnThose who are supporting Palestine in Britain know too well that they are targeted by a well-oiled and ruthless campaign. This is the first book that examines closely and meticulously this campaign of suppression and silencing. Now more than ever before, it is important to learn how Israeli propaganda and pro-Israel lobbyists in Britain operate. Hil Aked's brilliant book is a must read. -- Ilan Pappe, author of Ten Myths About IsraelThis book is as urgent as it is a long-awaited critique of the Zionist movement and all those in government and civil society who support and defend Israeli apartheid, or work to dismiss and vilify solidarity with Palestinians. Hil Aked's is a brave intervention in addressing a topic considered taboo in part due to a concerted effort by pro-Israel advocates to resist, and make dangerous, critical scrutiny. This book deserves to be widely read and will be treasured by all those who support the Palestinian struggle for liberation -- Nadine El-Enany, author of (B)ordering BritainAn essential contribution to anti-imperalist movements, which details the role of top-down civic organisations in manufacturing consent for Zionism in the UK. A book for activists and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of the tactics of imperialism. A must read for those who believe that a free Palestine will be achieved through grassroots anti-racist struggle in solidarity with those fighting to end anti-semitism and all forms of racism. -- Aviah Sarah Day, co-author of Abolition RevolutionFriends of Israel is an important publication and its wealth of information a vital resource for realizing that Palestinian solidarity and resistance to settler colonialism is driving pro-Israel lobbies to increase their efforts to mask the country's apartheid policies. -- Sean Sheehan * The Prisma *Aked grounds Friends of Israel in an anti-racist analysis, which applies a holistic and transnational approach to understanding the pro-Israel movement in the UK and its efforts to counter the growing solidarity with Palestinians. Friends of Israel, through its careful analysis, is a welcome contribution to this effort and deserves to be read widely. * Washington Report on Middle East Affairs *A necessary book. It touches upon multiple dimensions of the Israel Lobby in the UK that had long needed investigation. -- Marc Martorell Junyent * Informed Comment *Brilliantly researched ... Aked's message, rightly, is that our civic society is right now our best and only channel for changing minds at the top about how Britain should tackle the Israel-Palestine question. -- Tim Llewelyn * Balfour Project *

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Book SynopsisBased on new evidence that challenges existing theories of urban inequality, Crankshaw argues that the changing pattern of earnings and occupational inequality in Johannesburg is better described by the professionalism of employment alongside high-levels of chronic unemployment. Central to this examination is that the social polarisation hypothesis, which is accepted by many, is simply wrong in the case of Johannesburg. Ultimately, Crankshaw posits that the post-Fordist, post-apartheid period is characterised by a completely new division of labour that has caused new forms of racial inequality. That racial inequality in the post-apartheid period is not the result of the persistence of apartheid-era causes, but is the result of new causes that have interacted with the historical effects of apartheid to produce new patterns of racial inequality.Trade ReviewThis detailed study of urban inequality in Johannesburg provides a rigorous examination of the links between de-industrialisation, occupational change, residential segregation and the housing market. It highlights the way in which race and the legacy of the South African apartheid state intersect with changes in the structure of the labour market over a 40 year period from 1970-2011 to change the structure of urban inequality. It is an invaluable source which links to wider international debates about urban social polarisation, professionalization and the post-Fordist city. A ‘must read’ for all students of African cities. * Emeritus Professor Chris Hamnett, King’s College London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: 1.Theories of Urban Inequality Part One: De-Industrialisation and the Labour Market 2.The Changing Occupational Structure: Social Polarisation or Professionalisation? 3.Professionalisation, Unemployment and Racial Inequality Part Two: From a Fordist to a Post-Fordist Spatial Order 4.Johannesburg’s Fordist Spatial Order 5.The Edge City of Sandton 6.From Racial Ghetto to Excluded Ghetto: Soweto, Eldorado Park and Lenasia 7.Racial Residential Desegregation in White Neighbourhoods Conclusion 8.Urban Inequality References

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Book SynopsisThe Nature of Tyranny was written and published at the dawn of the twentieth century by Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi, one of the pioneering thinkers of the Arab world. More than a century later, another Arab awakening exploded, led by a new generation of youth who chanted Al-Kawakibi's words in revolutionary cries from Aleppo, his hometown, to Cairo's Tahrir Square. Today this seminal text appears in English for the first time, with a foreword from Leon T. Goldsmith offering an overview of Al-Kawakibi's intellectual contributions. The first chapter of the text provides a definition of tyranny, presenting it as akin to a sickness or malaise that seeps into all classes of society, leaving behind decay. The following seven chapters apply this conception of tyranny to what Al-Kawakibi sees as society's crucial elements: religion, knowledge, honour, economy, ethics and progress. Having laid a theoretical framework for understanding the centrality of tyranny, its characteristics and its devastating effects, Al-Kawakibi concludes by setting forth a brief programme for remedying the 'disease' of tyranny. The final chapter outlines another book in which he had planned to elaborate upon his ideas-but, ultimately, his fate arrived too soon.Trade Review'An important work of modern Arab political thought which resonates across the more than a century since its original publication and retains the clarity of its message amid the fallout from the Arab Spring. This English translation fills a gap in a literature that remains far too Western-centric.' -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East, Rice University'Slowly but surely, the important texts of Arabic thought are being translated as critical editions. Al-Kawakibi's book stands as an exemplar of the Arab liberal canon. This volume will help to educate readers about the Arabs' 150-year struggle for responsible government.' -- John Calvert, Professor in the Department of History, Creighton University, and author of 'Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism''This translation makes a seminal historical text available to English audiences. It demonstrates that Al-Kawakibi's pioneering thought remains relevant to intellectuals and young Arab generations searching for ideological doctrines to bolster their aspirations for political and social change in the Muslim/Arab world.' -- Fruma Zachs, Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa'Al-Kawakibi's classic text has never lost its timeliness. It teems with insights into despotism's effects on wealth and economy, religion and tradition. This long-awaited translation will help a new audience recognise Al-Kawakibi as a foremost theorist from the Global South.' -- Mohammed Bamyeh, Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh, and editor of 'Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East'

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Book SynopsisHistory is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. In five wide-ranging essays, written with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century. With calm, piercing intelligence, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future.Trade ReviewStunning ... An enlightening, multifaceted and thoroughly engrossing look at what blackness means and has meant through the centuries * Irish Times *In its breadth, beauty and candour, this is a beguiling collection. And if, after reading it you leave with more questions than you started - which might be a complaint in a lesser book - then I suspect it has achieved its aim -- Kuba Shand-Baptiste * Guardian *A remarkable collection of essays on representation, race, identity and history. Edugyan must now be counted as one of the finest essayists of her generation, as well as one of the best novelists -- Matthew D'AnconaPraise for Esi Edugyan: Wondrous ... gripping ... vivid and captivating * Economist *Magnificent and strikingly visual prose * Financial Times *Exquisite * New York Magazine *Edugyan is a magical writer * Washington Post *A towering achievement . . . Edugyan is one of our sharpest and deepest writers * Entertainment Weekly *Strong, beautiful and beguiling * Observer *Poignant and political, Edugyan enjoys taking her readers where they are least expecting to go . . . shines a light on the present as well as the past. * Irish Independent *A pacey yet thoughtful exploration of freedom, and our moral compulsion to act * Spectator *A remarkable collection of essays on representation, race, identity and history. Not surprisingly, Out of the Sun is rich in stories, memory and the warmth of human experience ... gripping ... There are insights, ironies and nuances on every page: Edugyan must now be counted as one of the finest essayists of her generation, as well as one of the best novelists -- Matthew D'Ancona

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Book Synopsis'A luminous study' Luke Harding, Guardian 'Courageous and shocking' Katy Guest, Books of the Year, Independent on Sunday How did a small-minded, low-level KGB operative come to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroy years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world? Masha Gessen shows that when Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Yet within a few brief years, he had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every opposing voice was silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave. Drawing on information and sources no other writer has tapped, Masha Gessen's fearless account charts Putin's rise from the boy who had scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards. Now the 'faceless' man who manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power, has become a threat to the stability of the world, and this important book is more relevant than ever. Now with a new preface by the author. 'A clear, brave book... Gessen offers intriguing details of the scratching, biting, hair-tearing, undersized, brawling boy Putin, refusing to be bullied in the grubby back yards of Leningrad' James Meek, Observer 'Gessen's engaging prose combines a native's passion with a mordant wit and caustic understatement that are characteristically Russian' AD Miller, Daily TelegraphTrade ReviewA luminous study -- Luke Harding * Guardian *Courageous and shocking -- Katy Guest, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *Gessen fearlessly tells the story of the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin * Big Issue in the North *A clear, brave book... Gessen offers intriguing details of the scratching, biting, hair-tearing, undersized, brawling boy Putin, refusing to be bullied in the grubby back yards of Leningrad -- James Meek * Observer *Gessen's engaging prose combines a native's passion with a mordant wit and caustic understatement that are characteristically Russian -- AD Miller * Daily Telegraph *Bold, detailed, and eloquent -- David Evans, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *Gessen conveys the atmosphere - whether of the last months of the Soviet Union, the chaotic years of Yeltsin, the strange transfer of the presidency to Putin or the disappointments of his period - more accurately than any recent chronicler of the period -- Mary Dejevsky * Independent *[A] courageous, enlightening account... Despite the suppression of the media and the murder of critics and political rivals, brave voices like Gessen's, and those before [them], have helped shed some much needed light on Putin's "criminal tyranny" -- Lucy Popescu * Independent on Sunday *A rivetingly combative biography... utterly chilling * Sunday Telepgraph *A compelling and exhaustive portrait * Telegraph *Brilliant -- Edward Lucas * Daily Mail *Gessen is a talented and versatile journalist -- John Lloyd * Financial Times *Gessen has written a brave book, demolishing the numerous myths and legends that have accumulated around [their] subject -- Luke Harding * Guardian *[A] fiercely critical biography -- Anita Singh * Telegraph *An astonishingly brave and eloquent book -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *

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Book SynopsisThis book armed activists on the streets-as well as the many who have become concerned about police abuse-with a critical analysis and ultimately a redefinition of the very idea of policing. The book contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. So state sexual assault become "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "non-compliance deterrence."A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," and "Rough ride," the authors expose the way "copspeak" suppresses the true meaning and history of policing. Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help chart a future free society.Now in an expanded and updated edition, including explanations of newsmaking new terms, like "dead names", "kettling", and "qualified immunity", as well as a new foreword by leading criminal justice advocate Craig GilmoreTrade Review“Seeing through police bluewashing at every turn, Correia and Wall have put together a comprehensive, rigorous and highly useful guide to understanding ‘copspeak.’ Unpacking the structural violence and racism of the police, and their functional role in capitalism, as well as in the historical continuity of slavery, Police: A Field Guide is a resolutely practical guide to thinking of a world beyond the police. Of value to activists and theorists alike, this text is a careful analysis of core concepts in policing of use to everyone committed to ending racist state violence and the tyranny of cops everywhere.”—Nina Power, author of One-Dimensional Woman “Police: A Field Guide is a dictionary of liberation, an antidote to the ‘copspeak’ that’s everywhere, even in our own heads. By dissecting and analyzing a vocabulary of power that has become dangerously ubiquitous, this book can help us dispel and loosen its grip.”—Astra Taylor, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age “One of the angriest and saddest indictments of American policing I have ever read. The exposure of ‘copspeak’ is masterly and the analysis of the relationships between law and order, racism and capitalism, are explained with surgical precision.”—Clive Bloom, author of Riot City: Protest and Rebellion in the Capital

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Book SynopsisRoy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate, not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism, the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s, turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their criticism of the regime always remained loyal to Soviet power. The story of their lives provides a snapshot into the history of Soviet dissent, from psychiatric hospitalization to forced exile, and from KGB interrogations to collaboration with Western news correspondents. Yet their trajectory was also marred by controversy with fellow dissidents, and in the post-Soviet era active support of authoritarian rulers, including Vladimir Putin. Trade Review“Yet even when Martin gives the brothers full voice, it is to her credit that they don't always appear noble, ethical or as smart as they seem to think. Roy comes across as brave, conspiratorial, vainglorious and ethically compromised. Zhores was less political and ideological, but then again, he lived primarily abroad until his death in 2018. … For those who remember the brothers' publications from the 1970s and 1980s, Roy and Zhores Medvedev will provide much new detail and nuance. It may be tempting from afar to disparage their ‘loyal dissent’, but Barbara Martin reminds us that they carved out this position at great personal risk to their family and themselves. For those who have not followed their more recent story, however, the book will provide a sobering perspective on the value of a loyal Russian opposition.”— Ethan Pollock, Times Literary Supplement“Historian Barbara Martin has written a compelling dual biography of brothers Zhores and Roy Medvedev, who gained fame for their ‘dissident’ writings in the late Soviet period even as they advocated for the reform of socialism not its abandonment. Martin traces their respective careers, deftly summarizes their prolific writings, and shows how they navigated pressure from the state and rebutted critiques from the regime’s more radical opponents. This study is particularly valuable for its meticulous and judicious delineation of differences among Soviet era non-conformists. Martin also analyzes Roy Medvedev’s turn toward writing laudatory biographies of Nazarbaev, Lukashenko, and Putin.”— Dr. Kathleen Smith, Professor of Teaching, Georgetown University“If we want to understand today's Russia, we need to know the biographies of its people and their winding lives, which are almost unimaginable in the West. Barbara Martin presents two such keys to Putin's Russia in the form of the ‘loyal dissidents,’ the Medvedev twins, one the famous author of Let History Judge, the other a recalcitrant biologist forced into exile in Britain in 1973. One can have been persecuted, arrested, and harassed by the Soviet state himself and still conclude that Russia must be led by a ‘strong hand.’ An important book!”— Susanne Schattenberg, author of Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman (2022)“Roy and Zhores Medvedev are amongst the most fascinating and important figures in the history of Soviet dissent, but much about them has remained unknown or poorly understood until now. Barbara Martin’s account offers a meticulously researched and richly detailed history of the brothers’ parallel, but very different, lives in the Soviet Union, Western Europe, and the USA. Drawing on a huge amount of new archival and interview material, Martin traces their lives and activities across many fields, including history, science, and political activism, and through the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. The first joint biography in English, this landmark study is likely to remain the standard work for many years to come. More than just a biography, though, this new study also casts new light on the diverse practices and politics of dissidence, representing a major contribution to the new wave of scholarship on Soviet dissent.” — Polly Jones, Professor of Russian, University of OxfordTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsNote on ArchivesIntroductionChapter 1. A Youth in Stalin’s Shadow Chapter 2. A Crusade in Soviet BiologyChapter 3. Stalin Is No MoreChapter 4. Making Sense of StalinismChapter 5. Rebellious IntelligentsiaChapter 6. A Question of MadnessChapter 7. New ThreatsChapter 8. Into ExileChapter 9. Carving a “Third Way” in the Cold WarChapter 10. Solzhenitsyn: The End of a FriendshipChapter 11. Finding and Losing Political AlliesChapter 12. Under the KGB’s WatchChapter 13. Andropov’s ProtectionChapter 14. The Nuclear ThreatChapter 15. The Rise and Fall of Gorbachev’s Socialist DemocracyChapter 16. The End of the Soviet OrderChapter 17. Praising the Strong Rulers

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It was a time of house burnings, mob violence, kidnapping, mass imprisonment, torture, endless trials, summary executions and secret burials. This was Iran in the early 1980s, and everyday reality for the Baha'is, Iran's largest religious minority. Headlines across America screamed out the story, Congress passed motions, President Reagan appealed to Iran. This detailed, eye-witness account of the persecution of Iran's largest religious minority in the 1980s is the story of one woman's experiences at the hands of the Iranian Revolutionaries. Amid the escalating pogrom, Olya Roohizadegan witnessed friends, neighbours and relatives being imprisoned, tortured and executed. For months she visited the prisoners, comforted their relatives, found clothes and shelter for the homeless, and smuggled news and photographs out of Iran to the outside world. And then it was her turn. The book culminates in her dramatic escape from the hangman's rope in a hazardous overland journey to Pakistan and the West.

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Book SynopsisRonan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London's Institute for Media and Creative Industries. His research focusses on the Rohingya, genocide, hate speech, migration, and Asian politics. Ronan has been a Visiting Scholar at the International State Crime Initiative, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, and was a Queensland State Member of Parliament (2001-2009), serving on the frontbench as a Parliamentary Secretary (2006-2008) in portfolios including Justice, Main Roads and Local Government, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. He has also worked as a senior government advisor, and as an election strategist and campaign manager. Ronan was awarded the Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize 2021 by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.Trade Review25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, will the international community really allow this to happen again? With Ronan Lee's profound new offering, we can no longer claim ignorance about the horrific plight of the Rohingya people. * Lieutenant-General (ret) The Honourable Romeo Dallaire *Ronan Lee's book is one of the most important studies of the ongoing genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar to date. It seeks to understand the Rohingya situation in its proper historical context and contemporary political situation, offering a fair, reliable, insightful analysis that identifies the many factors that will keep contributing to this crisis. The biggest contribution, however, is the examination of the genocide from the perspectives of different individuals involved in the crisis, which reveals just how complicated and difficult a resolution will be. This book is highly recommended to anyone seeking to understand the crisis, and importantly, those in governments and NGOs who can adapt practice on the basis of insights a careful reading of this volume offers. * Professor Michael W. Charney, SOAS, UK *In his new book, Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide, Lee in effect predicted the current seizure of power by the military ... Lee conducted fieldwork in Myanmar and its neighbouring countries, and his book is determined to tell the stories of the Rohingya themselves. * The National *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acronyms Introduction: Bamboo, Tarpaulin and Mud Chapter 1. Rohingya Roots in Ancient Arakan Chapter 2. British Colonial Rule and Rohingya Identity Chapter 3. Citizenship Laws: Making Rohingya Stateless Chapter 4. Myanmar’s Failed Political Transition Chapter 5. Conflicting Historical Narratives Chapter 6. People Would Like to Demolish Our History Chapter 7. We are Rohingya Chapter 8. Seeking Common Ground Acknowledgements Bibliographical Survey Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels to enable popular grievances to be translated into collective opposition; how this lessened the amount of popular protest, affected the nature of such protest as did occur and entrenched the dominance of state over society.Trade ReviewReview in International Review of Social HistoryTable of ContentsContents 1. Introduction 2. Theories of State-Societal Relations 3. Soviet Collectivization 4. The Hungarian Uprising 5. Poland and Solidarity 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the third volume of Milton Shain's history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile attitudes towards Jews and irrational fantasies that accompany them in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.Trade Review“This is a very fine book. […] Written fluently with wit and wisdom throughout, Milton Shain concludes his definitive study of the complex beast that is South African antisemitism.”— Professor Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton. “A brilliant, well-written, well-documented, and often prescient study of the past as shaping our NOW.”— Professor Sander L. Gilman, author of “I know who caused COVID-19”: Xenophobia and Pandemics “Superbly researched and elegantly written, this book shines a light on the commonalities between reactionary white right-wingers and self-styled progressive leftists in their depiction, at different historical junctures, of Jews.”— Dr Michael Cardo, MP “Milton Shain is generally regarded today in South Africa and abroad as the doyen of South African Jewish history, and this for very good reason, both for the quality of his scholarship and his ability to communicate it in a lively and accessible way.”— Professor Richard Mendelsohn, Emeritus Professor of Historical Studies, University of cape Town.

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Book SynopsisHow does gendered power work? How does it circulate? How does it become embedded? And most importantly, how can we challenge it? Heather Savigny highlights five key traits of cultural sexism – violence, silencing, disciplining, meritocracy and masculinity – prevalent across the media, entertainment and cultural industries that keep sexist values firmly within popular consciousness. She traces the development of key feminist thinkers before demonstrating how the normalization of misogyny in popular media, culture, news and politics perpetuates patriarchal values within our everyday social and cultural landscape. She argues that we need to understand why #MeToo was necessary in the first place in order to bring about impactful, lasting and meaningful change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Waves to Tsunamis Repoliticizing Sexism Media Merit Silence Discipline Violence Conclusion: The Politics of Feminist Rage Appendix: Practical Steps to Overcoming Cultural Sexism

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Book SynopsisThe frequent failure of military or armed interventions to protect civilians is well known. This edited collection provides a comprehensive account of a different, effective paradigm: unarmed civilian protection (UCP). The principles and methods of UCP have been used for many decades to protect both specific, threatened individuals as well as whole communities. Featuring contributions from around the world, this book brings together a wide range of UCP practices in order to examine their underlying theory and interrelated strategies. The book provides an important illustration of the contributions UCP can make, while also discussing its limitations and failures.Trade Review“With a focus on survivors of wars, this book provides evidence that non-violent action is effective and powerful in protecting lives and human rights even in the most dangerous security situations.” Mulanda Jimmy Juma, Scuola Superiore Sant'AnnaTable of Contents1. Introduction – Ellen Furnari 2. How Does UCP Protect Without Weapons? – M. S. Wallace 3. A Typology for the Various UCP Practices – Randy Janzen 4. UCP and Conflict Transformation – Christine Schweitzer 5. The Temporal and Embodied Construction of Space and UCP – Louise Ridden 6. Unarmed Civilian Protection: Security or Humanitarian Aid? – John Reuwer 7. Relational Strategies: Contested Approaches to Relationships in UCP – Felicity Gray 8. Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP): Exploring the Challenge for Political Science – Cécile Dubernet 9. Gender and Care in Unarmed Civilian Protection – Derek Oakley 10. Unarmed Civilian Protection and Nonviolence With Attention to Sub-Saharan Africa – Moses Monday John 11. Transforming Armed Policing in the US: Contributions From Unarmed Civilian Protection Models – Eli McCarthy 12. Protecting Former Perpetrators? Expanding the Concept of UCP/A through an Exploration of Violence in the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Colombia – Beatriz Arias López, Berit Bliesemann De Guevara and Laura Jiménez Ospina 13. Unarmed Civilian Protection: Impact on Strengthening Civilian Capacities in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Jeyamurugan Vyappareddiyar 14. Conclusion – Ellen Furnari and Randy Janzen

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Book SynopsisDuring the Nazi regime in Germany, all police forces were centralised under the command of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The political police (Gestapo), the criminal police (Kripo), and the security service (SD) were all brought together under the RSHA umbrella in 1939, commanded by SS-General Reinhard Heydrich. Using RSHA in Berlin as the centre, the web of Heydrich’s control extended into every corner of Nazi-occupied Europe. British and American intelligence agencies tried to get to grips with RSHA departments at the end of the war, knowing who was who and what they did, relying on what captured RSHA personnel told them along with intercepted documentation. To provide Allied intelligence officers in the field with accurate knowledge, the Counter Intelligence War Room (CIWR) was established to provide this information and list further Gestapo, Kripo, SD, and Abwehr officials to be arrested and interrogated. The informative CIWR reports used here give a precise examination of the RSHA by department, some detailing how Nazi jealousies and rivalries were more helpful to the Allied war effort than the Nazi cause - a portrayal of how Nazi Intelligence agencies went wrong.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Ranks; List of Abbreviations; Introduction;; 1 Liquidation Reports Nos 1 and 2: Amter I and II of the RSHA; 2 Situation Report No 3—Amt III of the RSHA; 3 Situation Report No 4: Amt IV of the RSHA; 4 Organisation of the German Police (up to 1938); 5 Liquidation Report No 6: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI A; 6 Liquidation Report No 7: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI B; 7 Situation Report No 8: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI C; 8 Situation Report No 9: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI D; 9 Situation Report No 10: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI E; 10 Situation Report No 11: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI F; 11 Liquidation Report No 12: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI G; 12 RSHA Gruppe VI S; 13 Situation Report No 21: Amt VI of the RSHA—Gruppe VI Wi; (Wirtschaft); 14 RSHA VI Z; 15 Liquidation Report No 23: Amt VII of the RSHA; 16 RSHA Amt N; 17 Training Schools of the Sicherheitspolizei and the Sicherheitsdienst; 18 Liquidation Report No 26: RSHA Militarisches Amt; 19 Situation Report No 27: RSHA Mil Amt A; 20 Situation Report No 28: RSHA Mil Amt B; 21 Situation Report No 29: RSHA Mil Amt C; 22 Liquidation Report No 30: RSHA Mil Amt D; 23 Liquidation Report No 31: RSHA Mil Amt E; 24 Liquidation Report No 32: RSHA Mil Amt F; 25 Liquidation Report No 34: RSHA Mil Amt i; Suggested Reading about RSHA.

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Book SynopsisSince the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP’s temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political clashes, ascending police operations, extra-judicial executions, suppression of the media and political opposition, systematic violation of the constitution and fundamental human rights, and the one-man-rule of President Erdogan have become the identifying characteristics of Turkish politics. The failed coup attempt on 15th July 2016 further impaired the situation as the government declared emergency rule at the end of which a political regime defined as the “Presidential Government System” was established in July 2018. Turkey’s New State in the Making examines the historical specificities of the ongoing AKP-led radical state transformation in Turkey within a global, legal, financial, ideological, and coercive neoliberal context. Arguing that rather than being an exception, the new Turkish state has the potential to be a model for political transformations elsewhere, problematizing how specific policies the AKP adapted to refract social dispositions have been radically redefining the republican, democratic and secular features of the modern Turkish state.Trade Review'This is an excellent book of critical and courageous argument and examination. It is indispensable for anybody who wants to know what is going on in the Turkish Republic under the Erdogan governments. * Werner Bonefeld, The University of York *This book includes the best scholarly work currently available on the political economy of Turkey. The chapters in this volume address neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and the strengths and fragilities of the rule of the AKP in great detail, consistency, and reaching strikingly innovative and important conclusions. This work is indispensable for anyone working on contemporary Turkey. * Alfredo Saad Filho, King’s College London *Turkish political economy has a new milestone. Empirically- and theoretically-rich, this book relentlessly traverses the neoliberal and financial transformation of Turkey under the AKP, posing an uncompromising challenge to the course of Turkish democracy and development. Read it. I say again: Read it! * Thomas Marois, School of Oriental and African Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Global political context of state transformation 1. Social constitution of the AKP’s strong state through financialization: State in crisis, or crisis state? 2. Deconstitutionalization and the state crisis in Turkey: What role for the Turkish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights? 3. Turkey’s double movement: Islamists, neoliberalism, and foreign policy 4. The shift of axis or business as usual? Turkey’s S-400 procurement decision and defense industry Part II: Politics of economic management 5. Understanding the recent rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in terms of the structural contradictions of capital accumulation process 6. Turkey’s financial slide: Discipline by credit in the last decade of the AKP rule 7. AKP’s move from depoliticization to repoliticization in economic management 8. AKP’s income-differentiated housing strategies under the pressure of resistance and debt Part III: Politics of domination 9. The transformation of the state-religion relationship under the AKP: The case of the Diyanet 10. From military tutelage to nowhere: On the limitations of civil-military dualism in making sense of the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey in the 2010s 11. Courtrooms as solidarity spaces and trials as sentences: Defending your rights and asking for accountability in Turkey 12. SETA: From AKP’s organic intellectuals to AK-paratchiks Part IV: Politics of coercion 13. Domesticating politics, de-gendering women: State violence against politically active women in Turkey 14. War on drugs: A view from Turkey 15. “The law of the city?”: Social war, urban warfare, and dispossession on the margin

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Book SynopsisThis book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political refugees in Moscow. In April 1937 Neumann was arrested by the secret police, and executed by the end of the year. She herself was arrested in 1938. In Under Two Dictators Buber-Neumann describes the two years of suffering she endured in the Soviet prisons and in the huge Central-Asian concentration and slave labour camp of Karaganda; her extradition to the Gestapo in 1940 at the time of the Stalin-Hitler Friendship Pact; and her five years of suffering in the Nazi concentration and death camp for women, Ravensbrück. Her story displays extraordinary powers of observation and of memory as she describes her own fate, as well as those of hundreds of fellow prisoners. She explores the behaviour of the guards, supervisors, police and secret police and compares and contrasts Stalin and Hitler's methods of dictatorship and terror. First published in Swedish, German and English and subsequently translated and published in a further nine languages, Under Two Dictators is harrowing in its depiction of life under the rule of two of the most brutal regimes the western world has ever seen but also an inspiring story of survival, of ideology and of strength and a clarion call for the protection of democracy.Trade ReviewMargarete Buber-Neumann's memoir, Under Two Dictators, is one of the great classics of the totalitarian age, but with a unique perspective, since she suffered as a prisoner of both Stalin and then Hitler. Moving, powerful and clear-sighted, it is an unforgettable book by a very courageous woman -- Antony BeevorAn extraordinary testament. Written in crisp, clear prose, without self-pity, it makes for an electrifying read * Daily Express *A dispassionate, even-handed account of totalitarian cruelty * Evening Standard *She describes clearly the paranoia of Russia during the 1930s and the brutality of the gulags. Her narrative of the last years of second world war in the German camps is horribly moving, in particular her portrayal of the women worked or gassed to death * Financial Times *A welcome memoir that still shocks. From this epic document comes a clear picture of violent, but conflicting, prison societies * Independent *

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Book SynopsisRoy and Zhores Medvedev, two identical twins with a unique fate, not only lived through a whole century of history, from Stalin to Putin, they wrote and made history. Their research on Stalinism, the first to come out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1970s, turned them into famous dissidents overnight, but their criticism of the regime always remained loyal to Soviet power. The story of their lives provides a snapshot into the history of Soviet dissent, from psychiatric hospitalization to forced exile, and from KGB interrogations to collaboration with Western news correspondents. Yet their trajectory was also marred by controversy with fellow dissidents, and in the post-Soviet era active support of authoritarian rulers, including Vladimir Putin. Trade Review“Yet even when Martin gives the brothers full voice, it is to her credit that they don't always appear noble, ethical or as smart as they seem to think. Roy comes across as brave, conspiratorial, vainglorious and ethically compromised. Zhores was less political and ideological, but then again, he lived primarily abroad until his death in 2018. … For those who remember the brothers' publications from the 1970s and 1980s, Roy and Zhores Medvedev will provide much new detail and nuance. It may be tempting from afar to disparage their ‘loyal dissent’, but Barbara Martin reminds us that they carved out this position at great personal risk to their family and themselves. For those who have not followed their more recent story, however, the book will provide a sobering perspective on the value of a loyal Russian opposition.”— Ethan Pollock, Times Literary Supplement“Roy and Zhores Medvedev are amongst the most fascinating and important figures in the history of Soviet dissent, but much about them has remained unknown or poorly understood until now. Barbara Martin’s account offers a meticulously researched and richly detailed history of the brothers’ parallel, but very different, lives in the Soviet Union, Western Europe, and the USA. Drawing on a huge amount of new archival and interview material, Martin traces their lives and activities across many fields, including history, science, and political activism, and through the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. The first joint biography in English, this landmark study is likely to remain the standard work for many years to come. More than just a biography, though, this new study also casts new light on the diverse practices and politics of dissidence, representing a major contribution to the new wave of scholarship on Soviet dissent.” — Polly Jones, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford“If we want to understand today's Russia, we need to know the biographies of its people and their winding lives, which are almost unimaginable in the West. Barbara Martin presents two such keys to Putin's Russia in the form of the ‘loyal dissidents,’ the Medvedev twins, one the famous author of Let History Judge, the other a recalcitrant biologist forced into exile in Britain in 1973. One can have been persecuted, arrested, and harassed by the Soviet state himself and still conclude that Russia must be led by a ‘strong hand.’ An important book!”— Susanne Schattenberg, author of Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman (2022)“Historian Barbara Martin has written a compelling dual biography of brothers Zhores and Roy Medvedev, who gained fame for their ‘dissident’ writings in the late Soviet period even as they advocated for the reform of socialism not its abandonment. Martin traces their respective careers, deftly summarizes their prolific writings, and shows how they navigated pressure from the state and rebutted critiques from the regime’s more radical opponents. This study is particularly valuable for its meticulous and judicious delineation of differences among Soviet era non-conformists. Martin also analyzes Roy Medvedev’s turn toward writing laudatory biographies of Nazarbaev, Lukashenko, and Putin.”— Dr. Kathleen Smith, Professor of Teaching, Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsNote on ArchivesIntroductionChapter 1. A Youth in Stalin’s Shadow Chapter 2. A Crusade in Soviet BiologyChapter 3. Stalin Is No MoreChapter 4. Making Sense of StalinismChapter 5. Rebellious IntelligentsiaChapter 6. A Question of MadnessChapter 7. New ThreatsChapter 8. Into ExileChapter 9. Carving a “Third Way” in the Cold WarChapter 10. Solzhenitsyn: The End of a FriendshipChapter 11. Finding and Losing Political AlliesChapter 12. Under the KGB’s WatchChapter 13. Andropov’s ProtectionChapter 14. The Nuclear ThreatChapter 15. The Rise and Fall of Gorbachev’s Socialist DemocracyChapter 16. The End of the Soviet OrderChapter 17. Praising the Strong Rulers

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Book SynopsisThe Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled. The book looks at why these eight people bought into the dream, and what they did when things went bad. Under what circumstances did they bow to political pressures antithetical to the ideas they professed, and under what circumstances did they resist, even heroically? Political cowardice is a constant theme, but so is moral resistance that had no point beyond an individual’s conscience.Trade Review“If you were arrested and interrogated by the NKVD in Lubyanka, how would you act? In telling not only the WHAT but also exploring the crucial WHY, award-winning author Alice Stone Nakhimovsky brings posthumous justice and dignity to the martyrs of socialism. In eight dramatic story-biographies, she fixes on truth in the face of humanity’s most painful cruelties.”— Brian (Yossi) Horowitz, Sizeler Family Chair Professor, Tulane University“The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck provides parallel stories of eight men and women—all of them Jews—who lived and died under catastrophic historical circumstances, the 1917 revolution, World War II, the Holocaust, and several waves of Stalin’s terror, forced to make difficult moral choices. The results were out of their control.A historical study, carefully researched, this book will fascinate diverse readers who wonder how people lived and acted in ‘dark times.’ Superbly written, enhanced by the author’s gentle irony, it speaks to those who negotiate the political and cultural landscape we inhabit today.”— Irina Paperno, author of Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams“This book by Alice Nakhimovsky makes a superb new addition to the growing library of studies of Soviet Jewry, which is not surprising, considering Nakhimovsky's status as one of the founders of the field of Russian-Jewish literary studies. The stories Nakhimovsky tells—from the poet Leyb Kvitko to the writer Vasily Grossman—illuminate the hopes and tragedies of the lives of Soviet Jewish intellectuals under Stalin, enriching immensely the readers' understanding of this complex and pivotal epoch.”— Marat Grinberg, Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College “Alice Nakhimovsky's new book writes new history of Soviet Jewish culture by focusing on individuals who both created it and fell victims to Soviet policies towards it. Focusing on eight people, three men and five women, including writers Vassily Grossman and Leyb Kvitko, scientist Lina Shtern, translator Lilianna Lungina and others, the book offers insights on career trajectories, difficult choices and dilemmas of these talented individuals. By avoiding the old-fashioned lenses of suppression or totalitarian ideologies, or imposing measures of identity, the book is an excellent example of what happens to a historical writing when people are placed front and center, rather than as illustrations to broader phenomenon. Nakhimovsky’s study is deeply researched, extraordinarily insightful, and beautifully written. I cannot recommend it highly enough!”— Anna Shternshis, Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish Studies, University of TorontoTable of ContentsA Note on TranscriptionPrefaceIntroduction: The Soviet-Jewish Historical Calendar and Moral Decision-Making, 1890 to 19531. OriginsDoba-Mera Medvedeva: A Working Girl Seeks a FutureLeyb Kvitko: Shtetl, Poetry, ViolenceSolomon Lozovsky: Blacksmith, Autodidact, Orator2. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part ILeyb Kvitko: TransformationsSolomon Lozovsky: Fighter, Compromiser, Fiction WriterLina Shtern: A Career in Science and a Fateful ChoiceDoba-Mera Medvedeva: Two Borders, Poor Choices3. Communist Romance and Border Crossings, 1917 through the 1930s: Part INadezhda and Alexander Ulanovsky: Anarchism to EspionageMary Leder: Santa Monica, Birobidzhan, MoscowLilianna Lungina: A German Child, a French Child, a Soviet Adolescent4. Negotiating the Late 1930s: Terror and CareerKvitko: Prosperity and CompromiseMary Leder: Close EncountersNadezhda Ulanovskaya: Communications and Failed CommunicationsVasily Grossman: Jews vs Bolsheviks, and Jewish Bolsheviks5. War: 1941–1945Kvitko: Despair and FaithShtern: IconoclasmLeder: Evacuation and TraumaMedvedeva: Evacuation without Privilege, Grief beyond ResentmentGrossman: A Personal Quest6. Jews, Scientists, and the Trial of the Jewish Antifascist Committee, 1944–1952Kvitko: “I don’t value my life. I want to leave here with a pure heart”Lozovsky: “I can’t look Academician Shtern in the eyes”Shtern: “I always tell the truth”Grossman: Scientists and Old Bolsheviks7. Jews, Doctors, and AliensNadezhda Ulanovskaya: Foreign ConnectionsMary Leder: EndgameLilianna Lungina: Reality and RumorVasily Grossman: A Novel and a Letter8. What Happened NextBibliography

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A spectacular, definitive portrait of ordinary life within one of the world's most repressive states - North Korea. 'A most perceptive and eye-opening account of everyday life in North Korea' Jung Chang North Korea is Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four made reality: it is the only country in the world not connected to the internet; where Gone with the Wind is a dangerous, banned book; and where during political rallies, spies study your expression to check your sincerity. Nothing to Envy weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third-largest city. From extensive interviews and with tenacious investigative work, Barbara Demick has recreated the concerns, culture and lifestyles of North Korean citizens in a gripping narrative, and vividly reconstructed the inner workings of this extraordinary and secretive country. Includes an updated afterword by the author. 'Impossible to put down... Helps restore humanity to some of the world's most oppressed people' ObserverTrade ReviewA rare and valuable insight ... Nothing to Envy is a searchlight shining on a country cloaked in darkness -- Alastair Mabbott * Herald *Barbara Demick's achievement is to restore a measure of humanity to 23 million human beings. Many scholars have pored over North Korea's atrocious history, its fearful politics, abysmal economics and blood-curdling propaganda. No writer I know has done a better job of clothing these academic concerns with the rich detail of the lives of ordinary people - explaining, simply, what it feels like to be a citizen of the cruellest, most repressive and most retrograde country in the world -- Richard Lloyd Parry * The Times *A most perceptive and eye-opening account of everyday life in North Korea -- Jung ChangThis report on the lives of six of the citizens of totalitarian penal colony is unputdownable and deeply affecting, a worthy winner this week of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *Taking the cases of six individuals and their families, Demick constructs a harrowing narrative of the North's slide into famine following the death of the elder Kim in 1994 ... The Kim dynasty, whose Stalinist cruelty Demick graphically chronicles, has shown remarkable staying power -- Simon Scott Plummer * Daily Telegraph *I loved it - I couldn't pull myself away. This is the first book I've read which tells me about the inner lives of individual North Koreans and the universal cruelty of that regime. Reading this book, I've learnt something about how it feels to be North Korean - it's not unimaginable anymore, but it's even more painful than I could have predicted -- Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 NewsDemick weaves stories derived from interviews and conversations, conducted over a number of years, into a compelling narrative. Her book is a reminder that oral history is one of our greatest resources. Its use in Nothing to Envy makes for a valuable contribution to the literature on North Korea -- Charlotte Middlehurst * New Statesman *A fascinating study in the oral history of Korea in the last decade of the twentieth century ... Nothing to Envy is a fascinating work which highlights in the lives of the individuals concerned the triumph of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity -- Oliver Rafferty * Irish Times *The shroud of silence and misinformation surrounding North Korea means these stories of six lives inside the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as told to Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick by "defectors", are a revelation -- Emmanuelle Smith * Financial Times *Barbara Demick, the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has occasionally been to the north, but on visits so strictly controlled as to be worthless. Talking with émigrés and escapees now living in the south has provided the material for this terrific, often gruelling work of reportage. It gives a harrowing, surreal glimpse of what she calls "this hermit kingdom", which is so secretive and little known that it is the only country on earth not connected to the internet -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *A fair, modest and informative book about North Korea, a country little known and less understood ... most of what her informants say is repeated in indirect speech, and I found their testimonies varied and convincing ... There is much to learn form this carefully written book that draws few conclusions beyond well-grounded individual cases. Barbara Demick says that in satellite pictures of the Far East, North Korea is an "area of darkness". She makes this black hole at least medium grey -- Jonathan Mirsky * Literary Review *Beijing-based journalist Demick draws on extensive interviews with North Koreans who have defected to the South, revealing the truth of ordinary life within Kim Jong-Il's bizarre and repressive Stalinist state * New Humanist *A lovely work of narrative non-fiction ... that offers extensive evidence of the author's deep knowledge of this country while keeping its sights firmly on individual stories and human details -- Dwight Garner * Scotland on Sunday *Eye-opening portrait of the downtrodden and monochrome lives of six ordinary citizens of North Korea ... Granta's comparisons with Stasiland are apt and you keep having to remind yourself this isn't fiction -- Caroline Sanderson * Bookseller *Nothing To Envy is based on her in-depth interviews with defectors - and their accounts are as harrowing as you would expect -- Siobhan Murphy * Metro *Writing a properly researched book on North Korea seems next to impossible. But in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick has done it ... Demick is thorough and fair on the troubled history of Korea -- Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman *In a detailed account of North Korea, Demick looks beyond the country's politics to engage with the human experience and suffering of its residents * Sunday Times *This remarkable book confirms our fears but does much more and is the deserving winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize ... Barbara Demick is a reporter of impressive tenacity and thoroughness ... Many of those who defected have found their freedom hard to handle. Theirs have been lives twice blighted. But Demick does them proud -- Joan Bakewell * The Times *Barbara Demick, who has an easy winning style, introduces us to a county of suppressed impulses and state propaganda ... This compelling book, a worthy winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson prize, details the experiences of six North Koreans who defected to China or South Korea -- Ian Pindar * Guardian *I've never read anything quite like it ... Demick has unearthed some heartbreaking human stories -- William Leith * Evening Standard *Awarded this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, this book by the former Korea correspondent of the Los Angeles Times uses the accounts of six defectors to reconstruct everyday life under the secretive communist regime * New Statesman *A fascinating portrait of a population bred from birth to be state automatons ... Alongside the daring prison breaks and midnight escapes through icy rivers to reach China, the tales of everyday love and loss make Nothing to Envy impossible to put down ... Demick's important book, by illuminating previously hidden aspects of North Korean life, helps restore humanity to some of the world's most oppressed people -- Imogen Carter * Observer *This is an extreme book ... I've never read anything like it ... Demick has unearthed some heartbreaking human stories * Scotsman *This compelling account of life and death in Korea is eye-opening and often heart-rending. Demick's perceptiveness in describing the inner life of individual North Koreans both enthrals and horrifies. One of the most fascinating books of the year * Independent on Sunday *An elegant, honourable and meticulously referenced account of a country the author calls "grimly dysfunctional". It is an inspiring read. -- Celia Brayfield * The Times *Thoroughly deserving winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize. * Independent on Sunday *Much-praised 2010 winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, this is a painstakingly researched and gruelling account of the hardships and cruelties of life in the world's most isolated, eccentric and oppressive state -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times *A story of epic stoicism and suffering and illuminated by such jaw-dropping details as the doctors who have to donate their own skin to conduct operations -- Brian Schofield * Sunday Times *A brilliant, timely work of very modern history and a deserving winner of the 2010 BBC Samuel Johnson prize -- Rob Attar * BBC History Magazine *Amy Bloom turned her unflinching gaze on the map of the human heart, finding solace in our ability to love no matter what -- Claire Allfree * Metro *gripping, revealing, enraging and unexpectedly inspiring -- Ursula Doyle, editorial director of Virago as the 2010 book she wished she had published * Guardian *A vivid picture of life in the Hermit Kingdom. It deserved the awards it has been winning * The Times *Redolent and disturbing, an account of real lives drawn from interviews with defectors from the shadowy (actually dark) and sinister world of North Korea -- Pete Irvine * Scotland on Sunday *A rare light on so hidden a country, and all the more remarkable for its unfailingly engaging humanity * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThe top-secret archives of the apartheid government are slowly becoming public, including information aboutPrisoner 913: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. In this book, the authors draw on a secret apartheid-era archive to reconstruct the history we thought we knew. The archive reveals the truth of the months that lead to Nelson Mandela's release.

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Book SynopsisThe bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters -- a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator -- whose lives intersected in the midst of unspeakable terror. Colombia''s drug-fueled cycle of terror, corruption, and tragedy did not end with Pablo Escobar''s death in 1993. Just when Colombians were ready to move past the murderous legacy of the country''s cartels, a new, bloody chapter unfolded. In the late 1990s, right-wing paramilitary groups with close ties to the cocaine business carried out a violent expansion campaign, massacring, raping, and torturing thousands.There Are No Dead Here is the harrowing story of three ordinary Colombians who risked everything to reveal the collusion between the new mafia and much of the country''s military and political establishment: JesÃrÃValle, a human rights activist who was murdered for exposing a dark secret; IvÃVelÃuez, a quiet prosecutor who took up Valle''s cause and became an unlikely hero; and Ricardo CalderÃa dogged journalist who is still being targeted for his revelations. Their groundbreaking investigations landed a third of the country''s Congress in prison and fed new demands for justice and peace that Colombia''s leaders could not ignore. Taking readers from the sweltering MedellÃstreets where criminal investigators were hunted by assassins, through the countryside where paramilitaries wiped out entire towns, and into the corridors of the presidential palace in BogotÃThere Are No Dead Here is an unforgettable portrait of the valiant men and women who dared to stand up to the tide of greed, rage, and bloodlust that threatened to engulf their country.

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Book SynopsisA deeply moving testimony to resistance, this unique collection is the first to showcase art and writing from the womenâs protests in Iran.Trade ReviewThe expressions of dissent and art from the women’s protests in Iran – in pictures Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police on 16 September 2022, sparking protests across the country, and an eruption in creative resistance followed. Woman, Life, Freedom, a book edited by Malu Halasa, documents the people and art of the struggle and is published by Saqi Books -- Sarah Gilbert * The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThis is an in-depth study of the ethnic German minority in the Serbian Banat (Southeast Europe) and its experiences under German occupation in World War II. Mirna ZakiÄ argues that the Banat Germans exercised great agency within the constraints imposed on them by Nazi ideology, with its expectations that ethnic Germans would collaborate with the invading Nazis. The book examines the incentives that the Nazis offered to collaboration and social dynamics within the Banat German community - between their Nazified leadership and the rank and file - as well as the various and ever-more damning forms collaboration took. The Banat Germans provided administrative and economic aid to the Nazi war effort, and took part in Nazi military operations in Yugoslav lands, the Holocaust and Aryanization. They ruled the Banat on the Nazis' behalf between 1941 and 1944, yet their wartime choices led ultimately to their disenfranchisement and persecution following the Nazis' defeat.Trade Review'Zakić's well-argued microhistory shows how Banat Germans used Nazism for local purposes, even as it implicated them in Nazi atrocities. It lays bare how Nazi ideology bent to wartime practicalities in this politically-charged region of Europe.' John Eicher, German Historical Institute, Washington DC'Mirna Zakić's compelling and often surprising account of the ethnic Germans of Yugoslavia proves how much there still is to learn about World War II. Energetically researched and written with verve, this remarkable book reveals the cynical pragmatism and contagious brutality at the heart of Nazi population policies.' Doris L. Bergen, University of Toronto and author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust'By reframing the place of Volksdeutsche in the complex Nazi paradigm of Europe and teasing out how collaborative arrangements evolved over time, Zakić's study successfully counters the antiquated German diasporic narrative that sought to vindicate ethnic Germans … an admirable case study, beautifully researched and filled with rich detail.' Emily Greble, Slavic Review'… Zakić has written a fascinating book … broadens our perspective and makes for illuminating reading, not just for specialists of Southeast Europe but for everybody interested in the many faces of German occupation policies.' Gerhard Wolf, The American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. The Banat Germans from settlement to partial Nazification, 1699–1941; 2. Ethnic Germans and the invasion of Yugoslavia, 1941; 3. Ethnic German administration (1941) and community dynamics; 4. Privileges, economy, and relations with other groups; 5. Police and anti-partisan activity; 6. The Holocaust (1941–2) and Aryanization; 7. Ideology and propaganda; 8. The Waffen-SS division 'Prinz Eugen' and anti-partisan warfare in Yugoslavia, 1942–4.

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Book SynopsisWhen and how might the term genocide appropriately be ascribed to the experience of North American Indigenous nations under settler colonialism? Laurelyn Whitt and Alan W. Clarke contend that, if certain events which occurred during the colonization of North America were to take place today, they could be prosecuted as genocide. The legal methodology that the authors develop to establish this draws upon the definition of genocide as presented in the United Nations Genocide Convention and enhanced by subsequent decisions in international legal fora. Focusing on early British colonization, the authors apply this methodology to two historical cases: that of the Beothuk Nation from 15001830, and of the Powhatan Tsenacommacah from 160777. North American Genocides concludes with a critique of the Conventional account of genocide, suggesting how it might evolve beyond its limitations to embrace the role of cultural destruction in undermining the viability of human groups.Trade Review'For too long, the historical experience and lasting impact of settler colonialism on the indigenous peoples of the Americas has been neglected in international law scholarship. This thoughtful and provocative work helps bring this reality to the surface, particularly in respect of the controversial use of the term 'genocide' to describe colonial policies of physical and cultural destruction.' Payam Akhavan, McGill University, Montreal and former UN prosecutor'This indispensable, remarkable and necessary book will change the way one comprehends the meaning of the crime of genocide in United Nations law. It is a brilliant and groundbreaking exposition that illuminates the predicament of the contested understanding of the crime of genocide and challenges the refusal to apply it to the destruction of North American Indigenous nations.' Sakej Henderson, Native Law Centre of Canada'In 1946, two years before the UN Genocide Convention was adopted, the General Assembly recognized that 'many instances' of the crime of genocide had already taken place. This thoughtful and compelling account makes the case for one of them, the intentional destruction of indigenous peoples in North America.' William A. Schabas, Middlesex UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. North American genocide denial; 2. The legal case for historical genocides: a retrospective methodology; 3. Settler colonialism and Indigenous nations; 4. A legal primer for settler colonial genocides; 5. The Beothuk (1500–1830); 6. The Powhatan Tsenacommacah (1607–1677); 7. The conventional account of genocide: from a restrictive to an expansive interpretation; 8. Toward an account of systemic genocide; Appendix A. Secretariat's draft convention; Appendix B. Ad hoc Committee Draft Convention; Appendix C. United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide; Index.

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Book SynopsisProtectors of Pluralismargues that local religious minorities are more likely to save persecuted groups from purification campaigns. Robert Braun utilizes a geo-referenced dataset of Jewish evasion in the Netherlands and Belgium during the Holocaust to assess the minority hypothesis. Spatial statistics and archival work reveal that Protestants were more likely to rescue Jews in Catholic regions of the Low Countries, while Catholics facilitated evasion in Protestant areas. Post-war testimonies and secondary literature demonstrate the importance of minority groups for rescue in other countries during the Holocaust as well as other episodes of mass violence, underlining how the local position of church communities produces networks of assistance, rather than something inherent to any religion itself. This book makes an important contribution to the literature on political violence, social movements, altruism and religion, applying a range of social science methodologies and theories that Trade Review'Braun's book should be of considerable interest to organizational scholars, who have increasingly come to situate the selection of organizational activities within a spatial and historical context.' Martin Ruef, Social ForcesTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Theory and Context: 2. Theory; 3. Religious minorities in the Low Countries: from the Reformation: to the Holocaust; Part II. Religious Minorities in the Netherlands: 4. Minority empathy 1900–1942; 5. Religious minorities and evasion in the Netherlands; 6. Religious minorities and clandestine collective action in Twente; 7. Religious minorities and rescue beyond Twente; Part III. Exceptions and Scope Conditions: 8. Off-the-line cases; 9. Christian rescue in Belgium; 10. Conclusion: minority protection across time and space; Bibliography; Index.

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Book Synopsis'I thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' - Sathnam SangheraAn eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support the status of those in power at the destructive expense of those without it. Read it and take responsibility.ECOLOGICAL OPPRESSIONIn 1958, China declared war on sparrows, destroying its own crops and contributing to the deaths of more than 10 million people.ECONOMIC OPPRESSIONIn the nineteenth century, the Shuar people of Ecuador were driven by economic necessity to procure shrunken heads for the Western curio market. The bloody wars that ensued nearly destroyed their society.EDUCATIONAL OPPRESSIONThere have been fifty-five prime ministers of Great Britain, of whom forty-eight have been privately educated, creating a society built by and for the privileged.These are just some of the stories in this remarkable book that illustrate the key factors that allow societies to create and sustain oppressive systems. Some are historical. Others have played out right before our eyes over the last decade. All are rooted in the systems in which we all participate.Together they represent the layers of systematic, often insidious oppression that make up the world today.Trade ReviewI thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential. * Sathnam Sanghera *Sharp and insightful. Jack Davy makes complex ideas accessible in this powerful book about the roots of inequality * Caroline Dodds Pennock, author of On Savage Shores *

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Book Synopsis'You could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' Sathnam SangheraAn eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support those in power, at the expense of those without it. COLONIAL POWERIn the 1950s, over 10,000 Kenyans were killed by the British during the Mau Mau uprising against a government determined to install a sympathetic post-independence regime and continue to exploit the resources of its former colonies. PATRIARCHAL POWERAfter the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic systematically removed freedoms from women, relegating them to second-class citizens in the name of religious teachings. EDUCATIONAL POWER There have been fifty-seven prime ministers of the United Kingdom, of whom forty-three have been privately educated, creating a society built by and for the privileged. These are just some of the stories through which Dr Jack Davy illustrates the key factors that allow societies to create and sustain oppressive systems. Some are historical. Others have played out right before our eyes over the last decade. All are rooted in the systems in which we all participate. Read this book, and take action.'Sharp and insightful. Jack Davy makes complex ideas accessible in this powerful book about the roots of inequality' Caroline Dodds Pennock, author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe'A deeply humane book with true hope in its message' Ray Mattinson, BlackwellsTrade ReviewI thought I had a pretty good sense of how colonialism shapes modern society, but Dr Davy has shown me that understanding these things is a lifetime's work. In the absence of time to read everything, you could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential. * Sathnam Sanghera *Sharp and insightful. Jack Davy makes complex ideas accessible in this powerful book about the roots of inequality * Caroline Dodds Pennock, author of On Savage Shores *

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Book Synopsis'A remarkable set of essays unlike anything else' - Kadish Morris, Guardian As in her fiction, the essays in Out of the Sun demonstrate Esi Edugyan's commitment to seeking out the stories of Black lives that history has failed to record. Written with the death of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in the background, in five wide-ranging essays Edugyan reflects on her own identity and experiences as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. She delves into the history of Western Art and the truths about Black lives that it fails to reveal, and the ways contemporary Black artists are reclaiming and reimagining those lives. She explores and celebrates the legacy of Afrofuturism, the complex and problematic practice of racial passing, the place of ghosts and haunting in the imagination, and the fascinating relationship between Africa and Asia dating back to the 6th Century. With calm, piercing intelligence, and a refusal to think on anyone's terms but her own, Edugyan asks difficult questions about how we reckon with the past and imagine the future, and invites the reader to think alongside her in working out what the answers to these may be.Trade ReviewStunning ... Out of the Sun provides an enlightening, multifaceted and thoroughly engrossing look at what blackness means and has meant through the centuries. * Irish Times *A remarkable collection of essays on representation, race, identity and history. Not surprisingly, Out of the Sun is rich in stories, memory and the warmth of human experience ... gripping ... There are insights, ironies and nuances on every page: Edugyan must now be counted as one of the finest essayists of her generation, as well as one of the best novelists -- Matthew D'AnconaIn its breadth, beauty and candour, this is a beguiling collection. And if, after reading it you leave with more questions than you started - which might be a complaint in a lesser book - then I suspect it has achieved its aim -- Kuba Shand-Baptiste * Guardian *Praise for Esi Edugyan: Wondrous ... gripping ... vivid and captivating * Economist *Magnificent and strikingly visual prose * Financial Times *Exquisite * New York Magazine *Edugyan is a magical writer * Washington Post *A towering achievement . . . Edugyan is one of our sharpest and deepest writers * Entertainment Weekly *Strong, beautiful and beguiling * Observer *Poignant and political, Edugyan enjoys taking her readers where they are least expecting to go . . . shines a light on the present as well as the past. * Irish Independent *A pacey yet thoughtful exploration of freedom, and our moral compulsion to act * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisEthnic categorization, territorial planning and "environmental protection measures" under the apartheid regime in South Africa

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Book SynopsisThis special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, in this space. Simultaneously the special issue aspires to situate these discourses and practices in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic and separatist conflict, and to examine these from political, legal, and security studies perspectives. The issue approaches the problem of violence in the post-Soviet space from three perspectives: The international-structural, inter-state, and domestic-political. The contributors focus on structural sources of violence: The relevance of the self-determination principle, the role of democratisation, and the relationship between violent behaviour inside and outside the state. They also analyse the role of the Russian Federation in generating, perpetuating, and mitigating political violence. Finally, they adopt a bottom-up approach, exploring how non-state actors contribute to political violence.

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