Politics and government Books
LUP - University of Michigan Press Elites and the Politics of Accountability in
Book SynopsisExamines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.Trade Review“Each chapter makes a genuine contribution to scholarship and illustrates the various understandings of accountability, its levels, and the forms it takes in various communities. The case studies provide an excellent opportunity to interrogate the role of elites in various contexts, including Morocco, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Sudan, South Africa, and Mauritius. The authors show a deep and wide understanding of accountability and the range of scholarship that bears on the chosen topics. It makes a huge contribution to scholarship in this field.”— Muna Ndulo, Cornell University
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The University of Michigan Press African Performance Arts and Political Acts
Book SynopsisPresents innovative formulations for how African performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics. This collection engages with a breadth of African countries and art forms, bringing together speech, hip hop, religious healing, theatre and social justice, opera, radio, protest songs, and migrant workers' dances.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: “Performance and Politics in Africa: Approaches and Perspectives” The Play of Social and Political Roles in Everyday Life 1. “Performing Political Identities: Senegalese Speakers and Their Audiences” (Senegal) Judy T. Irvine, University of Michigan 2. “The Socio-poetics of Sanakuyaagal: Negotiating Joking Relationships in West Africa” (Senegal) Nikolas Sweet, University of Michigan 3. “Participation beyond Gratitude: ‘Sterling Greetings’ and the Mediation of Social Ties on Nigerian Radio” (Nigeria) Jendele Hungbo, Bowen University (Iwo, Nigeria) Expressions of Identity, Consciousness, and Migration 4. “The Phenomenology of Collapsing Worlds: isiShameni Dance and the Politics of Proximity in Jeppestown, Johannesburg” (South Africa) Thomas M. Pooley, University of South Africa 5. “African Heritage Revealed through Musical Encounters and Political Ideologies in Cameron White’s Ouanga! and Reuben Tholakele Caluza and Herbert Isaac Ernst Dhlomo’s Moshoeshoe” (South Africa) Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand 6. “Angalia Ni Mimi: A Performance by Marthe Djilo Kamga” (Cameroon) Frieda Ekotto, University of Michigan Gendered Messages of Social Change 7. “Surviving Gender Violence: Activating Community Stories for Social Change” (South Africa) Anita Gonzales, University of Michigan 8. “Gangsters, Masculinity and Ethics: Underground Rapping in Dar es Salaam” (Tanzania) David Kerr, University of Birmingham and University of Johannesburg Songs of Protest and Activist Opera 9. “Seditious Songs: Spirituality as Performance and Political Action in Colonial-era Belgian Congo” (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh 10. “Activist Operatic Spaces Depicting Reality: Puccini’s La BohÈme becomes Breathe Umphefumlo” (South Africa) Naomi AndrÉ, University of Michigan 11. “Intrinsic Power of Songs Sung During Protests at South African Institutions of Higher Learning” (South Africa) Nompumelelo Zondi, University of Pretoria Contributors
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Collateral Damage
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation.Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Collateral Damage in Political Communication 3. Conditions Necessary for Collateral Damage 4. Trump Rhetorical Analysis 5. Rhetoric and Attitudes towards America 6. Rhetoric and Attitudes towards the Republican Party and Donald Trump 7. Disaggregating the Attitudes of Second-Generation Americans 8. Conclusion 9. Appendix 10. Index
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The University of Michigan Press Congressmens Voting Decisions
Book SynopsisThis classic study of voting decisions in the US House of Representatives, based on extensive interviewing and observation, combines theory and substance, generalization and detailed description. With a new introduction, this influential and innovative book remains the best statement of the ways in which legislators reach decisions.
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic
Book SynopsisThese collected essays provide a comparative historical investigation of gender and political culture as they explore eighteenth-century revolutionary movements. The contributors bring a rich variety of sources, methods, and perspectives to the investigation, making this anthology a useful contribution to the study of comparative history.
£22.75
The University of Michigan Press Social Science and PolicyMaking
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The University of Michigan Press Minority Parties in U.S. Legislatures
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The University of Michigan Press Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
Book SynopsisEfforts to reform the US campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favoured candidates with extreme ideological agendas and, consequently, fostered political polarization.Trade Review“Ray La Raja and Brian Schaffner have written an important book from a fresh research perspective that needs to be incorporated into all discussions of money in politics. From polarization to the proper role of the political parties, this book takes an extremely productive look at what is happening in the states and how that might serve as a laboratory for what works and what doesn’t in our elections.”—Benjamin L. Ginsberg, Partner, Jones Day; former counsel to RNC, the Mitt Romney campaign, and the Bush-Cheney campaigns“As American politics has grown more polarized, more shrill, and more deadlocked, reformers have been treating it with horse-doctors’ doses of the wrong medicine—or so Ray La Raja and Brian Schaffner argue in this deeply researched, closely argued, and urgently important book. Instead, strengthening the role of parties and political professionals could begin restoring health to the body politic. This counterintuitive and compelling book will change the way you think.”—Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution“LaRaja and Schaffner's book upends conventional wisdom on money in politics. They demonstrate convincingly that our disfigured campaign funding system has led to the worst of all worlds: unlimited and unaccountable outside spending that polarizes our politics, alongside hamstrung political parties that would be in the best position to reign in extremists and create governing coalitions. The book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the mockery our campaign financing system has become.”—Nathaniel Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School""It might seem paradoxical that strengthening parties could actually reduce partisan polarization. But that is exactly the provocative argument that La Raja and Schaffner make. It is an argument worth taking seriously by anyone who wants to make American politics less divisive.”—John Sides, George Washington University“I believe this book will be one of the more important contributions in the last decade to understanding the dynamics of political polarization in America today. Campaign Finance and Political Polarization is methodologically innovative and impressive in the data bases it uses to take advantage of the ‘natural’ comparative social science ‘experiment’ in the effects of campaign finance regulation on the legislative process that results from different regimes across the states.” —Rick Pildes, New York University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Taiwan Voter
Book SynopsisExamines the critical role ethnic and national identities play in politics, utilizing the case of Taiwan. Critiquing the conventional interpretation of politics as an ideological battle between liberals and conservatives, The Taiwan Voter demonstrates in Taiwan the party system and voters' responses are shaped by one powerful determinant of national identity - the China factor.Trade ReviewThe Taiwan Voter makes a tremendous contribution to the Taiwan literature as a culmination of nearly three decades of scholarly research of public opinion on Taiwan. It appeals to those interested in Taiwan, party identification, voting behavior, and electoral reform. Each chapter provides useful data and solid analysis with findings conveniently synthesized in the conclusion."" - Hans Stockton, University of St. Thomas""This book demonstrates forcefully how identity politics dominate the political structure of Taiwan. With the current global rise of identity politics, I am confident that this volume will occupy a prominent spot in the standard voting behavior canon for at least the next generation."" - Nathan F. Batto, Academia Sinica
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Building Character The Art and Science of
Book SynopsisWhat can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film - the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of ""casting"" an actor in a part creates a character and how this can be usefully understood through deploying theories from the cognitive sciences.Trade ReviewHow do we cast characters, sort out loved ones from the surrounding crush of humanity, much less keep track of whether actors are right for a part? Cook nimbly guides us through the cognitive functions that enable us to categorize people, and pulls more than a few rugs out from under our understandings of celebrity, politicking, and the culture wars."" - Scott Magelssen, University of Washington""In a masterpiece that lies at the intersection of the humanities and cognitive science, Cook shows that we form notions of character by casting a specific person in a specific role at a specific time, following complex cognitive patterns. From daily life to imagination, from reverie to reality, it’s casting all the way down."" - Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Elites and the Politics of Accountability in
Book SynopsisExamines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability.Trade Review“Each chapter makes a genuine contribution to scholarship and illustrates the various understandings of accountability, its levels, and the forms it takes in various communities. The case studies provide an excellent opportunity to interrogate the role of elites in various contexts, including Morocco, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Sudan, South Africa, and Mauritius. The authors show a deep and wide understanding of accountability and the range of scholarship that bears on the chosen topics. It makes a huge contribution to scholarship in this field.”— Muna Ndulo, Cornell University
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Fragile Dreams
Book SynopsisExamines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance to the fields of comparative politics, sociology, and feminist and gender studies.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode! Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict: The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling Liberalism’s fragile dream
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The University of Michigan Press The Repoliticization of the Welfare State
Book SynopsisCompares welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political parties once again matter for social spending. At the heart of this repoliticization are intense ideological debates over market regulation, social inequality, redistribution, and the role of the state.Trade Review“McManus’s book marks a turning point in the political economy of the welfare state. After decades of retrenchment, the global financial crisis of 2008 caused a thorough-going ‘repoliticization’ of the welfare state. Left parties suddenly parted ways with the right on austerity and those that did not were badly punished by voters, in some cases even disappearing. Populist parties advocated more spending. In all the different welfare state worlds, politics is back. This fabulous book shows why and how.” —Mitchell Orenstein, University of Pennsylvania “This book provides a comparative overview of the responses to the global financial crisis and the political dynamics at work in different European welfare states. It makes a strong case for the argument that politics matter (again).” —Elke Heins, University of EdinburghTable of Contents List of Illustrations Chapter 1. The Realignment of Welfare State Politics Chapter 2. Crisis and the Politics of Social Spending Chapter 3. The European Union Chapter 4. Germany: Continental European Welfare State Chapter 5. United Kingdom: Liberal Welfare State Chapter 6. Sweden: Nordic Welfare State Chapter 7. Spain: Southern European Welfare State Chapter 8. Czech Republic: Eastern European Welfare State Chapter 9: Conclusion References
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The University of Michigan Press Reimagining the Educated Citizen
Book SynopsisContends that the constructs of public education and citizenship in the struggle to constitute a US national identity are inseparable from the simultaneous emergence of transatlantic constructs of an education citizen along transnational and transracial lines.Trade Review“Digging deeply into sources across centuries of time and mobilizing an impressive array of disciplines, Petra Munro Hendry not only recovers the early history of education in Louisiana from obscurity but discovers a profound and timely meaning in it. From richly detailed and compelling stories told about a diverse cast of people, readers learn up-close how they built intercultural public spaces through a transatlantic circuit of pedagogy that consistently challenged exclusionary constructs of empire and nation-state. Reimagining the Educated Citizen does nothing less than chart a much-needed alternative pathway for understanding the history of education in the United States.”—Daniel H. Usner, Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, Vanderbilt University"Reimagining the Educated Citizen is a must read. It masterfully illustrates the continued movement and creolization of people in the transatlantic world and unequivocally demonstrates the centrality education played, as both a tool of freedom and oppression, amid this mass movement and struggle to define what it meant to be enlightened, equal, worthy, and free."—Christopher Span, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign“Reimagining the Educated Citizen offers a new perspective on the history of education within the transatlantic world, using New Orleans as the point of intersection for indigenous, African, European, and ultimately Afro Creole people. . . . Hendry is clearly attuned to the gendered and racial dimensions of the story she is telling. With a focus on New Orleans, the experiences of both dominant and underrepresented groups inhabit this fascinating narrative.”—Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New OrleansTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: Practicing History Chapter One: Transatlantic Educational Spaces: Remapping the Word and the World Chapter Two: Counter-Enlightenment Pedagogical Ruptures: The Ursulines in Colonial Louisiana Chapter Three: Remapping the “Unthinkable:” The Haitian Revolution, White Citizenship, and the Common School Movement Chapter Four: A Curriculum of Imagination: Counter-Public Spaces in the Age of Segregation, 1841-1868 Chapter Five: The New Orleans Tribune and The Crusader: Interracial Community-Based Texts Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Michigan Press Negotiation Analysis
Book SynopsisProvides a much-needed study of the ins and outs of negotiation.
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The University of Michigan Press The Fate of Law
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The University of Michigan Press The Rebels Dilemma
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, theorists have elaborated different solutions to the collection action problem. During the same period, students of conflict have explored questions about protest and rebellion. This book examines what happens when one brings the full richness of collective action theories to bear on the many complex problems of collective dissent.Trade Review. . . a significant contribution to the understanding of collective behavior, protest, and rebellion." —Choice"The book is interesting and thought-provoking, and its insights extend beyond the narrow subject of rebellion to help illuminate many issues related to organizing groups to undertake collective action." —Public Choice"[Lichbach's] book is monumental and pivotal. . . . [It] consolidates over three decades of research on collective action problems and sets the agenda for future studies of collective dissent and rebellion. . . . [This] book is a major step forward. It will have an enormous impact in the field of conflict studies and belongs on the shelf of anyone even casually interested in dissent, rebellion, and revolution. . . . [This] book is a major step forward. It will have an enormous impact in the field of conflict studies and belongs on the shelf of anyone even casually interested in dissent, rebellion, and revolution." —American Political Science Review"For scholars interested in game-theoretic analyses of politics . . . essential reading." —Manus I. Midlarsky, Journal of Politics"Lichbach has to be praised for providing valuable insight on the logic of collective dissent. . . ." —Political Studies
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The University of Michigan Press In the Land of Mirrors
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The University of Michigan Press Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation
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The University of Michigan Press Cultural Pluralism Identity Politics and the Law
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Living in the Future
Book SynopsisNationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyses how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England's historical continuity that in turn legitimized contemporary political ambitions.
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The University of Michigan Press The Quality of Divided Democracies
Book SynopsisConsiders how democracy works, or fails to work, in ethno-culturally divided societies. This book advances a new theoretical approach to assessing the quality of democracy in divided societies, and puts it into practice with the focused comparison of two divided democracies - Estonia and Latvia.Trade ReviewThe Quality of Divided Democracies speaks to an important question facing modern Europe, namely how minorities and minority interests are included in policy-making. The empirical work is thorough, impressive, and comprehensive, and I came away impressed with the case studies. The author has tremendous expertise on Latvia and Estonia."" - Seth Jolly, Syracuse University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Three Ages of Government
Book SynopsisExamines the questions that citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without government. What is Government? rises above stereotypical thinking about government.
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University of California Press The Epic of Latin America Fourth edition
Book SynopsisThis book on Latin American social and cultural developments, as well as politics and economics is revised and brought up to date with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for outstanding literary achievement.Table of ContentsPREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION PROLOGUE 1. The Mayas: "Greeks of the New World" 2. The Incas: Children of the Sun 3· The Toltec-Aztec Culture 4· The New World Meets the Old World's Cross and Sword 5· The Halls of Montezuma 6. Pizarro's Exploits in the "Empire of the Sun" 7· The Conquest of Chile 8. Colombia Yields to the "Knight of ElDorado" 9· Conquest of the River Plate 10. Brazil: Land of No Lure 11. Iberians and Indians 12. The Division of Lands and Labor 13. The Empire Consolidated 14. Trade Monopoly and Pirates 15. Flowering of the Missions 16. The Church as Inquisitor and Moral Censor 17. Gold and Silver in Foreign Coffers 18. The Brazilian Colossus Begins to Move Forward 19. Struggle over Possession of the Behemoth 20. After the Banner into the Sertao 21. The Feudal Pattern of Colonial Society 22. Life in the Colonial Towns 23. The Beginnings of Colonial Culture 24. Colonial Belles-Lettres 25. Architecture and the Fine Arts 26. Rebellion of the Beast Below 27. Chile Emerges behind the Araucanian Frontier 28. The Argentine Pampas: Cradle of a Great People 3 29. Brazilian Plantation Life Yields to the Lure of Gold 30. Abortive Rebellions in South America 31. Revolt of the Classes 32. Liberator of the North 33· Revolution in the South 34· Argentina Parts Company with Spain 35· San Martin: Protector of Peru 36. The Two Generals Meet at Guayaquil 37· The Cry from Dolores 38. Men of Destiny 39· Brazil Escapes the Chaos of Revolution 40. The Democratic Emperor of Brazil 41. Paraguay as a Symbol of Perpetual Despotism 42· The Spirit of Argentine Nationality I. THE CITY; RIVADAVIA II. THE PAMPAS; TilE GAUCHO 43· Juan Manuel de Rosas: Tyrant of the Argentine 44· Sarmiento: Civilian President 45· The Paraguayan War 46. Venezuela and Colombia under Caudillo Rule 47· The Andean Republics I. BOLMA: A SICK PEOPLE II. ECUADOR: A THEOCRACY III. PERU: SOCIETY OF SLAVE AND MASTER 48. Chile: Democracy of the Oligarchy 49· Santa Anna Loses Half of Mexico so. Benito Juarez: Indian President 51. Porfirio Diaz: Bread or the Club 52. Ariel and Caliban 53. The Twentieth Century: Deep Womb, Dark Flower 54. The Postwar Years MEXICO GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR COSTA RICA NICARAGUA HONDURAS PANAMA CUBA VENEZUELA COLOMBIA ECUADOR PERU BOLIVIA CHILE ARGENTINA PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY BRAZIL 55. The Contemporary Scene 56. Inter-American Relations Today REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX
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University of California Press The Arab World
Book SynopsisAn examination of Arab society and culture that offers an opportunity to know the Arab world from an Arab point of view. It emphasizes the changes and diverse patterns that have characterized the Middle East since the mid-nineteenth century.Table of Contents Preface PART ONE: ARAB IDENTITY AND ISSUES OF DIVERSITY AND INTEGRATION: OUT OF MANY, ONE 1. Social and Political Integration: Alternative Visions of the Future Historical Context Conclusion 2. Arab Society: Basic Characteristic Features A Critical Approach: Some Methodological Observations Some Characteristic Features: Arab Society Basics: The Physical Setting, Demography, and Ecology Conclusion 3. Arab Identity: E pluribus unum The Arab Sense: Belonging Shared Culture and Its Variations The Place of Arabs in History and Their Common Experiences Shared Economic Interests External Challenges and Political Unity Conclusion 4. The Continuity of Old Cleavages: Tribe, Village, City The Bedouin Way: Life The Peasantry and the Village The City: Urbanization: Society Nature: The Relationships between Tribe, Village, and City Conclusion PART TWO: SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND INSTITUTIONS: OUT OF ONE, MANY 5. Social Classes: Beyond the Mosaic Model The Emerging Arab Economic Order Bases of Class Distinction and Formation Basic Classes in Contemporary Arab Society Class Relations: Class Consciousness and Class Struggle Conclusion 6. The Arab Family and the Challenge of Change The Basic Characteristics of the Arab Family Marriage and Divorce Patterns The Family and Society Conclusion 7. Religion in Society The Sociology of Islam The Social Origins of Religion Religion and Sect Official versus Folk or Popular Religion Religions as Mechanisms of Control, Instigation, and Reconciliation The Interrelationship between Religion and Other Social Institutions Religion and the State--Secularism versus Theocracy Alienation from and in Religion Religion and Change: Transformation or Conformity? Conclusion 8. Arab Politics: Its Social Context The Starting Point of Analysis The Politics of the Traditional Urban Big Bourgeoisie The Politics of the Intermediate National Bourgeoisie: Western Liberalism, Nationalism, Arab Socialism, and Religious Fundamentalism The Working Classes and the Left The Authoritarian Nature of the Arab Systems Conclusion: The Crisis of Civil Society PART THREE: THE DYNAMICS OF ARAB CULTURE 9. National Character and Value Orientations The Question of National Character Arab Value Orientations Conclusion 10. Creative Expression: Society and Literary Orientations Orientations in Arabic Literature Novels of Reconciliation Novels of Exposure Novels of Revolutionary Change Conclusion 11. Arab Thought: Problems of Renewal, Modernity, and Transformation Arab Thought in the Formative Period (1850-1914) Arab Thought and the Struggle for National Independence (1918-1945) Independence and Postindependence, 1945-1992: Researching the Roots of Disaster Conclusion PART FOUR: THE CRISIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY APPROACHING THE HORIZON OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 12. Conclusion Visions for the Future Notes Glossary Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Rediscovering Palestine
Book SynopsisThis text paints a portrait of Palestinian society on the verge of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants and Ottoman officials, the book investigates the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting gave meaning to Ottoman rule and European economic expansion.Table of ContentsList of Maps, Plates, and Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Note on Translation and Transliteration INTRODUCTION: PALESTINE AND THE OTTOMAN INTERIOR Toward a History of Provincial Life in the Ottoman Interior Rethinking Ottoman Palestine Sources Approach and Methodology 1. THE MEANINGS OF AUTONOMY Jabal Nablus as a Social Space Boundaries in Time and Space Conclusion 2. FAMILY, CULTURE, AND TRADE Textile Merchants The Arafat Family Regional Trade Networks Local Trade Networks Conclusion J· COTTON, TEXTILES, AND THE POLITICS OF TRADE Cotton and the Politics of Monopoly The Politics of Free Trade Textiles: Resilience and Restructuring Conclusion 4· THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF OLIVE OIL From the Hands of the Peasants A Forced Marriage? Redefining Identity and Political Authority Conclusion 5. SOAP, CLASS, AND STATE Soap and the Economy Soap and Society Soap and the State Conclusion CONCLUSION The Labyrinthine Journey The Discourses of Modernity Appendix 1. Weights and Measures Appendix 2. Court Records, Judges, and Private Family Papers Appendix 3· Soap Factories and the Process of Production Glossary Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Crowd
Book SynopsisBetween 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. This book demonstrates the influence of these crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature.
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University of California Press Chinas New Business Elite The Political
Book SynopsisThe transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. This title considers the impact that this new class is having on China's politics.
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University of California Press The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
Book SynopsisA painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous western-style rational economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self- sustaining society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and more productive model of change.Table of ContentsIllustrations Tables Acknowledgments Maps 1. "Buying Rope Is a Young Man's Job": Transformations of Culture and Institutions 2. The Serer of Siin: "Le type meme du paysan africain" 3. "Tradition" in the Siin: Contested and Enmeshing 4. Land Pawning as a Response to the Standardization of Tenure Transitions: The Siin Reordered 5. Two Romanticizations: Tenure Confusion after the National Domain Law 6. "The King Has Come--Now Everything Is Ruined": The Promise and Frustration of Syncretic Rural Democracy 7. Culturally Sustainable Development Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Marching on Washington
Book SynopsisLucy Barber has taken different stories and woven them together so that each builds into a larger narrative about the history of political protest.
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University of California Press Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the
Book SynopsisExamining the conflict in Iraq, this work reveals the government's assault on the constitutional freedoms of the American media during Operation Desert Storm.
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University of California Press Strong Democracy Participatory Politics for a
Book SynopsisOffers liberal society a way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. This title argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions.Table of ContentsPreface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Preface to the 1990 Edition Preface to the 1984 Edition Part I. Thin Democracy: The Argument Against Liberalism 1. Thin Democracy: Politics as Zookeeping 2. The Preconceptual Frame: Newtonian Politics 3. The Epistemological Frame: Cartesian Politics 4. The Psychological Frame: Apolitical Man 5. Thin Democracy in the Twentieth Century: The Potential for Pathology Part II. Strong Democracy: The Argument for Citizenship 6. Strong Democracy: Politics as a Way of Living 7. A Conceptual Frame: Politics in the Participatory Mode 8. Citizenship and Participation: Politics as Epistemology 9. Citizenship and Community: Politics as Social Being 10. The Real Present: Institutionalizing Strong Democracy in the Modern World Index
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University of California Press Europes Promise
Book SynopsisShows how Europe's leadership manifests in five major areas - economic strength; the best health care and other workfare supports for families and individuals; widespread use of renewable energy technologies and conservation; the world's most advanced democracies; and, regional networks of trade, foreign aid, and investment.Trade Review"Timely and provocative. Europe's Promise explains why in most areas, it is Europe's constitutional forms, economic regulations, and social values, not those of the United States, that are the most popular models for new democracies. The oldest one should take note." -- Andrew Moravcsik Foreign Affairs "Hill is a lucid and engaging writer. He makes you sit up and think. He is surely right in saying that Europe's prosperous, peaceful and democratic social market economy looks attractive when contrasted with the unbalanced, excessively deregulated US model or with China's politically repressive capitalism." -- Tony Barber Financial Times "Europe's Promise" marshals an impressive army of facts and comparative statistics to show that the United States is behind Europe in nearly every socio-economic category that can be measured and that neither America's trickle-down, Wall Street-driven capitalism nor China's state capitalism hold the keys to the future." -- Bernd Debusmann Reuters News Agency "An engrossing book... Hill has a gift for capturing cogent themes in a single image... Steven Hill examines the evolving trajectory since World War II of Europe's 'fulcrum institutions' on which their societies pivot, and discovers rich contrast to the ruinous feuding of Republicans and Democrats here." -- Anne Grant Providence Journal "Breezily written and well-documented ... To anyone wondering whether by 2099 the current era will be viewed as a second 'American Century,' Hill's warnings are worth considering. If the competitive advantages he ably enumerates continue to evolve in Europe's favor, the claim to the century may well cross the Atlantic." -- Cecilio Morales America: The National Catholic Weekly "Europe's promise is in many ways a provocative and exuberant book." -- Teija Tiilikainen Insight Turkey "A comprehensive analysis of Europe aimed at engaging the American public in a dialogue about the transformative achievements of the old continent. A very-well written discussion, substantiated by a wealth of reference material and dotted with personal anecdotes." -- A. E. Wohlers Choice What to make of this dazzling Opus? The analysis offers some fresh perspective on the European and American systems...The book fills gaps in information about Europe and at the same time act as a manifesto for a fundamentally different America. Internationale Politik "An important new book from Berkeley's worthy UC Press." -- Bill Mann Inside Bay Area / Oakland Tribune "There are vital lessons in Europe's Promise from which America could benefit... Hill is able to explain how and why Europe works and therefore, may galvanize Americans to look in the mirror and make some changes." -- Joseph David Rollwagen & Justin McCauley Vienna Review Of BooksTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: A Quiet Revolution Part One. Social Capitalist Europe 1. The Rise of the European Way 2. The Capitalist Engine That Huffed and Puffed ... 3. Europe's Secret Advantage: Economic Democracy 4. Family Values, European Style 5. The Myth of the Overtaxed European and Other Modern Fables 6. The Economic Crash of 2008-9: Wall Street Capitalism vs. Social Capitalism Part Two. Healthy Europe 7. The European Way of Health 8. La Sante d'abord: The Formal Health Care System Part Three. Sustainable Europe 9. Windmills, Tides, and Solar Besides: The European Way of Energy 10. Revolution on Wheels: The European Way of Transportation Part Four. Global Europe 11. The Reluctant Superpower: Transatlantic Rupture and the Post-9/11 World 12. The European Way of Foreign Policy, Put to the Test Part Five. Pluralist Europe 13. The Legacy of Luther and Cromwell: Political Democracy in Europe 14. Consensus Building through Dynamic Democracy Part Six. The Concept of "Europe" 15. Sticky Glue, Social Contracts, and Fulcrum Institutions Part Seven. Will Europe Survive? 16. The Challenges of Immigration and Integration 17. A European Civil Rights Movement Arises-Sort Of 18. The Dilemma of Population Decline: "Where are all the children?" Conclusion: The Make or Break Century Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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University of California Press Natural Security
Book SynopsisConsiders how models and ideas from evolutionary biology can improve national security strategies ranging from risk assessment, security analysis, and public policy to long-term strategic goals.Trade Review"Engaging ... A stimulating read. It opens the door to an exciting merger between political science and evolutionary theory." Nature "This book deserves a broad, interdisciplinary readership... It also illustrates how applied knowledge of evolution can promote human well-being." Qtly Review Of BiologyTable of ContentsContributors vii Acknowledgments ix Part One: Introduction 1. The Origins of Natural Security 3 Raphael D. Sagarin 2. Living with Risk 14 Terrence Taylor Part Two: Life History and Security 3. Security, Unpredictability, and Evolution: 25 Policy and the History of Life Geerat J. Vermeij 4. From Bacteria to Belief: Immunity and Security 42 Luis P. Villarreal Part Three: Security Today 5. Corporations and Bureaucracies under a Biological Lens 71 Elizabeth M. Prescott 6. Selection, Security, and Evolutionary International Relations 86 Gregory P. Dietl Part Four: Evolution's Imprint: Psychology and the Roots of Terrorism 7. Militants and Martyrs: Evolutionary Perspectives on 105 Religion and Terrorism Richard Sosis and Candace S. Alcorta 8. Causes of and Solutions of Islamic Fundamentalist 125 Terrorism Bradley A. Thayer 9. The Power of Moral Belief 141 Scott Atran Part Five: Ecology and Security 10. Fourteen Security Lessons from Antipredator Behavior 147 Daniel T. Blumstein 11. Population Models and Counterinsurgency Strategies 159 Dominic D. P. Johnson and Joshua S. Madin 12. The Infectiousness of Terrorist Ideology: 186 Insights from Ecology and Epidemiology Kevin D. Lafferty, Katherine F. Smith, and Elizabeth M. P. Madin Part Six: Synthesis 13. Paradigm Shifts in Security Strategy: 209 Why Does It Take Disasters to Trigger Change? Dominic D. P. Johnson and Elizabeth M. P. Madin 14. Network Analysis Links Parts to the Whole 240 Ferenc Jordan 15. A Holistic View of Natural Security 261 Raphael D. Sagarin Index 279
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University of California Press Wine Politics
Book SynopsisAims to expose the politics behind wine business. This book explains how politics affects what we can buy, how much it costs, how it tastes, and what appears on labels. It offers a comparative view of wine-making in Napa and Bordeaux, tracing the different paths American and French wines take as they travel from vineyard to dining room table.Trade Review"An enlightening volume on a complex topic." Publishers Weekly "Contain(s) so much history, data and anecdotes in a highly readable 144 pages." -- John Mariani Bloomberg News "It is the kind of book a wine economist would want to read and gift as a gift to friends. " Journal Of Wine Economics "Exposes a little-known but influential aspect of the wine business: the politics behind it." Times Higher Ed Sup (Thes) "A fascinating and fast-paced ride... His accomplishment is remarkable." Gastronomica: Journal Of Food & Culture 'A delight to read with its clear prose and fluid style." Good Wine Under $20 "I'm not aware of any other single volume that pulls so many strands of research and analysis together in such a readable package.' Vinography "Succinct and up-to-date... Recommended." -- Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University Jrnl Of World History Serious and provocative Chicago TribuneTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Sidebars Preface and Acknowledgments 1. What Is Wine Politics? 2. Soil and Society: Wine in France and America before 1935 3. Authenticating Origins: Appellations and Quality 4. Baptists and Bootleggers: The Strange Bedfellows of American Wine 5. Who Controls Your Palate? 6. Greens, Gripes, and Grapes 7. Celebrating Diversity Notes
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University of California Press The Art of the Gut Manhood Power and Ethics in
Book SynopsisAddresses masculine gender expectations in a male-dominated political world, the connection between gendered identity and ethical being. This book follows the lives of two very different Japanese men entering political life in two very different communities.Trade Review"[LeBlanc is] such a good writer that her prose is accessible, even entrancing, to mere mortals... Her prose simply sings." Japan Times "An engrossing, fast-paced ethnographic study... Highly recommended." Choice "LeBlanc presents a multitude of eye-opening stories about masculinity... Certainly a welcome addition that will stimulate further investigation and dialogues." Social Science Japan Journal "LeBlanc is one of the most talented wordsmiths writing in English about politics, and her new book showcases her enviable skills." Journal Of Japanese Stds "LeBlanc's book is hugely informative and instructive and exceedingly innovative." -- Gabriele Voct Journal Of Asian StdsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Names Preface Introduction: The Power Remainder 1. Breadwinners 2. The Inheritor 3. The Paradox of Masculine Honor 4. Cheating as a Democratic Practice 5. The Art of the Gut Conclusion: Salad and Cigarettes for Breakfast, or How to Find Democracy by Losing One's Sense of Perspective Notes Index
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University of California Press Breaking Ranks
Book SynopsisOffers a personal perspective to the war in Iraq by looking into the lives of six veterans who turned against the war they helped to fight. Based on interviews with each of the six, this book relates why they enlisted, their experiences in training and in early missions, their tours of combat, and what has happened to them since returning home.Trade Review"The book is noteworthy for capturing the multifaceted nature of veterans' experiences and performs a valuable service by providing a vehicle for the circulation of dissenting voices within the military." -- JoonHyun Michael Choi * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsContents Introduction A Different Kind of War Story Part I Innocence 1 Recruiting Volunteers 2 Training 3 First Missions Part II War's Crucible 4 Inside Iraq, on the Outskirts of Reality 5 Face to Face with Iraqi Civilians 6 Awakenings Part III Aftermath and Activism 7 Homecoming Traumas 8 Speaking Out Conclusion Six Soldiers Acknowledgments Notes Glossary
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University of California Press So Hows the Family
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction THE FEEL OF THINGS 1. Going on Attachment Alert 2. Can Emotional Labor Be Fun? 3. Empathy Maps FAMILIES, CLASS GAPS, AND TIME 4. So How's the Family? 5. Time Strategies 6. The Diplomat's Wife BOUNDARIES AND BLURS, MARKET AND HOME 7. The Personalized Market and the Marketized Self (with Sarah Garrett) 8. At Home in the Office (with Barrie Thorne) 9. Rent-a-Mom WOMEN ON THE GLOBAL BACKSTAGE 10. Two-Way Global Traffic in Care 11. Children Left Behind (with S. Uma Devi and Lise Isaksen) 12. The Surrogate's Womb Notes Bibliography Credits Index
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University of California Press Seriously
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, uses four contemporary political cases in order to discover what we learn if we take women and masculinities seriously.Trade Review"Enloe offers vivid illustrations from around the world of how women's perspectives and needs are ignored or trivialized, both in public discourse and policymaking." Ms. "Enloe offers vivid illustrations from around the world of how women's perspectives and needs are ignored or trivialized, both in public discourse and policymaking." -- Carrie Baker Ms. MagazineTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Who Is "Taken Seriously"? 2. Launching and Naming: Sexual Harassment and One Women's-Studies Story 3. The Mundane Matters: Why Feminists Take Daily Life Seriously 4. DSK, Vikings, and the Smartest Guys: Masculinities in the Banking Crash of 2008 5. Women in Recession: Austerity and Misogyny 6. Militarism, Patriarchy, and Peace Movements: In Conversation with Cynthia Cockburn 7. Failing to Secure the Peace: Patriarchal Assumptions and Their Consequences for UN Operations in Haiti; A Conversation with Nadine Puechguirbal 8. Egyptian Women, Feminism, Revolutions: The Dinner Party 9. Conclusion: In the Eye of the Beholder Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sustaining Conflict
Book SynopsisDevelops a fresh theory of political apathy, using a combination of ethnographic material, narrative, and political, cultural, and feminist theory. This book examines how the status quo is maintained in Israel-Palestine, even by the activities of Jewish Israelis who are working against the occupation of Palestinian territories.Trade Review"This book is a significant contribution to Israel/Palestine studies and gender studies... Katherine Natanel’s Sustaining Conflict is a welcome and important addition to the literature in our field. * Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 • Th e Everyday of Occupation 2 • Bordered Communities 3 • Normalcy, Ruptured and Repaired 4 • Embedded (In)action 5 • Protesting Politics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Does Policy Analysis Matter Exploring Its Effectiveness in Theory and Practice 10 Wildavsky Forum Series
Book SynopsisJust how well can democracy incorporate knowledge and expertise through public policy analysts? This book examines the evolution of policy analysis, its use in legislative and regulatory bodies, and its use within the federal executive branch to improve governmental services.Trade Review"Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContributors List of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Public Policy Making and Public Policy Analysis Lee S. Friedman 2. How Effective Is Policy Analysis? John A. Hird 3. Can Congress Do Policy Analysis? The Politics of Problem Solving on Capitol Hill Eric M. Patashnik and Justin Peck 4. The Complicated and the Complex: Policy Analysis in an Era of Design M. Suzanne Donovan 5. Summary and Future Directions Lee S. Friedman Index
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University of California Press Does Policy Analysis Matter Exploring Its
Book SynopsisJust how well can democracy incorporate knowledge and expertise through public policy analysts? This book examines the evolution of policy analysis, its use in legislative and regulatory bodies, and its use within the federal executive branch to improve governmental services.Trade Review"Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContributors List of Figures and Tables Preface 1. Public Policy Making and Public Policy Analysis Lee S. Friedman 2. How Effective Is Policy Analysis? John A. Hird 3. Can Congress Do Policy Analysis? The Politics of Problem Solving on Capitol Hill Eric M. Patashnik and Justin Peck 4. The Complicated and the Complex: Policy Analysis in an Era of Design M. Suzanne Donovan 5. Summary and Future Directions Lee S. Friedman Index
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University of California Press Corporate Imaginations
Book SynopsisThe first extended study of the renowned artists' collective Fluxus, Corporate Imaginations examines the group's emergence on three continents from 1962 to 1978, and its complexities, contradictions, and historical specificity. Its founder, George Maciunas, organized Fluxus like a multinational corporation, simulating corporate organization and commodity flows, a reflection of how he imagined critical art practice at that time. Despite the collective's critical stance toward the corporation, Fluxus shared aspects of the rising corporate culture of the day. In this book, Mari Dumett addresses the business of Fluxus and explores the larger discursive issues of organization, mediatization, routinization, automation, commoditization, and systematization that Fluxus artists both manipulated and exposed in bold relief. A study of six central figures in the group-George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Mieko Shiomi, and Robert Watts,-reveals how they developed historically specific strategies of mimicking the capitalist system. These artists appropriated tools, occupied spaces, revealed operations, and, ultimately, performed the system itself by employing an aesthetics of organization, communication, events, branding, routine, and global mapping. Invoking corporate imaginations, Fluxus artists proposed strategies for living as conscious creative subjects within a totalizing and increasingly global system, and demonstrated how these strategies must be repeated in an ongoing negotiation of new relations of power and control between subject and system.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. A Fantastic Confusion 2. The Great Executive Dream 3. Performing the System 4. George Brecht: Scoring Events 5. Robert Watts: Engineering Objects 6. Nam June Paik: Art for Cybernated Life 7. Alison Knowles: Ritual and Routine 8. Mieko Shiomi: The Artistic Globalism of Fluxus Notes List of Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Politicking and Emergent Media
Book SynopsisPresidential campaigns of the twenty-first century were not the first to mobilize an array of new media forms in efforts to gain electoral victory. The author looks at four US presidential campaigns during the long 1890s (1888-1900) as Republicans and Democrats deployed a variety of media forms to promote their candidates and platforms.Trade Review"Informative... straight-forward, impressively researched, and full of original insight." BookforumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Stereopticon, The Tariff Illustrated, and the 1892 Election Political Oratory, Partisan Pageantry, and the Public Sphere Judge Wheeler, The Tariff Illustrated, and the 1888 Presidential Election A Tale of Two Screens: The Democratic Party's Use of the Stereopticon in 1888 The Stereopticon and the 1892 Election Watching the Election Returns 2. The Stereopticon: Platform or New Media Form? A Lexicon of the Screen From Magic Lantern to Stereopticon: A Brief History The Stereopticon and Presidential Politics, 1872-1884 3. Cinema, McKinley at Home, and the 1896 Election The Nation's Media Formation The Stereopticon and Illustrated Lecture in the 1896 Campaign The American Mutoscope Company and the McKinley Campaign Campaign-Related Films at the Edison Manufacturing Company Phonograph/Telephone/Bicycle A Celebration of Novelty and Tradition, Spectacle and Power Watching the Election Returns An Assessment 4. Cinema as a Media Form When Did Cinema Become Cinema? Politicking and the Media After the 1896 Presidential Campaign The Illustrated Lecture, Imperialism, and the Elections of 1898 and 1900 5. Coda Electoral Politics and the Media From Early Cinema to Media Archaeology? Appendix: Referenced Documents Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Newspapers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Shifting the Meaning of Democracy Race Politics
Book SynopsisThis book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth centurythe redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of racial democracy as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality. Trade Review"This study’s presentation of the issues of race and democracy in the United States and Brazil carefully places the issues, and how they were viewed in each country, in dramatic historical perspective." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"In this comparative historical analysis of Brazil and the US, Graham provides an intriguing look at how debates on the meaning of democracy have intersected with fights for racial equality. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *"In a field as densely populated as comparative US-Brazilian racial formations, it is hard to say something new. Jessica Lynn Graham has done so in scintillating detail, with an admirable balance of subtlety and clarity that will serve as a model for future work." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Shifting the Meaning of Democracy Race Politics
Book SynopsisThis book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth centurythe redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of racial democracy as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality. Trade Review"This study’s presentation of the issues of race and democracy in the United States and Brazil carefully places the issues, and how they were viewed in each country, in dramatic historical perspective." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"In this comparative historical analysis of Brazil and the US, Graham provides an intriguing look at how debates on the meaning of democracy have intersected with fights for racial equality. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *"In a field as densely populated as comparative US-Brazilian racial formations, it is hard to say something new. Jessica Lynn Graham has done so in scintillating detail, with an admirable balance of subtlety and clarity that will serve as a model for future work." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Constructions of Terrorism An Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisDiscussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention and management of the threat of terrorism and the development of counterterrorism policies. Constructions of Terrorism collects works from the leading scholars on terrorism from an array of disciplines-including communication, political science, sociology, global studies, and public policy-to establish appropriate research frameworks for understanding how we construct our understanding of terrorism.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: CONSTRUCTIONS OF TERRORISM SCOTT ENGLUND, MICHAEL STOHL, AND RICHARD BURCHILL 1. CAN TERRORISM BE DEFINED? LISA STAMPNITZKY 2. MISOVERESTIMATING TERRORISM JOHN MUELLER AND MARK G. STEWART 3. TERRORISM AS TACTIC DAVID H. SCHANZER 4. THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE TERRORISM RUTH BLAKELEY 5. KILLING BEFORE AN AUDIENCE: TERRORISM AS PERFORMANCE VIOLENCE MARK JUERGENSMEYER 6. CONSTRUCTING TERRORISM: FROM FEAR AND COERCION TO ANGER AND JUJITSU POLITICS CLARK MCCAULEY 7. FRAMING TERRORISM: THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTITUTION OF THE TERRORIST ACTOR BENJAMIN K. SMITH, SCOTT ENGLUND, ANDREA FIGUEROA- CABALLERO, ELENA SALCIDO, AND MICHAEL STOHL 8. SOME THOUGHTS ON CONSTRUCTIONS OF TERRORISM AND THE FRAMING OF THE TERRORIST THREAT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ANTHONY RICHARDS 9. CONTRADICTIONS IN THE TERRORIST DISCOURSE AND CONSTRAINTS ON THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION OF VIOLENCE RICHARD FALK 10. LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF TERRORISM RICHARD BURCHILL 11. DO DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF TERRORISM ALTER ITS CAUSAL STORY? RACHEL LEVIN AND VICTOR ASAL 12. ANALYZING PATHWAYS OF LONE-ACTOR RADICALIZATION: A RELATIONAL APPROACH STEFAN MALTHANER AND LASSE LINDEKILDE 13. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF MARTYRDOM ACROSS RELIGIONS, TIME, AND SPACE MIA BLOOM 14. INTRODUCING THE GOVERNMENT ACTIONS IN TERROR ENVIRONMENTS (GATE) DATA SET LAURA DUGAN AND ERICA CHENOWETH 15. THE WORLD VERSUS DAESH: CONSTRUCTING A CONTEMPORARY TERRORIST THREAT SCOTT ENGLUND AND MICHAEL STOHL CONCLUSION: UNDERSTANDING HOW TERRORISM IS CONSTRUCTED SCOTT ENGLUND, MICHAEL STOHL, AND RICHARD BURCHILL CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
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University of California Press Global Middle East Into the TwentyFirst Century 3
Book SynopsisLocalities, countries, and regions develop through complex interactions with others. This striking volume highlights global interconnectedness seen through the prism of the Middle East, both global-in and global-out. It delves into the region's scientific, artistic, economic, political, religious, and intellectual formations and traces how they have taken shape through a dynamic set of encounters and exchanges. Written in short and accessible essays by prominent experts on the region, Global Middle East covers topics including God, Rumi, food, film, fashion, music, sports, science, and the flow of people, goods, and ideas. The text explores social and political movements from human rights, Salafism, and cosmopolitanism to radicalism and revolutions. Using the insights of global studies, students will glean new perspectives about the region.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part One: Introduction 1 • Global Middle East Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera Part Two: Nations without Borders 2 • God Ebrahim Moosa 3 • Algebra, Alchemy, Astronomy Robert Morrison 4 • Rumi, the Bridge Builder Fatemeh Keshavarz 5 • On Nations without Borders Hamid Dabashi Part Three: Home and the World 6 • Reflections on Exile Edward Said 7 • Mo Salah, a Moral Somebody? Amro Ali 8 • Gamal Abdel Nasser Khaled Fahmy Part Four: Food, Film, Fashion, Music 9 • Circuits of Food and Cuisine Sami Zubaida 10 • Pictures in Motion Kamran Rastegar 11 • Musical Journeys Michael Frishkopf 12 • The Kufiya Ted Swedenburg Part Five: Geopolitics of Goods 13 • Water of Vulnerability Jeannie Sowers 14 • Cycle of Oil and Arms Timothy Mitchell 15 • Cotton, Made in Egypt Ahmad Shokr 16 • Ports of the Persian Gulf Laleh Khalili Part Six: Human Flows 17 • Touring Exotic Lands Waleed Hazbun 18 • Outsiders of the Oil States Ahmed Kanna 19 • The Levant in Latin America John Tofik Karam Part Seven: Politics and Movements 20 • Global Tahrir Asef Bayat 21 • Islamizing Radicalism Olivier Roy 22 • Global Movement for Palestine Ilana Feldman 23 • Human Rights, Indigenous and Imperial Lori Allen 24 • Cosmopolitan Middle East? An Interview with Seyla Benhabib Linda Herrera Contributors Index
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