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New York University Press Moving Working Families Forward Third Way
Book SynopsisPoints to a Third Way between liberals and conservatives, combining a commitment to government expenditures that enhance the incomes of working familiesTrade Review"Offers highly sophisticated proposals for helping working families advance in the wake of welfare reform. Cherry and Lerman are very expert, and they write very well."" -- Lawrence M. Mead,Co-editor of Welfare Reform and Political TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 A Third Way Perspective 2 Employment Growth: Its Strengths and Limitations 3 Evaluating Targeted Policies 4 Combating Racial Earnings Disparities 5 Combating Gender Earnings Disparities 6 Refocusing Community College Programs 7 Strengthening Partnerships 8 Revising Government Tax Policies 9 Redirecting Immigration Policies 10 Recasting Housing Subsidies 11 The Politics of Reform Notes Index About the Authors
£22.79
New York University Press Democracy in Modern Iran Islam Culture and
Book SynopsisCan Islamic societies embrace democracy? This title maintains that it is possible, demonstrating that Islam is not inherently hostile to the idea of democracy. It argues that the key to understanding the integration of Islam and democracy lies in social institutions as well as the every days experiences.Trade Review"Democracy in Modern Iran reflects diligent research and insiders' insights ... it is informative and thought-provoking. Any scholar of social change, the Middle East, or of Iran will benefit from reading it." -- Brigitte U. Neary * Critical Sociology *"Mirsepassi's study is a valuable contribution which questions the legitimacy of hypothetical and textual generalisations about the relationship between secularism, religion, culture, and politics." -- Burak Ozcetin * Political Studies Review *"An extraordinary work that provides an invaluable and much-needed historical, intellectual, and cultural context for developing an understanding of Irans society and how Islam has affected political change in that nation. This is a meticulously researched analysis with an original interpretation of the evolving events in Iran; in short, a major volume to be welcomed and celebrated." * Vartan Gregorian, author of Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith *"The author convincingly argues for a view of democracy based not on & objective logic, but rather on pragmatic lines...[Mirsepassi] does deliver a variety of useful perspectives on the nature of the contemporary hostility." * PBS’s Frontline *"“This is an important book, moving beyond describing and categorizing Iranian intellectual trajectories over the modern era and towards a judicious intervention in that debate itself... One cannot but applaud the effort to instill a “practice what you preach” ethic into the Iranian intellectual zeitgeist." * Middle East Journal *"Democracy in Modern Iran, however, is much more than simply a commentary on Iranian politics. In essence, it is a work of comparative political theory that examines the relationship between culture and democracy." * Democracy: A Journal of Ideas *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface: "Where Is My Vote?" Introduction: Democracy and Culture 1 The Origins of Secularism in Europe 2 Modern Visions of Secularism 3 A Critical Understanding of Modernity 4 Intellectuals and Democracy 5 Religious Intellectuals 6 Alireza Alavi-Tabar and Political Change 7 The Predicaments of Iranian Public Intellectuals 8 An Intellectual Crisis in Iran Conclusion: Modernity and Its Traditions Notes Index About the Author
£70.30
New York University Press The Left at War
Book SynopsisA devastating account of the American left during wartime, and at war with itselfTrade Review[E]ngaging and provocative. [Aims] to stimulate the Left through an injection of new ideas. To the extent that these ideas challenge what some see as core Leftist convictions, some on the Left - those who are content to stay the course and await the coming revolution - will not welcome them. But those who see the Left at a critical crossroads, who believe that its recent political failures have amplified the need for the Left to reinvent and revitalize itself, will certainly find these ideas worth consideration... [Berube has] done valuable work in clearing the way for a more intellectually innovative and politically effective Left. * Marx & Philosophy *Youll rejoice that theres such an intelligent and even-minded critic of the left who takes his principles seriously enough to challenge those who threaten to destroy them from within. * Bookforum *Bérubé links progressives inability to control the conversation on national security during the Bush administration to cultural studies failure to deliver on its promise of a vibrant New Left. And in the process, he also tries to imagine a newer and better onea left that both knows what is worth fighting for and how to fight for it. * American Prospect *If Berube succeeds in making leftists, from center-left politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank all the way out to the most radical anarchists, ponder the question of violence seriously, he will have done an inestimable service. That he attempts to do just that makes the most important book I have read in the past five years. -- John McGowan in SymplokeA rigorous, hard-hitting, and impressively detailed critique and account of the United States left during wartimeand at war with itself. It is far and away the most thoroughly reasoned and researched brief for a middle way between a predictably anti-imperialist left and a revoltingly hawkish liberalism, and in this it is immensely useful both as a guide to recent debates and as a sort of internationalist handbook. Rousing, engrossing, principled, and brave. -- Eric Lott,author of The Disappearing Liberal IntellectualAn incisive critique of the excesses of the political and academic left. Bérubé is uniquely positioned to diagnose the relationship between policy debates over the Iraq War and the fate of cultural studies in United States. The result is a fog-clearing argument for a new left internationalism centered on human rights and supranational institutions, and a timely reconsideration of Stuart Halls rich analysis of the rise of Thatcherism in England. This is an important and bracing book. -- Amanda Anderson,author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of TheoryBérubé is the kind of critic, and the kind of advocate, that the Left desperately needs. I sometimes disagree with him, and then I argue with him in my head. I strongly recommend this practice: read him, learn from him, argue with him. It is a wonderfully bracing experience. -- Michael Walzer,editor, Dissent MagazineBérubés new book delivers an incredibly timely message of tough love to the American Left. On issue after issuefrom Afghanistan to Iraq to the domestic fronthe separates progressive myth from progressive reality. In the process he distinguishes good reasoning from bad among the major political writers of the last generation and gives us a fresh agenda for future work. -- Cary Nelson,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignIndefatigably clear-minded and relentlessly researched, Bérubés The Left at War offers an invaluable excavation of just what has gone wrong, and occasionally right, with the academic/intellectual left in America. Anyone concerned with its future will be relying on this work for many years to come. -- Eric Alterman,author of Why Were LiberalsThe most important book I have read in the past fiver years. -- John McGowanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On Time 1 Nowhere Left to Go 2 Root Causes 3 Iraq: The Hard Road to Debacle 4 Cultural Studies and Political Crisis5 What Is This "Cultural" in Cultural Studies? Conclusion: Equality and Freedom Notes Works cited Index About the Author
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New York University Press The Wrong Complexion for Protection
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fine overview for those interested in the subject matter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *The Wrong Complexion for Protectionis an intellectual version of a 'greatest hits' album, combining autobiography and research findings to give a picture of the authors' important contributions to the field of environmental justice, and a picture of what environmental justice has contributed to political science and other fields. -- Patrick S. Roberts * Political Science Quarterly *A fascinating insiders account from the frontlines of the struggle to get the government to act fairly in the face of environmental injustice, with vast implications for future disasters. -- Timmons Roberts,co-author of A Climate of InjusticeThe brutal realities of institutional racism in disaster readiness, response, and recovery are unveiled here in black and white, through compelling case studies, jaw-dropping statistics, and thoroughly documented sociological and historical data. -- David Naguib Pellow,co-author of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden
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Syracuse University Press Religion Society and Modernity in Turkey
Book SynopsisOffering a historical and cultural analysis of the late Ottoman period and Republican Turkey, this book collects Serif Mardin's seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. These essays deal with the historical background, political travails, and socioeconomic metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.
£999.99
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Riverscapes and National Identities
Book SynopsisIn this highly original book, Tricia Cusak explores the significance of painted riverscapes to the creation of national identities in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe and America. Focusing on five rivers, the author outlines the history of the development of national landscapes, elaborating on the distinctive nature of riverscapes.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P West Wing
Book SynopsisThis work shows that while the series ""The West Wing"" may be criticized as ""idealistic"", its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image of itself, and entertains a loyal audience that wants to believe in the nobility of the American Dream.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Contesting Realities The Public Sphere and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDahlgren goes beyond the usual study of a group of people to research first-hand the lives of women and men in the home, in the work place, and in the streets, which is central to her finding that Islamic societies must be seen through a multiplicity of spatial areas. Rich with detail and beautifully written. The book speaks directly to debates within anthropology.
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Syracuse University Press Postrevolutionary Iran A Political Handbook
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive collection of data on political life in post-revolutionary Iran, including coverage of 36 national elections, more than 400 legal and outlawed political organisations, and family ties among the elite. It provides biographical sketches of more than 2,300 political personalities.Trade Review“An indispensable source for anyone studying modern Iranian society and politics.” - Abbas Milani, Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, Stanford University"A monumental achievement. I am unaware of any other source that provides such a rich collection of political data about Iran." - Gary Sick, Columbia University"This product of 14 years of teamwork is an indispensable reference source for anyone with serious interest in contemporary Iran. . . . The work can justly be placed among the best elite studies done recently anywhere in the world." - Ervand Abrahamian, author of Iran Between Two Revolutions
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Spatializing Authoritarianism
Book SynopsisBuilds on recent research to show that even when conceptualized as a set of practices rather than as a simple territorial label, authoritarianism has a spatiality: both drawing from and producing political space and scale in many often surprising ways.
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Facts On File Ency of the Us Presidency 6Vo Facts on File
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Facts On File Congress Investigates A Critical and Documentary
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Facts On File Inc Global Issues Set 23Volumes
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The University of Arizona Press Sonoran Strongman Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times Century Collection
Book SynopsisProvides an in-depth look at a turbulent period in Mexico's history. Author Acuña presents an authoritative account of the Strongman's rise to power and vividly portrays the suffering of northern Mexico's people.
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University of Minnesota Press Cultural Materialism
Book SynopsisFrom the author of "The Order of Mimesis" and "Paris and the Nineteenth-Century", this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William's theories of cultural materialism.Table of ContentsContributors include: Stanley Aronowitz; John Brenkman; Peter de Bolla; Catherine Gallagher; Stephen Heath; John Higgins; Peter Hitchcock; Cora Kaplan; David Lloyd; Robert Miklitsch; Michael Moriarty; Morag Shiach; David Simpson; Gillian Skirrow; Kenneth Surin; Paul Thomas; Gauri Viswanathan; Cornel West.
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University of Minnesota Press Politics at the Airport
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University of Minnesota Press Conspiracy Theories Secrecy and Power in
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University of Minnesota Press A Joint Enterprise
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay.Trade Review"A Joint Enterprise is an ambitious, original, and interesting book on a valuable topic. Preeti Chopra provides unique interpretations of, among other things, the Indian reception and interpretation of the neo-Gothic architecture of the colonial regime." —Anthony King, author of Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity"A Joint Enterprise is an extremely able and well-informed survey of an interesting subject." —The Times Literary Supplement"Chopra’s monograph is a true contribution to bringing architectural practice and perception into the history of Bombay city." —Journal of Asian Studies"Offers a skillfully crafted and nuanced reading of the colonial experience that challenges the polemics of racial and cultural segregation while articulating far more complex hierarchies of power." —Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"A Joint Enterprise provides a fabulous history of colonial domination and resistance through architectural and urban development in colonial Bombay." —South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"One ends Chopra’s engaging book wondering if the first major dents to colonial Bombay’s famed cosmopolitanism came from these segregating medical and housing policies rather than events like the Hindu-Muslim Riots of 1893." —Hamazor "Offers a new perspective on urban social history." —Enterprise and Society "Vital to understanding the architectural genealogy of the city."— Buildings & Landscape"This book is a valuable addition to the literature on South Asian urbanism. The ‘joint public realm’ is a useful effort to conceptualize the manner in which Indians engaged with notions like the public." —Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient"Preeti Chopra’s A Joint Enterprise is a detailed, well-researched, illuminating work that makes a clear argument: ‘colonial’ cities are far less ‘colonial’ than we imagine. [It] is a major accomplishment, clearly the product of intensive research over many years by a scholar deeply committed to and knowledgeable in her chosen field." —Interventions"As ambitious as it is imaginative, this book combines critical perspectives on the materiality and visibility of the modern city with an insightful examination of the agency of both colonial rulers and indigenous subjects. Elegantly presented and effectively developed." —Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAuthor’s Note Introduction 1. A Joint Enterprise 2. Anglo-Indian Architecture and the Meaning of Its Styles 3. The Biography of an Unknown Native Engineer 4. Dividing Practices in Bombay’s Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums 5. An Unforeseen Landscape of Contradictions 6. Of Gods and Mortal Heroes: Conundrums of the Secular Landscape of Colonial Bombay Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Neoliberal Deluge Hurricane Katrina Late
Book SynopsisA critical collection on the politics of disaster and reconstruction in New OrleansTrade Review"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." —Cathy Cohen, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”Cedric JohnsonIntroduction: The Neoliberal DelugeCedric JohnsonPart I. Governance1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of RaceEric Ishiwata3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-GovernanceGeoffrey Whitehall and Cedric JohnsonPart II. Urbanity4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New OrleansPaul Passavant5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter SchoolsAdrienne Dixson6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing MovementJohn ArenaPart III. Planning7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right FoundationCedric Johnson8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth WardBarbara L. Allen9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri LankaKanchana RuwanpuraPart IV. Inequality10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest FloodsLinda Robertson11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of KatrinaAvis Jones-Deweever12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New OrleansNicole Trujillo-PagánContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Transit of Empire
Book SynopsisExamines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empireTrade Review"Theoretically rich, and broad in its intellectual scope, The Transit of Empire puts Indianness at the center of American histories that are not only national, but explicitly imperial and colonial. Jodi Byrd’s brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship, transforming both in the process. It is a work of power, complexity, and commitment, and should not be missed by anyone in these fields." —Philip Deloria"The Transit of Empire is a sophisticated and groundbreaking work of indigenous critical theory in which Jodi Byrd reveals and explores the cacophonies of colonialism in literary, historical, and political settings." —Kevin Bruyneel, Babson CollegeTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Full Fathom FiveIntroduction: Indigenous Critical Theory and the Diminishing Returns of Civilization1. Is and Was: Poststructural Indians without Ancestry2. “This Island’s Mine”: The Parallax Logics of Caliban’s Cacophony3. The Masks of Conquest: Wilson Harris’s Jonestown and the Thresholds of Grievability4. “Been to the Nation, Lord, but I Couldn’t Stay There”: Cherokee Freedmen, Internal Colonialism, and the Racialization of Citizenship5. Satisfied with Stones: Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization and the Discourses of Resistance6. Killing States: Removals, Other Americans, and the “Pale Promise of Democracy”Conclusion: Zombie ImperialismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Turkish Berlin Integration Policy and Urban
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTurkish Berlin goes beyond the broad generalizations in immigrant integration debates by digging into what officials actually mean as they operationalize the term ‘integration’ and how the subjects of the resulting policy, Turkish-origin women in Berlin, understand the treatment they receive. Full of rich ethnographic material, this is a fine book that readers will ponder for a long time.—John Mollenkopf, author of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age"An interesting read and a good resource for urban studies and immigration studies."—Political Studies Review"A unique contribution to scholarship on Berlin city space."—Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies"A timely examination of the myriad issues shaping both immigrant experience and integration policy in Germany."—Oral History ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Babel Berlin, German Immigrant Capital1. Integration or Exclusion? Understanding Turkish Immigration in Germany2. Talk of the Town: Space, Visibility, and the Contestation of German Identity3. Mein Block: The Neighborhood as a Site of Identity4. Location as Destiny: Integrating Kreuzberg and NeuköllnConclusion: Learning from Immigrant NeighborhoodsAppendixesA. Zeynep’s and Bilge’s KreuzköllnB. Berlin SenateC. The Buschkowsky Administration’s 10-Point Integration Agenda for the District of NeuköllnNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Pragmatist Politics Making the Case for Liberal
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an exceptional book, both instructive and challenging, and one that almost anyone concerned with the huge political problems facing modern, developed societies will welcome." —Alan Malachowski, author of The New PragmatismTable of ContentsContentsA Note on ReferencesIntroduction: Philosophy and Democracy1. The Philosophy of Possibility2. Is Progress Possible?3. The Democratic Ethos4. Human Rights5. Liberal Democracy as Secular ComedyAppendix: Martha Nussbaum’s List of “Central Human Functional Capabilities”AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Humanitarian Violence The U.S. Deployment of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With clear and astute arguments that are executed with force and lucidity, Neda Atanasoski offers a wonderfully rich comparative study of postsocialist regions whose histories have been intertwined in various ways with American discursive and material practices and politics. The sustained focus on these kinds of U.S. historical impulses and their complex connections to Eastern Europe is a highly original and a much-needed intervention." —Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University"Humanitarian Violence is transnational and interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. It offers a much needed deeper look at the constitution of the modern West, while at the same time convincingly arguing for the continued importance of literary analysis and suggesting ways in which this analysis can be related to visual genres such as photojournalism, film, and digital art." —Fatima El-Tayeb, University of California, San Diego Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperalism1. Racial Time and the Other: Mapping the Postsocialist Transition2. The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure: Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique3. Restoring National Faith: The Soviet-Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics4. Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo5. Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Epilogue. Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at HomeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Nuclear Desire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aligning herself with the most vulnerable, and armed with a sharp stylus, Shampa Biswas deftly dissects the sprawling corpus of the global nuclear order. Focusing her analysis on the sinews of the nuclear non-proliferation regime, she tracks and traces the modalities through which ideological allure and enforced abstinence, sanitized events and horrifying accidents, faith in deterrence and flows of deathly waste, commodity fetishism and enlightenment technologies of rule, expensive state security and opaque political economy come together to power this colonial regime. Nuclear Desire offers profound and provocative insights into the hierarchical structuring and colonial governance of contemporary global orders."—Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College"Nuclear Desire moves us to rethink the route to a nuclear-free world as one that must center reasons of peace and social justice. Shampa Biswas moves beyond well-rehearsed critiques—indeed, beyond critique itself—to give us new insights into how a more secure world might simultaneously be more peaceful and just."—J. Marshall Beier, McMaster University"This book is a heartfully rendered, powerfully argued, and intricately crafted deconstruction of the global nuclear order."—Perspectives on Politics "Nuclear Desire is one of the most comprehensive applications of a critical methodology to the topic of nuclear weapons, and a welcome contribution to the growing field of critical nuclear studies from a postcolonial perspective." —Nonproliferation ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Use and Waste in the Global Nuclear Order1. Intentions and Effects: The Proliferation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime2. Whose Nuclear Order? A Postcolonial Critique of an Enlightenment Project3. Unusable, Dangerous, and Desirable: Nuclear Weapons as Fetish Commodities4. Costly Weapons: The Political Economy of Nuclear PowerConclusion. Decolonizing the Nuclear World: Can the Subaltern Speak?Appendix: The Nuclear Nonproliferation RegimeNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Idea of Haiti
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. To Make Visible the “Invisible Epistemological Order”: Haiti, Singularity, and NewnessMillery PolynéI. Revolisyon/Kriz (Revolution/Crisis)1. Haiti, the Monstrous AnomalyNick Nesbitt2. Rethinking the Haitian CrisisGreg Beckett3. Remembering Charlemagne Péralte and His Defense of Haiti’s RevolutionYveline AlexisII. Moun/Demoun (Person/Dehumanized)4. Haiti: Fantasies of Bare LifeSibylle Fischer5. The Violence of Executive SilencePatrick Sylvain6. Religion at the Epicenter: Agency and Affiliation in Léogâne after the EarthquakeKaren RichmanIII. Èd (Aid)7. The Alliance for Progress: A Case Study of Failure of International Commitments to HaitiWien Weibert Arthus8. Urban Planning and the Rebuilding of Port-au-PrinceHarley F. Etienne9. Cholera and the Camps: Reaping the Republic of NGOsMark Schuller10. From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian HistoryElizabeth McAlister11. Twenty-First Century Haiti—A New Normal? A Conversation with Four Scholars of HaitiAlex Dupuy, Robert Fatton, Jr., Évelyne Trouillot, and Tatiana WahContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Future of Social Movement Research
Book SynopsisAre the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research asks: How are the dynamics of contention shaped by globalization? By societies that are becoming increasingly more individualized and diverse? By the spread of new communication technologies such as social media, cell phones, and the Internet? Why do some movements survive while others dissipate? Do local and global networks differ in nature? The authors' essays explore such questions with reference to changes in three domains of contention: the demand of protest (changes in grievances and identities), the suTrade ReviewThis is a major, very important work which brings together the leading lights in the international, interdisciplinary, invisible college of social movement scholars. The book combines thoughtful essays on the state of the art in the study of contentious politics with grounded speculation on the many still unanswered or incompletely answered questions. The authors do an excellent job of distinguishing what is based on solid empirical research and what would require additional research to answer with confidence. This does not prevent them from suggesting hypotheses and impressions which are based on reasonable and probable extensions of what we already know.—William Gamson, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Changing Dynamics of ContentionJacquelien van Stekelenburg and Conny RoggebandPart I. Grievances and Identities: The Demand Side of Participation1. The Dynamics of DemandBert Klandermans2. Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest?Francesca Polletta, Pang Ching Bobby Chen, Beth Gharrity Gardner, and Alice Motes3. Social Movement Participation in the Global Society: Identity, Networks, and EmotionsVerta Taylor4. “Protest against whom?”: The Role of Collective Meaning Making in PoliticizationMarjoka van Doorn, Jacomijne Prins, and Saskia WelschenDiscussion: Opening the Black Box of Dynamics in Theory and Research on the Demand Side of ProtestMartijn van ZomerenPart II. Organizations and Networks: The Supply Side of Contention 5. The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Questions for DiscussionConny Roggeband and Jan Willem Duyvendak6. Bringing Organizational Studies Back into Social Movement ScholarshipSarah A. Soule7. Organization and Community in Social MovementsSuzanne Staggenborg8. Organizational Fields and Social Movement DynamicsMario Diani9. Social Movement Structures in Action: Conceptual Propositions and Empirical IllustrationDieter RuchtDiscussion: The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Impressions on a ThemeDebra MinkoffPart III. Dynamics of Mobilization10. Changing Mobilization of Individual Activists?Stefaan Walgrave11. Mobilizing for Change in a Changing SocietyJacquelien van Stekelenburg and Marije Boekkooi12. Ethnicity, Repression, and Fields of Action in Movement MobilizationPamela E. Oliver13. Identity Dilemmas, Discursive Fields, Identity Work, and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity/Movement NexusDavid A. Snow14. Movements of the Left, Movements of the Right ReconsideredSwen Hutter and Hanspeter KriesiDiscussion: Mobilization and the Changing and Persistent Dynamics of Political ParticipationChristopher RootesPart IV. The Changing Context of Contention15. The End of the Social Movement as We Know It?: Adaptive Challenges in Changed ContextsRuud Koopmans16. Social Movements and Elections: Toward a Broader Understanding of the Political Context of ContentionDoug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow17. Social Movements, Power, and Democracy: New Challenges, New Challengers, New Theories?Donatella della Porta18. Recent Trends in Public Protest in the U.S.A.: The Social Movement Society Thesis RevisitedJohn D. McCarthy, Patrick Rafail, and Ashley Gromis19. The “Contentious French” RevisitedNonna MayerDiscussion: Meaning and Movements in the New Millennium: Gendering DemocracyMyra Marx FerreeAfterwordBert KlandermansContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Global Gangs Street Violence across the World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume must be appreciated not simply for the breadth of cases that it features but also for the collective work of its authors in refashioning a century of theory that relegated the gang to oddball status." —Sudhir Venkatesh, from the AfterwordTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gangs in a Global Comparative PerspectiveDennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. HazenPart I. Gang Formation and Transformation1. Intimate Connections: Gangs and the Political Economy of Urbanization in South AfricaSteffen Jensen2. Cholo! The Migratory Origins of Chicano Gangs in Los AngelesJames Diego Vigil3. Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian FederationAlexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin4. Of Marginality and “Little Emperors”: The Changing Reality of Chinese Youth GangsLening Zhang5. From Black Jackets to Zulus: Social Imagination, Myth, and Reality Concerning French GangsMarwan Mohammed6. Maras and the Politics of Violence in El SalvadorJosé Miguel CruzPart II. Problematizing Gangs7. Youth Gangs and Otherwise in IndonesiaLoren Ryter8. “Playing the Game”: Gang/Militia Logics in War-Torn Sierra LeoneMats Utas9. “For Your Safety”: Child Vigilante Squads and Neo-Gangsterism in Urban IndiaAtreyee Sen10. “We Are the True Blood of the Mau Mau”: The Mungiki Movement in KenyaJacob Rasmussen11. Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, BrazilEnrique Desmond Arias12. “Hecho en Mexico”: Gangs, Identities, and the Politics of Public SecurityGareth A. JonesAfterword: The Inevitable GangSudhir VenkateshContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Jakarta Drawing the City Near
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is increasingly becoming clear that cities live by multiple logics and modes of existence, defying essentialist or totalizing encapsulations. Yet, the tools to get close to the living, changing, plural city remain far from adequate. In this engrossing book on Jakarta, AbdouMaliq Simone takes a giant step forward by offering a set of mid-range concepts and a writing style that uncover the structured and improvised recursions of the world's mega-cities. An essential and exciting read." —Ash Amin, University of Cambridge"AbdouMaliq Simone provides a bridge between Deleuzian techniques and ethnographic account of different places in Jakarta. Jakarta thus is not subsumed under particular theories; instead the city itself is a theory-a way of thinking, a way of living. The text itself is a city like Jakarta that offers no comfortable vantage point, but unplanned pathways that often lead, fortunately, to surprising scenes and inspiring commentaries." —Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Rehearsal for an Urban Commons in Jakarta 1. The Near-South: Between Megablock and Slum2. The Urban Majority: Improvised Livelihoods in Mixed-up Districts3. Devising Relations: Markets, Streets, Households, and Workshops4. Endurance: Risking the Familiar5. Inventive Policy: Integrating Residents into Running the CityConclusion: Reimagining a CommonsBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of
Book SynopsisThe first architectural history of post-1967 Jerusalem, revealing the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the cityTrade Review"A rigorous and insightful analysis of the historical, intellectual, and aesthetic encounters and intersections between the two modernisms-in-transition: architectural modernism and national modernism."—Uri Ram, Ben Gurion University of the Negev"With Seizing Jerusalem, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan has succeeded in establishing a breathtaking chronicle of the use made by plans, designs, and buildings to implement an agenda of hegemony. This book contributes masterfully to the renewed discussion about the political uses of architecture in the contemporary period."—Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University"Among the best of the many books released to mark the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification."—Moment Magazine "Alona Nitzan-Shiftan’s Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification is without a doubt a masterpiece. This brilliantly written book is among the most interesting, insightful, beautifully written, and important books about Jerusalem. Taking readers on a detailed voyage across the urban landscape, the book offers substantial new insights, intelligent analysis, and original interpretations on the making of modern Jerusalem during its most transformative period—the first years following the Six Day War, also known as the 1967 war." —Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Encounters: Modern Architecture and Israeli Nationalism2. Profession: East Jerusalem and the Emergence of the Sabra Architects3. State: Facts on the Ground4. City: Urban Beautification5. Frontier: A Holy Testing Ground for a Discipline in Crisis 6. Project: The Western Wall PlazaConclusionNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Governance Feminism An Introduction
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What happens when feminist critique inverts into governing norms? What kind of feminism becomes law and what becomes of arguments among feminists when it does? How are feminist challenges to male super-ordination transformed and distributed by bureaucratization and NGO-ification? How might we honestly assess feminism that governs? In this deeply intelligent, reflective, and pedagogical work, four feminist legal scholars probe these theoretical and empirical questions. No reader will favor every move, but all will be usefully provoked and instructed."—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley"The book delivers a good summary of which feminist theories have prevailed and can be seen as the governing ones. Excellent for collections on feminism and women’s rights."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: An Ethic of ResponsibilityJanet HalleyPart I. Varieties of Governance Feminism1. Where in the Legal Order Have Feminists Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley2. Which Forms of Feminism Have Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley3. Dancing across the Minefield: Feminists Reflect on Generating, Owning, and Critiquing PowerJanet HalleyPart II. From the Transnational to the Local4. Governance Feminism in the Postcolony: Reforming India’s Rape LawsPrabha Kotiswaran5. Anti-trafficking in Israel: Neo-abolitionist Feminists, Markets, Borders, and the StateHila Shamir6. When Rights Return: Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Reproductive Rights and against Sex-selective AbortionRachel RebouchéConclusion. Distribution and Decision: Assessing Governance FeminismJanet HalleyAcknowledgmentsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Governance Feminism An Introduction
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What happens when feminist critique inverts into governing norms? What kind of feminism becomes law and what becomes of arguments among feminists when it does? How are feminist challenges to male super-ordination transformed and distributed by bureaucratization and NGO-ification? How might we honestly assess feminism that governs? In this deeply intelligent, reflective, and pedagogical work, four feminist legal scholars probe these theoretical and empirical questions. No reader will favor every move, but all will be usefully provoked and instructed."—Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley"The book delivers a good summary of which feminist theories have prevailed and can be seen as the governing ones. Excellent for collections on feminism and women’s rights."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: An Ethic of ResponsibilityJanet HalleyPart I. Varieties of Governance Feminism1. Where in the Legal Order Have Feminists Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley2. Which Forms of Feminism Have Gained Inclusion?Janet Halley3. Dancing across the Minefield: Feminists Reflect on Generating, Owning, and Critiquing PowerJanet HalleyPart II. From the Transnational to the Local4. Governance Feminism in the Postcolony: Reforming India’s Rape LawsPrabha Kotiswaran5. Anti-trafficking in Israel: Neo-abolitionist Feminists, Markets, Borders, and the StateHila Shamir6. When Rights Return: Feminist Advocacy for Women’s Reproductive Rights and against Sex-selective AbortionRachel RebouchéConclusion. Distribution and Decision: Assessing Governance FeminismJanet HalleyAcknowledgmentsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Governance Feminism
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University of Minnesota Press Governance Feminism Notes from the Field
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionJanet HalleyPart I. Feminism Wields the Sword1. Feminist Governance and International Law: From Liberal to Carceral FeminismKaren Engle2. The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking CampaignsElizabeth Bernstein3. The Charybdis of Rape Myth DiscourseHelen Reece4. Governance Feminism in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention CourtsAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber5. An Accidental Governance Feminist: An Interview with Kate MogulescuAmy J. Cohen and Aya Gruber6. The Unintended Consequences of Domestic Violence Criminalization: Reassessing a Governance Feminist Success StoryLeigh GoodmarkPart II. The Long March through the Institutions7. Governing Sex through BureaucracyJacob Gersen and Jeannie Suk Gersen8. Feminism, Law, and Epidemiology in the AIDS ResponseAziza Ahmed9. Contesting Feminism’s Institutional Doubles: Troubling the Security Council’s Women Peace and Security AgendaDianne Otto10. Sex Quotas and Burkini BansDarren RosenblumPart III: Ideological Trajectories for GFeminists11. From Bad to Worse Via a Successful Constitutional Challenge: The Tragedy of Feminist Engagement with Prostitution Law Reform in CanadaMariana Valverde12. “You Play, You Pay”: Feminists and Child Support Enforcement in the United StatesLibby Adler and Janet Halley13. Governance Feminism in the French Republic: Veils, Parité, and FeministsMaleiha Malik14. Gay Governance: A Queer CritiqueAeyal GrossPart IV. Postcolonial Feminists in Global/Local Struggle15. Governance Feminism’s Others: Sex Workers and India’s Rape Law ReformsPrabha Kotiswaran16. A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in PakistanVanja Hamzić17. Finding and Losing Feminism in Transition: The Costs of the Continuum Hypothesis for Women in ColombiaIsabel Cristina Jaramillo-Sierra18. Follow the Numbers: Global Governmentality and the Violence against Women Agenda in Occupied PalestineRema Hammami19. Indebted: The Cruel Optimism of Leaning-in to EmpowermentVasuki NesiahAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Presidents and Protestors Political Rhetoric in
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The University of Alabama Press Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century 9 Modern Contemporary Poetics
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The University of Alabama Press Alexander Hamiltons Public Administration
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The University of Alabama Press A Time to Speak
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John Wiley & Sons Pathways Out of Poverty
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