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Book SynopsisIn general, all societies have evolved from a background in which people were many and resources were few. Thus the creation of their ideas, values, and institutions needed to adjust to that reality. The unique history of the United States, however, makes it an exception. There people were few but resources were endless. Thus, American traditions, values, ideas, and institutions which were of European origin had to undergo major transformations. The reality of plenty is thus the key to understanding the uniqueness of American civilization.Trade Review"A fresh intellectual history of the role of the frontier in the American national experience... An excellent analyis of the positive and dark sides of the American national experience." -- American Studies (University of Kansas and the Mid-American Studies Association)."...makes a compelling argument that displays a deep, highly original understanding of the historical myth and reality of the American frontier... Throughout his book, Gutfeld argues convincingly that 'plenty' and the 'frontier' have been weighty and malleable concepts in American history. Yet the ideas of available plenitude and an open frontier also entailed devastating practical consequences. Despite so much tragic history and such harsh contemporary reality, these ideas still flourish today. Insistent ahistoricism also is a key element of American theory and practice. Americans even seem inclined to repeat past mistakes as exactly as possible, rather than to learn much from them. Though one should not bet on the power of any book to change deep-rooted American behavioral patterns, American Exceptionalism clearly offers an insightful, important corrective." -- From the Foreword by Avi Soifer, Boston College Law School, Massachusetts.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Professor Aviam Soifer; Preface; Europe Dreamt and America Realised the Enlightenment, or Did It?; American Exceptionalism and the Forces that Maintain It; The Unique Nature of American Political Violence; The Deprivation of Indian Sovereignty; Genocide, North American Style; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisModern political theory begins with the rise of the philosophical concept and practice of sovereignty in the sixteenth century. Over the course of the next several centuries, sovereignty was generalized as the form of the modern state - eventually, there was no state that was not sovereign, and there was no understanding of the state that did not depend upon the notion of sovereignty. Yet, as Gerard Mairet argues in "The Fable of the World", at this moment of the culmination of political sovereignty, the limitations and dangers of this theory and practice have become all too apparent. Furthermore, Mairet believes that we have begun to see the glimmers of a new form of political community beyond the sovereign state and its rootedness in inter-state violence: for Mairet, Europe has become the harbinger of a new federative form of statehood. In this rigorous investigation of the notion of sovereignty from Bodin and Hobbes, through Rousseau and the Federalists, to Foucault and the framers of the European constitution, Mairet examines the articulation of the concept through the bloody history of European colonialism. He also shows how the reconstitution of the European political community after World War II marked the beginning of a new trajectory - one that offers the hope of a post-sovereign mode of political being-in-the-world.

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Book SynopsisHow did antisemitism get so strange?Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters absolving themselves by declaring their love of Israel. Today, antisemitism and philosemitism seem selective, as if Jews offered themselves up as a kind of buffet, in which non-Jews get to choose the good ones they like and the bad ones they reject.In this passionate yet closely-argued polemic from a writer with an intimate knowledge of the antisemitism controversy, Kahn-Harris argues that the emergence of a selective anti-racism demonstrates how far we are from understanding what living in diverse societies really means.Strange Hate calls for us to abandon selective anti-racism and rethink how we view not just Jews and antisemitism, but the challenge of living with diversity.Trade Review"I can’t be alone in feeling immense gratitude for this provocative, judicious and ultimately generous book. I wish everyone currently trapped inside an echo chamber would come offline and read it. Strange Hate reveals how we're all too often selective anti-racists, loving some members of a group only to hate the rest in the name of politics rather than prejudice. But Kahn-Harris not only identifies the persistent problems and blind spots to have bedevilled anti-racism, he dares to imagine practical solutions to them as well. Could there be a more timely intervention? Even if you don’t agree with every move he makes, you’ll surely want to applaud him for writing it." - Dr Devorah Baum, author of Feeling Jewish (A Book For Just About Anyone)“Kahn-Harris performs the essential task of providing an entire glossary of terms of reference for the latest evolution of the most ancient hatred. This is a concise and elegantly written guide to antisemitism in the 21st century which excels in being both humorous and deadly serious at the same time. Essential to understanding how Western society must confront racism in the age of Trump and Corbyn.” - Anshel Pfeffer, author of Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu“I try and read everything Keith Kahn-Harris writes on British Jews and this intelligent book, on how anti-racists have lost their way, and how they can find their way back, is no exception.” - Ben Judah, author This Is London"Few issues have been more vexing for today's left than the question of antisemitism. Jews have many different definitions and approaches to the issue, and non-Jews pick and chose which Jews to follow on it. Unlike other books, Strange Hate offers no clearcut definition of antisemitism, but instead shows how this question unsettles the Left's own notions of liberation, oppression, hatred, and tolerance." - Dr Spencer Sunshine, Associate Fellow at Political Research Associates

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Book SynopsisScheduled for release at the top of the 2020 US Presidential election, Dispatches from the Vanguard channels the global soul’s hunger for freedom from authoritarian control. Partnering with dozens of Pulitzer Prize Winners, New York Times Best Sellers, poet laureates, TED speakers, and influencers within the Global International African Arts Movement, including Ishmael Reed, Tyehimba Jess, Rich Fresh, Nikki Giovanni, Nnedi Okorafor, Chester Higgins, Tori Reid and Jaki Shelton Green, Dispatches offers a poignant, high-frequency rebuke of Donald J. Trump (actual man, strawman and metaphor for white privilege and capitalist despotism) and his ruthless amoral presidency. As we approach a key moment in the recent history of American politics, Dispatches from the Vanguard is a timely intervention, showing us how we can challenge the impact and influence of politics when it is solely a means of authoritarian control.Trade Review"Dispatches from the Vanguard is James Baldwin’s dream manifested through art and culture, through porch talks, poetry and visual debates. This carnival of a book is a dynamic treasure trove of Black passion, style, intellectual prowess, wit, grace and soul. Behold this beautiful bouquet of Blackness." "What a refreshing thought it is to be reminded of the mental strength, courage, and audacity it takes to be 'Black' again with a capital B. Howell gave me an invigorating read and a reminder of how to write for the right to fight.""Patrick A. Howell undertakes the role of griot — storyteller — in this insightful and hard-hitting collection of interviews. Thought-provoking and inspiring, Dispatches from the Vanguard is a worthy addition to anyone’s library.""Dispatches from the Vanguard is exceptional. It takes our current moment and draws an oral history from architects of the culture. From the Black Arts Movement and, before that, the Harlem Renaissance to the Global International African Arts Movement."“Patrick A. Howell deploys the interview as scalpel and bridge, laying out the nuances of our hassled yet still beautiful Black while detailing, through the responses of these artists and intellectuals, resilience for this generation and the next. Here, Africa and its diasporas achieve completion.”"This is a book for those who, in the words of Audre Lorde, are 'deliberate and afraid of nothing.'""A fascinating compendium of contemporary African diasporic thought, from figures you know, figures you think you know, figures you ought to know.""Dispatches from the Vanguard is a timely compilation of cultural luminaries. Howell’s honoring of lived experiences coupled with vocal wisdom bridge past to future and illuminate the necessary interplay between education, field artistry, global consciousness, and social justice."

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Book SynopsisBulgarian writer and international migration expert Yva Alexandrova tells the story of Eastern Europeans in the UK, and argues that progressive politics needs to be grounded in migrants’ actual experiences and not political expediency. She shows how attitudes to immigration have changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit and a new wave of nativism that has swept across Britain, and makes a passionate and vivid argument for migrants as full participants in social and political life. At a time when racism, xenophobia and nationalism dominate politics in the UK and around the world, Here to Stay avoids the usual racist vox-pops and sensationalist political debate and instead tells the stories of the people whose voices rarely feature in debates about immigration: the migrants themselves.Trade Review"Yva Alexandrova excoriates the British media, political elite and even the labour movement over their condescension and hostility to East European migration. She tells the story of what it's like to be the target of a wave of nativism that swept through British politics in the last decade, from the lived experience of those around her." “Provocative and well-informed, Alexandrova gives voice to people who are a vital part of Britain’s political and social life, yet too often talked about rather than listened to. Pay attention.”

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Book SynopsisWhy, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global connectedness and given the general imperviousness of late modern powers from capital to religion to terror to physical blockading? How do walls shore up an imago of sovereign statehood and to what extent do they fortify reactionary national imaginaries? What do the new walls perform symbolically, materially, psychically?In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown reflects on the proliferation of nation-state walls in a time of eroded nation-state sovereignty and intensifying transnational powers unleashed by globalization. A leading theorist of neoliberalism, Brown argues that although the new walls may demarcate existent or aspirational nation-state boundaries, they do not arise as fortresses against invading national armies or even as articulations of sovereign statehood.Rather, in a post-Westphalian context of increasing nonstate transnational actors and powers, the new walls consecrate the very boundary corruption they would contest as well as signify the contemporary limitations of national and global governance by law or political dictate. Even as walls theatrically display nation-state sovereignty, they index with equal force the decline of sovereign state power.In a rare combination of powerful theory and precise historical, political, and economic analysis, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty provides a new indeed the first account of nation-state walling as a distinctive contemporary phenomenon. For Brown, the frenzy of wall building today reveals crucial predicaments of political power and desire emerging from the waning of sovereignty, including new political legitimacy deficits, new citizen anxieties, and new fusions of state and non-state violence.

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Book SynopsisNot all politics is party politics. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than within the boundaries of South Dakota. Although the state is known for its agrarian conservatism, political tradition in the land of infinite variety is more than simply Republican or Democrat. An awareness of the influence of culture lies at the core of understanding the decisions of political leaders and voters alike.In this capstone volume of The Plains Political Tradition series, editors Jon K. Lauck, John E. Miller, and Paula M. Nelson gather essays from historians and other scholars who identify major influences on the political culture of South Dakota. Against a backdrop of agricultural ups and downs, varied religious beliefs, worldwide conflict, and powerful personalities, the authors examine ingredients critical to the success and failure of civic movements, legislation, and political campaigns and careers.

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Book Synopsis“Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity—of all social otherness—is ceaselessly being reborn, coming back to life despite all the blows rained down upon it, as if human resistance had taken up residence within it.”For the French philosopher Miguel Abensour, the fictional genre of utopia has provided thinkers and artists a fertile ground to explore for the past 500 years, both as a way to imagine new emancipatory practices of shared existence and as a tyrannical imposition of power. Here, Abensour’s project is to examine the idea of utopia in two different but powerful moments in its trajectory: first, utopia’s beginning, when Thomas More sought a path for justice through a world in transformation, and second, when utopia faced its greatest danger, the moment that Walter Benjamin called “catastrophe.” Trade Review"Short but an interesting eclectic reading, this book surely is an enjoyable reading for theorists of politics and cultural studies."—Leonardo

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, our constitutional order has increasingly come under attack as irredeemably undemocratic, racist, and oppressive. At the same time, it is increasingly obvious that political practices in the United States have strayed very far from the founders' designs and become deeply dysfunctional. The time is thus ripe for renewed reflection about the American political tradition.This volume reintroduces readers to the conservative tradition of political and constitutional discourse. It brings together prominent political scientists and legal scholars, all of whom were deeply influenced by the life and work of the eminent constitutional scholar George W. Carey. For over 40 years, Carey strove mightily to explain the nature and requirements of our political tradition. How it fostered meaningful, virtuous self-government, and how our constitutional tradition has been derailed by progressivist ideology. He is perhaps best known for his concept of "constitutional morality," the understanding that our republican constitutional order can be sustained only by a combination of formal mechanisms (e.g., separation of powers) and unwritten norms ("standards of behavior") that act to foster deliberation and consensus, as well as keep political actors within the boundaries of their constitutional offices.

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Book SynopsisAcross the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues. Trade Review"The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships." -- Susan B. Hyatt * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *"Collaborating for Change is an invigorating how-to on forging solidarity across activist and academic divides, a blueprint for turning visions of a better world into reality with a step-by-step accounting of what works on the frontlines in the struggle for social justice. In a new twist on “thinking global, acting local,” this powerful and instructive volume illustrates the magic that happens when committed, thoughtful people bring their special knowledge and expertise to bear on a common goal." -- Alisse Waterston * author with illustrator Charlotte Hollands, of the forthcoming graphic book, Light in Dark Times: Th *"Each part of Collaborating for Change presents participatory action research from different communities and with different goals. What connects them is a shared rejection of the notion that academic research and community organizing are separate, and in fact, they show that blurring the lines between these practices strengthens each....While the findings they present are supported by the data and, while every research project led to significant policy changes, [some] succeeded beyond this [and] most clearly captured the power of praxis in language new researchers can absorb." * AnthroSource *"The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast." * Contemporary Sociology *"Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook is a particularly timely publication considering the influx in momentum for social justice movements during 2020....[A] quality overview of PAR as an epistemology and method, but its true value lies in the real world examples of how collaborating for change has played out and created co- benefits for researchers, activists, organizations, and communities." * Rural Sociology *"Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research," by Prentice Zinn * Footnotes *Table of ContentsIntroduction SUSAN D. GREENBAUM 1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? GLENN JACOBS Part I Social Justice Organizing 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN Part II Worker Rights Activism 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. GREENBAUM, AND GLENN JACOBS Notes on Contributors About the Foundation Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the U.S. immigrants, laborers, domestic workers, low-income tenants, indigenous communities, and people experiencing homelessness are conducting research to fight for justice. Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook documents the stories of a dozen community-based research projects. Academics and their partners share authorship about the importance of gathering credible evidence, both for organizing and persuading. The emphasis is on community organizations involved in struggles for equality and justice. Research projects directly engage community partners in all phases of the research process. Finally, the stories capture how the research changes the roles of researchers and those being researched. The book is designed for students, but also for community organizers, social justice activists, and their research allies; it offers real stories and real projects that show how democratizing research supports social change and heightens our understanding of complex social issues. Trade Review"The dismantling of the public sector over the past three decades has meant that even as universities proclaimed their commitment to civic engagement, community-based courses often ended up trying to compensate for the loss of essential services, rather than challenging the status quo. Now comes this collection, which demonstrates that when academics collaborate with grassroots activists who are committed to progressive social change, and when they embrace egalitarian research methods, genuine transformation is possible. I highly recommend it for anyone who is involved in university-community partnerships." -- Susan B. Hyatt * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *"Collaborating for Change is an invigorating how-to on forging solidarity across activist and academic divides, a blueprint for turning visions of a better world into reality with a step-by-step accounting of what works on the frontlines in the struggle for social justice. In a new twist on “thinking global, acting local,” this powerful and instructive volume illustrates the magic that happens when committed, thoughtful people bring their special knowledge and expertise to bear on a common goal." -- Alisse Waterston * author with illustrator Charlotte Hollands, of the forthcoming graphic book, Light in Dark Times: Th *"Each part of Collaborating for Change presents participatory action research from different communities and with different goals. What connects them is a shared rejection of the notion that academic research and community organizing are separate, and in fact, they show that blurring the lines between these practices strengthens each....While the findings they present are supported by the data and, while every research project led to significant policy changes, [some] succeeded beyond this [and] most clearly captured the power of praxis in language new researchers can absorb." * AnthroSource *"The greatest strength of this casebook is that it includes numerous rich, detailed examples that illustrate PAR processes, including their strengths and contributions as well as challenges and obstacles. Each chapter is co-authored and focuses on a PAR process funded by the SIF. For those hungry for examples, this casebook is a feast." * Contemporary Sociology *"Collaborating for Change: A Participatory Action Research Casebook is a particularly timely publication considering the influx in momentum for social justice movements during 2020....[A] quality overview of PAR as an epistemology and method, but its true value lies in the real world examples of how collaborating for change has played out and created co- benefits for researchers, activists, organizations, and communities." * Rural Sociology *"Pedagogy in Participatory Action Research," by Prentice Zinn * Footnotes *Table of ContentsIntroduction SUSAN D. GREENBAUM 1 The Epistemology and Hybridity of Participatory Action Research: What and Whose Truth Is It? GLENN JACOBS Part I Social Justice Organizing 3 The Activist Class Cultures Project: Helping Activists Become More Class Inclusive BETSY LEONDAR-WRIGHT 4 Fighting Antihomeless Laws and the Criminalization of Poverty through Participatory Action Research LISA MARIE ALATORRE, BILAL ALI, JENNIFER FRIEDENBACH, CHRIS HERRING, T. J. JOHNSTON, AND DILARA YARBROUGH 5 Organizers and Academics Together: The Household Energy Security Crisis and Utility Justice Organizing JONATHAN BIX, WILLIAM HOYNES, AND PEGGY KAHN Part II Worker Rights Activism 6 Shaping Organizing Strategy and Public Policy for an Invisible Workforce: Restaurant Opportunities Center VERONICA AVILA, CHRISTINA FLETES-ROMO, AND TEÓFILO REYES 7 Worker-Led Research Makes the Case for Labor Justice for Massachusetts Domestic Workers: Social Research and Social Change at the Grassroots TIM SIEBER AND NATALICIA TRACY 8 Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community VICTORIA BRECKWICH VÁSQUEZ, DIANE BUSH, AND CARL WILMSEN 9 Making Injustice Visible: National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s Research and Action PABLO ALVARADO, CHRIS NEWMAN, BLISS REQUA-TRAUTZ, AND NIK THEODORE 10 Milking Research for Social Change: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in Upstate New York CARLY FOX, REBECCA FUENTES, FABIOLA ORTIZ VALDEZ, GRETCHEN PURSER, AND KATHLEEN SEXSMITH 11 Building a Better Texas: Participatory Research Wins for Texas Workers RICH HEYMAN AND EMILY TIMM Part III Language, Literacy, and Heritage 12 Mobilizing and Organizing Nimiipuu to Protect the Environment: Fighting to Protect Ancestral Lands in Idaho LEONTINA HORMEL, JULIAN MATTHEWS, ELLIOTT MOFFETT, CHRIS NORDEN, AND LUCINDA SIMPSON 13 Building Future Language Leaders in a Participatory Action Research Model ROBERT ELLIOTT AND JANNE UNDERRINER 14 Conclusion: Linking Research to Social Action PRENTICE ZINN, SUSAN D. 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Book SynopsisThis book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport, and a broad ethnic culture. Using Jurgen Habermas’s concept of a public sphere, the author reveals how the Irish constructed a plebian “counter” public of Gaelic meaning through various mechanisms of communication, the ethnic press, the meeting rooms of Irish societies, the consumption of circulating pamphlets, oratory, songs, ballads, poems, and conversation. Settled in working class neighborhoods of vast spatial separation in an industrial city, the Irish resisted a parochialism identified with neighborhood and instead extended themselves to construct a vibrant, culturally engaged network of Irish rebirth in Philadelphia, a public of Gaelic meaning.Trade Review"Mullan is to be commended for his very impressive original study of Irish Philadelphia and the way that the people who migrated there from Ireland drew from their past to build their present. I strongly believe that readers will profit from his insights."— Timothy McMahon, author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 "In this path-breaking work, Michael Mullan demonstrates the importance of studying the many links between the Irish American community in 1890s Philadelphia and the Irish cultural revival in Ireland. Mullan gives us a novel perspective with the concept of a Gaelic public sphere resulting from the meeting between the American milieu and the Irish roots. This is a compelling study, which should be required reading for all those who wish to understand how to write innovatively transnational cultural history."— Enrico Dal Lago, Author of Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern ItalyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Outlines of a Gaelic Public Sphere 2 Inserting the Gaelic in the Public Sphere 3 Irish Philadelphia in and out of the Gaelic Sphere 4 Transatlantic Origins of Irish American Voluntary Associations 5 A Microanalysis of Irish American Civic Life: Ireland’s Donegal and Cavan Emerge in Philadelphia 6 The Forging of a Collective Consciousness: Militant Irish Nationalism and Civic Life in Gaelic Philadelphia 7 Sport, Culture, and Nation among the Irish of Philadelphia Conclusion: A Gaelic Public Sphere—Its Rise and Fall Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn this volume scholars from around the world discuss the innovative forms of collaboration between public and private actors that contribute to making our cities more liveable. It offers helpful insights into the practices of partnerships and the ways in which partnerships can contribute to a more liveable urban environment. The liveability of our cities is a topic of increasing relevance and urgency. The world’s cities are becoming congested and polluted, putting pressure on affordable housing and causing safety to become a major problem. Urban governments are unable to address these major challenges on their own, and thus they seek cooperation with other governments, companies, civil society organizations, and citizens. By focusing on examples such as greenery in the city, affordable housing, safety, neighbourhood revitalization, and ‘learning by doing’ in urban living labs, this book asks two key questions. How do partnerships between public and private actors contribute to the liveability of cities? Under what conditions are partnerships successful, and when do they fail to yield the desired results?Table of ContentsList of illustrationsList of contributors1. Introduction Cor van Montfort and Ank MichelsPART I - Partnerships and green in cities2. Partnerships in experimental urban climate governance: insights from Seoul Jeroen van der Heijden and Seung-Hun Hong3. Liveable cities and daily life: local level urban agriculture in Orizânia, São Paulo, and Montreal Kate Dayana de Abreu, Zilma Borges, Lya Porto, and Peter Spink4. From gray to green cities: Tilburg, Melbourne, San Jose, and Cape Town Cor van Montfort and Ank Michels5. The impact of public and private partnerships on the liveability of eco-cities in the Pearl River Delta in ChinaHaiyan Lu, Li Sun, and Martin de JongPART II – Partnerships and affordable housing6. Production of middle-class residential developments in Nairobi: informal collaboration between developers and urban planners Mary Muthoni Mwangi7. Innovations in affordable housing in Dublin: lessons from not-for-profit housing developers Valesca Lima8. Emerging public-private partnership in the provision of affordable housing in China’s major cities.Zhi Liu and Desiree ChewPART III – Safety in the city9. Partnerships for safe cities: community-safety initiatives in cities in the Netherlands and Belgium Carola van Eijk10. Multi-stakeholder cooperation for safe and healthy urban environments: the case of Citizen Sensing Anna Berti Suman11. Safety in the city: building partnerships in the fight against organized crime Martijn Groenleer, Sanderijn Cels, and Jorrit de Jong PART IV – Neighborhood revitalization12. Partnerships in shrinking cities: making Baltimore ‘liveable’? Madeleine Pill13. Youths growing up in the French banlieues: partners that make the city Simone van de Wetering and Femke Kaulingfreks 14. The effectiveness, legitimacy and robustness of hybrid liveability governance. The case of Quartiersmanagement in Berlin Niels Karsten, Carlo Colombo, and Linze SchaapPART V – Urban living labs15. The governance challenge of Urban Living Laboratories: using liminal ‘in-between’ space to create liveable cities Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, and Roland Bal16. Partnerships for innovation. The case of Urban Living Lab in Turin Giorgia Nesti17. Conclusions. The dynamic and fluid world of partnerships Ank Michels and Cor van MontfortIndex

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds to the challenges of the new millennium. The chapters, built upon a common theoretical framework of institutionalisation, are evidence-based and comparative. Overall, the book diagnoses diversity among the country cases due to their take-off points and varied political and economic trajectories. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Formation and Aims of the Book, COST and WG1, Gabriella Ilonszki and Christophe RouxChapter 2 Institutionalisation of political science in East Central Europe: Connecting Theory to the Ground, Gabriella IlonszkiChapter 3 Continuities and New Beginnings in the Post-Yugoslav States, Davor Boban, Ivan Stanojevic, Simona KukovicChapter 4 Political Science in Central European Democracies under Pressure, Darina Malova, Aneta Vilagi, Dobrinka KostovaChapter 5 Is small beautiful? Institutionalization of Political Science in small states, Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir, Irmina Matonyte Chapter 6 From Scientific Communism to Political Science: Development of the Profession in the Post-Soviet States, Dangis Gudelis, Irmina Matonyte, Serghei Sprincean, Tatsiana ChulitskayaChapter 7 On the Way to Relevance: At the crossroads of recognition and performance, Gabriella Ilonszki, Davor Boban, Dangis GudelisChapter 8 Adjusting of New Countries into Existing (Old) Institutional Frameworks, Erkki BerndstonChapter 9 Conclusion: Political Science Between Opportunities and Challenges, Christophe Roux

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds to the challenges of the new millennium. The chapters, built upon a common theoretical framework of institutionalisation, are evidence-based and comparative. Overall, the book diagnoses diversity among the country cases due to their take-off points and varied political and economic trajectories. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: The Formation and Aims of the Book, COST and WG1, Gabriella Ilonszki and Christophe RouxChapter 2 Institutionalisation of political science in East Central Europe: Connecting Theory to the Ground, Gabriella IlonszkiChapter 3 Continuities and New Beginnings in the Post-Yugoslav States, Davor Boban, Ivan Stanojevic, Simona KukovicChapter 4 Political Science in Central European Democracies under Pressure, Darina Malova, Aneta Vilagi, Dobrinka KostovaChapter 5 Is small beautiful? Institutionalization of Political Science in small states, Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir, Irmina Matonyte Chapter 6 From Scientific Communism to Political Science: Development of the Profession in the Post-Soviet States, Dangis Gudelis, Irmina Matonyte, Serghei Sprincean, Tatsiana ChulitskayaChapter 7 On the Way to Relevance: At the crossroads of recognition and performance, Gabriella Ilonszki, Davor Boban, Dangis GudelisChapter 8 Adjusting of New Countries into Existing (Old) Institutional Frameworks, Erkki BerndstonChapter 9 Conclusion: Political Science Between Opportunities and Challenges, Christophe Roux

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary book consists of three parts which examine the European Union policies on research and innovation, education and life-long learning, as well as the European Union Pillar on social rights and youth policies. In the first part, high-level experts analyze the European Research Area and its current enhancement, with emphasis on mobility and employability of researchers, especially in times of crises.In the second part, the governance architecture of the European Education Area(s) is explored and the new objectives of the Bologna Process, as well as the EU institutional framework of the recognition of skills and qualifications, are analyzed. Life-long learning is also important for the individual development of human capital especially for socially vulnerable people who could also benefit from literacy policies and skills development. The second part concludes with the evaluation of the EU education and training policy based on social indicators in the framework of the EU 2020 Strategy.In the third part, the book turns to Social Europe and the balancing between ordo-liberalism and ordo-socialism. It examines the EU Pillar of Social Rights and its impact on youth policies. It analyzes the EU youth policies e.g. on youth credit and their interaction with young people’s employment and education possibilities, with emphasis on the young people "not in education, employment or training" (NEETs).Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis open access book centres on the advisory roles of political scientists in Europe. Based on a cross-national survey, the book offers a comparative analysis of the viewpoints and activities of university-based political scientists on external engagement. Political scientists in Europe appear more extrovert as academics than sometimes thought. In their professional functioning they engage in delivering knowledge and advice to all kinds of stakeholders in the policy process. This volume contains twelve in-depth country studies where different trends are visible, from political regime change to pressure for impact of academic work. The findings from this comparative analysis may inform our orientation on interaction between academics and their social and political environment, and what this means for education and training in university programs in political science. Table of ContentsPart I From Theory to Empirical Analysis of Advisory Roles1. Introduction, Arco Timmermans and Marleen Brans2. A Theoretical Perspective on the Roles of Political Scientists in Policy Advisory Systems, Marleen Brans, Arco Timmermans, and Athanassios Gouglas3.Strategy of Data Collection and Analysis for Comparing Policy Advisory Roles, Marleen Brans, Arco Timmermans, and José Real-Dato.- Part II Country Studies of Advisory Roles4. Removing Political Barriers to Engagement: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Albania, Nevila Xhindi and Blerjana Bino5. Resisting Devolution? The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Belgium, Marleen Brans, David Aubin, and Ellen Fobé6. Restrained Wisdom or Not? The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Denmark, Morten Kallestrup7. A Small Discipline, Scarce Publicity, and Compromised Outward Reach: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in France, Pierre Squevin and David Aubin8. Driven by Academic Norms and Status of Employment: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Germany, Sonja Blum and Jens Jungblut9. Coping with a Closed and Politicized System: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Hungary, Gábor Tamás Molnár10. Of Pure Academics and Advice Debutants: The Policy Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Italy, Andrea Pritoni and Maria Tullia Galanti11. The New Abundance of Policy Advice: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Norway, Ivar Bleiklie and Svein Michelsen12. In Search of Relevance: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Spain, José Real-Dato13. Polder Politics Under Pressure: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in the Netherlands, Valérie Pattyn and Arco Timmermans14. Changing Policy Advisory Dynamics in the 2000s: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Turkey, Caner Bakir and H. Tolga Bolukbasi15. Making Political Science Matter: The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in the United Kingdom, Matthew Flinders, Justyna Bandola-Gill, and Alexandra AndersonPart III Patterns Across Countries in Europe16. The Advisory Roles of Political Scientists in Comparative Perspective, Arco Timmermans, Marleen Brans, and José Real-Dato

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth look into key political dynamics that obtain in a democracy without parties, offering a window into political undercurrents increasingly in evidence throughout the Latin American region, where political parties are withering. For the past three decades, Peru has showcased a political universe populated by amateur politicians and the dominance of personalism as the main party–voter linkage form. The study peruses the post-2000 evolution of some of the key Peruvian electoral vehicles and classifies the partisan universe as a party non-system. There are several elements endogenous to personalist electoral vehicles that perpetuate partylessness, contributing to the absence of party building. The book also examines electoral dynamics in partyless settings, centrally shaped by effective electoral supply, personal brands, contingency, and iterated rounds of strategic voting calculi. Given the scarcity of information electoral vehicles provide, as well as the enormously complex political environment Peruvian citizens inhabit, personal brands provide readymade informational shortcuts that simplify the political world. The concept of “negative legitimacy environments” is furnished to capture political settings comprised of supermajorities of floating voters, pervasive negative political identities, and a generic citizen preference for newcomers and political outsiders. Such environments, increasingly present throughout Latin America, produce several deleterious effects, including high political uncertainty, incumbency disadvantage, and political time compression. Peru’s “democracy without parties” fails to deliver essential democratic functions including governability, responsiveness, horizontal and vertical accountability, or democratic representation, among others. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Latin America's Party System Trends1.1 Party system deinstitutionalization1.2 Party system collapses and post-collapse dynamics1.3 Regime-level consequences 2. Peru's Parties: Autonomy, Coherence and Social Rootedness2.1 Introduction2.2 The Fate of Traditional Parties in Post-Fujimori Peru2.2.1 APRA 2.2.1.1 Autonomy 2.2.1.2 Coherence,2.2.1.3 Social rootedness2.2.2 The Right and Center Right: Partido Popular Crisitano and Accion Popular2.2.3 The Fractured Left2.3 The Taxi Parties of the Post Fujimorato Period2.3.1 Peru Posible2.3.2 Fujimorismo2.3.2.1 A real Party?2.3.2.2 Autonomy, coherence and social rootedness2.3.2.3 The future of Fujimorismo 2.3.3 Partido Nacionalista Peruano2.3.3.1 Autonomy 2.3.3.2 Coherence2.3.3.3 Social rootedness2.4 Conclusion3. Peru's Party Non-System: Traits and Dynamics3.1 Introduction3.2 What is a Party Non-System?3.3 Why Pery qualifies as a Party Non-System3.3.1 Persistently high extra-systemic volatility3.3.2 Absence of Systemic Parties3.4 Electoral Dynamics of Peru’s Non System3.4.1 Absence of Programmatic Structuration3.4.2 Personalistic party-voter linkages3.5 The Primacy of Party Supply over Demand3.6 The Importance of Strategic Voting3.7 Prospects for Party System Reconstruction3.8 Conclusion4. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a number of specific proposals that, if translated into political reality, could contribute to nurturing a Europeanisation of national public spheres. Having left Brexit behind, intellectuals and policy-makers throughout Europe are now passionately discussing how to move forward the process of European integration. Crucial to this effort is the debate about the Europeanisation of national public spheres: a process that should not harm existing national and local identities but, rather, contribute to their enrichment. This book addresses policy-makers, academics, and forward-thinking citizens alike by providing them with a variety of ideas - and the practical steps needed to translate these into reality across selected European countries - to begin narrowing a dangerous gap between national politics and supranational policy-making.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Improving on What We Already Have.- Chapter 3. Changing the Political Framework.- Chapter 4. Attempting the Leap Forward.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the implications for law and regulation. The five chapters examine the main forms of contemporary biometrics–fingerprint recognition, facial recognition and DNA identification– as well the integration of biometric data with other forms of personal data, analyses key ethical concepts in play, including privacy, individual autonomy, collective responsibility, and joint ownership rights, and proposes a raft of principles to guide the regulation of biometrics in liberal democracies.Biometric identification technology is developing rapidly and being implemented more widely, along with other forms of information technology. As products, services and communication moves online, digital identity and security is becoming more important. Biometric identification facilitates this transition. Citizens now use biometrics to access a smartphone or obtain a passport; law enforcement agencies use biometrics in association with CCTV to identify a terrorist in a crowd, or identify a suspect via their fingerprints or DNA; and companies use biometrics to identify their customers and employees. In some cases the use of biometrics is governed by law, in others the technology has developed and been implemented so quickly that, perhaps because it has been viewed as a valuable security enhancement, laws regulating its use have often not been updated to reflect new applications. However, the technology associated with biometrics raises significant ethical problems, including in relation to individual privacy, ownership of biometric data, dual use and, more generally, as is illustrated by the increasing use of biometrics in authoritarian states such as China, the potential for unregulated biometrics to undermine fundamental principles of liberal democracy. Resolving these ethical problems is a vital step towards more effective regulation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgment1. The Rise of Biometric Identification, Fingerprints and Applied Ethics2. Facial Recognition and Privacy Rights3. DNA Identification, Joint Rights and Collective Responsibility4. Biometric and Non-Biometric Integration: Dual Use Dilemmas5. The Future of Biometrics and Liberal DemocracyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside “traditional” socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences. In this perspective, the book delves into the connections between the concepts of learning and participation and, in various ways and from different perspectives, critically interrogates learning and participation as interrelated phenomena, with the aim of revealing complexities implicated in pathways to adulthood. Being interdisciplinary in its nature (contributors come from disciplinary backgrounds such as educational sciences, child and youth studies, social work, sociology and political science), the volume provides an up-to date analysis of contemporary issues connected to youth participation and learning. The work taps into central areas of everyday life of young people and youth meaning-making and generates and presents qualitative knowledge about what it means to be young in Europe today.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Youth participation and learning.- Chapter 2. Three major challenges in young people´s political participation and a pragmatic way forward.- Chapter 3. Learning to participate in and through conflict.- Chapter 4. Professionalization of Youth Volunteering in Turkey: A case study.- Chapter 5. Youth Participation and Mediation Practices: Issues of Social Learning.- Chapter 6. Participation through Learning: Supporting Young People in Exile.- Chapter 7. The theatre as a laboratory of creativity and chaos: youth participation and informal processes of multidimensional learning.- Chapter 8. Mimesis and sharing: learning political imagination in everyday interactions.- Chapter 9. What do young people learn in formal settings of youth participation?.- Chapter 10. Politics of re-framing: Youth and the struggle for equal participation in the urban peripheries of Sweden.- Chapter 11. Young People’s Spatial Practices as a Key to a different Perspective on Participatory Educational Landscapes - Reflections on Graffiti and Parkour.

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Book Synopsis​This book focuses on the experience of leaving unusual or extreme situations: from military careers to religious communities, subcultures, criminal groups and political leadership. It explores how people become disillusioned with and disengaged from these social worlds, challenging their sense of self-identity and cultural belonging. Each chapter considers how participants negotiate the process of ‘role exit’ and adjust to their new identity back in the everyday world. Drawing on symbolic interactionist and existentialist theories, the authors discuss how ex-members dismantle and rebuild their lives in a search for personal meaning. Table of Contents1. Introduction.2. The Reinventive Self: War Veterans’ Accounts of Trauma, Disillusionment and Reparation.3. Exiting an Offender Role: White-Collar Offenders’ Sense of Self and the Demonstration of Change.4. When Certainty Cracks: Early Identity-Change Work among Women Exiting High-Cost Religion.5. Women Leaving and Losing in Politics: Eulogy Work on a Public Stage.6. Identity in Reverse: Exploring ‘Broken Typifications’ and Calibrating ‘Depth’ in Interpretive Inquiry with Ex-Straightedgers.7. From Free to Exoneree: A Narrative Analysis of Ex-treme Identity Processes as Expressed through Autobiographical Accounts of Exonerees.8. Caring for and Containing the Hateful Other: Schools’ Strategies to Deal with Students with Neo-Nazi Convictions.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than “junior partner” to Karl Marx or “second fiddle” in the Marxist orchestra. The nineteen critical essays in this collection are the work of scholars from Germany, USA, UK, Italy, China, India, Mexico and the Philippines. Together they present and evaluate archival material and scholarly commentary that covers epistemology, political economy, political theory, gender studies, cultural studies, political geography, philosophy of social science and sociological studies of class-conflict. Students, activists and specialists will find fresh consideration of familiar works, such as The Condition of the Working Class in England, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, and The Dialectics of Nature. They will also be able to explore Engels’s less familiar pamphleteering, literary criticism and political commentary through detailed contextualization and careful analysis. Friedrich Engels for the 21st Century: Perspectives and Problems is unique in putting different intellectual and political receptions of Engels’s work into productive conversation, particularly from non-Anglophone scholars, translated here into English. Readers will appreciate why Engels has been so widely celebrated some two hundred years after his birth. Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction.- Section 1 Epistemology and Philosophy of Nature.- Chapter Two: Engels and the dialectic of nature.- Chapter Three: Engels and the “Dialectics of Nature”.- Chaper Four: Was Engels a dialectical materialist?.- Chapter Five: Engels and the end of philosophy.- Section 2 Political Economy.- Chapter Six: Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy: the is/ought question.- Chapter Seven: The young Engels and the critique of capitalism: his influence on the young Marx.- Chapter Eight: Engels on the „external market“ and „de-industrialization“.- Section 3 The Condition of the Working Class.- Chapter Nine: The constitution of the proletariat: bringing together Friedrich Engels, Edward P. Thompson and Michael Vester.- Chapter Ten: The Housing Question Revisited.- Section 4 Theorizing Power.- Chapter Eleven: Engels theorizes gender hierarchy in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.- Chapter Twelve: The concept of power in Engels’s theory of the state.- Chapter Thirteen Re-reading Engels in the twenty-first century: state, nationalism, and internationalism.- Section 5 Engels and Literature.- Chapter Fourteen: The proletariat and the „people“: Engels and the „social prose“ of the 1840s.- Chapter Fifteen: Engels’s philosophical mock-epic: The Triumph of Faith.- Chapter Sixteen: Engels and German literature: a political history to the present.- Section 6 Emancipation – Revolution – Communism.- Chapter Seventeen: Engels on post-capitalist society: continuity or discontinuity with Marx.- Chapter Eighteen Engels and the remaking of communism in the twenty-first century.- Chapter Nineteen: Afterword: whither Engels?

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Book SynopsisThis book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of different informal fallacies is central in the approach adopted by the authors, and they privilege the role of covert intentions as a frequent ingredient of manipulation. They also show how different speakers can use different subtypes of the same fallacy in a debate, and investigate the tension between the policy preferences and goals of politicians, and existing laws. The book has been written without jargon, all concepts and terminology from the field of linguistic pragmatics are clearly defined, and it is accessible to the interested layperson wishing to become familiar with manipulative techniques in political rhetoric.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Opposition to Amending the Constitution in a Congressional Debate in 1789.- Chapter 3: Edward Livingston’s Motion for Reconciliation with France in July 1798.- Chapter 4: Arguing for the Sedition Act in the Debate of July 5, 1798.- Chapter 5: Debating the Expulsion of Matthew Lyon in February 1799.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the implications of agonistic democratic theory for political practice. Fuat Gürsözlü argues that at a time when political parties exacerbate political division, political protesters are characterized as looters and terrorists, and extreme partisanship and authoritarian tendencies are on the rise, the agonistic approach offers a much-needed rethinking of political practice to critically understand challenges to democracy and envision more democratic, inclusive, and peaceful alternatives. Inspired by Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory and drawing on insights of other prominent agonistic scholars, Gürsözlü offers a distinctive approach that develops the connections between the agonistic approach and political practice. His main claim is that approaching democratic politics from an agonistic perspective changes the way we understand the nature of democratic society, the place of political protest in democracy, the nature of adversarial engagement, and the democratic function of political parties. The book also advances an account of agonistic peace that is best fitted to the pluralistic and inherently conflictual nature of democratic societies. This book should be of interest to anyone working in the field of contemporary political theory, political philosophy, peace studies, and philosophy of peace.Table of ContentsPart I Theoretical Interventions1. Democracy: Radical or Agnostic?2. For a More Democratic Agonistic Politics Part II Practical Considerations3. Expanding Agonistic Engagement4. Agonistic Spaces and the Value of Political Protest5. What Should We Expect from Political Parties? An Agonistic Account of Political Party6. Thinking Peace Agonistically

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses Marx’s thinking on human emancipation based on his critique of capitalism and the prospect of socialism. It analyzes the double relations between persons and things, and persons and persons by tracking Marx’s writings, including MEGA2, and taking into consideration the socialist practice and socialist reform of the last century. It is a necessary study for social scientists, social andpolitical philosophers, and students for its deep and wide analysis from the perspective of Marxian theory in practice.Table of Contents1. The Real Man in the Objectified Relationship2. Concept of Preposition and Analysis on Relevant Issues3. Marx’s Economic Analysis and Sociological Critique of Capitalism4. The logic of Marx’s view of emancipation5. Marxian and non-Marxian theories: what is the Demarcation?6. Marxian and non-Marxian views on distributive justice7. The concept of Justice in Marx’s theory8. Predicament of distributive justice in the socialist system9. Pre-modern, modern and post-modern: what do historical changes mean to Marx’s theory?

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Book SynopsisThis handbook presents the roots of symbolic racism as partly in both anti-black antagonism and non-racial conservative attitudes and values, representing a new form of racism independent of older racial and political attitudes. By doing so, it homes in on certain historical incidents and episodes and presents a cogent analysis of anti-black, Jim Crowism, anti-people of color (Black, Latino, Native Americans), and prejudice that exists in the United States and around the world as a central tenet of racism. The book exposes the reader to the nature and practice of stereotyping, negative bias, social categorization, modern forms of racism, immigration law empowerment, racialized incarceration, and police brutality in the American heartland. It states that several centuries of white Americans’ negative socializing culture marked by widespread negative attitudes toward African Americans, are not eradicated and are still rife. Further, the book provides a panoramic view of trends of racial discrimination and other negative and desperate challenges that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color face across the world. Finally, the volume examines xenophobia, racism, prejudice, and stereotyping in different contexts, including topics such as Covid-19, religion and racism, information manipulation, and populism. The book, therefore, is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science, psychology, history, sociology, communications/media studies, diplomatic studies, and law in general, as well as ethnic and racial studies, American politics, global affairs, populism, and discrimination in particular.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Comprehending the Nature of the Beast.- Part I. Rethinking the Nature of Prejudice.- Chapter 2. Populism: A Conceptual Overview.- Chapter 3. Demagogy and Populism in the Americas.- Chapter 4. Seeking Control of Life and the World Through Populist Politics.- Chapter 5. Truth and Democracy: An Uncomfortable Relation in Contemporary American Democracy.- Chapter 6. Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge.- Chapter 7. The Relationship Between Mainstream and Populist Parties: The Portuguese Case.- Chapter 8. “I Can’t Breathe”: the Bible and Bonhoeffer on Race and Suffering in America.- Chapter 9. The Swedish Nightmare in Racialization: The Dismantlement of Bounding Social Capital in Scandinavian Welfare States.- Chapter 10. Governance for Sustainable Development Goals in Cosmopolitan Governance: Basic Ethical Principles for Ethical Behavior in Public Organizations and Institutions.- Chapter 11. Self-esteem and Intergroup Discrimination.- Chapter 12. Domain Specific Self-esteem, Threats to Group Value and Intergroup Discrimination Amongst Minimal and Real Groups.- Part II. The Nature of Bias and Aggressive Policing.- Chapter 13. The Nature of Bias: Effects of Institutionalized Prejudices and Theoretical Explanations for Its Development.- Chapter 14. The Correlates of Prejudice: Groupthink and Individual Psychological Attributes.- Chapter 15. Many Roads Lead to Rome - College, Career, Commitment (Marriage), Oh My: Is Conceiving All These Still Extrinsically Linked in the Era of Fake News?.- Chapter 16. Police Fiction: Native American Activists’ Political Murders at or Near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1973-1976.- Chapter 17. A Double-edged Sword”: Black Collegiate Women’s Perceptions of Law Enforcement.- Part III. Social Identity and Intergroup Behavior.- Chapter 18. How Ingroup Favouritism Functions as a Defense Against Threat.- Part IV. Xenophobic Scapegoating and Racism.- Chapter 19. Umshini Wami (Cry, the Beloved Continent!): Erasing South Africa’s ‘toxic’ and Worsening Afrophobia, Afronegativity (Recycling Hatred), Aversive Racism, and Xeno-racism – After Mandela.- Chapter 20 Xenophobia in the United States: Structural Drivers.- Chapter 21. From Eugenics to Eco-fascism: a History of Xenophobic Scapegoating.- Chapter 22. India - Hindus and Muslims: Religion and Racism.- Part V. Africentricism, and Non-eurocentric Perspectives.- Chapter 23. Debunking False Theoretical Concepts, Appreciating Asylums and Fending Off Media Attacks, Theological Misorientation, and Sexual Misorientation.- Chapter 24. Aziboist Concepts and Psycho-cultural-political Orientations for Socially Engineering Aright the New African Person.- Chapter 25. Listening to Blutopia: Sounds of Afrofuturism Perspective.- Chapter 26. The Fascinating Legacy of Yoruba Culture, Gods, and the Genesis of Civilization.- Chapter 27. Santeria (African Cultural Ideas) Under Attack: The Attempted Erasure of Lucumi and Extinguishing of a Cultural Candle.- Chapter 28. Caste, Class, and Globalization in India Revisited: Some Aspects of Continuity and Change.- Chapter 29. Tenskwatawa, the Holy Man of the Pan-India Resistance, 1804–1810.- Part VI. Pandemics and Environmental Crisis.- Chapter 30. Racism and Inequality in the Deep South: The Health and Sociocultural Correlates of HIV/AIDS Among African Americans and the Legacy of Slavery.- Part VII. Race and Justice.- Chapter 31. Race, Ethnicity and Perceived Everyday Discrimination in the United States.- Chapter 32. Civil Liberties in Uncivil Times - the Perilous Quest to Preserve American Freedoms During Its First Two Centuries.- Chapter 33. Civil Liberties in Uncivil Times - Preserving Traditional American Freedoms After 9/11.- Part VIII. Social Psychology of Prejudice.- Chapter 34. “If You're Brown, Stick Around; Black, Turn Back”: “Honorary Whiteness" Status and Immigration Policy.- Chapter 35. “Snitches Get Stitches”: Why Most Bullied Young People Don’t Disclose Incidents of Bullying and Harassment.- Chapter 36. Is There Anything New in Anti-semitism? Settler Colonialism.- Chapter 37. Muslims, Populism, and Scapegoat Theory.- Part IX. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.- Chapter 38. "Continental Africa or Europeans? Confronting the Paradox of “Afronegativity” and “xenoracism” in Nigeria-south Africa Relations".- Chapter 39. More Than Just Talking Anti-oppression: the Use of Racial Dialogue to Combat Intolerance in the Classroom.- Chapter 40. Bullying Perpetration and Perceptions of Familial Acceptance of Aggression Among Young People at University.- Part X. The Grand Dichotomy Reconsidered.- Chapter 41. Democracy in American Public Discourse: Power and the Crisis of Leadership, Race, and Division (or Unity).- Chapter 42. Race: The Irreconcilable Conflict Threatening Americas’ Future (and Indeed the World).- Chapter 43. Race, Class, and Populism: Global Perspectives.

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Book SynopsisMarek Thee was a Jewish Polish journalist, scholar, and activist. This book tells his life from narrowly escaping death in the Holocaust to exile in Palestine, where he became attached to the Polish consular service. On his return to Poland in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Ministry and later for the Polish Institute for International Affairs. He served as Head of the Polish delegation to the International Control Commission in Indochina in the late 1950s. In 1968 he lost his job and his Polish citizenship in a nationalistic and antisemitic campaign. He was able to move to Norway where he worked for twenty years at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), editing an international quarterly journal, Bulletin of Peace Proposals and doing research on the arms race. In retirement, he continued his research and writing at the Norwegian Human Rights Institute. The book vividly relates the drama of his life in Poland, Palestine, Indochina, and Norway.This is an open access book.Table of ContentsChapter 1. An International Scholar with a Dramatic Life.- Chapter 2. My Story: A Journey Through the 20th Century.- Chapter 3. Marek Thee: His Published Work.- On the author.- On the editors.- On the book.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, and other humanitarian crises around the world have led to growing numbers of people seeking refuge both in the North and in the South. Migrating and seeking refuge have always been part and parcel of spiritual development. However, the current 'refugee crisis' in Europe and elsewhere in the world has brought to the fore fervent discussions regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the ‘refugee crisis’ with Islam, and fear of the ‘Other.’ Many religious institutions, spiritual leaders, and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls to resolve the ‘refugee crisis.’ However, equally many humanitarian organizations and refugee advocates use religious values to inform their call to action to welcome refugees and migrants, provide them with assistance, and facilitate integration processes. This book includes three distinct but inter-related parts focusing, respectively, on politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion, with a particular emphasis on identity and belonging among various refugee groups; and faith and faith actors and their responses to forced migration.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Debating Religion and Forced Migration Entanglements (Elżbieta M. Goździak). - Part 1: Politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religion. - Chapter 1: Keleti Pályaudvar: Past and Present Refugee Crises in Hungary (Elżbieta M. Goździak). - Chapter 2: A journey to reconciliation? Asylum, religion and LGBTQ+ identities in the UK (Moira Dustin). - Chapter 3: Though Shalt Not Deport? Religious Ethical Discourse and the Politics of Asylum in Poland and Israel (Agnieszka Bielewska). - Part 2: Lived experiences of religion: Belonging and identity. -Chapter 4: Class solidarity and sectarian politics: Quarantina and the refugees of Beirut, Lebanon (Diala Lteif). - Chapter 5: Spaces of Experience and Horizons of Expectation: On the multidimensional role of religion in the Syrian Refugee Crisis (Ingrid Løland). - Chapter 6: Exclusive inclusion: “Cultural values,” racialization of religion, and religious difference in the Netherlands’ politics of belonging (Aukje Muller). - Part 3: Faith and faith actors in responses to forced migration. - Chapter 7: Local faith communities’ responses to forced migration (Susanna Trotta and Olivia Wilkinson). - Chapter 8: Religion Resettles Refugees: Case studies of religion's role in resettlement in the United States (Mathew Weiner). - Chapter 9: Religion and Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: A Case Study with MCC Ontario (Luann Good Gingrich). - Chapter 10: The occult and land access among peri-urban refugees: The case of Lydiate informal settlement in Zimbabwe (Johannes Bhanye). - Conclusions: Religion and Forced Migration at the Crossroads (Elżbieta M. Goździak)

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Book SynopsisThis open access Regional Reader provides a contemporary look at the emerging challenges and issues facing South Asian migration amidst covid-19 and discusses a framework for a sustainable and cooperative migration from and within the region, which will impact both the economic and regional development of South Asia. The book draws a focus on this area through an interdisciplinary and holistic lens and follows the three broad areas of migration studies in South Asia: Governance and mobility, Family, health and demography, and Forced migration. It thereby covers a number of issues from South Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and the Maldives. This book is a valuable resource for those who want to understand the dynamics of migration from the largest migrant-sending region in the world and one which will determine the shape of global migration patterns in the future.Table of ContentsPart 1. Governance and Mobility: Retrospect and Prospect 1. Migration in South Asia: Old and New Mobilities (S Irudaya Rajan) 2. Internal and Forced Migration and Economic Development in South Asia (Mehdi Chowdhury and Syed Naimul Wadood) 3. Non-traditional migration in South Asia (AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque) 4. International Migration in Bangladesh: A political economic overview (Hasan Mahmud) 5. Labour Migration from Nepal: Trends and Explanations (Jagannath Adhikari, Mahendra Kumar Rai, Chiranjivi Baral and Mahendra Subedi) 6. Navigating between Nation and Civilization: Regimes of Citizenship and Migration under Bharatiya Janata Party (Samir Kumar Das) 7. Understanding Temporary Labour Migration through the lens of caste: India case study (S IrudayaRajan, Kunal Keshri and Priya Deshingkar) 8. Attraction and Detraction: Migration Drivers in Bhutan (Mayur A Gosai and Leanne Sulewski) Part II: Family, Health and Demographics 9. An Analysis of the Impact of International Remittances on Child Education: Evidence from Pakistan (Hisaya Oda) 10. Female Migration and Stay-Behind Children in Bangladesh (Sabnam Sarmin Luna) Part III: Forced Migration 11. A threat or an opportunity? Internal migration in the context of climate extremes in Pakistan (Kashif Majeed Salik, Maryum Shabbir, Khansa Naeem and Junaid Zahid) 12. Local Expert Perceptions of Creeping Environmental Changes and Responses in Maldives (Robert Stojanov and Ilan Kelman) 13. From Muhājir to āwāra: Figures of Migration and Exile among Afghans (Khadija Abbasi and Alessandro Monsutti) 14. Health beyond borders: Migration and precarity in South Asia (Anuj Kapilashrami and Ekatha Ann John) 15. Migration, Development within the SAARC Framework: Towards a Migration Governance Model of the Future (S. Irudaya Rajan and Ashwin Kumar)

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Book SynopsisThis textbook offers an essential introduction to survey research and quantitative methods with clear instructions on how to conduct statistical tests with R. Building on the premise that we need to teach statistical methods in a holistic and practical format, the book guides students through the four main elements of survey research and quantitative analysis: (1) the importance of survey research, (2) preparing a survey, (3) conducting a survey and (4) analyzing a survey. In detail, students will learn how to create their own questionnaire on the basis of formulating hypotheses; sampling participants; disseminating their questionnaire; creating datasets; and analyzing their data. The data analytical sections of this revised and extended edition explain the theory, rationale and mathematical foundations of relevant bivariate and multi-variate statistical tests. These include the T-test, F-test, Chi-square test and correlation analyses, as well as bivariate and multivariate regression analyses. In addition, the book offers a brief introduction to statistical computing with R, which includes clear instructions on how to conduct these statistical tests in R. Given the breadth of its coverage, the textbook is suitable for introductory statistics, survey research and quantitative methods classes in the social sciences.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book is a guide to non-academic careers for quantitative social scientists. Written by social science PhDs working in large corporations, non-profits, tech startups, and alt-academic positions in higher education, this book consists of more than a dozen chapters on various topics on finding rewarding careers outside the academy. Chapters are organized in three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the types of jobs available to social science PhDs, where those jobs can be found, and what the work looks like in those positions. Part II creates a guide for social science PhDs on how to set themselves up for such careers, including navigating the academic world of graduate school while contemplating non-academic options, and selling their academic experience in a non-academic setting. Part III offers perspectives on timelines for making non-academic career decisions, lifestyle differences between academia and non-academic jobs, and additional resources for those considering a non-academic route. Providing valuable insight on non-academic careers from those who have successfully made the transition, this volume will be an asset to graduate students, advisors, and recent PhDs, in quantitative social science. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Surveying the Landscape of Industry Jobs.- Section 1: Career Paths.- Chapter 2. Data Science Needs You, Social Scientist.- Chapter 3. How to Thrive in the Data Industry Without a Traditional STEM Background.- Chapter 4. Alt-Academic Career Paths.- Chapter 5. From the Academy to Tech Startups: Considerations and Opportunities.- Chapter 6. Opportunities and Pathways in Survey Research.- Chapter 7. Market Research with a PhD in Sociology.- Chapter 8. Say Yes to Cultivating Your Future.- Chapter 9. Working in Government.- Chapter 10. Working in Quasi-Governmental Research.- Chapter 11. Proudly Disinterested: Public Administration and Social Science Ph.D. Programs.- Chapter 12. Applying the Transferrable Skill Set of a Ph.D. to Emerging Data Fieldsx.- Section 2: Advice for Non-Academic Job Success.- Chapter 13. How to Market Yourself for Careers Beyond the Professoriate.- Chapter 14. Beyond Visa Sponsorship: Navigating the Job Market as An Immigrant.- Chapter 15. So You Want to Work in Tech. How Do You Make the Leap?.- Chapter 16. Perspectives on Rapid Antigen Tests for Downstream Validation and Development of Theranostics.- Chapter 17. Kill, Pivot, Continue: Tips and Tricks for Career Transition Away From Academe.- Chapter 18. Presenting Academic Research in the Interview Process and Beyond: A Conversation Between Colleagues.- Chapter 19. Thriving in a Non-Academic Environment.- Chapter 20. You Got Your First Job, What About Your Second? Conversations with Women Social Scientists on Landing Multiple Non-Academic Jobs.- Chapter 21. Staying Academically Relevant in a Non-Academic Career.-

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Continuity and Discontinuity in the Development of Laski's Thought.- Chapter 3. Marxist Foundations.- Chapter 4. Intellectual and Socio-Political Aspects of Laski's Marxism.- Chapter 5. Laski's Class Analysis of Capitalist Democracy.- Chapter 6. Laski on Democracy and Revolution in the Historical Trajectory.- Chapter 7. Laski on Liberty and Emancipation.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Why Read Laski Today.

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Book Synopsis1. Ambedkar: Castes in India.- 2. Ambedkar: Annihilation of Caste.- 3. Ambedkar: What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables.- 4. What Gandhi Says About Ambedkar and Caste.- 5. Republic of Caste.- 6. Caste and Class in Indian Society and History: Weberian Legacy.- 7. Caste in Subaltern Studies: Brahmanical, Bourgeois, Bohemian.- 8. Inequality within Caste and Kin: What Does That Have to do with Religion?.- 9. Race, Caste, and Collective Mobilization: Gandhi in South Africa.- 10. Marxism and Caste: Unjustified Critique from the Right (Part I and II).- 11. Annihilation of Caste without Annihilation of Hinduism: The Story of Indians in South Africa.- 12. For a Theory of Caste: Material Conditions, Ideas, History.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: (De-)Domesticating Critical Theory: From Modernist Defeatism and the Liberal and Postmodern Turns to the Radicalising Project of Modernity.- Chapter 2: What is Critical (Marxist) Theory? Ideology-Critical Totality Analysis towards Emancipatory Praxis.- Chapter 3: Domesticating Critical Theory: Two Affirmative Turns after one Defeatist Dead End.- Chapter 4: The Liberal Turn of the Frankfurt School as its first Affirmative Turn.- Chapter 5: The Postmodern Turn in the Frankfurt School as its second Affirmative Turn.- Chapter 6: Beyond Modernist Defeatism, Liberalist Apology, and Postmodern Farewells: The Radicalising Project of Modernity.- Part II: Critical Marxist Theory and Political Autonomy. From the Need to May to the Revolution for Living.- Chapter 7: Which Criterion for which Critique? Towards the Prenormative Meta-Criterion of Political Autonomy as the Precondition of the Good Life.- Chapter 8: Mapping the Background of Political Autonomy: The Dialectics of Self (Voicing), Subject (Listening), and Human (Caring).- Chapter 9: Critical Marxist Theory of Political Autonomy: Social Freedom, Substantial Democratisation, the End of Prehistory, and the Revolution for Living.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Critical Marxist Theory of Political Autonomy. Towards a Radical Politics of Maying and its Revolution for Living.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Narratives of Belonging and Peace. Interrelations between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology.- Chapter 2: Peace and Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”.- Chapter 3: A Confucian Approach to Love and Peace: Benevolence and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging.- Chapter 4: Peace, Liminality, and Discourses of Identity in Central European Late Modernity.- Chapter 5: Born of the Earth: Autochthony in the Colonial and Decolonial Struggles of the Caucasus.- Chapter 6: Beyond Identity? Narratives of Belonging and Peace in South Asia.- Chapter 7: Transcending Boundaries for Peace: Pluralist Theology, Shusaku Endo, and Global IR.- Chapter 8: Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Social Emancipation and the Decolonization of Knowledge in.- Chapter 9: Peacebuilding or Excluding Others: Rethinking Cultural Institutions’ Roles Focusing on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List and Food Museums in East Asia.

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Book SynopsisThe new series of Ideen&Argumente subscribes to the ideal of a pluralist and open culture of argument and debate and presents well-produced volumes on topics and questions which make substantive or methodologically important contributions to contemporary philosophy. The publications are designed to effect a productive synergy between the Anglo-Saxon and Continental European philosophical traditions. Ideen&Argumente provides a platform for outstanding systematically oriented original editions and German first editions from all areas of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. A welcome is extended to programmatic monographs from whatever philosophical direction. The aim is to highlight anew the thematic and methodological richness of contemporary philosophy.

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Book SynopsisNeoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right analyzes the violent enforcement of neoliberal governmentality and its relationship to the emergence of a new political and cultural Right that combines political authoritarianism, ethnocentric nationalism, racism, misogyny, and antifeminism with neoliberal economic principles. Many critical thinkers have defined this post-2008 crisis phase as a fascist moment of neoliberalism since far-Right movements and parties are not only enhancing their political representation but also setting the agenda of today’s politics. However, such a crucial political moment needs more precise analytical tools. In this framework, Neoliberalism Reloaded: Authoritarian Governmentality and the Rise of the Radical Right seeks to understand the emergence of the New Right and punitive neoliberalism not only as a reaction to a crisis of accumulation but also as an outcome of neoliberal reason and the historical neoliberal alliance with conservative and reactionary political forces. Therefore, far from thinking this moment as exceptional, this book seeks the roots of today’s punitive neoliberalism in its theoretical framework and in the violence inherent to neoliberal capitalism towards those racialized, colonized, genderized and precarized populations that cannot adjust to the norm of competitiveness. Thus, Neoliberalism Reloaded seeks to contribute to understanding the challenges of our present as a necessary step to imagine alternative futures.　　

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a collection of works by scholars from across a variety of disciplines, this book outlines the principles of a critical historical criminology. For historical criminologists, this book provides a framework of how to engage with historical material in a way that is critical in its interrogation, instructive in terms of how the past impacts upon our current (and future) practice, and attentive to the dangers of presentism. For critical criminologists, this book highlights the potential benefits of looking to the past to inform our understanding of the critical issues we face in the current social, cultural, and political context in a purposeful, historically sensitive way. This remarkable volume aims to model how to practice a critical version of historical criminology that has implications for practice in the contemporary period. It does so by incorporating contributions that emphasize robust, high-quality historical research that nonetheless speaks to issues and problems of premium concern to present-minded critical criminologists, bridging a gap between the past and present through an operationalization of the past that allows readers to better understand the criminological concerns of the present. In this sense, it can be used pedagogically, as a collection of works which model critical historical criminology, and is thus of instructional use alongside its research contribution.

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Book SynopsisAccording to Plato, democracies die when people get angry. Resentment causes them to vote for demagogues. Recently, democratically elected politicians have used crises as a pretext for dismantling democracy, following a pattern we have seen since the dawn of civilization. Why do people fall for the lure of dictatorships? And what can we learn from the cause and effects of dictatorships to understand why democracies die?In this new edition of Matt Qvortrup’s acclaimed monograph Death By A Thousand Cuts, the author shows how neuroscience can help us understand why people willingly give up their democratic rights or are unwillingly forced to do so.Death by a Thousand Cuts: Neuropolitics, Thymos, and the Slow Demise of Democracy is written in an accessible style with vignettes and new empirical data to provide historical context and neurological evidence on a much-discussed topic: the threat of democracy. This book will help readers who are concerned about the longevity of democracy understand when and why democracy is in danger of collapsing and alert them to the warning signs of its demise.

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