Political science and theory Books
Bristol University Press Facts Values and the Policy World
Book SynopsisThis book tackles the prevailing contradiction within policy analysis, that rigorous thought should be uncontaminated by values, despite policy analysis being inherently values based. In resolving the issue, this book provides a new, solid foundation for policy analysis.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I The binary view: effects and durability 1. Some effects of the binary view 2. The quest for exogenous values 3. The durable fl otsam of the binary view 4. Convenient belief PART II Non- binary analysis 5. Forms of care 6. Networks of belief 7. Networks of beliefs and practices 8. Decision contexts 9. The analyst in context PART III Caveats 10. Experts and expertise 11. The limits of dialogue Conclusion
£76.50
Bristol University Press Facts Values and the Policy World
Book SynopsisThis book tackles the prevailing contradiction within policy analysis, that rigorous thought should be uncontaminated by values, despite policy analysis being inherently values based. In resolving the issue, this book provides a new, solid foundation for policy analysis.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I The binary view: effects and durability 1. Some effects of the binary view 2. The quest for exogenous values 3. The durable fl otsam of the binary view 4. Convenient belief PART II Non- binary analysis 5. Forms of care 6. Networks of belief 7. Networks of beliefs and practices 8. Decision contexts 9. The analyst in context PART III Caveats 10. Experts and expertise 11. The limits of dialogue Conclusion
£26.59
Bristol University Press Beyond Nudge
Book SynopsisFirst published as a special issue of Policy & Politics journal, this book situates reforms known as 'nudges' or 'behavioural interventions' which have emerged in public policy and administration within a broader tradition of methodological individualism.Table of Contents1. Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of Behavioural Public Policy and Administration - Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer and Eva Thomann 2. Advancing behavioural public policies: in pursuit of a more comprehensive concept - Benjamin Ewert and Kathrin Loer 3. A behavioural model of heuristics and biases in frontline policy implementation - Alice Moseley and Eva Thomann 4. Who are behavioural public policy experts and how are they organised globally? - Holger Straßheim 5. Why nudge sometimes fails: fatalism and the problem of behaviour change - Tom Entwistle 6. Behavioural insights teams in practice: nudge missions and methods on trial - Sarah Ball and Brian W. Head 7. Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy? - Emilio Paolo Visintin, Jean-Michel Bonvin, Frédéric Varone, Fabrizio Butera, Max Lovey and Emilie Rosenstein 8. What motivates street-level bureaucrats to implement the reforms of elected politicians? - Don S. Lee and Soonae Park 9. How can better monitoring, reporting and evaluation standards advance behavioural public policy? - Sarah Cotterill, Peter John and Marie Johnston Conclusion - Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer and Eva Thomann
£72.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Race Over Party Black Politics and Partisanship
Book SynopsisIn late-nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post-Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Showbiz Politics Hollywood in American Political Life
Book SynopsisTakes readers behind the camera to explore the negotiations and relationships that developed between key Hollywood insiders and presidential candidates from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, analysing how entertainment replaced party spectacle as a strategy to raise money, win votes, and secure success for all those involved.Trade ReviewBrownell has authored a well-written and well-researched book that will command the attention of historians interested in how politics work in modern America. The evidence and materials she has brought together will provide historians with a new way to explore what has been lacking in the study of the United States: how art intersects with political power"". - Lary May, in the Canadian Journal of History""A valuable addition to the academic literature on the history of political advertising, the use of media in the political field and celebrity activism"". - Cercles""Brownell writes clearly, concisely, and incisively"". - Choice""This book makes clear that Hollywood entertainers, moguls ,and marketers became hugely powerful within our political culture—particularly related to the presidency—way before Reagan"". - Journal of American History ""Brownell's intriguing study challenges readers to consider an important transformation in modern American political life. She reveals that 'showbiz politics' were not just an amusing sideshow; instead, they became an integral part of opinion-shaping and governance"". - American Historical Review
£30.00
The University of North Carolina Press The Colored Conventions Movement Black
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. These essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of early organisers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism.
£25.46
The University of North Carolina Press Latin America and the Global Cold War
Book SynopsisAnalyses more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.Trade ReviewAttempting to correct historical omissions that either neglect Latin America's role in the Third World or discuss only how US foreign policy impacted the region, this volume acknowledges how Latin America's engagement in global affairs fostered and contributed to conversations that challenged US imperialism and pushed for a multilateral approach to development that treated all states equally.--CHOICE
£34.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Early American Rebels Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina 16401700
Book SynopsisCrosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organised by one connected group of people.
£23.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Winter in America A Cultural History of Neoliberalism from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution
Book SynopsisExplores the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the triumph of neoliberalism in the 1980s. Daniel Robert McClure tracks the perception that a great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of the 1960s.
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Investigative Brigade
Book SynopsisDuring the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared. In 1991, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Pascale Bonnefoy tells the story of the detectives who hunted down and attempted to bring human rights violators to account.
£25.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Democratic Collapse How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 18561861
Book SynopsisA fresh examination of antebellum politics that comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Contest of Civilizations Exposing the Crisis
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping history of political ideas, Andrew Lang reappraises the Civil War era as a crisis of American exceptionalism. Through this lens, Lang shows how the intellectual, political, and social ramifications of the war and its meaning rippled through the decades that followed.
£23.96
The University of North Carolina Press Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America
Book SynopsisOver the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive transformations. Political scientist Pascal Lupien reveals how Indigenous political activists responded to these changes as part of their long, ongoing struggles for equal citizenship rights and economic and political power.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Indigenous Civil Society in Latin America
Book SynopsisOver the past decade, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile have been buffeted by intensive transformations. Political scientist Pascal Lupien reveals how Indigenous political activists responded to these changes as part of their long, ongoing struggles for equal citizenship rights and economic and political power.
£23.70
The University of North Carolina Press Higher Education for All
Book SynopsisThrough archival work and attention to a fascinating cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins excavates the forgotten history of the 1960 California Master Plan, from its origins in the Sputnik Crisis, to Ronald Reagan's financial starvation, and to the student struggle to institute affirmative action in university admissions.
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press Higher Education for All
Book SynopsisThrough archival work and attention to a fascinating cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins excavates the forgotten history of the 1960 California Master Plan, from its origins in the Sputnik Crisis, to Ronald Reagan's financial starvation, and to the student struggle to institute affirmative action in university admissions.
£25.16
The University of North Carolina Press Brutal Campaign
Book SynopsisPresents a narrative history of the 1988 US election that draws from untapped archival sources and revealing oral history interviews to uncover just how consequential this moment was for American politics. Robert Fleegler delivers an engaging review of an election that set a template for the political dynamics that define our lives to this day.Trade ReviewAcademics . . . have largely ignored the [1988 election], focusing instead on the more significant and realigning elections of 1980 and 1992. . . . Fleegler sets out to change that view, and in doing so offers an essential reassessment of the neglected contest."—Jacobin
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Mans Work Race and MiddleClass Mobility
Book SynopsisChronicles the evolving narratives that linked whiteness with middle-class mobility and middle-class manhood. In doing so, Joseph Jewell addresses a key issue in the historical sociology of race: how racialized groups demarcate, defend, and alter social positions in overlapping hierarchies of race, class, and gender.Trade ReviewJewell's concise and accessible prose style achieves a rare feat – makingpotentially complex themes comprehensible without sacrificing any academic rigour . . . . A cautionary study on the way in which dominant cultures posses the power of narrative-creation in ways that can exclude minority groups from social and economic mobility. Jewell's book also vividly demonstrates how such attitudes and approaches end up creating boundaries that restrict social change, and reinforce the dominance of one group at the expense of others – a pattern that can have consequences generations into the future."—Ethnic & Racial Studies
£73.50
The University of North Carolina Press White Gloves Black Nation
Book SynopsisTracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Gloves Black Nation Women Citizenship and
Book SynopsisTracing elite and middle-class women's activism and intellectual practice from the countryside of Kenscoff, Haiti, to Philadelphia, the Belgian Congo, and back to Port-au-Prince, this book tells the story of Haitian women's essential role as co-curators of modern Haitian citizenship.
£25.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Multiracial Promise Harold Washingtons
Book SynopsisIn April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago. Drawing on a rich array of archives and oral history interviews, Gordon Mantler offers a bold reexamination of the Harold Washington movement and moment.
£69.70
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Race for America Black Internationalism in
Book SynopsisOffers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Race for America Black Internationalism in
Book SynopsisOffers a searing history of how internalized fantasies of American exceptionalism burdened the Black geopolitical imagination that encouraged settler-colonial and imperialist projects in the Americas and West Africa.
£999.99
The University of North Carolina Press Arguing until Doomsday
Book SynopsisWeaving together biography and political history, Michael Woods restores Jefferson Davis and Stephen Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the centre of the Civil War era.Trade ReviewSpeaks to the internal tensions within party organizations, the blinding force of ambition, and the ways distrust of democratic processes and institutions can destroy democracy itself. In that, it is a book for our time." - Library Journal"Even readers who find the Civil War or politics boring could find this well-written narrative gripping. It helps especially now for readers needing to escape the present. All this solid but entertaining history really lacks for is background music." -New York Journal of Books"Woods has written one of the most engaging and accessible histories of the pre-Civil War Democratic Party to date. . . . [Arguing Until Doomsday] advances the field of American political history and affords nuance to a period that is always in danger of becoming oversimplified." - The Civil War Monitor"This impressive new book . . . deftly recovers the dynamism and disagreements that animated, and ultimately destroyed, the Democratic Party on the eve of the Civil War. . . . Diligently researched, closely argued, and clearly written, Arguing Until Doomsday is an essential book for students of antebellum politics and the road to Civil War." - Civil War News"Woods is to be congratulated for a study that is grounded in extensive research, both in primary sources and in the enormous secondary literature. . . . A very readable, informative, and judicious account." - Journal of the Civil War Era"Woods's dual biography is elegantly written, clearly and persuasively argued, and filled with fresh and astute interpretations that restore the antebellum Democracy's much-neglected complexity and internal diversity." - Journal of Southern History …a thoughtful and original account of how the Democratic Party and, more broadly, the nation were not big enough for the outsized figures of Douglas and Davis…this dual biography packs a historiographical punch." – American Nineteenth-Century History"Woods' engrossing book provides a needed reexamination of the demise of the antebellum Democratic Party through the lives of two men who hastened its dissolution. . . . Thoroughly satisfying."—Louisiana History
£22.46
The University of North Carolina Press The Punitive Turn in American Life
Book SynopsisOffers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the centre of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies.Trade ReviewSherry's new book, The Punitive Turn in American Life, perhaps represents the culmination of his life's work. . . . While scholars will continue to debate whether the United States has taken a 'punitive turn' over the past seven decades or so, the interlocking ills of forever war, mass incarceration, and policing cannot be denied. Alongside the work of many others, Sherry's book will help disentangle these threads — and perhaps unmake the punitive society they have formed." - Los Angeles Review of Books"An important education on the dangers and cultural powers our executives wield with their metaphors. Sherry's book adds to the body of work that shows American life shifting towards a culture of punishment from the 1960s and 1970s on…bringing insights from his past books on American militarism to the subject of American domestic punishment. The combination is a rich one." – Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
£22.46
Duke University Press Can Politics Be Thought
Book SynopsisIn Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.
£67.15
Duke University Press Can Politics Be Thought
Book SynopsisIn Can Politics Be Thought?—published in French in 1985 and appearing here in English for the first time—Alain Badiou offers his most forceful and systematic analysis of the crisis of Marxism in which he argues for the continuation of Marxist politics.
£17.99
Duke University Press The Politics of Operations
Book SynopsisSandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life.Trade Review"The Politics of Operations is a challenging, highly ambitious work. . . . Ultimately, the reorientation that Mezzadra and Neilson are proposing is a subtle one, indebted to a rich archive of political ideas. But they rework and recombine those ideas into a book that is shrewdly reasoned, superbly written, and thick with insight into the contemporary moment." -- Martin Danyluk * Society and Space *"Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson outline a novel perspective on the startling disjunctive synthesis of homogenization and heterogenization processes that characterize the global expansion of capitalist economy. Their second collaborative, book-length study offers a compelling account of the economic, political, and social relations to which these movements respond." -- Nicolas Schneider * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. The Space and Time of Capitalist Crisis and Transition 17 2. Operations of Capital 55 3. Capital, State, Empire 94 4. Extraction, Logistics, Finance 133 5. Vistas of Struggle 168 6. The State of Capitalist Globalization 209 References 253 Index 287
£75.65
Duke University Press Feeling Like a State
Book SynopsisDavina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawalas exemplified by some conservative Christians who deny people inclusion, goods, and services to LGBTQ individualsmight make to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state.Trade Review“This is a dream of a book. Feeling Like a State explores a daring possibility: Might legal dramas over Christian refusals (to bake cakes, provide contraception coverage with health care, issue marriage licenses, allow for gay Scout leaders, subscribe to secularist tolerance demands, and so on) offer progressives instructive lessons about withdrawal, attachment, desire, membership, commoning, care, and play? Drawing on law, sociology, and philosophy as well as political, feminist, affect, and queer theory, Davina Cooper's work is broad, brilliant, audacious, careful, and, importantly, prefigurative, marking the ways in which we already ‘inhabit, repurpose, resist the still and mobile parts of institutional life.’” -- Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University“With its checkered history of unmatched power, the state has been both a vehicle of oppression as well as justice. Feeling Like A State imagines transformative progressive ways the state can be, inspiring movement toward a more responsible, ecologically collaborative world. A beautifully written, brilliant contribution beyond utopian fictions that explores practical real-life experiments in governing as a way of rethinking government and states. This book must be read if we are to move past the current crises in any durable and just manner.” -- Susan S. Silbey, coauthor of * The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life *“Feeling Like a State makes a strong argument for why states don’t function the way that we imagine them to.... [It is] rich in details, not just about what is wrong with the world but also about what can be done." -- James Martel * Political Theory *“At a time when neoliberal states are relocating governmental responsibilities onto individuals or to their chums in private companies to make profits, [Feeling Like a State] asks us to look forwards, to a concept of the state, even if provisional, which is relational, caring, and feeling and has social justice at its heart.” -- Morag McDermont * Review of Politics *“In Feeling Like a State, Cooper forges a strong case for the continuing conceptual (and even material) value of the state.... Although Cooper stops short of offering an alternative vision of public governance, her optimistic account of state potentiality for a progressive politics is one of the most cogent of those available.” -- Rebecca Peach * Representation *“Feeling Like a State asks us to exercise our own capacity for imagination, challenging us to envision a state that not only acts but is otherwise.” -- Méadhbh McIvor * Journal of Contemporary Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reimagining the State 1 1. Legal Dramas of Refusal 28 2. Retrieving Dissident State Parts 52 3. Pluralizing a Concept 75 4. State Play and Possessive Beliefs 105 5. The Erotic Life of States 130 6. Feeling Like a Different Kind of State 153 Notes 177 References 225 Index 253
£98.60
Duke University Press Savage Ecology
Book SynopsisJairus Victor Grove offers an ecological theorization of geopolitics in which he contends that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of geopolitical practice, showing how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes.Trade Review“In Savage Ecology Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet,’ he writes, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture, algorithmic warfare, drone strikes, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint,’ he says, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately, Grove says, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” -- Bonnie Honig, author of * Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair *“What Beck did for risk society, Hardt and Negri for empire, and Barad for technoscience, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics, biopolitics, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer, writer with a stiletto, and artist with a spray can.” -- James Der Derian, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies, the University of Sydney“Savage Ecology is an extraordinarily rich text. . . . Wading through Savage Ecology uncovers a wondrous diversity of thought.” -- Chase Hobbs-Morgan * Theory & Event *"Grove offers one of the most robust and erudite examples of a critical ethos of pessimism I have read to date. . . . Rather than distancing total destruction from our current moment in order to propose a redemptive, critical utopia, Grove is immersed in catastrophe as an immanent condition of critique." -- Davide Panagia * Public Books *“In an oddly provocative manner Jairus Victor Grove has provided an eloquent and impassioned tribute to war and its savage ecology. This book is a twofer, a thoughtful intervention in current policy debate and a scorching critique of mainstream IR theory, with its arrogant pretensions and its plenitude of crucial failures and catastrophic consequences. It will be tragic if activists and the discipline’s leading practitioners fail to read it.” -- John Buell * Informed Consent *“Grove takes a postmodern approach to the study of ecology in global politics, penning an engrossing if brooding and pessimistic book that is itself a unique expression of this theoretical tradition in IR theory.... [H]e offers an honest realism, one could say, whose rendering is brutal only because the current predicament facing us bears the brutality of the martial logic that brought us here in the first place. -- Shannon Brincat * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Aphorisms for a New Realism 29 Part I. The Great Homogenization 1. The Anthropocene as a Geopolitical Fact 35 2. War as a Form of Life 59 3. From Exhaustion to Annihilation: A Martial Ecology of the Eurocene 79 Part II. Operational Spaces 4. Bombs: An Insurgency of Things 113 5. Blood: Vital Logistics 139 6. Brains: We Are Not Who We Are 159 7. Three Images of Transformation as Homogenization 191 Part III. Must We Persist to Continue? 8. Apocalypse as a Theory of Change 229 9. Freaks or the Incipience of Other Forms of Life 249 Conclusion. Ratio feritas: From Critical Responsiveness to Making New Forms of Life 273 The End: Visions of Los Angeles, California, 2061 281 Notes 285 Bibliography 317 Index 341
£75.65
Duke University Press Feeling Like a State
Book SynopsisDavina Cooper explores the unexpected contribution a legal drama of withdrawalas exemplified by some conservative Christians who deny people inclusion, goods, and services to LGBTQ individualsmight make to conceptualizing a more socially just, participative state.Trade Review“This is a dream of a book. Feeling Like a State explores a daring possibility: Might legal dramas over Christian refusals (to bake cakes, provide contraception coverage with health care, issue marriage licenses, allow for gay Scout leaders, subscribe to secularist tolerance demands, and so on) offer progressives instructive lessons about withdrawal, attachment, desire, membership, commoning, care, and play? Drawing on law, sociology, and philosophy as well as political, feminist, affect, and queer theory, Davina Cooper's work is broad, brilliant, audacious, careful, and, importantly, prefigurative, marking the ways in which we already ‘inhabit, repurpose, resist the still and mobile parts of institutional life.’” -- Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, Brown University“With its checkered history of unmatched power, the state has been both a vehicle of oppression as well as justice. Feeling Like A State imagines transformative progressive ways the state can be, inspiring movement toward a more responsible, ecologically collaborative world. A beautifully written, brilliant contribution beyond utopian fictions that explores practical real-life experiments in governing as a way of rethinking government and states. This book must be read if we are to move past the current crises in any durable and just manner.” -- Susan S. Silbey, coauthor of * The Common Place of Law: Stories from Everyday Life *“Feeling Like a State makes a strong argument for why states don’t function the way that we imagine them to.... [It is] rich in details, not just about what is wrong with the world but also about what can be done." -- James Martel * Political Theory *“At a time when neoliberal states are relocating governmental responsibilities onto individuals or to their chums in private companies to make profits, [Feeling Like a State] asks us to look forwards, to a concept of the state, even if provisional, which is relational, caring, and feeling and has social justice at its heart.” -- Morag McDermont * Review of Politics *“In Feeling Like a State, Cooper forges a strong case for the continuing conceptual (and even material) value of the state.... Although Cooper stops short of offering an alternative vision of public governance, her optimistic account of state potentiality for a progressive politics is one of the most cogent of those available.” -- Rebecca Peach * Representation *“Feeling Like a State asks us to exercise our own capacity for imagination, challenging us to envision a state that not only acts but is otherwise.” -- Méadhbh McIvor * Journal of Contemporary Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Reimagining the State 1 1. Legal Dramas of Refusal 28 2. Retrieving Dissident State Parts 52 3. Pluralizing a Concept 75 4. State Play and Possessive Beliefs 105 5. The Erotic Life of States 130 6. Feeling Like a Different Kind of State 153 Notes 177 References 225 Index 253
£25.19
Duke University Press Punctuations
Book SynopsisMichael J. Shapiro examines how the use of punctuationconceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artistic genres engage with intelligibilityin art opens pathways for thinking through the possibilities for oppositional politics.Trade Review“We tend to think of punctuation—if we think of it at all—as an invisible tool of grammar and writing, a silent orderer with no content or meaning of its own. In Punctuations, Michael Shapiro radically upends that way of thinking. In an exquisitely nuanced and thoughtful reading, Shapiro shows how punctuation—broadly conceived—gives us over to another politics, one that is marked by unresolvedness and contingency rather than determination and order. In this book, voids, interruptions, and other mechanisms of intratextual resistance demand and receive our full attention with critical implications not only for the habits of reading but of how we live in and occupy the world around us.” -- James R. Martel, author of * The Misinterpellated Subject *“Punctuations offers a distinctly new critical intervention by fleshing out the political and methodological significance of punctuation. Drawing on a broad range of influences from critical theory, the arts, and literature, Michael J. Shapiro gives the reader myriad alternative ways to develop new angles of vision, all of which ultimately ask how we might develop better forms of resistance to the present. I wouldn't have expected anything less from Shapiro, who continues to surprise and push forward the limits others place around the meaning of critical scholarship.” -- Brad Evans, coauthor of * Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle *"Shapiro threads the needle effectively between different texts, different genres, different scholars' voices, and his own past readings to show us how 'alternative, nondogmatic communities of sense' are created through re-punctuations." -- Katherine Goktepe * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Deferrals, Punctuations, Media Textualities 1 1. How "Popular" Music Thinks the Political 27 2. Urban Punctuations: Symphonic and Dialectic 55 3. Architectural Punctuations: The Politics of "Event Spaces" 84 4. Image Punctuations: From the Photographic to the Cinematic 115 5. Holocaust Punctuations: Handke, Kertész, and Sebald 148 Notes 175 Index 209
£103.70
Duke University Press Gramsci in the World
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the varying receptions and uses of Antonio Gramsci's thought in diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the social world.Trade Review“Practically from the first to the last page, this is a fabulous book. Not only does it attest to the productive interdisciplinary use of Gramsci's conceptual instruments in the analysis of contemporary sociocultural and political developments across many global regions; it also underscores the fact that the critico-philological reconstructions of Gramsci's theoretical frameworks are far from complete. Newcomers to Gramscian studies—as well as experienced scholars—will profit from this extraordinary collection of essays. It reflects a most capacious editorial spirit anchored in creative autonomy, historical integrity, and transnational sensitivities.” -- Renate Holub, author of * Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism *“Comprehensive in its geographical and historical range, and impressive in its intellectual rigor, theoretical sophistication, and historical sensitivity, Gramsci in the World locates questions surrounding Gramsci's ideas within debates that are central to much of contemporary theoretical, moral, intellectual, and political writing. A significant and necessary contribution to Gramsci scholarship, this volume demonstrates that his ideas and writing will continue to exert a deep influence in the twenty-first century.” -- Benedetto Fontana, author of * Hegemony and Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli *“This collection of essays, edited by Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, is a timely and valuable contribution to cultural studies, political and social theory, postcolonial studies, as well as generally to the history of the Left and particularly to the history of Marxism.” -- Mihaela Czobor-Lupp * Perspectives on Politics *“Taken together, the essays in [Gramsci in the World] highlight the numerous complexities and dimensions to Gramsci’s writings, and the various reasons why his unique approach to Marxist analysis and revolutionary praxis influenced, or in many cases did not influence, leftist intellectuals and militants....” -- Brian Griffith * H-Italy, H-Net Reviews *“The goal of Gramsci in the World is to put forward ‘different pragmatics’ of how scholars accept or reject Gramscian thinking for their interests.... It does not simply add non-Western case studies into analysis, but changes how we think about a range of periods and geographies.” -- Thomas Furse * Global Intellectual History *"[Gramsci in the World] will interest Gramsci scholars, theorists of social change and revolution, and political activists." -- J. C. Berg * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on Sources ix Preface; Gramsci in the World / Fredric Jameson xi Introduction / Roberto Dainotto 1 1. Toward the Modern Prince / Peter D. Thomas 17 2. Gramsci, Historian of Modernity / Alberto Burgio 38 3. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois Organic Intellectual? ? Kate Crehan 60 4. Gramsci's Bergson / Cesare Casarino 77 5. Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy / Andrea Scapoio 93 6. Subalterns in the World: Typologies and Nexus with Different Forms of Religious Experience / Cosimo Zene 113 7. Some Reflections on Gramsci: The Southern Question in the Deprovincializing of Marx / Harry Harootunian 140 8. Why No Gramsci in the United States? / Michael Denning 158 9. Gramsci on la questione del negri: Gli intellettuali and the Poesis of Americanization / R. A. Judy 165 10. Reverse Hegemony? / Maria Elisa Cevasco 179 11. Thinking Andean Abya Yala with and against Gramsci: Notes on State, Nature, and Buen Vivir / Catherine E. Walsh 190 12. Gramsci and the Chinese Left: Reappraising a Missed Encounter / Pu Wang 204 13. Antonio Gramsci in the Arab World: The Ongoing Debate / Patrizia Manduchi 224 Works Cited 241 Contributors 259 Index 263
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Duke University Press Gramsci in the World
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Gramsci in the World examine the varying receptions and uses of Antonio Gramsci's thought in diverse geographical, historical, and political contexts, highlighting its possibilities and limits for understanding and changing the social world.Trade Review“Practically from the first to the last page, this is a fabulous book. Not only does it attest to the productive interdisciplinary use of Gramsci's conceptual instruments in the analysis of contemporary sociocultural and political developments across many global regions; it also underscores the fact that the critico-philological reconstructions of Gramsci's theoretical frameworks are far from complete. Newcomers to Gramscian studies—as well as experienced scholars—will profit from this extraordinary collection of essays. It reflects a most capacious editorial spirit anchored in creative autonomy, historical integrity, and transnational sensitivities.” -- Renate Holub, author of * Antonio Gramsci: Beyond Marxism and Postmodernism *“Comprehensive in its geographical and historical range, and impressive in its intellectual rigor, theoretical sophistication, and historical sensitivity, Gramsci in the World locates questions surrounding Gramsci's ideas within debates that are central to much of contemporary theoretical, moral, intellectual, and political writing. A significant and necessary contribution to Gramsci scholarship, this volume demonstrates that his ideas and writing will continue to exert a deep influence in the twenty-first century.” -- Benedetto Fontana, author of * Hegemony and Power: On the Relation between Gramsci and Machiavelli *“This collection of essays, edited by Roberto M. Dainotto and Fredric Jameson, is a timely and valuable contribution to cultural studies, political and social theory, postcolonial studies, as well as generally to the history of the Left and particularly to the history of Marxism.” -- Mihaela Czobor-Lupp * Perspectives on Politics *“Taken together, the essays in [Gramsci in the World] highlight the numerous complexities and dimensions to Gramsci’s writings, and the various reasons why his unique approach to Marxist analysis and revolutionary praxis influenced, or in many cases did not influence, leftist intellectuals and militants....” -- Brian Griffith * H-Italy, H-Net Reviews *“The goal of Gramsci in the World is to put forward ‘different pragmatics’ of how scholars accept or reject Gramscian thinking for their interests.... It does not simply add non-Western case studies into analysis, but changes how we think about a range of periods and geographies.” -- Thomas Furse * Global Intellectual History *"[Gramsci in the World] will interest Gramsci scholars, theorists of social change and revolution, and political activists." -- J. C. Berg * Choice *Table of ContentsNote on Sources ix Preface; Gramsci in the World / Fredric Jameson xi Introduction / Roberto Dainotto 1 1. Toward the Modern Prince / Peter D. Thomas 17 2. Gramsci, Historian of Modernity / Alberto Burgio 38 3. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois Organic Intellectual? ? Kate Crehan 60 4. Gramsci's Bergson / Cesare Casarino 77 5. Scattered Ashes: The Reception of the Gramscian Legacy in Postwar Italy / Andrea Scapoio 93 6. Subalterns in the World: Typologies and Nexus with Different Forms of Religious Experience / Cosimo Zene 113 7. Some Reflections on Gramsci: The Southern Question in the Deprovincializing of Marx / Harry Harootunian 140 8. Why No Gramsci in the United States? / Michael Denning 158 9. Gramsci on la questione del negri: Gli intellettuali and the Poesis of Americanization / R. A. Judy 165 10. Reverse Hegemony? / Maria Elisa Cevasco 179 11. Thinking Andean Abya Yala with and against Gramsci: Notes on State, Nature, and Buen Vivir / Catherine E. Walsh 190 12. Gramsci and the Chinese Left: Reappraising a Missed Encounter / Pu Wang 204 13. Antonio Gramsci in the Arab World: The Ongoing Debate / Patrizia Manduchi 224 Works Cited 241 Contributors 259 Index 263
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Duke University Press Habits Pathways
Book SynopsisHabit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses and effects across the monastic regimens of medieval Europe, in plantation slavery and the factory system, through colonial forms of rule, and within a range of medicalized pathologies. He brings these episodes in habit’s political histories to bear on contemporary debates ranging from its role in relation to the politics of white supremacy to the digital harvesting of habits in practices of algorithmic governance. Throughout, Bennett tracks how habit’s repetitions have been articulated differently across divisions of class, race, and gender, demonstrating that although habit serves as an apparatus for achieving success, self-fulfillment, aTrade Review“Habit’s Pathways makes a valuable contribution to discussions and theories of habit in its assemblage and detailed analysis of all the important thinkers on the subject, from Augustine, Kant, and Dewey to Deleuze, Foucault, and Malabou, devising what surely must be the new standard account of habit in contemporary Western thought. A tremendous achievement.” -- Susan Zieger, author of * The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century *“Tony Bennett, one of our most important cultural critics, reckons with the many meanings of habit in an argument that is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. Delving into its intellectual and political histories, he delivers a trenchant and highly illuminating analysis of habit’s relations to freedom and constraint.” -- Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsNote on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Habit—Then and Now 1 1. Powering Habit 19 2. Dead Ends and Nonstarters: Habit, Discipline, Biopower, and the Circulation of Capital 46 3. Unwilled Habits: Descending Pathways 70 4. Pathways to Virtue 97 5. Unfolding Pathways: Habit, Freedom, Becoming 111 6. Exploded Pathways: Plasticity's Mentors 137 7. Progressive Pathways: The Dynamics of Modernity, Race, and the Unconscious 160 8. Contested Pathways: Habit and the Conduct of Conduct 184 Conclusion. The Arbitrariness of Habit 206 Notes 211 References 225 Index 243
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Duke University Press Nonhuman Witnessing
Book SynopsisIn Nonhuman Witnessing Michael Richardson argues that a radical rethinking of what counts as witnessing is central to building frameworks for justice in an era of endless war, ecological catastrophe, and technological capture. Dismantling the primacy and notion of traditional human-based forms of witnessing, Richardson shows how ecological, machinic, and algorithmic forms of witnessing can help us better understand contemporary crises. He examines the media-specificity of nonhuman witnessing across an array of sites, from nuclear testing on First Nations land and autonomous drone warfare to deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic investigative tools. Throughout, he illuminates the ethical and political implications of witnessing in an age of profound instability. By challenging readers to rethink their understanding of witnessing, testimony, and trauma in the context of interconnected crises, Richardson reveals the complex entanglements between witnessing and violencTrade Review“The work of Michael Richardson is like a four dimensional cartography to navigate the hyperaesthetics of our post-photographic present.” -- Eyal Weizman, coauthor of * Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth *“Foregrounding the ethical dimensions of the convergence between the fields of security and ecology, Michael Richardson explores whether witnessing is taking place beyond the boundaries of the human. By making a fantastic case for the reversal of the humanist concept of witnessing, Richardson impacts what kinds of research questions can be asked across the disciplines.” -- Jairus Victor Grove, author of * Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Nonhuman Witnessing 1 1. Witnessing Violence 37 2. Witnessing Algorithms 80 3. Witnessing Ecologies 112 4. Witnessing Absence 150 Coda. Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing 174 Notes 185 Bibliography 207 Index 229
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Duke University Press Habits Pathways
Book SynopsisTony Bennett offers a sweeping political history of habit and its use to govern conduct across a range of past and contemporary regimes of power.Trade Review“Habit’s Pathways makes a valuable contribution to discussions and theories of habit in its assemblage and detailed analysis of all the important thinkers on the subject, from Augustine, Kant, and Dewey to Deleuze, Foucault, and Malabou, devising what surely must be the new standard account of habit in contemporary Western thought. A tremendous achievement.” -- Susan Zieger, author of * The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century *“Tony Bennett, one of our most important cultural critics, reckons with the many meanings of habit in an argument that is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. Delving into its intellectual and political histories, he delivers a trenchant and highly illuminating analysis of habit’s relations to freedom and constraint.” -- Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsNote on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Habit—Then and Now 1 1. Powering Habit 19 2. Dead Ends and Nonstarters: Habit, Discipline, Biopower, and the Circulation of Capital 46 3. Unwilled Habits: Descending Pathways 70 4. Pathways to Virtue 97 5. Unfolding Pathways: Habit, Freedom, Becoming 111 6. Exploded Pathways: Plasticity's Mentors 137 7. Progressive Pathways: The Dynamics of Modernity, Race, and the Unconscious 160 8. Contested Pathways: Habit and the Conduct of Conduct 184 Conclusion. The Arbitrariness of Habit 206 Notes 211 References 225 Index 243
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New York University Press Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State
Book SynopsisA rich set of feminist perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, structures, and ideologies Growing socio-economic inequality and exclusion are defining features of the twenty-first century. While debates on globalization, free trade, and economic development have been linked to the paradigm of neo-liberalism, it does not explain all the forms of social change that have been unfolding in comparative contexts. Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State provides a timely intervention into discussions about the boundaries, practices, and nature of the post-liberalization state, suggesting that an understanding of economic policies, the corresponding rise of socio-economic inequality, and the possibilities for change requires an in-depth reconceptualization. Drawing on original field research both globally and within the United States, this volume brings together a rich set of perspectives on the varied and often contradictory nature of state practices, stTrade ReviewScholars of feminist theory and politics will find in this collection some very interesting ... detailed case studies of particular configurations of state power in specific contexts and countries. -- Hypatia
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New York University Press Truth and Evidence
Book SynopsisExplores the challenges of governing in a post-truth worldThe relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in democratic decision-making increasingly being dismissed. In Truth and Evidence, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the most pressing questions about the role of truth, evidence, and knowledge in government. In nine timely essays, contributors examine what constitutes political knowledge, who counts as an expert, how we should weigh evidence, and what can be done to address deep disinformation. Together, they address urgent questions such as what facts we require to confront challenges like COVID-19; what it means to #BelieveWomen; and how white supremacy shapes the law of evidence. Essential readi
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New York University Press American Conservatism
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that unpacks the history, nature, development, and beliefs of American ConservatismThe topic of American conservatism is especially timelyand perhaps volatile. Is there what might be termed an exceptional form of conservatism that is characteristically American, in contrast to conservatisms found in other countries? Are views that are identified in the United States as conservative necessarily congruent with what political theorists might classify under that label? Or does much American conservatism almost necessarily reflect the distinctly liberal background of American political thought?In American Conservatism, a distinguished group of American political and legal scholars reflect on these crucial questions, unpacking the very nature and development of American conservative thought. They examine both the historical and contemporary realities of arguments offered by self-conscious conservatives in the United States, offering a well-rounded
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New York University Press The Path to Gay Rights
Book SynopsisAn innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victorytransforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally. Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinionthrough sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaderscannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public's views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community's response to the AIDSTrade ReviewThe book's narrative is hopefulit's a story of how countless personal interactions and individual changes of heart, not elite opinion or legal mandates, drove one of the most remarkable attitudinal shifts in modern history. * Reason *This fine study examines how the change in public opinion took place over the years while looking at the ultimate causes of social change generally...An important addition to the LGBTQ bookshelf. * Booklist *Quantitative data backs up the arguments of this serious social science book. It makes a significant contribution to the political science literature on LGBT studies by synthesizing and advancing the empirical arguments on the shift in opinion on gay rights in just a few generations. -- ChoiceGarretson seeks to complicate the mainstream narrative about what has caused the sea change toward the acceptance of the LGBTQ people in the United States...Will be of interest to political scientists and community organizers alike. * Library Journal *The Path to Gay Rights examines why and how public support for gays and lesbians increased markedly in recent decades. Jeremiah J. Garretson explores the origins of this unusually rapid shift in public opinion, tracing it back to Americans increased contact with gay and lesbian individuals both directly and virtually through TV characters.The book provides a rich and layered account of events, activism, interest group activity, and political campaigns amplified by careful analysis of survey data, online searches, and Congressional votes. It provides invaluable insight into the dynamics of public opinion concerning gays and lesbians and social change more generally. -- Leonie Huddy,Co-Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Second EditionThis book is certain to be among the most important published this year. Support for gay rights has followed a different trajectory than support for any other minority groups rights, building more slowly but accelerating more steeply.In The Path to Gay Rights, Garretson has compellingly told the story that explains whya remarkable piece of scholarship. -- Marc J. Hetherington,Author of Why Washington Won’t Work: Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing CrisisGarretson provides a compelling, multi-method account of the role of the gay rights movement, politics, and interpersonal contact in creating this massive shift in public opinion. * Social Forces *
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New York University Press Drawdown
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the cultural attitudes, political decisions, and institutions surrounding the maintenance of armed forces throughout American history While traditionally, Americans view expensive military structure as a poor investment and a threat to liberty, they also require a guarantee of that very freedom, necessitating the employment of armed forces. Beginning with the seventeenth-century wars of the English colonies, Americans typically increased their military capabilities at the beginning of conflicts only to decrease them at the apparent conclusion of hostilities. In Drawdown: The American Way of Postwar, a stellar team of military historians argue that the United States sometimes managed effective drawdowns, sowing the seeds of future victory that Americans eventually reaped. Yet at other times, the drawing down of military capabilities undermined our readiness and flexibility, leading to more costly wars and perhaps defeat. The political choice to reduce military capabilities is iTrade ReviewIn Drawdown, the contributors explain how and why America, despite repeated lessons, failed to sustain ready military forces in sufficient scale to secure the nation. Jason Warren has pulled together well-researched and accessible essays that shed light and understanding on the cultural, political, strategic, and financial causes of unpreparedness. Breaking the cycle of unpreparedness in an era of increasing security risk requires historical understanding. Making the most out of the resources available to secure our nation and vital interests requires imaginative military and civilian leadership. Drawdowndelivers the former and helps cultivate the latter. -- General H.R. McMaster,author of Dereliction of DutyPositioned to provoke thought on the present U.S. military force reductions. . . . Coming on the heels of the so-called conclusion of the United States wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this work will, I hope, provoke serious thought, discussion, and a greater maturity in considering the current environment. -- Ricardo Herrera,author of For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861Overall, the editor did a fine job of compiling the essays presented in this book. All are well-written, provide much to think about, and are supported by excellent documentation. This book should be read by all those interested in the management of the U.S. Army. * The Journal of America’s Military Past *
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New York University Press This Muslim American Life
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book AwardA collection of insightful and heartbreaking essays on Muslim-American life after 9/11Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake Mustafa Bayoumi was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an anti-American, pro-Islam agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cutTrade Review"Some of the essays were written as many as 15 years ago. Still, the policies he writes about have been much-discussed of latefrom Muslim registration programs to increased surveillance of Muslim communities." * amExpress *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: My Muslim American Life 1 PART I. MUSLIMS IN HISTORY 1. Letter to a G-Man 23 2. East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America 35 3. Racing Religion 48 PART II. MUSLIMS IN THEORY 4. Sects and the City 75 5. A Bloody Stupid War 78 6. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators 99 PART III. MUSLIMS IN POLITICS 7. The Rites and Rights of Citizenship 121 8. Between Acceptance and Rejection: Muslim Americans and the Legacies of September 11 128 9. Fear and Loathing of Islam 140 10. The Oak Creek Massacre 148 11. White with Rage 152 vi Contents PART IV. MUSLIMS IN CULTURE 12. My Arab Problem 169 13. Disco Inferno 175 14. The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination 185 15. Men Behaving Badly 210 16. Chaos and Procedure 217 17. Coexistence 240 Conclusion: Our Muslim American Lives 253
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New York University Press Compromise
Book SynopsisA distinguished group of scholars explores compromise in contemporary affairs Do lawmakers have a greater ethical responsibility to compromise than ordinary citizens? How does one rectify what is at stake when lawmakers concede to compromise for the sake of reaching resolution? Is compromise necessarily equalizing and is it a reasonable mode of problem solving and dispute resolution? In this latest installment from the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars across the fields of political science, law, and philosophy tackle the complex set of questions that relate to the practice of compromise and its implications for social and political life in modern societies. The volume, edited by Jack Knight, brings together a range of perspectives in both disciplinary and substantive terms on representation, political morality, disagreement, negotiation, and various forms of compromise. The ten essays reflect a variety of considerations across interdisciplinary lines, and pr
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New York University Press The Utopia Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe Utopia Reader compiles primary texts from a variety of authors and movements in the history of theorizing utopias.Utopianism is defined as the various ways of imagining, creating, or analyzing the ways and means of creating an ideal or alternative society. Prominent writers and scholars across history have long explored how or why to envision different ways of life. The volume includes texts from classical Greek literature, the Old Testament, and Plato's Republic, to Sir Thomas More's Utopia, to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and beyond. By balancing well-known and obscure examples, the text provides a comprehensive and definitive collection of the various ways Utopias have been conceived throughout history and how Utopian ideals have served as criticisms of existing sociocultural conditions.This new edition includes many historically well-known works, little known but influential texts, and contemporary writings, providing an even more expansive coveragTrade Review"The Utopia Reader is the place to start a literary voyage into new futures, possible futures, and dangerous alternative futures. These well-selected readings let the reader know that there is neither a shared perfect future nor a shared perfect interpretation. Accessible and provocative." -- Jean Pfaelzer,author of The Utopian Novel in America: the Politics of a Literary Form"How utopianto see something that was very good get better. This second edition includes an expanded introduction that addresses the complexities of defining utopia, significant additions to several sections, and an entirely new section on the 21st century that includes young adult dystopias and non-print utopias." -- Kenneth Roemer,author of Utopian Audiences
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New York University Press Feminist Manifestos
Book SynopsisA wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the worldFeminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings in over 50 countries over the course of three centuries. In the first book of its kind, the manifestos are shown to contain feminist theory and recommend actions for change, and also to expand our very conceptions of feminist thought and activism. Covering issues from political participation, education, religion and work to reproduction, violence, racism, and environmentalism, the manifestos together challenge simplistic definitions of gender and feminist movements in exciting ways. In a wide-ranging introduction, Penny Weiss explores the value of these documents, especially how they speak with and to each other. In addition, an introduction to each individual document contextualizes and enhances our understanding of it. Weiss is particularly invested in how communities work together toward Trade ReviewFeminist Manifestos provides an impressive and unprecedented archive of feminist activism. This rich compendium includes feminist petitions, manifestos, resolutions, charters and declarations from fifty countries, starting in 1642 and ending in 2017. Each selection is accompanied by informative introductions. Ive been waiting for a book like this and cant wait to assign it in my courses -- Amrita Basu,Author of Violent Conjunctures in Democratic IndiaThis inspiring collection is breathtaking in its originality and daring in its premise. Reading the words collectively authored when feminists come together in struggle conveys the passion that inspires activism. Feminists thinking together in these manifestos provide hopeful and energizing answers to the question of what feminism is, challenging the categories and waves into which such variety is often awkwardly packaged. -- Myra Marx Ferree,Author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics In Global PerspectiveThis extensive, rich, and diverse anthology of collective feminist declarations is a vital source for understanding the long, global history of feminism. -- Estelle B. Freedman,Author of No Turning Back and The Essential Feminist Reader
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New York University Press Privatization
Book SynopsisA distinguished group of scholars explore the moral values and political consequences of privatization The 21st century has seen a proliferation of privatization across industries in the United States, from security and the military to public transportation and infrastructure. In shifting control from the state to private actors, do we weaken or strengthen structures of governance? Do state-owned enterprises promise to be more equal and fair than their privately-owned rivals? What role can accountability measures play in mediating the effects of privatization; and what role does coercion play in the state governance and control? In this latest installment from the NOMOS series, an interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars in political science, law, and philosophy examine the moral and political consequences of transferring state-provided or state-owned goods and services to the private sector. The essays consider how we should evaluate the decision to priv
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New York University Press The Path to Gay Rights
Book SynopsisAn innovative, data-driven explanation of how public opinion shifted on LGBTQ rights The Path to Gay Rights is the first social science analysis of how and why the LGBTQ movement achieved its most unexpected victorytransforming gay people from a despised group of social deviants into a minority worthy of rights and protections in the eyes of most Americans. The book weaves together a narrative of LGBTQ history with new findings from the field of political psychology to provide an understanding of how social movements affect mass attitudes in the United States and globally. Using data going back to the 1970s, the book argues that the current understanding of how social movements change mass opinionthrough sympathetic media coverage and endorsements from political leaderscannot provide an adequate explanation for the phenomenal success of the LGBTQ movement at changing the public's views. In The Path to Gay Rights, Jeremiah Garretson argues that the LGBTQ community's response to the AIDSTrade Review"The book's narrative is hopefulit's a story of how countless personal interactions and individual changes of heart, not elite opinion or legal mandates, drove one of the most remarkable attitudinal shifts in modern history." * Reason *"This fine study examines how the change in public opinion took place over the years while looking at the ultimate causes of social change generally...An important addition to the LGBTQ bookshelf." * Booklist *"Quantitative data backs up the arguments of this serious social science book. It makes a significant contribution to the political science literature on LGBT studies by synthesizing and advancing the empirical arguments on the shift in opinion on gay rights in just a few generations." -- Choice"Garretson seeks to complicate the mainstream narrative about what has caused the sea change toward the acceptance of the LGBTQ people in the United States...Will be of interest to political scientists and community organizers alike." * Library Journal *"The Path to Gay Rights examines why and how public support for gays and lesbians increased markedly in recent decades. Jeremiah J. Garretson explores the origins of this unusually rapid shift in public opinion, tracing it back to Americans increased contact with gay and lesbian individuals both directly and virtually through TV characters.The book provides a rich and layered account of events, activism, interest group activity, and political campaigns amplified by careful analysis of survey data, online searches, and Congressional votes. It provides invaluable insight into the dynamics of public opinion concerning gays and lesbians and social change more generally." -- Leonie Huddy,Co-Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Second Edition"This book is certain to be among the most important published this year. Support for gay rights has followed a different trajectory than support for any other minority groups rights, building more slowly but accelerating more steeply.In The Path to Gay Rights, Garretson has compellingly told the story that explains whya remarkable piece of scholarship." -- Marc J. Hetherington,Author of Why Washington Won’t Work: Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis"Garretson provides a compelling, multi-method account of the role of the gay rights movement, politics, and interpersonal contact in creating this massive shift in public opinion." * Social Forces *
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